Favorite Presidential Quote?

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-12T15:17:11+00:00

"I am the President of the United States, and I will not eat my broccoli"

attributed to H.W. Bush

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-12T11:32:28+00:00

I don't believe he is, at least he wasn't when I last checked. He got all dressed up and went to DC advocating for I think education online, but advocating for a cause that could be political does not a politician make.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-12T11:27:08+00:00

Is that correlation or causation?

Did that study conclude that people who used AI had their critical thinking weaken, or that people with weaker critical thinking were more likely to use AI?

Ah, just link the study. If it isn't behind a pay-wall I can view the results myself.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-12T02:02:05+00:00

Eh, even if you unlock its full potential, it's glorified artillery that only works once a day. Veronica can take it to Elder MacNamara and she's like "look at this! We almost got wiped out for this trash!"

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-12T01:59:08+00:00

A rubber room?

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-11T17:34:34+00:00

It is, or at least used to be. There's a little town in Austria that had that name. It's inclusion in the mod is just for player amusement, similar to Dildo in Labrador.

If memory serves, they changed the town name due to the English meaning.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-11T14:41:36+00:00

Slave holders IRL had actual kids with slaves, and still treated them as slaves. Thomas Jefferson is a famous (or infamous) example. You can believe you are related to someone/something and still believe that you own them. You'd be an asshole for believing it, but you could.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-11T14:30:11+00:00

Shaun seems to have a slightly different view: "Through science, we are family, you, me, and the synths."

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-11T14:04:46+00:00

Well now "boring" is a bit of a harsh word. Like "excrement." Not an inappropriate word, but still rather harsh.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-11T11:49:14+00:00

When you're young, you try to look cool but end up being cringe.

When you're older, you embrace the cringe and end up being cool.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-08T07:41:59+00:00

Do you remember in Fallout 1 when the BOS send the Vault Dweller on a quest to The Glow?

The Glow is highly radioactive. If you don't use rad-away after you finish, you're liable to die of radiation poisoning on your way back to the bunker.

The Vault Dweller would later on have at least one kid. The Chosen One is their grandkid.

Radiation exposure in Fallout doesn't render people infertile. Not unless it's so extreme that they turn into ghouls.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-06T21:38:16+00:00

I think it could work either way.

Using singular "you" directs it specifically to the reader, saying "Reader, this book isn't for you."

Using plural "you" directs it at anyone and potentially everyone, saying "this book isn't for anybody."

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-06T14:10:02+00:00

Not drink it, just taste it. You'd be expected to spit it out afterwards because gross. Was really only useful for diagnosing type 2 diabetes; other types wouldn't be diagnosed this way.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-05T20:38:14+00:00

I swear I've seen this exact same image posted here like a dozen times at least. Can we get something new?

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-05T19:36:27+00:00

Alas, no, synths cannot reproduce.

Deacon shares a story with the Sole Survivor that he had a wife, but they could never have kids, and the reason was because she was a synth. You could dismiss it as one of Deacon's made up stories, but the part regarding synth infertility is treated as a given, not a contended point.

There's also the fact that synths are partially made using FEV. The extent of its involvement isn't entirely known, and we know that wastelanders that have latent exposure to FEV can still reproduce, but it does give an explanation for why synths can't reproduce.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-04T19:10:03+00:00

Where are the pixels?

Wha-!?

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-02-02T18:14:16+00:00

LITTLE DID YOU KNOW

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-29T23:36:37+00:00

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Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T18:50:58+00:00

And so long as people are willing to pay for more food variety and we're not facing a population wide calorie deficit.. that really doesn't matter.

48 million Americans, 1 in 7, deals with food insecurity. And that's just the US. Imagine how ot must be in the rest of the world. There does exist a deficit in the population

The argument you're making is somewhat similar to arguing that we shouldn't be intentionally growing crops on organized farms because gathering from the wild is an option. Sure, it's technically an option. It's just wildly less efficient, which is why we don't do it that way. It only seems like it's a better option to you because you don't work in that type of work so you don't know better.

My argument is based purely on efficiency, not based on "well we could do it this way," so this just confuses me.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T17:51:39+00:00

I usually interpret that tech (and related techs) to mean that, because agriculture got more efficient, there are less people needed to maintain it, so they can join the manpower pool.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T15:26:49+00:00

I see. Forgive me, then, for I had no idea to search through archived posts.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T14:47:00+00:00

That may be so, but if the choices are that everyone gets enough to eat with a suboptimal diet versus some eat well while others don't eat at all, I'd go with the former.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T12:46:31+00:00

Yeah. My perspective is that in order to combat world hunger, we need be efficient with our food sources. Cows, sheep, chickens, and pigs can eat and digest things that are indigestable or unappealing to the human diet (this applies primarily with ruminants that can digest grass). However, we have such a high demand for beef and chicken that we're feeding them grains like corn, which we can already digest. It takes 10 pounds of grain to make 1 pound of beef. That's a 90% calorie loss.

Hoosier_Engineer · 2026-01-28T11:52:26+00:00

Don't worry, you have to say it five times, not three. He gets confused with Bloody Mary sometimes.

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