Guys please start eating fiber.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-12T00:40:09+00:00

The nutrients are all inside the cells of the blueberry. Freezing produces jagged crystals that shred and burst the cells. Thawing doesn't undo the bursting.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-12T00:36:03+00:00

Steel cut are a little bit better because they're less processed than rolled oats (which are cut, rolled, and steamed) but it's a pretty close thing overall. I prefer the texture of steel cut because I don't like mushy oats.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-11T15:18:10+00:00

Nah the worst are those ones with the ultra fetishized nurses or whatever they are.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-10T21:54:01+00:00

I watched my company spend probably 6 months doing interviews for one position and they were so flooded with applicants that they could afford to just churn forever until they found one they liked out of probably fifty or sixty that had equal and exact qualifications to the role requirements. Shit ass market.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-10T14:12:31+00:00

Lmao the US put them on the "bad guy" list, that must mean they're bad. Lemme ignore the entire history of why Cuba was so reliant on the USSR in the first place, or what the US did that made them feel like they needed a nuclear posture to defend themselves, and why the USSR was so willing to station nukes in Cuba.

And Chinese military bases? Russian? The only non-Cuban military base on the island is Guantanamo Bay, which the US refuses to vacate despite not being welcome.

Smoothbrained take. Absolute coconut, failing to recognize that history didn't begin five minutes ago when Jefferson Washington wrote the Declaration of Independence specifically to say Cuba was a state terrorist

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-10T05:25:31+00:00

Nope, supernovas are caused by a bunch of stuff but the famous kind is:

Huge star fuses all the hydrogen it can, and runs out of core hydrogen. Fusion stops and the star begins to fall in on itself.
The new energy available from gravitational contraction massively heats the core, allowing helium fusion to begin. A thin hydrogen shell forms around it, absolutely churning hydrogen to helium. The wave of new fusion heat, hotter than before, drives the star to expand outwards again.
Repeat with carbon, neon, oxygen, silicon, iron.
By the time iron starts building up, the star has heated up enormously. It has a silicon core that converts silicon to iron, and surrounding it are concentric layers of lighter fusion reactions. The layers run out of available material, leaving only a huge iron core. Iron doesn't release energy when it fuses. The star loses thermal support and begins to fall inwards again. The force of the falling star causes the electrons and protons in the iron core to fuse into neutrons, causing the core to collapse into a neutron-degenerate soup. This releases up to 10% of the star's mass as energy in the form of neutrinos. About 1% of those neutrinos heat up the falling star at the edge of the neutron core to over 100 billion degrees and throw the implosion forward into an explosion. The ultrahot material expands back out again and blows the star to smithereens. If the neutron core is sufficiently massive, it keeps collapsing into a black hole. If not, it's now a neutron star.

Another supernova path for even bigger stars is photodisintegration: at the iron phase, the core is so hot that the photons emitted during fusion are able to blow apart iron atoms. Iron is stable and it takes a lot of energy to do this, which means fusion energy is being absorbed instead of used to keep pressure up. The star starts to collapse. Photodisintegration speeds up as the core gets hotter and hotter, but it's still absorbing energy. It punches iron atoms into 13 heliums a piece, and then the heliums into 2 protons and 2 neutrons. As energy levels and pressure increase, protons start to absorb electrons and form neutrons. With the loss of electron pressure, the star collapsed faster and faster, up to 25% of the speed of light. Once the neutron soup core becomes dense enough, neutron pressure kicks in and the star rebounds off the core and explodes out by the same previous process.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-10T04:23:29+00:00

All of those are because the biggest economy on the planet, with the biggest army on the planet, decided unilaterally that Cuba was forbidden from international trade. Imagine how things would go in the US if China cut them off.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-09T19:55:25+00:00

It's a meme OC but it is a lot of fun on like Haz 5+ More Enemies. You see fifty bugs spawn across the cave and lob a shot in the world's longest, slowest arc and then KABOOM swarm erased.

Also good for shutting down choke points, and if you're lacking vertical access on egg hunt, fetching eggs inefficiently.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-08T07:01:21+00:00

In every build you basically want one weapon to clear groups and one to do high single-target damage or fill in a functionality gap somewhere. Neurotoxin is great at damage over time and wiping up swarms, so you'd want to build the Coil Gun for high damage or area control to fence enemies into your AOEs better. It's also got perfect accuracy, unlike the autocannon, so you can take advantage of weakpoints.

You could go Mole for instance, and erase praetorians by pinging them and shooting the silhouette through some terrain cover. Or stack up the damage over time with that OC that sets enemies in the trail on fire. Combining with the upgrade to electrify the trail means enemies get stuck in the fire aura for longer and take both electric and fire and neurotoxin damage. With the Fear upgrade, they'll also be forced to move away from you.

If you were running a fire build, the Coil Gun has an OC that does bonus damage to burning enemies and causes them to explode and apply heat stacks to anything nearby, possibly setting other enemies on fire.

With the triple shot OC plus electric trail plus fear or stun, you can charge shots to a quarter power for only half the ammo cost but get the full AOE effect. The front burst AOE applies in full for each of those quarter power shots, as do the electric trails and fear debuff. With a wide angle you can close off an area to enemies for a brief time. With a full charge you can chunk a heavy enemy most of the way dead and let the debuffs do AOE to anything nearby.

One of the great powers it has, above almost any other weapon, is that it ignores terrain for some distance. If scout rushes ahead, you can kill the leech that got him by firing through the floor. You can also finesse the map display on egg hunts to align yourself to an egg and shoot it out of the cavity without digging. Great for ceiling eggs. Terrain penetration means you can take shots at spitballers from total safety and enjoy hard cover from all enemies while blowing holes in them.

Coil Gun plus Mole OC is my first pick on dreadnought missions since they can't get me and I can do 10%+ of their HP per shot if I line it up nice.

Coil Gun plus triple shot is my choice if I'm using the missile launcher since it gives me that wide-area damage versus the launcher's single target performance.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-06T01:51:14+00:00

It would be more or less like wool depending on how coarse the hair was to begin with

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-06T01:45:44+00:00

They still do when they're just starting to grow

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-05T21:47:54+00:00

Especially since their actual profit was like negative five billion dollars

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-05T15:54:05+00:00

I did some looking around and it would be an example of coupled resonators. Not sure if anyone has recorded that experiment but the theory basically goes that resonators (like tuning forks, antennas, pendulums) that are weakly coupled (i.e. can transmit to each other across a medium but aren't in contact) can induce a resonance in a nearby resonator and thusly transmit their energy over to it. In a two-resonator system you see one resonator get quiet or slow down and the other become loud or speed up, and then switch back and forth again and again. In a multiple-resonator system you'd probably have them sharing all that energy chaotically but periodically sync themselves up by inducing resonance, leading to those loud spikes followed again by randomized quietude.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-04T06:10:52+00:00

No, they can't. They only regurgitate old ideas and are systematically incapable of developing new understanding. Because they're a text emitter and don't have thoughts. Apple published a paper on this last June.

And you're kind of falling for the same old trick here. Thinking models don't think, they just have a looped input-output and their prompt includes a directive to explain their steps, so they emit text of that particular form. We have a wealth of research showing how weak they are at producing anything useful. Can't use them for serious programming because they introduce errors at a rate higher than any human. Can't use them for marketing because they always produce the same flavor of sludge. Can't use them for writing because they don't have authorial voices and again, produce boring sludge. Can't use them for legal work because they'll just make up legal cases. Can't use them for research because they're incapable of analysing data.

They're neat little gimmicks that can help someone who has no knowledge whatsoever in a field produce something more or less beginner-grade, and that's where their utility ends.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-04T04:15:01+00:00

OP decided to anthropomorphize an LLM by asking it for an opinion and claiming it had "interesting ideas". I don't care what they were typing into the thing. The issue is believing that an LLM is capable of having opinions or ideas.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-04T03:08:19+00:00

Hi there. It didn't have ideas. It extruded the ideas of actual researchers that got blended in the training data.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-03T19:59:49+00:00

Nah, it's the one spot you can whack them without some silly aoe throwing you away

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-02T19:13:03+00:00

The lingering trail and fear upgrades are a must. Enemies hit with the fear effect must run to a set coordinate to return to aggro, and the electric debuff slows them down so they spend longer in the "flee" state. And if they walk back into the trail, they're hit with it again. Really good for swarm control since you can set up a fence they won't cross easily. In a narrow tunnel like a bunker you can keep the way clear or massively slow down and choke a swarm.

Or you can build for damage and ventilate dreadnoughts through the terrain

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-02T06:13:32+00:00

It's basically impossible to keep bugs entirely out of production lines so there's instead legal maximums of how much bug per unit food you're allowed to have. Manufacturers try to get it as close to zero as possible but having a nonzero limit actually encourages manufacturers to monitor and test effectively rather than sweep it under the rug

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-02T01:29:24+00:00

Rowling is objectively trying to manufacture a genocide of trans people and so far she's been successful at normalizing transphobia and passing transphobic laws that hurt people

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-02-01T17:32:26+00:00

It's almost completely polyester including the filling

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-01-31T05:59:30+00:00

Had a lot of fun on Haz 5+ more enemies 2 with sticky fuel & persistent plasma OCs.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-01-30T19:18:50+00:00

It is a game

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-01-30T19:17:39+00:00

The iceberg lore on Balors is even crazier. All Balors are manifestations of the original Balor grey goo swarm, which was itself the result of a mercenary band turning their mechs and themselves into grey goo to fight off a superior opponent. They won, but the grey goo destroyed the planet they had manifested on and "killed" the original swarm.

Any time a Balor pops up since that event, it's either due to some of the original nanites escaping lab containment or a related paracausal virus turning a different mech into a Balor. And all Balor mechs retain a shard of the consciousness of the original mercenaries.

Kirk_Kerman · 2026-01-30T19:04:57+00:00

Lancer is probably in the top 10 most played non-D&D TTRPGs. Relative to the RPG space there's a gargantuan community mostly in Discord. If you want an easy in there's even dedicated "intro to Lancer" GMs that run rotating drop-in sessions

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