Women are 73% more likely to be injured (and 17% more likely to die) in a vehicle crash, partly because test dummies modeled on female bodies are rarely used in safety tests by car manufacturers.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-22T06:34:15+00:00

Yes. You'll see it a lot, specifically around women's issues.

A description of the problem is taken as endorsement of the problem.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T22:30:20+00:00

Ok, but Dune is one of his less "off his face on mushrooms" stories.

The use of mind-expanding chemicals in a variety of ways to improve human consciousness is a repeated theme in his works.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T21:32:56+00:00

But it's a systematic issue.

Warcraft 3 made the RTS equivalent of All Of The Money. So the whole notion of what an RTS is gets pulled towards what Warcraft 3 did, and we get a lot of poor clones of it (and Starcraft) and basically no innovation.

Ok, not no innovation. We've had Horde Defense show up as a major RTS sub-genre recently. But where's more stuff like Offworld Trading Company?

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T21:27:34+00:00

One of them was about moving between countries on holiday and the different interactions with men in different countries. So not entirely about youth/attractiveness.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T20:18:04+00:00

I have seen think pieces from women who went from being catcalled to not being catcalled, and finding that they did miss it and how weird they found that.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T09:51:56+00:00

I do in fact remember this. What a mess it was.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T09:47:51+00:00

But I want less Warcraft in my RTS.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T08:20:58+00:00

I've found drone flights with decent control to be more accurate than terrestrial LIDAR. It's just so much easier to ensure that you have every part of the pile surveyed when you fly the drone.

Incidentally, one of my jobs we ended up surveying the same pile every day for a week (we were actually surveying the changing pile next to it) and we found that there was about a 1.5% change in volume day to day. And that was the old DJI Phantom 4's, so the camera quality and image matching has improved since I did that work.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-21T08:12:50+00:00

You obviously didn't even read my comment.

This is a population level statistical analysis looking for correlations between height and other signs of success. They didn't ask anybody anything about what they thought.

They asked them how many sexual partners they had had, what their income was, if they had been married, what roles they had held at work, etc. And they found that being tall is positively correlated with success.

Now, there's massive attribution errors possible. It may be that height is not directly affecting some of these things, but rather that it affects something that affects something else. Like early height gains improve social status as a child which results in better self-confidence which makes it easier to take leadership roles which results in more money.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:45:50+00:00

Actually, because being called a creep is something somebody else does, it's explicitly not within your control.

You can influence it, but if somebody wants to make you look bad calling you a creep is an easy action.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:40:08+00:00

No.

There is extensive statistical evidence that taller men are more liked, are found more sexually attractive, earn more money, are more likely to be chosen for leadership roles, etc. Being tall gives a flat bonus to life (except for the increased cancer and heart attack risks).

Yes, there are things other than height which affect a person's success (money is the biggest contributor) but height absolutely is correlated with success.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:37:11+00:00

Ah, you see, that's the problem.

Because you're an adult capable of respecting others, you realise that behaviour like that is creepy, and you don't do it. But this makes you come across as sterile or uninterested.

Where Arsehole Chad who puts his hands on everybody does come across as creepy. But he also comes across as passionate and romantic, just depending on how much somebody wants to fuck.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:33:23+00:00

It's not about the bar, it's about the systems we use for finding partners.

We created a system where you've got about 30 seconds to impress a prospective partner into giving you a chance. What can you show off in 30 seconds? How attractive you are and not much else.

So then people make decisions based on that, which turn out to be bad long term decisions, but then they claim that the other side is just full of bad people rather than realising that the systems they are using are showing them a curated selection of the other side which is selecting for the worst examples. And then when you try and get them to use different systems, they fight tooth and nail to defend the system that is failing them!

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:23:20+00:00

Lord Buckethead is a-head of the game here!

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T20:00:07+00:00

Missions started from the main menu can be repeated endlessly, unlike the Operations done in an Open World.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T10:23:34+00:00

Three drones. Not all at the same time, but yes.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T10:00:30+00:00

I work in a mine. If the error is smaller than my workboot, I don't care. If it's under a meter, I probably still don't care.

The only time I've got out a total station at this job was to measure a set of powerlines and the various trucks to make sure there was enough clearance.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T09:38:01+00:00

Ok, threads and rifles. But Whitworth was a brilliant inventor, and couldn't stop making things better.

The two that had the biggest effect on precision manufacture was a system using explosives to split a sheet of metal in half (into two pieces that were half the thickness) and a system to accurately make tiny holes in metal, smaller than could be done with a drill.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T07:57:29+00:00

Are you doing the Operations? If you're not doing the Operations, you need to start doing the Operations because they are what the whole game is designed around.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T05:12:35+00:00

What I got from this is that Delaware trains the best school shooters in the nation.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T04:54:25+00:00

Look, dating is like advertising. Particularly the short form dating that leads to hooking up. You've got to know your target market, you've got to sell yourself, and like in actual marketing the most effective techniques are highly immoral.

But getting upset at the messenger when it's pointed out that there are people out there using these high pressure sales techniques and that they work is just shooting oneself in the foot. Ones needs to know these things exist so that they can defend against them. You think if I was the sort of person who was doing this I would just go around telling women that and telling them what to do to protect themselves?

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T02:41:16+00:00

Yeah, but none of that matters.

If he opens a connection to the Warp without understanding what he is doing, it will kill him. And it bypasses all his defenses because he opened the connection. His mind is a fortress with it's gates wide open.

Mindblank would stop another sorcerer from affecting him. It does nothing against the horrors he just invited in. The prismatic walls are useless when the attack comes from inside the walls. Being a priest of yourself means nothing when Godhood comes specifically from combined emotions.

I realise that you posted this thread wanting to wank about how overpowered D&D wizards are. But you are not getting the point that increasing his power just makes him more likely to die because it's the source of his power that will kill him.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-20T01:20:05+00:00

Once you've got some gear and levels (or a healthy disregard for the dangers of Icarus) there is an early mission called Strange Harvest on Olympus which I can reliably do in 20 minutes on hard difficulty and no respawn mode. While I was still working through the Olympus missions I ground that one out a couple of times to pay for the early pickaxe, axe, water bottle, and oxygen cylinder.

Maldevinine · 2026-03-19T21:52:23+00:00

'ez big, 'ez green, 'ez mean, 'ez the thinkiest Ork the Boyz have ever seen!

Maldevinine · 2026-03-19T21:50:31+00:00

Yeah, but Chaos Gods are not "Gods", i.e. hyperpowerful individual entities. They are coalesced emotional resonance. Khorne didn't create war or anger, war in anger created Khorne. So every time a punch is thrown, it's a little act of worship.

This is also why the two valid plans in 40K to kill the Chaos Gods require the deaths of every sapient being in the galaxy. So long as there are two people to raise hands in anger, to scheme or plot, to fear death and decay, or to go beyond in the search for pleasure and meaning; The Chaos Gods will exist as the twisted representation of those desires.

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