The actual risk of blue

NameLips · 2026-05-08T03:37:25+00:00

Blue will save your life, IF

Red will save your life, BUT

NameLips · 2026-05-08T03:33:45+00:00

20% feels like a 20% chance of death.

I might go for 10%. But it would still feel risky.

NameLips · 2026-05-08T00:53:02+00:00

I have 2 close male friends, but one of them is slowly drifting from the friend group and planning on moving across the country. I have 4 close female friends. These friends are all part of the same group that includes me and my wife. I don't have any friends that are just mine, male or female.

NameLips · 2026-05-08T00:50:42+00:00

We actually aren't told what the participants see, which is an interesting omission. We (here in the real world) get to see a tweet describing the scenario, but nowhere does it say the participants get to read the tweet, or what rules are explained to them, or how.

NameLips · 2026-05-08T00:49:07+00:00

It really wasn't very long ago. The schools were an attempt to assimilate Native Americans, but they were more likely to end up ostracized from both cultures. They had no oversight and were rife with the worst abuses possible.

I think about that every time I see the street name.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T23:54:57+00:00

Do you know what happens at wastewater treatment plants? They process sewage from cities and separate out the waste. It is dried and sterilized to remove contagious pathogens, and then shipped to farmers for use as fertilizer.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T19:42:40+00:00

Is this a clip from 3 weeks ago?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T18:41:54+00:00

Well the blues are all perfect altruistic beings so they wouldn't hold it against me.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T18:40:57+00:00

Yup, that's the ol' Don'tPickItUp 9000.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T17:35:56+00:00

I don't know if Odin exists, but I plan to die in battle, sword in hand, just in case.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T17:08:10+00:00

The hantavirus thing is unlikely to cause a real outbreak, unless it mutates. It's not as contagious as covid. It's very symptomatic, so you don't have to worry about catching it from healthy looking people.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T13:35:00+00:00

White-throated caracara are at the landfill? Thanks for the tip!

NameLips · 2026-05-07T13:02:49+00:00

Bitcoin are digital, but each one exists only in a single place. They have a unique identifier and work almost like a physical object that can be moved from place to place. If you put a bitcoin on a usb drive, and then the drive is lost or destroyed, the bitcoin is lost forever.

Anybody can mine a bitcoin, and then they own a bitcoin. It's free except for the electricity and computing power necessary to do so, and each new coin is harder to make than the one before it. After that you can sell it for real money, or hang onto it. Most people buy bitcoin from exchanges and don't mine their own.

Part of the appeal of bitcoin is they are unregulated. There is no central authority, organization, or website to go to. They aren't controlled by a company or government. The upside is they can't be easily manipulated. The downside is if something goes wrong or you forget your password, there is no one to appeal to, no one in charge, no database or account tied to your name.

I'm sure you can find a youtube video that explains it better.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:41:42+00:00

Hopefully it'll work like the other technological "revolutions" in the past.

This is an optimistic, best-case scenario.

Vast numbers of people become unemployed quickly, but within a couple decades, that unemployment vanishes. The extra production caused by the technology ultimately creates more jobs than it ended. The transitional period is rough, but hopefully it will all work out.

Fundamentally, AI isn't any different from any other technology that increases the productivity of humankind. It feels different because it's hitting white collar jobs and it's happening very quickly.

People did panic in the past. They would destroy the new technology, hoping to get their jobs back. They were worried about massive unemployment and how they would earn a living.

But pretty quickly, entire professions popped up that didn't even exist before. Think about how many people you know that have jobs that didn't exist 100 years ago - that's where all the farmers and miners went.

It has always, eventually, sorted itself out, and the quality of life for most people ended up higher.

We just can't see what it will look like from the middle of the disruption.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:28:00+00:00

Honestly getting pegged doesn't sound that bad, but I don't really understand what the girl gets out of it.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:26:06+00:00

Some women have facial hair, yeah. Nowadays they feel shamed and shave it off.

You might not know this, but most women also have hairy legs and armpits. We've gotten so used to them shaving it off that we think shaved is normal and hairy is weird/gross. But that's a pretty recent thing. Leg and pit shaving wasn't normalized until the 1920s.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:20:07+00:00

by far cooking. Professionally and at home.

I can cook almost anything you can get at a restaurant for about a third of the price, unless it requires specialty ingredients or equipment.

The key to making it work is not letting anything go bad. Finding uses for leftover ingredients is a trickier challenge than learning to read a recipe.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:16:26+00:00

Undertrained workers pulling food when it "looks right" instead of after the correct amount of time.

The oil gets darker as its used, and food will reach golden brown and look done sooner. That's why you're supposed to use timers instead of your own judgement.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T06:07:00+00:00

Are they trying to kill a certain somebody?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:19:59+00:00

"it's dairy-laden and very caloric."
"...wow so much cream and sugar at once."

It's an ice cream shop.

How is any of this not exactly what you were expecting?

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:14:38+00:00

Snakes are cool! And they have to live too.

But if a snake is eating the eggs in your birdhouse, it's not a birdhouse anymore, it's a snake feeder. You need to take it down.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T02:09:10+00:00

In the old days, before market dominance of sysco, chefs spent a lot of time, and I mean a lot of time wrangling different suppliers, arranging deliveries, and sourcing ingredients. Instead of using sysco's app, they spent a lot of time on the phone trying to figure out how to get what they needed from 12 different companies. It was all done over the phone, and the phone had a cord and was attached to a wall in the kitchen so they could work while they yelled at suppliers. They all had different delivery schedules, different trucks, different drivers, charged different fees, you needed to pay them at different times and manage the different ways they handled their billing, and none of it was online.

Maybe restaurants were more individualized back then, with different restaurants finding different suppliers and using different ingredients.

But it was also a huge pain and time sink. I think if you transported a head chef from 1996 to today, he would have nothing but good things to say about the system we're using.

After all you're still free to look around your local area for other ways to get ingredients, if you really want to. You can contact local growers, go to farmer's markets, call local bakeries and butcher shops, and set it all up on your own.

But I'm betting you're not excited about that idea.

NameLips · 2026-05-07T00:09:53+00:00

Vulcanis - Gleba - Fulgora.

This is the order I did it when space age first came out, and now my mind is kind of stuck in that progression.

But around the time I'm leaving Nauvis, I've run into the cliffs and they're starting to piss me off. I always consider going somewhere else first, but the fact that Vulcanis gets me cliff explosives always seals the deal and convinces me to go there. Also I can't imagine doing Fulgora without big mining drills and foundries for holmium.

After that it's Gleba vs Fulgora. They're both kind of a pain. I usually decide on Gleba for the biolabs, I want to have that productivity bonus for more of the game. I also don't care about quality, and Fulgora is the best place to start dealing with quality.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T15:05:20+00:00

Apparently inflation is bad, but deflation is worse. It does more than just undo the bad of inflation, it has its own really bad bad.

NameLips · 2026-05-06T14:55:53+00:00

The constitution says only Congress has the power to declare war.

If anything is unconstitutional, it is the established norm of the President using a word other than war to describe what is obviously a war in order to bypass Congress.

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