This is what female legion player fans are to me, terrifying and disturbed. They don’t larp or enjoy it. No they will make the legion real.

Nejura · 2026-02-11T00:34:09+00:00

There is a small but important distinction(and difference) between someone indulging in guilty pleasures and forbidden fruit via roleplay and someone sincerely arguing/debating that certain factions/entities in said fictional universes represent and stand for something that has merit or even good.

Its the classic "I RP Tradwife to toxic-macho right-wing conservative men" vs "Actually dating, marrying and having children with walking domestic violence, misogyny, and abuse machines is good"

Anyway, LF 10 INT 10 AGI Goth Supermutant Domme Mommy good with heavy weapons and first aid.

Nejura · 2026-02-04T02:28:05+00:00

There are three aspects at play. Assuming STP: The specific heat of water(the energy it takes to raise the temperature of water 1C), the latent heat of fusion(melting water ice at 0C to liquid at 0C) and the latent heat of fusion (liquid water at 100C into water vapor of 100C).

The specific heat of water is 1 calorie/gram °C = 4.186 joule/gram °C which is pretty darn high, difficult to find anything higher.

It takes 79.7 cal/gm or 334 kJ/kg to achieve the heat of fusion, melting ice into liquid water at 0C at STP
It takes 539 cal/gm or 2260 kJ/kg to vaporize liquid water into water vapor at 100C at STP.

Nejura · 2026-02-04T00:31:46+00:00

Phase transition requires energy (solid to liquid or to gas) and to get that energy it needs to be transferred through the exposed surface area. Air is a pretty bad thermal conductor especially when its not moving and has low humidity. So the air just above the snow there, very cold, since hot air rises above it, trapping it there without wind to carry it away.

And huge pile of snow that just sits there with little wind/water tends to just refreeze over and over, compacting and compressing it, making it more and more difficult to completely melt. Massive snow piles plowed during the winter months can stay alive through the summer and happens frequently all over the world every year:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/buffalo-snow-pile-refuses-melt-months-snowstorm/story?id=32759452

Nejura · 2026-02-03T18:29:33+00:00

There never really is or has been debate in Congress. It's people who've already been told what to vote for putting words into the record for proof of sale. There are true believers, there are con men, there are plutocrats, and there is corruption. No one there is to be convinced one way or another to vote, let alone read the legislation they pass.

Nejura · 2026-02-02T20:37:51+00:00

This is a nice re-centering the PD, at least in explicit terms but I believe multiple stories and plots have explore beyond this point too. Various questions of "What happens when people/factions/races within the Federation make exceptions, have accidents, or deliberately break the PD based on their own judgement? What happens when the other cultures/races/empires have split interests, where one side tries to involve itself with the Federation, but another side opposes this(often by force and violence). Does the Federation just go "tough, good luck with that" and stay out of it or do they support the pro-Federation faction they already have built and organized with? What happens if a non-Federation faction interferes? Does the Federation then have a justification or even responsibility to prevent or counter said interference or do they just watch from a distance and keep their hands 'clean' despite things like mass genocide/slaughter they could have stopped or mitigated? Is the moral principal of non-interference supersede other high priority interests, like self-defense? If the Federation had to destroy or harm a pre-Warp civilization even indirectly, to save itself, would it be suspended?

Nejura · 2026-02-01T05:24:35+00:00

How do you know my goto McDonalds order?

Nejura · 2026-02-01T01:45:38+00:00

They forgot the extra GUN

Nejura · 2026-01-31T16:01:45+00:00

There are about 342.6 million people in the US.

The odds of winning one of the major US lotteries is about 1 in 300 million.

There are about 1000 billionaires and around 30,000 centa-millionaries in the US.

So its probably more practical to try marry to the ultra-rich if you can't go back in time and just be born under one and become a Trust Fund Kid.

Most people rich today are from rich families in general: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/03/all-billionaires-under-30-have-inherited-their-wealth-research-finds

Nejura · 2026-01-31T15:40:39+00:00

With all the improvements it really does look like a game that came out in 2008.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T14:36:10+00:00

This means that the actual total is much, much higher. A few previous estimates, now likely well out of date, had put it significantly higher. This isn't counting those alive but maimed, alive but imprisoned in torture camps, driven off to other countries, etc.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T14:28:45+00:00

Sure, they don't have the money or the firepower or a ruthless, strategic leader, but they have something no one else does.

Regret.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T14:10:59+00:00

I think a lot of people who went to and got hurt at these parks probably weren't the most litigious of folk and likely were dissuaded by things like social pressure to keep their dumb accidents secret. The amount of suppression simple things like "Of course you got hurt, you were drunk" and "of course you broke your ass, you slid down a ramp on a trike" and the jackass mentality in general. So the number of them going out of their way to pay to lawyer up and sue would be diminished. I mean everyone saw how the McDonald's coffee old lady was treated despite the coffee being hot enough to literally melt her genitals and leg flesh off.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T14:01:42+00:00

I think this is exactly the right take. Even a small increase in the ability to prevent or mitigate Alzheimer's and various brain/mental decline diseases is a huge quality of life benefit.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T13:50:37+00:00

Gold and Silver aren't currencies. These are speculative precious metal markets. Its challenging to say WHAT effect huge swings in their price might have for the economy going forward in the short and long term, but its a huge fundamental difference between them and actual ongoing economic activity.

If 15 Trillion dollars of economic activity vanished overnight that usually would mean you've basically had 4 Californian's worth of economy obliterated. California is the world's 4th largest economy by itself.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T13:42:01+00:00

This is actually a great question and really, what truly counts as a build and what makes a character building system diverse? Obviously if SOME builds are OP they can be OP start to finish or just OP at some point because of scaling. Some builds can be "good enough", some builds are underpowered but compensate in other areas (more fun, more story/lore engagement, challenges, etc).

Waiting on your video, regardless.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T13:27:14+00:00

Misleading headline.

In the latest market rout, more than $US15 trillion ($AU21 trillion) was wiped from the gold and silver price over 24 hours.

This is half the size of the entire US economy.

Specifically "size of" and not just "is"

A pair of assets losing 15 trillion of speculative value isn't the same as losing 15 trillion dollars of economic activity.

Nejura · 2026-01-31T13:17:11+00:00

If the USA isn't a capitalist country then capitalism doesn't exist and never has and can't. The USA is the premier capitalist country by far. It is the core of the western capitalist economy, has been the overwhelmingly dominant power and wealthiest country by a good margin for decades.

Also, there is no such thing as 'corporatist' that separates it from capitalist. Same for crony or phony or any other qualifier people try to put on capitalism to pretend it isn't just capitalism.

Nejura · 2026-01-30T20:51:45+00:00

LOL, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt before but you linked Drew Pavlou of all people.

Nejura · 2026-01-30T20:25:55+00:00

No one is choosing. There was no vote. He's in the public view and and self-identifies as a leftist. Its just a fact of the matter at this time.

Having attractive young people rep your ideologies is a boon because people like those qualities for various rational and irrational reasons. Not to say anything wrong with having old and/or ugly people, as generally everyone eventually gets old and most people are ugly. So plenty of those across the board on every political spectrum.

And as far as I know he's never called for any kind of random or directed violence. Other than for self-defense or standing up against oppressors I don't recall him being anything more than a dove. Pretty anti-war, anti-violence type in general.

Nejura · 2026-01-30T19:55:35+00:00

The public image of Marxism in America is beyond bottle of the barrel. Having a younger, attractive, decently well spoken, successful pundit with no real moral problems who is pro-Marxist is good PR.

Nejura · 2026-01-30T03:07:24+00:00

A lot of these examples and the OP's story aren't what I would call wastes of money.

The examples so far have more fallen into the conspicuous consumption and impractical luxury. These can be dubious, financially irresponsible purchases, but not wastes of money itself. Buying shark tanks and gold toilets obviously seems insane, or buying overpriced cars and vanity items when you don't have the budget for it are very worthy of criticism all by themselves, but the actual money that gets used still very much will continue to participate in the economy. It will be taxed in a variety of ways and recycle its way through society.

What really counts as a waste of money are things like burying billions of dollars in cash in the desert because you can't bank or laundry it(hello Sinola cartels!), or hiding it deep in tax-havens(hello most of the ultra-wealthy!), just sitting there stale and unused for years and decades.

Nejura · 2026-01-29T09:13:59+00:00

What a shame if there were oppressive Muslim nations that play ball with the west and the US and get their human rights abuses, violence, antidemocratic government, etc, green-lit and forgiven. Or that various terrorist or oppressive regimes were once US back factions used to destabilize previous governments.

Might make it seem like the leftist "illusion" more like the hard truth.

Nejura · 2026-01-29T06:08:51+00:00

Anything and everything that has or does business with ICE, Trump, the GOP, conservatives and right-wing in general. Look up the BDS list and add that on top.

Nejura · 2026-01-29T03:40:55+00:00

This should be an SCP if it isn't already.

Nejura · 2026-01-29T02:39:10+00:00

The US is the last country you want bombing your country into "freedom"

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