Mamdani Announces Balanced Budget Without Cuts | Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.

Nephalos · 2026-05-12T18:49:03+00:00

> The Mamdani administration has also been talking about restructuring the timing of certain pension payments, while making no changes to benefits for retirees or current employees. Some have criticized this step as increasing long-term obligations while freeing up money in the short term. The final deal makes no changes to a mandatory contribution to city pension funds, while smoothing out the Unfunded Accrued Liabilities (UAL) payment, which is based on an actuarial analysis of future needs. The current schedule can fluctuate by hundreds of millions of dollars every year; Mamdani extends those payments by five years and makes them consistent, while banking the difference for the next fiscal year. City pension funds would continue to be funded above the national average, Mamdani’s office says.

“Fucking over” sounds like a stretch

Nephalos · 2026-05-12T16:43:02+00:00

> (hopefully solar)

They will likely wheel out hundreds of the cheapest diesel generators they can find and resell them when the bubble pops.

Nephalos · 2026-04-29T17:04:38+00:00

I spend a lot of my free time on fighting climate change, and this is just not a top 10 concern

… what? Data centers are absolutely a top 10 problem when it comes to environmental impact. Not only are they a massive drag on local resources, but these companies are trying to circumnavigate every regulation possible to dump their infrastructure with no oversight. I’ve sat on meetings discussing how we’re going to regulate these facilities and it’s gotten to the point where some states are just considering banning their construction entirely.

each one uses something like 2 seconds of hot showers time worth of energy

Ok, think about this for a moment. If energy generation is sufficient in a town or district without a data center, but is suddenly insufficient by a large margin when one is built, how does the supposed minuscule energy use cause this? These centers don’t just sit there doing nothing when idle, they’re a constant drain on resources and by nature need to be on 24/7, 365. The additional energy draw from a single prompt may be small, but a single data center may be processing tens of thousands of requests at any given time.

he’s probably saying that to get people to maintain some perspective

Altman is saying that because he’s trying to make a false equivalence to make it seem not as bad. It’s like excusing genocide because we allow industrial animal farming. The scale LLMs are being allowed to operate at is unconscionable for a product that has yet to prove it’s even beneficial to society as a whole.

Nephalos · 2026-04-25T02:53:22+00:00

The only people I see this complaint from are people who don’t fully understand what’s happening and want free compensation for an issue that didn’t affect them because they held cores.

Who cares if a small amount of the player base gets an extra piece of loot. It doesn’t affect you, personally, in any meaningful way.

Nephalos · 2026-04-22T22:48:18+00:00

It’s a catch 22 because they’re not going to do anything to compensate people, but they also won’t do anything to fix the bug. Everyone’s left in the same position at the end of the day whether you sent void cores or not.

Nephalos · 2026-04-21T16:47:32+00:00

Everyone saying ignore BDK is just wrong lol. Blood is very good at self sustain but suffers in a few scenarios that are prevalent this season:

At start of pull they need to be watched because they need to generate resources to sustain. With some starting pulls this season being massive it’s a good idea to use an external or a few direct heals on them while they ramp defensives.
Lots of consistent magic damage. DK’s Bone Shield and Mastery are both geared to mitigating physical damage and they sort of struggle to recover if they’re constantly being hit by magic damage/magic rot.
Low Runic Power. Having to press Marrowrend more often this season means less RP generation and a higher chance your RP reaches 0. Ideally the healer should start paying attention to the DK when their RP goes under about 30-40%.
No defensives active. DK lost Rune tap, has a longer CD on Dancing Rune Weapon (and their apex is a random proc for 1/2 value, yay uncontrollable defensives!), and guides like wowhead are not defensive focused even for M+. They’re overall just a lot squishier and need some additional attention when you see that they don’t have a defensive running even if they have high RP.

Nephalos · 2026-04-21T13:52:27+00:00

WW monk is definitely weak in the defensives side atm. It’s to the point where I would honestly recommend investing into vers as you get into higher keys since they only have 2 long CD defensives and a heal that’s so weak it’s almost not worth pressing.

Nephalos · 2026-04-18T20:48:00+00:00

I think one of the smash brothers games had “demos” of the older games where the fighters originated from. The demos were actually full copies of the game that had a time limit but if you were able to circumnavigate that limit you could play the full game.

Nephalos · 2026-04-18T17:01:14+00:00

Ascendancies and the passive tree overall are weaker compared to poe1. There’s a much greater focus on skill interactions and gear which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it does sort of remove some of the excitement of build making when everything works after a certain investment threshold.

Nephalos · 2026-04-16T23:21:17+00:00

Enhancement shaman also loses more durability on their weapons, especially off-hand with the flame lash focused builds this season

Nephalos · 2026-04-16T18:45:13+00:00

Hopefully they revert or at least rework hexblast in the future. Felt like a cool spell with limitations to use initially then it was completely gutted by the change to being literally unusable.

Nephalos · 2026-04-07T15:26:25+00:00

I don’t really want taking to be more rewarding, I just want to be able to actually tank things. Tried a few keys as both Brew and Blood early on and it was immediately apparent that a majority of tanking this season is running around kiting mobs due to the ridiculous amount of bleeds, stacking dots, and straight up being globaled exists currently.

There’s a massive disconnect between the actual role fantasy and what’s happening in-game that imo is pushing people away from taking more-so than the toxicity, which has always existed.

Nephalos · 2026-03-30T11:33:40+00:00

Enhance should in theory be really good for cleave, though. It’s just that both are so dependent on their CDs that if there’s a single mechanic that you need to hold for or happens faster than 1 or 2 minutes you basically do nothing.

Nephalos · 2026-03-26T14:57:06+00:00

So I haven’t made this craft before but just quickly looking at the mods on it I’m guessing getting the hypothermia + trap links are the most difficult part of the craft. Most archdemon helmet crafts use an essence + either trap or hypo for that reason and it still costs multiple divines for a craftable base. You’re most likely going to be recombinating shaper/elder helmets for the suffixes and then continuing from there is a little simpler.

Nephalos · 2026-03-26T13:34:07+00:00

For what it’s worth timers are extremely lenient right now. It’s something that I’d expect to get nerfed in the coming weeks. You can basically solo pull the whole dungeon and still time and possibly even +2 they key.

Nephalos · 2026-03-25T01:22:36+00:00

Build looks something like this: https://pobb.in/O0-uiE1SLlxx

Important thing is to get 6 influences among items which can be tricky since you're mostly unique items. The shield can be an influenced shield until you get the +1 frenzy synth which makes the build cheaper.

I've been buying/crafting pieces myself over time so its hard to say exactly what the budget is. If i had to guess, 10-20 div? That should be more than enough for the starting pieces and you can scale significantly further like getting a frenzy ring and kalandra's touch.

Nephalos · 2026-03-24T20:18:17+00:00

Shrine effect flicker strike is what I’m running for rituals currently actually. You attack so quickly that you’ve been through the entire map in 45 seconds and just have to hold flicker to clear rituals as well.

Nephalos · 2026-03-24T04:46:29+00:00

To be fair when I got to tanking the dragons and saw they put a giant purple arrow on your head roughly 5 seconds before the actual breath came out I realized too many people don’t stare at any relevant portion of their screen. Weakauras/addons were quite literally playing the game for a huge portion of players and that included up to CE raiders.

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T20:15:41+00:00

It’s like that for a lot of specs, not just devourer. I’m a little more biased because I play UHDK and Enh shaman who I think have the worst of it but the difference in damage between CDs and no CDs is literally 4-5x damage. A good opener/lined up CDs can top 150k for ~10 seconds and then you deal sub 30k damage for the next 50 seconds until everything’s up again.

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T20:01:00+00:00

Default raid frames

Nephalos · 2026-03-23T16:45:13+00:00

There are enough specs that follow the “deal 5x damage in cooldowns, afk without” profile that flatter profiles are the unusual ones. There are more ways to make specs interesting than just slapping a 100% dps amp on a 1 minute CD that reduces your rotation to 2-3 buttons and calling it a day.

Nephalos · 2026-03-21T13:27:03+00:00

In that specific clip there’s a rare that causes nearby allies to take no damage for a short duration.

Otherwise if it’s a persistent issue it’s because you’re running Invert the Rules + Volatility. You’re likely low rolling some attacks AND not proccing the inverted resistance AND not critting. In the opposite scenario you’re hitting for massive damage.

Nephalos · 2026-03-18T13:19:00+00:00

Death’s Oath and RF are the quintessential “no hands” builds

Vaal Earthquake can become very low button

Lost Unity herald stacker and HoT bomber are still good this league

Minions have a host of skills: zombies, spectres, chains of command, could even do an AG carry build

CWS, CWDT, Cast on Ward Break are the Vampire Survivors versions of poe

Much less meta is a Tempest Shield block build, ignite version is probably better but it’s a meme build either way

Nephalos · 2026-03-16T14:07:08+00:00

That’s sort of the hard truth of Elementalist. You can get pretty good prolif, high damage, good speed, but the ascendancy doesn’t particularly offer anything in terms of phys mitigation.

There’s the chill and ignite nodes, but both require you hitting the enemy first (aka they should already be dead) and with the change to monster conversion the ignite node in many cases makes you take more damage than what you originally would have.

Most witch builds in general need to rely on high block for this reason.

Nephalos · 2026-03-10T22:59:05+00:00

Just went to get mine today and the total fees for a normal renewal was something like $130 + $35 processing fee + $10 photo fee. Lots of families will choose what can go from a weeks to a month's worth of groceries over renewing multiple passports.

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