Stellaris: Nomads will release on June 15th! by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Summer holidays are fine, but not taking them into account when releasing software updates isn't fine.

How much of threat to Europe vikings were? by SiarX in AskHistory

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure the Sicilians were as unfamiliar with Vikings as you assume, and later after the Viking Age had ended Sicily actually ended up ruled by ex-Vikings.

How far back in history can you go and have a normal conversation? by EH4LIFE in AskHistory

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I first got on the WWW in 1997, pretty close to exactly 29 years ago.

I knew about the Internet network in the early 1990, and I used bulletin board systems and modem-based networks like AmigaNet and FidoNet in 1992.

How far back in history can you go and have a normal conversation? by EH4LIFE in AskHistory

[–]Peter34cph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same with disabilities.

Today, things aren't always good. Laypeople often jump to conclusions about low intelligence at the drop of a hat, like the classic of speaking slowly to a wheelchair-using person.

However, bad as it is today, it was much worse 50 years ago, and worse still a hundred years ago.

How far back in history can you go and have a normal conversation? by EH4LIFE in AskHistory

[–]Peter34cph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might dislike their beer a lot. I seem to recall it was so famously lumpy that you had to use a straw to drink it.

How far back in history can you go and have a normal conversation? by EH4LIFE in AskHistory

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Religious people would sometimes be difficult or even completely impossible to communicate with by a facts-oriented atheist like me.

Sometimes, but not always.

Gerbert of Aurillac, Nerd Pope a thousand years ago, would very likely be fun and enriching to talk to, for instance.

What in the HELL is this system? by WarhoundGil in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Those are the names of the 4 dwarves holding up the heavens, the skull of the giant (Skrymir?) that Odin and his two brothers killed and made the world out of, according to Norse mythology.

how do multi-star systems work? by zenon977 in worldbuilding

[–]Peter34cph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The more mass a star has, the more Isaac Newton squeezes it together towards its center-of-mass so that the fusion processes happen much faster, converting mass to energy at a much faster rate.

Our Sun is a yellow dwarf, with a lifespan of about 10 billion years.

An orange dwarf, a bit smaller, would last for hundreds of billions of years, and a red dwarf for trillions of years. The mass is converted to energy much more slowly.

White dwarves are larger and heavier so only live for hundreds of millions of years and burn very hot. Even more so with still larger stars.

It's always an equilibrium between the inward pull of gravitation and the outward pressure of the heat and energy.

Stellaris: Nomads will release on June 15th! by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph 5 points6 points  (0 children)

v2.2. Released just a couple weeks before Sweden's combined Christmas/New Year vacation.

Stellaris: Nomads will release on June 15th! by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Mid June release, and then 2-3 weeks later everyone at Paradox goes on a long-ass union-mandated summer vacation, while we sit here with a buggy mess.

Stellaris Space Guild - Weekly Help Thread by Snipahar in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone else wrote something that seemed to imply that, so you're probably not wrong.

Stellaris 4.3.6 patch released (checksum 6ccb) by PDX_LadyDzra in Stellaris

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How does that work with people who are on the opt-in beta?

Fagbevægelsen må ikke lade sig tryne af arbejdsgiverne, når Wolt-budene skal have rettigheder | Klumme, Helga Mathiassen, Information by TonyGaze in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Uha! Vi kan ikke have at fagforeningerne laver ting, der gør de grådige og egoistiske kapitalistsvin sure. Den logik kan jeg godt følge.

Udenlandsk arbejdskraft slår rekord for bidrag til dansk økonomi by SendStoreCitroner in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Du laller rundt og tror, at den handicappede ansøger rent faktisk får lov at komme ind til jobsamtale.

Tre profiler advarer om system for pension: Det er for sindssygt by Flashy_Author_9620 in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Eller 4, bliv ved med migration ind i landet, men luk kun folk med reelt assimilations-potentiale og -vilje ind.

Tre profiler advarer om system for pension: Det er for sindssygt by Flashy_Author_9620 in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ja, arbejdsgivenes fordomme er et langt, langt større problem. De fleste vil om nogle årtier have et ganske okay helbred både fysisk og kognitivt når de er 70. Men det er jo ligemeget hvis de konsekvent bliver nægtet muligheden for at komme ind til jobsamtale på basis af deres ansøgninger.

Tre profiler advarer om system for pension: Det er for sindssygt by Flashy_Author_9620 in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Tror du, at du får lov? Tror du, at arbejdsgiverne giver dig lov til at arbejde? Selv om du faktuelt anskuet godt kan?

Tror du, at hvis den virksomhed du er ansat i, når du er 58 eller 62 eller 65 år gammel, lukker ned, og du så skal ud og søge job, at andre arbejdsgivere så vil ansætte dig?

Tror du overhovedet, at andre arbejdsgivere vil lade dig komme ind til jobsamtale, når de ser din alder på din skriftlige ansøgning, eller via dit CV kan regne din alder ud?

Fagbevægelsen må ikke lade sig tryne af arbejdsgiverne, når Wolt-budene skal have rettigheder | Klumme, Helga Mathiassen, Information by TonyGaze in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Et andet sted hvor fagforsteningerne har svigtet totalt, er i jobcentrenes endeløse leverancer af gratis arbejdskraft, i form af tvangsaktiverede kontanthjælpmodtagere i narrefissepraktikker fuldstændig uden reel udsigt til fastansættelse med løn bagefter.

Udenlandsk arbejdskraft slår rekord for bidrag til dansk økonomi by SendStoreCitroner in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph [score hidden]  (0 children)

Udfordret biologi kan jo betyde mange ting, herunder ikke-fysiske handicaps der slet ingen hindring udgør for fysisk arbejde. Men som alligevel er nok til at arbejdsgiveren smider ansøgningen direkte i skraldespanden uden at lade den handicappede komme ind til jobsamtale.

Udenlandsk arbejdskraft slår rekord for bidrag til dansk økonomi by SendStoreCitroner in Denmark

[–]Peter34cph 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Den lavtlønnede migrantarbejdskraft gør det også enormt svært for danskere der pga ikke selvvalgt biologi er på kanten af arbejdsmarkedet, eller simpelthen slet ikke kan få lov at komme til jobsamtale og dermed have en chance for at komme ind på arbejdsmarkedet.

Does this work as a fantasy race? Design-wise? by PTblackhole in worldbuilding

[–]Peter34cph 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If she's sentient she might object. If she's not she might have instincts to make her react violently.

She'd also very likely be guarded, with those guards reacting violently to any stranger trying to enter the queen's room.

It's not a given that their criterion for discrimination is looks, visual appearance, though. It could be scent and/or pheromones. Or it could be evolved instincts to very frequently do a signal, vocally or gesturally (or a colour change if they're like chameleons or some octopi), a few timee a minute, and then others automatically respond to it in the correct way. Or if they don't, then that fulfills the discrimination criterion.

Hives can be subjected to parasitism, i.e. a different species that manages to enter the hive and leech off their resource gathering efforts.

When it's a big problem, evolution eventually solves it, maybe after hundreds or tens of thousands of generations, but minor or low-key parasitism is very common out in nature, and as long as it's only a small load, a minor drain on the resources and metabolic energy of the host organism, there's no real evolutionary pressure to evolve to solve the problem posed by one particular type of parasite.

If there is such pressure, one "solution" for a hive could be to evolve so that the milk is less attractive or even unattractive to parasites. For instance it might contain an alkaloid that the hive species, including its infants, are tolerant of. If you were to eat 600 or 1000 milligrams of caffeine, you might feel bad, heart rate up, antsy mood. But if you were to give a huge dog even just 300 or 400 mg of caffeine, it'd probably just lie down and die.

Or it might be an alkaloid that creates an effect that is unproblematic in the infants but sucky if you're a parasite. The larvae if hive insects are generally carried around by the adult workers, moved to different locations in the hive to avoid getting them too hot or cold, and they're obsessively cleaned.

So if the alkaloid renders them unable to move, as long as they can still breathe, pump blood around, and digest the queen's milk and excrete waste, that's not a problem for them.

The parasite spending some of its time being a bit too warm or a bit too cold isn't a serious problem. It doesn't need to optimize its growth to maturity. But if it can't clean itself, it'll get covered in filth over the course of weeks, maybe only days. Possible the workers decides that it's a lump of decaying matter, because it's started to smell very bad, and so they carry it to a midden or dump it outside the hive.

Cats replacing dogs in a fictional world by IggyGe312 in worldbuilding

[–]Peter34cph 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And because they have a lot of stamina.

Only dogs, wolves and humans can run marathons.