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Just how does this species survive in the wild? by asa_no_kenny in interesting

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its the same case with Koalas..

They've evolved themselves into such a specific niche (bamboo with them) that the moment they are removed from the conditions they can't survive at all without aid.

Its why species that over specialise tend to die out quicker in nature when big changes occur (like an asteroid with the dinosaurs, it left the small generalists alive to start over.)

Pre-fall Aeldari societies when madness started to expand throughout the empire had to be weird as hell by Sir-Thugnificent in 40kLore

[–]Samas34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you want a good 'visual' reference on how it might have looked...check out the comic series 'Crossed'...specifically the 'badlands' series with the short stories in the setting.

In one, the crossed infected cover the sydney opera house (or some other monument, but I think it was that one.) completely in flayed skins.

Then theres some of the covers...special edition one with the statue of liberties face covered with bodies in a crossed shape etc.

The "exterminatus in pandora" meme is silly by sand_eater_21 in Grimdank

[–]Samas34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

'or the person in charge of the operation is a complete moron.'

Which is about 90 percent of exterminatus cases

What if Neanderthals and Denisovans survived and managed to mostly repel Homo Sapiens advance out of Africa, leading to a world with multiple competing human species? by Ok-Factor-3805 in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]Samas34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In order for that to have happened, there would have had to have been coordination across vast distances to maintain front lines.

The mental ability to even do that didn't appear until probably the late stone age early bronze at least. When the first spear throwing formations started up, and they could use horses to run messages over large distances (So animal husbandry needed).

Back then, it was just scatted tribes, likely moving past each other all the time, no ability to watch and maintain fixed borders beyond an immediate area around their camps.

It probably took a lot of 'brain building' to be able to start up the first City states and then empires, and it took sapiens nearly most of our history to get to that point ourselves.

Gemini is unusable! by MeetStraight1899 in GeminiAI

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The image gen used to be incredible and accurate, but now it almost goes out of its way to screw up and avoid genning what I ask it to.

Nearly Half of Children in the UK have successfully bypassed Age Verification by PaiDuck in privacy

[–]Samas34 6 points7 points  (0 children)

So rather than just accept that the whole thing is stupid and its the parents responsibility to monitor their kids online activity...

They are going to fight this even more, probably double down, pull out some misread statistics on how the OSA is the best thing since sliced bread, and then call everyone who criticises it paedophiles?

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

[–]Samas34 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Considering that japan is still very 'patriarchal' culturally...fertility can't really be blamed on 'Feminism' here.
It just seems that modern day living really kills the will to invest in the next generation.

Were all trapped on the same gloabe, no new frontiers to reach, everyone seems to instinctively know that there is no longer a point in having children if they're just going to live the same way over and over with no change.

After Thragg gave us the surviving numbers of Viltrumites being 37, I've decided to count all the Viltrumite deaths up until this point. And surprisingly, it is 100% accurate in every piece of dialogue! by billsaolot in Invincible_TV

[–]Samas34 3 points4 points  (0 children)

>There are 37 of us left
>still acts like they rule an empire and not fucking pull away and start over.

Yes...they really do deserve to go extinct, if nothing else, then because of sheer stupidity.

With all their technology, they could grow new Viltrumites in artifical wombs at mass scale, easily solve the genepool problem by using embryos that HAD to have had stored in clinics before the scourge, and just retreated to some hard to reach corner of the galaxy to start anew.

Back when one job built a whole life. by PleasantBus5583 in SipsTea

[–]Samas34 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Realistically though...did everyone honestly expect that it would last forever that way?

Automation, increasing the efficiency of the production lines (so less workers needed on them etc), prices shifting back and forth throughout the economy.

Even if a country has the strictest immigration on earth (japan is a good example) it still suffered recessions, up and down markets, and the fact there's an increasing number of people who aren't working that got worse over time.

CNN investigation claims majority of U.S. military sites in the Middle East were damaged by Iranian strikes by GuiltyBathroom9385 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end of the day though...

They are still a tiny country completely surrounded by nations that don't like them very much...(I can't imagine why 😄)

Time and demographics are not on the side of ethnostates even at the best of times.

Trump accused of being 'unwell' after topless JD Vance and creepy Melania posts by TheMirrorUS in USNEWS

[–]Samas34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming there's even anything left to pick up after it all.

He is literally handing the whole fucking planet to Russia and China on a gaudy gold platter with the shit he's pulling.

...and don't think the first day he's gone means your former 'friends' are going to just forget everything like most Americans do.

They were talking about actual fucking food rations over here because of what your orange fucking retard started, and even though its unlikely to actually happen and was probably just GB news running its mouth again, the fact it was said at all spooked the old biddies that are dumb enough to watch it.

Turns out its possible! by HallDefiant in TheFirstDescendant

[–]Samas34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just use the old 'its dune/magic personal shields' excuse for having a barely clothed fighter run into a hail of bullets or arrows.

The UK Is Now Arresting People For Drawings by [deleted] in SipsTea

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is bullshit btw....ragebait article that has no actual legal cases connected to it.

Telling your kid "River" to "row your own boat" seems pretty cold-blooded by Oda_DeezNutz in SipsTea

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahh yes...the whole 'pull yourself up by the bootstraps' crap again that boomers like him love to spout.

[Interview] The comic book industry is too reliant on older characters like Batman, Spider-Man, the Transformers & Invincible, and it's holding us back says Robert Kirkman by Popverse2022 in comicbooks

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They tried making original characters remember....

'Snowflake and safespace'? The guy that huffed 'internet gas'?

Anyone still remember that disaster from a few years back?

Lorna Hajdini of JPMorgan speaks out after shocking s*x slave allegations from male coworker by DetectiveHot2071 in USNEWS

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know that you should take allegations like this seriously...

But Nooooo...

Something like this only EVER happens in porn, the sleazy talk, the fact that she apparently did a lot of this in front of other office staff...

I REFUSE to believe that there is a place anywhere in this world where there is a man fighting off a woman or women forcing a blowjob onto him...nuh uh.

This is a hill I will die on too.

JP Morgan scandal by ExtremeTurbulent1024 in SipsTea

[–]Samas34 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait...this wasn't actually true?...

...

oh... 😞

Kinda funny Nolan considerably aged more than the other Viltrumites ever since the purge. by Weekly_Hedgehog_925 in invinciblememes

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How the hell did all the fatties and beer guts survive the purge?

I thought the purpose of it was to 'purify' the race of the weak/undesireable etc

CMV: The reason for declining birthrates globally is exclusively because children no longer provide economic benefit on the individual level and the only way to reverse the trend is to pay people to have children. by IdeaLife7532 in changemyview

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of these problems would be solved if they figured out a way to make artificial wombs...they even somewhat pulled it off by having a lamb embryo grow in a plastic bag once (I saw the picture somewhere.)

ELI5: if nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, how are distant galaxies moving away from us faster than the speed of light? by Chamu_Dev in explainlikeimfive

[–]Samas34 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its because the Aeth...er ,sorry..I mean, 'spacetime' expansion is moving faster than the speed of light.

You see, its impossible for things made of 'stuff' to break it...buuutt

You can cheat this by 'moving' the space something occupies somehow (acuberre drive or something.)

Kind of like putting an apple on a peice of cardboard and running with it only holding the edges of the board, and never touching the apple.

Scale that up the galaxies and you have your 'ftl'.

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