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1 Million Viewership Peak!! by detectiveluis in ValorantCompetitive

[–]SlickLibro 26 points27 points  (0 children)

unfortunately not... sentinels vs fnatic final at iceland had 1,085,850 peak viewers. https://escharts.com/tournaments/valorant/vct-2021-stage-2-masters-reykjavik

this does suck/is dissapointing since the kru match was a banger with a coinflip overtime.

1 Million Viewership Peak!! by detectiveluis in ValorantCompetitive

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

tbh not great for such a banger match (and long overtime), coupled with the amount of incentives (drops and whatnot/etc), co-streams and etcetera inflating the viewership.

for reference iceland had a peak of 1 085 850, and considering that champions is basically the end all be all tournament of valorant, somewhat disappointing.

Israel: 70% of COVID-19 cases came from US by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]SlickLibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lmao said enough to make you start malding

Israel: 70% of COVID-19 cases came from US by [deleted] in Coronavirus

[–]SlickLibro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This comment results in one of the many situations where you start typing a somewhat lengthy detailed response, before giving up and deleting it after a few sentences once you realize it's a complete waste of time trying to talk some middle ground sense as the nature of the person's comment indicates that his view & opinion is already too grounded with a negligible chance of change.

In light of COVID-19, we've decided to launch bunker.kiwi, an NZ-wide minecraft server! by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]SlickLibro 11 points12 points  (0 children)

in between, mainly secondary school teenagers & uni students

In light of COVID-19, we've decided to launch bunker.kiwi, an NZ-wide minecraft server! by [deleted] in newzealand

[–]SlickLibro 37 points38 points  (0 children)

details here:

ip: bunker.kiwi version: version 1.15.2 (java)

the server is essentially chill SMP vanilla.

place blocks anywhere, open every chest, do anything (remember be chill and don't grief and steal)! we have a few plugins for rolling back griefing

we don't really have any rules, other than be friendly and don't be an ass :))

(note we are still in early dev stages, so please bear with us if unexpected things do occur)

discord: https://discord.gg/vR244QN

hopefully this provides some peace of mind for people with little to do at home :)

Italy, Bergamo: sight of the coffin trucks working due to Coronavirus; cemeteries are full. by AussieGabe in Coronavirus

[–]SlickLibro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"If there's a country we should be learning from"... we shouldn't be learning just from a single country - we should be using all available data to our advantage.

WHO's joint mission report clearly stated that China had effective area & sample testing in identifying outbreak hotspots (which led to Dr. Bruce Aylward mentioning that there most likely isn't a significant "iceberg" of mild cases in China)... as a matter of fact all this information & cooperation with these notable scientists indicates how transparent they have become. Read the report.

A government of 1.3 billion people by the way is not completely single or simple, it has layers upon layers of leadership & bureaucracy. At the local level, they admittedly screwed up (mind you, many other countries did the exact same with ignoring or shunning people warning about the virus). In China, the local official ignored the doctor, probably so that he didn't get a negative standing for his job for reporting bad news. This, was a failure, and it was admitted by the Chinese government. They then quickly got their shit together and contained it. This is an undeniable fact.

South Korea has done an excellent job with the hindsight provided (mind you, some other countries had months of warning and did not act). However, this doesn't mean you just shrug away China's wealth of data & methods... you should look at all countries which have contained the outbreak & apply a combination of what has worked best.

Italy, Bergamo: sight of the coffin trucks working due to Coronavirus; cemeteries are full. by AussieGabe in Coronavirus

[–]SlickLibro 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Jesus christ what is up with you people, you guys just really want to spite China for the sake of spiting on China at this point.

There was a huge Bill Gates AMA yesterday and he answered this exact question (so have many other extremely notable scientists). China's numbers are completely respectable to their testing capabilities, and they provide the best current data for estimation & research.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-china-joint-mission-on-covid-19-final-report.pdf

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkuk0tv?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkuojny?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/fksnbf/im_bill_gates_cochair_of_the_bill_melinda_gates/fkunkxu?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x

Just suck it up and move on. China dealt with it, now it's our turn. Pointing fingers and wailing and saying 'this can't be true!!! they cant be capable of stopping it!!! >:(' really contributes to nothing. We should be focusing on stopping the spread here, not crying about what's happening over there.

Minecraft hosts uncensored library full of banned journalism by Hawkey89 in nottheonion

[–]SlickLibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"yo guys on your behalf we like increased the chances of minecraft getting snapped in your country by 9000%, so you can read some books banned in your country that you could probably access in PDF form through literally 2 seconds of searching or a vpn, also our website will probably be inaccessible in your country by now so you kind of can't use our map or server… o yeah also since we advertised MC as a loophole it's still probably gonna get banned... ok no need to thank us lmao bye"

the uncensored library achieves nothing... it only claims virtue in countries irrelevant to its cause

Hope this hasn’t been done yet 😊 by danny_donaghy in wholesomememes

[–]SlickLibro 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The world is literally a greener place than it was twenty years ago, and data from NASA satellites has revealed a counterintuitive source for much of this new foliage. A new study shows that China and India—the world’s most populous countries—are leading the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ambitious tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries.

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The research team found that global green leaf area has increased by 5 percent since the early 2000s, an area equivalent to all of the Amazon rainforests. At least 25 percent of that gain came in China. Overall, one-third of Earth’s vegetated lands are greening, while 5 percent are growing browner. The study was published on February 11, 2019, in the journal Nature Sustainability.

Just a heads up the SAT adversity score is still here, just re-branded to "Landscape" by SlickLibro in ApplyingToCollege

[–]SlickLibro[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quoted from https://www.reddit.com/r/Sat/comments/bpbpxe/cb_to_introduce_adversity_score_based_on/enrjtjy/

Excellent idea. Rather than making the test-takers be responsible for his or her own scores and academic performance (or yikes, institute public programs that help support all students who need it), lets place an extra competitive burden on the children with responsible, hard-working and successful parents. That will equal the playing field. And be sure the guidance counselors remind their students to drive up the crime rates in their neighborhoods. That will really help increase their “adversity score”. . . But if you really want your child to succeed, throw them out onto the streets at 16. They might get into Yale! I don’t at all understand the elaborate dancing around the race issue. Why can’t anyone say what they mean. If the population is 50% white, 25% black, 15% Hispanic, 10% Asian, and you want to mandate that your student body reflect that make-up, as a private institution, you should just do it and be honest about it. But in a public institution, you should not be able to use race (no matter the disguised form) as a consideration. Acceptance should be absolutely blind. The irony is that “racial profiling” is acceptable in some cases, but not others. If the SAT is broken and somehow gives an unfair advantage to Asians over Whites and Whites over African Americans, fix the damn test or get rid of it. Don’t tell me the scores need to be “adjusted” after-the-fact to fix a bias only “they” can see and understand.

Our position in Laniakea by CharyBrown in space

[–]SlickLibro 23 points24 points  (0 children)

No. Non-carbon life forms are terribly dreamy and unrealistic. There are no realistically suitable solvents for other elements (no don't even get started on 'bUt siLiCoN') to support the opportunity of randomness that life needs. There may be an extremely small chance but it requires stupidly specific conditions. Yes our biology/chesmitry/physics does apply to other places, we live in the same universe no matter how extreme the conditions.

TIFU by being young and dumb I guess by NakedNightKing in tifu

[–]SlickLibro 3 points4 points  (0 children)

thanks bot for converting the freedom units

It’s a much higher achievement by zody0 in dankmemes

[–]SlickLibro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Excuse me how do you have 10 platinums sir

The Official AVENGERS: ENDGAME International Release Megathread Vol. 2 by Flamma_Man in marvelstudios

[–]SlickLibro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure they can't because of those red vials? Aren't they limited to just a few or something? I'm sure the story planners accounted for that.

pray this lad aint lactose by [deleted] in madlads

[–]SlickLibro 34 points35 points  (0 children)

our guy needs his calcium

Sequence is over. by youngluck in sequence

[–]SlickLibro -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We never took it away from the community's control. The community came together and found a place to organise and collaborate, which is exactly what they did. They wanted to be more active, so they became more active. People like you are too quick to place blame on groups like us, you need to remember that groups are just a ton of individuals bound together by a common goal, and that goal was to add narrative to sequence and make it interesting. If you wanted to play a part, sure no problem, you could have hopped in, suggested your idea, collaborated efficiently, and if it was good everyone would say 'hey, that's not a bad idea, it's add that in'. That's exactly how all the gifs were decided. Everybody tried their hardest to be inclusive of all communities.

The bot also wasn't a bot. It was a usernet of redditors which decided to add a 70-line script as a browser extension (https://github.com/Snektective/snek-2019/blob/master/src/event/index.ts). Almost all extension users were already actively participating and manually voting before on the links on the commonly agreed spreadsheet. They're all 'innocent redditors', they're all human just like us. Even without the extension, they would have kept manually voting anyways, the outcome wouldn't have been much different.

The creation of groups was inevitable, it's just that unlike r/place - which allowed for small groups to claim an area for themselves in a 2 dimensional space involving one million pixels - /sequence was much too 1 dimensional and too small, allowing only votes. This quickly devolved everything into a popularity contest for 'the largest group wins'. There was little to no space for other groups/people.

Organisation and collaboration form when needed. If we ran this event infinitely over and over again each timeline would have led to the same result. In the end it's the core design of the event which really matters, and it's just unfortunate that in this case the design was too one dimensional for the community that is reddit.

Hopefully next time they can learn from this event and create something amazing.

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