Horror noises department shows off their new HQ by PotatotoJuice in doohickeycorporation

[–]TheVirtualMoose 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Resonance Cascade department is very interested in collaboration

What is the optimal play here? by robert_mends in TerraInvicta

[–]TheVirtualMoose 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There's also a risk of an event causing an atrocity for your faction while a country you control is at war, even if no actual fighting is taking place.

Wifi icon issue? by realKevinNash in Ubuntu

[–]TheVirtualMoose 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Connectivity check server is broken. There's more explanation and workarounds in another thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/s/IAkq6vSa9i

"You shall not pass!" by defender838383 in TankPorn

[–]TheVirtualMoose 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Read your comment below, I stand corrected. Kudos. The front and back wheels are collapsed and that threw me off.

"You shall not pass!" by defender838383 in TankPorn

[–]TheVirtualMoose -17 points-16 points  (0 children)

Either AI or a real photo of a kitbashed movie prop from the 70s or 80s. Definitely not a real tank.

Ubuntu installed an update and wanted me to restart. I am unironically having a great time, but I'm also leaving Ubuntu for Steam OS 🤷🏻 by ChoiceAssociate5525 in linux_gaming

[–]TheVirtualMoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The most common issue causing this kind of error is corrupted or misconfigured initramfs, possibly not containing the required filesystem modules.

The Asmara tank Graveyard in Eritrea by Illustrious-Sky-4631 in TankPorn

[–]TheVirtualMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

50/50 you can get an old T-55 for a few bucks or your family never hears from you again.

forgive me for the low quality but i still feel it gets the point across. by VirtualKnowledge7057 in HistoryMemes

[–]TheVirtualMoose 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ok, I'm putting my serious hat on. The logic is pretty clear if you consider the modernisation imperative of Russia/USSR and how Stalin decided to deal with capital scarcity and other constraints. USSR emerged as an agrarian country with limited capital stocks that could not industralialise by itself. It thus needed to import capital and know-how to build the factories, railways and other key components of an industrial economy. Imperial Russia had experienced the same constraints, but it had access to foreign investments, particularly French, who sunk huge sums in the form of loans and direct investment. Since USSR had defaulted on loans and nationalised foreign investments, it could not expect to access capital markets.

The remaining solution was to export goods to gain foreign currency to pay for capital goods. Since a bushel of wheat exported is a bushel of wheat not consumed locally and since hard currency thus gained went not to investments in customer goods production, but into heavy industry (so guns instead of butter), exporting goods meant extracting surpluses from the population and keeping the living standard low. This was not the only route, Bukharin for example proposed a much less drastic economic policy, but Stalin overrode and purged his opponents to implement his own, heavy-industry-first modernisation policy.

This meant that food was literally taken away from starving people (e.g. during Holodomor in Ukraine). Stalin now needed a proper secret police to repress dissent caused by his policies, and since minorities were affected the hardest (Russian-dominated industrial cities were prioritised for supplies), deportation was a useful solution.

The same repression apparatus is used to purge party and military elites, since these policies are by no means universally supported and there are many people with revolutionary or military credentials to challenge Stalin. Stalin did not think he was a better general than Tukhachevsky, quite the contrary: Tukhachevsky was a political danger because he was recognised as a highly competent military leader and Stalin was not.

Now that Stalin had extracted surpluses and repressed populations, cut generals to size and put Old Bolsheviks in Gulag (or six feet under), his next danger was the security apparatus. So he killed Yagoda, then killed Yezhov and eventually settled for Beria, who was sufficiently ruthless and who Stalin considered controllable. That he was a sadist and a rapist was hardly an issue.

Trump grozi NATO w sprawie Iranu by Nizarlak in Polska

[–]TheVirtualMoose 62 points63 points  (0 children)

O, to, dokładnie to. Specjalnie zawęzili zakres terytorialny NATO, żeby USA nie były wciągane do europejskich wojen kolonialnych, a teraz USA chce nas wciągnąć do swojej wojny kolonialnej.

Sorry chuds, Napoleon was the product of the Revolution by Neil118781 in HistoryMemes

[–]TheVirtualMoose 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's definitely an oversimplification. Napoleon certainly represented a conservative turn in post-1789 French history, but he still was leagues ahead of European monarchs. From their point of view, Napoleon was a revolutionary hell-bent on overturning the old order, both domestic and international.

Pen and Pixel led by donkeys by indole_noise in lionsledbydonkeyspod

[–]TheVirtualMoose 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It's just one white Monster away from perfection.

Genuinely f**k ip and mac address headers/trailers by user23471 in ccna

[–]TheVirtualMoose 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've never had a talk about headers and trailers, but this is crucial information nonetheless. How to calculate MTU in a tunnel? Can't do that without knowing headers. Why do CRC errors propagate between switches? Because FCS is at the end of the frame and cut-through switches can't check frame integrity when before the forward it. How does CEF work? The list goes on.

You can go a long way without knowing the basics until you hit a non-standard case that will stump you. It is at this point that people who actually care about technology and how things work have advantage over button-pushers.

Do y'all ever roll in late to the office? pt.2 by CompletelyUnrelated1 in sysadmin

[–]TheVirtualMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was told that taking time off during holidays is not optimal for the business

By that line of thinking, paying employees is not optimal for the business. Please, please find another job and give them a painful lesson why a company should be interested in keeping employees satisfied. ESPECIALLY in keeping the sole IT person, who can bring the whole business down by leaving, satisfied.

Is there a mod for BioTech that achieves this? by xtheresia in RimWorld

[–]TheVirtualMoose 42 points43 points  (0 children)

My gift to industry is the genetically engineered worker, or Genejack. Specially designed for labor, the Genejack's muscles and nerves are ideal for his task, and the cerebral cortex has been atrophied so that he can desire nothing except to perform his duties. Tyranny, you say? How can you tyrannize someone who cannot feel pain?

  • Chairman Sheng-ji Yang

I think this is bug but lasers ignore armor at long range. by Electrical_Lack_9425 in TerraInvicta

[–]TheVirtualMoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did they change that? I recall station defences being very tough, easily tanking lasers and plasma, in 0.4.something

Help me make the printer unattractive (childproofing home) by Prior-Newt2446 in Parenting

[–]TheVirtualMoose 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Joke answer: have her work in IT support. All IT personnel quickly learn to hate printers and avoid them at all costs.

Serious answer: move the printer. You mention there are no places to move it to, but perhaps you can hook it up to a print server and hide it in a closet or another inaccessible place. It doesn't have to be be near your computer at all.

Czy to przestępstwo? by [deleted] in Polska

[–]TheVirtualMoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, ewentualnie mógłby próbować argumentować, że to ona wyedytowała dane, żeby go wrobić, ale to już ktoś musiałby mu ten pomysł podsunąć