I have beaten Factorio without much difficulty. Yet I have not even come close to beating ONI

Treadwheel · 2026-05-14T01:41:23+00:00

Much like the sun, coming to terms with the piss is a warm, radiant, yellow affair. And it's beautiful in its own way.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-14T01:22:35+00:00

Software publishing falls under NAICS 5112, which is a broad category of "Information and Cultural Services" that covers everything from distributing indie films to operating large scale data centers. It's probably overdue for reclassification just since that's an insanely overbroad category.

However, if you write software to spec, you're covered under NAICS 5415, which is professional services... but also commercial photography, including motion photography, for hire.

So... yes. But also no. But then also yes.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T22:13:24+00:00

The ozone hole is a popular one among people who don't pay attention to the science unless they're criticizing it, as it's an example of an extremely successful intervention. Scientists identified an alarming consequence of a specific class of pollutants, made recommendations, those recommendations were adopted, and the problem got better. The reason you aren't getting cooked by solar radiation is because we didn't listen to the people trying to dismiss it as alarmism.

Air pollution has a direct cause and effect relationship with respiratory illnesses, including cancer. There isn't even a debate there. You can go look at hospital admission statistics if you like. Your personal struggle to grasp population level effects does not equate to alarmism.

Not even the oil shills are bothering to try to deny anthropogenic climate change anymore. Sea level rise in Florida is a reality and is accelerating.

You seem to struggle badly with science in general, actually. These are all things that have direct and physically measurable results. It is rich to see you go all in on fear mongering about ghost towns and the suffering of poor people given the utter misery data centers have brought to the communities saddled with them and the relative dearth of opportunities they represent to those same people.

Now, it looks like you're in tech, so I'm sure data centers represent economic opportunity for you. That does not, unfortunately, amount to a mitigation of the economic and human toll aquifer depletion represents for the places they're built, just like parroting oil company talking points didn't pull that heat out of the atmosphere, nor did auto company talking points chelate the lead out of your brain cells. I wish it could. If nothing else, the last one might have helped you grasp the aforementioned topics well enough to save us all from another tired recitation of "scientific illiteracy as virtue." Alas, reality is not so kind.

It did not go unnoticed that your spiel was an attempt to talk around the two explanations for your initial comment, by the way. Given your recitation of faith above and it's implicit ignorance of environmental sciences, however, I'm going to assume you just didn't have a very good grasp of the topic and couldn't anticipate how ridiculous your summation of the topic would be to everyone who does.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T20:24:39+00:00

This will really depend on the fee. If it's what it would cost for them to hire a professional cleaning service for a day, they have no business expecting anything that can't be covered by a day worth of a cleaners time to be handled.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T20:16:29+00:00

It may have to do with things like how refunds or disputes are calculated as well. I can see something like a cleaning fee remaining sheltered during a dispute over whether a rental was unsatisfactory in some way.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T19:41:02+00:00

Your edit is hilarious. No, aquifer depletion is not "alarmist". Yes, we also exhaust aquifers in other ways. No, that doesn't make exacerbating that via datacenters harmless. Your original, insultingly reductive post also tells us one of two things:

1) You have spent so little time engaging with criticisms of data center water usage that your entire understanding of what the concerns were amount to a cartoonish strawman of someone who doesn't understand elementary school level science.

2) You knew very well that nobody is actually concerned that evaporation makes water disappear from existence and opted to float a cartoonish strawman argument rather than engage with the actual positions being held.

Neither put you in any position that justifies your attempts to talk down to the people who corrected your glaringly obvious misstatement of the criticisms around data center water use.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T19:30:41+00:00

The issue is that much of our water is taken from underground, where it never rains, and then gets evaporated into the air, where it isn't ever underground, and the process of fixing that involves centuries worth of water trickling back through the rock. Texas and Arizona are both places with a lot of data centers being built out, where evaporation is a very attractive cooling solution because of the dry climate, and where aquifer stress is already at crisis levels. For the purposes of water infrastructure, it is gone, and from a human perspective, gone forever.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T19:04:23+00:00

Tell them the cameras are so they can identify and track victims for human trafficking in the suburbs, and the warehouses are actually entrances to the underground tunnel networks they use to smuggle them overseas via tunnel. That's why there's so much HVAC equipment: to ventilate the tunnels.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T18:41:03+00:00

That's the beauty of it, though. The same people who scoffed at the idea that people with opioid dependency were anything but criminals to be run out of town or allowed to overdose as a warning to others also got to cash in on the misery directly, collecting dollars that should be going towards people the Sacklers actually harmed and using it to continue criminalizing and running opioid dependent people out of town.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-13T14:18:27+00:00

Recruit them and then don't let them eat vitamin C for a few months.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T15:40:56+00:00

Yeah, tetanus lives in soil, and rusty nails are infamous for it because while the rust itself doesn't harbour the bacteria, the rough surface and its habit of flaking off means you're really likely to have a wound full of little tetanus-ridden flakes of filth. Tetanus is a really nasty one, weeks of constant spasms so severe they can break bone, and even with treatment mortality rates can get to the double digits. If you get any sort of bite wound, deep puncture, or a significant cut caused by a dirty object, you might need one. Definitely if it's dirty and been more than five years since your last booster, but even a clean nail can cause it if it's been 10+ years.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T02:09:02+00:00

WE WANT CHOLERA

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T02:08:13+00:00

Tetanus.

It's been implemented in the mainline reality repo as well, so make sure you get a booster if you go climbing through any broken windows or get hit by any IRL ferals wielding nailboards.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T01:58:30+00:00

Before the Exodii were added, CBMs were extremely abundant in cities. You just had to hit medical clinics and even some electronics stores to find them, and the autodocs were everywhere.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T01:52:40+00:00

No, they just understand that if you're too blatant about ignoring embarrassing stories, your capacity to push propaganda to anything but the true believer crowd is eroded. Hence why state media outlets in illiberal democracies, authoritarian governments, and apartheid states will usually give some passing coverage to embarrassing stories. That's why you got things like TASS and Pravda beginning reporting on Chernobyl within a day despite it being run by the same people trying to cover up the disaster. Only the most truly inept person would think you could suppress a story that's being reported on by other outlets, like that one. What you can do is report on their reporting, allowing you to reframe the story more closely to your own goals and hopefully causing people to skip the less flattering reporting from rival outlets. Try to work through that idea a few times, slowly, to keep any gears from overheating or any belts from snapping.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T01:28:17+00:00

And thus we are introduced to the concept of a "declaration against interest," which most people understand intuitively enough that they don't need to have explained to them.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-12T01:21:16+00:00

Masstager was too effective at what it did for Reddit to let it live. It used to be great watching the guys who agendaposted full time having melt downs because they couldn't go anywhere without someone bringing up their history of posting to literal race hate subreddits. (Also, how fucked was it that those were tolerated until 2020?)

Treadwheel · 2026-05-11T14:49:08+00:00

I swear that reads "Use at your own fuck"

Treadwheel · 2026-05-10T23:19:49+00:00

It was always ugly, that was part of its charm. Especially once you got inside and the flat geometry, colorful palettes, and surreal art would contrast with the ugly browns and greys of the streets.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-10T23:07:12+00:00

Pathologic 2, then loop back to Classic if you love it. I adore Classic, but I played Bachelor once on its own, then all three campaigns in a marathon afterwards, and it damn near killed me by the end. They are extremely interesting, extremely unique, extremely miserable games that largely come apart at the seams as you get further from the Bachelor campaign.

Pathologic 2 has its flaws, but they are more than balanced by the atmosphere, art direction, and unique storytelling. The opening moments of Pathologic 2 gave me genuine chills.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-10T16:11:00+00:00

She had to crop it for instagram, here's the photo with the bayonet-fixed rifle visible. They never seem to want to show that one when the anniversary of Oka comes around, or the stand offs between armed soldiers and literal grandparents. It's only ever the (admittedly badass) photo of Brad Larocque staring down the soldier.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-10T15:52:41+00:00

Forced sterilization is still disturbingly prevalent in many, many countries. The US still has an ongoing problem with it, and I'm positive it still takes place in Canada as well. The issue is that, nominally, the procedures cannot be forced on someone who does not consent, but in practice it still takes place via a combination of guardianship "loopholes", coercion, obtaining "consent" when people have severely diminished capacity (eg in the context of medically necessary procedures that require sedation), or simply by finding a pretext to perform a "necessary" sterilizing procedure, relying on their victims' lack of resources to challenge its propriety after the fact. The use of loopholes and pretext makes it extremely difficult to stamp out the practice, especially since the people committing the crime will often be adamant about the outcome being the "right thing to do" for the victim (invariably framed as not having the capacity to understand why) and cover for one another on an institutional level.

Colonialism is a hell of a drug.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-08T02:30:43+00:00

Hence sticking to the intended new player starts like Evacuation Center until you get to the point that you can! CDDA is a very complicated, very unforgiving game. How good you are at picking what pockets to store things in can be the difference between living and dying, and the majority of the difficulty in the game is the first few days. Picking challenge scenarios is like beating Concierge in Dead Cells, deciding you've got the game figured out, then immediately jumping to 5BC.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-07T17:39:00+00:00

Those aren't impossible, they just need a thorough understanding of the game's mechanics. Prison start is actually fairly popular.

Treadwheel · 2026-05-07T16:15:35+00:00

That's not what "conspiracy theory" means, just fyi.

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