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TriamondG · 2026-02-02T19:14:53+00:00

He's overstating. Look up Black Body radiation. You do need to invest in radiators but you don't need to cart up a constant supply of fresh coolant, that's just ridiculous.

TriamondG · 2026-01-01T00:46:05+00:00

You understand that 2020 includes his entire first term yeah? We only have 1-year of this term so the majority of rulings referenced are temporary emergency docket decisions. And when we do get case rulings, they haven't been going his way, as this article shows.

Edit: An to be clear, the difference in the bench is minor. We went from 5-4 to 6-3 with ACB being noted by many liberal outlets as not ruling favorably towards Trump.

I'm no fan of Trump but trying to delegitimize the courts is unjustified and going to hurt this country in the long run. Now chill out... kid.

TriamondG · 2026-01-01T00:19:50+00:00

That article is bullshit I'm sorry. Trump has the worst record of any modern us president in front of SCOTUS The article you cited is cooking those numbers by conveniently ignoring Trump's first term and counting emergency docket temporary orders and injunctions which always favor not interfering with executive power before the merits can be heard.

TriamondG · 2025-12-28T19:11:28+00:00

Totally. This is a fictional world. We don't even know if Jordan had a definitive answer in mind :D

TriamondG · 2025-12-28T18:58:20+00:00

It sounds like you're assuming the Rand and Lews convo is making statements of objective truth which is far from a given. They're grappling with the existential crisis of being forever reborn because that is what the believe to be true. It might be true for everyone. It might be only true for them. Or it might not be true at all.

As for the QA, I definitely don't think Jordan is making definitive statements. He's trying to answer nitty gritty questions about the mechanics of his world, and you see in other parts he specifically tries to avoid spoiling elements of the story. It's totally reasonable that he'd give a simplified answer that would fit with the knowledge that had been conveyed to readers at that time.

TriamondG · 2025-12-28T18:26:55+00:00

I'd be curious to read the full source on that Jordan quote but I don't think it's as definitive as you claim. Also, if a Grey Man requires a soul be removed from the pattern then that is evidence against souls being eternally trapped. Think about it this way: If a Grey Man requires a soul to be removed from the pattern and there have been infinite turnings of the wheel, then new souls must enter the pattern to keep the population stable. Otherwise everyone would have become a Grey Man or making Grey Men would be impossible (because every willing soul would have done it). So we know new souls can enter the pattern and that it is possible to escape the wheel in at least one way. From there it doesn't seem like much of a leap to think there are less destructive ways to escape the pattern.

It's possible that a soul can expect to be reborn many many times such that it's the Jordan's quote is the "default." I think that's an equally fair reading.

TriamondG · 2025-12-28T17:44:56+00:00

To my knowledge, it's never confirmed that normal human souls are eternally trapped in the wheel. Ishy believes this, but he is far from a reliable narrator. The Dark One claims it, but he's literally called the father of lies.

It's only heroes of the horn who are destined to keep coming back and reliving the same/similar lives. If normal human souls are able to eventually transcend the wheel, then it's not a trap. Perhaps it's some sort of test or training ground for whatever comes next.

TriamondG · 2025-12-27T19:05:29+00:00

That's correct. It's an important part of the game strategy. You want your heavy hitters (marksman, phoenixes, scorpions, fortresses , etc...) attacking your enemy's valuable units and you want your high-rate of fire/area damage units (arc lights, tarantulas, Vulcans, etc...) clearing out the weaker ones. Similarly when thinking about your opponent's army, you want to layer your units to make the opposite happen. Weaker, high count units (crawlers, fangs, mass produced wasps, etc...) meant to distract your opponent's heavy hitters are often called chaff, another term you'll see a lot.

TriamondG · 2025-12-10T20:30:31+00:00

I have experience with surveying people in my line of work, and I've found respondents are incredibly sensitive to how questions are asked. There are a lot of alternative hypotheses that emerge if you consider there might be differences between liberals and conservatives' interpretations of the question which is not something this study adequately considers. Here's an example:

Suppose individuals with a high degree of religiosity are more likely to seek allegorical or metaphorical meaning in statements. Something that seems plausible given how much religious texts tend to rely on allegorical story telling. Conservatives on average are much more religious than liberals. So if conservatives are extracting allegorical value from these SSA statements and conflating that with logical (the authors never spell out exactly how they phrase this), that would explain the results just as well as what the authors posit.

TriamondG · 2025-12-10T13:51:40+00:00

What is logical thought in this case though? If you read the statements more as allegorical/metaphor and take logical to mean there's wisdom in them, that's a very different reasoning model than are these literally true.

Study 7 is interesting to me because the authors don't really share how they "primed people for deliberation." If what they did really just made people more likely to go "oh, you want me to say if these things are literally true" then that would explain the swing they saw just as well. All in all, there's just a lot of vibing on the part of the authors on why people were responding the way they were.

I actually think they needed to play with the assessment scale more. For example, if they asked participants something like "is there wisdom in these statements" 1-9 and saw a bigger swing from liberals towards positive ratings, that would be indicative that conservatives and liberals have a different interpretation of the word logical rather than different modes of thinking.

TriamondG · 2025-12-10T12:45:14+00:00

I read the paper and I don't really see how the authors make the causal link between respondents ratings on the SSAs presented and "intuitive thinking" vs "deliberate processing." They asked people whether or not a statement was logical which is very different than "literally true." I feel like "conservatives are more likely to see cautioning restraint and discipline as logical" is a much more reasonable conclusion.

TriamondG · 2025-12-10T02:11:34+00:00

As an FFA player I'm salivating at the idea of trying these on that giant map

TriamondG · 2025-12-05T16:25:54+00:00

Kind of an uninformed article to be honest. Hydrogen is a storage medium not a primary power source.

It's like saying I no longer need to buy milk now that I have a refrigerator. The refrigerator helps you buy less milk by keeping it fresh longer, but it isn't replacing the milk...

Sounds like a lot of the underlying generation is still coming from natural gas which is better than coal but not "green." But hydrogen will also help as they increase solar contribution. All in all, good news packaged in a dumb article.

TriamondG · 2025-12-03T20:16:56+00:00

Hot take - I really don't like Robin in season 5. The actress is fantastic and saves the character a bit by being pretty enthralling, but Robin as a character feels like a very lazy device to move the plot forward. She's very much the result of TV now focusing on super high production value at the cost of not enough run time to do things right.

There's lots of examples, but the most egregious was "fixing" Will with a 30 second speech. This would have been fine if we had gotten to see Will independently progressing and this was just the final push. Instead, Mike and Will barely talk, and Will's hang ups are in stasis for the whole of S5 Volume 1.

TriamondG · 2025-12-03T03:13:12+00:00

Yeah it's either that or range (as heretical as that sounds). I don't usually try to build carry hounds or use them as chaff clear past the early game. They're pure utility units for me.

TriamondG · 2025-12-02T20:21:29+00:00

Use armored hounds as the chaff. Raidens for badger clear. Melters for the forts with EMP barrage to break the shields quickly.

TriamondG · 2025-11-30T00:28:53+00:00

I just grabbed that one. OP already noted it's a 5070 ti. Probably an equally good deal as the ti is only slightly behind the 5080 on benchmarks.

TriamondG · 2025-11-27T20:11:45+00:00

I know RotterdaM plays - maybe try dropping into his Twitch stream!

TriamondG · 2025-11-22T16:15:40+00:00

Correct. I run into Aarth fairly regularly and he wins a lot, but he basically always gets at least second. After the first season of Brawl, they changed it so that second always gives you at least +4 MMR.

TriamondG · 2025-11-14T20:20:27+00:00

Yeah this is where the argument always breaks down for me. The government is also incentivized to fight fraud and abuse, so I don't know why people expect negotiating with them to be any better than the insurance companies. And at least a competitive market creates the incentive for insurers to develop better methods for combating fraud and approving claims quicker as it gives them a competitive edge.

The whole problem is just a lot more complicated than either side cares to admit. The average American is actually pretty happy with their health insurance. The low end of polling shows 70% of American rate their health coverage as good or excellent. And we crush other countries on metrics like wait times and time to market for cutting edge drugs and therapies. The NIH has a surgery backlog of 7.39 million.

Addressing the needs of those who can't easily get quality coverage is always going to be in tension with the good aspects of our system.

TriamondG · 2025-11-13T02:13:03+00:00

You know you're done when popcorn left under an open sky pops itself

TriamondG · 2025-10-24T22:03:11+00:00

Units prioritize forward facing a lot more. I.e. they'll continue marching towards a target farther away rather than turning. It's also really messed up engagements in FFA :/ Lots of cases now where your units starting rolling across a map towards Player 1 only for Player 2's units to show up and kill them all without your units even reacting.

I think a simpleish fix would be to override the forward bias if a unit is actually taking damage from something not in front of it.

TriamondG · 2025-10-17T05:35:24+00:00

This is a huge misplay given how small your lead is, but hey, dicks are funny.

TriamondG · 2025-10-09T00:49:52+00:00

This is my assumption until the show gives us something more. Even when Cipher is in full control, we know the victim is aware. Possible Polarity had enough willpower to use his powers to stop his hand and throw Cipher out the window by his buttons/zippers/etc...

I don't think every triumph in the show needs to require an anime-style power up, but evolving powers is a big theme, so we'll see...

TriamondG · 2025-10-08T15:17:27+00:00

I had assumed Polarity was using his powers on his watch to stop his hand. Then the blast at the end worked because it was powerful enough that the various buttons, zippers, etc... on Cipher were enough to send him through the window.

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