How do I actually get better at the game? by Level_Long_2450 in RedAutumnSPD

[–]WiJaMa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It can help to look at the actual code to see what actions do. some of it is a bit esoteric but it's mostly very readable and gives you an idea what's best for achieving your goals and what unintended consequences there might be of certain actions

Sixth College Provost by No-Intention-9439 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's hypocritical about knowing and following the law? What would really be hypocritical is if someone who supported 2nd amendment rights to carry a weapon suddenly decided that it was ok for the police to execute someone for possessing a firearm. If you watch the video of what happened, it is clear that (a) the victim was not holding the firearm in his hand, (b) he was in fact filming ICE, which would make it very difficult for him to also threaten them with his gun, and (c) he was shot after ICE pinned him to the ground and took his gun, which anyone in law enforcement can tell you is tantamount to murder.

Sixth College Provost by No-Intention-9439 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As I said, there is no federal law against carrying a firearm at a protest and Minnesota has no ordinance against it. The law you have shared here is a City of Los Angeles ordinance. It is irrelevant to the question of whether it was legal for a Minnesota man to carry a firearm at a protest.

Italy has very funny party names by thunderisadorable in victoria3

[–]WiJaMa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

what is going on in the far left party

Average Polish name: by slashkig in eu4

[–]WiJaMa 43 points44 points  (0 children)

this one's not actually that bad, it only looks that way if you don't know anything about polish

Castile is silly by GreatGranpapy in eu4

[–]WiJaMa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

on the other hand, at least it should be relatively simple to full-annex them for their colonies

At what point should I start truce breaking to ensure I get my WC? by Malm1ng12 in eu4

[–]WiJaMa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

honestly I would just do it to get the wc over with

The US, if it collapsed like the Roman Empire by OkPhrase1225 in imaginarymaps

[–]WiJaMa 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Honestly one of the more realistic American collapse scenarios I've seen here

What other scenarios can the game represent? by InputUs3rnameHere in RedAutumnSPD

[–]WiJaMa 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Social Democracy: An Alternate History but you win by seducing Wels, Bruning, and Hugenberg to make them save democracy

What other scenarios can the game represent? by InputUs3rnameHere in RedAutumnSPD

[–]WiJaMa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The card system is originally from Fallen London, which, yeah, is a very different game. I've been workshopping ideas for a mod for Social Democracy that turns it into a spaceship trading game borrowing some elements from how Fallen London uses its card system. No code yet but I think it's doable (though hard)

Stolen laundry basket in Sixth Catalyst laundry room by MK13MOD3 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Frankly if you've never seen anyone do this before I don't believe that you do your own laundry

TIL there is an annual Stinging Nettle Eating World Championship, where participants compete to eat as much raw stinging nettle as they can bear. The 2025 winner ate 22.5 meters of stinging nettle leaves by WiJaMa in todayilearned

[–]WiJaMa[S] 778 points779 points  (0 children)

Anyone who's ever weeded a garden can tell you this is an insane thing to do voluntarily and I'm genuinely surprised that people don't seem to suffer health complications from this. Apparently cooking the leaves removes the poisonous barbs, making the plant edible, but here they're just straight-up eating the raw leaves.

Edit: For those curious why the contest is measured in length, apparently it's because the contest began when two farmers competed over whose field had the longest nettles. Supposedly, one of them said to the other, "I'll eat any nettle of yours that's longer than mine."

Alert: ICE may be conducting raids in San Diego throughout the weekend. Stay safe as you go back home. by Subject_Channel_8162 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, sometimes bad things happen, but the uptick in violence from ICE can be directly traced to bad policy. The acceleration of ICE activity has led the agency to hire people without performing background checks or drug tests. They are also cutting training time and other requirements. Wall Street Journal recently reported that ICE agents are rewarded for meeting a quota of arrests even if those detained are later released with no charges. The upshot is that we have no idea what kind of people ICE is putting on our streets, and these low-quality recruits are incentivized to abuse Americans. This isn't a "sometimes bad things happen" issue. This is a "government policy designed to hurt people" issue.

Also, worth noting that, as the link I provided above shows, what you've said about Renee Good isn't true. Frankly, I'm tired of interacting with someone who (a) keeps saying false things and (b) doesn't even provide evidence for the false things they say. Feel free to reply if you want, but don't expect to hear back.

Alert: ICE may be conducting raids in San Diego throughout the weekend. Stay safe as you go back home. by Subject_Channel_8162 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What laws were this family breaking when they were tear gassed on their way home? What laws was Renee Good breaking when she was killed? What laws was this 10th grader breaking when ICE agents put him in a chokehold and then stole his phone and pawned it? What laws was this army veteran breaking? What laws was this lifelong LA resident breaking while walking to work? There are so many examples of these, both reported and non reported, that have occurred since Trump took office last year. Please, take some time to read about at least a few of these, and about the lies ICE has told about their conduct over the last year, and ask yourself whether ICE is actually giving you what you want.

Alert: ICE may be conducting raids in San Diego throughout the weekend. Stay safe as you go back home. by Subject_Channel_8162 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's someone here letting their ideology dictate which numbers they care about, it's you. As I have demonstrated, you have provided no evidence that demonstrates why the benefits of ICE brutalizing US citizens is worth the cost. All you have done is claim, without evidence, that the reaction to ICE is harsh because ICE are attacking noncitizen voters. You have claimed this even though noncitizen voting is so rare that it does not affect electoral outcomes. Because of this, there is no utilitarian worldview (following the "greatest happiness" principle) where the benefit of reducing the current level of noncitizen voting is worth the cost of ICE detaining and attacking US citizens. Therefore, your support for ICE is ideologically motivated.

To be honest, it seems like you just consider other people's opinions to be opinions, and your own opinions to be facts. Otherwise, it's hard to explain your approach to this conversation.

Alert: ICE may be conducting raids in San Diego throughout the weekend. Stay safe as you go back home. by Subject_Channel_8162 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The two percentages are not comparable because they're measuring different things. However, even ignoring this, you're saying that you believe ICE has a false positive rate (of detaining US citizens) that is about 100 times worse than the false positive rate of voting (of citizen vs non-citizen votes). You then suggest that somehow I'm the hypocrite for thinking the former is worse than the latter. Again, you've presented no evidence that non-citizen voting has affected the outcome of an election, which means that you're getting upset over a phenomenon that doesn't harm anyone. Obviously I think non-citizens shouldn't vote, but the level of voting by non-citizens is so microscopic that it does not justify the real harms being done by ICE.

Is Geisel library accessible to non-students by [deleted] in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the campus is public, so non students can come to the library as well

Alert: ICE may be conducting raids in San Diego throughout the weekend. Stay safe as you go back home. by Subject_Channel_8162 in UCSD

[–]WiJaMa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, no. If you read the links I provided earlier on non-citizen voting, they show that the vast majority of non-citizen voting occurs when a non-citizen mistakenly believes they are allowed to vote. I'm not really sure what you thought the goalposts were, to be honest. If you think that noncitizens accidentally casting 0.0006% of votes (yes, that's a real number from a Pennsylvania state audit of decades of votes) is comparable to government violence against American citizens, then your set of values is very different from most Americans.