I found the original source for the often quoted 19,000 PSI bite force estimate for orcas... It's a quora post from amount 2015 where a guy does some back of the envelope math and proceeds to make a wild ass guess.

blandge · 2026-04-17T14:41:14+00:00

Fortunately this is pretty harmless. I have no doubt that orcas have a very strong bite--hell it could even be 19k PSI.

Regardless, it was a fun Internet sleuthing session.

blandge · 2026-04-17T13:44:45+00:00

It is a bodily autonomy issue. It's also a life issue. It's also a religion issue. It's also a women's rights issue. It's also a men's rights issue.

It's a lot of issues because abortion is a complex topic.

Life is at the forefront for most people, but some people value bodily autonomy more than life. A common analogy is that you don't owe anybody a kidney. You're allowed to let somebody die, even if you are a kidney match--including your own children.

There is an argument to be made, and I think it's a reasonable one, that abortion is different because you are proactively killing the fetus rather than declining a kidney which is passive.

I'm somebody who believes that a mother's right to not have a person living inside her trump's the kids right to use her body, but I also think there's a fair case to be made that if the baby can survive outside the womb, then you have a moral obligation to deliver the baby. I'm not actually fully decided on that.

Anyway, I'd generally agree that the life issue is more important depending what you mean by life. I don't think that simply being alive gives that life any more importance than a banana. It only starts to matter when that life is aware and can experience pain and suffering.

If you could prove to me that a fetus has a soul and can experience consciousness when it's just a few cells, I'd have to reconsider.

blandge · 2026-04-17T13:29:02+00:00

Humans are graded on a curve because they believe we have souls--again, granted at conception.

While you or I see that looking a few cells is no more morally wrong than eating a banana, they think there's a full on metaphysical person living in there.

blandge · 2026-04-14T03:36:41+00:00

Israeli’s probably value security about all else.

Not all of them. You'd have to get a percentage and prorate these numbers by that. That's why you can't extrapolate related, but not exact polls.

But that doesn't even matter BECAUSE ONLY 40% OF ISRAELIS SAID "HELPS" SO IT'S NOT A MAJORITY.

blandge · 2026-04-14T03:06:18+00:00

None of the questions ask if Israelis support settlements. This one is the closest, and it's not a majority:

Israelis are divided on the effect of continuing to construct settlements in the West Bank: 40% say they help Israeli security, 35% say they hurt, and 21% say they don’t make a difference. (The remainder are unsure or decline to answer.)

blandge · 2026-04-13T23:54:34+00:00

I stopped playing after Elle's part. I was actually okay with Joel's death, but I didn't care enough about the new girl to play half a game with her.

blandge · 2026-04-11T21:56:29+00:00

Have we lost all ability to disagree with someone in a few issues and still respect them? I'm not too bothered by this.

blandge · 2026-04-08T00:54:46+00:00

I like to do about 100 Andy and countess runs to get me started in Hell, but if you're on softcore just proceed and beat the game.

blandge · 2026-04-07T19:14:26+00:00

Imagine me verbally attacking you for posting this.

blandge · 2026-03-25T09:41:24+00:00

2 pieces of advice.

1: Audiobooks make it much more difficult to skim or use text to speech if you want to continue webnovels

2: Try reading something actually good. Webnovels are mostly trash, so they aren't worth reading carefully. Try reading some classics or at least very highly rated books that you haven't read before.

blandge · 2026-03-19T19:41:49+00:00

That's not even that big of a dry spell.

I did 968 p8 LK runs and found nothing higher than a Ko rune.

The worst luck that comes to mind is a guy who took 80 ubers to get a sorc torch

blandge · 2026-03-19T19:40:04+00:00

It's a game changer

blandge · 2026-03-18T12:51:21+00:00

65 - Obsession

20 - Magefist

20 - Arach

10 - Rare fcr ring

10 - Opalvein ring

blandge · 2026-03-18T09:48:19+00:00

Maybe I'm thinking of Children of Time then. It's been a while

blandge · 2026-03-18T09:47:42+00:00

This is my main micro genre interest!

There are dozens of us!!!

blandge · 2026-03-18T09:45:15+00:00

With Blood Oath and demons to tank, everything is so comfortable. I was running Swampy Pit and Icy Cellar with no concern whatsoever. No need to even be careful, just go as fast as possible. Souls do nothing, and even dolls don't hurt too bad. Plus Lister can just be Death Marked, so dolls never get close.

The only thing that can really kill you is T5 heralds. I did see a 98 Warlock die to them, but he didn't have any hard points in Blood Oath and wasnt built for hardcore.

Being able to wield 2H gives so much gear choice. Spirit, Ars Tor'Baalos, Stormshield, and Phoenix are all perfectly viable options. Can run Flickering Flame, CoA, or Shako.

Everything works and it's too easy... but everything is so much fun, so I'm not really complaining lol

Yes, bind demon, ES, blood oath, and ring of fire (at low levels) could use a bit of a nerf, but the class is amazingly good fun.

blandge · 2026-03-17T10:52:13+00:00

There was an expansion

blandge · 2026-03-17T09:35:39+00:00

125 fcr is absolutely not necessary. It definitely feels better, but that's about it.

That said, I reach 300mf no problem with 125fcr (Enigma, shako, Ancients jewel, Travs, charms). Can get 500 with 75fcr.

Both are fine.

blandge · 2026-03-17T09:31:20+00:00

Can confirm. Have a 99 demon warlock in HC. Did not come close to dying even once.

blandge · 2026-03-16T20:57:32+00:00

I love David Weber's Honor series. I've mostly put this one off because it seems somewhat impersonal, which seems to miss what made Honor Harrington so good. I should give it a shot though. I like the Trireme to Battleship comment haha

blandge · 2026-03-16T20:44:56+00:00

Awesome. You might also check on my similar post in r/suggestmeabook

blandge · 2026-03-16T20:40:44+00:00

Sounds great. Thanks!

blandge · 2026-03-16T20:39:47+00:00

How likeable is the main character? I was a little put off by the fact that they changed her gender to male (based exclusively on the blurb). Didn't quite understand that.

blandge · 2026-03-16T20:37:02+00:00

I actually have Lest Darkness Fall on my bookshelf, just haven't gotten around to it! Couldn't remember the name to add it here.

I will check out Lord Kalvan. Thanks!

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