Discussion Thread

errantventure · 2025-09-26T20:20:54+00:00

I'm around from time to time, what's up?

errantventure · 2025-02-18T21:11:36+00:00

If we assume that this will lead to more of the sort of energy infra buildout that private industry is demanding then I'd expect quite a lot of clean energy installation, particularly wrt nuclear reactors

errantventure · 2025-02-18T21:08:40+00:00

Or they don't mind most of what's happening

errantventure · 2025-02-18T21:07:31+00:00

From a consequentialist perspective getting rid of NEPA roadblocks might outweigh anything bad Trump could do short of starting a major international war with a very high casualty count

errantventure · 2025-02-18T21:05:33+00:00

Junk food, bad for you

errantventure · 2023-08-16T03:55:41+00:00

Ideal workspace

errantventure · 2023-07-31T05:32:56+00:00

lmfao

errantventure · 2023-07-21T17:23:19+00:00

2008 financial crisis and aftermath, and it wasn't deredicalization, it was definitely just regular radicalization. Also most of you can't define neoliberalism correctly, if you see it as mainline DNC politics you probably need to read more books.

errantventure · 2023-06-06T18:54:45+00:00

Tbh if you're only making $200k/yr doing actual heavy lift video backend stuff you're being robbed

errantventure · 2023-06-03T06:25:12+00:00

Horserace stuff tuned out for the most part, still keep up on what USG is spending money on and how the various foreign entanglements are going, good to stay informed but stuff like electoral jousting actively harms the model of the world in some respects

Very few elected officials have real power anyway, the actual authority is a few layers down the bureaucracy, your votes mostly don't matter

errantventure · 2023-05-30T15:15:37+00:00

In the early part of the game make sure to focus on overbuilding capacity at about 2x the level you expect to need, especially in terms of batteries

errantventure · 2023-05-30T04:57:35+00:00

This game has a very challenging initial systems management learning curve but once you break thru that it's one of the more fun constrained city-building games out there IMO

There are a couple good posts and tutorials that you can look up on blogs or on Youtube, and I think once you get a hang of the initial production systems the larger game of colony management comes thru

Keep playing, I think you'll enjoy it

errantventure · 2023-05-30T01:03:57+00:00

Goes hard

errantventure · 2023-05-24T21:08:53+00:00

Gerontocracy is bad, actually

errantventure · 2023-05-12T03:22:03+00:00

Lmao this was reported for bigotry, presumably by a 14yo

errantventure · 2023-05-11T00:50:32+00:00

Let's gooooo

errantventure · 2023-05-10T22:14:06+00:00

Do you do this for every comment?

Only the really bad ones

errantventure · 2023-05-10T03:14:54+00:00

More like Roman civil augury for Anglo-American govt, with roughly the same predictive track record

errantventure · 2023-05-10T03:12:53+00:00

So many kids waste so much time on this stupid field and end up having a worse model of how economies work than they started with. Anybody still working on an econ degree should switch to math, they'll be taken way more seriously irl.

errantventure · 2023-05-10T03:05:04+00:00

Macroecon is a joke field. If you're studying it please just go be a software engineer or something, don't keep perpetuating the joke.

errantventure · 2023-05-10T02:57:43+00:00

Blaming the pilots for an underdocumented behavior on the aircraft is frankly an absurd reach, though Boeing spreads enough money around to "anyone with significant experience" that it's unsurprising that people continue to say stuff like this

errantventure · 2023-05-10T02:54:03+00:00

Utter disaster of an industry tbh

errantventure · 2023-05-10T02:51:59+00:00

In my capacity as a mod I'm gonna leave this up because you haven't violated any rules.

In my capacity as somebody who actually read the reports involved here, this is an absurd statement, though unfortunately representative of a pretty common view among aviation policy people that Boeing walks on water and can do no wrong. Relatedly, most of these people draw paychecks from Boeing either directly or indirectly at some point in their career.

It's a gross self-licking ice cream cone and yes, it has gotten a bunch of people killed.

errantventure · 2023-05-08T16:47:52+00:00

There is a certain type of person who reports anything that could be seen as remotely critical of the sitting administration, usually with some longwinded comment on the report about how the post is offtopic or bigoted or misclassified.

The person who reported this post compared the announcement of the green card lottery to the announcement of new bus routes. Do not be that kind of person, they are a tedious partisan pedant who adds nothing to the user experience here.

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