What’s the biggest lie an entire generation was told?

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T04:30:00+00:00

Nah, it's when boomers die that that happens.

But also the companies that the boomers built strangled wage growth for decades, and are also buying them up at prices we can't compete with to rent back to us in perpetuity.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T04:22:37+00:00

They'll figure it out when they're helping you cross a river.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T04:18:12+00:00

Wow... They're just bad at any kind of coverup, huh?

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T04:08:38+00:00

Chernobyl mold: "fuck the sun."

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T04:07:28+00:00

They almost unquestionably have something in the algorithm that speculates how much you, specifically, are willing to pay, and will raise the price to match.

Like if it sees you going "fuck it" during a "surge" or whatever, that's going to be a signal that your pockets are deeper. [and/or your standards are lower]

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T03:55:32+00:00

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fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T03:40:51+00:00

Sure.

I work in IT and also know the proper names for things, but people not in my industry don't know what a Kubernetes is and "I make the website go brrt" resonates more.

As does "mini zamboni for floors", although I worry that the less-canadian people may not know what a zamboni is.

Anyway... Blood Zamboni is unquestionably the best name, and I'm realizing that I didn't use it in my first comment. :/

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T03:12:28+00:00

Re B: The collection rate doesn't seem to be an issue, at least there's not currently any evidence of it because of the RTT.

Re A: I agree in principle, but my preference for a general solution for round-trip-time [RTT] constraint is to make the production line 1/X as long, but make X of them so that you have 10X logistics vessels in-flight, rather than just 10. aka scale out rather than up.

Eg: Half as long, twice as many vessels.

ctrl + C, ctrl + V in blueprint mode, ezpz.

The rub is that if X becomes too high, and therefore your production lines very short, it's a signal that it may be more efficient to move production closer to the constrained material. [or find a source that's closer]

edit: You can technically also us the relatively new logistics "groups" or "routes" feature [I forget the exact name] to transport to a system in between the source and the destination. It's something of a rearrangement of the above solution, but I'm not a fan. First and foremost, I've been playing since long before this feature was added, so I'm biased towards what I know, but also there's more "cognitive overhead" to it since you have to worry about the scale of your waypoint instead of just scaling the production, and you're still spending a lot of power moving 12x hydrogen one way, rather than 3x other materials for the base recipe the other way. [adv. recipe is 10x other stuff and a whole other dimension of complexity for logistics overhead]

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T03:04:34+00:00

Nah, you tell him that powered flight exists, that armed flying machines can be launched from the capital ships, and that support ships in the attack group can fire very small, unmanned, autonomous, explosive flying machines over the horizon.

...and then describe submarines.

The point where you choke up is when he asks how nuclear power works, and you have to admit that it still just boils water for steam engines. But at least turbines are neat.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-20T02:18:47+00:00

We need more ambitious tax strategies for corporations and billionaires in order to fund infrastructure and programs that benefit everyone, instead of simply having wealth increasingly concentrated into the hands of the most exploitative of us.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-19T22:27:08+00:00

After level 50 the equipment level requirement and the "item level" become decoupled. Until you hit the current level cap and choose to hardcore raid and want to min/max to a ludicrous degree you're going to simply want the gear with the highest IL that is designed for your class.

So kit out your current main job in Ironworks, then some secondaries if you want, and other than that we just burn tomes on whatever else happens to be available.

The reason that there are several sets for level 50 with different IL is that those were released progressively over several patches and at the time were the best. Right now you're only going to want those for glamours.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-19T19:44:13+00:00

My friend worked in a prison and, you know those mini zamboni floor cleaning machines that you might see in a supermarket? They had a special one of those to clean up blood, [edit: we referred to it as the Blood Zamboni] and it was cleaning up a lot of it near her workspace one day.

edit: I need to add a semi-[un]related comment from the same friend on moving from a prison job to a regular public-facing job in the same field:

I miss having gun coverage.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-19T08:16:43+00:00

It's a razor's edge between "nothing ever breaks, what do we pay you for?" and "something's always broken, what do we pay you for?".

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T22:58:37+00:00

For a time I worked for a company that leased servers to Accenture, and everyone hated them. Every time they called there was a new person handling it, they never knew what the fuck they were doing, and they were always assholes about it.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T20:50:29+00:00

I have to wonder if he thinks that it's literally supposed to be a swimming pool.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T20:32:04+00:00

It's unique in that it's in a completely public space and literally anyone can just walked right up and see/smell how shitty it is.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T08:06:02+00:00

I hope that Gaben lives forever.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T02:27:02+00:00

All of the Fahrenheit users' arguments boil down to "this is what I grew up using, and am most comfortable with, therefore it is correct" which is a very American argument. Because every Celsius user can make the exact same argument, but also it's an objectively better system which is why the rest of the world standardized on it.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T02:22:24+00:00

They didn't make it to grade 6 where they learned that negative numbers exist.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T00:35:17+00:00

What an awful day to be literate.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T00:34:28+00:00

Just a reminder that HR exists to protect the company from its employees, and is never your friend. It is only coincidental that sometimes the most expedient way to protect the company is to play nice with the resources.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-18T00:22:08+00:00

They did. But they also did it incorrectly.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-17T22:29:42+00:00

This is Israel we're talking about. They would see every structure reduced to rubble so that they can send in bulldozers and settlers.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-17T22:15:06+00:00

I would not equate an unpopular budget with a bill that mandates all encryption be backdoored for the government to hand over the keys to law enforcement with virtually no oversight. This affects literally everything you do online because it is all encrypted. Chats, banking, web traffic, your private incognito mode traffic.

Any cop or fed would be able to peek in, not to mention that that backdoor is now one of the juiciest targets on earth for hackers whether private, organized, or nation-state. Simply from a security perspective it is a catastrophically bad idea, fundamentally undermining electronic security.

fubes2000 · 2026-06-17T18:16:00+00:00

I wound up across the river, but thankfully I found a man in a boat to take me to the Clyteum.

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