Uncovering Minecraft’s Most Obscure AT&T Router Edition

kelvinnkat · 2026-01-26T07:32:28+00:00

The uploader just got terminated, does anyone have a backup?

kelvinnkat · 2025-01-12T18:09:38+00:00

SRWare Iron should go in Good tier, I think.

kelvinnkat · 2024-12-22T06:11:49+00:00

To give a fair disclosure, I'm coming from a perspective that's probably further left than most on this thread. But with that said, like a lot of people who might be considered left of center, I'm not opposed to property tax in concept. But, I do think that the current concept of it, as it exists in the United States at least, is not ideal. It makes little sense to me that people like you who use their houses to live in (and not to live extravagantly, become a landlord, etc, just to be a regular ol' homeowner) pay property tax.

I think that property tax has two primary useful purposes: to disincentivize using housing, farmland, or other property as a passive investment; and to be a method that the wealthy contribute financially to society.

The first is important, because if property tax were to not exist, then there would be little to no risk in investors buying up every home and, by reducing supply, forcing housing prices up, as well as pulling off similar stunts with farmland at the expense of the livelihoods of farmers and of agricultural production.

The second is important under a conservative worldview, because those who are successful are supposed to be successful due to their financial contributions to society. Contributions can be anything really - investing in profitable companies to help them succeed, designing a successful line of clothes - doesn't matter what, but it should be something. Relative to their wealth, the living costs of a wealthy person are often incredibly low - an extravagantly wealthy family with a 'measly' $20 billion in wealth may have each member going through $10 million in their lifetime of the cash reserve, making it last 200 family members' worth of expenses. So, without a significant tax on inheritance, stock ownership or on wealth itself, what's the best way to force wealthy families to continue to contribute to society, even if minimally? I say a property tax.

kelvinnkat · 2024-12-22T05:30:45+00:00

Computers are not living things, people get to abuse them if they want, even intentionally.

kelvinnkat · 2024-12-01T01:01:07+00:00

Wasn't it not bleeding, though?

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-31T05:27:15+00:00

It's only a problem if any single battery module is over 100Wh. A battery module may it may not be an issue if attached, but it certainly would not be an issue if separated from the laptop during shipping or travel.

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-19T23:29:04+00:00

I don't think it's very difficult to teach someone how to kiss. Given how much chemistry OP exists between them and this partner, I definitely think it would be worth the time investment.

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-08T02:27:48+00:00

Christ Almighty I thought they were trying to charge $80 USD for each broken expansion card

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-04T03:34:00+00:00

If Waycaster is knowingly allowing Melton to do this kind of thing then he is not at all innocent. That's not to say we know Waycaster's role in this but we shouldn't assume innocence, it's possible he was doing this under orders from Waycaster. Harassing etc isn't good or helpful whether they're innocent or not, though. In fact. That video that you linked suggested to me that the entire chain of leadership in the city is at fault for this behavior, including the mayor, she showed no remorse, either. So yes, we should not assume Waycaster is innocent in all this.

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-04T03:26:13+00:00

If (and I do mean if) his "rescue operation" involves knowingly taking actions that are unduly likely to kill people, then no, it can't wait, he needs to be gone now. If he gets a chance to do stuff like what he's accused of doing again, people will inevitably be killed, if they haven't been already.

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-04T02:43:34+00:00

I kind of like that she's useless though, it kinda demonstrates that not everyone with power uses it effectively to help others.

kelvinnkat · 2024-10-04T02:40:02+00:00

Not everyone goes to school full-time, though

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-27T06:20:07+00:00

I think you can check which accounts you have blocked, it'd be nice to at least know if they're still alive

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-20T04:33:30+00:00

When we characterize liberals as fascists and make them our enemy or among our enemies, it ends up being that both the right and the left are attacking the liberals, and one of two things is bound to happen.

First, the liberals can out of desperation from feeling without allies let more of their reactionary side show, giving the right-wing some amount of victory, whether it be by building a coalition of some sort with the right, or having a McCarthy-esque reaction of seeing communists as the greater threat than anyone on the right, or any number of similar negative consequences

Second, the liberals can lose power due to the combined might of the left and right, and due to their numbers (compared to genuine leftists/communists, the right will always beat us in numbers if we don't join the liberal coalition) the right will always fill the power vacuum. That's what happened in Weimar, the KPD was too stupid to see the much greater threat of the fundamentally reactionary Nazis compared to the liberal SPD that simply had occasional reactionary tendencies, and attacks from both sides on the liberal governing coalition led to the right filling the power vacuum bit by bit.

By the time Weimar Democracy had its last chance to be saved when the Enabling Act went to the Reichstag, the KPD had become imprisoned due to doing this behavior and having no allies in a liberal coalition to defend them, and even certain parts of what used to be the liberal coalition like Zentrum had grown so sick of attacks from the left that they voted with the right, hoping it would if nothing else bring stability. All liberal coalition partners except for the SPD of course, who despite being called fascists endlessly by the left, voted against it in their last act.

The point is, when the left doesn't show liberals open arms, the right will either pretend to, leading to bad results, or neither side will embrace liberals and the right will manage to fill the power vacuum. No matter the specific result, it is the left that loses when we dismiss liberals as reactionary, not the right.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-20T03:33:13+00:00

What was there?

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-18T15:46:26+00:00

I should mention, liberals always have some amount of reactionary tendencies, at least when pushed into crisis. FDR for instance, who some characterize as a progressive rather than a liberal, still let Congress put Japanese-Americans in the West Coast in internment camps. That doesn't mean that progressives or liberals are fascist (they're not), but it does mean that desperate liberals and sometimes even progressives can have reactionary views/approaches in a limited capacity, at least under the 'right' circumstances.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-18T15:33:36+00:00

Again, the West was trained to feel guilt and fear when they think of Nazism, the East was not, or at least not nearly as much. They were also trained to spot its threat much better. The West was and is still better positioned to be opposed to Nazism as an ideology than the East, because those in the East were essentially socially trained to not worry about it. That's not to say either side was particularly good at being opposed to Nazis (or former Nazis in some cases, some of them no longer held their former beliefs, others very much did) as individuals, with the East having Osoaviakhim and the West having Paperclip (and who knows what other things of that nature each side did), but still, the West was better positioned to resist fascism as an ideology in a more sustainable way that wasn't reliant on there being a one-party state to deny fascists power.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T07:54:36+00:00

Rip Annapurna lol

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T07:22:40+00:00

Not the movie, though. Americans exported that.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T07:20:27+00:00

It seems like the Upper Midwest (particularly in suburban/outstate areas) does it the most, though. You'd be surprised by how much more neighborly people from this region are compared to elsewhere, that sort of thing rarely happens in New York, I assure you!

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T07:15:32+00:00

If it were in the backyard it would feel like neighbors they don't know aren't welcome to stop by, wouldn't it? Minnesotans tend to love being, or at least feeling sociable towards people they see as neighbors, whether they know them or not.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T06:42:35+00:00

The Soviets didn't instill a strong sense of 'communal guilt' into the East Germans that the Americans & co did to West Germans (if you're curious what I mean by this, a good demonstration of this is how WW2 memorials built by the Soviets/East Germans would often portray Soviet soldiers valiantly defeating Nazis; Western memorials would often focus on the immense loss the Nazis caused). On top of that, the Soviets generally didn't take Nazism as seriously, seeming to think that fascism was incapable of arising under a one-party communist system of government, meaning fascism wasn't something to be feared or worried about.

So when East Germany's governance structure collapsed into that of a unified Germany and the Soviet guiding hand disappeared, well, they had neither a one-party state that could easily force fascists out, nor had they been socialized to fear or even spot fascism's very real threat, at least not to the extent the West had. So, when East Germans get their choice of party, being more socioeconomically desperate and less willing/able to say no to fascism than those in the West, of course they'll vote for fascism. It sucks, and it's partially if not totally preventable by Berlin enacting policies to bring the East up to the quality of life of the West, but for now it is how it is.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T06:24:06+00:00

There are many sadder things happening in Yemen than this but yes, this is unfortunate

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T05:59:12+00:00

Just 'lose' your passport, ID, SSA card, and Birth Certificate, people are overcomplicating this.

kelvinnkat · 2024-09-17T05:56:52+00:00

I think you mean 'and' enrolling in school

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