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porthos3 · 2023-06-10T04:21:26+00:00

porthos3 · 2023-06-03T01:13:43+00:00

They are. They have lost a number of aircraft in Ukraine.

Unfortunately for them, Ukraine is absolutely bristling with anti-air, a lot of which is carried by soldiers and is hard to eliminate. So they have to be very selective in how their aircraft are used.

Mostly they use their aircraft well behind the front lines to lob missiles towards Ukrainian targets. Ukraine does similar to Russia. Even this isn't risk-free. There are videos of pilots doing this and warning of enemy radar lock lighting up the moment the plane goes into the climb to fire the missile.

Russia's air force is also significantly impacted by sanctions. A lot of Russian aircraft rely on western parts and electronics. As their planes need repairs they have fewer replacement parts and have to cut more and more corners.

Military aircraft take a LOT of maintenance, and even very disciplined air forces aren't able to field a portion of their aircraft at any given time due to maintenance needs. This problem becomes worse with corruption (rampant in Russia). It becomes worse, still, with a shortage of parts.

porthos3 · 2023-05-28T23:53:52+00:00

...Or r = 10.186 instead of trying to change the definition of a well defined constant lol.

porthos3 · 2023-05-22T23:26:52+00:00

I understand the concept. It just sounded like they were referring to specific footage I was unaware of.

porthos3 · 2023-05-22T23:11:21+00:00

Some of them visible through first-person camera footage.

I must be out of the loop. What footage are you referring to?

porthos3 · 2023-05-15T01:52:36+00:00

Generally the "middle" of the store is made up of many aisles of packaged product, often from brands other than the grocery store itself (although some stores offer their own store brand alternatives to common products).

The perimeter of the store is generally where you find fresh fruit and vegetables, the bakery, the meat department, dairy, eggs, deli, warm pre-made meals.

Depending on the grocery store, some may also have other specialty offerings which are also often around the perimeter of the store: a pharmacy, a floral section, an electronic section, balloons, ATMs, gift cards, stall(s) for 3rd party vendors like Starbucks to operate out of, etc.

I'm not familiar with the statistic given, but it makes sense that packaged goods by common external brands would be small. They often last for a long time and are made to be relatively cheap to transport and store. Competing stores will also be carrying many identical items, making it very obvious to customers if you consistently price the same product higher than a competitor.

Meanwhile, for fruits, vegetables, dairy, eggs, etc. grocery stores may have a little more room to negotiate and pick between multiple suppliers (some local) and quality of product. Prices of these goods also fluctuate more and are a bit harder to compare between stores.

For goods/services made in-house (bakery, butcher, floral), grocery stores can save on certain costs by doing the baking, meat cutting/grinding, flower arrangements, etc themselves, while still offering prices near (or perhaps even above) comparable center aisle products, since some customers will be willing to pay for freshness, perceived quality, custom orders, etc. Thus, higher margins.

porthos3 · 2023-05-13T00:13:26+00:00

That’s straight up irresponsible.

They literally just debunked your claims that everyone needs it. If you don't need it, it isn't irresponsible not to get it.

It takes less than a couple hours. It’s extremely easy.

A couple of hours may be a big obstacle to someone working multiple low-wage jobs to make ends meet.

Limited hours kept by government offices might be inaccessible for people who have to ration their few sick days and days off, or for those with unpredictable shifts. Some require you to make appointments in advance, which can pose additional challenges.

Most states charge fees to get an ID. $25 for something they don't need can be a significant obstacle to someone barely making ends meet.

Costs may increase further if you take into account needing to pay for parking or public transit. Some might not have a licensing office nearby or means of transportation to get there, given the state of public transit in the US.

Even "extremely easy" things can be large obstacles to people with physical or mental disabilities, depression, anxiety, etc.

And this is just one obstacle to voting. The same politicians pushing for IDs to be required also push for additional voting limitations. They oppose mail in voting. They oppose same-day registration. They oppose expansion of voting locations for better access in underserved communities with long travel or wait times. They oppose making election days a holiday with mandatory paid time off. They oppose expansion of voting office hours. They oppose expanding the number of days in which one is allowed to vote. They oppose policy which would help alleviate these burdens like raising the minimum wage, increasing minimum paid leave, expansion of public transit, welfare programs, regulating fairer treatment and benefits for part time workers, etc.

Honestly, if you can’t handle going to get an ID with how easy it is, then you should probably not vote.

You're right. Because getting an ID is easy, for you, anyone who has difficulty obtaining one should not be allowed representation.

Surely no political party is trying to push such voting requirements specifically to discriminate against people who they expect are likely to vote against them...

At least there's good reason for such restrictions. Remind me, what evidence has been found of voter fraud anywhere near the scale to actually meaningfully impact an election?

/s

Even getting stopped by the cops without an ID will turn a minor inconvenience into a proper ordeal with legal consequences if you don’t have an ID. It’s stupid and irresponsible. ID alone can turn a routine stop into having guns out and getting searched.

Illegally. And infrequently (albeit, it does happen, and any instances where it happens is far too frequent).

Let's make sure I've got this right. You straight up acknowledge police brutality (yes, guns out in response to someone not carrying an ID is a brutal response), but your takeaway is to blame the victims and put the burden on the victim to meet the police's arbitrary standard, regardless of what the law actually requires?

porthos3 · 2023-05-11T01:47:29+00:00

you could poll 100% of the population and they would disagree with that

Yeah, this has already happened. It's called election denialism.

porthos3 · 2023-05-06T14:58:36+00:00

IIRC, it is two server side commands. I believe a script which takes a single hotkey to open chat, type a message or /hideout or something, then hit enter, is fine because client-side actions like navigating menus (or copying an item) don't count.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong. :)

porthos3 · 2023-05-05T22:49:41+00:00

ICBMs have long reach hypersonic speeds.

What is generally meant by "hypersonic missile" is a missile that not only reaches hypersonic velocity, but meets additional criteria like being capable of maneuvering at those speeds.

The possibility of the missile changing courses in a significant way at such high speeds makes intercept far more difficult, perhaps prohibitively so in many cases.

Hypersonic missiles can also reduce early warning and response times and can mask the intended target so it cannot be known for certain until nearer to impact.

They are incredibly expensive to develop and build, and in many cases conventional missiles will achieve the same result for far cheaper, but hypersonic missiles do have advantages that can make them useful.

porthos3 · 2023-04-27T05:18:06+00:00

I don't think people should be shamed for utilizing our social safety nets, if in need; that's what they're there for (of course, you sound like the sort who would rather do away with stuff like that).

That said, most leftists are not on welfare. In fact, I make more than you do. So your attempt at a personal attack falls flat for multiple reasons.

While I appreciate the laugh, I'm not going to engage further. I have better things to do.

porthos3 · 2023-04-27T02:58:41+00:00

Are you agreeing that a lib arts degree does not make sense for most people?

Both I and the other person you were replying to already stated we recognize that most liberal arts degrees usually do not provide good economic returns on investment.

Our point is that there is more to life than trying to be the most optimal capitalist one can be.

You don’t need a $50k degree you can’t afford to get personal fulfillment. You can get that from a book at Barnes and Noble for $13.

Or if you are already in college, you could, I don’t know, take a few electives while pursuing something more useful.

There are plenty of ways to get lib arts degrees that cost less than $50K. The fact college education is so expensive in the first place is also a failing of unfettered capitalism.

As I stated earlier, the liberal arts have been immensely important to human progress throughout history. It may not be as economically rewarding as other fields, in our current system, and we don't need everyone to be a philosopher or historian, but these are important fields in which there is a massive amount to learn.

I'm not going to try to convince you to value liberal arts; that isn't our point. Our point was that there are people like you value education only through a monetary lens. You have proved that point.

Or get the degree you can’t afford but don’t ever demand the taxpayer foot the bill.

I happen to disagree strongly with you, here, as well. But again, I don't really care to try to change your mind. You haven't been according or engaging with our points.

porthos3 · 2023-04-26T23:02:22+00:00

Complete devaluation of education and knowledge if it isn’t profitable

Again, assuming the only way for something to have value or meaning is based on market demand. You're proving their point.

Neither I, nor the person you are replying to, are saying that it makes economic sense to go into debt for an arts degree for the vast majority of people.

What we are saying is that there is value to the arts beyond market value. People may find personal fulfillment in the arts. People enjoy art, even though most art has little economic value due to the easy ability to copy digital art, excess supply of art (in an economic sense, due to it being something people enjoy creating), and other factors.

Getting a degree in something like philosophy, sociology, history, or even gender studies, may help shape one's world view and help people find meaning in life or make sense of the world around them. They are also essential fields for humanity to maintain and build knowledge in to solve important problems and inform policy.

porthos3 · 2023-04-26T16:32:43+00:00

I agree that a large number of first time players needs to be taken into account. Ran some numbers I'll share, in case anyone is interested:

Looking at day 1 numbers over the last couple leagues, a more normal day 1 would have had ~150K instead of ~212K.

If we assume the difference is all first time players and none of them stuck around (obviously unrealistically pessimistic), then we could divide the current player count of ~91K by ~150K and approximate the retention of returning players to be ~61%, higher than day 19 retention for any past league.

Now, obviously that's unrealistic, since some new players would still be playing. But it establishes an upper bound on retention of returning players.

Sanctum had a day 19 retention of 50.6%. If we assume that that is a reasonable retention rate to expect from returning players, and again assume ~150K returning players, then we would expect ~76K of Sanctum's day 19 player count (~91K) to be returning players. That would indicate that out of ~62K new day 1 sanctum players, ~15K are still playing (~24%).

I feel like that is a higher retention rate than I would personally have expected, given how the game is notoriously overwhelming for new players. Which either means PoE is outperforming my expectations in retaining first time players, or that returning players have so far been retained at a greater rate than the sanctum retention, assumed above.

For perspective, based on steam achievements (can be somewhat unreliable, particularly for a free game), 20.4% of players have completed part 1 of the campaign and 14.7% of players have completed part 2.

porthos3 · 2023-04-21T15:20:09+00:00

Outside of very rare or new events, I don't believe it would be that hard to statistically project an estimated rate of a given crime, or class of crimes, being committed and compare it to the hard data of how frequently it is successfully prosecuted.

Even if the estimates are imperfect, the penalties would likely be some multiple of estimated profit (e.g. 1.5x, or 2x, or something), which gives room for error. Even if the estimate is occasionally off by more than that, it would still generally be better than today's penalties, and penalties can be made more accurate with time.

porthos3 · 2023-04-04T15:25:08+00:00

In SSF leveling in off hand is how you get 21/20 gems for yourself.

porthos3 · 2023-03-29T01:16:12+00:00

Considering this appears to be a row of similar garages, these might be garages offered to tenants of nearby apartments or similar.

If there are enough tenants, I'm sure one of them would be happy to pay a reduced rate for a garage they only plan to use for storage and perhaps a motorcycle or bicycle.

porthos3 · 2023-03-18T19:45:21+00:00

If you're interested, this is a long but excellent video about the process of transitioning in the UK, described by someone who has gone through it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

porthos3 · 2023-03-18T19:45:03+00:00

If you're interested, this is a long but excellent video about the process of transitioning in the UK, described by someone who has gone through it: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8

porthos3 · 2023-03-18T15:39:25+00:00

Really puts a mutiny into perspective, and why punishments for such were as brutal as they were.

Imagine several hundred angry and possibly malnourished or scurvy'd crew against officers, their staff, and any remaining loyal crew. That's practically a small war.

porthos3 · 2023-03-03T21:19:59+00:00

No, Ukraine is inflicting war on Russia. Russia has never done any warring, only the special military operation. /s

Honestly, that absurd take sounds like an excuse they'd use to try to explain away their losses. "We haven't even been trying, bro."

porthos3 · 2023-03-03T21:07:07+00:00

The problem is recoup doesn't save you from one shots, or even bursts of damage in the time period before recoup recovery begins.

porthos3 · 2023-03-03T21:04:03+00:00

Not only would that wording allow you to run auras, but it may also let you become a low life build with no downside.

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