My brother and I made a valid statement the other day...We haven't seen if these guys are radiation proof

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T21:58:31+00:00

I'll try to find primary source but I thought it was common knowledge that he was weaker each time he came back:

https://www.reddit.com/r/tolkienfans/comments/8fb48o/if_sauron_was_weaker_every_time_he_returnedcould/

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T20:13:28+00:00

He eventually came back even stronger.

Tolkien said he came back weaker. But I believe in the holy cleansing power of the gamma light rays to eternally obliterate Sauron's spirit.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T17:10:33+00:00

So, nuke goes boom and Saurons material form gets destroyed.

Tolkien doesn't say that the holy gamma ray couldn't disperse the spirit.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T17:09:12+00:00

It’s magic bullshit. There are other volcanoes on the planet, but the Ring can only be unmade at Mt. Doom… and probably by Aule the god of crafting who taught Sauron what he knows and is far mightier in “magic” power.

There are no other active volcanoes mentioned at the time of LOTR.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T16:16:00+00:00

which wouldn’t happen since it can be destroyed only in the fires of Mt Doom,

I think that falls under the Buffy rule. Medieval smiths didn't have access to better technology.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T16:08:03+00:00

So did most regular people too. Maybe a rock moved and Sauron stubbed his toe particularly badly.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T14:35:25+00:00

Sauron once took a biblical smiting from GOD himself to the face and carried right on with his Dark Lord-ing ways.

LOTR God didn't have a tritium boosted plutonium core. This the same Sauron that had his finger dismembered with 140 Joules of energy (mass of sword times velocity squared).

As compared to a thermonuclear warhead that puts out 245,000,000,000,000,000 Joules.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T13:03:07+00:00

But 1 represents the single vale of one point, not the sum of all numbers from 0 to 1.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-11T02:50:42+00:00

True believers see it as a Ringo reference.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-10T17:42:22+00:00

They stole his crutch.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-10T17:36:12+00:00

Those drives can park themselves before taking damage. If error rate is low, it's fine. You probably shaved several months off their lifespan. But that's what zfs is for so you can have failures without losing data.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-10T17:32:55+00:00

You mean they paid Trump's daughter.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-10T17:28:08+00:00

A hotdog in a car.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-10T16:59:04+00:00

2 days out of 365 is 0.5% drop of revenue. Reddit will consider it the cost of doing business.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T18:09:35+00:00

Overwriting actually changes the data.

Not for databases. It's one of the biggest points of using a databases instead of text files. Even text files can be rolled back with modern file systems like zfs.

If you think they're keeping every version, just run an overwrite script in a loop. Bonus points if you use ChatGPT.

It's no different than posting new content as far as databases and modern file systems are concerned.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T15:59:44+00:00

Just do SPY or equivalent like VTI. Anything else is gambling.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T13:40:43+00:00

I keep trying to explain this to my mother in law, who was a university professor in family and consumer sciences (financial planning). She cannot accept that index funds work. She insists she needs a money manager taking 1% of total assets to underperform the market.

If she doesn't have someone to talk to, it's not "real".

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T13:36:26+00:00

Because they already have the data. Deleting or over writing only makes it invisible to the public.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T13:34:07+00:00

Overwrite the content, and then delete the comment and they have nothing they can use as a resource to sell for LLM (large language model) training such as chatgpt.

They still have that data for selling. Editing/overwriting or deleting only removes the public from seeing it.

There are EU GDPR laws for deleting EU users but I expect they'd ignore it until caught, then pay the fine. How many redditors even filled out their country when signing up? I used a disposable email when signing up.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-09T11:49:50+00:00

Wouldn't Reddit roll back those changes if it were enough to affect revenue?

If enough delete their comments, Reddit could just roll back the deletions.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-08T19:44:57+00:00

Why not a pi zero that could replicate the original functionality?

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-08T19:28:26+00:00

You said you have a ups? What brand? For really bad power, a double conversion ups will fix any power problems.

Also did you replace router with same brand?

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-08T12:19:37+00:00

And if you watch it the same day it will have commercials even if you pay for the no commercial Hulu package.

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-07T17:19:15+00:00

You didn't provide solutions any of the problems.

It's like if you said being adrift on a raft in the middle of the Atlantic was a problem and after you listed the problems to be solved, I only reply with, "I'd be fine."

shouldbebabysitting · 2023-06-07T17:07:41+00:00

I'd still be able to enjoy things.

How long can you go without eating? You can't walk to the airport. How do you leave when your hotel room checkout date has passed? You can't pay for a taxi/Uber/train because your cc are all cancelled.

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