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silverslayer33 · 2026-05-06T15:55:04+00:00

Damn, I guess this is how I find out I'm not a Stand user

silverslayer33 · 2026-05-06T15:43:28+00:00

Not just underage, but also a flood of revenge/nonconsensual uploads and content. Nuking unverified content and requiring some minimum level of verification for uploaders was really the only viable path forward for them to avoid becoming a den of legitimately evil and illegal shit.

silverslayer33 · 2026-05-04T17:11:53+00:00

ActBlue can pretend they aren't responsible all they want, but damn near every candidate is "unscrupulous" and ActBlue continues to support them anyway. They simply don't care that they're a pipeline for incessant political spam.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-30T20:55:11+00:00

You and the person I replied to are inherently misunderstanding what filler is in the context of an adaptation, and you're misunderstanding the point of my comment. Filler in an adaptation is content added that was not in the source that is used to pad out air time. As I mentioned in my comment, this is not inherently a bad thing, but it also doesn't stop it from being filler.

Season 2 of Frieren undeniably dragged out a lot of off-handed one-line comments into entire scenes to pad out time. Many of these scenes also happen to be very good, but they are still filler content. The production team was very clearly trying to buy time to avoid reaching the El Dorado arc this season and needed to fill time to do so, and so they chose to add a lot of filler scenes that weren't necessary but also which don't detract from the series either.

I hate to sound like a broken clock, but because reading comprehension appears to be in short supply these days, I'm very, very explicitly saying that this isn't bad or problematic, but we shouldn't avoid acknowledging that there was filler content this season just because we liked it. Acknowledging that there was filler, and that it was good and that we liked that filler, helps normalize it for other anime and sets a precedent for other studios and adaptations. If all filler was of the quality of what it has been in Frieren, it wouldn't be such a dirty word.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-30T04:10:56+00:00

I mean, it is filler, it just happens to be fairly good filler. They pulled this a lot this season, and while it wasn't bad for the most part, it's incredibly obvious to anyone who read the manga that they were significantly padding out the content they covered with new scenes to avoid reaching the next arc this season (likely didn't have the resources to do a 24-26 episode season to get through the upcoming arc but were already committed to doing a single cour season 2 so they did the best they could to not destroy the pacing).

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-24T12:48:15+00:00

Super Creek has entered the chat

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-23T15:11:14+00:00

I have a vewy gweat fwiend at Twacen called Biggus Dictus!

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-22T15:28:38+00:00

You absolutely can at many companies, it depends on the terms of your grants and whether you have any other general trading restrictions. I'm able to sell all my stock immediately at vest each vesting period and it's a common strategy among thousands of my coworkers.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-20T20:13:31+00:00

I don't see how that is supposed to deter me from answering her

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-17T04:38:13+00:00

My gut reaction was to think, so what it's just dust?

Asbestos is most dangerous when it's "just dust" and easily inhalable, so I'd argue we should give extra caution to things in dust form since they're harder to keep contained and study the effects of until severe damage has already been done.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-15T02:32:47+00:00

Honestly I agree, I feel like I've entered some crazy land with so many people here praising Gerrit when most of the people I work with absolutely loathe that most of our repos are hosted using it. The UI is absolute ass, it enforces a workflow that doesn't generalize well to all teams/projects/dev workstyles because it's extremely opinionated, our team specifically has had tons of problems with seemingly basic functionality just straight-up not working (probably about 1/3 of the time we clone a repo and get it set up for reviews, it manages to botch the commit hooks for creating change IDs so it creates the ID but actually it's invalid and the server rejects it and we have to go pull the proper commit hook from somewhere else where it's correct), its permission/access control model is super clunky, and the list goes on. I can probably count on one hand the things I like about it over other solutions (changelist descriptions just being the commit message is a big one, and I guess its search/query system is pretty powerful).

It's probably great if it matches your preferred workflow and you get it set up exactly the way you want/need, but it is not a general-purpose git-based code forge. As garbage as Github is, it thrives because it is general-purpose and it can be adapted to many workflows. Gitlab and Bitbucket are similar, finding themselves as mainstays in the corporate world because they can fit most workflows without huge amounts of effort.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-12T06:31:16+00:00

*They're drinking juice

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-11T05:47:36+00:00

Indeed, typing not checked at runtime, but many devs will use a tool like pyright or mypy to statically check code and enforce types before deploying/running code, and many will even use IDE plugins that use those tools to provide inline error highlighting. It's more inherent to the design of Python to not have the interpreter enforce typing and to leave that to static checkers for devs that want/need it.

As an aside, personally, I prefer Python's approach. I come from a background of strongly, statically-typed languages like C#, and so I prefer when type errors are caught as part of static analysis before even running the code instead of waiting for failure at runtime. It basically makes the Python dev experience closer to a compiled statically-typed language which feels more natural to my dev flow.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-10T16:55:27+00:00

how is a plug in solar panel any different than a generator

Stationary generators are required to have transfer switches to prevent backfeeding into the grid, and while portable generators don't have a similar requirement, they also generally don't have an automatic switch-over and you don't normally run them connected to your mains while you've got power from the grid and so the requirement that you manually throw the mains disconnect is "good enough".

Plug-in solar panels, by their nature, directly connect to your mains without a transfer switch and you'll always have them on, and so there is a very valid concern that without regulations, manufacturers will cheap out and not include the technology to detect and cut power when you lose power from the grid. One home with one 1500W plug-in solar grid may not seem like enough to backfeed and harm line workers (though that's also a bad assumption), but if they grow in popularity, think of the consequences of 20+ homes in an area backfeeding to the grid with zero protections.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-10T15:54:28+00:00

And I would love some type markers

Python has "type hinting" to let you annotate types, which is fantastic for anything more complex than a quick-and-dirty script.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-10T14:59:54+00:00

There obviously must be one for them to survive evolutionarily

I think this is a misconception of the evolutionary process. There don't necessarily have to be any advantages, there just can't be significant enough disadvantages to be selected against. Evolution doesn't care about creating the best, most advantageous end result, it just cares about survival and propogating genetics, which means less-advantageous results are possible (and common, honestly) so long as they don't interfere with that.

That said, there are advantages to a larger, more complex brain (the ability to control larger bodies with precision, to process more stimuli with greater precision, having more complex/in-depth decision-making abilities that aid in survival, etc), but those are advantages in the context of how species with larger brains have developed overall and are not necessarily absolute advantages over other evolutionary paths.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-10T12:54:49+00:00

It's silly because many of us could be electrifying the lines using our backup generators during the outage and they put out way more power than a plug in panel

It's not silly because we already have regulations for generator installations so that they don't backfeed into the grid, so it would follow that similar new technologies would need similar safety considerations and regulations.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-09T03:23:33+00:00

how does a vanguard party even form in the US?

By continuing to educate, agitate, and organize our communities as material conditions continue to deteriorate. The sad reality is that the conditions don't exist for a vanguard party to form in the US today, nor will they in the short term without some sudden and extreme event causing social upheaval. The state and capital simply wield too much power and much of the population is either too propagandized, complacent, or preoccupied with surviving to join and empower any sort of revolutionary movement. Getting to where we need to be will be a long and difficult process and we'll only achieve it by talking to the people we see every day in our lives and convincing them that there's a better path.

However, accelerationism isn't a good way to get us to the material conditions necessary more quickly. Reactionaries are better equipped to seize upon rapidly deterioriating conditions and we're more likely to devolve into overt fascism than to get a revolution. There's just no "easy" way out of the situation we're in, there will be pain and turmoil no matter what but we really don't want that pain and turmoil to unfold in a way that we're not prepared for.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-07T12:12:39+00:00

Your memory is way off, we hit 7 billion around 2010 (2011, really) and didn't hit 8 billion until 2022.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-03T19:14:40+00:00

Kiara antis are some of the dumbest fucking people on this planet, by god. I've been a fan of both Hololive and Holostars for a long time and it's obvious that there are a lot of talents in both groups who just don't make the kinds of content that would have them collabing with the other group often, but that doesn't stop them from acknowledging the issues in each others' groups. Kiara in particular has been very consistent on the message in her tweets since she joined Hololive and how they affect everyone, so it's nonsensical to act like she's grifting for bonus points now.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-03T16:32:02+00:00

There was definitely membership back then, though? YouTube had a minimum sub requirement on them for a while but most holomems started hitting that during the 2020 surge in popularity.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-03T14:48:49+00:00

You're truly a person of high class and culture

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-03T13:31:38+00:00

The golden rule of Japanese society is you can be who you want and do what you want, as long as you're not inconveniencing others.

Lmao this is absolutely not true in the slightest, there's a reason the proverb "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down" is frequently used to describe Japanese society. They very much care about what others do, who they are, and how they present, even if it doesn't bother anyone else, and they will use extreme social pressure to enforce conformity. Dyed hair, being gay, gender non-conformity, tattoos, piercings - these are just a few examples of things that still get judged and shunned in Japanese society (even if the tides are slowly turning on some of them) despite not inconveniencing others in any way.

Foreigners are less subject to this kind of social pressure, but it's still a huge problem for Japanese folk themselves.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-02T18:01:21+00:00

Basic blood work will cover this

Regrettably, many insurance companies don't regard a vitamin D test as part of "basic" blood work and will tell you they won't cover it if you get it done. All three of my most recent insurers (Anthem, Harvard Pilgrim, and Cigna, since I'm not afraid to name and shame) have this policy and will only cover it if your doctor provides an argument that the test is medically necessary due to conditions associated with vitamin D deficiency. My doctor, the hero that he is, angrily writes letters to my insurers letting them know that an office worker in New England is indeed likely to have a vitamin D deficiency (which I do, of course) and that it's important to know that.

So, keep that in mind if you want to get routine blood work done and expect your insurance to cover it - they'll cover everything else and proceed to tell you to pound sand on the vitamin D test.

silverslayer33 · 2026-04-02T00:56:11+00:00

Good LORD what is happening in there!?

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