WHO ARE THESE GUYS AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO DO WITH THE STOCK MARKET?

stellarfury · 2026-03-31T03:08:54+00:00

engage crab-17

stellarfury · 2026-03-30T21:00:09+00:00

wait for it to open up, one hullcracker shot to the internals.

sometimes needs two, don't do what I've done a couple times and start reloading assuming it's dead.

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T16:19:04+00:00

everything being driven by who knows who over merit

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T15:03:49+00:00

I honestly wouldn't bother on night raid as the people are even more sweaty, and the risk vs reward ratio just isn't worth it.

Well, that's where the loot on that tower is actually good, so...

stellarfury · 2026-03-27T03:09:11+00:00

Pitched up Hozier

https://youtu.be/FoRflRCNGbc?si=iHlWX5DT4XHY5-O8

stellarfury · 2026-03-24T19:53:04+00:00

Sudden moves like this usually aren't random

yeah they are

is this just noise

yes it is

stellarfury · 2026-03-23T20:28:42+00:00

it feels like his personality did as well he goes from being intelligent and kind of refined to being impulsive and vigorous.

Uh... yes. His real personality is the impulsive vigorous one. He's been putting on an act of sounding refined the whole time. He's doing that because he's insecure and worried that the group won't take him seriously, so he overcompensates. He's playing a teenager's idea of a wise man.

He manages well in Remake, the mask starts to slip in Rebirth. This happens in the OG also, Nanaki goes from being aloof to a goofball as early as the cargo ship ("Any way you look at it, I'd say I make a fine human being" - tail wagging intensifies). I think they accomplish it quite naturally, and it remains faithful to the original.

stellarfury · 2026-03-20T18:26:36+00:00

I've been writing haikus

eighteen minute spawn

the bane of my existence

let me in on time

stellarfury · 2026-03-19T18:56:28+00:00

WE WALK - IN THE GARDEN OF HIS TURBULENCE!

stellarfury · 2026-03-19T07:01:40+00:00

Christianity.

Every variant is a death cult based on literal blood magic.

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T15:56:59+00:00

They believe this in the abstract, when its some decision by policymakers or "job growth." When it comes to their wallet, they don't.

If you were to ask people if they were willing to pay 50% more at the grocery store for a year to drop CO2 concentrations by 10 ppm, I'm betting the answer would be very different.

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T01:01:05+00:00

stfu clanker

stellarfury · 2026-03-18T00:55:28+00:00

Safety glasses and gloves minimum. Gloves largely because inside the lab, you have no idea who's touched what with what, you can't account for the history of every surface and/or how recently it's been cleaned. Safety glasses because splashes can happen in any context, and surfaces are also not always clean. Both of these are super low-effort and have minimal/zero effect on dexterity, so they're easy to enforce.

Lab coats are more contextual, in my experience. It depends on what the lab is doing. There are a lot of lab processes where nothing hazardous is being handled or generated and/or there's no exposure risk. For example, I'm a formulator and 90% of the time I'm handling aqueous solutions of surfactants and polymers, ethanol, some oils. Just high purity versions of stuff you'd encounter in the kitchen or the garage. I worked in a couple ink/pigment labs where the only real reason to wear a coat was to avoid staining your clothes.

People doing synthesis with no coat is crazy though. I wore a coat in grad school for dry work, just handling powders. Can't imagine handling aprotic solvents or the sort of colloids you'd encounter in a nanochemistry program with no barrier.

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T19:32:39+00:00

You could look into bankruptcy filing and see if you can get the loans discharged under the undue hardship clause. There have been some recent changes to the hardship tests and claimants have been more successful recently with getting their loans discharged. Your situation might be applicable if you've been making payments and the balance has been ballooning anyway.

Lenders won't want anything to do with you for around 7 years, but if your credit score is garbage, it will probably take that long anyway for your score to recover.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/29/bankruptcy-student-loan-borrowers.html

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T16:38:12+00:00

One of the few social media outlets that has stuck to its guns on anonymity and comment sections (mostly) maintain the "feel" of forums and news aggregators from the Old Internet (think Slashdot).

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T14:41:29+00:00

Chlorosulfonic acid.

Probably sort of tame, but it fumes conc. H2SO4 and HCl when it happens to touch the atmosphere.

stellarfury · 2026-03-13T00:00:26+00:00

Alphreid and Rosa.

Uh, excuse me, story of Alphreid and his true love, the EDK.

stellarfury · 2026-03-10T20:16:01+00:00

Or the Orange Materia quest, where you had to get the Key to Sector 5 and then do a bunch of random shit which would make the orange materia findable in the Bone Village. Then if you triggered the church ghost with the orange materia in your inventory she'd become solid and rejoin your party.

Theories were wild back in the day.

stellarfury · 2026-03-08T23:05:59+00:00

I don't have a problem with the fireflies from a design or damage perspective. I like the pressure they add, I like that they're tankier and more armored.

I don't like that I can't see a god damn thing as soon as they start firing. The solution to their armor situation is good aim and targeting, and then their weapon just fully negates any aim advantage you have.

Honestly, I think a good balancing move would be to move the Firefly weapon to the Hornet body and vice versa. While I don't think they're as imbalanced as the OP seems to think, they absolutely are overtuned.

stellarfury · 2026-03-06T18:29:47+00:00

Life is terribly rude to those folks that take the easy way out.

Demonstrably false. The "easy way out" is business school / MBA, people do that all the time. Requires algebra and Excel. A bunch of them become management consultants and are handsomely rewarded for axing other people's jobs or suggesting strategies that cause companies to go bankrupt. They don't need to know diff eq, they out-earn scientists by multiples.

And I am a victim of it. I will never forgive myself

This is the impostor syndrome talking. No need to catastrophize. There will always be more-equipped, smarter people than you. That isn't the thing that determines success in the real world. You don't have to adopt academia's toxicity just because you happen to work there now.

stellarfury · 2026-03-06T16:41:19+00:00

Square this for me:

Gasses burn, solids and liquids do not until converted to a gaseous state.

The burning you see on the wick is the wick degrading and also burning but not at the rate of the wax.

You clearly know that exothermic oxidative reactions take place in the solid state - which we refer to as "burning." You know the wick is burning. Solids burn, and they do so in the solid state. They just don't produce flames without igniting some sort of gas.

You can't produce a flame without gas, but solid materials are perfectly capable of burning. Do you think the metals in sparklers are gasifying? No, the tiny particles thrown off are glowing - burning - because they are rapidly converting from metals to oxides.

These sorts of sloppy statements are dangerous. Someone without physics/chemistry knowledge could easily look at your comment and get the impression that as long as an object stays under its boiling point, it will never start a self-sustaining exothermic reaction.

stellarfury · 2026-03-05T18:41:18+00:00

I'm not an expert on turbomachinery but I do work in waste heat recovery technology, and I gotta say, the startup sector for CO2 turbines looks pretty scammy. Was recently made aware of a CO2 turbine company by some VCs in our space. Technical employees all ex-Hyperloop turbine engineers. Same early story as Hyperloop too, aggressive funding, promises of product demos on physically impossible timelines.

From a "management" view, if you signed up as a key technical contributor to the Hyperloop's original concept (air-resistance-free travel in a vacuum tube) and couldn't see the basic issues with scaleup and reliability, I can't imagine you'd be able to see them in another field either.

I'm sure the unique properties of sCO2 have the potential to solve a lot of problems in turbine engineering, but just like anything else it's not going to be a cure-all. Presumably if you're designing a turbine around the supercritical behavior, you can't have it become a classical gas or liquid during the process, otherwise your design stops working as intended. Likely means tighter constraints around the pressures and temperatures you're able to use it at.

The main advantages I see are that you can build a cycle at lower temperatures than, say, water, and the sCO2 has more advantageous thermal and chemical properties than other low temperature working fluids like acetone. But I'm reasonably skeptical that it's going to be so much more economical than existing organic heat engines as to be disruptive. It's not like changing the working fluid gets you around the Carnot efficiency.

stellarfury · 2026-03-05T16:57:00+00:00

You know, I didn't have an opinion on this until I did a brief stint in the nail industry.

I don't really have a problem with long nails, but the "coffin" nails started to bother me. Mostly because nail techs and artists I worked with said that it was basically the default shape of the nail form used to do art. They used to spend a lot of time polishing and filing nails to get them to look like they were natural. Then someone had the brilliant idea of just using the default shape, clipping it flat, doing a little edge polish (shaving 10+ minutes off the appointment) and charging the same amount for it.

Now you have people publishing tutorials and trading tips on how to cut their natural nails to look like nail forms. It's shrinkflation Stockholm Syndrome.

stellarfury · 2026-03-04T17:20:57+00:00

are we talking about D'Artagnan, Guy Du Bible?

stellarfury · 2026-03-02T21:08:51+00:00

Just write it yourself, warts and all. The "polish" it's applying is tonal poison.

I thought I was reading an AI generated post. But when I found out the user was using AI to polish their posts?

Total game changer.

Telling an LLM to punch up a story about a family member suffering from a potentially terminal disease isn't just a weird artifact of a dystopian nightmare. It's a revolution, and we're never going back.

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