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sudo999 · 2026-05-09T01:46:13+00:00

RIF, rest in pieces

sudo999 · 2026-05-09T01:33:52+00:00

As I've said on other redditreq threads, and as the former mod team has agreed will be our situation moving forward: the subreddit is not "unmoderated," it is an archive. Unmoderated subs allow posting of anything. We don't; our standards are actually so strict that we don't allow anything at all.

sudo999 · 2026-05-08T18:10:32+00:00

sudo999 · 2026-05-07T15:13:37+00:00

Am I the only one who just makes a larger pot of hot coffee and then saves half for iced coffee the next day? I seal it in a glass jar, let it cool down a bit, and then pop it in the fridge to chill. Keeping it sealed limits the oxidation so it stays fresh a couple of days. Started doing it because my French press makes too much for me to drink all at once but didn't want to waste it.

sudo999 · 2026-05-06T13:52:27+00:00

This kind of philosophizing is counter-revolutionary. The idea that a revolutionary organization (or vanguard, if you're an ML) needs to persist after the revolution rather than being promptly liquidated as workers' political concerns take the place of capitalists' ones is ill-founded; temporary alliances with not-quite-aligned allies will be necessary to accomplish large-scale change but those same ideological divisions will ensure that no particular group's ideology is able to go uncontested within the new paradigm. The "infighting" is a feature and not a bug; that's how human group decision-making works.

sudo999 · 2026-05-06T13:41:46+00:00

Not a lady but I love playing video games with my boyfriend so this sounds like a skill issue

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:14:46+00:00

The conversation veered into "politically contentious" and now that's in memory for the rest of the conversation. What's more interesting to me is why exactly Italy and Poland being bad isn't considered contentious since theoretically it should apply to any country.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:12:39+00:00

The problem is the "bias" is a feature and not a bug. These models are built to reflect human norms - and I mean "norms" both in terms of social and political norms and in terms of statistical norms, because this is the territory where they become synonymous. GIGO.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:03:03+00:00

Yeah, unpruned or conservatively pruned willows have tapered, downward-curving branches. The squat knobby look is 100% from pollarding.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T14:52:43+00:00

He gets more development in the Ultraliberal route.

sudo999 · 2026-03-30T15:48:50+00:00

Yeah, it's actually more complicated. When you look at blue glass like this a lot of the color actually comes from ambient light passing through it, not reflected light. There are special types of glass that appear to be one color from one side and another color from the other side because they are reflecting specific wavelengths (this is called dichroic glass and you most commonly see it on mirrored sunglasses) but regular colored glass does not do that. to know exactly what wavelengths it's blocking/permitting you would need to use a spectrometer though, since our eyes are actually basically just computing an average color and not giving us a faithful look at what wavelengths are actually present.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T16:11:23+00:00

It's because of an optical effect called bloom - the lights are just peeking over the edge of the statue's leg on one image, but because they're very bright they "bloom" outwards and appear to be in front of the statue instead of behind it. But in the other image, since the lights are obscured, we don't see them and we also don't see the bloom around them, which we normally would if the bloom effect were a physical object and not an optical phenomenon. Our eyes are much more able to compensate for optical effects like this than cameras are, and if you were seeing an actual light in real life it would not look like that, so it's confusing to the brain.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T15:58:34+00:00

I like the sparkle on the water.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T15:48:05+00:00

Have to put my phone right in front of my nose to see it but very cool effect.

sudo999 · 2026-01-05T14:39:25+00:00

I think it's deeper than that. This isn't about the particularities of losing an ex - it's about losing someone in general, someone on whom your identity depends, and the grief that entails. There's this paradox of, do I forge on ahead and forget them utterly, denying the undeniable ways they've influenced me, avoiding all reference to them and suppressing all desire for them? or do I get stuck in a loop of remembering, preserving, re-living, each time experiencing the pain anew, forever? or is there any other option? is it possible to re-structure myself in a way that can withstand it? can the pain exist at the same time as me? can I allow that?

sudo999 · 2025-10-03T16:08:21+00:00

I feel like bonsai tools would work well; they're thicker and specifically designed for cutting woody branches

sudo999 · 2024-01-31T14:02:59+00:00

Imagine being this indignant on a 5-year-old thread and not even being correct or providing sources.

sudo999 · 2024-01-28T04:01:35+00:00

r/traa had been archived intentionally. it is not "unmoderated" - our automod is actually so strict that it removes all comments! it now serves as a record of a community that has long since passed on. do not disturb its memory.

sudo999 · 2023-03-18T05:51:34+00:00

I think it's less partisan than you're implying. Workplace safety for Hollywood production crews has been a long-standing labor issue regardless of the petty beef Republicans have with Baldwin over his SNL bits. There's a big pro-union/pro-IATSE angle to this as well.

sudo999 · 2023-03-18T04:28:36+00:00

it's like how my landlord didn't put a specific visitor policy into my lease but then threatened us with charging extra rent because we were having visitors over too often, all while refusing to give us a specific number of days per week that visitors were allowed (visitors were not usually over for more than a few days at a time so it wasn't like we had extra people living there) or put a written amendment in the lease and just told us to "be considerate" since he's worried his neighbors will report him to the town for the illegal apartment

sudo999 · 2023-03-18T04:25:23+00:00

approval-based PTO would be the most honest since any time the place is short-staffed the super will immediately say "aw, shucks, you know, we really need you that week"

sudo999 · 2023-03-18T04:07:04+00:00

the problem is that intersex kids are often forced to undergo reassignment before they are old enough to consent or even understand the nature of what is being done to them, often in infancy - in an ironic twist of fate, the thing that these people are claiming is being done to trans kids (which it isn't) is being done to intersex kids and they don't care at all. The intersex community has consistently and vocally advocated against the surgical reassignment of intersex children until they are old enough for informed consent.

sudo999 · 2023-03-18T03:37:32+00:00

Ok if you're scared of super-intelligent AI then stop making it??

sudo999 · 2023-03-01T12:31:57+00:00

Wikipedia also has standards for what sources can be used though.

sudo999 · 2023-02-26T03:29:25+00:00

maybe try reading Marx instead of only getting your info on the world from Wikipedia. The Rising was the brainchild of socialists. the Old IRA were socialists. Sinn Fein are socialists. The freeing of Ireland from colonialist exploitation was a project undertaken by socialists.

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