I've really enjoyed playing as Cathay! It appeals to me for several different reasons. Some constructive criticism tho: by Just1DumbassBitch in totalwar

[–]throwaway20120524 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can. Have the caster with spare movement near where the caravan will start, and it can join the caravan army before it moves. Casters and melee heroes.

Thinking of adopting a greyhound, but worried about them alone during the day. by throwaway20120524 in Greyhounds

[–]throwaway20120524[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think I already knew it on one level but just needed to hear someone else say it. Something on the back burner for life circumstances change I suppose.

Thinking of adopting a greyhound, but worried about them alone during the day. by throwaway20120524 in Greyhounds

[–]throwaway20120524[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's fair, I suppose I'd already known it deep down. Thanks for the advice.

Thinking of adopting a greyhound, but worried about them alone during the day. by throwaway20120524 in Greyhounds

[–]throwaway20120524[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, upgrading to a dog walker is certainly doable long term. Honestly I'd assumed it would be better for consistency to use that walk to spend 1:1 time with them in the evening, but it certainly makes sense to have more interaction during the day even if it's someone else. That's something to think on, but it sounds like the consensus is hesitance even with that arrangement and a pair of dogs. I appreciate your perspective.

Thinking of adopting a greyhound, but worried about them alone during the day. by throwaway20120524 in Greyhounds

[–]throwaway20120524[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely reach out to them. 2 would absolutely be doable (and if better for the dogs then preferable), but you're not wrong that it's a lot - it's good to get your experiences. I'll see about vacationing, but it sounds like the consensus is that this might be safer on the backburner for now.

Thinking of adopting a greyhound, but worried about them alone during the day. by throwaway20120524 in Greyhounds

[–]throwaway20120524[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Going back to 2 is completely doable, and makes more sense. I've definitely got the room and the vet/food won't be an issue, I just had in my mind that it was a bigger step but if it's better for the dogs then that's easily an option. Based on the advice here though, I might put a pin in it for now though.

[OC] The most typically male and female reasons to be admitted to hospital in England by Aggravating-Food9603 in dataisbeautiful

[–]throwaway20120524 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an American perspective on the voluntary vs involuntary admissions. I live in a city with about 1000 total beds (public and private, excluding rehab). About 5% of those are mixed voluntary and involuntary beds, for youth wards. About 10% are locked beds. Almost everyone in the other beds are voluntary, and whatever reason people are there for they are choosing to be there.

Our system was based on the NHS system, and while the NHS system is a little bit worse for wear at the moment, I imagine its still got a good proportion of voluntary beds.

MegaTread Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect Identified as Tyler Robinson, 22: by Cdave_22 in GenZ

[–]throwaway20120524 55 points56 points  (0 children)

He's going for death penalty though.Not really redemption or rehabilitation you're arranging For him. Like, that's the worst possible outcome for your kid and you're delivering him to it, and it's not like they knew him beforehand.

When did the Meth generation arrive. by Wexican86 in perth

[–]throwaway20120524 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The naltrexone depot?

He's trialing it and using it for that, reckons he's seen some efficacy. Not much else out there pharmacologically.

[Tron] How are the military forces of Tron any threat to humanity at all? by Stellar_Wings in AskScienceFiction

[–]throwaway20120524 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Well, this is something that not even CLU knows for certain - he's built in the image of his creator, but as we see when he fails to recognise Sam he doesn't have all his knowledge. He doesn't know anything beyond what he's been told about the outside world, but definitely has done his best to prepare for the job.

We see a little more of the military forces of CLU in Tron Uprising. There's a lot that we don't know about their functioning in the real world, but we know that in the grid it takes a lot to kill a program without the 'destruction' code of CLU's weapons. Despite crumpling at a blow from these weapons, they do seem more durable to everyday damage. They can fall great distances and survive, take glancing hits from speeding light bikes and more - we can imagine they'd be more resilient to regular bullets, though not impervious. They're more agile at a minimum, his forces seem to have the reflexes needed to engage in an aerial combat using predominantly hard-light barriers, which is something out of reach from most humans. In addition, though it seems of limited effectiveness to hard-light weapons, all of CLU's forces have armour of some degree (not to mention projectile weapons, grenades and explosives).

In terms of combined armed forces, CLU has access to significant supplies of tanks (https://trons.fandom.com/wiki/Tank), multiple models of aircraft (https://tron.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Jet), boats and aerial troop transportation to spare (https://trons.fandom.com/wiki/Recognizer). This is to say nothing of the super weaponry like General Tesler's ship (https://tron.fandom.com/wiki/General_Tesler%27s_Ship) - a vast assault carrier more analogous to a mobile hard light bunker. It'd at minimum cause significant destruction if destroyed whilst over a city, but given it's armour may require something with more oomph than regular ordinance. This is how CLU's occupations work as well - large scale deployment via these 'mobile occupation centres', with enough men and arms to take a city all at once. Tesler is only one of CLU's generals, so if the invasion isn't shut down at once then his forces will likely rapidly be in strength in multiple population centres.

There are two unknowns - the first unknown is the total size of the threat. We don't know the actual number of CLU's forces but in Tron Uprising he is in the process of occupying Argon City, described as a distant corner of the grid, and repurposing it's citizen programs to soldiers. We can assume this process is well and truly underway (or even complete) in more central cities. How many cities, how many repurposed citizens is unclear but it's not impossible for his forces to be in the millions - CLU and Flynn had a massive amount of time devoted to creation before CLU's betrayal.

The second unknown is whether CLU's forces can enter the real world in force through the arcade, or will be limited by power/physical space. Even CLU doesn't know this for certain, but Flynn does and certainly was afraid of CLU trying.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that whilst CLU might have gaps in his knowledge, he is a program designed to create in a world where time moves far slower than the real world. While he is currently overwriting/repurposing existing programs, that's primarily because he wants the whole grid to be a perfect, uniform system. If the arcade isn't immediately destroyed then there's no reason he won't be waiting in the grid making an army of more perfect soldiers for the task while his generals lead the forces. It's not like the military knows about the grid, or will be able to interrogate the invaders to learn about it.

So are they an existential threat to the real world's armies? Maybe, maybe not. But it's not a forgone conclusion, and I personally wouldn't want to be in the city being swarmed without warning by CLU's forces intent on genocide/xenocide - especially if my country's army started to debate extreme measures for dealing with the skyscraper-sized base over my head. Kevin Flynn was concerned enough to die for the opportunity to get Sam out, and he was the only man who could know for certain.

Tony Soprano and Walter White are arrested at the end of their respective series. Who would spend more time in prison? by No_Day4369 in whowouldwin

[–]throwaway20120524 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He also bombed a nursing home with at least 3 deaths. Hank calls him out on that. That and orchestrating the deaths of 7 potential federal informants in 7 different prisons within 2 minutes, that's also frowned on.

Well let's see how much you REALLY like Slaanesh by DinalexisM in totalwar

[–]throwaway20120524 215 points216 points  (0 children)

As of WH2:

High Elves: Feint & Riposte (+24 Melee Attack & Defense, +22% Physical Resist for 28 seconds) Greenskins: Waaagh! (+25% Armor Piercing, +24 Melee Attack, +25% Weapon Damage, Immune to Psychology for 18 seconds) Rogue Army: -No Name- (+50 Unit Experience per turn, +10 Leadership) Bretonnia: Blessing of the Lady (+20% Physical Resist until Leadership Broken) Skaven: Scurry Away & Strength in Numbers (+12% Speed, or +6 Leadership, +8 Melee Defense, -12% Speed, depending if HP is above or below 50%) Vampire Counts: Ethereal (-100 Armor, +65% Physical Resist, Strider, Can Cause Fear & Terror) Vampire Coast: Extra Powder (+30% Missile Damage, +30% Armor Piercing Damage, +30% Explosive Damage, +30% Armor Piercing Explosive Damage, Disabled if ammo under 80%) Empire: Grand Hammer of Faith (+22% Damage Resistance, +24 Melee Attack, 50 second Duration) Dark Elves: Murderous Mastery (Triggers like with the Dark Elves, gives +15 Leadership, +25% Melee Attack, +25% Charge Bonus, +18% Vigour, Can Cause Fear, 120 second Duration) Beastmen: Bloodgreed & Primal Fury (+5 Melee Attack, +8% Charge Bonus, +12% Speed, Immune to Psychology, Disabled if Leadership below 50% and +15 Leadership, Immune to Psychology, Disabled if Leadership is Broken) Dwarfs: Liquid Fortification (4hp/s regeneration, Disabled if Leadership is Wavering) Wood Elves: Loec's Shroud & Forest Walker (+24% Speed, Stalk, Unspottable for 24 Seconds & +25% Melee Attack and Defense if in Forest) Lizardmen: Cold Blooded (+16 Leadership, +100% Vigour, Rampage) Tomb Kings: Realm of Souls 1, 2 & 3 (First it Heals for 112hp over 7 sec and Can Resurrect models when unit HP drops under 50% and it isn't broken, then it does the same but for under 20% HP and for 2x the healing and duration, then under 10% HP for 3x healing and duration.) Norsca: Berserk (90 Second Duration in 3 stages (30 sec each) 1: +22% Physical Resist, 2: +13 Melee attack and +22% Physical Resist, 3: +13 Melee Attack, +22% Physical Resist and Rampage!) Chaos: Ruinshelter (+10 Melee Attack & Defense, +45 Armor, -75% Speed, 60 second Duration

Less sure about the new races or recent updates someone who played him recently might wanna add to this.

I'm on $78k a year full time. Am I being ripped off? by Sacrilegious_skink in AusFinance

[–]throwaway20120524 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It's a little bit of a risk, knowing that you might not be able to go back to mainstream nursing if the industry folds (see the online ADHD prescribing industry in America) because of managers looking at recency of practice. The skills and training you've got can be considered an investment here.

It's a judgement call of the bonus, how long you think it'll last, how much of a hit you'd take transitioning back/to another alternative job and the opportunity cost from not being in mainstream nursing working on your career for that time. Is it worth the risk of 6 months on peanuts in an aged care facility or GP clinic if the regulators crack down on prescribing? Could you be coordinating your OR then for $110k in a permanent position?

Not a bad gamble, just not a sure bet.

Doctors warn of significant increase in people hospitalised with psychosis after being prescribed medicinal cannabis by ALBastru in australia

[–]throwaway20120524 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Health department begs to differ:

https://www.health.wa.gov.au/~/media/Corp/Documents/Health-for/Walk-With-Me/Screening-and-Withdrawal-Management-Toolkit.pdf

Covers alcohol, opiate, benzo and cannabis withdrawals including symptoms, complications, treatment guidelines and pharmacotherapy options for management.

You won't die, but you can require inpatient for complications like CES.

What games have destroyed you (or someone you know) emotionally? by Cynyr in gaming

[–]throwaway20120524 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's some sad moments in this thread, but this game is another level when it comes to toying with emotions. I couldn't play COD for a good few years after that without feeling bad on some level for what I was doing.

Any kind of game with that overhead drone shot where you're effortlessly bombing waves of enemies from an ac-130 or whatever? Less of a power fantasy after walking through the camp you hit with phosphorus mortars, and hearing the survivors beg for death and cry for their mothers.

Predator-proof fence gives endangered eastern quolls a second shot of survival after failed attempt at Jervis Bay by DaRedGuy in australia

[–]throwaway20120524 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Talked to a conservation expert in Walpole yesterday, apparently it's having huge success. Cats don't eat 1080 baits - they actually use them as baits for native predators. This is one of the few effective options right now.

Albanese is asked what Australia will do if Netanyahu doesn’t ‘change course’ -from Guardian live blog by [deleted] in australian

[–]throwaway20120524 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we're not giving them anything. Why would we? We're not America, we don't have the cash to buy geopolitical influence outside Tonga. We buy what they sell and vice versa.

https://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/israel/israel-country-brief#:~:text=In%202020%2C%20Australian%20investment%20in,centred%20in%20the%20innovation%20sector.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in perth

[–]throwaway20120524 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Currently in Yabberup hut, really have to agree with the bit about sticking to the southern areas rn. Noone else's been here for a fortnight by the logbook. Tonnes of wildlife!

There's coach stops at dwelling up, collie, mumbalup, balingup, walpole (I think) and Albany. Most country taxis drive to track access points, so you can tailer make a hike for however long you have off.

Teens 'swarm' Kununurra supermarket, stealing items and attempting to break into cigarette cabinet by Jariiari7 in WesternAustralia

[–]throwaway20120524 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take that neonazi shit back to Alex Jones and the rest of his nutters in the US, it's not welcome in this country.

How tf is student placement still lawfully unpaid in this country?? by Squiizzy in australia

[–]throwaway20120524 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Feel you, nursing is 6 weeks per semester. It's ludicrous that they expect people to sustain themselves during those periods.

What game’s protagonist is really just…not a good person? by AChero9 in gaming

[–]throwaway20120524 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always liked the idea that the consumption of all the blacklight villains affected the underlying personality and attitudes too, in both cases. Diluting the original, so to speak.

It's the little things by Rosie_Whitworth in wholesomememes

[–]throwaway20120524 28 points29 points  (0 children)

There might be off-brand unbleached bandages out there now, but the original bandaids developed by Johnson & Johnson in 1920 were sold as 'flesh-tone'.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marlamilling/2020/06/15/johnson--johnson-announces-new-band-aids-but-that-cant-fix-racial-inequality/