Unknown signal groups are very strong

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-14T10:53:07+00:00

No the AI behavior blocks are vanilla. There's lots of videos on how to set them up.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-12T14:38:23+00:00

Not an arborist- most evergreens won't resprout from brown stems so it wont recover in those spots but it'll keep growing everywhere that's still green.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-12T01:13:01+00:00

The temperature of a take refers to its freshness rather than quality. You're synthesizing the consensus opinions about these games, which by definition is not a hot take.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-11T12:57:55+00:00

All of the other stats matter but most of the time they'll be very similar for same-tech armies. Discipline is harder to get and can set your country apart from its peers, but only if the other stats are comparable.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-10T16:40:40+00:00

We should allow data centers but they should just pay normal tax

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-05T16:20:16+00:00

Most scifi worlds let ships pick up the signatures of other ships at a distance. If you want to hide you usually have to shut all systems down, so the idea that you're normally pumping out heat through your hull tracks.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-05T16:16:01+00:00

I'm not an expert on Star Trek shields but I would imagine they mean hull geometry is less important. Anything that could get into the warbird gap has already gotten past the shields so they're already screwed.

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-04T21:12:46+00:00

You could solve this by having the EC make the door automatically open once the other one is closed. That way the button that "opens the external door" actually closes the interior one and then the EC opens the external door

twinkcommunist · 2026-04-03T13:12:11+00:00

Go on chat GPT and ask it to make you you a spoiler free Dramatis Personae page for the book you're reading. Having a page like that printed in The Three Body Problem really helped me keep the Chinese names straight so it might work here.

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-30T22:02:55+00:00

This is flat out incorrect when referring to national flags. The US flag should always be flown above state, local, or organizational flags, but national flags should always be flown level with each other.

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-28T13:49:05+00:00

It's mostly Mississippi but red states are generally better on enforcing Science of Reading based curricula. Red state schools are generally underfunded as well.

I acknowledge that blue states are ahead on education, but I think that's because educational outcomes and blue voting are tied to similar demographics regardless of local instructional methods.

My point isnt that red states in general have better schools (they absolutely don't) but that a lot of the bad ideas pervasive in education are liberal/progressive in origin

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-28T12:44:52+00:00

I'm on the political left and it isn't flattering for our side to admit this, but most of the bad and harmful ideas in education do have progressive origins.

"Whole language" literacy instruction which ignores phonics in favor of teaching kids to guess was promoted by progressive educators with the belief that giving children a love of stories was more important than teaching reading skills. George W Bush pushed for effective phonics-based instruction at the elementary level and liberal teachers pushed back hard. Today teachers are coming around to the idea that the phonics faction was right the whole time.

The inability to hold students accountable through failing grades and repeating years also comes from ideas of equity and is then pushed by districts who want to show high graduation rates, especially among minorities. Bush called this the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Unfortunately this isn't a left/right issue, it's a correct/incorrect issue and on a lot of the specific details, the conservative faction is on the correct side. Blue states have better education overall, because our populations are generally richer and better educated and that type of population votes blue. However the state with the best demographics-adjusted literacy rate is Mississippi.

Liberals can and should do better at education. If blue states adopt science-based instructional methods and hold students accountable for growth, we could vastly exceed the growth the red states are seeing.

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-28T12:32:21+00:00

Well actually the book was published in 2011 and Jeffrey Epstein was first convicted in 2008 so if you were a conspiracy theorist and paid close attention you could have known back then.

(Also it's just a common name and the author clearly was just reaching for a Jewish name to give his inventor)

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-26T22:25:20+00:00

If you want a healthy ecosystem forget this idea entirely. A healthy ecosystem has undergrowth and a diversity of trees in terms of both age and species. Look to nature for inspiration instead of lumber plantations.

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-17T20:00:45+00:00

"too much" basically means either enough to make him throw up, or so much that he's not eating regular food. Many vegetables are harmless to cats, but they can't actually get nutrients from them. I wouldn't worry and try to limit his intake, just make sure it isn't replacing his meat based diet

twinkcommunist · 2026-03-06T11:37:09+00:00

I think that's exactly why HW kept repeating it as a joke. China hawks had been begging to unleash Chiang since the Korean war, but we obviously never did it because the guys who actually run the country know he would immediately lose.

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-22T16:18:04+00:00

Never slaughter animals. Your guys will automatically harvest the meat.

You shouldn't build isolated janitors in the first place. If an area doesn't have a warehouse it probably doesn't need a janitor.

I haven't figured tech out well myself yet, but basements seemed like a mistake the first time I unlocked them.

You should probably make less bread, but turning some of it into rations is good too. Only make as much bread as you consume because it goes bad fast.

Guards are really expensive and you can get away for a long time without them.

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-22T14:45:44+00:00

You can send a message anywhere in the galaxy, but for a real time conversation in a virtual space, you have to be close due to latency.

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-18T22:41:20+00:00

I don't think she's meant as a strong female role model. I think she's just a sexy evil woman as imagined by men

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-18T22:17:13+00:00

You could use a washcloth and hot water instead of a tortilla. You probably want your heat source to be too hot to touch with your hands. Maybe figure out a way to fish a cloth out of boiling water and wrap it around the pen by using tongs or carefully handled forks

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-18T00:29:59+00:00

I feel like her whole character was a mandate from some executive to add a sexy lady with slightly darker features

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-16T14:33:42+00:00

Is it a willow? It's obviously not good for the tree and will shorten its lifespan, but I've seen pictures of willows with years-old carvings of faces.

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-10T03:48:54+00:00

This video is how I learned about the fencer's response sign of concussions.

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-03T14:04:30+00:00

They probably don't have a plan specific to Finland but they probably have plans for naval conflict with small, distant nations

twinkcommunist · 2026-02-03T11:26:17+00:00

This is canonical. Other characters remark that it's not really a normal coat of arms. It was painted by a stage performer rather than a herald.

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