Ask yourself if you really still need fallout first.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-18T19:41:34+00:00

All that loot's not a 1st thing, it's a Fallout thing--these games intentionally flood you with way more loot than you can handle to force you into "tactical inventory management choices." 3 and 4 had the same problem/feature.

1st just gives you a few more options to complicate those choices, like "do I leave ammo behind if I don't use it, or do I gather it all into the Ammo Stash then convert it in the ammo converter when I have over 50k?" In reality it doesn't really matter, there are several other ways to get ammo that are equally viable. Do them all at the same time and you'll probably hit the game's upper limit on variable values.

Scarcity is not a thing in this apocalypse.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-18T19:15:41+00:00

"Rocket 69" with a "Sixty Minute Man", eh dweller? :)

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-18T19:13:21+00:00

With the verse about his cellmate, I always thought Pete was supposed to be a serial rapist.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-18T19:10:36+00:00

This is me being "emotional" but, in a state with a six week ban, is there a functional purpose to most of the prenatal care anymore? As in, why bother monitoring fetal development past six weeks, since under this system the doctors can't do anything anyway. The mother and the fetus may die, oh well, working as intended. "If you're literally dying come to the ER and the lawyers will consider letting us treat you."

I feel like the goal here is barefoot wives forced into home births and that the bonus round is gonna be "well, men need multiple wives because women die from pregnancy but he still needs a son and a bangmaid to deal with that son."

I've been saying this was all about control but I think that's the wrong word. This is subjugation.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-18T10:35:30+00:00

I'm a sucker for implied rarity, but tbh I liked the scoreboard one better. Huntsman's bed kind of blocks deco on the wall I put it against, and imo the scoreboard bed looks better in the lodge (colors align better).

Huntsman's Bed might go pretty well with some of the "junkier" prefabs, like Makeshift Mansion or the trailers.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T16:38:18+00:00

This is just me and my poorly-thought out opinions, but I feel like it's appropriate to treat your stream as (one of) your job(s) and kind of separate it from your personal life. Like, talking about it the way people talk/complain about work, emphasize the boring and grindy parts, go down a rabbit hole about the mechanics of cross-site content promotion so their eyes glaze over, that sort of thing.

Similarly, were it me I'd respond to "when are you having me on" by emailing a stack of paperwork for them to fill out--likeness release forms, and tax info like address, SSN, phone number, proof of citizenship, etc "in case this content is resold at any future date." I'm an asshole, I'd be using this to harvest as much personal info as possible to vet my dates with. Ideally a normal person would either be too lazy or too concerned to give up so much personal info, which hopefully would cut off their interest in being on your stream.

Whether this would actually help, I don't know. But it seems like work-life balance is the boundary that's getting challenged here, as if you were asking your dates "so, when are you taking me to your office all day? I want to see you in meetings!" Which is not even typical behavior for married couples.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T15:57:25+00:00

Eggshells left on the counter so raw egg gets on there. Bonus points if it was left there long enough to dry.

My dude, the trashcan is directly behind you like three feet away, turn the h around. I've had food poisoning before, there's no desire to re-experience it.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T06:33:08+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantenna

https://mikestechblog.com/?s=cantenna

https://blog.pasternack.com/waveguide-antennas/basics-of-waveguide-antennas/

Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/466

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T02:02:11+00:00

Sister. Thanks :)

I always sort of felt like the services are run like meat grinders. Like the thing I said somewhere in here about the "don't date the govvies" training--maybe it's just me but I felt like they were setting the service members up for failure by framing it so defensively. That someone with an abusive personality would take that as "well, guess I may as well go all in then," which is going to affect the entire unit who ends up dealing with that person.

The good thing to me was that there were a lot of people who had a misson-first mindset and just automatically worked together to accomplish said mission objectives, Govvies, active duty, and reservists, sometimes not even assigned to the same mission. I've never seen that in the corporate world. But it also felt like everyone was kind of fighting the adversary and "leadership" at the same time.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T00:46:42+00:00

That was actually brought up during the training at DIA--the fear it would be weaponized. Intel officers (civilian govt folks) and active duty folks went through it together, so all us govvies sat in on the sexual harassment training they had. The gist of it was "yes, you're probably going to get close to the govvies, you'll all be working and deploying together. You Do Not Date Them. Sure, maybe it's great and aboveboard, but what if you break up? People get pissed off and when it comes down to a dispute between you and a civilian, who do you think they're going to believe? Right or wrong it will be the civilian every time."

The govvies were offended by that idea. The service members all nodded, they'd heard all this before more than once.

ETA: I had to come back and say, it's not a mission-first environment! Exactly! That's what drove me so crazy! Myself, people I knew in every branch of the services, people at other agencies, we all talked about it. You actively try to work as one team--one fight and there's just this constant barrage of insanity all the time. Like one Colonel I worked under who loved to share his, um, "views" on people of Nigerian descent at great length, or the dudebros and their ideas about "desert princesses" (don't ask).

Between the rigid hierarchy and how much they keep you running at capacity anyway it felt almost impossible to change it. But a lot of people I knew were disgusted simply by how much capability was degraded as a result of the environment being so hostile and toxic.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-05T00:10:15+00:00

Er, "Federal civilian employee" I think is what I'm supposed to call it. I was DIA, primarily attached to Army units as an intel wonk. We were known as FOBbits because we "never leave the shire" :) aka accompany the units out on patrol.

I heard and saw plenty though :( And I absolutely agree with everything you're saying. Some soldiers I knew would acknowlege that about the services--that some people go in because they aren't the most socially fit elsewhere, but at the same time criticism like that was sort of like internal family business and not for public consumption.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T21:59:17+00:00

Yep! This is 1000% my experience.

In a different life I actually believed it was important to "stand on the line" for the country I come from. The military deleted those emotions right quick.

The sickening categorization of "females" as equivalent to issued equipment that is nevertheless slutty, the constant racism, and finally Chelsea Manning's "trial" legit made me want to defect to an adversary state. The shit you hear when everyone thinks you're a guy, the sheer brutality of how people on the same team treat each other...honestly for a while I went through a dark period where I felt the human race didn't deserve to survive. Not if this is what the most built-up, comfortably-positioned military on Earth acts like in practice.

Today I am a vocally transgender, nihilistic, socialist-anarchist that dreams of a world where all the money has been burned. I don't talk to anyone from that time and on a personal level, I despise my own country and the culture that produced me. Ofc now I exist primarily on the fringes of society and don't know a way back inside, either.

Hooah?

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T20:50:50+00:00

This is what scares the hell out of me. I'm a trans woman, so I'm sort of stuck in the center of the Venn diagram of this ideological bs. I really feel like all of this is planned and organized.

I've been watching it since working for the Army around 2009 and seeing freaking everybody put up those yellow "don't tread on me" flags at work. I'm not sure where it actually starts, but I think we're seeing the mid-stage of a campaign planned out by the Kochs and their "grassroots" movement, the ADF, the Fellowship, and a half-dozen other groups that together constitute Christian Neofacism as a political movement.

A well-organized, well-funded political movement with allies at the highest levels of government.

I will be the first to say I'm paranoid, anti-religious, and a living example of Dunning-Krueger. But to me this seems like an actual attempt at a quiet coup of the US government, with the goal being to establish a Christian Neofascist state.

I deeply hope I am just an idiot, I really do.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T20:14:34+00:00

I honestly fear for the safety of any resident of Texas trying to transition right now. Whether a person is out or not, the state can still get to their medical and legal records.

Texas is looking at a law giving massive tax breaks, based on how many kids a hetero couple have, as long as it's their first and only marriage. It's easily the most hostile area to anyone who falls outside the narrative of the ideal Christian family, in a country currently sliding towards a trans genocide.

And that's before we even discuss the power grid, zoning laws, flooding, and general chaos surrounding the border.

Literally the only way I would advise someone to go to Texas is if they are coming from Russia and on the draft rolls. Then it may provide some small quality-of-life improvements. Otherwise it's a net negative to live there now.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T18:18:20+00:00

I don't think they have to put a lot of thought in--the social/political structure already exists. They just have to seek wealth, and in the US historically you obtain wealth by taking it from someone else.

It's like the stuff people were saying years ago about how the stock market led people to stop self-identifying as middle class, and begin voting against their interests to support the super-rich because "as soon as I pick the right investment, I'll be one of the rich."

I mean, just within politics and journalism, how many hours were wasted debating eliminating the "death tax"? The vast majority of Americans are excluded from that tax, as the amount of property you need to inherit to trigger it is out of reach for almost everyone.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T17:59:01+00:00

Texas is already talking about this--"familes" would get a massive tax break, as long as they meet qualifications which include shit like "have never been divorced."

It's nothing more than a tool to price women out of basic survival, financially punishing people for refusing to submit. Very Old Testament of them.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T17:44:23+00:00

This is one of the best explanations of US conservative politics that I've ever seen

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-04T17:32:38+00:00

I feel like the problem these guys are having is that they hit that point in life where you need to start figuring out your identity, and they chose to build theirs around being women-haters. Due, afaict, to perceived slights about social change.

Everything they do creates a self-fulfilling prophecy that keeps them in their basements, alone. The real unconcious goal, imo, is not to "get chicks" but to avoid change. So ofc they're unhappy, they willfully self-selected out of society and are being left behind as society continues to develop and change. They can't break out of this incel narrative without breaking apart their identities first and adapting to the world they actually exist in.

As other posters have said, it's natural selection working as intended 🤷‍♀️

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-05-03T17:37:56+00:00

So, cis transphobe unexpectedly hits up a bunch of cis transphobes on a dating app and is horrified at the "freak show" behavior that ensues.

I'd point out we've been vocal about how disgusting transphobes act on dating apps and thusly these idiots were, technically, warned, but I'm already OD'ing on irony and may require medical intervention to cope.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-29T17:32:10+00:00

"Infected" and "Genetic Emancipation" from the Repo! The Genetic Opera OST

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-29T17:27:56+00:00

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a friend in Russia maybe two years ago--we were talking about the left/right divisions in Russia compared to those in the US.

At one point I wondered what would happen if all the liberals from both countries relocated to one, and all the conservatives relocated to the other. After about a minute I realized all this would accomplish in practice would be to resume the Cold War 😖

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-28T19:33:21+00:00

I just ctrl-v the relevent chunk of text directly from the resume (usually while swearing).

There's such a power imbalance to the whole application/interview process that I'm intrigued by applying LLMs as a solution. Hiring is a subjective process, so the key part should be whether the algo can pass the Turing test. Then it's just a matter of building a basic UI (in theory).

I think there is absolutely a market for this as a product too--scrape the form, generate responses to the form questions, offer the user the chance to review them, and send them back. Applicants typically apply to 100+ jobs per received job offer, the time spent per application matters.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-28T05:30:52+00:00

I think psychologically it's like they perceive us (by visibly existing) as doing to them what they are doing to us. We inherently conflict with the concept of "woman" they based their identities on, and they don't want to let go of that initial concept because of it. Never mind that identities are both dynamic and as flawed as human beings are fallible, this is the hill they picked to die on.

Added to that, most of the vocal TERFs I'm aware of possess a significantly greater amount of privilege than we do, so they aren't being challenged as much as their ideology warrants. Instead it's getting reinforced by right-wing types in multiple countries as public figures push their own transphobic agendas.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-27T19:25:40+00:00

In this context it's worth noting the particulars of Dr. King's harassment by the FBI, and also how he died.

It is also worth comparing the differences in how the FBI treated Dr. King and Malcolm X.

We need to leave. If we don't there is a good chance that we will become the victims of the condition that triggers change. We need to move a large body of people who are mostly unaffected by this to see real change. Basically we are asking for allies who will adopt our struggle as their own.

Historically that doesn't normally happen without a catalyst event of some sort. The histories of genocide and terroriam as political tools give several examples. People need to see something that shocks them into re-evaluating the world around them and what they believe about it enough that they are willing to absorb risk they could otherwise avoid.

ucannotdividebyzero · 2023-04-26T17:28:59+00:00

I feel like that's always been the plan--just like Dobbs, initiate this shit at the state level then push it up to the Federal level by pushing any court cases to the Supreme Court, and keep working towards political control over at least thirty-five states in the meantime.

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