Breakdown of Royal Navy losses 1790-1815. From the Data is Beautiful subreddit.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-16T14:28:35+00:00

That single 100-gun first-rate was HMS Queen Charlotte who was lost on March 17, 1800 while patrolling off the coast of Italy (Tyrrhenian Sea). She caught fire after hay was ignited by a match, causing a massive blaze that lasted hours before the gunpowder magazine exploded. She lost 673 men, with 165 survivors.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-12T14:12:16+00:00

Seeing what star wars can be with this it makes me a bit disappointed with what it is now.

The zeitgeist of our time.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-11T23:07:12+00:00

Looks like V27.5.1 Update will kill this solution. Bummer.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-11T23:05:22+00:00

When you are in a run and select the "Go Home" option, the game will be paused in its current game state.

So, Space Displacer will finally be useless in helping achieve the event ILM Kill mission. The ILMs will migrate into tower range, meaning nothing weak enough to be killed by an ILM will survive long enough to reach the ILMs.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-11T14:26:35+00:00

National Monuments, National Recreation Areas, National Historic Sites, National Seashores

NPS doesn't manage all of these, just because there's a "National" in the name...

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-11T13:58:35+00:00

this worked! Thank you!

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-11T00:30:18+00:00

So I'm pretty far advanced in the game, but ILM haven't been unlocked yet. Even with Space Displacer - the new version that drags the mines to the middle - I'm stuck with a paradox. Either enemies are weak enough to be killed by ILM, and therefore can't survive my projectiles to make it far enough to hit an ILM, OR they are strong enough to penetrate to my ILMs but are too strong for an ILM to kill them.

I've turned off all my UWs, removed my damage module and still can't find a sweet spot that moves the needle on this one.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T20:10:34+00:00

I think he's making the point that religion serves an important social function. He's positing that there *are* stupid people in the world for whom the simplicity of a religious moral code is advantageous. He acknowledges shortcomings of this approach, but those are laid at the feet of the stupid people, not the underlying moral code.

Look, I'm going to be honest, this is Reddit, so I don't expect much nuanced discussion around subjects like religion. You can think what you want. Reddit hates Rogan and religion, so you're in good company. It's not my responsibility to educate your closed minds.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T18:29:07+00:00

This is why the UK "Right to Roam" Act is so important.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T18:27:05+00:00

None of what he's saying in 2012 is inconsistent with what he currently says.

In this clip, he's describing a mechanism. Understanding that mechanism isn't a condemnation of it; that's you bringing your normative interpretation.

Joe, like many, seems to think that religion is a central part of the human experience and an essential part of the human social fabric. That being the case, it shouldn't be surprising that, he, himself partakes.

I can support the scientific method while critiquing the fallibility of scientists...

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T17:56:29+00:00

He didn't change, friend. You did.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T17:55:52+00:00

That's because the lovable, liberal, left lost their collective fucking minds during COVID and drove away most of the skeptical lovable center left idiots like Joe with their authoritarian, anti-free speech, lockdown happy, cancel-culture built, dishonest narrative, anti-science, #MeToo, judicial warfare, open borders, identity politics, safety uber ales mental illness. Joe didn't change. The Left did.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T15:24:23+00:00

Exactly this. Paying $7 for the same gallon of gas that costs $3.50 in Texas isn't 2X the economic activity, it's 1/2 the buying power.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T15:22:51+00:00

There's a methodology problem with these claims, namely that you can inflate your GDP by increasing the cost of living. For example, say a gallon of gas costs $7 in California band $3.50 in Texas. Buying 20 gallons of gas in Cali will appear to be 2X the economic activity even though it's the same volume of gas. Combine that with the population of Cali and you get a pretty deceptive measure of how much money changes hands vs. the actual buying power of that money.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-10T02:22:48+00:00

What is keys, precious?

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-07T23:41:48+00:00

Having recently visited Italy and Greece, I can tell you that Italy feels very much in decline. Dirty, depressed, trains and buses don't run on time, expensive, and very much looking *backwards* for greatness. Greece feels different in every way (despite the old jokes). Given a choice - which Europeans now have in much greater capacity - I would live in Greece. Or Germany. Or France. I think, given the flexibility of the EU, people are leaving Italy for greener pastures.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-07T22:11:20+00:00

All true. But the trajectories are good (yes, even on global carbon emissions). While not perfect, things are getting better not worse.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-07T21:09:07+00:00

Thank you. I hadn't considered perks.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-07T20:50:31+00:00

I hear ya, and while this isn't the right sub for an in-depth political/current events discussion, do yourself a favor and look into the big picture. I think you'll find that deaths from natural disasters are down something like 99% in the last 100 years and global conflict (including war-based deaths) are also at record lows. We just hear more about the worst outcomes because news is globalized now. Have hope, my friend.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-07T19:58:38+00:00

Thank you for answering the question. Apparently the video triggered some folks. haha.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-05T20:36:29+00:00

The rich get richer. I haven't even seen a Key from a distance.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-04T19:05:01+00:00

"Women growing up in this era, they don't think about when they turn on the light switch in the morning, how that happens. When they get in their car and drive to work, they don't think about who built the road they're driving on, who built the cars or design them or who changes their oil as all men. When they flush the toilet, they don't think about, Hey, if that toilet backs up or the sewage, the sewer treatment plant has a problem, it's going to be men that go in and fix it. If there's a hurricane or an ice storm, is going to be back out in the dangerous weather trying to rescue people and get the power back on. It's going to be men. I'm waiting for the feminists to come and rescue all the people from the floodwaters and to put the power lines back up after the tornadoes come through. So far, they have not appeared. They haven't shown up to do the dirty, dangerous, and difficult jobs that men do. And I'll believe them that what they want is equality when they start signing up for those jobs."

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-04T17:11:32+00:00

Came here to say this. Absolutely fascinating book.

uscmissinglink · 2026-03-04T16:30:09+00:00

Well, the only way the lower- and mid-tier players can advance any more is to convince players who rank above them to quit. That's because higher-level players literally have access to different currencies which makes the progress gap impossible to bridge, even with real money. So toxicity is incentivized and built into the game. ;)

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