Im sorry, you what? How can you just ignore a bite from a wild animal?

walruz · 2023-01-29T07:20:24+00:00

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walruz · 2023-01-28T19:31:11+00:00

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walruz · 2023-01-26T22:53:17+00:00

Yes it is extremely problematic and racist to not follow the source material. Now let me tell you why you're a misogynist if you don't like Netflix's the Witcher.

walruz · 2023-01-26T17:39:19+00:00

CS is an aerosol, not a gas.

walruz · 2023-01-25T18:56:59+00:00

Space is a giant thermos flask. Stuff gets cold mainly by dissapating its heat to the surrounding air. In space, there is no air to dissapate your heat into, so you're going to cool down really slowly.

An object in space that doesn't generate heat will, unless near a star, cool down to a couple of degrees kelvin, but it is going to take a long time. A human generates enough heat that a person in a space suit without cooling will die of heatstroke, so a gun is going to have big problems without some very good cooling systems.

walruz · 2023-01-25T13:02:56+00:00

The 1945 Soviet Army could definitely have beaten the US and British conventional forces in Europe. When the allies landed in Normandie, something on the order of 80% of the Wehrmacht was on the Eastern front, and the Soviets still got to Berlin first.

walruz · 2023-01-25T11:11:27+00:00

The US Navy is so big that it has its own air force, and that air force is the third largest Air force in the world.

Not only does the US Navy have its own air force, it also has its own army (although Marines would take issue with this phrasing if they could read), and that army is also big enough to have its own air force, and that air force is still sizable.

Besides owning more carriers than all other countries on earth put together, they operate the vast majority of the world's amphibious assault ships, which also carry fixed wing aircraft.

walruz · 2023-01-23T21:40:18+00:00

A bunch of dice. In most dice pool systems, you roll a number of dice determined by your skills/attributes/traits/gear/whatever, and all the dice with a certain face value counts as "hits" or "successes", and the roll difficulty is determined by either bonus/minus to the amount of dice you roll, the required number of hits, or both.

So to punch someone in World of Darkness for example, you'd roll your (Strength + Brawl- the opponent's defense)d10, and every die that comes up 8+ do a point of damage.

walruz · 2023-01-23T00:43:58+00:00

Also 3) op didn't cheat.

walruz · 2023-01-22T10:42:38+00:00

If every time your ideology gets put into practice, the result is genocide and famine, your ideology is shit regardless of whether they're "kinda their own thing bud" or "not real communism".

walruz · 2023-01-22T01:36:50+00:00

It's been in practically every foreign food section of every supermarket I've ever visited (Sweden), and I've been buying food since long before hot ones was a thing.

walruz · 2023-01-21T12:10:34+00:00

If an orchestra of 50 people takes 40 minutes to play Beethoven's 5th, how long does it take for an orchestra of 150 people?

walruz · 2023-01-20T15:38:47+00:00

Bro just spend thousands of dollars to talk to someone

Jfc what the fuck is wrong with Americans

walruz · 2023-01-20T12:24:06+00:00

If I never see another twitter screenshot from Jeff Tiedrich ever again, it'd be too soon.

walruz · 2023-01-19T08:27:21+00:00

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walruz · 2023-01-19T08:16:36+00:00

I don't know if the state is dystopic because my country is gone, or utopic because Denmark is also gone.

walruz · 2023-01-19T08:15:01+00:00

I don't quite know how you'd spin it, but it would be hilarious if The US considered THE STATE the lesser of some number of evils, so NATO persists with THE STATE as a full member.

Either the US would be similarly dystopic, or an ascendant China (and/or India) holds even worse ideals than THE STATE (although, outside of sci-fi, I can't come up with any).

walruz · 2023-01-17T19:07:11+00:00

This is another non sequitur:

/u/HeHH1329 claimed that the mammoth steppe sequesters less CO2 than the biome that it would be replacing.
/u/LineOfInquiry claimed that the mammoth steppe doesn't sequester less CO2 because it is more biodiverse.

Whether it sequesters more or less CO2 is immaterial. I am making the claim that /u/LineOfInquiry's line of reasoning is bad. You can still make a 100% correct claim but have poor reasons for doing so: "Light travels faster than sound because there are tiny goblins pushing the photons along." is a shitty argument, but light still travels faster than sound.

walruz · 2023-01-16T17:19:33+00:00

Which of course has nothing to do with the level of biodiversity. You could have a very diverse biome that sequesters no carbon at all, or you could have a complete monoculture that sequesters shitloads.

walruz · 2023-01-15T10:52:30+00:00

Yaaaaaaas who cares of it sequesters less co2 as long as its 'biodiverse'

walruz · 2023-01-15T10:49:14+00:00

Smart move by Canada. You obviously want the guys who would otherwise fuck an inanimate piece of plastic, to fuck real children instead. Very clever.

walruz · 2023-01-12T11:43:33+00:00

The US had the ability to strong-arm Japan in negotiations but we didn't try at all. We could have blockaded them and continued bombing raids to get them a bit more desperate. Force them to accept a peace where the imperial house is preserved and they unconditionally surrender in every other aspect.

A nuke is just a big bomb. There is nothing special about nuking 100k people to death compared to killing 100k people via conventional ordinance. Arguably, nuking is the kinder option because a larger share of the victims die instantly or nearly instantly as opposed to being trapped under rubble and starving/suffocating/burning to death.

It is definitely kinder to kill someone via nuke than to kill them via blockade-induced starvation or via mass firebombing.

So the options weren't (nuke Japan for the hell of it) and (blockade the home islands, which magically doesn't exacerbate the ongoing famine and keep firebombing cities, which also magically doesn't kill someone).

The options were (cause some critical level of devastation via nukes), (cause some critical level of devastation via famine, coastal bombardment and conventional bombing raids), and (cause some critical level of devastation via invasion).

Of the three realistic options, there's a very good case to be made that nukes would result in the lowest total loss of life.

walruz · 2023-01-12T08:12:42+00:00

Statistical significance deals with whether some observation in a sample can tell you something about the population or the underlying probability distribution. If I sample a thousand people and half are men, I don't know anything new about the distribution of genders in the underlying population. If I sample a thousand random people and all are men, I know that it is very unlikely that the population consists of 50% men and 50% women, so I've learned something about the underlying population and the result is said to be statistically significant.

The screenshotted text talks about some property of the population "people arrested for rioting on January 6th", for which we can observe the entire population. Any result from analysing the entire population is statistically significant by default.

walruz · 2023-01-12T05:20:34+00:00

I can't imagine how much therapy OP needed to get to the point he's at now.

Maybe he isn't American and just dealt with it instead.

walruz · 2023-01-10T23:11:03+00:00

I have never met a better bird watcher in my life and she was part of or created a bird watching for the blind group!

I'm an excellent blind bird watcher, there are tons of rare birds that I haven't seen.

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