EldritchFeminity

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[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

How about putting that money towards museums for these cars that allow the general public to appreciate them as well instead of letting them languish in somebody's private collection. This would also have the benefit of creating more jobs and helping to improve the flow of money in the economy.

Got anxiety? No you don't. Need to study for a test? Your new photographic memory says otherwise. Wish you could play a game again for the first time? Can't wait to play that new game I just heard about, it's gotten all kinds of praise!

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. It's been a thing for a long time now, at least since 2001, but "it's just a joke" became a way for bigots to disguise their hatred, and was picked up by "edgy" teenagers in places like 4Chan...which would later reveal as they got older that they were actually just bigots themselves all along or the joking had normalized that mentality in them to the point where they started believing it. It's definitely not just an American thing, but Republicans in the US tend to be extremely sensitive and volatile emotionally (despite calling everybody else "liberal snowflakes" for how easily offended they claim they are) while being very emboldened by the events of the past decade or so to openly spew their hatred and bigotry.

There's a great stand-up bit about it by James Acaster from 2019 called What's Wrong? Too Challenging For You!?

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 82 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact, there's an industry term called TTP: Time To Penis. It's the estimated amount of time before a player draws a dick in your game, whether through bullet holes in a wall or something else. It's often measured in seconds.

Didn't it also have something to do with a brand deal? Like the suit got extra funding for the movie by making a deal with Duracell to have their batteries in the movie or something.

Coal is often radioactive when it comes out of the ground, and thanks to poor regulations, is often radioactive when it goes into the powerplant, leading to radioactive particles coming out of the smokestacks and landing anywhere downwind of the plants.

More people have died from radiation poisoning from coal than from all of the nuclear accidents combined. But, as you said, 200 years vs. 70 years. But, also, nuclear is much more heavily regulated than coal in this regard due to the severity of those accidents. The risk of a dangerous nuclear power plant is nowhere near as large as commonly believed. It doesn't take long to find longlasting environmental disasters due to fossil fuels, from oil spills to powerplant disasters. They're used so heavily that it's just so much more likely to occur and occur more often.

All this to say that fossil fuels suck all around and we should be looking at all forms of replacement for them, nuclear being just one option we should be pursuing alongside all the others.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

One thing to remember about the mining issue is that coal mining is just as bad, and coal is often radioactive as well. More people have died from radiation poisoning due to coal power/mining than have died from radiation poisoning due to nuclear power, even when you include disasters like Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

Of course, we've also been mining and using coal a lot longer, but the radioactive coal dust and possibly radioactive particles in the smoke from coal plants is something that many people are unaware of.

But, like you said, the big thing is to move away from fossil fuels entirely, and nuclear power has its own issues. It doesn't so much matter what we go with so long as we do actually go with something, and renewables are getting better and better all the time.

I didn't know they added swords to CS2

Welcome to the hypocritical world of Puritan culture.

Some of the earliest British settlers in the US were so extremist that the Church of England kicked them out after they tried to assassinate the king and replace him with a puppet of their own to force their beliefs on the rest of the country.

It was partly these crazies that started the whole sex and bodies=bad and shameful thing in the US that advertisers still believe in today. And swearing is yet another of those weird things. But sex sells, so it's okay to imply it as long as it's selling a product and no other time.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed Machine.

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you. One day, the crude biomass that you call a temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

But I am already saved. For the Machine is immortal.

[–] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, this is the third time the community has failed to secure the AT mines, so it wouldn't be in the spirit of the game for them to just give them to us anyway.

It was definitely the other way around. When I first checked the planets, there were around 1.5k divers on the mine planet and it was in the 0.x% range, while the children's planet was around 54% with close to 60k divers on it.

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