“The electricity running through the wires in your house is supposed to go back and forth at a certain speed, either 60 or 50 times per second depending on where you are in the world.
But nowadays, we have a lot of fancy gadgets that mess with the flow of electricity by turning it on and off super fast. For example, a dimmer switch does this about 120 times per second to adjust the brightness of your light bulbs. Even those energy-saving light bulbs, known as CFLs, switch on and off at least 20,000 times per second to save power.
But here’s the thing: messing around with electricity like this creates something called “Dirty Electricity.”
This means that instead of sticking to the usual 50-60 Hz range, the electricity now emits a bunch of EMFs at intermediate frequencies ranging from 300 Hz to 10 MHz.”
“>game is supposed to be relaxing
>includes a time and energy limit encouraging the player to optimize their day
>timegates content behind seasons creating a sense of urgency”
“Get a timestop mod, makes you realize that the game depends heavily on its game loop to keep you engaged (e.g., it only saves when you sleep at the end of the day, but the start of the day is the most dopamine-rewarding time), and enforcing that loop through the time limits. Instead of “one more turn”, it becomes “on more day”, and before you know it you’ve sat there for 8 hours playing this stupid farming game.”
“stardew valley is the least relaxing harvest moon clone i’ve ever played
fishing and combat make it impossible to recommend this game ot a casual friend”
“>Woman’s feet severed by subway train after illegal alien boyfriend pushed her on the tracks
How??? I thought new york subways all had beefed up security?”
“the beefed up secutiry is actually to protect the invaders from American citizens.”
“Haiti was hilarious
>Kill all the white people and dress up in their clothes
>Kill all the mulattoes just for good measure
>Starve for the next 200 years
>Blame white people“
“Oh it went way further then that , Was listening to either a Geology or Astronomy pod cast . in the 1800’s France sent an expedition to study the transit of Venus . The Niggers had 10 different “Kingdoms” across the island all the Niggers giving themselves titles like Emperor, and King and Prince.
The french had to bribe them all about three times to get to some mountain. Then the “Emperor” kept demanding more bribes. They had brought Geologists to study the mountain ( that is why I can’t remember which podcast I heard it from . And when they packed up samples to send back to France. The niggers kill a ot of them to get the “Magic Rocks” that had magical Voo Doo powers . –why else would the White man want them.”
“It’s so wild that the exchange is:
“Shocking thing X is true. It’s observable. Here’s the cause.”
“OMG no, that cause is DEFINITELY wrong. That would mean that shocking thing X would have to be the case.”
“Here’s the observations of X”
out-loud superliminal dissonance”
“>US Premier League star’s ex-girlfriend, 22, is left fighting for life after being dragged under a car for two blocks in horror hit-and-run while hiding from terrifying shootout in St. Louis
Tea drinking bros, your response?”
“what was she doing in that neighborhood?”
“That’s exactly what I was wondering. Weird as hell place for some random 10/10 white girl to be at. It’s like a Polar bear in the middle of a desert.”
“her boyfriend was probably asking the same question
notice it says ‘ex-boyfriend'”
“The worst part of all this is she was browbeaten into submission instead of standing with the flag she planted. These are the exact sorts of retards you strive to filter from your audience as fast as possible. They’re highly emotional and don’t know anything about the world making them ticking timebombs before they explode on you.
They are everything people say unicorns are.”
“One of my Dad’s older colleagues was a B-58 Pilot.
He said that to be on a B-58 crew, you had to be the absolute best of the best. The techs, pilots, navigators, etc. were all hand picked.
You were surrounded by guys who were “top of their class”. While it was impressive to work with others like that, he mentioned that it was damn near impossible to get promoted, not just in rank, but duties. Your file, while very impressive, is literally just the same as the others.
So he requested transfer to a B-52 unit, and within a two years he was a full bird colonel. His exact words “turns out it’s easy to get noticed when you’re surrounded by morons”.
When they retired the B-58, those guys were scattered around the USAF. Many of them found their way into the SR-71 cockpit. Over half of the SR-71 pilots were old hustler pilots.”
“A fun math problem: You have 500 pounds of cucumbers where 99% of the weight is from water. If you dehydrate each cucumber so they are 98% water, how heavy is the load of cucumbers now?”
“prime example of math problems that i genuinely cant get my head around. this is seperating the cucumber from the water as if theyre two different things, the “clean” way to think about this is kind of imagining 99% of the box TO BE water, and not cucumber. the weights seperate..
a normal person looks at this and goes well 500 pounds of cucumbers w 99% water in them weigh 500 pounds – you dry out 1% out of 99% so they weigh 1% less. naturally.
this is NOT what this fucking problem asks. and so the answer is “wrong”.
this problem asks “IMAGINE if you had 5 pounds of cucumber and somehow pumped 495 pounds of water into them, such as 99% of their weight is the water. and then you let as much water drain that now 98% of the total weight is water.”
now the answer is that 5 = 1/50th so 250 pounds
notice how thats utterly insane? like this problem would be straightforward if you seperate the weights and do not use “water filled” cucumbers, the entire confusion lies in the assumption that the water is IN the cucumbers and they are WEIGHED TOGETHER like in real life. stupid.
water is famously not very compressible, how do you think a cucumber looks like if you pump 98*its natural weight of water into it?
the illustration is shit, the language is shit, the problem is deliberately confusing and everyone would get it right first try if it wasnt. poop
oh hey googled a fair point that 95g water + 5g cucumber hull makes 100g of cucumber
which still means that you would need to inflate even cucumbers to approximately 5 times their original size before the illustration makes sense and everyone would surely get the problem right\:”
“oh hey it’s pancake’s favorite aircraft
“For night reconnaissance, the XF-12 had a belly hold which accommodated 18 high-intensity photo-flash bombs to be ejected over the target.”
lmao
fantastic”
“The engine nacelles were very well designed, the sort of logical sense that makes you wonder if everyone else was just stupid for not realizing the same things and doing it in everything.”
“this doesnt appear in the video or wiki. only thing i can see is it’s abnormally long.”
“In a lot of design approaches there is a trade-off between more air for engine cooling and less aerodynamic drag. If you look at big high power radials like the B-29s, thunderbolts, or hellcats, for example, you can see a lot of frontal area with basically zero bank angle, while racing planes modified to fly quickly for short stretches of time will have big nose cones to part the air more smoothly
Republic squared that circle in the rainbow by offsetting air intakes for radiators to the leading edge of the wing, and using impellers in the nacelle itself to draw air through the housing, allowing for a smaller and smoother profile for low drag, and having the additional benefit of proving a bonus of further thrust at the same time from the heat transfer.
“Its wing had a straight taper with a high aspect ratio for maximum efficiency and squared tips. The engines used a sliding cowl to facilitate engine cooling instead of cowling flaps, which caused too much drag. There was also a two-stage impeller fan directly behind the propeller hub. These refinements allowed the engines to be tightly cowled for aerodynamic efficiency, while still keeping the engines adequately cooled. When the sliding cowl ring was closed during flight, the cooling air was ducted through the nacelle to the rear exhaust orifice increasing thrust, rather than adding drag as is usually the case.
Air for engine intakes, oil coolers and intercoolers was drawn through the leading edge of each wing between the inboard and outboard engines. This reduced drag compared to using individual intakes for each component. In addition, because the air was taken from a high-pressure area at the front of the wing, this provided a ram air boost for increased power at high speeds, and more effective cooling of the oil and intercoolers. The intakes made up 25% of the total wingspan and were extensively wind tunnel tested. After being used, the air was ducted toward the rear of the nacelle, to provide thrust. The entire engine nacelle was nearly as long as a Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. Research showed that a force roughly equivalent to 250 hp (190 kW) was generated by each engine exhaust during high speed cruise while at altitude.[7] Each engine featured twin General Electric turbochargers at the rear of the nacelle and for brief bursts of additional power, water-methanol injection. “
see also meredith effect or lockheed blackbird nacelles for synchronicities”
“uhhhhh idgi. or this is proving slow. i want a picture…
oh i didnt misread
they actually just removed the leading edge for 25% of the wing
oh hey this is the page you took your text from too why didnt you just give the image too
uhh hmm. why wouldnt this be obvious. i feel like removing the leading edge is not obvious. that’s where you put the fuel after all.
“The new problem faced by designers in the 1930’s era was the incredible growth in power of aircraft engines, from something like 600 BHP to over 2000 BHP in the Schneider trophy racing seaplanes. Accompanying this power growth, was the need to remove waste heat: the power in the wasted heat was of the order of 25% of the power generated by the engine. Getting rid of this heat was not just wasteful, but slowed down the aeroplane due to drag in the radiator or, for air-cooled engines, in the cooling fins.
This was serious, but even more so, the drag of the cooling system was to some degree proportional to the aircraft airspeed, while the power to move the radiator/cooling fins through the air went with roughly with the square of the airspeed, if not the cube! Thus designers began to realise there may be a limit to the speed piston-engine aircraft could achieve, not due to lack of power or airframe drag , but to the drastic cooling requirements of the engine.”
“Meredith’s study of this cooling problem had two components. The first was that drag could
be reduced if the cooling air could be slowed before it reached the radiator/fins. The second was that the waste heat energy could be recovered and used to counter the drag.”
“Now being such a spaced out guy (I know this from the way he wrote RM1683), he saw no need to include a diagram of this system in his report. Not a really helpful way to communicate his ideas”
“Now here is the trick. This duct system does not willingly accompany the airplane. It has to be dragged along, firstly because it is part of the airplane, and secondly because effort was expended working against the viscosity of the air. This viscosity retards flow over the duct surfaces, in compressing the air, in forcing it through the radiator, even getting it out of the nozzle, when all the processes are done. But Meredith showed that the thrust extracted from the heated air could exceed the drag of the whole cooling system provided the airplane was flying at over 300 MPH.”
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
also synch: “For those who don’t know, Convair [B-58] pioneered variable inlet spikes. They’re recognized on the SR-71, but little did most know.””
“There’s a ton of room for conservatives in the yimby movement: we’re talking about a philosophy that largely centers around deregulating property laws, with the belief that the invisible hand of free-market capitalism will lead to better outcomes for everyday people”
“There’s absolutely no room in the urbanist movement for conservatives.
The fight for equitable, climate conscious cities, worker’s rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, wealth equality, and LGBTQ rights are all the same fight.
It’s the fight for our future.”
“Everything bagel liberalism is a cancer. When progressive activists get conservative politicians to agree w/ them on an issue, you know what that’s called? Winning. That these muppets would rather rebuke the support of unlikely allies than welcome it is insanely self-defeating.”
“Where are all the modern Einsteins, Bach’s, Da Vincis, Beethovens, Nietszches, Teslas?
Did the modern world just poison out all the greatest inventors and creators with porn, seed oils and video games?”
“This is so funny.
Putting complete civilisational decline – physical and metaphysical – down to porn, seed oils, and video games, is something only retarded health/masculinity twitter could come up with.”
“Paglia said real reason 30 years ago: da Vinci or Newton would have been heavily medicated by parents/school by age 11; closely related is dominant democratic “have a normal one” morality that enforces collectivist mediocrity and selflessness (with which many “dissidents” agree)”
“>25% of supply minted in last 6 months
and you’re still paying taxes”
“At this point. Taxes are just the legal way to make you more poor, just cause.”
“That’s all taxes are. Anyone who can’t see that needs another booster shot”
“This. There is no other explanation for me needing to fork over half my income to people who can and do just print as much money as they want, whenever they want.”
“Taxes as they exist now are for fighting inflation by taking money out of your hands while they print more to buy things from you, like your labor. The printed money would lose value otherwise.
Taxes under a fiat system (fiat systems are fine) are an inflationary control mechanism.
The real tax is the the inflation, but to make sure that the printed money doesn’t lose value as hard, you’re taxed so that YOU still value that money just as much, if not more, than before.
If they just printed money without taxes, they’d be devaluing the currency much faster and end up needing to print a bunch more to pay for whatever gay pride paint for jewish iron kippah missiles they’re buying. But then they’d end up with all this extra cash flying around and the working class would have more spending power and slack with which to breath, organize, and plan with. Also they fear an inflationary cycle but that just hurts them a lot more than the consumer/worker.”
“I’m an employer and when someone takes a year off of work and I ask them why it’s always for some neet excuse like:
>I had a kid
>I was sick
>The pandemic
Etc,etc,etc
All pathetic low-willed people like the dude OP posted about. That guy took a year off due to burnout. That’s what your supposed to do between the age of 18 and 19 retard.”
“Yep. Can’t show weakness. Work is not your family no matter how hard they scream it at you. You are now 80 years old in software engineering years, have not progressed to management likely for good reason (that’s how a recruiter will think of it), and are requesting more money than someone just as capable when you’ve already shown you can’t mentally handle what is essentially an entry level role. Bad candidate.”
“Not sure of his situation, but if a resume came on my desk and the guy recently took a year off for “mental health” then I would not look much longer.
Its not that he took a year off that bothers me, its the mental health bullshit. What does that tell me?
I’ve worked in tech and I have dealt with deadlines and stress. No doubt it can be a bit hard. But to need a fucking extended year off to fucking “recover” is total bullshit. Sorry man, you didn’t come off the Eastern front in WWII. You delivered an api to create a digital twin of a womans scarf. Suck it up and fuck off.
What happened to men? Jesus Christ. Take 2-3 weeks off and go to Hawaii and surf.”
“the impression I’m getting is that tech is full of low iq psychopaths that extrapolate wildly imaginative narratives from a couple data points to justify their entirely random decision-making process. no wonder the industry is tanking”
“>Latam Airlines: Fifty hurt as jet to NZ hit by ‘technical’ issue
It is happening again”
“>1 hour into the flight to auckland the plane lost power
>everything turned off
>lights, ife and the plane started to lose altitude quickly
>that’s why so many people got injured
t. chilean news, passengers finally arrived in santiago this afternoon
Idk what could cause everything to turn off midflight, I’m not an avgeek autist but the burger doj, new zealand and chilean flight authorities are on the case”
“It was Boeing. Since 2016 the FAA detected an issue where if the flight control modules have been turned on for 22 days they will turn off so the pilots must have been chilling when suddenly everything turned off, plane took a nose dive, they promptly rebooted the plane, everything turned on and regained control
If the plane decides to turn off by itself midflight then it’s a big fucking issue
Pic related Airworthiness Directive that states the issue”
“Remarkable and high-quality Swedish study:
If men win the lottery, they marry and have children.
If women win the lottery, their fertility does not rise. (Indeed, low-income women get divorced.)
You might think more resources means more kids. Yes with men, not with women.”
“Entirely obvious result when you look at what men and women go about getting what they want
Men with more resources of any kind will use them to pursue what they want
Women with more resources will use them *to hold out for a better offer*”
“Female lottery winners will only settle for men who won the lottery twice”
“GUILD WARS WON IT FUCKING WON”
“I miss it so… bros… take me back to Kamadan…”
“I love it so much bros, but it’s been years since I last picked it up… I just wish someone continued the reverse engineering of the server…”
“official servers are still up though…”
“Yeah, but I don’t trust they’re going to always keep it goint, and I spent 5000+ hours on it.”
“Anet said in one newsletter that gw1 servers cost less than gw2 chat server”
“I heard about the gw1 costing a lot less, but not less than the fucking chat server, that’s amazing”
“GW2 is built like total shit its a wonder the game even functions”
“Yeah, and did you see how beautiful GW still is and how mediocre GW2 looks? Gw.dat is like 4 gigs while Gw2.dat is 52 GiB.”
“It’s clear to anyone with a brain who’s been following how fast AI has been developing that society is going to COMPLETELY change.
Yet, most normies are just brushing it off like their lives will just go on as normal. It’s the equivalent of boomers in the 80s and 90s saying “Computers? The Internet?! We’ve been using paper for thousands of years!”
It’s actually probably MORE extreme than that example. Anyone who grew up in the 90s knows how fast this shit progresses.”
“Normies dont know jack shit. They dont even know whats going on right in front of them.”
“>Bumble’s new CEO reconsiders dating app’s signature feature of women making the first move: ‘It feels like a burden’
Is this men’s fault?”
“women don’t want to initiate anything. the entire dating app industry is a scam. open up the app and all you see are promotions to spend hundreds of dollars. its like india.”
“They all just message “hi” anyways, so the men still are sending the actual opener regardless.”
“There’s got to be 100 males to 1 female ratio right now on dating apps.
Women Are Quitting Dating Because It’s a Hellscape Out There
>For as long as people have been promoting marriage, they have also been observing that a good man is hard to find. (See: William Julius Wilson or early Nora Ephron.) But what was once dismissed as the complaint of picky women is now supported by a raft of data. The same pundits plugging marriage also bemoan the crisis among men and boys, what has come to be known as male drift — men turning away from college, dropping out of the work force or failing to look after their health. Ms. Kearney, for example, acknowledges that improving the economic position of men, especially those without college degrees, is an important step toward making them more attractive partners.
Also women now only use Facebook, Instagram, and those types of apps to meet people. They don’t use dating apps anymore and if you don’t have social media presence so they can screen you in order to imagine their life besides you, they will think you are a weird loner creep and ghost you”
“Dating apps open the door to women date strangers now women move to pre-screen strangers with Facebook/Instagram profiles.
Now Instagram accounts looks as CV for dating.”
“>studied hard
>Had a shit office job but make good money
>Have a son with wife at 25
>He is sever autist (you can’t detect severe autism during pregnacy)
>He is 9yo
>Can’t talk only makes weird noises
>Only play with baby toys
>He have to wear diapers because somedays he refuses to go to the bath
>Some days he becomes agresive and destroys the house
>He only sleeps 3-4h
>No sex with wife (sex drive goes to 0 when you don’t sleep a full night for years)
>Only fun thing of my life is playing some vidya in the bus to work
>Regret not being a comfy happy neet.”
“issue here is falling for the moderncuck 1.2 kids meme.
the truth is, a good fraction of kids arnt going to make it. having 4 kids all of which will exceed their parents is an exceedingly lucky draw.
sometimes you get snake eyes on the first roll. if you let that stop you, well enjoy your darwin award.
parenting is hard, ive got 3 and i can tell my boys autism is going to be a pretty big factor in his life even though hes just a few years old. the only way to do something about that is to have 9 more.”
“>A game has an attractive female character in it
>men like it
>????
I really want to know what terrible and atrocious things it supposedly leads to because it’s apparently become a taboo concept in the West.”
“a)Whore economic protectionism. Normal women look at Eve and say
>ha-ha she’s sexy!
Whores look at Eve and say
>oh no, i’m treated as a sex object! only “I” can treat myself as a sex object and only when “I” want! they’re stealing my job! My “agency”!!
b)Then you have trannies who are one neuronal connection away from murdering women, as they’re already molesting and harassing/beating them in bathrooms.
c)Then you have homosexuals who for some reason get a kick out of talking about how “weird” it is to like the character while they’re crossdressing on weekends.
d)Then you have numales whose strategy for life is “agree with women” as a means of getting laid and getting into women’s circles.
e)It might be just a marketing ploy to spam threads like these and rattle the cages and poke sticks through them.
f)Days ago one shitposter admitted to be from Vietnam so some of it is just asians shitting on other asians because of racial issues(there’s a serious hatred against especially k-pop stars and Eve somewhat looks like them).
g)It could be just trolls who get a kick out of pretending to be someone else
h)something else i haven’t thought about or haven’t seen
i)most of it is leftists who think they come to dab on “le incelz” by copy pasting shit from their circlejerk forums where they bitch about sexy women in games because. . .of inferiority complexes? jealousy? hatred of men? You can tell they’re leftists because they talk completely different from what usual posters talk like and they have feminist viewpoints and knowledge that comes out without them realizing it lights them up like an airport landing strip
That’s all i’ve managed to identify until now, it could be other groups but mostly likely it’s a combination of all of the above.”
“a)Real women are women you don’t want to look at twice
b)”Nudity” is when the woman isn’t repulsive.
These are the two laws of internet feminism these day.”
“Has there been a bigger case of touch grass in recent gaming history? Like nigga just go look at porn. Plenty of blender shit 100x better than that.”
“Porn = raw lust, no opportunity to connect with characters, only sex. No imagination involved.
Erotic game characters = I can imagine they love me.
Sexy fictional characters are a nuanced wank filled with enriching pathos. Porn is just brutalistic nonsense.”
“I always laugh when I see someone supporting hardcore pornography (which really does reduce women into nothing more than objects) vs. games where sexy women are not only powerful, but active in stories and gameplay in a way that they are not (and cannot be) in a pornographic setting.
In porn, there are no characters. No stories, no connection to the women. They are just holes.
“You like Cammy? You’re a sexist who hates women and reduces them into objects of lust. Go look at porn instead.”
Despicable shitbrained people.”
“>touch grass incels
>but also watch young girls and women being sexually abused and raped on camera
One of these things is not like the others.”
“I had a friend who’s life began falling apart after he failed out of college.
>It began after he spent two years as little more than a bum in seattle
>By the time he’d returned, the (admittedly already there) narcissistic parts of his personality had consumed him
>He was no longer willing to humor any conversation topics that weren’t either about him, or his favorite breadtuber’s take on whatever pop leftist “issue” was popular at that time
>then began his incel arc
>Became a hard male feminist, would always seek out women at our parties to tell them how much of an ally he was
>They eventually all asked that we stop inviting them to parties he was at, or vice versa
>When he ran out of women to make uncomfortable, he moved on to the men
>Then began his pornography arc
>A new topic entered his collection: porn
>How horny he was, his much he consumed it
>He spent $90 on an untranslated yaoi hentai comic he couldn’t even read
>Everyone had a story of him inviting them over to his house, and then him freaking out because he realized he left furry porn open on his computer
>Then it all came to a head when someone found him on tinder: wearing a wig and using his gamertag as his name
>He freaked out, and since everyone was pretty tired of him by then, we all just blocked him and moved on.
And then I told myself for years he was the outlier among troons, but now I see I was wrong. Thanks for reading my blog.”
“Once it is no longer permissible to discriminate, for police to make distinctions re: who is suspicious or dangerous, only path forward is to treat everyone as a potential criminal. The application of “equity” principle to law enforcement necessitates a police state.”
“mesmer in gw1 was the most unique mage I’ve ever seen in all of videogames, you could do absolutely insane shit with it, from making people kill themselves if they did anything or stood still, to making them barely able to move, damaging them based on energy left and energy you stole, interrupting their every move and action, it was THE class that defined arenanet and guild wars, the class that was about timing and key ability use
then comes gw2 and you are just a fucking naruto retard spamming clones and being an utility bot for retards”
“>stealing energy
>stealing skills
>adding cool downs
>disabling skills
>interrupts
>interrupts
>interrupts
>hexes that punish literally everything
>only class that gets to deal chaos damage
Mesmers were very special”
“The problem isn’t porn you dumb nigger, the problem is women are low value. ALL women. The world used to work like this: Women were a valuable thing, they were THE goal. Now they’re like an STD or something, like one that doesn’t go away. This broke the social economy. It’s fucking simple. Retards used to kill eachother for the chance to climb down a mine shaft for like 10 cents a week for a CHANCE to meet the girl and put a baby in her. The female diaspora is literally satanic now and men know it. Why would I break my back for some evil bitch thats gunna share my apple with the snake and get ME tossed out of paradise? No.. Just no… and fuck off.”
“This kind of rhetoric is deeply concerning. Russia and now China have the power – whether we like it or not – to obliterate us. Therefore any conflict with them – God forbid – must be limited for it to be sane. This means they must see a palatable exit to end and limit a war.”
“This line of reasoning is flawed by the arrogant underlying premise that Russia and China – rather than the United States – would be the ones looking for “a palatable exit to end and limit a war,” and would be rattling the nuclear saber to stave off defeat via conventional means.”
“>play guild wars 1 pre searing demo as a kid
>become absolutely enamoured with the world, wondering if I’ll ever get to explore it
>fast forward a few years I finally get my own pc
>go buy guild wars at gamestop but it looks “different”
>find out I bought the “factions” expansion and if I want to go back to comfy ascalon I need to get propechies
>play the shit out of factions seething because im missing some skills
>then start seeing people with fucking schytes running around and transforming into literal human gods and being near unkillable
>”wtf are you”
>”dervish, new expansion profession :D”
>rush to get nightfall and order propechies too
>play all campaigns, meet friends that I still talk to today in 2024 eons later and play for years and years
gw1 will always hold a special place in my heart, I wish it was nostalgia but I play a bit of it every now and then and it still feels amazing”
“I had the exact same story as you, lel.
>Play the free demo, take a break, then later decide to get the game
>order GW online, have no idea what I’m doing
>this is definitely not the GW I played in the free demo
>Well fuck it, I paid for it might as well enjoy it
>Oh shit, I love it, but fuck me I wish I had vigorous spirit
I still think I missed out by not playing Prophecies in its heyday, but I ended up enjoying Factions a lot, playing AB every fucking day for hours on end. I saw some absolutely ludicrous shit in those games like a single necromancer with an army of minions and minion bonding spells redirecting half of the AB damage away from himself and being essentially immortal because no one knew how the fuck to strip his protections from him. And touchers, everywhere.”
“I have not so funny memories about GW1. In Russia we didn’t have good internet until late 2000s (outside of Moscow). It was the one where you pay for each mb and have traffic limit per month + double mb price over the limit. I was PC illiterate. Now imagine GW1 trial you get from gaming magazine disk. Do you remember one of the unique feature of GW1 – you don’t need to install game because it download each location while you play. Now imagine this bill.”
“Putin: Soberly discusses Russian nuclear policy because he was asked about it. Expresses confidence in Russian capabilities but confirms the nuclear status quo will remain.
Western Politicians and Journalists: HE’S THREATENING US WITH NUCLEAR ATTACK HE’S AN INSANE WARMONGER!!!”
“>Time to stop using term ‘long Covid’ as symptoms are no worse than those after flu, study finds
True, strictly speaking, but what they are actually referring to by “long-covid” is vaxx injury. So libs, whose whole identity is built around trusting experts, are told their real (though misidentified) symptoms don’t exist.
God-tier gaslighting. They are breaking these people”
“Little reminder that a group of Stacy’s are literally every HR department of every medium to large size company. They just flip through applications like they do Tinder and gossip about the applicants. “Omg Stacy look at this creep. He has the qualifications but I can’t work with a guy like that in the same building haha, just no haha””
“can somebody explain it to me like a retard, what is the advantage of buying a house? i ran some numbers and if i put my savings in right now to buy and rent a flat, best case scenario i would have to wait 20 years to make a profit as compared to just not doing and keep accumulating my savings instead.
i get that after that it climbs pretty hard, because at 30 years i would be 80k ahead already if i bought the house compared to the scenario of just saving all my money, but thats’ after spending 30 years renting and maintaining a house and dealing with lots of shit, i’m not sure it’s worth it”
“Just my 2 cents but, it’s been a great investment in most of the developed world for quite a few decades now, due to low interest rates making money, well worth less so “real” estate is actually a very real asset. But now it has pumped, or been pumped rather beyond all reasonable valuations. However rents have risen far above wages in many places so owning, even with these retarded values is still in some parts a better long term strategy. In the end of the day, it’s supply and demand, regulations and boomer unwillingness to build anything that doesn’t increase their own homes value or act as an investment instrument for them has hamstrung new building, at least in my country. That coupled with endless migration has created this nightmare scenario for young people trying to start their lives.
I could afford a down payment on a shitty apartment but it just doesn’t feel worth it to put so much money in something so overvalued IMO. So here I sit and wait, saving up, investing and gambling on crypto. Hoping the dam brakes and I get a opportunity to buy at a fair price.”
“rent only goes up and your mortgage will remain the same (which is beneficial if salaries move with inflation)”
““Hey I’ve got an idea. We’re always talking about good investments. What if we came up with the worst possible investment we can construct? What might that look like?”
Well, let’s see now (pulling out our lined yellow pad), let’s make a list. To be really terrible:
It should be not just an initial, but if we do it right, a relentlessly ongoing drain on the cash reserves of the owner.
It should be illiquid. We’ll make it something that takes weeks, no – wait – even better, months of time and effort to buy or sell.
It should be expensive to buy and sell. We’ll add very high transaction costs. Let’s say 5% commissions on the deal, coming and going.
It should be complex to buy or sell. That way we can ladle on lots of extra fees and reports and documents we can charge for.
It should generate low returns. Certainly no more than the inflation rate. Maybe a bit less.
It should be leveraged! Oh, oh this one is great! This is how we’ll get people to swallow those low returns! If the price goes up a little bit, leverage will magnify this and people will convince themselves it’s actually a good investment! Nah, don’t worry about it. Most will never even consider that leverage is also very high risk and could just as easily wipe them out.
It should be mortgaged! Another beauty of leverage. We can charge interest on the loans. Yep, and with just a little more effort we should easily be able to persuade people who buy this thing to borrow money against it more than once.
It should be unproductive. While we’re talking about interest, let’s be sure this investment we are creating never pays any. No dividends either, of course.
It should be immobile. If we can fix it to one geographical spot we can be sure at any given time only a tiny group of potential buyers for it will exist. Sometimes and in some places, none at all!
It should be something that locks its owner in one geographical area. That’ll limit their options and keep ’em docile for their employers!
It should be expensive. Ideally we’ll make it so expensive that it will represent a disproportionate percentage of a person’s net worth. Nothing like squeezing out diversification to increase risk!
It should be expensive to own, too! Let’s make sure this investment requires an endless parade of repairs and maintenance without which it will crumble into dust.
It should be fragile and easily damaged by weather, fire, vandalism and the like! Now we can add-on expensive insurance to cover these risks. Making sure, of course, that the bad things that are most likely to happen aren’t actually covered. Don’t worry, we’ll bury that in the fine print or maybe just charge extra for it.
It should be heavily taxed, too! Let’s get the Feds in on this. If it should go up in value, we’ll go ahead and tax that gain. If it goes down in value should we offer a balancing tax deduction on the loss like with other investments? Nah.
It should be taxed even more! Let’s not forget our state and local governments. Why wait till this investment is sold? Unlike other investments, let’s tax it each and every year. Oh, and let’s raise those taxes anytime it goes up in value. Lower them when it goes down? Don’t be silly.
It should be something you can never really own. Since we are going to give the government the power to tax this investment every year, “owning” it will be just like sharecropping. We’ll let them work it, maintain it, pay all the cost associated with it and, as long as they pay their annual rent (oops, I mean taxes) we’ll let ’em stay in it. Unless we decide we want it.
For that, we’ll make it subject to eminent domain. You know, in case we decide that instead of getting our rent (damn! I mean taxes) we’d rather just take it away from them.”
“I’m gonna sound real old for a second
I really miss Touhou days. When the community as whole was really creative and built a world on a community effort.
There is nothing like it these days, a lot of things are repeat or remake of previous glories.
creative things are supposed to be fun, I think people forgot about that. Nowadays on internet it’s all about algorithm, forcing engagements, monetization, pushing agenda, having a message…
I just want to go back to a simpler time when it was all about sharing hobbies.
when things didn’t really matter and the genuine fun that came out in such free environment.
oh it sucks to know that everyone will eventually forget about the good ol days and it will never be experienced again.”
“i’m reminded of how whenever i’d play yakuza or watch anime, people would do such silly things, and i thought it was just a quirk of the media; but then i went to japan and found out that japanese people really do be like that”
“The other day I started laughing in the store because I saw some vegan product called like “soy bites” and my deranged brain has rewired itself to think of soy as like a purely metaphysical concept so I had forgotten it was also an actual physical substance. Hilarious stuff to me
In my mind now it’s the same thing as seeing something called like “beta male beer” or so, always catches me off guard. “Soy sauce” is its own thing free of any etymology though
Also just now realized all the fake meat stuff that popped around during covid and everyone was reasonably worried about seems to be quietly gone from the shelves. Schwabslop sweeped under the rug”
“bros is it true that they are adding a battlepass to bedrock edition?”
“No.
That wouldn’t even work and battlepass is a dying structure anyway.”
“>and battlepass is a dying structure anyway
is it?”
“>doc decides to be a petty asshole and sell everything for sand to get revenge on the whole server for last season
>xisuma starts a competition for who can earn more diamonds with their shops, complete with trophies, knowing this is exactly the type of shit doc would normally obsess over
subtly and unexpectedly based”
“>doc buys out a person of his choice with his quarry diamonds, perhaps crashing the diamond economy with it as a sidequest (which he refrained from last season)
would be 100% deserved for USI bong #6274801 ie. cucksuma. can’t wait for him to be double petty and bitch about quarries next.”
“>Be me
>Live in small norf British town
>All security guards at local Morrisons are of African descent
>Literally blacker than the midnight sky
>Population of local blacks increases
>Can’t go shopping without seeing one stare at you like you don’t belong in this country
>Supermarket thefts skyrocket
>Few months ago, cameras installed at every self-service checkout
>Just last week, picrel gate installed at self service that only opens if you’ve bought your shopping
What did they mean by this?”
“>Shopping at grocery stores
>Not just having your groceries delivered by some contracted boomer through a delivery app
Op, are you a nigger? I literally haven’t set foot in a grocery store or shop in 5 years. I just order it on my Walmart app and some old fucker driving their shitty SUV delivers it to my front porch in an hour.”
“>I am contributing to how everything sucks now but I’m too retarded to realise so I think I’m based somehow.”
“Niggers are better than you, complacent infighting faggot
>Muh werks on mai mashin”
“>Game has some of the most wildly varied races ever added to any MMO
>Giga-jacked dragonkin who could tear (You) in half without breaking a sweat
>Short-and-pudgy little animal bastards who look dumb as hell while they’re slicing up your ankles
>Literal living statues housing ancient spirits from times long past
>Only race anyone remembers is the blatant lolibait”
“Same shit that kills every MMORPG getting shut down – not making enough money. If you look at their update history they clearly started catering to a certain crowd with gender-locked classes and shit.”
“Which is hilarious given how the localizers censored the Elins before the EN launch only to come crawling back for their money later.”
“MMOs have only ever been as good as the people playing them. The core selling point wasn’t really gameplay but rather interacting with other losers, nerds, and social outcasts. The gameplay was just a vehicle to have adventures with other people, like a sort of digital table top game. Hence why they fell off the face of the earth once normalfags started to infest the internet.”
“David said no. Open source is important. In fact MIT License Open Source is important. And we’re going to make Rails extraordinarily successful.
I remember pushing, saying Hey David, that’s not something you can just sort of decide. You can’t just decide something is going to be successful. That is like, an outcome. It requires luck and all these components.
And he said no, we can decide this.”
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