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Oh, he has always been like that.
the need to tank balanced with the need for midriff
You genuinely think this person suggesting hitting things with an axe to test the safety of normal usage is being earnest, that this is a real suggestion that will help demonstrate something useful? _You_ need to try doing some thinking.
What kind of refuelling process are you doing that involves an axe, my dude? Anyway, it has been fun, but I think the joke has run its course.
While true, they had a TV show and the stunt experience to do it safely. Also they generally still had some hypothesis they were testing, so I still need you to say what that is.
Do you know what the round discs strapped to her head are? I don't really know whom else to ask.
I genuinely feel that the lack of direct communication is always a charming part of games. We never truly know what other people are thinking. Sometimes it's confusing, like when my partners decided I should fight the night 2 boss solo, for some reason. But it limits overt toxicity.
Just to be clear, "always" was an exaggeration, as I am not personally familiar with every lie ever told by every politician.
That is a good point. The purpose of my reply was merely to ensure that readers do not conclude that we think it isn't worth doing.
I'm not keen on banking on the person I'm electing having lied about what they want to do, but in a good way this time. It always goes in the other direction.
Those willing, by contrast, to trade away the rights and dignity of transgender people or the poor cannot be considered friends of democracy any more than those who were willing to countenance second-class status for blacks and Jews.
Then do it. "Fuck you; make me" should be the default choice for dealing with fascists. Of what use is pretending to have any administrative power if you're just going to do with it whatever fascists want, anyway?
I wonder where this occurred. The story doesn't mention. In some countries, that is theft, an act that, allow me to remind him, is subject to criminal liability.
He thought they had something special, but for Putin, it was just a Tuesday.
Sorry, this is going to have to be a case of someone using their words to say what they mean.
I was using the "following" tab on Twitter, so this works exactly how I was accustomed to. I know I'm not the only one who used it that way.
yo can you send it my way
Especially so for Democratic politicians like Newsom who have been doing so in order to try to court the mythical "centrists", who (or so they believe) don't want minorities to have rights.
He's self-described as "somewhere in between being a libertarian and a liberal", so he loves nothing about leftism or progressivism. What he most likely refers to here is protecting the rights of minorities, including but not limited to transgender people, a popular group to throw under the bus.
More seriously and darkly, the thing he probably hates being asked to do is protect the rights of minorities, for example, transgender people. He's self-described as "somewhere in between being a libertarian and a liberal", so he loves nothing about leftism or progressivism, despite his claim here.
Ah. There we go, that's probably what he was getting at. To paraphrase him, "Leftism is only unappealing to normal people (white men) if it includes trying to protect minorities."
(That is not to claim that Twitter was exactly left-leaning before Musk bought it, but it was not just a nazi site before then, certainly more neutral.)
Imgur was like that, but it's currently on its death bed due to a company buying and subsequently mismanaging it into irrelevancy. I'm not the only one to wonder whether it was deliberate, a quiet assassination of a left-leaning community rather than a flashy execution like Twitter.
If people have been desperately trying to avoid you, Bill, I don't think the fact that you post on Bluesky is the cause. You may want to look for other factors.
4) In contrast, federally-mandated rent control sounds promising, though considering the differing cost of living standards in different cities, I'm not sure how one would approach that. What are your thoughts?
3) It sounds like it's suggesting a federal takeover of a city housing authority, which is a bold and alarming suggestion. Am I understanding that right? I'm not sure I see the appeal. The federal govt is not in a position to understand what individual cities and neighborhoods need.
I like most of what I'm seeing, there. 4 notes. 1) The color scheme is painful to look at; I recommend subduing it a little. 2) Referring to the corporate centrist Democrats as "progressives" is confusing. Most of us use that word to refer to the leftists that oppose them (like you).
I think the point of what he's saying -- whether right or wrong -- is that leftism isn't unappealing, but something specific about how people in Bluesky talk about things is. But the post doesn't say what it is about that that's unappealing. Maybe it's how people point out his ties to Peter Thiel.
Oh, go on and tell me who embraces and thanks people who baselessly insult them. Is it you, dumbass? Lick my boot and prove yourself superior.
Do you think people around here don't criticize Democrats? It's easy to find examples to prove that wrong, but I want to be sure of what exactly you're claiming here before I put in the effort.
950 might be riskier to deal with than 230 in the way that 230 might be riskier than 55. Still, I doubt that it is difficult to find claims of electrical fires and harmful shocks in homes in any country. Worry not, the safety design has already been explained elsewhere.
Actually, the information I got elsewhere in the thread about how they are designed did that. I doubt seeing that it's a complex process would have helped with that.
I'd rather not do either. You may do so if you wish, though I don't see what that would be testing, exactly.
Can't find any, and that's pretty solid evidence that the approach to safety has been working.
Thing is, a shock of static electricity will hurt a bit, if it's a strong one. A shock from a power source that can maintain 950 V for more than a few microseconds is likely to be lethal. However, there has been good discussion elsewhere in this thread about the safety features of the chargers.
Whether and why refuelling a gasoline-powered vehicle is safe is irrelevant to the discussion of whether and why dealing with a 950 V electrical source is safe. I have seen been given the information I need to understand that the latter is safe. But comparisons to gas were not part of that at all.
People keep bringing up gasoline as if its ubiquity is somehow a gotcha. I am not particularly a fan of having that around. The politics of fossil fuels have so inundated discussion about power sources that you can't have a conversation about sources without it being perceived as a political attack.
Making comparisons to gasoline isn't really helping the case. Even if you demonstrated that gasoline is unsafe to handle, that does nothing to demonstrate that electricity _is_ safe to handle. [Not A] does not imply [B], because [A] and [B] have no relationship.
As in, a spark from static electricity? Shockingly (pun intended), I touch it before touching the nozzle to it. But again, there are no fumes built up (fuel tank necks have a valve at the end preventing that), so unless it has been leaking, nothing can happen.
Of course, in the face of the evidence of "there have been no incidents of shocks", I think it's reasonable to assume that they do, but I'm curious about whether there's (for now) regulation about it or they're just doing it out of, like, fear that people won't use their product.
Yeah, the problem is of course that I don't trust corporations to do it right, when they could do it wrong and let someone else pay for it with their life, as happens a lot. Knowing _what_ those safety measures are is vital. But come to think of it, how do we know all stations use those measures?
The information has been helpful. In retrospect, I should have phrased that as a question for safety information rather than sharing my reaction of not wanting to be anywhere near a thousand volts.
Fair enough, I have been perhaps overly spooked by _many_ stories over the years from electricians. And I'm risk averse. I shared my reaction rather than asking for information to temper that reaction; that was a mistake. As long as I'm touching only buttons and an unpowered cable, I'm satisfied.
If there's anything I trust less than safety standards enforced by a fascist government bent on dismantling any and all regulations, it's a corporation that has a financial incentive to invest _just_ barely enough into safety to maximize the profits versus wrongful death payouts. Like GM did.
If by "it" you mean my reply, you can see others in this conversation where I make it clear that I'm not a fan of gasoline pumps, either. Do not think that one must like one of electricity or gasoline and hate the other, with no other options.
Gasoline doesn't explode; it burns. Fumes explode, so I thought you were talking about fumes. I don't fill unsafe containers and try not to spill it. I'm still not happy about handling it and am not convinced it's "safe enough". Maybe I'm just weak. 🤷 Comparing V to gas doesn't make it look good.
I don't think you get gasoline fume _explosions_ at stations much because there's nowhere for a significant amount of fumes to build up. Don't go imagining I'm happy about handling gasoline, either, though.
I'm not sure what to make of that. I don't find an anecdote on Reddit any more convincing than an anecdote on Bluesky. That aside, there does seem to be a lack of any verifiable incidents.
They can, but they require an ignition source, and to my knowledge, there aren't enough fumes built up inside a tank to cause much damage to someone in the cabin...? Nevertheless, don't go imagining I'm _happy_ about carrying around that much gasoline.
I don't know where to find safety data, but that is a pretty convincing line of reasoning. It's hard to distinguish between a lack of news stories and a failure of search engines to find them. Holding my nose, I asked Copilot, which said it couldn't find any such news, either. So that's good.
Right, I'll let you know if and when that happens. Until then, think of how you can describe those layers of protection. Scientific communication to laymen is vitally important.
Maybe they ought to have some more. New Jersey requires station employees (at least _slightly_ trained in emergency procedures, I assume) to pump gasoline. That seems like a reasonable minimum.
As for the reliability, I'm sure you understand that an anecdote of "it never did that to _me_ before" is not exactly a scientific study. A lot of people haven't died from dangerous things, yet.
It's not paranoia, which is a baseless fear -- 950 V will kill you or make you wish it had if the unit is damaged and the power touches you -- and it's not performative, because I genuinely don't like that idea and am just telling you about it on social media.
And I know that for someone who likes the idea of electric vehicles -- and I do -- that sounds absurd or like propaganda, but I've heard enough about what even 480 V can do, and you see, I would like to live to see tomorrow.
I certainly don't. Seeing "950 Vdc" on that makes me prefer to keep my hands to myself. I don't think you could pay me to touch that without me first going through a 2 week course in handling high voltage lines.
That is the most widely-agreeable opinion. Personal use, like RP character art, is more contentious. Some people think it isn't really harmful; some think it is. There are a lot of low-experience artists who will take commissions. The results may not look *great*, but helping an artist grow is cool.
While I'm not an artist, I can share some posts from game developers that give a very good reason not to use AI-generated placeholders: it's too easy to forget to replace them later. bsky.app/profile/josh... bsky.app/profile/cott...
A note about using AI assets for placeholder art (ignoring my other, harsher thoughts about AI in general): Sucker Punch had a smart process for placeholder art that I adopted for my own projects: namely, it's important for temp art to be *so bad* that you *have to replace it before ship* 1/
I will forever die on the hill that stick figure/MS Paint placeholder art has tenfold more soul than any AI-generated graphic
I need to pound some hay myself. Let's have it later, when we're all fresh.
They could be murdering black people and battering homeless people, and THIS is what the PD considers a priority! Actually, good, let's keep threatening to color those crosswalks. I love it.
I'd summarize/rephrase it as... being complimentary and engaged but entirely faking it. Saying what the audience wants to hear without meaning it.
Maybe we _don't_ actually all agree on what it means, haha. Let's see... American Heritage dictionary says, > smarm: Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm. > smarmy: Excessively ingratiating or insincerely earnest. I'm not sure what I expected, but that isn't it.
Saw the mail carrier pull up on camera, so I instantly grabbed my box cutter and headed for the door. Funny how routine tasks translate to psychotic through text sometimes.
I hope you can find a way to make do without it.
imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter
This is a good question, so I'll quote it on the off chance anyone following has any ideas.
Has it really only been 2 years? It feels like it has been part of our lives for longer. Good ol' Balteus, who taught us not to fear the missile but to embrace it.
That is at least through the Buu arc, which is the last part I saw. On the other hand, he never repented of that, confronted those past choices, or wrestled with his conscience. His only sign of introspection was worry was that he had lost his edge. I'm not concluding you're wrong.
Yesish, but he was raised by an imperialist culture that taught him other beings were bugs to be exterminated on a whim. That kind of environment is hard to overcome. I don't recall him doing any murder after getting cut off from it (not counting justifiable cases and the Majin mind control).
I'm thinking more than economic response is appropriate.
That said, notifications are _supposedly_ working again, but I still had a reply that didn't have a notification. Maybe it's from before they were fixed, and the fix was not retroactive?
Something breaking on a Friday and not being fixed until after the weekend isn't _too_ surprising to me. I mean, it sucks, but it's not like it kills the site... except that, you're right, users are fed up with all the enshittification, so they very understandably have no patience left for this.
@newsfromgoogle.bsky.social @developers.google.com Tell them to put a stop to this. Nobody wants it. I'm one of the people who actually pays for YouTube Premium, and I don't want this. Cut it out.
excuse me this fucking rules
This thread has shown me that people are having passion and heated discussion on a topic I have never heard of before. I don't even know what a suburb or Chicagoland are, and this thread is my first time hearing the word "urbanist". Of course I can look up what those mean, but my point is, "wow".
I had that when I was a child, but it went somewhere else like 25 years ago.
Those people are not me literally, but they are me in spirit. Boy am I not great at this, yet. The inability to practice bosses repeatedly is kicking my ass.
the smile of a nurse who wants only to help
Well... it's not a thing I do. My imagination lacks kind of power even when I *try* to write characters. It's only me in here. To me, it sure looks like a special power, or possibly mental unwellness, depending upon just what you're doing with it.
Now, you can blame whomever you want -- the voters who won't compromise or the politicians who won't compromise (because they would be ostracized or killed) -- but they shall not band together. I don't see how they can ever win another presidential election.
And it's not because the party leadership is doing its best to keep progressives out (which they are) but rather because most of the voters are not progressive. Something like 30% of them are, and they feel such spite for liberals today that many will no longer compromise on certain issues.
The fact is that Russia and Israel set up a no-win scenario for the Democratic party. The election was a trap, and we still haven't found a way out. There is zero reason to think the party is any more united today or will be in 3 more years.
I never made the claim that they were the same. Indeed, I agree with you that the split in sentiment over Palestine doomed Harris's campaign. Just don't go thinking that it would have gone better had she changed her perspective. A lot *more* than millions very clearly supported Israel at the time.
Can you elaborate on that a little? I frankly have no idea where that's going. Trump was indeed elected instead of Clinton. That's not because the people who nominated her were secretly actually progressive but accidentally voted for the wrong person.
The game is cozy. The streams are cozy. I'm cozy.
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
The fact is that when primaries do happen, we keep choosing liberals. No, Sanders was not forced out. Clinton got so many votes that the unpledged delegates didn't even have to be counted. The people may support things in polls, but they don't *vote* for them, and that is what matters, not polls.
Oh dear, people might start to think you're in Texas.
That one image has been explained pretty well. There were a couple of others, but I concede that that's probably all they were.
The barrel contains the hundred pages of documents from Epstein's business that detail how Donald Trump repeatedly raped children.
I refer to a post that I saw with more than just the one image everyone knows about -- and it was specifically hand weirdness, not merely someone having trouble accepting the show's stylistic choices -- but of course I have no chance of finding it, now.
I've seen shots of missing/extra fingers being used as evidence, which was pretty convincing. If those were manually drawn, man... I'm not sure whether that makes this better or worse. Still, you make a good point.
I think their point is more that they want to stay on Twitter to help push back against it becoming a Nazi echo chamber, to keep providing other perspectives.
As much as I like Team Cherry's work, it would have been professionally courteous to give people more forewarning of their next game's release, so that other indie devs don't have to scramble to get out of the way or be forgotten in its shadow.
in emotional maturity, I suppose
The man pushed his character editor slider entirely from "self-awareness" to the "self-entitlement" end.
Too FromSoftware brained; read "AC" as "Armored Core". Stricter heat mechanics are more of a MechWarrior thing, but could they have a place in Armored Core, beyond individual weapon cooldowns?