Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on tbh as a Canadian, I deplore the current US federal administration and basically the entire GOP, but I still admire the US Constitution and those who fight for it 1 day ago:
My dude, the US constitution specifically permits slavery.
- Comment on Day 763 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
The music is amazing as well
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 4 days ago:
Is stationeers actually done yet? Last time I played the best station was a single cube with as few features as possible.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 days ago:
It’s almost as if faster vehicles need to be kept away from vulnerable travellers… Hmmm…
- Comment on Team Car! 4 days ago:
Yeah I think the main problem isn’t the cyclists themselves, it’s that cyclists don’t have a safe place ride without getting ran over.
Meaning that, as usual, cars are the problem.
- Comment on Team Car! 4 days ago:
Dutch people: “both of those are dumb and dangerous”
- Comment on MORE PICTURES OF SPIDER-WOMAN! 6 days ago:
You can’t fire a freelancer…
- Comment on culture 1 week ago:
One man, one jar
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 1 week ago:
This plane definitely isn’t in Crimson Skies. Those all look way more WW2-style…
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 1 week ago:
Human nature rewards socializing up to the Dunbar number, eating, fucking, working as little as possible, and doing unspeakable violence to your distant neighbors and vulnerable peers.
Exactly. Human nature isn’t that much different from cat nature. It takes us tremendous effort to NOT follow human nature.
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 1 week ago:
Ah, now you’re thinking with guillotines.
- Comment on 'Sanctuary: Shattered Sun' Demo & Kickstarter 1 week ago:
Have they added control groups yet? It wasn’t in the demo when I played, and that was an immediate turn off for me.
- Comment on Anon dates a gymnast 1 week ago:
Mat, flex and still (rings).
Rhyming with “chill” is hard, especially if you did gymnastics in a non-english country.
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 1 week ago:
This is why we invented condoms.
The other two are a lot more difficult to do without damage or risk
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
Those AI datacenters are pretty much single use. If you want to use them for anything else, you need to strip out everything down to the concrete and power leads, and install a new set of equipment.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
I’m failing to see why you seem to be implying that low level exposure is dangerous then
I’m not?
I’m complaining about people who can only go “LNT bad, waaaah”. Put up something better to use.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
You get arrested for animal cruelty
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
Exactly! The model is wrong for low level, long term exposure. We know that, it’s not new or shocking. But there isn’t anything else, and you can make a decent argument there won’t be anything else either, so we’re kinda stuck with it.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
In part, yes, that’s where many of our chemical and exposure limits come from.
But got it right in one. You can’t expose a mouse to decades of low level radiation, because mice rarely live to be 3. And you can’t just use 10 times the radiation because that’s exactly what you want to research.
What we have is pretty much how we know LNT is wrong, because we don’t really see more health risks in people who live in naturally more radioactive areas. But you can’t really construct a proper model from that kind of data. If you want to use a model for tens of millions of people over decades, even the tiniest change can make it go from “no harm at all” to “tens of thousands of corpses”.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
Oh look, yet another person with an opinion on the LNT model for radiation exposure. As a safety professional, let me explain in really basic terms.
Everyone knows the model is pretty shit for long-term exposure to small doses. This isn’t news, and hasn’t been new for the past half century.
Similarly, we all know that chemical exposure levels are, for the most part, entirely bullshit. The exposure lengths are often based on 40 years of 40 hours a week, which is almost never true, and are even then very conservative.
The problem is that you can’t get accurate data. You can’t expose a couple of hundred people to hazardous conditions for decades, just to get better data. Everyone bitching about LNT for radiation or all sorts of chemical and biological exposure limits is overlooking one key detail.
We don’t have a better model. We can’t develop a better model in any remotely ethical way with current or near future technology either.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 2 weeks ago:
If you get into a pool with a cow, its not going to be nice to you either.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 2 weeks ago:
Shhhh, don’t correct them
- Comment on Africa is About to be Ravaged 2 weeks ago:
Don’t ask me how I know
I speculate you made it up
- Comment on Africa is About to be Ravaged 2 weeks ago:
Because then we can blame brown people, instead of considering maybe we shouldn’t pack a million animals into tiny crates
- Comment on When Citizens Say "No Kings": A New Democratic Renaissance? 2 weeks ago:
I challenge you on that—are you sure this is even AI art?
Yes.
The rest doesn’t matter.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
… Do you think she’s suffering from an ED to intentionally hurt others? Is she being mentally unwell at you?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I recently had someone from my reenactment group loudly call out “Damn Tar_Alcaran, I didn’t think you owned any makeup!” when I showed up in my normal clothes after work.
Uhhhh, thanks? Maybe…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Have you been to the living spaces of many male students? I can’t say I’ve dated a lot in uni, but let me summarize: living alone is only made easier by those things, it definitely doesn’t require it, and absolutely doesn’t require you being good at it.
Women aren’t excluded from this, but it’s more rare.
- Comment on Based arguments for solar 2 weeks ago:
Having a coal mine on my roof also doesn’t really work
- Comment on German Fokkers 3 weeks ago:
Good joke, but Fokker was Dutch, not German.