Tar_alcaran
@Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I'm right and the other vegans are wrong 3 days ago:
Those extremists would be very upset if they could recognize reality
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 4 days ago:
They are the norm in most of europe.
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 week ago:
I’m not American, but I do work in safety, and the massive system failure after Katrina and how it only got worse since then is a pretty popular topic in the literature.
surely you still own the land and have permission to live on it? So worst case just stick a caravan there and live in that
The thing is, how? It’s kinda like homesteading at that point, but worse. Having a place to live isn’t about the square of dirt, it’s about all the stuff around it. You need food, water, power and plumbing. If all that is gone, you can’t really live there longterm. The kind of cascade failure is what makes the area worse than wilderness, because wilderness has at least some capacity to support people, where flattened suburbia doesn’t.
Here the majority of the cost is land that you have permission to live on.
Right, but that land is valuable for reasons. Some of those reasons might include facilities, access to roads and trains, the very appealing property that it doesn’t randomly flood, the community and other things.
And that’s the problem. You bought the plot, and the house, for say 500k. The house the gone, and the plot is in Schrodinger’s suburb, which is potentially valuable, but only if everyone rebuilds. And you already know they won’t, because even if you can afford it, not everyone can. And you can’t sell it, because who in their right mind would buy land that floods every few years?
- Comment on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis' 1 week ago:
Anyone working with AI-other-than-llm is now constantly getting weird looks and stupid comments from LLM bros
- Comment on 2027 gonna be like... 1 week ago:
I keep thinking that the next Katrina or Andrew or Helene scale hurricane is going to just make whatever part of the US it hits uninhabitable. Its going to be bad enough that nobody rebuilds in that area, and we have our first refugees.
It doesn’t even have to be THAT bad. People living in floodplanes are largely uninsurable in more and more of the US, and because it’s the US, there is no state-level fallback like more sensible places have. There is no real emergency aid anymore, since the conservatives have basically destroyed FEMA. There are no protective works anymore, because conservatives are stripping flood mitigation and resilient communities are now Woke and thus bad.
The US has never been less ready to deal with another big disaster, and the likelyhood of one is only increasing.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan 1 week ago:
“Friction” implies some form of challenge.
If you’re just putting literal speedbumbs in my way like random NPCs who have the magical ability to stop me and engage me in dialog, that’s not “friction” that just dumb.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
Managing a collection is not a data-entry job, it requires you to know about stuff. Which book on, say, the middle-saharan 17th century tribes do you get, and which ones don’t you get? Is the new one better than the old one? Which old works are to be digitized and which ones aren’t?
Also included is actually running the library itself, helping people use it (from little bobby who wants that book about a mole who wants to know who pooped on its head, to a PhD student researching said 17th century tribes and what art they produced). It includes copyright law, information ethics, conservation, etc etc etc.
It’s really much more broad than “Someone who works at the local library”
Source: me, someone who once worked at the local library, and seriously considered doing it for a living… untill I saw the effort required and the pay.
- Comment on Almost 38 & This Is Where I'm At Now 1 week ago:
Because most people who work at the library aren’t librarians. Librarians maintain and manage a collection, set up the database, etc etc.
- 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
The music is amazing as well
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if faster vehicles need to be kept away from vulnerable travellers… Hmmm…
- Comment on Team Car! 3 weeks 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! 3 weeks ago:
Dutch people: “both of those are dumb and dangerous”
- Comment on MORE PICTURES OF SPIDER-WOMAN! 3 weeks ago:
You can’t fire a freelancer…
- Comment on culture 3 weeks ago:
One man, one jar
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 3 weeks ago:
This plane definitely isn’t in Crimson Skies. Those all look way more WW2-style…
- Comment on Unregulated Capitalism would kill the planet. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks ago:
Ah, now you’re thinking with guillotines.
- Comment on 'Sanctuary: Shattered Sun' Demo & Kickstarter 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
You get arrested for animal cruelty
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 weeks ago:
Shhhh, don’t correct them