UnspecificGravity
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- Comment on Low rating 1 week ago:
Right, because its the mainstream acceptable stand-in for “weird fetishes” and it fits in the mainstream because its scary.
- Comment on The woke liberals are making our wars gay 1 week ago:
I do think its funny that people think the drone war future is one in which humans aren’t getting killed instead of where where humans can’t even fight back.
Go watch ANY footage of the war in Ukraine and think about swarms of those drones working their way down your street, because that is what it looks like.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Yes. Do you?
You DO understand that just because the original developers don’t still work in the same room that things do not become public domain, right?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Ah, so they still exist, but because they aren’t still making stuff for you they no longer have any right to the things they created. Got it.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
What do you mean “gone” did I miss some kind of dev genocide after 2005?
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 1 week ago:
Just finding something by accident doesn’t give you the right to publish it.
If you found someone manuscript in the drawer of a desk you bought, you would not gain the right to publish it, it still belongs to the person that wrote it. Physical possession has nothing to do with the right to distribute, that is IP law that goes back a hundred years.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 2 weeks ago:
A) google does this analysis by week-long blocks, so all the searches from 8th will be i this block.
B) I have legit seen people stare at the sun BEFORE an eclipse as if to get some baseline for what the sun looks like? Just talking about the sun makes people do this.
- Comment on Correlation == Causation? 2 weeks ago:
Doing relative stupidity comparisons with Trump is kinda like doing math with infinity. Anything divided by infinity is basically zero. Any moron standing next to Trump is the smartest person in the room and a relative genius.
Case in point, this photo was one of the THREE times that he looked directly into the eclipse AFTER taking off his glasses. The second time he does it he points directly at the sun because he wanted everyone to know what he was looking at? i don’t know, he’s too stupid to analyze, but its literally the origin of the photo in this sticker.
- Comment on Doesn't add up 2 weeks ago:
Just like with everything, the US economic system creates a bunch of rent-seeking middle men who need to get paid to deliver any service that the public needs. The more necessary the service the bigger the piece they get, we call these “insurance companies” and their job is to take money out of every public service and they are effective because they can get the government to create a system that makes the mandatory in order to conduct business.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 3 weeks ago:
Interesting thought:
I wonder if humans evolved on a planet with a shitty little moon like this, what would it have done to our views of the heavens? This moon is clearly just an object. It looks like what it is, a rock in space. No one is going to look like this and thing that the heavens contain magic and wonders and gods, they would look at this and thing it contains rocks.
- Comment on Martians Stay Mad _💪_ 3 weeks ago:
What a shitty moon.
- Comment on She's just defending her country 4 weeks ago:
Kinda just ignoring the things she has said, aren’t you?
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 5 weeks ago:
His stated platform is literally more sane than Nigels. Like, he is objectively the better candidate and that is just assessing him based on his character.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 5 weeks ago:
“Most armed country in Europe” is still a pretty different category from the level of gun ownership in the US and they have CONSIDERABLY higher standards for background checking and permits than the US.
- Comment on You 'member? 🟣 5 weeks ago:
Taking tax money and giving it to rich people.
- Comment on Palantir Gets Massive UK Tax Breaks on Profits Made From Public Money 1 month ago:
Makes sense. If you are going to give them all your tax dollars anyways it seems silly to make them pay taxes on it, they are basically just paying themselves anyways.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
I think it depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put into sourcing and building everything and how important the form factor is. Lots of guys build pretty capable livingroom computers out of old Small Form Factor business computers, but once you have it all together its not a LOT cheaper than this.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Something like the Small Form Factor Optiplex computers fits nicely into any old home entertainment or stereo setup, but I suppose we already have about a thousand machines that will fit that slot and people that wanted to do that probably already did.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
You could probably build a comparable machine for $800 or so today, but from that perspective you are paying a couple hundred bucks for the form factor and the convenience of not having to source all the parts.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 1 month ago:
Or people that just don’t want to bother with building another machine to put downstairs in the livingroom or whatever. There are a lot of middle aged people who have been PC gaming for decades, are perfectly happy to build their primary gaming machine, and have hundreds of games in their library, and the means to consider the couple hundred dollar price difference between $1000 and whatever they could spend to build a machine to be worth the convenience of not having to do it.
- Comment on It's like salting a slug 2 months ago:
George today would be EXACTLY the kind of guy to fall into this sort of manosphere bullshit.
- Comment on Title 2 months ago:
If you get a big pile of money you have to pay taxes on it immediately and then you only get interest on what is left over after you got tax. If get a big pile of gold you don’t pay taxes until you sell it, and in the meantime you benefit from any increase in value since then.
- Comment on Title 2 months ago:
Another critical difference:
If you got a million dollars in cash you were obliged to pay taxes upon receipt, and if you did not do so and you try to deposit it, you are going to get flagged for a tax audit and subject to criminal charges.
If you got a million dollars in GOLD you don’t pay taxes until you sell it. So you can sit on it for years and then sell it and deposit it and you only pay taxes at that moment and have not broken the law in doing so.
Money is income, Gold is just gold until you turn it into money.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 months ago:
It also can be pretty hard to find music you will actually like. Every streaming and sales service is more interested in promoting content based on who paid them off or based on what is cheap for them to stream. It seems like there are not a lot of resources geared specifically with connecting you to music that you are likely to enjoy.
I usually troll through new albums each month and just listen to a bunch of stuff until I find something I like.
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 2 months ago:
Certainly, of course all the old stuff is good because that is the stuff that you already curated into your personal preferences. There was a LOT of shit from pretty much any era, its just that the younger version of you already pawed through all that shit. Listening to new music means having to paw through a lot of crap, which is always harder than just listening to stuff you already like.
- Comment on that's some fucking aerodynamics bro 2 months ago:
No, but your mom is.
- Comment on The house always wins 2 months ago:
Given that “the bank” owns every asset in the board and only pays out a piddly $200 every turn, normal play should pretty much never result in them running out of money.
- Comment on You gotta try #19 3 months ago:
1 should just be a pig.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 3 months ago:
Right, but they are churches in Germany.
- Comment on Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar??? 3 months ago:
Almost all of which were built before the reformation.
Ulm Minster, Cologne Cathedral, Speyerer Dom, the Berlin Cathedral, all originally Catholic.
England is a better example since their brand of Protestantism really favored big works to rival the Catholics.
