bradorsomething
@bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 1 day ago:
Dominique is showing signs of borderline personality disorder.
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 1 day ago:
Lawful evil or chaotic evil, depending on if that behavior is allowed in that society.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 1 day ago:
Imagine China as a company. There is a board of directors, and Xi is the head of that board. The board runs a lot of lower ranking boards that control all the aspects of government operation.
Have a problem with your plumbing? Go to your local province or city board. A whole region experiencing drought? The regional board has an action plan that they impose on the local boards to implement with government regional help. Xi is responsible for steering the overarching policy of China moving forward as a country. His role is to say “make China control the South China Sea and receive deference from those countries” to the military, and then it’s there problem to figure out how to harass shipping.
You get promoted to higher boards for good work, and the board votes for its leader. Read Xi’s promotion history. I would die after that many years of office politics, myself.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 1 day ago:
Glad to hear you doing this. My daughter refuses to learn, but I keep telling her it’s so when the dumb boy pulls out a gun at a party, she can ask to see it, and clear the chamber, take the clip, safe it, and hand it (minus the clip) back.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 2 days ago:
Republicans aren’t conservatives since the tea party.
- Comment on Who's the most ridiculed POTUS of history? 1 month ago:
You can see it in his eyes as he’s about to say it… both the inevitable use on the Daily Show and the desire to strangle his speechwriter.
- Comment on The Butlerian Jihad is NOT a warning against AI 2 months ago:
I believe in God Emperor he touched on the book mentality when Leto 2 talked with some Bene Jesserit about how machines made you treat people like machines, and that was the concept that was overthrown.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 months ago:
I’m not saying anyone here wants to fight a y number of 8-year-olds, but how many do you feel he could take?
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 2 months ago:
Get him Hokas, tell him that’s what the rich actually wear.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
More of a slow collapse than a crash. Ever seen a dilapidated house on a country road, parts of the roof caving in, paint chipped, vines covering the yard? We’re working on being that house by slowly letting social and physical infrastructure in the US collapse over time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
20 is nice in freshly washed sheets.
- Comment on I got herpes. What can I expect? 2 months ago:
I had a friend go through this; first of all, sorry that happened to you. My understanding is that if you take your anti-virals you’ll have a pretty normal life. The concept of sex is dicey, I understand when you’re not flaring up the risk is small, but it’s still there. They have a normal relationship but avoid sex in flare ups. Be sure to talk to your partners in advance!
- Comment on How do I start a crypto wallet 2 months ago:
Crypto is shit beta now, you trade it like that. The liquidity pool is too small to handle large entry/exit.
Although I agree this is like going to vegas for him.
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 3 months ago:
I never want to look like something a cop will pay attention to. Better high performance in a boring sedan shell.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
In the market we call her “Nance in Advance.”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The most important part of it is “is there anything you’d like to admit, before we take the test?”
- Comment on Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked 4 months ago:
I’d argue security through obscurity was gone by 2000, for anything that can be pinged.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Trading stops at the end of day, for accounting purpose. Some traders can still access over-the-counter trades but they are not required to be reported (if I remember correctly) until sometime in the morning of the market they’re made in. You will see some price movement when London and the DAX open.
Watch futures for a good price estimate. ES for SPY and NQ for Nasdaq.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 months ago:
This guy does defense economics but he did a good piece on the tariffs: m.youtube.com/watch?v=nVZ1lcw2bVU
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 months ago:
I have two smaller businesses, and I’ve both laid off due to expected decrease in business and bought supplies ahead due to expected shortages.
You’re good putting together that you wouldn’t build a factory right now because uncertainty doesn’t let you predict returns. Not only can you not predict the next president and their tariff policy, I wouldn’t say you can predict trump’s actions tomorrow. I heard an interview John Bolton did today, and he said something along the lines that “trump doesn’t think, he reacts.” Tariffs could be zero or 500% next month or next year or tomorrow. The safe move is to wait and see - and while everyone waits and sees, only small-scale production will start, definitely not enough to sustain demand.
Honestly, if I had the money to build a factory right now, I’d park it and wait to buy one from a company that fails in all this. It would save so much money.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 4 months ago:
Assuming I’m snapped back to the same part of the earth, climate-wise that’s ideal in the US PNW coming out of spring. Plenty of berries and food to forage, and I’ll probably impress the natives with my watch and well made clothes. I can probably get the native tribes to metals, and gain acceptance with my magic hand tool that will briefly shine light at night for a few weeks. I don’t know offhand where copper would be, but I know gold is in the streams, and I know how to placer mine, so I can get some electricity going with that and magnetized rocks from lava flows.
I think first contact would be the key.
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 5 months ago:
Investopedia is a great resource for things like this: www.investopedia.com/terms/d/deathcross.asp
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 5 months ago:
Something that will really perk up my attention is if people start shooting at his security. That will indicate anger is so ripe that even protecting him makes you a target.
- Comment on Does it make sense to persue higher education after 40 years ood? 5 months ago:
When you’re 60, will you wish you started the work 20 years ago?
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows 5 months ago:
The nsfw content, mostly.
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 5 months ago:
Long slow slide is the best we can offer you.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 5 months ago:
Same reason the people on 9/11 stayed in their seats - they thought they’d be fine if they waited it out.
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 5 months ago:
Oh, did an airline stewardess walk by?
- Comment on Nearly All Cybertrucks Have Been Recalled Because Tesla Used the Wrong Glue 5 months ago:
Got caught using the wrong glue is more accurate.
- Comment on What happened to FlyingSquid? 5 months ago:
Do you mean academy award nominated actress MargotRobbie?