taiyang
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- Comment on When people die in wildfires, is it that the fire spread too fast for people to mobilise escape? Or more that people were delayed leaving? 3 hours ago:
I know the recent-ish Palisades fire near me was an issue of both fast fires and limited exits, but even then most of it was property damage. What worked was early warnings of evacuation that people took seriously.
The part that struck me was they started calling it a conflagration because the structure fires were so much hotter than the bush fires that things were straight up melting, causing cars to stop working and so on. If you were still there when the houses were full burning, you were likely toast.
The best way to avoid deaths, therefore, is early evacuation and careful neighborhood design. There were some houses that survived the blaze because of factors like walls and gaps that helped reduce the spread, although I’m not sure if they cracked the code on that yet.
- Comment on We've all been there 6 hours ago:
I bet it could be patched by I hadn’t checked in forever. It’s actually more than nudity, though- it’s like a sex minigame attached to the dating mechanics. You can see why it was dummies out, lol
- Comment on Flirtation 2 1 day ago:
Oh I agree, and the funny thing is I heard second hand is that the city’s water treatment people still would prefer you just throw away your scraps (or better, compost). It does end up being a little useful on occasion, though, and it also creates a whirlpool that drains the sink faster.
That said, if I need the voltage from that breaker to power something else, I’d forsake it in a heartbeat. We already rerouted the garbage compactor to help power the heat pump we put in.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 1 day ago:
20 or 22, I’m easily fooled, had a Sega Genesis and TMNT bedsheets.
That said, we were too poor to get anything most of the time. We were at a park because it’s free, I mean c’mon. (And before you ask, no, the Genesis was a gift from a guy who wanted to fuck my mom. Lol)
- Comment on Flirtation 2 1 day ago:
Oh baby, that’s just the garbage disposal. His name is Hugo and we feed him scraps.
- Comment on She's a man eater! 1 day ago:
Be the beautiful Orchid Mantis you’ve always wanted to be.
- Comment on We've all been there 1 day ago:
Amateur. I learned how to unlock the GTA SA hot coffee mode, which they somehow never fully removed.
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
I’ve cited enough off just expanded abstracts to say, how would they even know? It’s probably better than what I did, lol.
- Comment on The function of your product is WHAT?? 3 days ago:
It probably aids in what the kids call “mewing” which is supposed to shape your chin/neck line. It probably doesn’t work but people into “looksmaxxing” are into it.
- Comment on Uber Eats guy scared the fuck outta me tonight 4 days ago:
“so I just leave it on your kitchen counter ok”
- Comment on narcania of time 6 days ago:
Clearly edited! We all know she used smelling salts on him.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I mean, my mom found a Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo which featured black face and racist illustrations and whatnot. She took it but left it up to me but even that I didn’t really want to burn it for the reason you said.
Buuuut it did disappear from our place at some point and I don’t know who may have thrown it out. But like, I get it in this case.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I haven’t ever seen vandalism of these types of things, but I imagine it might be drug addicts or mentally unwell. It’s easy to imagine angry teens or greedy people, but given many unhoused people having schizophrenia or drug abuse, delusions could definitely lead to destruction of these public spaces. Although I only ever saw that with a store front, not a free service thing.
Still infuriating though, people need treatment and society does its best to ignore that or even discourage it.
- Comment on boioioioioinggg 6 days ago:
Just reminded me of the time I launched my 4yo by accident with a half deflated air mattress. She easily reached a meter up, and wanted to do it again but way unsafe.
- Comment on Would you rather 6 days ago:
I’m really Mini Cooped up in my compact car.
- Comment on Black coffee 1 week ago:
My wife orders oat milk for her cream top kind of drinks that have been trendy lately and they usually give her a warning. I think people are mom and pop cafes are a little more mindful of customers, though.
- Comment on Black coffee 1 week ago:
Tbf, I do see tiny white specs on that coffee if you look at high res of that photo. It’s the kind of thing you see a lot at poor quality coffee places though I usually drink it anyway for the caffeine addiction.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Oh I typo’d. I can fix it.
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Oh I have no idea, I don’t play that game but I imagine it’s none. Every MMO server I’ve seen was reverse engineered. The lawsuits in those cases are probably frivolous, although you never know how courts go.
- Comment on This Apple Lie at the grocery store 1 week ago:
I’m with you, fuck the lies (especially since this year I’ve got high cholesterol apparently; I blame crap like this although butter is probably not much better in that regard, lol).
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
If they used official closed source code, there is some legal issues, if challenged, but if they reverse engineered the server code then it’s a lot more leeway (similar to emulators). Most private servers I’m familiar with are the former, though, and since the assets and such are generally client side, nothing the server hosts is illegal.
Though again, I don’t even think that should be illegal but c’est la vie; it’s copyrighted code.
- Comment on I know which one I'm picking! 1 week ago:
Exposition 33 is a French psyop and it worked. Baguette for life!
- Comment on ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal' 1 week ago:
Reading this article, ESA feels like the evil archenemies of the Stop Killing Games folks. As SKG put it, the talk of illegality was to mislead a Californian legislator too busy to fact check.
That said, the real fight ESA is pushing is more in regards to private servers for MMOs and other always-online games that SKG wants to be legal as part of preservation. I personally disagree with ESA in that regard, although I can understand their legal argument regarding the lawsuits on World of Warcraft private servers, mentioned in the article.
(Though, my two cents, I personally feel “free market” should mean official servers are better and earn their subscriptions: more people, more reliable, better content, etc… but they usually aren’t. So fuck them, lol).
- Comment on My pizza doesn't list the temperature it should be cooked at 1 week ago:
Instructions unclear, cooked pizza in clay kiln.
- Comment on Momma didn't raise no quiter, I know my mission 1 week ago:
Ah, the master technique.
- Comment on Momma didn't raise no quiter, I know my mission 1 week ago:
Nevermind the climb, you’re practically crouching to pee with that ceiling there.
- Comment on Me_irl 1 week ago:
Some games still got patched but you’d just get that if you bought it late. You can see this if you ever look at rom packs, as even some SNES games and such get revisions.
- Comment on 50 Iconic Vehicles From Video Games 1 week ago:
Quite a few FF airships, but I’m more a Blackjack person (but than again you get Falcon later on so that’s two vehicles I guess).
- Comment on So wise. 1 week ago:
Huh, no, I was saying the opposite. But there are easy alternatives aside from 0.07 x 250, like (0.07 x 1000) / 4.
- Comment on The Nintendo 64 is now 30 years old! Released in Japan on June 23, 1996. 2 weeks ago:
Hehe. If that was me I’d have discovered weed at like, 10. That may be problematic, lol.