FuglyDuck
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
I’d okay with that. As long as it’s still technically a planet. (what? it’s my favorite!)
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 days ago:
Pluto is a dwarf planet, which is still a planet.
Also, they absolutely should have just made an exception for Pluto so science teachers everywhere could have used that as a fun teaching point.
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 6 days ago:
formerly called thule. it’s now Pituffik Space Base
- Comment on Is there anything of any interests for the tech bros in Greenland? 6 days ago:
Trump isn’t that much of a strategist. Mostly he just does whatever the person who most recently blew smoke up his as says.
the techbros want greenland for the minerals, and for the record, we already have a base there. (Pitufik, it’s in the hands of the space force, and is a communications base with equipment for missile defense stuff as well.)
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I was making an observation, rather than speculation.
I once made a joke about sea urchins and rule34…. Several people rule 35’d it
- Comment on I love science 1 week ago:
I’m sure there’s something out there. Rule 34 and all that.
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 1 week ago:
Unless he’s building a custom loop because he’s really into building custom pcs, then liquid cooling isn’t worth it.
A decent heat sink on the CPU and several fans blowing correctly in the case will do just as good. The only real drawback is that they’re not as quiet under high load.
As for AIOs, it’s been a while but I doubt rather a lot that they re on par as far as price goes, and you’re going to be better off buying better (read: noctua) fans.
More/larger fans also can be ran at lower rpm’s for the same cooling and get even quieter. (And have that much more under high load.)
- Comment on Could you be relatively healthy if you replaced traditional carb sources with skittles and multivitamins? 1 week ago:
No.
you need proteins. neither skittles nor the vast majority of multivitamins contain proteins. And in any case, the vast majority of “junkfood diets” suck for your health. Usually they’re a gimmick to teach you about caloric intake for weightloss (and maybe some chemistry.)
- Comment on Still trying to figure it out... 1 week ago:
Never underestimate what a small creature can do.
I had the distinct displeasure of being a manager over a jackass that maced a bunny. (It was begging for food and he freaked out.)
Buns panicked, ran up his pantleg and went all Spawn of Caerbannog on his balls.
Dunno if he was emasculated, but you’d think it by his screaming. (It wasn’t just that it got nibbly. Buns was soaked in OC spray he was definitely not supposed to have.)
Buns found a good home with the animal rescue lady, too. She was decidedly less frosty when I asked for a copy of her report so we could put in his file.
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
Not sure who downvoted you, lol. You’re quite correct (I just didn’t want to get into the weeds, heh.)
and yes. it’s good to remember that not all debt is “bad” debt. Especially on a national level. I still think it’d be nice if they passed a balanced budget, though. (and one that covered everything that was important. like healthcare and housing and infrastructure and climate resiliency and stuff, and not bombs for genocidal maniacs)
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
cash is largely minted by the government, and they usually aim to maintain “enough” (currently 2.3k billion dollars currently?)
Most of the money supply is not in physical cash, though- they call that the m1 supply which is found in things like savings and checking accounts, other kinds of deposit accounts, etc.
Currency is added to the economy by buying back government securities (think bonds). Specifically this is the Federal Reserve. we also pay interest on money held at by the Fed. (Banks invest the money.)
- Comment on Where does the revenue gathered from taxes go and what is national debt? 1 week ago:
In the US, at least, the government has 2 ways it can fund itself.
Taxes, which are collected through a variety of means- income tax, for example, or import taxes, etc. these funds go into the treasury, which then get doled out to pay for things.
If taxes are insufficient, or there’s some type of emergency that requires an excess of funds more quickly than they can levy with taxes… the government takes on debt. Specifically, they use a number of different instruments including bonds.
The “national debt” is the the sum of all those bonds, loans and whosiwhats its that are taken out to pay for things.
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 1 week ago:
Only if we’re talking about food.
- Comment on T-Wrex'd 1 week ago:
Steggo is BSST-o
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 2 weeks ago:
After following a star nobody else could see from (probably) Persia.
- Comment on Which of frankincense and myhrr is more pricey? What even are they, respectively? 2 weeks ago:
For the record, you can get myrrh resin for like 20-30 bucks a 4oz sack on Amazon.
A one pound sack of frankincense goes for about 20.
What was more valuable in the first century is anyone’s guess.
- Comment on Is it wiser to store one savings in Gold as superior to the average bank/savings accounts nominal interest? 2 weeks ago:
but not collapse so much that whoever is holding your gold is still around. (and if you hold it yourself, that it’s still a useful metal. post apocalyptic gold isn’t going to be worth nearly as much because it’s pretty useless outside of ornamentation.)
- Comment on still miss ya big guy ✌️ 2 weeks ago:
So like.
Isn’t that the thing that tried to take over starfleet by gau’ulding the command staff?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They grow and are all plant-y.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
“Enchanting nerds and alchemy nerds are two different groups of wizardry. They don’t share their secrets outside the group!”
-some guy named Clarke or something, I dunno.
- Comment on If you had too, how would go about running a Instagram account? 2 weeks ago:
Not without content or SEO services and such.
- Comment on I just want to play a game... 2 weeks ago:
“Giant raging assholes” is a term of respect and honor. honest.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 3 weeks ago:
Historically, the whole point to the loyalty card coupons was because then they could track your purchases and sell that data on you.
It used to be incredibly valuable, and it techncially still is. But your big box retail stores are going to insane lengths, including tracking you from the moment you pull into their parking lot (including knowing what kind of car you drive,) and how many times you circle, lets say, the lego aisle, or the cookies. They know how long you spend looking at stuff and are selling all of that. (as well as using for marketing to sell you more shit you don’t need.)
- Comment on Contadont deny it. 3 weeks ago:
kinda looks like my uncle. (Complete with the whiskers.)
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 3 weeks ago:
(Chuckles in evil DM)
Yes. I know it’s absurd. (The island of stability is only predicted to go out to what? 120 something? And then isn’t really stable in a practical sense.)
That’s like putting an artifact in your campaign and claiming it can heat up to 150 zillion kelvin.
This gives me…. Ideas. I know the math breaks down before the big bang, but if anything could get that hot…I would imagine pre-expansion universe. Now how to stuff them in one?
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 3 weeks ago:
Because we like our unobtainium, okay?
Also part of it is, we don’t want to get too complicated here, the stuff only really exists to bypass things and maybe give some interesting abilities (for example, the energy output of the “corroded” stuff is unstable. It could be used to provide pulsed power for things like railguns, or as a sort of electrically-fired fuel for missiles.)
So we stick to things people are familiar with. It doesn’t matter if it’s a superconductive wire composed of nonbarionic matter or not- it’s still going to behave a certain way, and sometimes you can get lost in the weeds explaining it, when really it’s just a handwaive away.
I also don’t like introducing power supplies that my party can exploit for really big booms. They may have, for example, opened a portal inside a neutron star (the portals swap a spherical volume of space. So suddenly they created an unstable mass of neutronium roughly 30m in diameter in some douches fleet yards.)
(In their defense the douchenozzle lost control of a sentient grey goo and it was the only way to keep it from spreading.)(but they did blow up half a solar system. And rendered it unnavigable past its Oort Cloud.)
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 weeks ago:
Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.
- Comment on Industrial Strength Shitpost 3 weeks ago:
- people are stupid and this is all just hypothetical
- <you should read this one in Badge 502’s voice>NO!
with those disclaimers… I suspect they were trying to make a mold of their poopchute and didn’t think it all the way through. I’m not sure if that was then going to be directly used, or if it was going to be used as a negative for something else… but that’s my guess.
- Comment on Well? 3 weeks ago:
are we sure we didn’t confused for a giant piece of shit?
I guess it’s a matter of perspective.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 3 weeks ago:
it was a blast. it was flexible enough that they could derail to their hearts content without me running out of material, the back story to the history was that eventually the first large and successful colonization effort started with “Solarians” who were basically pacifist-adjacent scientists and academics tired of our bullshit and settled places starting with the moon, then going to mars, then to Jupiter’s orbit, then finally off to Alpha Centauri (from where they launched the first batch of forty-some portships that they’d pop off to to check on thinks and then go back to Centauri.)
meanwhile the people left on earth went the way things go, and it turned into a cesspit, eventually some dumbass using antimatter as a bomb, leading to the second waive of human colonization and Earth sterilized. (They eventually take over the portships they could find, and built the Stellarian Empire. AKA the badguys.
the Empire and Solarian Diaspora eventually start drifting apart with still-basically-human abilties, but some are furies and some are scalies and some have somekinda weird symbiotic relationship with algae in their brains that allows them to retain the memories of their parents and everyone the algae has been in.
meanwhile back on earth, it turns out Earth was returned to a more primordial state and is a stuborn little planet doing the whole life-thing again. Certain asshole-solarians decide to flee the empire, and created a world-religion that saw Solarians as divine messengers and Stellarians as demons, etc, shaping Itrayan society; starting from around their bronze age. the whole point was to unleash the Itrayans as some sort of hyper-zealot warriors. (the solarians kept cloning themselves and used synthetically-created algae for memory transfer.)
Eventually we get to a relatively modern age (slightly ahead of today, with neural implants and a few other odds and ends.) when Stellarians show up on a portship, setting off a war that sees the empire fracture into a dozen fiefdoms and several more political alliances. that war was fought with Augments who were genetically engineered and implanted with cybernetic whosewhats. These augments from bothsides were, when the war was finally ended, stuffed into cryo (under false pretenses) and launched off into the deep of space.
My players wake up, refurbish the broken down and basically derlict ship, find a planet and get resources before they die and all that for the first campaign arc. I still laugh that their engineer guy who had an entire manual for the ship in his starting gear, sold the manual for a little extra energy. Then he kept fighting with the ships automated repair system that kept putting bulkheads that were located in really inconvenient places back in. (Yes. I know how to screw with my party, lol. the manual’s instructions were basically “tell the AI to update the blueprints.” which was also how they were meant to discover the ship had an AI to handle some very annoying tasks like life support.)