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@scribus Carcino sends his regards http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875456
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 05:49:32 UTC from web -
I'm sure it's not nearly so simple in reality, but I feel like conquering climate change is a simple matter of banning some of the bad stuff with obvious alternatives (gas vs electric consumer vehicles, for example) and watching the market self-correct. But everyone is afraid to pull that lever because it could be political suicide.
Monday, 02-Mar-20 05:01:17 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser An actual solution to the issue is deglobalization of economies and achieving food and industry autonomy in every relevant country, but good luck cutting the flow of shekel just like that. There is a reason any sort of nationalism is treated as evil incarnate by mainstream political parties and economic groups, a global market that depends on countries not being self-sufficient is extremely profitable, no one can stop buying or selling or their internal situation crumbles within months.
A secondary effect of this, while a positive from an environmental point of view, is that a lot of countries simply don't have the capacity to achieve food autonomy due to having bigger populations than their fertile land can sustain. Take Nigeria for example, <1 million km2 of surface with a rapidly growing population at 190 million right now. Without world trade the country would starve, and lead to open war in the region. -
@thismightbeauser So you not only need to completely reshape the economy of most countries but also need to regulate the population of each to levels their own land can sustain (without further destroying the environment to grow more crops)
Some countries have a food surplus of 10 times their internal consumption, so they can keep their current populations without issue. But what happens with a country that has a food deficit of say, 50% of consumption? the population has to be cut in half or starve. Either way, you have a disaster in your hands with no clean way to solve it. You can pick between genocide, mass starvation or civil war, neither acceptable by any humanitarian standard. And you can be sure it'll spill to neighbouring regions.
In short, environmental damage is such a big issue because there's no clean way of solving it, nations and fortunes depend on the wheel spinning, and genociding the world to a sustainable population numbers is off the table. -
@nerthos I think some of this makes sense, but I have a hard time believing that the world's current population level isn't sustainable, just that we haven't figured things out yet. There's a lot of junk produced that isn't necessary, or made in inefficient ways that could be cut out. I get what you're saying about deglobalization and the whole "buy local" slogan that environmentalists have been pushing kind of points back to that. Where do you draw the line though? Even goods shipped within larger countries like the US or China can travel vast distances before reaching their destination. Do those countries have to be split into regions then? People would probably be freaking out about that. No more California oranges in PA? No way! Probably not a great example due to Florida being closer, but still.
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How can people continue to believe this spraypainted bunghole
Saturday, 29-Feb-20 04:05:03 UTC from web-
@scribus I listen to him speak these days and wonder just what the hell all those people are hearing, because it's not what I'm hearing. Even if you some staunch, right-wing, anti-abortion anti-immigrant blowhard, you GOTTA be listening to him talk and wonder "man, something's not right with this guy's brain". His politics are irrelevant at that point, he talks like my grandmother with Alzheimer's
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@mrmattimation He looked next to death when he was rambling about how "one day, like a miracle, coronavirus will just go away." Pretty sure Mike Pence is eating his life force in an attempt to become a real boy.
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@scribus The trick about it is noticing everyone is lying out of their asses, and just picking the lies you like most out of what's on sale.
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I’m not too proud to admit I was wrong @nerthos was right. I am in fact, enjoying Fallout 76 a great deal.
Friday, 28-Feb-20 09:01:25 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@ceruleanspark i haven't played in a good while but it was less that i wasn't enjoying it, moreso that other games caught my interest. I've had a lot of fun with
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@mrmattimation I saw it on sale for £10 so I figured at that price, if I at least got some funny stories out of how busted it was, I’d have broken even, but now I’m level 30 and drugging new players with unlabelled Nukashine
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@ceruleanspark It has been so long that I don't remember what I told you regarding the game. Glad you're enjoying it, though.
AFAIK they've put some work in fixing the most glaring issues over the years, despite the crazy antics like the duping glitches and players chasing vips off the game.
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why was it such a big deal that Anakin Skywalker had a secret wife, and why did she need to be a secret, did anyone ever watch the Clone Wars show?? Obi-Wan was a FrankerZing grapey-slaying Potato Knishes machine, this man kiwied CONSTANTLY and nobody seemed to give a rat's ass about it.
Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:28 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@nerthos Whoops, I thought the filter would catch that
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@nerthos look man you know how the saying goes. Old enough to podrace, old enough to consummate
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I just want to start challenging politricksters to trial by combat in exchange for their positions
Tuesday, 04-Feb-20 15:52:20 UTC from web-
@scribus The great electoral boogaloo
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I had the best terminator batcavepost but the file is too big :c
Thursday, 06-Feb-20 06:33:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Just got back from a shooting range, it was pretty cool
Wednesday, 29-Jan-20 22:40:05 UTC from web-
@nerthos Oh yeah man, that's some flash right there
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@scribus TFW my grandfather's nice revolver with mother of pearl grip got stolen ;_;
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@nerthos No way dude, that bllooowwwws
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Watched "Little Witch Academia". It's alright. The overarching plot however is weak and with a lot of wasted potential.
Sunday, 02-Feb-20 19:19:15 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The movies or the show?
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@nerthos the show that is on Netflix
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@adiwan Oh, yeah, the tv show. It is a bit loose in the overarching story department. The movies are more solid in that regard, but the events in them are somewhat ignored for the show.
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special shoutouts to the woman who just called me ugly to her daughter in Spanish because she thought I couldn’t understand her. When I raised my eyebrow she turned to me and said “I was just telling my daughter you look like someone we know”. Okay, ma’am.
Sunday, 02-Feb-20 02:29:46 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation "El que lo dice lo es"
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O Lord, the Girl Scout cookies...
Saturday, 01-Feb-20 08:29:42 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus But but but what if the Girl Scouts are using the cookie selling as a front for drug delivery?!?!
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@adiwan CIA, Girl Scouts division.
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the whole experience did sort of underscore everything i believe about that sort of thing though, there was a guy with an AR-15 in the booth next to me and a guy with eight(!!!!!) magazines on his belt in the other booth, and it made me SUPREMELY uncomfortable
Thursday, 30-Jan-20 07:29:10 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@mrmattimation That's about 250 rounds downrange assuming they're 30 round mags loaded to 28, it's not a lot for proper practice. Most people who take it seriously will do 200-300 once in a while. It doesn't cost too much if reloading the cases. Semi-auto rifles eat through ammo really fast so going to the range with only a mag or two means you'll run out of fun in minutes.
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@nerthos Nah the guy with the mag belt wasn’t using a rifle, it was a handgun, and by my count each magazine had between 15 and 18 shots.
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@mrmattimation Still normal amounts, this guy just put down the money to buy all the magazines instead of the usual two or three mags + a cardboard ammo box to reload. 1000 9mm rounds are like $150 over the counter, so the guy probably spent like 15 bucks in bullets if reloading.
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I'm not sure what digital magic my cousins' tv is doing to The Simpsons but man is it ever uncanny
Monday, 27-Jan-20 22:05:43 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan The high frame rate video debate is scheduled to be the next big generational tech gap, according to one headline I skimmed once online. "Gemini Man" will remain dumb, regardless.
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@scribus High frame rate video is one thing but another thing to interpolate frames of lower frame rate to a higher and smooth out "choppiness", especially with non-contiguous motion like in animation with few feature points in the picture. High frame rate video will be the norm some day. Right now the amount of data is mostly not feasible or the technology is not good enough to simulate. Current films are exported in 2k because all of the rendering time and visual effects. Also visual flaws get more obvious with a higher temporal resolutions. I heard that "acting" is more apparent at higher frame rates, meaning that the acted motions and emotions are perceived as not genuine.
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@adiwan I can vouch for the last bit, a perfect example is the marvel cape movies. They look just fine on tv or a cinema screen, but look at scenes in >1080 60fps on a high DPI cellphone screen and the actors look awkward, movement looks cartoony and poorly acted, you can notice the weird physics from cable pulls and all that.
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Bought "Cities Skylines" on Steam over the #LunarNewYear sale. !vgp I'm stuck. I've been playing for 30 of the past 72 hours.
Wednesday, 29-Jan-20 23:09:19 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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My own personal Mandela Effect is that I thought the N64 was code-named Dolphin, and the Triforce were color-coded RGB. (That was the grapepost I was after, thanks for waiting)
Friday, 17-Jan-20 00:55:08 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus If this isn't some gag I'm missing, both Triforces were colour-coded green and red in the Zelda cartoon, with all three being RGB by the time of Captain N.
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@thelastgherkin Ah damn, I knew I had seen it somewhere!!
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Space Force is actually happening? Space Force is actually gorram happening!? I always wanted to live in a cartoon, but not this one!!
Wednesday, 15-Jan-20 02:25:44 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@scribus Too old to join space force? No worries, you can still fight space ISIS from the home front.
I'm from Buenos Aires and I say kill 'em all http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875417
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@nerthos I never said I was too old!! . . . I mean, I *am* but I never said it before. :p
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For old times' sake http://rainbowdash.net/url/175286
Tuesday, 14-Jan-20 09:57:09 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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Happy new year, to those that remain, and would still be called friends.
May time never erode what was built, the chapter of our lives that we spent together.
In perpetuity you will find a brother in me if that is what you desire.Tuesday, 31-Dec-19 11:24:27 UTC from web-
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@awl Same to you awl! though I suppose in your case, we still keep in contact.
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I do actually miss you guys pretty often. I just very rarely find I have anything to say anymore?
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:09 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark Same, we've all drifted apart over the near decade that passed. My contact info remains the same as always though, if you or anyone ever wants to hang out.
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But I do have something today: I bought a house!
Friday, 27-Dec-19 00:16:28 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark congratulations on having a house! Still in UK I presume?
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@ceruleanspark Wow, congrats! I'm severely envious, not gonna lie, but still - gratz!
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@ceruleanspark Congratulations Adam, I sincerely hope that turns out well for you, homeownership is the threshold to genuine independence and the biggest milestone in the construction of a life of your own.
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Usually I put a book series in the shelf from right to left in ascending order. However these double-volume books have the annoying thing that the two volume numbers are side by side. So Right now the shelf looks like this: 7 + 8, 5 + 6, 3 + 4, 2 + 1. I think I'm the only one (member of the left-to-right-reading society) putting books in "reverse" order.
Monday, 25-Nov-19 21:56:58 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Of course! And then I need to mount my shelves to my ceiling!
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@adiwan I hear you, brother. Hartnell on the right, Whittaker on the left
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@thelastgherkin The reference flew over my head.
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It's Throwback Thursday, or as I like to call it, Thursday http://rainbowdash.net/url/875319
Thursday, 14-Nov-19 14:41:00 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard and Alcoholic Beast like this.
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Good news! Pinkie Pie is still the best one http://rainbowdash.net/url/875313
Wednesday, 13-Nov-19 16:25:18 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thelastgherkin MLP version of Seinfeld ? I like this way of thinking.
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@thelastgherkin so wait, is Pinkie Pie Jerry, or is she Kramer? I feel like she'd be Kramer.
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apparently in Pokémon 2 you can finally commit treason against the government which is good because before we'd never even seen the government
Monday, 11-Nov-19 18:27:43 UTC from web-
@liquidusmira I always assumed Mewtwo ate the government, or psychic beamed them all to death on a helicopter like Shin Godzilla anyway
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@liquidusmira Pokemon takes place in Missouri, which is why there are no laws or government
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Even the spammers don't want us any more. Congratulations everypony
Saturday, 09-Nov-19 12:50:25 UTC from web- Scribus and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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@thelastgherkin I always knew we could make it
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Saturday, 02-Nov-19 05:52:58 UTC from web -
Three weeks of work: https://youtu.be/TKGld5rtpeA !vgp !art #BabysitterNES
Thursday, 31-Oct-19 05:27:17 UTC from web- thismightbeauser likes this.
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@thismightbeauser I am NOT tracing sprites, I am "taking" "inspiration!" lol (Actually got a lot from Sweet Home for the Famicom)
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@scribus So a 'All Summer Long' to 'Sweet Home Alabama' or more of a 'Ice Ice Baby' to 'Under Pressure' kinda thing ?
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@drinkingpony More like a "I grabbed a book of 50 songs that are all the same three chords" deal.
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I can't believe the baby who was conceived in the Dashcon ball pit is four and a half years old
Friday, 18-Oct-19 08:45:24 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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They gave Twilight Sparkle wings?
Thursday, 17-Oct-19 19:39:17 UTC from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thelastgherkin Before that they gave Twilight the wings of imagination by giving her a ton of books to read, which itself remind of wings when a book lies open.
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My NES pixel art skills do an incredible job of making you feel like you're playing an authentic Intellivision rerelease of an Atari game. !vgp
Thursday, 17-Oct-19 01:53:20 UTC from web
