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Naruto: Five Characters That Joe Biden Could Beat (& Five He Couldn’t)
Sunday, 25-Oct-20 08:29:23 UTC from web- RDN's Lucifer likes this.
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@mrmattimation What level of sharingan Biden are we talking about? is he pre or post timeskip? does he have access to malarkey senjutsu?
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Damn. I bought another 3D printer.
Wednesday, 14-Oct-20 10:06:10 UTC from web-
@adiwan @scribus Not much of a point either, since we already have metal 3D printing in the shape of 4+ axis mills. You just put in a sufficiently big piece of metal and load the 3D model to the CNC software and let it work.
Mill of hot extrusion, metal printing will stay too dangerous and expensive for domestic use for at least a few decades I think. Most homes don't even have the space to fit the machinery or the wiring to run it. -
@nerthos Oops, *mill OR hot extrusion
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Meanwhile, in Murrica: "The seven-day average of new cases has climbed above 56,000, a level not seen in the past 12 weeks, and is 14% higher week over week, according to John Hopkins data." https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
Monday, 19-Oct-20 16:40:08 UTC from web-
@scribus Majority infection will be the eventual outcome, slower or quicker.
There are two ways to beat a virus: you either completely isolate every infected individual and anyone who is physically capable of contracting it for at least twice the lifespan of the virus, and I'm talking full lockdown, napalmed when opening the door; or you wait until almost the entire population has been infected and developed herd immunity, at which point new infections become very rare if the virus survives at all to mutate over following years.
Full lockdown wasn't done in time and in any case it is impossible considering the social paradigms of any western country, so the option that remains is the latter. Containment can only be reasonably used to slow spread to a rate to which the health system can handle it, but won't stop the spread, no matter how much a government insists on it. And it also vastly increases the number of deaths from existing conditions untreated due to lockdown.
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And I feel like the asshole for sitting here and watching them, after first shouting, then yelling, then cursing, then fuming, then apologizing, but I swear to god I have tried to grow something for years with setback after bullbanana failure and right now these goddamned gourds are about the only thing I have going for me in my life and I swear if anything happens to them I will jump in the pool wearing ankle weights
Saturday, 30-May-20 15:24:13 UTC from web-
@scribus Do this with a few wooden poles or metal tubes and some wire. You can also use it as a support to lay a nylon or wire mesh on top if you expect hail. http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/875532
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@nerthos Yeah, I'd thought about it for shade, but it didn't turn up necessary. Now that they're done, I expect that's it. They basically butchered the trees. :-/
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@nerthos But ultimately, the question is, is it so goddamned hard to look where you're dropping kiwi? Or keep your customer's mess in their yard? Basic respect. Show one move's worth of forethought for those around you.
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Like I said - I have no reason to believe I’ve got it other than this cold, which is also going around right now. No fever, no headaches, nothing. Just congestion.
Thursday, 19-Mar-20 19:31:33 UTC from web-
@thismightbeauser But, the Carnegie and Rockefeller and all those families, they used to do public works and stuff. They may have been hoarding the wealth, but not damn *all* of it. Their flash contest was at least servicing the greater good as a side effect of the ostentation. This new crop seems more about raw, bigly yuge numbers, and hoarding, like a dragon (or a priapism). But, again, this is all coming around to perception. . . .
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@scribus I mean, there's Bill Gates and whatnot. On the other hand you get people like this guy, who think it's an okay idea to keep making electric cars at a moderately high risk of illness to his employees with no one to buy them. http://rainbowdash.net/url/875471
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@thismightbeauser @scribus That is indeed the case, a lot of rich people have middle class cars and discrete houses and do their best to keep people from knowing how rich they are, due to the general sentiment of "wealth equals evil"
You can't blame them really, if the mob will hate you just for managing to make good decisions and earning your family big money. I'd probably do the same if I couldn't simply relocate to a fortified compound with a minefield around it. It makes no sense to feel empathy for a group that has none for you, for whom you'll always be the bad guy regardless of what you do or don't do, that openly talks about how good it'd be if you died.
The ones that show off are the sociopaths, politicians and entertainment industry guys, who by default are crooks as that whole industry is built on crime and debauchery.
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So, no. I do not have goddamned nginx figured out, and no, the Pleroma 2.0 launch has not made this any less goddamned infuriating.
Sunday, 15-Mar-20 04:19:48 UTC from web-
@scribus The installation of Pleroma comes with an NGINX config file located at /opt/pleroma/installation/pleroma.nginx copy it to the NGINX sites-available directory, change your server names, then symbolically link it to the sites-enabled path
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@oracle I had done that previously and it still wasn't working. The directions said to name it a certain thing, which was not the usual Nginx method of naming it the same as the URL is supposed to be. Might that have been my problem? The second time around, I did try modifying a default, instead of copying the provided one, so obviously that was the error, there. :p Thanks.
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@thismightbeauser Well, my latest (balls-deep-in-failure) attempt is on Ubuntu 20.04, and nginx is 1.17.10 (Ubuntu)
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Yo @ceruleanspark, I just checked the Affiliates links and both are now completely dead. Fluttershy was bought by some Chinese thing and Bronies UK is just dead lol.
Wednesday, 18-Mar-20 22:13:47 UTC from web -
It's been years
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 13:44:52 UTC from web -
Hello, everyone. It's been a while. I'm amazed this place is still here.
Tuesday, 17-Mar-20 02:59:29 UTC from web-
@tenebarius We will never die.
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@tenebarius Everyone always is. Come back regularly for daily excitement!
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!vgp https://shp.itch.io/ Several fun games made by @shpuld@shpposter.club, give them a try
Friday, 13-Mar-20 14:40:02 UTC from web -
That said, I keep meaning to launch a Pleroma instance for myself.... Just keep having problems with nginx.
Thursday, 05-Mar-20 18:36:42 UTC from web-
@nerthos Also the dev team is releasing 2.0 stable next weekend so you might want to wait for that.
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@nerthos @scribus Rin seems to be the dev dealing with nginx https://patch.cx/notice/9snOdafVWNXv6Q8R4y
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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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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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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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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- awlxaĺan and Jonathan Chouinard like this.
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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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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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