rhombus

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[–] rhombus 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is absolutely blatant corruption, why is this something an Attorney General can unilaterally do? Charges were already brought by the DA, it was going to court, and he intervened to dismiss it. The power to shutdown any criminal case is an extremely dangerous power for anyone to have.

[–] rhombus 9 points 1 month ago

Well, this was a power cable this time, not a communication cable.

As for your idea, atmospheric distortion makes lasers not viable beyond a certain distance. Even on a crystal clear day the light would be too distorted/spread out to be useful beyond a few miles. The cables use fiber optic, which mitigates the distortion problem, but still requires repeaters to boost the signal every 100 kilometers or so.

[–] rhombus 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I love this whole thing. I think you could make it feel more like “racing” if you have to race against other factions to get the good scavenging loot. Maybe the city is only accessible at certain points, so you end up with giant mad max convoys racing each other into and through the city.

[–] rhombus 5 points 2 months ago

There is very little meaningful difference between a B.A and B.S in Physics. B.A is a little less rigorous, but not by much.

That said, I don’t have confidence in Musk being able to earn either without some bullshit going on.

[–] rhombus 5 points 2 months ago

I think it’s fairly common to not translate the initials for political party names. Most English commentary I’ve seen uses just the initials. That said, it is a little weird they translated the names and used the initials at the same time.

[–] rhombus 5 points 2 months ago

"In the case of infectious diseases such as hepatitis C, curing existing patients also decreases the number of carriers able to transmit the virus to new patients," the memo argued.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. They’re not just arguing against curing chronic illnesses, they’re arguing against curing infectious chronic illnesses because it creates less patients to extort in the long run. That is one of the most heinous things I’ve seen put to paper.

[–] rhombus 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Horseshoe theory is an incorrect oversimplification of extreme politics. If it were true then anarchists would be no different than fascists, which couldn’t be further from the truth.

[–] rhombus 19 points 2 months ago

It’s not just that it’s a “world with mechanical animals”, it’s the entire design aesthetic is completely lifted from Horizon. It’s obviously a different kind of game, but the character and animal designs look straight out of the Horizon games.

[–] rhombus 28 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Most of the time it seems like it’s not a bomb, but triggering some kind of uncontrolled meltdown of a reactor that’s powering the vessel, or maybe blowing up the fuel.

[–] rhombus 4 points 2 months ago

I think most people do it that way, hell I use Vim and tiling window managers and I still do it that way most of the time.

[–] rhombus 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Win+X opens the same menu.

[–] rhombus 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you missed the point of the person you responded to. The point wasn’t to not help them, but to provide those basic needs and help them recover before starting to give them money as well. Give them housing, food, clothing, and access to resources to get better. Then, once they are in a better place to take care of themselves, give them the money to support themselves.

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