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I'm really glad someone out there is costing these companies money.
So many times it's AT&T and Verizon selling you an "insurance plan" for your phone that still requires you to pay $99-$300 if you actuality need your phone replaced. That's objectively worse than no "insurance".
Maybe I'd feel differently about it if I had that pro-capitalist "your loss is my gain" mindset... and also owned shares in AT&T. But being a human capable of empathy and humanity, AT&T and Verizon just disgust me.
OwenEverbinde
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I realized in a reddit argument a while back that one huge difference between Trump supporters and the rest of us is: Trump supporters expect less from Trump. Hold him to a lower standard than they hold themselves or non-supporters to.
In the argument, I had a supporter tell me that "raking the leaves" was advocating wildfire management -- including controlled burns. And the person followed it up with remarks along the lines of, "you should have been smart enough to know that's what he was saying."
Which was crazy to me because:
- they were measuring my intelligence by my ability to come up with numerous unique rephrasings and potential meanings to Trump's words
- they were scoring higher than Trump by their own intelligence metric
- Trump could only come up with "raking the leaves" and the commenter came up with "as a country, we should be putting more resources into wildfire management", a much more coherent and intelligent phrasing
- in expecting me to be able to read multiple meanings into "raking the leaves", this person was ALSO expecting me to score higher on this measure of intelligence than Trump. And calling me stupid for not outscoring Trump.
Basically told me that if I wasn't smarter than Trump, I was stupid.
I pointed this out to them and never got a response.
Anyways, different standards. According to Trump supporters:
- if you're no smarter than Trump, you are an idiot;
- if you're no kinder than Trump, you are sadistic and malicious;
- if you are no more effective than Trump, you are useless,
- But Trump is the smartest, kindest, most valuable person there is.
OwenEverbinde
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I'm glad I could help.
OwenEverbinde
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Have you played Supreme Commander? It's basically a simplified Supreme Commander.
You gather credits by building extractors, and extractors can only be put on resource deposits, so your aim is to control those deposits.
But where SupCom 2 has mass, energy, and research, Rusted Warfare has only credits.
What I look for
When I play RTS games, it's almost-exclusively:
- co-op against the AI
- with teammates
- ^^ teammates who don't spend time practicing RTS skills
So I'm looking for very specific things in a game. So far, of the games I've played, Rusted Warfare is top three when it comes to those things. (The other two in my top 3 are Age of Empires 3 and Nemesis of the Roman Empire (aka Celtic Kings 2)).
It got into my top three by being strong in the following areas:
Simplicity
Rusted Warfare is simple enough that my teammates can follow my requests without needing to train and practice on their own.
For instance, I can advise my teammates, "upgrade your extractors" and they can follow my advice without requiring a tutorial on resource management and energy shortages.
For comparison, in Supreme Commander (the franchise that was very clearly the inspiration for this game), trying to upgrade your extractor without sufficient knowledge on energy shortages can lead to choking out your entire economy.
Bull-headed AI
This is the most important thing I look for in casual co-op RTS.
In most RTS games, if the AI has 100 units? They are now attacking you on 100 different fronts. And focusing on any one front will deliver you losses at the other 99. It's a game of whack-a-mole where you are punished for every mole you miss.
I know I said Age of Empires 3 is in my top three, but Age of Empires 2? Exhausting, excrutiating, and infuriating. It's basically impossible to enjoy playing against the AI.
Same goes for Company of Heroes. I have broken a clavicle and wrist, and I can tell you without hesitation that playing against the AI in Company of Heroes is several times more painful than breaking bones.
Some people like that in a game. I do not.
Rusted Warfare, on the other hand, features an AI that mostly attacks you directly. Put a cluster of turrets between your base and theirs? You're now battling 80% of their incursions. They'll attack your flanks eventually, but you don't have to divide your attention evenly between all 100 different locations. It's almost like you and the AI are looking at the same place.
It's rare to find an RTS game where you are allowed to enjoy yourself. Most punish anyone who drops below 200 actions per minute.
But in Rusted Warfare, you can just... play.
Progression
I have extraordinarily heavy ADHD (first percentile on impulse control and sustained focus). But as long as a game has the bare minimum of progression (upgrades, building tree, etc) then I don't get bored and disengaged.
And Rusted Warfare has that. It's got at least the bare minimum.
There's always something for me to do: upgrade extractors, add turrets, build experimental factories, etc. And finishing this process does yield some pretty satisfying armadas... especially if I'm playing with mods.
In summary
I highly recommend it for casual co-op.
OwenEverbinde
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I grabbed Rusted Warfare RTS not long ago. It's a real-time strategy game. $1.99 on the Google Play store.
OwenEverbinde
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Have you heard of DeVone Boggan and how he managed to reduce gun violence in Richmond, CA?
How does a nature-over-nurture person interpret the success of such a program?
OwenEverbinde
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I, on the other hand, will start a sentence, -- something like, "but regardless, what really gets overlooked is..." -- and realize that from word 1, I didn't even have the concept of a point.
I realize, in that moment, that I was ENTIRELY reciting tokens.
OwenEverbinde
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You think you gave a narrow group. But my point is that "narrow groups" get very broad very quickly when heads start rolling.
OwenEverbinde
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How did that go for the objectively non-bourgeoisie who got caught up in Stalin's / Lenin's / Mao's anti-bourgeois campaigns?
Even Mao acknowledged innocent people got executed during his "counter-revolutionary" and land reform campaigns. And the number of prisoners Kruschev released from the Gulags would have been impossible if most of them were actually as harmful to Russia as they were accused of being.
Once the guillotines come out, everyone is calling everyone else bourgeois.
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Having been on reddit too much the past few weeks, this is very refreshing.
These days, all the Reddit moderation is performed by Russian and Chinese troll farms and alt-right recruiters. And anything goes as long as it erodes faith in western, multicultural democracy.
So it's nice to see someone say, "Democrats are puppets, BUT ALSO! Republicans are the threat we must currently fight."
OwenEverbinde
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A pile of sentient filth crawls out of a sewer somewhere, and first thing conservatives want to do is make it into a State Senator.
How surprising.
From his Idaho GOP page: his number one priority is to remove rape and incest exceptions.
Issue 1 . The top issue for Idaho is to abolish the unnecessary, harmful and wasteful curse of abortion. I will introduce legislation that eliminates the current affirmative defense for having an abortion in accordance with state guidelines. The only exception to the prohibition on abortion is to save the life of the mother.
OwenEverbinde
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And then proceed to fill these echo chambers with [insert local conservative] has betrayed Trump and (by extension) the country!
OwenEverbinde
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I see the question differently.
Tl;Dr:
I think OP is hoping to read the 21st century equivalent to Muck Rakers.
Long version:
A whole lot of improvement in American quality of life came about as a result of publications and journalists called Muck Rakers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
They didn't cover false stories. They simply covered stories that newspapers owned by capitalists tried to cover up. Things like, "physical abuse inside of Factory A" or, "employees at factory B reject union contract."
It's similar with r/antiwork. Most of America never realized why PopTarts were shipped with serious defects for a few months in late 2021. To most people, the quality declined out of nowhere, with no explanation.
And I don't think most people realized the real reason California's ports got congested. (It was a bill designed to protect gig workers -- it required shipping companies to pay truck drivers for the time they spent waiting for their trucks to be loaded (instead of just the time they spent driving)).
People didn't know because, even if current events directly impact everyone's lives, all it takes is a few corporations deciding, "you don't need to know about that" and access to the information through mainstream channels is shut off.
Everyone using r/antiwork knew though. They knew why there was a shipping crisis, and they knew why the glue that was supposed to seal the outside of the box of Cheez-its was now instead gluing the individual Cheez-its together.
News that wasn't considered, "newsworthy" outside of r/antiwork got intense coverage on that subreddit.
And yeah, the subreddit was certainly biased against those corporations. But biased or not, its users were more up-to-date on those events than anyone outside of the sub.
I don't think OP is asking for a leftist perspective on the same current events everyone else is covering. I think OP is asking for true, well-investigated stories that capitalists simply won't air on the major networks.
You know: Muck raking.
OwenEverbinde
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I actually found that part clever. Things do actually get declared "woke" and then become popular enough that the grifters declare it unwoke.
OwenEverbinde
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Could it be the case that the folks who told you Marxists were the postmodern, post-truth folks... were about as convinced of that claim as they are of conservatives' other claims?
OwenEverbinde
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She's a character from a comedy movie I saw as a kid! Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
OwenEverbinde
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Grif:
It's one of life's great mysteries isn't it? Why are we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God watching everything? You know, with a plan for us and stuff. I don't know, man, but it keeps me up at night.
Simmons:
...What?! I mean why are we out here, in this canyon?
OwenEverbinde
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Oh, I love this one!
🎵Eeooh eeoh eeeeeeee! cghghcghcghrshhhhhh!🎶
For me it was a bit different though, because the song was kept alive in rural areas until the horrors of Hugh's Net (and Wild-Blue-Exeed-ViaSat)
OwenEverbinde
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Ah, the same way Linux was able to thwart hackers for as long as it did.
OwenEverbinde
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Women are not good for the press in England under martial law...
... and the hacker was just posting spam on the receiving end from neurodivergent overexplaining.
From an AskLemmy question by @SVcross@lemmy.world [Link to Lemmy World Post](https://lemmy.world/post/9685527)
# EDIT: Submarine power transportation is indeed on the list Not transoceanic, but there are two projects currently proposed that will -- when constructed -- break the current record for the "longest undersea power transmission cable" (a record currently held by the North Sea Link at 720 km, or 450 miles.) One of these projects is [the Xlinks Morocco-UK Power Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xlinks_Morocco%E2%80%93UK_Power_Project) which aims to lay 3,800 km (2,400 miles) of cable and sell Morocco's solar power to England. There is, as of yet, not enough cable in the world to even begin this project. The company proposing the project is building factories to produce this cable. The other is the [Australia-Asia Power Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link), which aims to provide Australian solar power to Singapore using a 4,500 km (2,800 miles) undersea cable. Where the Xlinks project ran into a "not enough cable in the world" problem, Sun Cable's AAPL has apparently been running into a "not enough money in the world" problem, as it has repeatedly gotten into trouble with its investors. # EDIT: But also, storage is scaling up @ProfessorGumby@midwest.social provided a fantastic link to a lot of energy storage mediums that are already in use in various grids across the world. These include (and [the link the professor provided](https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-tech/sustainable/grid-energy-storage.htm) gives an excellent short summary on each) * Pumped hydroelectric * Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) * Flywheels * Supercapacitors * And just plain batteries Also, this wasn't in the Gumby's answer, but [Finland's Vatajankoski power plant uses a hot sand battery](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221102-how-a-sand-battery-could-transform-clean-energy) during its high-demand, low-production hours. # Hydrogen is projected to grow @Hypx@kbin.social noted that hydrogen has advantages no other energy storage medium possesses: duration of storage and ease of piping/shipping. This is probably why numerous governments are investing in hydrogen production, and why [Wood Mackenzie projects](https://www.woodmac.com/news/the-edge/hydrogens-critical-role-in-the-energy-transition/) what looks like a 200-fold increase in production by the year 2050. (It's a graph. I'm looking at a graph, so I am only estimating.)
I have questions about this event. First of all, # Democratically Elected > As the first-ever democratically elected leader of the UAW, Fain, a long-time union member himself, has taken a more confrontational approach to negotiations than his predecessors — including filming himself throwing Big Three automaker proposals in the trash. What was the process before? Was it worse? Has UAW been a sleeping giant this whole time on account of its leadership selection process? # Stand Up Strikes > But the strike won't involve all of the nearly 150,000 union members who work at the three automakers walking off their jobs en masse. > Instead, workers at three Midwest auto plants — a General Motors assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri, a Stellantis assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio, and part of a Ford plant in Wayne, Mich. -- were the first to walk off the job under UAW president Shawn Fain's "stand up strike" strategy. Are stand up strikes common? Do they win concessions?
I want get myself an official diagnosis on ADHD and an answer regarding whether I'm autistic. Typically, a "10 minute test" takes me several hours. I spend a great deal of time contemplating the questions, filled with indecision. So I want to fill out the test before I even get to the psychologist's office. Which is why I plugged "official ADHD test" into a search engine, and got overwhelmed by the choices. And my main questions are: * do some websites offer a test they inaccurately describe as the official test? (If so, do those show up high on search results?) * do some websites offer the official test... and also augment the test with extra resources that help a cripplingly indecisive person answer more efficiently? (That would save me time.)
From an AskLemmy post \[[link here](https://lemmy.world/post/4505019)\] by [@TehBamski@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/u/TehBamski)
blog.reedsy.com
Another prompt from the [reedsy list](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/). From September 21st, 2018.
One of the prompts on this list [here](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) is > "Describe an everyday item as if it's magic." is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt. Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here. Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically. * [100 Creative Writing Prompts for Writers - Writer's Digest](https://www.writersdigest.com/be-inspired/creative-writing-prompts-for-writers) * [reedsyprompt's weekly writing prompts \(1800+ prompts available!\)](https://blog.reedsy.com/creative-writing-prompts/) I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.) So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?
Example: > Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth. > > Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth. > > Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.
Image Transcription: An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme. The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying "Russia". The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with "Russia". The third panel is Phoebe saying "has invaded". The fourth panel is Joey repeating back "has invaded". The fifth panel is Phoebe saying "Ukraine". The sixth panel is Joey repeating back "Ukraine". The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase "Russia has invaded Ukraine". The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming "NATO just started a proxy war".
I derive a lot of benefit from mind-mapping in the style shown below. I usually do this in .txt files. But is there some generally accepted text file extension specifically for monospace art? ``` ┌──────────────────┐ ┌┤ Current Projects ├─────────┐ ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │└──────────────────┘ ├─┘ ┌──────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ Possessions List │────────────┐ │ │ □ Forever Park │ └──────────────────┘ │ ┌──────────────┐ │ │ └────────────── │ │ │ ┌┤ Forever Park ├────────────┐ │ │ │ │ ░ Some reboxing would be │ │└──────────────┘ │ │ │ □ Possessions List │ │ ░ nice │ │ │ │ │ └─────────────────── │ │ │ │ ░ Not much. Just keep │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────┘ │ ░ plugging away at that │ │ │ □ Healthcare Application │ ┌────────────────────────┐ │ ░ outline. │ │ │ └───────────────────────── │ │ Healthcare Application │───────┐ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────┘ │ └────────────────────────────┘ │ │ □ Tapstry Map │ │ │ │ │ └────────────── │ │ ░ Previous healthcare expires │ │ │ │ │ ░ Sunday, April 30th │ │ └┬────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ ┌┘ └───────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─────────────┐ │ │ ┌┤ Tapstry Map ├─────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │└─────────────┘ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ Explore: │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ ░ line endpoints │ │ │ │ ░ text box wrapping │ │ │ │ ░ google sheets and csv files with real datasets │ │ │ │ ░ d3 pointer events so I can see mouse coordinates │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ```
From the article: [When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party](https://lithub.com/when-marguerite-duras-got-kicked-out-of-the-communist-party/) This was part of their justification. Technically speaking, it was probably happening sooner than 1950, since Trotsky arrived in Turkey in 1929.
I want to respond to writing prompts, but from a separate account. That way, if someone enjoys a story, they can scroll through my (alt account's) history for more writing without needing to dig through all of the dramatic, vitriolic, shit-stirring my main account will be regularly diving into. I was wondering if one of you wonderful people was familiar with some corner of the Fediverse perfect for this sort of use? Or would you recommend I create the account here on Lemmy? * If I do go outside of Lemmy, I want to go somewhere capable of commenting on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world posts (in particular, commenting in the WritingPrompts communities on those servers). * I would *prefer* to join a public instance, like I did when I signed up for Mastodon and Lemmy. * Note: as mentioned above I have used Lemmy and Mastodon so far. So: is there a part of the Fediverse I ought to be examining for this? WriteFreely, for example? Micro.blog perhaps?