zifnab25

zifnab25 , 2 months ago to Science Memes in we live in an explosion

It's a shame we never invented a Space-Time machine

zifnab25 , 2 months ago to chapotraphouse in Russian "invasion/genocide" and Israel's "response to a terrorist attack". Every. Fucking. Time.

History started on October 7th

Israel firing sniper rounds and launching drone strikes into Gaza City isn't terrorism, it's Smart Data Driven Policing

zifnab25 , 2 months ago to politics in It's over.

Dwayne Johnson has been showing back up in WWE events, and I do get the sense that he's tapped out on the Disney end of the money funnel. With all that Saudi cash flowing into combat sports and with Vince McMahon getting dragged out back like the rabid dog he is, I wouldn't be surprised to see Johnson springboards from Vince's old position to a political campaign, with his eyes on the White House.

Gotta distance himself from the wildly unpopular current liberal President if you're even going to begin that transition.

zifnab25 , 3 months ago to World News in Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine

Behold, the unlimited power of a fully nationalized war time economy.

zifnab25 , 3 months ago to the_dunk_tank in four months ago I had a Destiny fan advise me to focus my ire on what Israel's doing in the West Bank since it was "comparatively uncomplicated" and "obviously bad"

AOC who's an op

lea-tired

zifnab25 , 3 months ago to Communism in Protestation

There's definitely truth in this. But also...

https://www.authenticcomms.co.uk/blog/the-1944-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-meetings

• Make “speeches” – Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts of personal experiences.

• Slow it down – advocate caution, avoid haste

• Where possible refer all matters to committees (never fewer than five) for “consideration”

• Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

• Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

• Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.

zifnab25 , 3 months ago to Collapse in Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

In Georgia, demand for industrial power is surging to record highs, with the projection of electricity use for the next decade now 17 times what it was only recently.

The first new nuclear plants since Three Mile Island just came online in Georgia last year. Vogtle 3 and 4 will produce a combined 1.2 GWe at peak capacity.

These reactors took 16 years and multiple bailouts and bankruptcies to complete, costing an estimated $34B to finish.

Hopefully, future power construction will move a little smoother.

As a comparison, the Taishan Nuclear Power Plant took ten years to complete at the cost of around $7.5B and it has a peak generation of 3.3 GWe

zifnab25 , 4 months ago to AI in Google apologizes for “missing the mark” after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

There's a Sci-fi horror book I enjoyed, called "John Dies At The End", that posits an alternative history in which computers were created from the brains of pigs.

As a consequence, the civilization is heavily invested in harvesting organs in the same way that we're invested in drilling for oil.

zifnab25 , 4 months ago to AI in Google apologizes for “missing the mark” after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis

That would require some kind of machine capable of learning, a model of language so incredibly large that it can comprehend these linguistic nuances, or an intelligent form of artificial device.

Wonder if we'll ever have something like that in the future.

zifnab25 , 4 months ago to the_dunk_tank in My beautiful children would never look at a weed

Panicking every time the clock strikes "4:20" because I know what that means.

zifnab25 , 4 months ago to Science Memes in Anatomy

Its called a bumblebee because its got three left feet.

zifnab25 , 4 months ago to the_dunk_tank in LOL hecking epic post sir! Boobs are 💯💯💯

Imagine spending $13B on state of the art software and this is the only realistic use case.

zifnab25 , 5 months ago to the_dunk_tank in Forget No Labels. Biden’s Third-Party Peril is on the Left. -

You need to start from the premise that leftists are being hysterical and genocide isn't really happening.

Then you need to double down and insist you are right to be hysterical about the hypothetical genocide Trump might do.

Finally, they want to be able to indict you as fake Leftists who never really cared about Palestine when Joe Biden loses and Trump doesn't fix Biden's mess

"Leftists who didn't back Joe Biden caused the deaths of a billion people in the Middle East" will be added to the Black Book of Communism, in the end.

zifnab25 , 5 months ago to rpg in Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent

I am just personally uninterested in the direction the game is going with the OneD&D, and I think the source of this muddling path is do to the failure of the original business maneuver with the OGL revision.

I absolutely agree. Although, I think the consequences of that decision has been something of a "Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom!" D&D-knock-off renaissance. And I'm pretty happy with that, given how a lot of my old favorites from Palladium and Rollmaster and GURPS seem to have found some new life.

I don't really see things getting better under Hasbro, so any major shakeup might be a good thing overall.

I would love to see the Onyx Path (ie, old White Wolf) folks find their legs again. Miss myself some old school Vampire: The Masquerade.

zifnab25 , 5 months ago to rpg in Wizards of the Coast confirms it is not selling the d&d IP to tencent

they might have been more hands-off than Hasbro went it comes to mucking with the business model,

Hasbro was extremely hands off for a long while. But then their toy lines fell apart and their board game revenue just became "How many times can we sell you the same box of Monopoly pieces?"

Suddenly WotC was their revenue stream, and the head managers decided they needed to apply their magic touch to the franchise.

I don't really care, because D&D is more a style of playing than a product for sale. Sucks to see Faerun or Eberon cannibalized by these ghouls, but there's just so much fucking material out there that's never going away.

It's just not a game you can ruin (and 4e fucking tried, let me tell you). Too much of it is bound up in what you and your friends bring to the table.