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Messages - Strife26

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General Discussion / Re: Israel-Gaza/Palestine war thread
« on: January 21, 2024, 02:47:12 pm »
Yes, this is horrible

But what is your solution? Do you propose to not engage with Hamas in hospitals giving them an absolutely safe area to strike from?

I suppose in retrospect, you could have made Israel state-sponsored hospitals, or set up alternative ones, to provide "secure" medical services before bombing the other buildings.

Even simpler, just have a force sweep through the hospital building to secure it, and only if that force gets attacked would you consider bombing the structure.  I think honest medical professionals would be annoyed by having soldiers running around the facility but they aren't going to shoot back.

There are lots of alternatives there.

Yes, the magic "What if war wasn't war" alternatives. Entire world of things Israel could have done in that reality.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: April 05, 2023, 09:44:21 pm »
It'd make almost as much sense as organizing based on if the number of participants was odd or even!

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Life Advice / Re: Life and Times of Strife26
« on: December 23, 2022, 03:15:08 pm »
Something like that! And I probably stopped posting frequently five years ago or something.

It's pretty incredible how much went into this thread once upon a time. It's nice to look back on, so I think it's served its purpose.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: December 21, 2022, 10:04:20 pm »
Reading up on it, it is entirely lower-level school officials pushing this, not a mandate from the Pentagon. The program is subsidized, so the schools can save on budget, and there's some other funding incentives. JROTC students also have a very pronounced difference compared to non JROTC students in terms of causing trouble and poor academic performance*. So lower-level school administrators are taking the easy way out and pushing it.


*This may very well be an inverted relationship. An optional program like JROTC tends to attract the kind of motivated student that will do well in general and is not likely to cause trouble.

Last time we did the "OMG MANDATORY JROTC IN HIGH SCHOOL" thing, it was one school that counted it as one way to meet the gym class credit.

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DF General Discussion / Re: look at that steam sales rank!
« on: December 13, 2022, 09:02:40 pm »
Kitfox's community manager mentioned that they would be putting some financials up for the sake of being transparent later, but I am pretty much assuming that the numbers the brothers typically post in their monthly reports also is not after tax, then its split between two people, so it wasn't a whole lot of money despite it being a respectable amount.

I'd be interested in the source for that if you remember where it was posted.

Alexandra Orlando mentioned it in episode 4 of the beginner friendly dwarf fortress streams. I'm at work right now but I don't mind digging up a timestamp for it later

And here we go https://youtu.be/GjT813HNX5g?t=3298

Link above is timestamped but at 55:00 this is discussed

Thanks!

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: December 12, 2022, 12:23:37 am »
Publisher of a game in 2022 announcing a price cut to Russian purchasers of a game because

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some countries who were hit hard by inflation got caught in a bit of the international crossfire and had their indie game prices shoot up 500%, which probably feels harsh for folks just trying to live their lives.



WTF.

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DF General Discussion / Re: look at that steam sales rank!
« on: December 12, 2022, 12:08:39 am »
Kitfox's community manager mentioned that they would be putting some financials up for the sake of being transparent later, but I am pretty much assuming that the numbers the brothers typically post in their monthly reports also is not after tax, then its split between two people, so it wasn't a whole lot of money despite it being a respectable amount.

I'd be interested in the source for that if you remember where it was posted.

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Got to say that I do admire the commitment here. You dug up a 9 year old thread (And account, I assume a throwaway?) to complain about something you wanted to happen happening.

Not to mention cherry picking comments and calling those people 'a-holes'...

I mean, in his defense, those are pretty dick-ish comments and the underlying thesis that "if Toady wanted to invest a bunch of time and effort into the UI, there would be more financial stability" was also correct. Still, bad look all around.

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Life Advice / Re: Life and Times of Strife26
« on: December 04, 2022, 11:34:31 pm »
Been forever since I've posted in this thread, but the looming Steam release is making me nostalgic for the past. Maybe I'll have to post an update or an epilogue or somesuch.


BLUF: me is good engineer in LA who works too much and doesn't have much of a life outside of that.

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Definitely a shame all around.

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Life Advice / Re: coffee
« on: April 08, 2021, 09:27:38 pm »
There's nothing wrong with buying pre-ground coffee.

Steel is much nicer than glass for a french press carafe, although you lose out being able to see the water level.

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General Discussion / Re: Space Thread
« on: February 19, 2021, 09:06:47 pm »
Except each single one of the tiny ones won't necessarily explode every operating orbiter it touches. Again the total mass is smaller.

And I think a uniform cloud of small bits would be easier to clean up as well. Imagine catching a couple rabbits vs sweeping up a bunch of ants with a broom.

Actually I would say a uniform cloud of small bits is way more predictable as well. There'd be some set amount of abrasion that a spacecraft could reasonably experience on its way to orbit and in orbit that scientists could engineer for, rather than just hoping a big 'un doesn't strike it at random and blow it up.

I mean, you're free to say that. You're incredibly wrong, but you do you.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: November 21, 2020, 10:01:51 pm »
Would you like to say something?
Yes. orange man bad
Carthago delenda est

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: June 02, 2020, 09:49:11 pm »
"Posted April 16th"


Like, it's shitty, but it's not in response to the current events.

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General Discussion / Re: Space Thread
« on: May 22, 2020, 03:29:39 pm »
To be honest, I kinda expect these missions to not actually happen. Call it a gut feeling but it seems like uplifting propaganda and nothing else. Even more so if Orange Trump fails to get reelected.

On the mission itself theres some info already on wikipedia Artemis program page.

This at least makes much more sense than trying to get to Mars rigth away. The Moon should be our tutorial level.

That's making an assumption that there's sufficient political will to do both and that the moon program isn't largely born of NASA's desire to build another largely useless space station instead of working towards exploration, colonization, and development on other celestial bodies.

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