Duamerthrax

joined 1 year ago
[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 33 minutes ago

Wasn't .ml the second largest instance at one point?

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I started there. It's tiring when every internal political discussion boils done to China/Russia good because NATO bad. .ml is subtle about it and does a lot of word game shit you see in right wing media. They maintain enough plausible deniability to remain federated. The defederate instances were the one using slurs.

[–] Duamerthrax 3 points 1 hour ago

The national religion is The Economy. No one can ever get elected on anything that doesn't put that as the biggest issue. Hell, we'll elect fraudster fascists with a known, terrible business track record if he looks like a caricature of the rich.

[–] Duamerthrax 2 points 1 hour ago

If it lowers MPG, it increases CO2 per work done. There's no getting around that.

I always thought that the way auto manufactures went about meeting emissions by adding more parts(that will break and need replacing, $$$) and lowering fuel economy(I wonder who benefits from that?) to be at best, lazy and at worse, suspicious. I recently learned about a Swedish engine manufacture called Scania that's managed to meet emissions without DEF. I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on those companies.

For now, I'm just gonna keep making biodiesel for my farm and burning scrap wood for heat. The emissions tech they're piling on to diesels actually precludes running biodiesel in them, so it's not exactly like I'd ever be getting any new. Not like I'd want to buy a one ton piece of spyware anyway.

[–] Duamerthrax 2 points 1 hour ago

You're preaching to the choir. I referring to the mindsets of the law makers who wrote those laws.

[–] Duamerthrax -2 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I genuinely would like to know if the increase in CO2 emissions is worth the decrease in NOx emissions, but acid rain is a now problem and climate change isn't.

[–] Duamerthrax 13 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

It's also about the same electric-to-thermal efficiency as a regular space heater, so if that's how you heat, there's no reason not to.

[–] Duamerthrax 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Did the Steam forums plot to over throw the US election? Are there private Police Union communities on Steam?

[–] Duamerthrax 1 points 20 hours ago

Joined a year ago, but only have two posts and two comments made in the day...

[–] Duamerthrax 5 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Welcome to the Internet

Is it worse then twitter or facebook? Also, can we stop infantilizing "young adults"? They're trying to discredit anyone's opinion who isn't a senior citizen.

[–] Duamerthrax 5 points 20 hours ago

hmm. I wonder how many Trump voters you know vs how many Harris voters you know. Unless you're an statistician, your comment is low quality and deserves downvotes.

[–] Duamerthrax 81 points 23 hours ago

It's saying the quite part out loud about the normalized police state we live in.

 

There was a long rumor that the reason she didn't quit the company when everyone else was quitting was because she was trying to outlast the company and retain the IP. She's the companies top talent, so the fact that there were willing to sell the IP to her really doesn't look good for the longevity of the company. They now only have 3 of the 14 talents they had signed.

I've held a theory that she's independently wealthy and could weather the bs. She's mentioned having her own manager that she pays directly a few months ago, which is really weird for an agency vtuber to have.

 

Community college ostensibly for people who don't have a good track record from High School, but is often advertised as the cheap, local option for people who don't want to feel bad about having to go.

I did in fact try community college and it's really just high school material with smaller text. I even took it in parallel with an edX equivalent and the material wasn't even close to each other. The idea that CC is suppose to replace the first 2 years at a real college is terrifying and reinforces how much of the professional word is theater.

If you do any number of years at a community college, you should be able to apply as a freshman to a real college if you want.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Duamerthrax to c/[email protected]
 

This might be considered drama, but I thought some people might be interested in an update.

March Wayback Machine listing.

Current List.

For those out of the loop, back in May, FalseEyed broke a story about MSM. Right after that, several vtubers shared their own stories about dealing with the CEO and his bad behavior.

Just afterward, Aethel made two statements. The first one saying that he's talking to HIS laywers. The second announcing his departure.

Since then, the company has been shedding talents. I assume more are just waiting for their contracts to run out and want to leave quietly.

According to Krimbo, the MSM CEO is largely responsible for Takahata101's burnout last year. It will be interesting to see who shows back up in the bar now that Taka is back.

Edit: Another four dropped since I posted this. GhostySaige, Nagzz, RPR and Vexoria.

Most of the open drama is happening on Twitter, which I don't use, so I can only relay second hand info. MSM's Director of Talent also bailed yesterday with the support of exMSM talents.

Edit 2: and the talent page is empty. Some back and forth going on on twitter.

Edit 3: Falseeyed's coverage of the msm fallout.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Duamerthrax to c/[email protected]
 

As of this posting, she's still in the prep/warmup room. She previously went viral for her "The Troubles" lecture on Saint Patrick's Day.

 

old: https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Miyune

new: https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/MinikoMew

Weird that she would abandon a 100k+ identity for a rebrand when her old IP already had a serious redesign. It was bothering me where she went when she disappeared out of the blue. One of her notable collabs was being the first to collab with Neuro-sama.

 

Old clip, but given that something's happening on the official Kizuna channel right now, I thought a refresher is in order.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Duamerthrax to c/[email protected]
 

I'm not looking for answers. Just directions on what keywords for lectures on the topic. I can find CS stuff when looking, but that feels too esoteric for high school geometry?

 

Former Tsunderia talent, turned PC manager, turned PC talent, Dizzy also did a stream titled: Why You Should NOT Join Phase Connect where she explained what it means to go from being an indie to a corpo talent. What is expected of you, what groups success means, deadline expectations. I think one of the reasons for PC's success has been setting realistic expectations with their talents. I think part of the reason for this steam is to dissuade the people who previous would have misunderstood what PC can and cannot do you for.

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