thawed_caveman

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[–] thawed_caveman 34 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The life expectancy of 75 is an average (of the US population i assume), billionaires are likely to live longer

[–] thawed_caveman 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just in general villages aren't sustainable, even on flat ground. They will absolutely get overrun by zombies within a few nights unless the player intervenes.

Also, if i recall correctly, the butcher's hut has their smoker generate with a solid block above it; this is a problem because villagers can't use job site blocks that have a solid block above them. So this butcher eventually becomes a regular villager.

So in a few different ways, villages as they are generated are unsustainable. And there's too many of them, there's an argument that the world feels way too populated where the vibe of Minecraft's world once was sheer solitude

[–] thawed_caveman 49 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oh i thought it said RS. Man someone should learn to crop their memes

[–] thawed_caveman 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I do have a backup laptop, which does come in handy for the rare case of, for example, making a new install.

But yeah, i feel like a laptop is an awkward middle ground between a phone and a desktop. It's not as powerful and has a small screen, but it's also not as portable as my phone.

Granted if i travelled more i would need a laptop, and then i would have a dock of some kind at home to extend its capabilities (USB hub, second monitor, etc)

[–] thawed_caveman 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do think it's a good idea to do what you did and just try it as is, since there's actually a pretty decent chance that it just works.

However, if it doesn't work, i would check everything as if i'm building the PC from scratch. Are the parts compatible (good old pcpartpicker is here for that), is the PSU sufficient, is everything plugged in the way the manuals say, etc

[–] thawed_caveman 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No i always expected conservatives to be secretely gay, but accidentally streaming gay porn is so funny and so demonstrative that it sounds made up. Like it's unquestionable proof of a common stereotype and the person also looks clumsy in the process, it's like too good.

[–] thawed_caveman 155 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I didn't believe you, OP. I thought there's no way, it's exactly the kind of thing that would be made up. Like we all talk about accidentally streaming porn but it never actually happens.

But holy fuck, there's images. There's a screen recording. You can see one of the guys had a pup hood. I am completely shocked.

And yeah, even before he realized what was happening the chat had already come up with an excuse and he went with it. We live in a clown world.

[–] thawed_caveman 33 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They were talking about being tired and getting away from it all, what you're describing sounds like the least relaxing activity possible

[–] thawed_caveman 15 points 1 month ago

This makes complete sense as getting you to pay more for less is what private businesses are all about.

[–] thawed_caveman 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah i used to moderate and i've actually had my own posts and comments reported on my own sub.

Also i got in an argument once and they threatened to report me, not understanding that i had been the main moderator for 8 years.

[–] thawed_caveman 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See the thing is i'm not worldly enough to know what common animals in my country are uncommon in other countries. I mean there's some mallards here and there, the ones with the green head just like the meme, are those exotic and surprising? Oh, my old hometown has swans. They're surprisingly aggressive.

What i will say though is that i definitely feel that way about architecture. I quite like the winding medieval back alley leading to a church built in 980 (as in the year), it's cool; but Americans will have a spiritual experience over it because no building in the US is that old.

[–] thawed_caveman 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So let me get this straight: they cut down the forest, plant palm trees, harvest it for i guess a few years, and then... plant the forest back? How does that make sense just on any level?

I mean at least i happen to know it doesn't make sense on an ecological level as a new groth forest is massively different from an old growth forest, so the new forest is no replacement for the old one.

Also i'm not sure if you understand what an argument from ignorance is? It's not an ignorant argument, it's a specific type of logical fallacy. The observation that no extractive industry has proven sustainable is a predictor that they're unlikely to prove sustainable in the future.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by thawed_caveman to c/reddit
 

I've been the main moderator of the same community since 2016. This evening, i approved my last comment.

I'm leaving for two reasons:

  1. Reddit went public a week ago. I didn’t volunteer to work for a publicly traded company, i volunteered to work for a community. As long as i live under capitalism i accept that my labor will generate value for shareholders, but damned if i ever do it for free. (this is not a Faulkner quote)

  2. April 1st is coming and i'm scared they might do another r/place. Doing in r/place 2022 and 2023 has left me dejected and bitter and i don't want to feel obligated to participate again.

Leaving felt like ripping myself off of something warm i've been comfortably glued to for a long time. Still recommend it for anyone still giving Reddit shareholders free labor


EDIT: there are too many comments to respond to, but i've appreciated all of them! Thank you

 

today i remembered an idea for a meme that i had years ago and forgot about, enjoy

 
 
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It kinda reads like that. Curious if there's business to be made in using AI to generate industrial amounts of low-quality spam, and if AI has any other use cases.

 

Whenever a forum dies, a lot of answered questions are lost that would have been useful to people googling it in the future.

Reddit is like the mother of all forums, and it also has had a lot of internet history being made on it.

I really think we need a Reddit archive that is availabel for random people from Google. The best case scenario is that Reddit just limps on for years, therefore doing this conservation work better than anyone else could.

 

Almost always my movies even though i have tons of music, and always the most obscure shit. I have Disney movies and Breaking Bad, but people go for the auteur french sci-fi animated features.

Soulseek gives me much the same joy of sharing as torrent does, perhaps more so because it's one-on-one with a username instead of an IP.

It's very easy to contribute to Soulseek as opposed to torrent, you just mark your shared folders. I think there's probably more content as a result, at the cost of the inefficiency of multiple people offering the same thing. Which i'm not sure matters.

I don't know if the rooms are really worth it. You only get the messages starting when you logged in, so you can't catch up to what happened before; this problem is particularly relevant because most rooms are dead; those that aren't dead consist of a lot of vicious arguments; and it's live chat anyway, never my favorite format for discussion.

I prefer Soulseek to eMule just because it works, but i also found it simpler.

Unfortunately my VPN doesn't play well with Soulseek, apparently it doesn't support port forwarding? I'm not sure how to fix this. It may in fact have been a problem when torrenting too the whole time and i didn't notice.

Overall i really enjoy Soulseek and will probably always have it in the background, it's pretty great!

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