makeshiftreaper

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[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What a terrible website. I couldn't even read it without it loading ads and moving my screen everywhere

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Probably toggleable statistics. So I could choose to see information about people above their heads. Mood, age, name, net worth, and stuff like that. It'd be something I could turn on/off and choose what's stats I want to see at any given time

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (7 children)

You may be interested in The Man in the High Castle it's both a novel by Phillip K. Dick and TV show on Amazon Prime that explores exactly that premise

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You could buy a top tier modern deck, a couple of competitive standard decks, or a bunch of pretty good commander decks in Magic:the Gathering

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Some more physics things, every planet has a limit on how high the tallest possible mountain is based off their surface gravity, the type of rocks present in the crust, and thickness of the crust. On Earth it turns out that limit is pretty close to Mt Everest's height. Space is still about 50 miles above Everest so I don't think humans could build this ramp with our current understanding of physics

If you want to go to space slowly then you can just do what Felix Baumgartner did and take a special type of balloon to get into space. Unfortunately, if you're not traveling 25,000 mph relative to the surface of the planet, you're going to fall back to the planet. Just like Felix did

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So for physics reasons it doesn't really matter what technique you're using to leave Earth. If you're going to try to go to space successfully, you're going to have to go a minimum speed of 25,000 miles per hour. That's called the escape velocity and it's a different value for every body of mass in space

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 117 points 1 week ago (27 children)

Is it the primary reason? No, I agree.

However it's childish and naive to think both racism and sexism were not significant reasons that America, a deeply racist and sexist country, did not choose a black woman to lead it

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Look man, as someone who thought Switch 2 mouse controls were a gimmick and has sunk 17 hours into Civ VII, I don't feel confident enough to tell all these people that they are wrong. If I had been in college and was told people could get scholarships for NASCAR Soccer I would have laughed in your face. Being that cocky is asking to be wrong

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're correct, those things are avoidable and can be designed around. However hiring the people who know how to do that also costs money and it's cheaper to hire shitty engineers who do things safely instead of well. We're not stupid, we're exploitative

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

First and foremost it's bold to put this out before Drag x Drive releases which is just weird enough to become its own thing. Second, even the owner Epic doesn't even seem to know what to do with Rocket League because they seem to be trying to make it part of Fortnite. Thirdly, esports are everywhere, sorry not all of them look like legacy sports but that's not a problem for people playing the games

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't know about you but the vast majority of bathroom stalls I see do not use wood. They are almost all metal, and keeping metal from rubbing on metal in a high humidity environment seems like a cost saving measure to me

[–] makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world 99 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Occasionally I hear people argue it's so you can catch IV drug users without bursting in. Personally I think it's that capitalism cares not for your happiness and it's fractionally cheaper to have shitty doors, and so that's what people do

 

For those of us who still use reddit on occasion, I'm sure you've noticed AI is running rampant over there, from the multitude of variations of "Am I the Asshole", "Malicious Compliance", and especially in the comments. A lot of the explain the joke subreddits and in particular "Peter Explain the Joke" seem to ask questions so obvious that I am curious if it's designed to test AI responses and use upvotes to score the results. I know there're a lot of dipshits out there but are there so many that those posts routinely reach the front page multiple times a day? Is it just plain old karma farming?

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