My friend, this is Call of Cthulhu, where “OP” means you die two sessions after the rest.
Tar_Alcaran
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Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.world•Josh Hawley Begs Trump Administration to Approve FEMA Aid for MissouriEnglish3·11 hours agoWe as normal humans from earth always speak like that, do we not?
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto Ukraine•Russia Forces 20,000 Naturalized Migrants to Fight in Ukraine or Face Losing Citizenship4·11 hours agoThe percentage of casualties that go back into active service depends not only on medical skill, support systems and casevac, but also very strongly on how desperate a country is.
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto Politics@sh.itjust.works•Trump migrant detentions at Guantanamo Bay cost $100,000 per person daily, senator saysEnglish3·12 hours agoThis is VERY common. Keeping people locked up means you have to employ other people to keep an eye on them, maintain a facility, feed and clothe the people, etc etc. Not only are you depriving society of their value, you’re depriving society of everyone else’s value too.
The closing monologue from Captain Sisko in the Deepspace 9 episode “In the pale moonlight”.
Oh yeah, it’s straight up theft.
I mean, within set boundaries, it can work pretty well. Having it entirely free is demonstrably a bad idea for all but like 17 people.
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto SpaceflightMemes@sh.itjust.works•Blursed Shuttle Starship comboEnglish4·2 days agoone part: 1300+ days in orbit
one part: can’t even get there.
On average that’s pretty great!
Yeah, a rep followed up with me afterward. lmao
“Here is the personalized link to an anonymous survey:”
That would require making and enforcing laws.
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•(Dr. Jill Biden’s doctorate is in education, btw)20·2 days agoAlso, even if her degree WAS medical, there’s a lot of fields, and cancer is usually not something you can just see without a couple of expensive machines.
Hell, I’m of doctor of chemistry, doesn’t mean I know shit about, oh say, making paint.
You can just let the free market solve this problem for you. It doesn’t happen often, but it’s actually true here.
It’s super fucking easy too: place the burden of delivery on the seller/shipper, and presto, suddenly paying a little more for non-shit delivery becomes worth it. Or they keep trying till they get it right.
Doge’s cuts can’t event cover Doge’s costs, let alone anything else, let alone all the following damages resulting from those cuts.
Also, risk is a factor.
If you lend money to your flaky cousin, you might want more interest to cover the risk of him never paying you back. If you lend money to your twin sister who has never missed a single thing in her life, maybe half a percent will do.
Well, the US just started moving into flaky cousin territory after two centuries of reliable sister.
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto ShowerThoughts@sh.itjust.works•"I'll just use my laptop charger to charge my Xbox controller" would have been a baffling sentence in 20051·2 days agoThe other way around is way weirder. “I forgot my laptop charge, but I have my phone charger, so that works!”
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto NonCredibleDefense@lemmy.world•Unfortunately, I suspect some Americans would still call it 'winning'English5·2 days agoWell, if you simply redefine your mission…
Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksto SneerClub@awful.systems•Where Scoot makes the case about how an AGI could build an army of terminators in a year if it wanted.English13·2 days agoA thing that doesn’t exist and that we don’t even have a concept of a plan of how to make, could easily do something extremely unlikely
Killing Anopheles is easy and smart, because no more malaria, and there are many other options to fill the niche.
Killing Anopheles while not also wiping out all those other insects is really really really hard