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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you split the north and south into two provinces, they'd vote at odds with eachother enough to be controlled.

Combine that with some good ol gerrymandering by creeping your provinces down into the US, you'd chip away at US votes enough I can't imagine it'd really be a huge issue.

(Signed, a US American)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

Good to hear, I've honestly been wondering how US folks would be received moving to Canada.

Various estimates do put me at nearly a 50% pay cut. Which, if the CoL doesn't scale down at least a little bit, could actually put me in a bit of a bind when supporting my wife as well.

That's if I could actually convince her to consider it, though.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

A friend of mine at Tufts was telling me about their ML/comp sco programs falling apart. She's doing her PhD and was handed a project previously led by a green card holder who fucked off (because yeah why would you stay in a place that clearly doesn't want you??). Now she's left managing expectations for a project she didn't write the codebase for.

And that was BEFORE the recent disappearing of a Tufts student earlier this week.

I'm a productive SWE at a big tech firm and I'm looking pretty seriously at offices in Canada. Better than hoping I don't get abducted because my voter registration has (D) on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Note to self to watch later.

Tagline reminds me of Tataru FFXIV, though I don't think she ever actually fights.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I mean in this case it was their company at the start. Like they get (or got) money from it in a way that the usual developer doesn't. And in this case it's because of a shitty, greedy action we have a pretty easy solution to. That being piracy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Fuck I thought men were featherless bipeds?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just wow bug free code y'all smh

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

first I've heard of this show, so forgive me if you've heard this before. But. Aren't all LOTR stories generic, because "generic fantasy" (as we know it today) was defined by LOTR in the first place?

At least, any LOTR story that would blend with the original texts/movie. Peter Jackson's even on the poster, though IDK what his relationship with this work will be. I'm sure you could make an out-there story set in middle-earth, but I'm skeptical that it would be recognizably LOTR.

Depends on if you want it to be recognizably LOTR ofc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

What's the traffic on invidious? Like, while I don't necessarily agree with the ad-block-block, the profit motive makes sense given their ubiquity. But are there really enough users of alternate YouTube frontends that Google is capturing any meaningful profit? Especially when developer hours are expensive and could be used elsewhere on more valuable projects?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

The problem with boob plate is how it deflects attacks. There are plenty of places on that armor where a spear jab would deflect upwards toward the neck area.

Flat isn't really what you want either for these. When the weapon deflects and slides off to a side, that steals a lot of the energy from the impact. If the weapon strikes a flat armor, it would be much more likely to damage the armor. That might mean caving in the plate, or fully piercing it. Neither is great. (And even if the armor withstands the hit, it might knock you on your ass, which could very well be a death sentence)

There's usually some room in these sorts of armors. unless you're tiddy is comically big, I'm skeptical that you'd need a great deal of accommodation. But even if you do, the armor shouldn't look like booba from the outside.

Something like this should presumably work, but I'll admit I've never had boobs inside of a suit of armor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Reminder that the 30% steam tax is absolutely greed. Gabe is a libertarian and charges it because he can get away with it. It makes games worse by affecting the equation measuring what is profitable to make. Gabe doesn't care about that, and that should be taken into account when considering if you actually trust him.

 

I dont honestly expect you to see this, but it was fun enough I thought I say something in a public space.

If you're a tuskan raider who was working with a gal doing belly flops and holding a big gun, that was me. I didn't think touching the world stone would change the map and make alchemist inaccessible, and I was hoping if we made a point to go back and intentionally die that the other guy in your game would see what was up.

I'm usually a solo player, and very rarely a mic player so I enjoyed the chance to hang out in a low pressure, no mic environment. I just wanted to mess around with my big ol engineer gun and enjoy big dakka. Thanks for putting up with me being actually incompetent, it was a good time :)

 

Like most folks with ADHD I have some spares for situations like the recent shortage.

Every so often it seems like the pill isn't really doing it's job. I start to wonder if I'm building up a tolerance, and need to ask for an increased dosage, and then suddenly I'm doing fine again.

Well, I was going through that recently, and I realized I just switched to my newest bottle. Now it feels just as strong, if not stronger than it used to be. As it happens, I tend to have some spares from days I forget and whatnot, so it's been maybe 2 weeks. That also means this last bottle was over month old, too. I wish I could remember if I'd just changed to the new bottle the last time this happened too.

I'm using Walgreens, and the shape of the pill changed last month, so maybe there's a different formulation? I just keep going through this feast and famine of medication efficacy, and Itd be nice to know if this is a problem I can actually solve without going to a higher dosage. Idk, maybe I'll keep them in the fridge while Im not using them or something.

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