AlteredStateBlob

joined 2 years ago
[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

My best guess is a mix of bad investments in commercial real estate (similar to 2008 regular real estate) an increase in political activism, because people are realizing they can have lives outside work, increased unionization efforts, etc. All of which come with people having more time for themselves and being less directly influenced by "company culture" when they are in an office.

I doubt it has anything to do with productivity at all. Just harder to really influence and control people if they aren't forced to be where you need them to be to do so.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 32 points 2 years ago (8 children)

This might fully go over my head in the moment. I have met so many mega weird men, that I would just assume the other person must have met a similar selection and take it as a compliment and worry a bit about who they socialize with, if I am a good example of a man to them.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So now that Biden admin brokered a ceasefire and hostage exchange in the Palestine Israel conflict, is he still genocidal or?

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (6 children)

People tend to ignore that spells are very difficult and intricate things. Unless you have innate or divinely inspired spell casting, every spell is simply too much to retain for regular people forcing spells to work for them. This goes for both components and the spell itself. If you get even the smallest detail wrong, it could be disastrous.

I think of it like an engineer or some such. Sure they have some approximate knowledge of most formulas they need for their work and they will know some by heart. But building a bridge from memory, just because they have been building bridges for twenty years won't be possible without proper preparation and work.

Also why wizards are the only class that can learn all spells. They are the only nerds on the block willing to put in the work.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It might still be more expensive but more resilient to other external factors such as embargoes, wars, whatever might influence delivery of other water sources. Cost isn't the only factor to decide what technology or solution should be implemented.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am not ignoring that, it is also vastly more contaminated than fresh water with microplastics and all the other grabage shipping companies and countries have been dumping into it for the better part of a century now.

I'm not saying it is impossible to do or not a potentially sensible option in certain places, I am saying it is not going to be cheaper than tap water anywhere.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Yeah, no. It won't be cheaper than tap water. The amount of energy required for desalination, clogging or no, is an additional cost on top of what you need to do to get water drinkable with non salinated water. So no matter the energy source, this cost has to be factored in and that will automatically make it more expensive. No free lunches in physics.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Gifs work if you add them from your PC rather than from an URL. Download it, pull it into chat, gift works. It's not as easy as it should be, but at least it has a workaround

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago

These scam centers are active around the clock. Why wouldn't they be? It's billions they are pulling as an industry.

I've been watching his channel for years and never once had the impression anything he does is faked.

The scammers he talks to would have to be amazing actors to have emotional outbursts like they do after being comparatively friendly and tame for so long.

Not only that, but there is rarely a repeat of the people he talks to, if any, unless it is the same scammer for days.

I don't are anything that would suggest this one or any of his videos are fake.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imperor - mostly long videos playing and teaching Paradox games (currently mainly Crusader Kings 3), but the guy has that kind of voice I like to have just running in the background for comfort, so that works out. Recently started to do some interesting DND/TTRPG stuff as well like little guides for DMs and even quests to put into games. Also looks at smaller games from time to time during steam next fests and such.

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