[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

These all tend to be from people not wearing their seatbelts so being hurled neck-first into the ceiling when the plane is deflected downward, although some people with weaker necks can bang their heads from side to side too. This can also happen if the TCAS triggers - if two planes are headed toward each other it tie-breaks so one plane is advised to dive while another is advised to climb. The dives can be quite severe and people always get injured in them. You really do hurtle at the ceiling at incredible speed.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 2 points 7 hours ago

I thought as you but oh man after trying it there's no going back

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Get the speed skeleton and stabilizer. The stabilizer sounds boring but is actually a fucking jetpack. You can then launch yourself across the map like you're on the moon, it's amazing.

Edit: here's a video (spoilers for some late game gear) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQDIzfmgmgg

Edit 2: this can only reach its full potential in the director's cut btw

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

Biden and Trump die of natural causes on the same day within hours of each other. It is truly a coincidence but produces an incredibly convoluted & dull set of conspiracy theories that will be repeated for the next hundred years. Kamala loses to Trump's VP pick, who is a woman. Republicans crow about electing the first woman president for the next several decades, which is how long it will take to elect the second woman president.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 15 points 21 hours ago

is it actually true there are maoists in the everglades whose snake breeding operation was blown open by a hurricane that let out all the snakes or is that just a meme

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 17 points 23 hours ago

that train is obviously heading away from the white house

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 28 points 23 hours ago

Spitballing, this could really be paving the way for him to actually drop out. Obviously if it were going to happen it should be sooner rather than later. Giving him the nomination means if he drops out he gets to direct who the successor will be using his pledged delegates. If he drops out before getting the nomination his delegates can vote for whoever.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

the audiobook for Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus has the voice actor do impressions of all the relevant historical figures and his nixon is fuckin hilarious

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[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago

will always remind people this person got $52,157 in covid-era PPP "loans" that were then forgiven by the government, which is a fancy way of saying the state straight up gave them $50k cash. anyway they then turned around and then shit on the concept of student loan forgiveness

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

"it was a bad debate"

as though he gave uninspired answers to some questions instead of conclusively demonstrated that his brain is pudding

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

I think it's fine. The societal changes necessary to address climate change are so wild that people literally lack capacity to imagine them. Solarpunk is an art genre to fill in that space.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 16 points 1 day ago

there is no level of fascism that liberals cannot acclimate to

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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by itappearsthat@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

People bringing up asmongold saying "I hope they don't make it political" about MGS3 remake as though that's an inherently ignorant thing to say. I've played MGS3. It is an incredibly cheesy game targeted at teenagers with incoherent politics on the level of a james bond film. You have people running around saying the series is anti-war or whatever the fuck. Maybe you can find some buried recordings with the characters talking about some CIA op to topple governments or something. It is not front-and-center. All I can really think of is Ground Zeroes that has you infiltrating Guantanamo Bay. Peace Walker also has you fighting alongside some group who were socialist IRL.

Anyway I just say all this so you aren't as let down as I was when you play the MGS3 remake expecting some sort of full-throated communist propaganda.

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nobody is jealous of your working relationship with your abusive advisor

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If you're looking for an example of why we should not trust billionaires with our cultural heritage, here it is. Now all the cool pieces will be auctioned off to people with too much money and the rest will just be trashed.

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Ruto won an election almost two years ago on a platform of championing Kenya's working poor, but has been caught between the competing demands of lenders such as the International Monetary Fund, which is urging the government to cut deficits to access more funding, and a hard-pressed population.

Very interesting!

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Great success! :) (hexbear.net)
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ChatGPT is bullshit (link.springer.com)

Here's a good & readable summary paper to pin your critiques on

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Fast Crimes at Lambda School (www.sandofsky.com)

Long article about the collapse of that VC-financed coding bootcamp that tried to "disrupt" education with income-sharing agreements (indentured survitude) and shitty online zoom classes

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sadly my voice is readily found online so my own parents might be a target of this

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by itappearsthat@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

You can buy an 8-inch silicon wafer with these chips for $9000. That sounds expensive, but a wafer holds an amazing 100,587 tiny chips. That yields a price of nine cents per chip, making them cheap enough to use in disposable tickets.

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