PorkrollPosadist

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 20小时前

Some

forgot to turn on their pitot heater while they were descending from icing conditions and the benevolent military decided to step in and assist.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 20小时前

Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

God forbid, japes.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

It is a recognizable brand, especially for crackers like myself who look up recipes on the king arthur baking website because we have no culture of passing down family recipes

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

Gooch Ostensibly Obstructed by Dookie

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

hell yeah dude

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

warning that what some may dismiss as winter “antics” could escalate into something far more dangerous.

Today it's antics, tomorrow it's hijinks, and before you know it, the whole city is descending into an unmitigated epidemic of tomfoolery.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

This might be a small potatoes issue, but starting out as a GNU zealot tech libertarian and seeing how deliberately the (US) government repeatedly dropped the ball in terms of embracing open source infrastructure and developing their own technology solutions in-house definitely influenced my radicalization arc to a degree. Not as much as more life-and-death issues which I only grew to appreciate in adulthood, but this is fertile ground to agitate, especially for any euros floating around.

Tech Sovereignty is a laudable goal, but it is also turning into a big marketing buzzword. To some, it means not allowing the US to rugpull your state institutions, while to others it means prostrating yourself so the mega-polluting OpenAI and Palantir surveillance datacenters can be built in your country too.

Right now, in light of the US's enthusiastic violations of international law, Global North Liberals (especially technology professionals) EXPECT their countries to take the matter of tech sovereignty seriously. A cost must be exacted every time the ruling class squanders and sandbags these opportunities in favor of supplicating their citizens to US dominance.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 3天前

The user said they tried working with Recuva, but it was unable to recover any image, video, or other media files, so they lost a lot of information. In the end, they warned users “to be careful not to use the turbo mode” at least in the beginning. And despite the catastrophic failure, they still said that they love Google and use all of its products

I still love the truck.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 4天前

Lies. Slander. Sonic 2's halfpipe ring collectathons were pretty cool. Sonic 3's bonus stages were varied and interesting for what they are (a gimmick to get some more rings or an extra life). Sonic Spinball's rigged mini-pinball tables were dope as hell. It is pretty much just Blue Sphere which is a steaming turd, and I guess 3D Blast's ring collectathons which were derivative and worse than Sonic 2's in every way.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 5天前

For what it's worth, industrial mermaid bone farming was a bridge too far for Tarn.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 6天前

I haven't tried either, but stoat seems more promising: https://github.com/stoatchat/

Matrix is lowkey dead. Everyone is waiting to see what will replace it, but none of these Discord alternatives check the federation+E2EE boxes yet.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 6天前

Still playing Moria. Just stepped on a nasty gas trap which has left me deeply confused and unable to cast any spells. Also had a few run-ins with worm-masses reproducing explosively. The ones on this level set you on fire.

PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 6天前

For lack of a better term, there is a deeply Orwellian aspect to all of this. Through digitization, we've managed to make all of the learning materials completely ephemeral. Textbooks (if you could still even call them that) can be revised on a day to day basis. Controversial subject matter removed or reframed on a day's notice. You used to need to replace an entire fleet of hard-bound textbooks to do this kind of revisionism, but now you can simply pass a law like New Hampsire outlawing "the dialectical method" and have the changes implemented throughout the entire public education system within a week. And it's not even a matter of skipping a couple chapters of the textbook in the lesson planning, it simply ceases to exist.

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PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them] @hexbear.net 1周前

Hopefully it's not out of turn for me to post the weekly submission

No, this is COOL.

Our military has a core of competent fighters who can handle dangerous beasts and invaders mostly. I think we ought to use new migrants to expand, get a few extra squads up, and put them in iron gear for the near term. It's not technically optimum but steel is going to be a long haul, to say nothing of having expert armorers and weaponsmiths. Don't want perfect to be the enemy of good, and all.

Steel IS going to be a long haul, but it shouldn't be THIS long. The setup is incredibly inefficient. There are multiple bottlenecks which can be resolved.

As far as the military goes, I basically scrapped it and re-constituted it during my turn. We had multiple squads with a lot of vacancies, I consolidated melee into one squad, and might have created a crossbow squad later as an afterthought. The training routines, barracks assignments, and availability of resources can use a review.

An artifact was stolen, I was not able to catch the perp, so I pass that mystery along.

With the amount of ~~espionage fronts~~ performance troupes we've got, there's basically no point of even investigating this lmao. Artifacts are simply going to evaporate.

Our military was able to kill it but there were a lot of casualties. Fingers crossed that migrants still want to come.

I got a couple decent "despite the danger" migration waves last year. Dwarves live for this shit apparently.