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TacticsConsort

@ TacticsConsort @yiffit.net

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  • Dragoneer has died...

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  • RIP, he shall be missed. That site's been a good one throughout the years, I've made genuine friends over it even outside its' more famous uses.

    This does raise some worries about the future of FurAffinity. That site runs at a deficit, so if a corporate investor gets their hands on it then it will be swiftly thrown into the Shit Pit in order to make a quick buck. Decades of art, literature and culture gone in a flash.

    Thankfully, we are the furry fandom, so the chances of getting touched by corporations are a bit lower than other sites which are more marketable. But still, making sure that the site has sufficient funding for the future is going to be a real concern. I can't back this up, it's just a rumour I heard, but the most likely reason that Dragoneer died now is because he chose to use his money to keep the site running instead of buying medicines. While the shitty US healthcare system is absolutely to blame for this death, it also makes a pretty stark point about the cost of the site, if it's comparable to having to buy US Medicines.

  • Hamas military chief killed in air strike, Israel says

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  • Cool, but at this point we all know that this means nothing but more dead innocents while they look for the next guy on the long list of guys responsible, so you'll forgive my lack of enthusiasm.

  • King Charles’ €500K lobster dinner blows hole in French presidency’s budget

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  • What. How do you even spend that much on a dinner, even for 1000 people.

    And like. It's King Charles. I loved the Queen and thought she was iconic, and even I don't really care about Charles. All of my friends in my circle actively despise him and what he represents. Literally why are you trying to curry favour with him that hard.

  • JD Vance calls Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ in resurfaced emails

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  • Oh, this is a useful bot. Nice call, whoever added it

  • JD Vance calls Trump ‘morally reprehensible’ in resurfaced emails

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  • That may not be the biggest issue, but it's definitely the easiest to mock him over, and when you're a politician who needs your own voter base to take you seriously... Mockery is perhaps deadlier than getting called out for being a stain on humanity.

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    Why I don't use puzzles anymore

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  • On the contrary, puzzles can be half the fun, especially if your players are idiots

    There is a Young Black Dragon in my world who was literally never meant to be a major issue for any players but currently has EIGHT player character deaths attributed to him, because the first (level 8) party TPKd when they tried to move deeper into his territory to ambush him after he stole one of their bags, and they all drowned in a bog (trying to help each other and the ones who went to help also getting into trouble). Then there was a oneshot where a second (level 5) party went to his lair to avenge the first one and they also TPK'd because he got a surprise round against them.

  • Russia cracks down on personal phones on the frontline

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  • ...Wait, that wasn't a basic standard lesson? Isn't an unsecured phone transmission basically a death sentence if if gets picked up since it tells people exactly where to fire artillery at?

  • Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report

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  • Please please please please

  • Britain drops its challenge to ICC arrest warrants for Israeli leaders

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  • Nice! I know there's still much further to go before justice is done, but this is a step in the right direction, and I can appreciate it for that.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete

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  • I will pay for an adblocker before I pay for an ad provider to stop harassing me

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    Too spicy?

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  • Nah, this is the right amount of spice. We should back Harris, but we need to stay self-aware. Don't want to end up like the Republicans.

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    Breaking News: Biden announces he's dropping out of 2024 presidential race, endorses Kamala Harris for president

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  • Well. That's the million dollar question, isn't it?

    She does have the distinct advantage of being under the retirement age. We'll have to see what her policies are and how she performs in debates, though.

  • Joe Biden ends re-election campaign

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  • You're not wrong, but the comparison I like here is Ruth Bader Ginsberg. She wasn't just doing her job well, she was one of the best Supreme Court Justicies EVER.

    She didn't resign when the time was right, and as a result she died under Trump, a republican got her seat, and all the great things she did were swiftly demolished, wrecking decades of work over one single mistake: Not knowing when to step down.

    Now I know the situation isn't perfectly comparable. But if Trump gets in, then every good thing Biden has done will be swiftly undone. This was a hellish dilemma, but if Biden wants to do his job well, he needs to do that by not letting Trump into the White House again.

  • You rule know it, deep inside

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  • I mean yeah, we WERE founded because we didn't want to support shitty business practices from Reddit but we wanted a good Reddit substitute

    But we get good posts that aren't Reddit drama too

  • Most important map

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  • Oh, this is handy, I specifically avoid these guys.

    Not for ethical reasons or anything, just I had these weird frozen meatballs from them when I was like 7 and nearly vomited myself to death in a holiday caravan's bedroom before collapsing unable to move for an hour, conscious the entire time and simply unable to make my body respond. 1/10, not reccommended.

  • Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day

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  • Lol yep. Literally Amazon 101, there's a very good reason you shouldn't buy from them unless you HAVE to.

  • Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland

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  • OK, checking out the article, actually it seems totally innocent on the maintenance side of things- there was a turbine blade fracture during flight. Turbines are generally very reliable but it's a gargantuan pain in the ass to test those blades because they're crystalline structures, so a fracture goes from nanoscopic to taking out the whole blade all at once. I wouldn't expect maintainers to catch that.

    The criminal part is actually way more interesting and concerning.

    Civilian aircraft are built to be safe. I mean REALLY safe. Every system has a redundant (backup) system you can switch to if that system goes down and a way to isolate a damaged system. Planes can fly on only one working engine, or even safely glide down to the ground if they have no engines. We literally blow some engines up in their final stages of testing to make sure they can't blow up hard enough to take the wing out. Regulations demand it.

    So that's why this is a criminal case. Because after that engine blade came loose and hit the wing, it ruptured a fuel line...

    In an aircraft that was designed in compliance with regulations, while this would still be be cause to turn around and land the plane, it shouldn't actually be a safety problem at all. Just isolate the damaged system and switch to the redundant one. And they didn't have the ability to do that. Meaning that their aircraft design itself is likely out of compliance with regulations and doesn't meet the minimum safety requirements to have civilians on it. Which is... honesty way weirder, because who the hell signed off on this thing if it had a design issue like this?

  • Boeing faces fresh safety questions after engine fire on flight from Scotland

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  • Yup, most engine manufacture is undertaken by specialists. As a good example, Rolls-Royce is an airplane engine company that sometimes makes cars as publicity stunts.

    HOWEVER.

    It's not just about who makes engines. Aircraft are meant to last a good 30 years in service and you can't just ask some schmuck to clean it for $7.50 an hour and call that maintenance. Maintenance is extremely skilled work that tends to be operating under horrible time crunches, especially if a part is suspect and needs to have a plane partially taken apart so it can be changed for a fresh one- a plane that might be due to fly again tomorrow. Maintenance that needs that sort of knowledge tends to have some involvement with the parent company who built the planes, or is even contract work for them.

    Boeing is rather notorious for being willing to put the schedule before safety- we've seen that in a lot of other accidents. I would absolutely believe that a Boeing manager skimped on engine maintenance because someone in the chain of command said "Get that plane out of the maintenance hangar today or you're fired, and damn the safety regulations."

    But, that's just my industry knowledge. The actual circumstances could be way different, so let's go read the article.

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