[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

This seems like an infinite step up from having to be in the office for 60-80 hours a week just to look impressive, while accomplishing little after the 35 hour mark. I would take this lady's position in a heartbeat.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

I have a question about how easy the signal is to block. I live in a somewhat mountains, densely forested area. Do devices need to have direct line or sight to communicate? Wanted to set this up as a potential back up communication source for grid outages and keep a device in each car.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

They're working for something better than money. Exposure! Don't you know working for such a big name will do better things for their career than money! At least, that's what they tell artists.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

Not a problem. To me, nuclear power is the answer to the mantra of "technology will solve the climate crisis," and we've had it for years, yet we're too afraid to use it!

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 77 points 6 months ago

Nuclear powerplants are so safe that they've only had a handful of (admittedly disastrous and high profile) failures, and have killed less people per watt hour generated than even wind and solar power. Nuclear power is the safest, cleanest, most efficient form of green energy we can get right now. Yes, it can be dangerous if not managed properly. But Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island were not freak accidents. Deliberate mistakes were made that were known at the time and should be used as warnings to keep the industry safe, not as sirens that lead is to swear off nuclear energy.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 27 points 6 months ago

The LEGO group has always been protective of their brand and nervous about being associated with potentially violent content, turning down a partnership with the Halo games because of that. For years, they didn't want to make grey bricks because they were afraid kids would use them to build tanks. All this to say, this seems pretty on brand for the LEGO group.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance fits this bill, I think. I haven't played any of the games listed yet, so I can't compare.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Killing hundreds of zombies, skeletons, creepers, and Illagers, not so I can save the villagers they wrongly imprisoned, but so I can get that one specific gilded sword.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there is no evidence that anybody has ever named a child la-a. My mom used to tell this story all the time, and I believed her for years that this was a real name until I googled it and read up on it. The name is an old urban legend that may pre date Internet lore.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Because the US military is a heavily politicized institution now, and if we try to spend money that even slightly departs from the way Congress wants, they quickly step in and make a media spectacle of it, talking about how we've gone woke. It's why we can't get the electric vehicles we've been talking about buying for years, why we can't get rid of the planes we want to, and why we end up with ridiculously expensive procurement projects that we basically don't want by time they're all said and done.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Reading the room is a skill, and there's plenty of able people who are not good at it, as well, so throwing the term around as if it's an automatic process should just be considered bad practice in general.

[-] McFarius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Earliest game I remember playing was descent 2, which most people today have never even heard of.

view more: next ›

McFarius

joined 1 year ago