[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 22 points 7 months ago

The author is the host of Behind the Bastards, and produced a pair of episodes to accompany the article on the same subject: https://pca.st/episode/96a1d3d1-7966-412b-bc8b-492c817b9f93

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago

Funny, I remember nitrogen gas being promoted as far more humane than lethal injection or existing gas execution. For years it was touted as the solution no one was using because of I guess sadism. Now someone is using it, and of course it's instantly denounced. You just can't win...

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 17 points 8 months ago

And I'll throw in that no, Alex Jones didn't break Epstein either. He first mentioned him re. the Virginia Giuffre lawsuit, and subsequently claimed to have always been talking about him to make his "Globalist" narrative more credible.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

I highly recommend you watch Netflix’s Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.

As a free alternative/companion, I would also suggest the PBS documentary Boeing's Fatal Flaw, which features the CEO subtly throwing the pilots under the bus for one of the MCAS crashes.

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[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

I swear the courtroom sketch artist has a grudge, he looks downright ghoulish in the article's picture.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FWIW, I used to have an ebike that went up to 70, as an adult, that I used to commute to work and do shopping. New regulations came in restricting all new ebikes to 25 km/h, and now a shopping run takes an hour one-way.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

But why a Google/FB/MS account? Why isn't an email account from an established provider enough, why centralise to three megacorps?

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has special lines that unlock according to your character build. Unlike a single Charisma skill, they're divided into skills like 'Intimidation', 'Seduction', 'Erudite', etc. Intimidate options appear in ALL CAPS HULK SPEAK, seductive options are in italic in handwriting, and Erudite appears in blue. If you lose your humanity and become too bestial, dialogue starts disappearing as you're too far gone to understand it and NPCs start being too scared to talk to you.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

Can you give the backstory of what happened with Factorio?

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

In future, drop by the PC Gaming Wiki first - it's a great resource for exactly this kind of question.

Skip Larian launcher on startup

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 42 points 1 year ago

Not just evil, it's dangerous. This is how we get prions, like the one that caused Mad Cow Disease and subsequently tainted an entire generation of British people who can't be proven not to be carriers, and forced an enormous cull of affected livestock.

[-] Smoke@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

My first reaction would be that static panels aren't efficient at collecting energy relative to the space they take up, compared to one that follows the sun. From the picture you could get one panel facing south at most, one facing straight and one facing the wrong way - and that's if the canal's route allows for facing south at all. This is the same issue that killed Solar Roadways.

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