[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I mean, in that case, it seems to me that the right move is to add Food Not Bombs to the network and allow the city to refer people to them. This is a group of people who clearly care about their community, and they should be given every tool to help them succeed.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

I mean, it's not like anyone goes to Fox for real news anyways. I doubt any of their userbase would complain.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Didn't Reddit already drop at least 40% in valuation from when they started the IPO process a year or so ago?

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The real advantage to nuclear subs is their operational range, which is definitely an asset to the US and probably is to Australia. However, the most important part of the AUKUS deal is that not only is the US handing over some (probably) Flight III 688i boats or Virginias in the interim, but also the US and the UK are working with Australia to come up with an indigenous design for Australia to manufacture in country. The US and UK are also working to train Australian sailors and engineers on how to build, operate, maintain, and retire nuclear submarines, and that goes a lot further towards building Australia's defence capabilities than buying a handful of diesel boats from France.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Frankly the biggest safety issue is that they have no transponder. So even if something goes wrong and they have to surface, rescuers are stuck looking for a drifting needle in a 41 million square mile haystack.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

I mean, one good long term solution is either ban or heavily, heavily tax corporate ownership of single family homes. And heavily tax short term vacation rentals. Basically force all the companies that are buying up blocks and blocks of single family housing to sell.

Then, take a look at zoning laws. I have no experience with this side, but they're probably often a barrier to creating medium or high density housing. Which we're gonna need a lot of in the near future.

Apparently foreign home ownership is a big issue in Canada, so I have to assume it's also a (smaller) issue in the US.

Basically, the issue I see is not that there isn't enough housing. It's that corporate greed is pricing people out of their neighborhoods and then the houses are sitting empty because they're barely worth $150k, but the "market" says they can be listed at $400k, and not many people can afford that.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

I mean, anything will crack under pressure. The biggest issue I see is uneven compression of the two materials coupled with different fatigue behaviors. I'd feel a lot safer if the whole submarine was titanium, honestly. Barring that, a couple inches of solid steel would be just as comforting.

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

Well with all that taken into account, the fact that we haven't seen any evidence of the sub yet is a very bad sign.

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

I can't recommend Stardew Valley enough. It's $5, but so absolutely worth it. Especially since there are no mtx, and is still getting updates, albeit a bit behind the PC version. One of the best uses of $5 on the app store imo

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago

I am hopeful, but not necessarily optimistic...if it lost power and descended below crush depth, no amount of life support is bringing them back.

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

So we continue to negotiate with terrorists. Glad to hear it.

[-] ZapBeebz@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

My cynical take is that the rights to any video games for those franchises are owned by the likes of EA, who just like recycling the same game over and over, year to year, because it's cheap and easy and brings in a boatload of profit from Mtx. Developing a new arcade style sports game would cost money and not be the guaranteed cash cow of, say, Madden 23.

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