DigitalTraveler42

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Tf kind of question is this? Slavery is wrong, any slave is justified in murdering their masters.

Is OP Ron DeSantis? lol.

the man told her in a very aggressive way he would be waiting for her when she finishes her shift

What kind of coward threatens a diminutive woman like he’s the school bully setting up a fight like it’s 3 O’Clock High? Guess i answered my own question with the bully observation, but like seriously, did he feel like a big man afterwards? What a bitch-made mofo.

All of the other comments are right, security should have thrown these dumb asses out and trespassed them as soon as they starting issuing threats, hospital staff have far more than enough shit to deal with than some yokel shitheads throwing childish tantrums cause they couldn’t get their way.

Upstate NY is rural-ish and tons of Rust Belt city issues in the smaller cities, but it’s cheaper than most cities in other states, the only place that’s really cheap rn is Texas, but then you’d be living in fucking Texas, which depending on your views that statement can be both positive or negative. The same goes for the rest of the gulf states minus Florida, which is overpopulated and expensive to live, they’re cheap but the states are shit, the infrastructure is shit, and often enough the people are shit.

Also there’s a major affordable housing crisis for the entire country, corporations have been buying up single family homes to rent and there’s all kinds of other issues that are causing skyrocketed rent and mortgages.

I’d advise trying remote, then maybe hunt for the right place for you, however be aware that there’s a backlash against remote work and that seems to be drying up as well. There’s quite a few smaller cities on the upswing, but realistically it all depends on what you do to earn a buck, if you can’t earn there you probably can’t live there.

So many!

Oh okay i get it, you’re just talking to hear yourself talk, or whatever, okay have fun circle jerking with yourself.

First of all the moon didn’t abruptly explode, it cracked open like an egg and shattered, do rocks not crack? Do asteroids not fracture? Also if the moon had exploded there wouldn’t have been two years to prepare as an explosion would have sent impactors almost immediately. You’re hung up on the notion of it “exploding” while there are more realistic scenarios for exactly what happened in the book, this is part of why Stephenson left the “agent” as a mysterious event rather than making the effort to explain away the whys and hows of it happening.

I disagree, there is plenty of science behind the book, so just saying “it’s just fiction” is literally ignoring all of the science that came into being while being influenced by works of fiction. Also my point is yes i agree we understand our own existences are fragile, but I’m taking a higher perspective, people generally don’t understand that a random occurrence from the sun or the void can end life on this planet completely, i mean look at how many people are failing at understanding climate change or all of the misunderstanding of many of the other known disaster scenarios. There’s people who still freaking believe that the Earth is flat and/or that an imaginary sky daddy manipulates daily events in their lives.

Bro you are definitely harping on this, and the genre of Seveneves and that Stephenson often writes within is literally called Speculative fiction, when it comes to science fiction speculative fiction takes an improbable event, such as the “agent”, and then the authors use science or fictional technology to weave their story around the hows and the whys. Also if fiction has no basis in reality then tell me why the Pentagon literally has plans drawn up around alien invasion, zombies, and every other “doomsday” scenario you can imagine?

Risk assessment - a systematic process of evaluating the potential risks that may be involved in a projected activity or undertaking.

Risk assessment is what the Pentagon is doing when they game plan for ridiculous scenarios, risk assessment is figuring out what risk is probable while also considering the improbable, and science fiction writers tend to do similar while writing their stories, especially the ones like Stephenson or Asimov or Clarke, or Sagan, who have the education and do the diligent research behind their concepts, it’s also why guys like Asimov, Clarke, Stephenson, and others in Sci-fi tend to be invited to work with entities like NASA or private ventures like Blue Origin, dating all of the way back to the days when Asimov was alive and actively creating.

Just remember a lot of science and engineering stems from creativity and imagination, fiction and reality go hand in hand at times.

There are a lot of other points of disaster addressed in Seveneves, yes the main catastrophe is the moon, but Stephenson goes into a lot about the fragility of man, as well as how the interaction between atmosphere, climate, and the edge of space, plus how everything is impacted by the world’s temperature being raised. Stephenson is not the type of writer who stops at “oh this is just what happens if the moon broke” he goes into many other lines of thought both probable and theoretical to fully paint the picture he’s trying to paint for us.

Also who knows what will happen to the moon? We could fuck it up by trying to mine the moon like in the most modern movie version of Jules Verne’s Time Machine, or any of the various other possibilities that could happen from the randomness of our chaotic universe.

Lastly you say “the moon exploded for no reason” but there was definitely a reason, Stephenson acknowledged that there was a reason in the form of Doc DuBoise’s thoughts on the “agent”, but the characters knew that the why and how didn’t matter anymore, because it was all about the “what do we do about it?” Because that was infinitely more important, especially when there was only two years until the hard rain scenario begins, survival was all that mattered, and so the agent and it’s possible causes ceased to matter.

Just finishing up reading Neal Stephenson’s Seveneves, overall people have no concept about just how fragile our existence here on Earth is, and far too many take it for granted.

Lemmy is socialist by nature, and so is Trek, but also it’s Trek, one of the two most iconic Sci-fi franchises available, Reddit was basically the same way but with Star Wars, but for some reason there seemed to be far too many people on the dark side and simping for the empire and Vader.

I thought this trailer looked fantastic, I don’t know what the rest of you all are smoking. As a fallout fan it was more than enough to get me excited for the series, also Walton Goggins as a ghoul chefs kiss.

I’ve been using Signal for a long time now, it was great until they ended SMS text support, then they started trying to turn Signal into a social media thing, I just want end to end encryption without having to worry about somebody like Zuckerberg having access to my texts.

Lemmy is down too often to be addictive

Bro I just copied and pasted a literal quote from your own article saying otherwise, you are your own Reddit moment rn.

From your article:

Diesel Electric Submarines Diesel generator machinery can cause a great deal of noise. Diesel electrics are only quiet when operating in electric mode.

In fact, diesel boats must raise a snorkel to have intake fresh air for combustion when operating the diesel recharging the batteries and is then visible to the world.

u212a todaro class submarine pietro venuti U212A Todaro class submarine Pietro Venuti You cannot run silently with the diesels running and charging the electrics, you can only run silently in the electric-only mode, submerged. And because that’s off batteries, your submerged endurance is limited.

Diesel electric submarines only use diesel mode when travelling on surface, or snorkeling. However, there is the Stirling engine submarine, that can run its two propulsion systems totally submerged.

The works on making nuclear boats quieter

IRC the French have at least one diesel sub, the SMX-Ocean Range 30,000km.

Wait so you honestly think they’re going 30,000 km on battery power?

Do you not get that submarine combustion engines are just like car combustion engines? You generate power through the engines and that power is stored on battery to power the electrical systems and serve as a backup, battery power is not going to power the whole entire sub and magically move the sub quietly through the water, that’s not how these things work, that’s how nuclear subs work.

My point is, you’re not going to be able to move your sub at all on battery power, at some point you will have to turn on those loud ass engines in order to move your sub, which will absolutely alert every modern sub to your location.

Lol people hold on to that wargame so tightly as some Pinnacle of triumph over western armed forces, but the reality of the situation was that the sub commander in question went rogue and did something they weren’t supposed to do in order to win. Also at the end of the day it’s a fucking wargame, it’s practice, and nobody really cares how well you do in practice because it’s all about how you perform in the big game.

Also as you noted the Americans did what we always do when situations like this happen, we game planned for never letting it happen again, this was an embarrassment for the US Navy, and you can bet it’s something they’re constantly working on never letting happen again, these are serious professionals who’s lives revolve around continuously planning ways to win against any situation while losing as few of their people as possible.

Russia is in a standstill, after losing major ground constantly for a year, against a country 1/3 Ruzzia’s population, Ukraine also had next to no standing army prior to the invasion, meaning they had next to no professional soldiers prior to their being invaded by Ruzzia, and Ruzzia is invading them in conjunction with two of their allied powers, Belarus and Chechnya, all while the west slow rolls the supply and training of Ukraine, think about that for a sec.

Also this enemy that they’re in a standstill with has been so effective that one of Ruzzia’s key armies, Wagner, chose to rebel over continuing to get fed to the meat grinder. Ruzzia is literally down to recruiting 16 and 60 yr olds right now.

All of the propaganda by both Ruzzia and the West all made it seem like Ruzzia should have easily rolled over Ukraine prior to the realities of this war. However this war exposed Ruzzia as a broken down, corrupt paper tiger with a delusional dictator at the helm.

How long do you think 1950’s era batteries last? Like in what world do you think “a 1950’s diesel on battery power surely outclasses a modem nuclear sub”? GTFO with that bullshit, lol.

A sub on battery power is essentially in free fall depending on their ballast situation, they’re not going anywhere because they would have to turn their loud ass engines on to go somewhere, which would then alert the entire modern navy they would be up against.

Which is why many (also western countries) rely on them for coastal defense.

No the countries that still use those just don’t have enough money to maintain a nuclear sub fleet for what’s essentially their coast guard, it’s cost efficiency not “better”.

All of your points are just deep stretches in vain attempts to be the “well ackschully!” Guy, or to be the contrarian throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

We’ve seen what the Russian military has been like in Ukraine, if you think most of those subs aren’t rusting piles of garbage then you’re probably drinking that tankie Kool aid. They’ve probably had to cannibalize the majority of them just to keep what few they have running, because it’s not like they just idly make parts for 1950’s era subs, especially not for a country that barely has enough money to feed themselves and spends most of that on their nuclear program.

Also they’re loud ass diesel subs, every modern navy will know exactly where they are and how many they have easily, and it’s not like 1950’s weaponry is going to make up the difference.