[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

When this guy is sixty he's going to get cancer and they're going to learn that laser-filtering his blood was a bad idea

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

the rate of price growth has slowed substantially since hitting a high in 2022.

If the American economy is doing so good, how did Trump manage a clean sweep?

Right in that quote, the best thing they can say about our economy is not that it's getting better, but that it's not getting worse as quickly as it was two years ago.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hydroponics. Requires some setup but once it's in place you have plants growing while consuming up to 90% less water than traditional agriculture, and it's easy to make the whole system totally passive so that the only labor inputs are putting in new plants and harvesting old ones.

It also turns out that some plants really benefit from being grown hydroponically - put them under a grow light and in a greenhouse and you can grow multiple times as much produce on the same parcel of land while consuming less water and fertilizer to do it.

It's a process that can be scaled up industrially, but because of the high upfront cost it's fairly rare, the most mature industrial greenhouses are those in The Netherlands. Once a farm has made the transition there are logistical advantages to hydroponics as well - a farm can stagger grow times to have consistent smaller harvests instead of one or two massive harvests, making staffing and income more consistent.

Not every plant can be grown this way, but those that can absolutely should. Especially in places like California where I live, where we have the financial and technological ability to do so and our environment would greatly benefit from reduced water use.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As a boomer shooter enjoyer myself, I think the main reason that the genre is partially inoculated from Gamergate BS is that its remained pretty niche and indie-driven, while the audience that generates artificial outrage about video games only target big budget releases. I mean the biggest release in the category that I can think of is probably Warhammer 40k: Boltgun, made by a studio with only 61 people.

Also I think that the age range for boomer shooters perfectly overlaps with guys who grew up with stuff like Xena and Buffy, but maybe that's just me.

Sooner or later Id will make a Doom game with a female protag, and that's when shit will hit the fan (until they play it and it turns out to be really fun and then they'll all pretend that it was "anti-woke" all along).

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

Luigi shooting down drones

I smell a modern day Duck Hunt sequel!

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 4 weeks ago

Pretty much. The best model for anti terrorism is the development of Xinjiang, full stop. Generally speaking people don't like being terrorists and would much rather live regular lives, so if you stabilize a region and give them that option they will choose it.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Their username is a character from Disco Elysium who's a parody of billionaires, so yes unless they're sublimely dense.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

(a history text in 2100)

In the late American Empire, the power brokers in Washington became the elite security details hired by the CEOs of the country's largest corporations. Failure to maintain their exorbitant benefits packages could result in a CEOs death at any moment - and even paying them off was no guarantee of safety, as in 2045 the influential "Mr Beast" was assassinated just two weeks after his takeover of Disney, despite paying what were at the time the highest bonuses ever paid to a security team as documented in his final youtube video, "Giving Thirty Security Guards One BILLION Dollars Each!"

Historians mark the subsequent auctioning of the Disney CEO position by White Skull Protection Services LLC as one of the lowest points in the late Imperial period.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Somewhere in the Federation there has to be, like, an alt community that's super into using biomods to make themselves into furries and other exotic stuff, right? I mean they had that shit in Batman Beyond, no way they don't have it in Star Trek.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Yes, Australian censorship is done through refusing classification, which makes the material illegal to import or sell. But frankly its been a joke for as long as the internet has existed.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

wtf is bad about anti-Soviet foreign policy

The Soviets wanted deescalation after WW2, and supported self determination for liberated countries including Korea, Vietnam, Greece and Italy. Whatever you think of communism, the American policy of "containment" is directly and indisputably responsible for the suppression of democracy in dozens of countries and wars which killed tens of millions of people all because some of those people would have elected communist and socialist leaders we didn't like.

[-] TheDrink@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

America’s Flying Tesla Truck

lmao

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