No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1d ago
If NATO directly entered the war with large numbers of its own combat forces, it would defeat Russia's military and drive it out of Ukraine.
Assuming it's actually prepared for war - which a peacetime army never is - if it paid the prices of thousands of dead and adapted and the public endured the thousands of KIAs etc and started winning before running out of expensive ammo ..it'd just get tactically nuclearly striked after getting onto rightful Russian clay and then run away, wisely, because a blood soaked piece of mostly useless land is not worth ending the world over.
No_one
1d ago
In conclusion, for the moderates and centrists: Your signal is jammed, and only extremism will be boosted on either twitter or bluesky.
Musk is pretty much the platonic idea of a centrist, no ?
Sick of the bots and echo chamber that X has become
The Indians are annoying, but to me the bots are just noise. I tune it out. Big accounts are pointless, but .. echo chamber? Go somewhere outside of your immediate circle and you find entirely different people.
No_one
1d ago
Seems like a small matter.
Honestly with how generous the game is and the benefits to scaling, this doesn't seem like a big deal. If you're exporting stuff, it's single commodities. If you're exporting components for ship, you're probably wanting to get enough for spares and all that so..
No_one
2d ago
You mean you can't custom-load rockets with multiple things using circuit combinators because.. there's no way of accessing Space Platform demands ?
No_one
2d ago
Correct escalation would have been blowing up the Ukrainian Congress building and saying "stop that", but obviously Russia can't.
They've had the capability to blow up any building in Ukraine since day 1, if they expend enough missiles on it.
No_one
2d ago
It seems perfectly adequate... ? Within the simplified framework of the game. Obviously you'd try to use reusable vehicles if possible etc, but .. operations-wise it seems okay.
You can just add some circuit logic to it and it's golden. Doesn't ask for more stuff than there is etc.
The only downside is only one cargo pad per surface and that IMO there's no materials requirement for getting stuff down.
No_one
2d ago
None of these factions had credible means to kill Zelensky. Doing it up close is an extremely hard suicidal special-forces operation.
Doing it by Iskander is plausible, but there's little evidence Iskander units take orders from anywhere else but Kremlin.
Seeing what happened after NATO crossed the reddest fo red lines and pulled off a blatantly US coup in Ukraine, what with the US department of state people on the scene, Russians do seem to care about some red lines.
Suppose US somehow converted cca 1000 tomahawks into land-launch configuration, a feat theoretically possible in months if SpaceX or similar company were involved.
Suppose they were trucked to Ukraine, it'd only be like ~200 big trucks, and launched in mass through Belarus against carefully chosen targets which would mean Russians would, even at best ,shoot down only a fraction as intercepting them all would require having an uninterrupted chain of SHORAD along Russian western border, which they don't have.
I doubt Russia has enough fighters and enough AWACS planes to shoot them down. Suppose 100 important targets - bunkers, strategic infrastructure, ammo dumps - were hit in a morning.
Maybe Putin is cuck enough to take that, knowing America doesn't have the depth of arsenal to repeat that. Or maybe next massive cruise missile attack against Ukraine would just keep on going west and start hitting over-the border logistics hubs seeing as it's really hard to argue all that American hardware driven just across the border and fired off wasn't really Ukrainian.
No_one
2d ago
US doesn't have any attack ballistic missiles worth the name.
As far as I can tell, no NATO country has accurate, long-ranged (~1000 km+) ballistic missiles that are dual-warhead. Yes, US could theoretically nuke Moscow if someone stuck a nuclear warhead inside a Taurus missile and it didn't get shot down.
But seeing as Russians make no secret of having a dead-hand system, that's of very limited utility.
No_one
3d ago
..yeah it's definitely not a game for people with both kids and time-consuming jobs. Unless they know it there and back and can just speed run it - something like 75% of the time is just tweaking stuff.
I joined up the game after seeing the ad. I've been meaning to use use it to finally build up my vanilla megabase using circuit-logic based crude train logistic network I never finished.
It's really simple, based on I think Nilaus's video for inspiration and I'm not sure if it'll scale to the skies but we'll see.
There's 3 kinds of stations: intake (train gets unloaded, source where it gets loaded, and depot where it is if nothing is needed to get done).
Intake station is open if all is true:
- it's missing enough of a resource
- there's enough of a supply (green wires)
Source station is open if all is true:
- there's enough demand (red wires)
- it has enough to fully load 1 train
It's not that efficient, but it does work. The big problem was first time around I never really settled on a single design for the circuits so I had a whole mess and couldn't keep track of which actually worked. Solved that problem...
Looking at Factorio blog that came up since, it seems you can just now get away with 2 types of trains: liquid and item ones. https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-389
No_one
3d ago
You want high quality modules, but even then, if you're properly scaling production, for a 10% decline in output you can get higher quality components. Having an entire whole line of production is no big deal as you don't need for everything and you can simply feed that into bot-based malls.
As to jamming up logistics -nothing is as simple as putting in circuit that says "if component X >10k then have the extra put into this requester chest for recycling".
The big problems happen when you stop recycling. Fulgora has ample energy from the lightning so just scaled up battery storage. And that's how we ended up with 300k pieces of ice and solid fuel.
I recommend burning that crap and really recycling. Good batteries and solar panels are invaluable for ships.
No_one
3d ago
Thanks. I mostly know them for getting people to kiss the ring on TV...typically after saying something critical of Israel or more rarely, Jews.
I wonder how many people read that .. it's an exercise in tedium that in the end amounts to basically nothing except "you must censor people" and "pass hate crime laws" and doesn't even try to explain how low or no immigration is bad.
No_one
3d ago
to hang out with his friends more.
What friends, though ?
~15% of Gen Z have no close friends, that's probably a serious portion of people who feel lonely.
No_one
3d ago
Has there been any talk from Trump cabinet side about changing the perverse incentives? Seeing as SV donated a lot, and SV would like reactors for datacenters..
No_one
3d ago
The ADL
The American ADL has been pushing for .. mass migration into Europe? I don't like it at all, but that seems rather far from its notional remit.
No_one
3d ago
Rewrote it a little. I assume 'recruiting for a cause' is bad if you're trying to create a bloc on this site to influence this, no? This is just placing a somewhat relevant advert that points off site and isn't going to create a bloc here.
Hasn't said anything publicly, but I don't think he's ever done anything lightly, at least on twitter. He posts at times, sometimes discusses tech or politics but he's never led anyone on or was silly.
I think it's a serious offer.
No_one
4d ago
The link is self-explanatory.
A pretty impressive guy who has been mentioned here and who got cancelled for saying his mind is apparently tasked with recruiting people to reform key institutions.
What more should one post?
I guess you could just cram it into the CW thread, but
a) it's not even really worth debating.
b) it's fairly important information. Wouldn't everyone here want better Us institutions ?
No_one
5d ago
Original Stalker was pretty brutal, don't you remember? I had a 'gaming' laptop and it ran like shit. I don't think that 'audience' played it around release.
By centrist I don't mean someone who is in the political centre as party politics are concerned, just someone with no firm ideology or agenda.
Apart from his opposition to transgender issues, what politics does he have?
Wanting an efficient government that obeys the law and preferences of citizens and that isn't getting in the way is pretty much a non ideological.
Nobody but certain very narrow segments of political class desire infinity migration.
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