Hyperreality

Not steam workshop, but nexus mods.

It's annoying that so many mods require you to use the steam version, for this and skyrim.

Because selling to the highest bidder, isn't selling. It's auctioning,

And that's different somehow, at least according to Linus' explanation of this whole thing. I think we can trust Linus on this one, he has a proven track record of accuracy and honesty. LOL

No, no. They auctioned it. Selling it to the highest bidder isn't selling. It's 'auctioning'.

At leats that's what I gathered from Linus' explanation. LOL

selling prototypes of unreleased hardware without manufacturer consent

This isn't true. They didn't sell the prototype, they sold it at an auction. Entirely different, apparently.

I should write reviews like that, but just make stuff up.

I bought these headphones for my daughter, and the noise cancelling works very well, which is why she didn't hear it coming. Delivery was quick. 5 stars

The knife carved through the meat, the blade covered in blood, but it remained sharp. Through bone, forever sharp. It heralded His arrival. Packaging slightly damaged and packaging of knife not great. 4 stars

People already do this with instagram for over a decade, it's called finstagram. You create an account under a fake name, and only add intimate friends, set it to private. At which point you post pictures of you taking a shit, being ugly or doing anything you're too ashamed to put on your actual instagram. Ironically the fake instagram ("finstagram") is more real than your actual insta.

Think semi-famous hot people. Actual insta: curated photoshopped pictures. Finsta: picture of what they look like 1st thing in the morning with no make up, or of them doing drugs.

30 million subscribers, 9 billion views, over 100 employees.

Get with the times grandpa. Legacy media are dead. Youtubers are often more popular and make money than legacy media 'stars'.

This is one of the things you quoted:

can only run silently in the electric-only mode, submerged. And because that’s off batteries, your submerged endurance is limited.

Also in the article:

So, unique to nukes, are a bunch of pumps, turbines, and reduction gears, which a diesel boat in battery mode doesn’t have at all.

Ie. a diesel sub is quiet in electric mode, potentially quieter than nuclear subs because in battery mode there aren't turbines or pumps whining away, even though that is for a limited time.

Another example:

Stirling engine is particularly well suited for a submarine because the engine is nearly silent and can use the surrounding sea water as a heat sink to increase efficiency. Submerged endurance is dependent on the amount of liquid oxygen stored on-board and is described as "weeks". The class is characterized by its low acoustic signatures, extreme shock resistance, and a competent combat system. .... The class has many features that enhance stealth, helping it to remain undetected. All shipboard machinery is isolated and mounted on rubber dampeners to reduce vibrations and noises; a hydrodynamic hull design reduces noise, infrared signature, and active sonar response. Its magnetic signature is counteracted by 27 independent electromagnets, short circuiting extremely low frequency (ELF) electrical fields. Various hull coatings reduce active sonar response, and the mast is coated with radar-absorbent material. Combined with the near-silent operation of the Stirling generator and slow-turning propeller to prevent cavitation, the boats are very difficult to detect under water, especially in their normal area of operations, the Baltic Sea

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine

The article goes on to say:

In 2005, HSwMS Gotland managed to snap several pictures of USS Ronald Reagan during a wargaming exercise in the Pacific Ocean, demonstrating that it was in a position to sink the aircraft carrier.[11] The exercise was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the US fleet against diesel-electric submarines, which some have noted as severely lacking.

TLDR: an advanced/modern diesel submarine is louder than a nuclear submarine in normal operation. Chugachugachugachuga. Then it goes into battery mode. It goes near silent, quieter than many nuclear submarines which still have turbines, pumps, etc. The diesel sub dissapears like a ghost. Torpedo away, too late.

And that's a relatively old sub. The French sub I mentioned is something like a decade newer, with newer and better batteries.

Not sure about the US, but a lot of former soviet countries are virulently homophobic, despite high levels of atheism.

China and Japan are also quite homophobic too, despite something like 80% of the population being atheist.

Closer to home, the UK has far more atheists (google suggests almost twice as many) than the US, but is also TERF central with plenty of homophobia and transphobia.

Significantly lower female suicide rate probably also helps. Especially when plenty of those suicides occur quite young. Low numbers drag down an average quite quickly.

I think the old ones are loud, but newer ones can be really quiet. IRC Sweden had one that did well in war games. Gotland class. France also has really modern ones.

Basically they chugachugachugachuga, then go into battery mode and dissappear off sonar. Range is low obviously. Batteries don't last that long.

Don't think the Russians have those though. Their navy has been a joke for over a century.