Varyk

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[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Thanks so much! I just realized I can copy your comment, quote it and add the tags myself, which i was going to do and then saw your amended comment.

Much appreciated.

What a great series. I recommend pretty much everything else they worked on together and apart. Their other series are considered less complete in terms of world-building, but Remnants and Everworld both have some very interesting ideas and characters and more than a few holy shit moments.

Gone is a Grant-only venture, and pretty great as well, a whole lot of well-written dark and crazy.

Animorphs is such a rich text despite being an easy enough read that I've gone back for a reread occasionally and invariably been shocked by plot points I'd forgotten, grown closer to certain characters or just enjoyed vicarious Cinnabons depending on how I'd developed since the last go-through that it's worth a second look in the future at some point.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

sure thing, it's restored.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I appreciate it.

example:

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should look like this when you type it out:

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put your heading where it says heading and the content where it says content and you're good to go!

most clients have a button with a little diamond with an exclamation point above the text box, and that'll insert the spoiler formatting into your comment for you.

full markdown explanations: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I agree with everything you said, every concluding element combines into a truly fantastic ending for the series.

I'd appreciate it if you can throw a spoiler tag around your first and second paragraphs in case anybody else stumbles across the series and these posts for the first time.

thanks.

 

because that's fucking crazy.

they were like "hey, instead of using this land for our new city, let's take the trees from this land, strip their branches, transport them and shove them down into this lagoon in the next state, cut them so they're all level and then build a city on millions of log butts. it'll be fine in 1600 years."

and they were pretty much right.

The alder trees the wooden piles were made from are apparently still composed of sound alder wood, fiber cellulose, and their composition and placing are a big reason why Venice is still afloat.

fascinating article.

this is the other article by the team that inspected one section of the piles themselves about 10 years ago:

https://share.google/RLMuBm3wTDRaaI7m4

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago

that's really interesting. I listened to a podcast with one of the writers, or maybe the creator, I can't remember right now, and he talked about how sincere everybody was about creating the superhero who could actually change the cultural lack of concern about climate change.

and what's super cool is like statistically and culturally, it looks like the show worked.

like yeah everything is still fucked, but it would have been way worse a generation earlier if a bunch of awesome nerds didn't make Captain planet for generation x so they would become horrified over climate change.

[here it is] (https://share.google/H4LaAuoFDf6AS01Al)

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

hahaha holy crap i am laughing out loud, thank you, dang that's so funny

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago (15 children)

haha, this is it, this artist achieved expertise over layout.

I like a lot of their ideas, but this one is executed pretty flawlessly.

very funny.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 weeks ago

"It's literally just a cloud"

those "clouds" released over civilian populations in operation large area coverage without knowledge or consent were composed of nickel cadmium sulfide, a carcinogen.

you have no evidence refuting the documented historical fact of Operation Large Area Coverage, and I will have to remove your post for disinformation.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

again, your evidence did nothing to refute the US government's record of project LAC, links of which are provided above.

nothing theoretical here.

rule #1 is to provide evidence for your claims.

please note rule #5 as well, which is to be civil to others.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

you want details.

details are not at all "disinformation", which is the deliberate attempt to mislead or deceive.

you simply want more information, which is why I made this post, including the two links to the specific numbers for those interested in the details.

the ld50 of caffeine is about 150 mg/kg, the ld50 of psilocybin is 293 mg/kg.

hence the post letting people(like you) know that caffeine is about twice as toxic as psilocybin.

plenty of people are uninformed as to the toxicity of magic mushrooms, and I want people to know that they are physiologically safer than the active ingredient in soda or tea or whatever caffeinated beverage you prefer.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

that does not refute the US army chemical corps documented record of operation LAC, during which aerosolized chemicals were released by aircraft over civilian populations without knowledge or consent.

 

Chemtrails, trails of aerosolized chemicals secretly released from aircraft over civilian populations, were dispersed without consent or warning over US cities and towns in the early 1950s.

The US Army Chemical Corps conducted Operation LAC(Large Area Coverage), a program to test what it would be like to drop extremely dangerous bioweapons over enemy cities by dropping less dangerous carcinogens like zinc cadmium sulfide(ZnCdS), over US civilian populations without knowledge or consent, and without following up on the long-term health effects of dropping ZnCdS on US civilian populations.

The Army said the carcinogen was probably not harmful before dispersal, but no human trials were done

NIH recommends the Army conduct tests on the toxicity of ZnCdS since it can get stuck in the lungs

The Army was like, nah.

broad overview

YSK because as nonsensical as some later chemtrail theories became, the conspiracy of secret chemicals dropped from aircraft onto US civilians without knowledge or consent did occur, according to the US government and military branches that conducted the tests.

 

Sometimes doing the right thing makes a big difference.

in 1983, Petrov, a Soviet Lt Col, received multiple reports of US missiles being fired at the USSR but decided not to report the missiles to his direct superiors, who could order a retaliatory nuclear strike.

Petrov decided that the reports were more likely a system malfunction than a genuine attack from the US.

He was right; the detected "missiles" turned out to be reflected sunlight.

 

psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, has proven itself to be effective against depression and physiologically safe. there are over 100 therapeutic psychedelic experiments going through the FDA approval process since the breakthrough status designation.

"At Day 21, following the second dose, 53% and 44% of patients in the 12 mg and 16 mg groups, respectively, were classified as responders (achieving a 50% or greater reduction in MADRS scores). By Day 126 (four months after the initial dose), the percentage of responders increased to 75% in both dosing groups."

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/fda-breakthrough-therapy-designation-granted-to-novel-psychedelic-molecule-cyb003-for-major-depressive-disorder

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37247807/

 

caffeine only needs 190 mg per kilogram of body weight to have a 50/50 chance of killing you, whereas you would need 280 mg per kilogram of body weight of psilocybin.

caffeine

psilocybin

 

listening to some presidents of the United States of America.

peaches, specifically.

but I've been thinking about this point with a lot of bands, and songs I love, lately.

also, I know this is crazy, but apparently I forgot there's a ninja fight at the end of the peaches video?

that was surprising.

 

I can't find the post or my comment that ended up with this show on my watchlist, and during the first 15 minutes I thought it was goofy, but by the end of the first episode I'm definitely hooked.

theit discussion of what it means to be human is pretty engaging.

 

Weird that the nearly ubiquitous US pay-for- stay incarceration policy is never mentioned on TV, huh?

 

A conspiracy is "an unlawful, harmful, or evil plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot."

A conspiracy is not inherently fictional or nonfictional, it is a plan secretly devised by multiple people for an often harmful purpose.

In the same way books can be fictional and nonfictional, conspiracies can be fictional and nonfictional.

Fictional book: Harry Potter

Nonfictional book: The Diary of Anne Frank

Fictional conspiracy: Vaccines contain microchips - there is no evidence supporting this claim.

Nonfictional conspiracy: The Fake Electors plot - a documented and testified to attempt to steal the 2020 US presidency by Taco and friends by lying about the US election results

Nonfiction accounts are supported by verifiable, corroborated evidence.and has no rational basis for dispute

Why YSK: I see many posts and comments conflating the word "conspiracy" with "fictional scheme", which is not at all what the word "conspiracy" means.

 

I'm playing with the keyboard and mouse, and the climbing is very clunky so far overall, but it seems completely broken for the spire.

when I get to the second to the last hand holds and I have to reach out and then long jump to the highest hand holds so that I can jump into the spire, aloy reaches out but only jumps to the left or right off the spire, she will not jump up to the highest, final handhold, even if she's reaching straight up.

has anyone else played this with a mouse and keyboard instead of a controller?

I've tried different key bindings and default, but she only jumps left or right off the spire and refuses to jump up to the highest handhold.

it looks very much like this guys problem, but he's playing it with a controller and finally solved it, sayd his problem was custom key bindings and the solution was default, but I can't get anywhere with these keyboard controls.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qOS6Hw1x-tY

 

in the preview I can see them under the post, I've added share and save, but on the actual posts in the feed on any layout, share and save are not in the quick action bar.

do I have to enable something else also?

thanks

 

I know they make weird icons sometimes, but what does this one represent?

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