mosiacmango

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Boom shoot publishers like Apogee seem to be leaning into the free demo trend. It's really nice. This doesnt look like it fits that genre, but what's good for the goose i guess.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

It's just 1 factor, as they are using "something you have," i.e. your email account, to authenticate you initially. Anyone with access to the account would have the password, so it can't count as a unique factor.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

They can't ban the other instances users from posting on non blahaj.zone communities they are connected to, nor can they can the ban individual communities on other instances.

The only tool an instance has right now to "ban" a user from another instance is to defederate the whole instance. Since that instances admins appeared to be indifferent to concerns at the core of blahaj existing, they took the one action they have available to resolve it.

It looks extreme, but not when you realize its literally the one option available.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

1 & 2 are the same pill, unless 2 also stops you from putting on muscle mass which would be a real negative. In the same vein, "no more fat" taken too literally will just kill you, as humans need at least 4-5% body fat to live.

If you read them kindly "dont gain weight from eating" means you will burn fat just day to day, eventually hitting equilibrium. "No more fat" means you won't gain fat, so you can just eat excessively and youre at equilibrium. Neither affects you at a calorie deficit, and both do the same thing at a calorie surplus.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm speaking specifically about how many Americans have the legal ability to buy these weapons. The cost involved is why I added the "if they have the money" line.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

It's got a point, but capitalists will also gladly sell you every tool you need to overthrow them as long as you have the money for it.

Nearly 150 million adults in the USA can go buy a semi auto rifle right now, even if their plan is to point it at Colt and Smith and Wesson.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Maybe they can find another artist to rip off for a fresh new style.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I worked some place that did something similar, if not this exact thing. We answered a 20 question quiz of "do you do x, or y? Very in-depth, of course.

It's not an "all or none" situation, but it's supposed to be used as a guideline about how to best interact with different people. Blue/green would prefer a steady, consistent approach. Red/yellow want things fast and aggressive, etc.

What actually happened was people preening about getting the "good colors" that had traits that the company liked, and then absolutely no change at all in the culture or how we treated people anyway, regardless of results.

It was a complete waste of time, but the execs got big wall sized color charts and pinned everyone's names to them, so I guess they enjoyed their made up work for a bit.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The statement that "SMR exist because small reactors exist in nuclear vessels" is disingenuous, if not an outright lie. These reactors are small, but are not mass produced in factories and then assembled on site in a paint by numbers way that SMRs are pitched as. They are each bespoke, horrifying expense reactors that are just smaller than standard land based reactors. The designs are not "assembly line" ready at all.

They are designed for a certain size, but also for warfare. They spare literally no expense when making them, and do things that no civilian plant should ever do. The cost per megawatt is astronomical. Just unimaginably expensive, to the point of being instant commercial dead ends. Literally none of their designs would be considered usable, even if they weren't military secrets.

The truth of the matter is that no one on earth has a working SMR design. The US goverment dumped hundreds of millions of subsidies into them recently and the companies all failed. This 15 billion for 4 plants next to Toronto, a city Doug Ford hates, is likely a mix of vendetta and media blitz for Ontario to deflect from their minimal renewals commitment.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Normally "revenue vs profit" would be the missing link here. You make 6 billion, but pay out 5 billion. Total net is 1 billion. Getting 8x your yearly profit for your business is a reasonable price.

With onlyfans, they take a 20% cut, so the numbers above basically line up. They got paid 1.2 billion, and probably spent 200 million on operations as a giant video/media host.

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