rainwall

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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Probably have a few strokes, even.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Brandon is a next level DM, easily on par with Mercer. His voicework, improv, experience and enthusiasm for DnD is amazing. Hes been DMing for over 20 years, has run endless campaigns, and D20 has sold out venues like madison square gardens for shows. Hes got serious chops.

It will be different, it may be worse, but it may be better.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You should read Kafka's "The Castle" if you haven't. It's a surreal book about navigating an insane bureaucracy. It hit me harder than Metamorphosis, personally.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My head immediately went to tell tale heart.

Poe had lots of fucked up stories. The red death is another that stuck with me.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I would throw mud on his car every time i saw him until he paid up.

Turns out "teaching someone a lesson" can go both ways.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago

Based on reporting, it looks like the BLS didn't have the staff to do the legwork anymore after the purge of the federal government, so they used various models to "guesstimate" the totals for May/June.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im sure they'll try to get you to order ammo as they explode.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Saving gaza from obesity" was literally one of the pro-Israel talking points a few months ago from a UK lobbyist to justify Israel use of famine as a weapon.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Pricing seems to be 10x cheaper than lithium per kWh.

The battery has no rare earth metal in it, just common iron, which dramatically reduces cost. The 100hr storage is also 10-20x what lithium is designed for. Downsides appear to be slow charge/discharge and size of the batteries.

It is most likely a hybrid "iron air for long term storage, lithium for spikes and fluctuations" grid battery makes the most sense. These combo setups wouls likely have drastivally better long term storage and pricing then the current norm of "just Lithium."

There is more info about them in this article about another company in the space called Form energy.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Hilton was also kidnapped and shipped off to several "scared straight" torture camps by her family as a teenager..

She had some horrible shit done to her, and apprently vowed to make her own money separate from her family. The vapid, "that's hot" party girl persona was her succeeding.

Shes come out hard against what happened to her and tries to help current victims. She managed to get legislation passed to help them, but also takes a more direct approach.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've never heard that pointer bullshit at all. Can you link it?

"Man" for "manual" is just an antiquated term kept around by Unix curmudgeons. "Help" is much better as it requires no explanation and conveniently is automatically abbreviated to its full name. It's the common term used in most other systems that aren't linux.

'Man" isn't sexist, it just sucks.

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