exocrinous

joined 9 months ago
[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Do what you want. If you like the Solaris and you think the missions are fun, do Fortuna. If you don't, leave it for later when you have better gear that can do it easier. The only thing that's a must-do is progressing the star chart and the main story. There's plenty of content you can be happy never touching. Maybe one day a new update will come out and they'll add something you want, and you'll do that content then. Maybe they won't. Follow your interests.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago

I want to subscribe to NASA not understanding women facts

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They sure are. It sounds like this video is examining these things in isolation instead of looking at the wider social effects that also help counter climate change. For example, if you build houses closer together, you'll not only reduce heating and cooling costs, you'll also reduce the monetary and carbon costs of infrastructure, you'll improve the efficiency calculation of public transit, and you'll make bikes more viable. One change with knock on effects that help three different sustainability areas. One change that literally costs negative money and also helps the environment. How did this not make the list??

Also shooting rich people dead only costs a hunting rifle and some bullets, and it prevents hundreds of private jet flights a year.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

I actually first ran into geas in Halo. The Librarian had the ability to implant people with a genetic destiny, a sequence of DNA which guides their species' evolution in predictable ways. She used it to make Dr Halsey a eugenecist and John Halo a good candidate for surgical augmentation.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

In The Good Place there's a scene that takes place in Australia where Chidi, who is a professor there, has a mental breakdown and makes peep chili. The thing is, Australians don't know what peeps are, so this scene made no sense to us. Anyway, that's the only reason I know what peeps are.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I don't understand how a parent can not think deeply about their relationship with their kids. I don't think there should be such a thing as "thinking too deep" about anything to do with how to raise a kid.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago

Nah, readability is low and you can't divide by three OR five easily. Binary has even fewer prime factors than decimal.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

Meanwhile I'm bucking trends as an advocate of the dozenal metric system.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 20 points 7 months ago

Americans are still using monarchy units while the rest of the world is on freedom units.

[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fuck your decimal system. Dozenal is the most intuitive number system. Arithmetic is so much easier to learn in dozenal and you can even count higher on your hands if you use phalanges instead of fingers. Base 10 is a crap number system. It's barely composite, it only has two prime factors.

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