Tangential to the point of the article, but this:

Mitchell described how preppers make ready for specific forms of societal collapse, based not on the likelihood of the event itself, but rather, based on how useful they would be in that situation. For example, a water chemist has made extensive preparations for an event in which terrorists poison the water-supply. When pressed, he couldn’t explain why terrorists would choose his town to target with an attack like this, but basically thought it would be really cool if the only person who could save his town was him.

actually strikes me as the best / sanest form of prepping, as long as everyone does it. Imagine a scenario where the water chemist has a plan to save their town from a contaminated water supply, the electrical engineer has a plan to save their town from a wide-spread power grid failure, the EMT has a plan to save their town from the collapse of the emergency response system, etc., such that no matter what disaster befalls them, someone is there who’s ready to step in and apply their expertise for the betterment of the community as a whole.

Well, thanks for bringing Epigraph to my attention!

This seems… so completely not worth getting upset over. What image was supposedly censored?

I’m sure there’s some external influence, too. My corpse tolerance would be a lot different if it’s extremely hot outside than if it’s chilly. If I’m at risk of heat stroke, I’d maybe even swim with a corpse making audible noise. If I’m physically on fire, I definitely would.

Maybe the real question is, “How large would a corpse have to be to stop you from swimming in the pool?”

Well, the fact that 87% of the respondents were from Canada already proves that it isn’t representative. Was the survey posted to lemmy.ca, perhaps?

I don’t have a better survey to share, but I think we could probably do better than this if we re-ran the survey now and made sure it was publicized on all major instances / communities.

Velcro on the back of the clipboard and on the side of the cart? Stick the clipboard to it for easy retrieval, and you don’t have to carry a bag.

I play D&D whenever I can find a group to play with, and kobolds have long been my favorite ‘race’ to play as, so I’ve accumulated a collection of kobold characters. Many of the folks I chat with online know me through that lens, so I made it my online identity. A coterie of kobolds, if you will.

Plus, the mental image of a group of kobolds sitting in front of a computer - maybe with one on the mouse and two on the keyboard, typing away together NCIS style, amuses me.

How much bullshit would you propose we put up with before developing an opinion about someone? They got banned, then made a new account and came here to complain about it with frankly juvenile rhetoric and while throwing insults at mods. That’s all I need to form an opinion of someone. If they want to change that opinion, they’re welcome to take steps to do so.

Username checks out?

I know nothing about the situation that resulted in the ban and won’t comment on it, but based purely on your attitude and rhetoric in this post, I’m inclined to think that it was warranted and that, honestly, we’re probably better off without you.

Elder Scrolls games by and large suck out of the box. The prolific mod community is what makes them worth buying / playing. I’ve got a few hundred hours in Skyrim and I’ve never actually finished the main storyline. Don’t know how it ends, don’t care.

Mistborn books 1-3 would make an absolutely fantastic 3-season show.

He did at least once; he streamed it and had no idea how to play the game, spent hours in silence being heckled by chat.

He should make it interesting. Pledge, say, 300 billion to a number of humanitarian charities if he doesn’t succeed in making a highly reviewed AI game in 2026. Put it in an escrow account in the meantime.

Personally, I prefer your last case. I put comments before my functions that explain in plain text what the function is doing, e.g. “If the widget is vibrating, do X; otherwise, do Y”. If the function is particularly complex, I’ll put more comments inside it that explain how it’s accomplishing that, but I like being able to just see at a glance a summary of the function’s… function, without scanning the whole thing for comments. It’s like the index of a book. You quickly scan to find the page with the thing you’re interested, then you read that page in detail.

…which makes it so baffling. They could buy a lot of goodwill if they just made the store more consumer-focused, even if they earned less from it in the process. But no, they have to just commit whole hog to just being the worst.

Spyware cum!

Alternately, you’re playing an RPG, and you’ve reached an emotional climax. Mid-cutscene while a character is delivering a gut-wrenching dialog, an ad for Raid Shadow Legends fills your screen.

Hard no-thanks from me, but I could see this maybe being a viable option for folks who just can’t afford to buy games which, given the state of everything, might be a growing percentage of the population.

There’s problematic cases like information on active spies (for example) that would make it hard to remove it entirely, but I agree with you that it could / should be drastically reduced. Obviously this is coming from someone without top secret clearance so I really have no idea how damaging unredacting everything suddenly would be, but there have been many cases where things were redacted or classified purely because it would make the government look bad if it were released, and that, in my opinion, is bullshit. That should be public knowledge.