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I can’t tell if this is some weird euphemism, or they literally just had to cross a river and maybe got way too deep into tactics.

“Real world Russian capabilities are shown to be lacking, so the Red Menace are now Red Wizards.”

Morale improved drastically, DnD will no longer continue.

Wait, fuck…

I knew a Catholic priests who played EverQuest. Doubt he’d be excommunicated for this.

Maybe he’s baptist or something though? Do they excommunicate?

Are you talking about Tel Megiddo?

The only battle there in the last two millennia was in 1918AD. Not 70AD.

The people expecting or hoping for it in their lifetime should have read their Bibles better. I’m not religious anymore but I still remember one of the last things Jesus said was “You won’t know when I’m coming back.”

Just throw Matthew 24:36 at them.

Why do they care if it does? Creators get paid on a per-gold basis, which means people are paying reddit in the first place for gold. Whether bought gold is spent on bots or human users is probably entirely immaterial to the Admins. Reddit sees engagement and (ideally) spending go up.

Reddit could crack down on bots if they want to. It’s almost entirely a separate issue. Adding money likely isn’t going to change much since obviously bot farms already have a profit motive to spam reddit and the payouts aren’t huge.

No, they also used a lot of wood.

But doesn’t change the fact the concrete is good concrete. Better much of ours.

Source for 30 year rating? I’m not aware of such in either Europe or North America. I found a few sites reporting that number but couldn’t find an actual authority giving that rating.

Also, there’s a difference between a wood (or stick) frame and a timber frame, at least if you’re including North America in context. In our terminology, a timber frame has large timber beams and columns supporting the load, and dividing walls are put in between. A stick frame house uses smaller lumber studs, and most of the internal and external walls are supporting the floors or roof above.

American houses are stick frame, and with proper maintenance a stick frame house can last easily over 100 years. Wood doesn’t rot if treated and maintained properly. Settling of the foundation is a bigger problem, and simply subject to ground conditions which would impact even a steel frame house.

Timber frame is becoming more popular again for large buildings though, since ~12"/30cm timber columns have pretty good fire ratings, can support 3-4 stories, and are good carbon sinks for more environmentally friendly construction versus concrete or steel. My city is putting up some 3 story timber apartment buildings that look pretty awesome.

Long story short, wood is a great, renewable construction material if you’re smart about how you build with it and how you treat it.

This is true, but it’s also more expensive, which means the owners now don’t want to spend the extra 25% to make sure their building lasts 500 years instead of 50.

Sure, but Roman concrete was also actually really good due to the ingredients used. They had self-healing concrete millennia before we came up with the idea.

A fair critique is the Romans built their shit to last and didn’t have advanced computers to calculate loads to just ~10% of failure, like we do now. We’ll use cheaper, local materials if it’s good enough and make sure the building stands for maybe a century. The Romans shipped ash and concrete ingredients halfway across Europe to make sure they were using the good stuff.

Same. I wasn’t alive at the time, but just looking at history it doesn’t seem like the advancements from the 40s to the ~80s were as significant as the 80s onward. The atom bomb was a huge technological achievement, but apart from instilling a whole new fear into the population, it doesn’t compare to the impact the semiconductor and specifically personal computers have had on our lives.

I get why people over 60 struggle. There was absolutely nothing like it for most of their lives. I grew up with dial up and AOL, and while those are gone, I understand the same core technological concepts that evolved from them, and I don’t expect anything nearly so revolutionary happening to us. I mean, it’d be cool, and if it happens I hope I could adapt.

It’s not. It’s a common mathematical fallacy stumbled upon by crackpots who think they’re geniuses and have found a fundamental problem with math.

There’s a math professor at Harvard who gets sent this “proof” like once a month.

They planned on implementing a change, and we protested that change, but users and mods gave in and that change happened anyway. The protest failed.

You can reframe that all you want, but we did not accomplish the actual objective of the protest, which was changes to API pricing. We lost.

I was a mod too. A very active user too. I left. And I’m happy I left, but that’s just being happy that defeat doesn’t taste nearly so bitter because there are viable alternatives.

Most mods who actually cared were purged and replaced with lackeys which I’d bet money on were checked to see if they use the official app.

The new and current mods won’t be a problem. They’ll happily eat this bullshit straight from the trough.

Right? Like someone actually wrote that.

After what Spez did. A few weeks ago. Fuck, maybe Spez himself wrote it.

I know we lost and the protests failed, but still, to write something like that… Doesn’t actually surprise me, but also I’d think even a total moron would have enough self awareness not to say that.

It should be, but isn’t, and given the circumstances would not uncalled for for Trump.

Also, he is charged. I assume you mean convicted?