When I was a kid, I played a lot of Runescape. I loved that the quests were all unique and had their own, sometimes genuinely well written and engaging stories, with point'n'click style puzzles, reminiscent of Sierra games. It was the most fun I've ever had in an mmo.
But my god is there a lot of repetitive grinding. I tried to get back into it a few years ago, but my patience for killing the same mob for 3 hours straight, or cutting and burning trees like a giant line of cocaine, simply isn't there anymore.
I wish I could play a version of it without the grind, and just the quests.
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That it looks like a real paper is part of the joke, it's pointing out the absurdity of companies trying to continue to emit carbon as long as they can use carbon credits, which doesn't address the root problem. The joke of the paper is essentially; what if a researcher who was paid by a mega corp to find a 'solution' (which the corp would want to be greenwashing), actually naively proposed a genuine solution using corporate friendly concepts and language.
I think you might be reading a bit too much into the joke, which is the idea of a scientific paper on giving carbon credits to people conducting actual industrial sabotage, a hilarious concept in itself.
But taking it more seriously, I suppose the argument could be made that delaying large amounts of carbon from being released means reducing X amount of time that carbon in the atmosphere has to contribute to warming and potential feedback cycles. Producing something in a different factory may take time, and while the same amount would potentially be emitted at the new factory, delaying it may not be entirely useless (at least, in my uneducated intuition!).
There are too many variables to know with absolute certainty if a particular sabotage action is overall carbon positive or negative based on how much extra carbon would be emitted to fix the sabotage (depends on the type of sabotage). But if the sabotage results in that production not occurring at all due to making the whole ordeal more costly, it would likely be overall a positive carbon action.
Honestly, I'd recommend just changing the title to something less inflammatory than Veritasium's chosen title, like "How Approval Voting is the only type that encourages democracy" or whatever you can think of, because his title is just going to get people downvoting it by assuming it encourages not voting.
Not a terribly insightful article for people who aren't deeply familiar with what those policies actually do, which is what I was curious about. All I could gather is that most of the country is electrified and they invested in maintaining and building paved roads.
Dried lentils are an incredibly versatile ingredient, keep forever, are cheap and healthy, and unlike dried beans, do not require overnight soaking to use in a meal.
If your state salts the roads in the winter, it's strongly recommended to undercoat your vehicle with a coating to preserve it from rusting and shortening its useful life. Fluid Film is one of the better coatings, and is based on sheep lanolin, so it's not toxic to the environment.
4wheel drive is nice, but tires are EVERYTHING. You absolutely cannot rely on all season tires, you MUST get proper Winter tires if your region snows heavily, or you will have a bad time.
There are now fabric snow 'socks' for cars that act like snow chains to get you out if a bind, which would be worth having in the trunk.
In the winter, ALWAYS bring winter rated clothing in the car along with water, a small amount of food, heavy duty blanket, and a small liquid paraffin candle for heat in the event you get stuck in a storm, or go off the road from ice.
I believe to ping someone, you need to put an @ symbol before their name instead of /u/. Depending on how you're interacting with Lemmy (web or app) it should provide some means of auto completing the ping.
He was charged with planning to lead them, though I'm not sure if that was actually true or just a charge to slap on him before the execution. He did smuggle arms for the counter-revolutionaries, but only after his comrades and friends were being arrested for counter-revolutionary activities.
despite claims otherwise to some of their less ML compatriots, this seems to have been the plan more or less from the start. Several of the revolution’s leaders were executed for not being ML-leaning.
Confirmed by William Alexander Morgan, who became disillusioned with Castro, and was then executed despite how much he'd helped the revolution.
I'm glad to see this has been as positive a place for you as I have found it to be myself. Your thoughts are well formed and pleasant to read, and I'm thankful that you choose to share them here with us. :)
Ahh, Kotor 2, my first morally ambiguous RPG that made me question if it was wrong to help homeless people due to unforseen consequences as a 12 year old (which, BTW Kreia, it IS good to help homeless people who are starving, wtf dude)
That was a well done little compass thing, and a lovely trip down memory lane. Thanks for the share Jesus!
OP, just so you know, Invidious was effectively killed by Google, rendering the video unplayable unless you click through to youtube. The best replacement I've found is Freetube combined with libredirect., which I recommend to others in the post body text when I share a video.
I figure it's not too different from a regular text post here, so if there's a community that seems relevant to the post somehow, that'd prolly be best.
As to how to find them, I'd recommend the communities tab of lemmyverse explorer, and searching a word or category that seems close to what you're posting to see if there's a community that already exists for it.
When I was a kid, I played a lot of Runescape. I loved that the quests were all unique and had their own, sometimes genuinely well written and engaging stories, with point'n'click style puzzles, reminiscent of Sierra games. It was the most fun I've ever had in an mmo.
But my god is there a lot of repetitive grinding. I tried to get back into it a few years ago, but my patience for killing the same mob for 3 hours straight, or cutting and burning trees like a giant line of cocaine, simply isn't there anymore.
I wish I could play a version of it without the grind, and just the quests.