Endymion_Mallorn

And the level beyond Pro is: I’m only doing the things my boss specifically asks.

Odds are, people who have delusions about romantic partners thanks to the ELIZA effect are probably either too poor or would be resistant to getting professional help.

Well, too bad, because I’m right!

As a platform grows, you tend to get more diversity of voices. As voices become diverse, conflict becomes inevitable.

Nominally once a week at a scheduled meetup. I’m reality, about once or twice a month.

I believe that was their intention, then.

The adblocking will continue until transparency of content delivery improves.

Just put a button connected to a non-computerized EMP there. Hire the most paranoid person you can think of to man it.

What’s the point of being a dictator if you can’t be corrupt? The only difference is that you have to remember this simple fact:

No one gives a darn what the dictator’s bank account looks like if they have full bellies, secure housing, and jobs that keep them just right balance of desperate and productive. Do those things, and they’ll cheer when you build a statue of yourself. They’ll be overjoyed when you get yourself a sex partner. And they’ll fork over money willingly. Yes, it’s easier to be feared than loved; but if you just do your job, nobody actually cares about the grift!

Call the bank, explain the situation, and see if they can give you a reasonable workaround.

Lol. That’s called giving away money. If you do that, you don’t stay elite very long.

Mayday would prefer against that, since it causes hassles with her existence.

Following Washington’s guidance is what I call it.

Ongoing development of mbin and attention to the platform as a whole. His lack of overt politics compared to the Lemmy devs also makes me happier. Plus, as an admin, he’s mostly hands-off in my n experience, certainly not a micromanaging mod.

Another kbin.social refugee here. I only moved when it was obvious that Ernest wasn’t coming back. So instead, I decided to lean on Melroy, who’s been an awesome admin and dev.

So, Ernest, I wish you nothing but the best. Thanks for kicking off a small revolution. And Melroy - thank you for taking up the torch.

Reasons I can think of for the size:

1. Ammunition is large and needs to be stored carefully so it doesn’t explode. And this thing will either need extremely heavy batteries, or carefully protected tanks of fuel onboard - or both. So that’s going to massively add to the weight.
2. Human beings are soft and squishy. We’d need huge amounts of suspension for the purpose, plus the matter of armor. Think about how large a jet plane really is, or a tank.
3. Physical laws around mass and movement. Tanks are as small as they are because treads are effective at transferring torque and creating linear acceleration. If they were just on wheels, they would need to be larger. Legs would require huge amounts of mass to safely support the machine, and we’d need to have excellent stabilizer systems in addition to the suspension mentioned above so that you don’t fall flat on your face
4. Passive cooling (which would probably be necessary for safety - you don’t want a sniper stopping your whole mech by shooting a few fans) requires wide surface areas to dump the exhaust heat.

That’s all I can immediately justify, but basically, it would have to be huge.

So you want wanzers.

Seriously though, realize that if we ger Mecha, it’s going to be more like Armored Core. Or a game set in an AC4 AU, Metal Wolf Chaos.

Do you want the US President (especially the current one, to have something like that, and be told to believe in his own justice?

The Statue of Liberty wasn’t something commissioned by the USA. It was just how one French guy saw us. The New Colossus is not law, it’s a poem.

We’ve never really been proud of immigration. The only President with a reasonable take on immigrants was Teddy Roosevelt - and his belief was that the only path forward is full assimilation.

Just use mbin. No need to go out of your way.

David Bowie - Five Years Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight

And about half of Pink’s oeuvre.