voltaa

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It only takes about a tenth grade level of understanding physics and chemistry to make a decent device from scratch. With the access Americans have to over the counter explosives (tannerite) and arduinos you only need enough of an education to know how to copy and paste code. Relying on people being uneducated isn't a good strategy because these things are extremely easy to make. I work with some people that I question whether or not they can read who build effective devices with little to no effort.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

And how do you think unions come about? Historically it's by setting things on fire.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I take apart bombs, missiles and other explosive ordnance for a living, and sometimes we have to wrap certain components or fuzes in aluminum foil to lower the effects of RF on them for transport. The general rule I follow is if you could put it underwater and water would get in, then radio frequencies won't be deadened. So if she wants to be protected then she would have to create a watertight seal around her head and do us all a favor.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So why bring it up? It has nothing to do with the comment and nothing to do with the topic of the original post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Woke is when people fall out of your aircraft and then you kill your own employees

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the sphere, before they put that monstrosity up Vegas was a shining beacon of anti consumption, fighting the tenets of capitalism one casino at a time. Definitely a current day thing, no history of anything of this sort in Vegas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe being the kind of person who refers to it as sloppy 1/80s has something to do with it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Looked up the site and it seems like they also don't have Between the Buried and Me or Protest the Hero so it seems like it's one of those "exclusionary to be pretentious and no other reason" kind of sites

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The chest and stomach windows

Are too similar

for me to not see it

The outfit alone was enough for my wife and I to both instantly go "oh that's some Barbarella looking shit". The context of it being at a scifi premiere cemented in my mind that it was an aware homage but I could be wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I feel like everyone is missing the clear Barbarella reference with this outfit, which is fitting for a scifi premier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Absolutely, there were many reasons for the decline in writing and I am by no means going to defend D&D or their team as writers, but I don't envy the situation they were handed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Everything after season 4 of game of thrones was trash, it just got progressively worse each season as D&D had no ~~accountability~~ material to work with.

I know it's fashionable to shit on D&D for their lack of writing skills, but they weren't hired to write, they were hired to adapt and they were decently good at it. George told them he'd have his material completed by the time they'd have to adapt it and he did not, yet I see very little of the blame attributed to the guy who just kind of gave up on finishing his story.

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