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[UTC -5:00] GenX, FilAm NPO/NGO SJW she/her @gcvrsa http://paypal.me/gcvsa

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gcvsa, to random
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Oh, my. That Parker Quink Green Jade is gorgeous. That just might be the best jade green ink I've ever seen. It's not too yellow and not too blue, yet still shows off both yellow and blue undertones and shading. I've never really been much of a Parker fan, in the past, but I just might buy a bottle of that.

https://youtu.be/Zn5VGuOhBho?si=Br0l98Sp9Xgq1NbL

gcvsa, to DnD
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The two things that I personally feel have always been terrible about the design of are the class-based character development system and the Vancian magic system.

These systems irrationally limit the choices players can make in designing and developing their PCs, and TSR/WotC/Hasbro has missed so many opportunities to do away with these systems over the past 50 years.

But, they can be fixed, within the existing framework of . (more)

gcvsa,
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A few years ago, I finally developed a good Spell Points system to replace the spell slot system of D&D, but for some reason, it never struck me until the middle of last night that the way to fix the class system of D&D is Feats.

By simply converting all class-based mechanics to Feats, D&D could finally be freed of these irrational limitations.

I would have to rework my Spell Points system to fit a Feats-based D&D, but that's simply a matter of juggling a few numbers.

gcvsa,
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With my SP system, there's no longer any "spell preparation" or "spell slots". The caster has a certain number of SP based on their caster level, and can cast any spell they know any number of times, provided their have SP remaining, and can, if they wish, exchange HP for SP, once they run out of SP, even unto death.

Once a spell is learned, it is learned permanently, and is not "forgotten" after casting.

gcvsa,
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Spells cost the square of their spell level plus the spell level (min of 1) to cast.

So, a 0th Level cantrip costs 1 SP, a 1st Level spell costs 2 SP, a 2nd Level spell costs 6 SP, and a 9th Level spell costs 90 SP to cast, thus naturally limiting the number of high level spells any PC is going to cast, and heavily biasing the caster toward casting low-level spells.

The DM can also optionally limit the number of spells a caster can cast between rests, based on a factor of their ability scores.

gcvsa,
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Furthermore, SP and HP recovery happens on a time-based scale as a function of how much has been depleted, so no full SP or HP recovery after a short rest or a long rest.

A high-level PC who depletes all their SP or HP may take weeks to fully restore their SP or HP, absent magical or divine intervention.

enobacon, to random
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People should really try to understand how voting methods work. Math is hard if you have to think about counting everyone's vote, I guess 🙄 (starvoting.org, it's not that hard)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Israeli_legislative_election "both blocs were neck-and-neck, with the anti-Netanyahu bloc achieving 49.5% but not gaining enough seats due to Meretz and Balad narrowly missing the electoral threshold, as 289,000 anti-Netanyahu votes went wasted in terms of seats share."

https://mastodon.social/@rightardia/112388232386526229

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Israel is a good example of why "democracy" isn't necessarily something laudable.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon There is an assumption held by far too many people that "democracy" automatically means a just outcome.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @Neblib The real point of my comment is that voting cannot produce justice, especially not when the electorate is committed to perpetuating injustice. "Representation of the populace" is not a means of producing justice.

enobacon, to random
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covid wastewater data shows it's dropping, but never as quickly as people's collective patience and vigilance to mask or avoid crowded unventilated spaces, so then it goes up again 🙃 repeat indefinitely

gcvsa,
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@enobacon That's only because we're entering the warmer season. Come next Winter, it will be back in force, all over again.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Where we are today:

enobacon, to random
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what a fucking place to die 😞 your last memory being how much stinks

gcvsa,
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@enobacon Well, hopefully things will change soon. Wasn't hard to find the location by searching for Teutonia Ave. Domino's.

https://news.yahoo.com/milwaukees-national-avenue-see-auto-100519050.html

CathyTuttle, to cars
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Great Big Bollards: A Manifesto

A modest proposal for keeping people outside of alive by Dan Marshall @streetsmn

"I’d start with installing Great Big at all bus shelters. The fact that we don’t protect shelters tells us everything we need to know about modern American morality... Streetlights, signs and stoplights are all built w breakaway bolts to protect drivers and minimize vehicle damage when hit"


https://streets.mn/2024/05/03/great-big-bollards-a-manifesto/

gcvsa,
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@CathyTuttle @streetsmn "It’s really not her fault that automakers have been turning out increasingly larger and heavier vehicles for several decades"

I beg to differ. It is 100% her fault. She is the one who chose to buy a gigantic Cadillac Escalade. She is the one demanding the product, she is the customer the car makers are serving. No one forced her to buy a Main Battle Tank as a grocery-getter.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn

The way forward is physically narrowing the streets by using "canal locks"—expanding the sidewalk space into the "parking lanes", and creating sidewalk level pedestrian crossings, so that there is only width for one car to pass through at a time, and cars have to traverse a "speed bump". This should be done at each intersection, and at least once in the middle of the block, at the mid-point, or more often for longer blocks.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn It does not significanly impact travel times, and dramatically lowers intrablock speeds.

Physical narrowing creates green spaces, shortens pedestrian crossing times, enhances disability access. Bollards and large planters should be employed to enforce the canal locks. The locks also provide a great place for bicycle parking and other public infrastructure, such as community notice boards.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn And we get all of that for the social cost of just a few lost vehicle parking spaces.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn I don't mean 18" wide speed bumps, I mean raised pedestrian crossings that are at least 6-8 feet wide, wide enough for two wheelchair users to safely pass each other.

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn "What's the difference between a speed hump and a speed bump? A speed hump is typically 12 feet in length (in the direction of travel), between 3 and 4 inches in height, and is intended for use on a public roadway. A speed bump is much shorter, between 1 and 2 feet in length (in the direction of travel). A speed bump can be as much as 6 inches in height. A speed bump is typically found in a parking lot or commercial driveway, but not on a public roadway."

gcvsa,
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@enobacon @CathyTuttle @streetsmn
"Speed effects of a single or series of speed humps are greater than for any other traffic calming measure with the exception of route diversions that eliminate a particular traffic movement."

above taken from https://highways.dot.gov/safety/speed-management/traffic-calming-eprimer/module-3-part-2

seachanger, to random
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the wto protests were a turning point for me as a college student, that's when i learned that the news media can lie, and that militarized police are the ones who overwhelmingly initiate fear and perpetrate the violence accredited to protestors on the evening news. i guess a new generation of college students is learning about this now, probably the most important thing they'll learn on their campuses in 4 years tbh

gcvsa,
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@seachanger Libertarians have been telling people for years and years that the real divide in our politics is between authority and liberty.

gcvsa, to cycling
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Tonight, I was nearly #killed by an #SUV driver who accelerated to pass on the left and make an #illegal right turn in front of me as I was going straight ahead through an intersection, coming within 2 feet of my front wheel. No other vehicles on the road. VT plate "PUTNEY".

I have a blinking red and a solid red taillight, a white helmet with a red reflector, reflectors all over. I have a 500 lumen headlamp and 350 lumen flashlight mounted to my #bicycle handlebars. No way they didn't see me.

gcvsa,
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The only thing that saved my life was my awareness that motor vehicle operators often drive recklessly and often attempt to intimidate bicyclists by close-passing and performing other dangerous maneuvers like cutting bicyclists off on the road. Many drivers become irrationally enraged and unhinged at the sight of a bicyclist on the road. I have dual rearview mirrors on my bike, and had been watching this person for several hundred yards approach me from behind, so I knew they were there.

gcvsa, to IT
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The easiest and cheapest way to defend critical systems from hackers is to not fucking connect shit to the Internet that doesn't fucking need to be connected to the fucking Internet, and stop fucking designing shit that needs to be connected to the fucking Internet just because you can fucking design shit to connect to the fucking Internet.

gcvsa, to random
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LRT: When you look at how we design roads by attempting to make them safer for motor vehicle operators, usually at the expense of and the the point of exclusion of anything that would make roads safer for all other users, you cannot help but think back to how in recent decades designing playgrounds in an attempt to improve safety for children has actually resulted in much higher rates of injury, because children fail to develop senses of caution when they are insulated from danger.

gcvsa,
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Traffic engineering is a lot like Economics, in that almost everything about it is counterintuitive. The intuitive position is to make roads wider so that more cars can fit, or have less opportunity to collide with other things, but the actual result is that we simply get more cars driving faster, and thus higher rates of collisions, injuries, and fatalities, and lower qualities of life for other road users and adjacent properties.

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