Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

Oh, he's still alive then. Maybe his next stroke will do the trick.

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

I wonder why they don't just offer abortions on base; or in the case of bases that lack a hospital, refer troops to the VA for it. State legislation can suck a fat one on federal facilities.

Two reasons I say this:

1. I know the VA has the authority to selectively provide healthcare to groups outside of it's normal mission (veterans) - here in Oklahoma the VA extended (still extends?) services to Native American tribes due to some kind of extenuating circumstances... was a while ago, so I don't remember the details of the announcement, but they for sure can serve non-vets of they decide to.

2. As far as nursing goes, you DO NOT need specific state licensing to practice in a VA facility in that state. If you're licensed (from anywhere in the US) and hired by the VA, you can transfer to any VA facility, anywhere, and work as a nurse. So, state law don't mean jack in a federal building.

Pour those both into the same cup, and suddenly we have a pathway for troops - or anyone, really - to get an abortion if they need one, even they live in Y'all Qaeda territory.

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

But like... why? Does their religion actually have some angst with music, or is this another one of those "god told me so in a dream!" kinda bullshit?

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

...well fuck, I didn't actually expect the former. This world would be so much better without that religious nonsense. -_-

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

What opinion?

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

So, bigoted opinions? Yeah those should be banned.

If we're talking about whether or not you like pineapples on pizza, no one gives a damn which way you lean.

If we're talking about human rights, there's a very clear wrong answer. If your 'opinion' falls on the Nazi side of that aisle, this might be your cue to ask yourself "are we the baddies?"

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

You're conflating disagreeing with behaving like a Nazi. I don't give a fuck what was acceptable back in your day. Today we draw the line at human rights If you get butthurt at being ridiculed for lamenting at the opposition you face when you try to marginalize other groups, then keep that shit to yourself. Or better yet, make an effort to actually get to know some people from the groups you're directing hatred at - might find you actually start caring about them, and suddenly their rights will mean more to you than the pushback you get for posting slurs online

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

Hate:

Lazy UI porting between PC and console. It goes both ways - radial menus showing up in a PC game or a joystick-controlled-cursor in a console game. M+KB vs controller are not comparable input methods, so trying to manage the UI with one that was built for the other is always a massive pain in the ass.

Inventory restrictions in games that throw a LOT of shit your way. Looking at you, Bethesda. Fortunately there's usually a mod of some kind to make items weigh like 0.01 lbs, or kick your slots up to 9999 or something. Sometimes realism adds to the experience... inventory management isn't one of those times.

Sluggish controls. I want to actually enjoy the Dark Souls games SO BAD - they look beautiful, I fuckin love that dark fantasy setting... but moving and combat feel like I'm driving a school bus with boxing gloves on my hands and diving flippers on my feet. I get that the cumbersome controls are a huge part of what makes it difficult, and that the difficulty is what a lot of players are after, but personally that's not a flavor of difficulty I'll ever be able to enjoy.

Love:

Good QOL features, especially involving the topics above. Like 'Hot Deposit' certain items to all designated storages in range, or AoE loot when a bunch of foes die in a pile. The quick loot style menu from Fallout 4 is another great example. Love that stuff!

Lore. Good story writing, believable/relatable characters, ESPECIALLY the antagonists. Hitting the sweet spot there is a quick ticket to my all time favorites.

Environmental challenges, with fun ways to overcome them. When I was new to Ark, one of the biggest challenges in my first play through was getting into the super cold zones and not freezing to death. My cold weather gear didn't cut it... the solution I came up with was to tame a paracer (kind of an elephant looking dino) and build a platform on its back: and made like 6 camp fires on the platform. So the I was, trudging through an insanely cold environment on a flaming elephant, cozy as can be. As a veteran player now, there are SO much more efficient methods to solving that problem, but the experience gave a unique sense of accomplishment, which is the kind of thing that got me hooked on that game.

Escorts matching the move speed of the player. 'nuff said.

Sterile_Technique, 9 months ago

If "Secret World Legends" isn't already on your radar, it might be up your alley.

Haven't played GW1, but SWL has a moveset similar to what you described.

It's set in modern day, with the premise that all myths, conspiracy theories, urban legends etc are all true - and frequently need to be contained. There are three factions: STRONGLY recommend you choose Illuminati (best faction story line by a long shot).

The investigative missions will make you feel like a moron, but in a weirdly good way. SUPER satisfying to figure them out without looking up hints online.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

"Do no evil." ...unless it's projected as profitable, in which case, evil that shit up!

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

Nursing student here. Quizlet has an AI function that lets you paste text into it and it outputs a studyset.

Most of my classes provide a study guide of some kind - just a list of topics we need to be familiar with. I'll take those and plug em into the AI thing: bam! Instantly generate like 200 flash cards to study for the next test.

It even auto-fills the actual subject matter. For example, the study guide will say sometime like "Summarize Louis Pasteur's contributions to the field of microbiology" and turn that into a flash card that reads:

(front)

Louis Pasteur

(back)

Verified the germ theory of disease

Developed a method to prevent the spoilage of liquids through heating (pasteurization)

Developed early anthrax and rabies vaccines

So I take my list of AI generated cards, then sift through the powerpoints and lecture videos etc from class: instead of building the study set from scratch, all I have to do is verify that the information it spit out is accurate (so far it's been like 98% on target, often explaining concepts better than the actual professor, lol), add images, and play with the formatting a bit so it reads a little easier on the eyes.

People always talk about AI in school in the context of cheating, but it is RIDICULOUSLY useful for students actually trying to learn.

Looking ahead, this tech has a ton of potential to be used as a kind of personal tutor for each student. There will be some growing pains for sure, but we definitely shouldn't ignore its constructive potential.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

Logged in about an hour ago; promptly redirected to an image of two old men giving eachother a blowjob.

Didn't stick around long enough to grab a link lol - lemmy.world is definitely compromised at the moment.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

This isn't my area of expertise, but as I understand the present climate crisis, it's actually misleading to say we're "nearing the point of no return" as so many of these kinds of articles do.

Every single day we pass a brand new point of no return because every day we keep pumping fuel into positive feedback loops that are already in motion. Not only will biking to work not do shit; but even if humans just went extinct right now and all industry/pollution/etc came to a 100% stop, the climate will still continue to (albeit more slowly) spiral into new extremes. What we're feeling today is the 'find out' stage of climate inaction decades ago; and the damage we're doing today won't be be tangible for decades to come.

Best case scenario is the coolest of an array of hellscapes - we're in damage control mode. Rather, we should be in damage control mode; what we're actually in is grind-away-at-our-9-to-5-while-we-watch-oligarchs-consume-our-planet mode.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

• Change rules to EULA levels of obnoxious detail

• Perma-ban every infraction, no matter how minor.

Mods can still make their subs go dark... one user at a time, lol.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

Most of these aren't really 'hidden' but there are some good deals on some of my favorites right now:
Skyrim - $10, which gives you access to:
Enderal - Free but requires Skyrim in library
Witcher III + DLCs - $15
Raft - $13.39
Grounded - $24
Satisfactory - $16.49
Subnautica & Subnautica Below Zero - $18
Valheim - $12
Age of Empires - $5
Halo: Master Chief Collection (7 Halo games) - $10

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

Considering that it's an indie crew's passion project built on the assets of another game, Enderal is fucking incredible. I am absolutely blown away with what they did.

Yeah, if anyone reading this enjoyed Skyrim / story driven RPGs, and haven't tried Enderal, put this one HIGH on your priority list.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

Man, I'm really under-utilizing GOG.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

My sentiment as well. Preserving unnecessary jobs for the sole purpose of delivering a paycheck is just a cruel version of welfare. If we're going to pay people to contribute nothing or next to nothing because they need an income and that's their only option, can't we just write the check without obliterating the hours they could be using to improve themselves in some way?

Preserve and support people, not jobs.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The concerning part is that a lot of the data is the most conservative available, so as to not seem alarmist. When even that looks grim, it's hard to hold onto any hope that our planet is on track to becoming anything other than a hellscape. A lot of climate change is the result of positive feedback loops -- self-aggrivating conditions. E.g., warmer arctic climate causes the release of methane previously trapped by ice (methane is a ridiculously potent greenhouse gas... something like 30x more potent than CO₂), so its release causes the climate to warm even more, which melts more arctic ice, which releases more methane, which makes the climate warmer, which melts more arctic ice, etc...

Even if every human just suddenly got thanos-snapped out of existence right now -- no more cars, no more shipping, no more deforestation, no more industry of any kind... full stop on pollution and active environmental destruction... even then, the positive feedback loops we've set into motion aren't just going to stop on their own. The process would be slower, sure, but Earth is (rather, the things on earth that make it more than just a dead rock floating in space, are) fucked.

On the plus side, we'll only be alive long enough to see the start of the 'find out' era. It's the generation after you that's really fucked; and the generation after them that's really, REALLY fucked, rinse and repeat until humanity is an eco-dome filled with oligarchs, or just straight up extinct.

At this point we're dependent on a (series of) miracle-tier scientific breakthrough(s), or literal divine/extraterrestrial intervention. I don't see the latter two happening. Vote for candidates who give a shit about science if you think there's any hope in that route.

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I HATE Y-pop-

Sterile_Technique, 10 months ago

"Money can't buy happiness." "If you work hard, YOU TOO can be a billionaire." and other snips of class warfare/propaganda made to trick poor people into feeling complacent or even aggressively attached to their position of being shat on by oligarchs.

We (collective) eat that shit up and then beg for seconds when we should be erecting guillotines.

Sterile_Technique, 11 months ago

I wouldn't mind seeing text posts presenting a problem, and comments with a solution being botted over, especially if that would make federated content more relevant in search engines.

...but yea, I'm not really interested in seeing pics of some random redditer's spoon collection.

Sterile_Technique, 11 months ago

We have a tendency to conflate a person's life with a person's traits and impact, which brings about an unnecessary moral grey area when a shitty person bites the dust.

Dude was a parasite on humanity. His greed was a boot on the neck for all but a select few. Him dying obviously means we lost a human life - no one's celebrating that; but it also represents the excision of a parasite and relief from the damage he caused, and THAT is absolutely a good thing!

Now if the other oligarchs would just follow in his steps...

Sterile_Technique, 11 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

No amount of bbq sauce is going to make that palatable. Can we just compost them instead?

Sterile_Technique, 11 months ago

Thank! ^_^

I work as a surgical tech, and that scene fuckin kills me lol.