admin of an instance can still police their own users on external communities, this happened before (once i think) with lw (ie lw admin removed post of lw user on ncd@sjw)

it looks like a bastard kid of PL01 and Abrams-X

somewhere between 30 and 5 years ago there used to be a thing, a very crass irregular webcomic of extremely low quality, made by a collective that eventually boiled down to two dead inside dudes working in advertising that escaped from ideological armpit of poland into buddhism and syndicalism, and they had like 3 blogs and fb and got locked out of all of them, their badly drawn jpegs lost to link rot and inexorable passage of time

anyway, they wrote also this, machine translated:

I have an idea for all these advertising festivals. Not like now, where some fucking ghosts* get awards, which were broadcast somewhere on channel tv9 once at 25:68, created after hours by sad advertisers, who somewhere subconsciously regret finishing this ASP [Academy of Fine Arts] and have to enlarge the logo and call to action. No, my idea is for all advertisements to be broadcast at festivals. Obligatory. Every brand manager, and every advertiser who produced something in a given year - all 10, 15 thousand people will be herded into one hall, everyone will be tied to a chair, they will get a tasteful, metal harness for eyes and ears like in A Clockwork Orange and we will start.

We are running a marathon without a break for peeing. We watch all your achievements, television, radio, internet, print. New media. A radio show about urinary incontinence? There it goes, in a loop. TVC where your shitty soda is love and solves the problems of racist violence? In all versions 45, 30 and 15 seconds and the storytelling 3:20. Then a short break for advertising banners obscuring reality. Buy. Buy. Buy. Billboards on quick assembly. Yogurt that loves children. Bathroom furniture assembled on Amiga with overcompressed, screaming voiceover. Shitty content on Facebook, where brands take long-dead memes from the trash can of history and shittily stick their logos on them.

A special section where we exclusively assemble warnings consult a pharmacist and it goes at 130 dB to the entire room. With boosted treble. If you go deaf, we’ll cure you, bitch, if you faint, we’ll revive you. If you die, you win. Maybe after the awards at this festival they would think more about what they are doing. Maybe we would finally stop wondering who came first: the stupid message or the stupid recipient. Maybe there would be no one left to revive (15,000 won! for a total sum of - ).

The award would be not to “win”, but you try so hard all year long that you have no chance. #dreams.

• works that prove to you that you still have some value, and that your thinking is needed (I’ll give you a hint - it isn’t)

ah yes it’s reactionary to checks notes not support the righteous biggest bubble since dotcom era

you okay out there bud?

what neutrons? we’re talking about shielding of spacecraft moving out of earth’s magnetosphere, not a spacecraft travelling through core of active nuclear reactor

the kind of radiation that is relevant are high energy protons (and alphas and electrons, with a sprinkle of heavier nuclei) from sun, mostly. there’s no relevant source of neutrons

(and incidentally water is pretty good at absorbing neutrons too)

water does not expand upon irradiation, what the fuck are you talking about. you can’t reflect high energy protons (what would be important in radiation in interplanetary travel) you can only either absorb them or let them pass, there’s no third option, same for anything above uv and electrons

to a first approximation (rather good one at that) (for gammas) absorption is proportional to how much mass per area unit is used as a barrier. 1 g/cm^2 of water is just as good barrier as 1 g/cm^2 of lead or steel. this means that you can absolutely use completely normal, regular potable water as a radiation shield

Water in its purest form would have to take on mass to “absorb” radiation, expanding a hull and destroying it over time.

i’m not even sure what it’s supposed to mean, unless your understanding of ionizing radiation is uncut nonsense

chemically speaking, it’s completely fine to irradiate water because whatever is formed as a result of radiolysis would just most of the time form water back, with the rest becoming very weak solution of hydrogen peroxide. this is big part of the reason why water is used as a coolant in nuclear reactors

there are also specific nuances to stopping anything that is not gammas, like secondary x-rays, gammas from neutron absorption etc and this actually favours light element shields, like water or liquid hydrogen, for this kind of radiation shielding

i don’t get what you fail to understand, water doesn’t became radioactive or harmful in any other way after irradiation, and irradiation of food is routinely used for extending its shelf life

“remove” what exactly? water is not alive so it’s okay to irradiate it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_irradiation

are lead-free primers a thing in 5.56?

aerosolized lead bacon 😋

Loader died month later, the rest was burned but survived. Driver went home the same day. Ammo used was past expiry date

russians were trying to pass north koreans as buryats (both are east asians, but buryats are usually russian citizens). they are getting one interpreter per 30, maybe they won’t go straight to frontline, maybe they’ll be doing earthwork or whatever

nowadays you can’t just eldest son enemy’s coal because most coal fired generation grinds coal as a first step (necessary in fluidized bed furnaces) and ships just run on oil instead

there was also older effort of making cast iron bombs that looked like lumps of coal. these had no initiator and instead were supposed to detonate in furnace from heat. it was developed during american civil war by confederates and was mostly useless due to intel leak. it was also used in ww2 and as late as vietnam war with little success

in this case, it seems that the target was supposed to be towed decoy, but somehow missile locked on plane instead

polish armed forces not beating allegations of competence

they also managed to burn down a leopard, during training. no, they weren’t shot at

what happened was that gunner loaded a main gun shell, but wasn’t supposed to. so he tried to extract it, but it broke, and because there was already some shooting that day, propellant fell on bucket of hot stubs, igniting immediately. it was decided that it was fault of ammo that was not up to spec. (2015)

they also managed to burn down a 2S1 at the same training ground two years before

that means that hungarians have delivered weapons of mass destruction (100 pack of Madyar’s antennas)

some COTS drones have had grenade release mechanism wired to auxiliary light output

Putin has continued to invoke Nuclear Orthodoxy on various occasions, such as a 2018 claim that Russians would “go to heaven as martyrs” and foreigners would “simply drop dead.”

nvidia executive called saltman a podcasting bro