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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Unfortunately I can’t take you seriously if you really think this:

    Are you telling me the people behind the decision to ban certain mods due to bigotry were holding a stance of “we are more than happy for you to publish your content, just not here for completely unrelated reasons” or are we being serious and we accept the fact that the stance is an explicit “these mods should not exist and we don’t want any part of them”?

    The “people behind the decision” are business people who were worried about ad revenue due to being associated with such mods. These people don’t give a fuck about the mod being available anywhere else as long as it doesn’t negatively affect their own bottom line. So yes, I’m telling you exactly that.









  • I’m not sure I agree. The real world is never going to run perfectly, so some slack must be included (either by adding buffer time to schedules, or using the way you mention). Of course there are examples like Japan that have done a really good job at optimizing these systems, but you won’t be able to successfully apply their approach to every country. Some locations require more work to achieve this, others require less.

    Generally the closer you get to an “ideal” performance, the more costly every further improvement gets. If 7 min isn’t reasonable, what number would be? Say we manage to shave off two minutes, at twice the cost of the current system. Is that really worth it?

    The better approach is to include reasonable slack time in people’s train schedules, while increasing frequencies so missing a connection doesn’t result in hour-long wait times.







  • Palpatine secretly controlled the whole trade blockade around Naboo as well as directing Count Dooku, Darth Maul and General Grievous among many other shenanigans.

    To compare it to German history: Palpatine didn’t just light the metaphorical Reichstag on fire, my Geschwisty. He used an armada of tanks assembled into a Voltron-style robot that shoots Flammenwerfer capable of turning air into fuel.