Tar_Alcaran

Larping works great for me.

I get some vegeterian people visibily upset that I’m eating “their” food when they know I usually eat meat.

Unless you’re at a place where you’re literally taking physical food, leaving them none, that’s just moronic

It’s mostly an artefact from how we measure it.

Chocolate demand is rising, which means cocoa demand is rising. It grows best in really warm places, where there’s plenty of readily available mountainous land that’s currently covered by old growth forest. They farm cocoa very unsustainably, by illegally logging the land, growing beans for 5 to 8 years, and moving on (following the illegal loggers). We’ve decided to place the CO2 impact on the cocoa, not the wood though, probably due to lobbying.

That land use change drives climate impact of chocolate. Milk drives the rest.

Why the hell don’t they capture the methane and sell it?

It’s really hard. Most methane comes directly from the cow, and cows spend most of their time in air. The methane gets mixed in the air, in very small percentages. Extracting a small bit of methane from a lot of air is complex and energy Intensive, and methane is cheap.

So you’d spend a lot of money and power to produce very little money or power.

Faxes are secure after sending. The only way for a third party to get a fax is to physically tap the line at the time of transmission, or to break into the building and steal the paper.

Email sits online, where everyone can get at it unless you prevent it. Faxes sit in a drawer, behind the locks you already have.

I spend a fair bit of time on construction sites, and cameras have one huge issue compared to mirrors: They’re one-way.

With a mirror, I can see the driver in the mirror. I can make eyecontact and confirm that they’ve seen me. With a camera, I have no idea if they’ve seen me. Maybe they can see more, but if they happen not to be looking, I have no way to tell.

And our stupid road regulations don’t allow for both.

Not at all. It’s assuming they don’t suddenly drop in cost 99%

LLM everything. Nobody who is selling AI services is making any money on it. OpenAI is burning tens of billions a year without even a concept of a sellable product, Microsoft is losing billions on OpenAI, and Amazon made 5B revenue on a 120B investment (and negative profit). Nobody who is using these LLMs is paying the full cost, and hardly anyone actually uses them for anything real. Productivity hasn’t gone up for the vast majority of companies using it, and only ignorant management is pushing it hard.

I’ll give it three years until it all falls apart, and that’s very generous.

I used to have a “mistake” Savannah, which was at most 40% Serval (mommy got into the male enclosure and nobody knows who the lucky boy was).

He was a LOT of work. I’ve never had a more active cat. You can absolutely train them, and you absolutely have to, or you need to keep them in a seperate enclosure. They will fuck up your house in ways you can’t imagine.

And he was only 40% serval.

It’s this stuff: https://www.tesa.com/nl-nl/consument/tesa-powerbond-outdoor-ean-4042448843432.html

Or your local version of it, but this website refuses to turn to other languages for me.

Tesa outdoor double sided tape.

That stuff is basically magic. It will stick anything to everything and you can remove it from almost any surface without leaving a mark. I used to stick a dashcam to my car window, a birdbath to my brick wall, a remote LED lamp to the ceiling (felt iffy, works great!). It’s even holding a metal plate from the doorknob in place because the door is more hole than wood by now.

It beats basically every other kind of tape of multipurpose glue, and it’s removable. It’s kinda thick though, so you might see it, but that’s also a feature when sticking rough textures to eachother.

“AI”, referring only to LLMs.

Yeah, it’s annoying because there are a lot of legit image recognition and pattern matching applications in my work field, and I need to ask for clarification every time someone says “AI”.

Like, is this actually useful, or do you mean “we asked ChatGPT to generate you 20% nonsense”?

This is basically exactly what Vintage Story does. And it’s working extremely well for them

Yeah ok, if you want good shoes, it gets expensive fast.

But if you know where to find cheap larp gear, please let me know.

Cheap? Mytholon. Cheap and good? Sorry, not really. I mean, Mytholon has great fabrics, but they’re not exactly sewn straight or neatly.

But a thousand bucks will get you there easily, depending on admission cost and food of course.

Edit: depending on what you want, Burgschneider is pretty great. Not super cheap, but definitely good and not crazy expensive

It’ll almost buy me three quarters of an 8 heddle loom, or buy me a nice benchtop milling machine to make said loom (and many other things).

It’ll buy a really great larp outfit, a barely acceptable reenactment outfit, or half of a suit of plate armor for either.

1000 bucks will get you a pretty awesome larp outfit, as long as you’re not looking for plate armor.

I know both, but I still went with “Duke Nukem isn’t a game” as my first thought

I’m working on an 8 heddle (the things that make the string go up and down, it determines how complex your pattern can be), 80cm wide loom. They’re about 1200 euros to buy, and I really really want one.

It’s not really working well, tolerances are pretty tight, but I’m pretty motivated.

Best succesful project is probably an armor stand, handmade for husband’s larp armor. Not technically complex, but with a lot of cool hand carving

Well, when you’re used to privilege…

I’m a woman and the manliest thing I do is woodworking, the husband sews clothes (occasionally from fabrics I weave).

I also do bodybuilding, but that’s hardly masculine anymore, yay!