In 1861 Russia abolished serfdom.

In 1961 Gagarin reached space.

It’s just barely implausible a person born a serf could have seen their descendant explore space.

The Palladium books I had were from the 70s so it felt more like a novel approach. But I love the mechanics and worldbuilding of RPGs in general, pen and paper or otherwise, so all in all I enjoy the adaptive homebrews just as much.

I never got a campaign off the ground, but Palladium had, I thought, a great system.

I loved the approach to alignment (good, selfish, evil) and awarding xp for roleplaying, clever ideas, and problem solving, rather than simply killing an enemy.

Protip: in small talk/office chitchat C is often functionally D.

For flooding it is a typical estimation from modelling from things like topography maps and known precipitation events. It is all rough estimations without collecting monitoring data, which is what funding for these agencies tend to be used for.

It requires a lot of information to accurately model and predict if any given river valley can handle 1.75 inches in a 3 mile radius in 4 hours, versus 3.25 inches in a 1 mile radius in 2 hours. How much does a 0.2 inch rainfall event in the previous 24 hours impact? What about 1 inch in the same area in 24 hours? (And so on.)

Your average RPG is typically a group of trauma survivors clinging to each other in a crisis situation.

At the same time putting a group of adults together and doing a thing is the basis of many game shows and reality TV.

I find marionberry jam to be the superior option along with raspberry, although I agree strawberry is better than grape.

However I have never tried white/gold grape jam (made from green grapes) which I’ve often seen spiced, so I imagine that might have potential.

Our current system is predicated upon catering to the wealthiest (0.)1% which keeps winning them elections. Abusers of power get to frame their own opposition, and so you have things like poor people being blamed for the excesses of the rich. So you have people start swearing off avocado toast they never bought in the first place instead of proper italian plumbing.

Trans-rights have never actually been an issue. Anti-trans people are the issue because they made their issue everyone elses.

Abusers deflect and redirect onto their targets so they never have to defend themselves. It isn’t that trans people want to survive, it’s that there’s motherfuckers that don’t want trans people to exist.

‘Do the thing’ is using the tools a user has at their disposal to block other users. Communities can block and ban users too.

Defederation over moderation is not the thing I am suggesting. Especially not as part of a multiyear campaign perpetuating a bad-faith feedback loop.

That’s why instances, communities, and users can be blocked and banned. If ‘their conversation’ is not allowed in ‘your space’ then do the thing and move on.

Now, now it is only a Totenkopf if it is from a distinct region of Germany.

War as an industry innovated, did some hostile takeovers. Now even your prospects of acquiring shelter for the night are considered part of war effort.

Damnit Clauswitz.

Pepe deserved better.

Sure. Though we can’t quite know if even that’s true as she did not become president.

Not a thing comes to mind.

Was still pretty much the biggest self-sabotaging way of communicating that sentiment in the campaign.

Which would mean accepting a lie, thereby completely undermining calls for context or saying statements are being misquoted.

All of the above. The Democrats have a supermajority but zero discipline so they failed to deliver legislation, giving the conservatives the win. Then the legislation languished until it reached a phase where it would have only been able to continue by suspending rules by a vote with Republican support, which obviously didn’t happen.

This maintains the shit we’re all sick of that Democrats are really trying and working hard and it is just the GOP’s fault.

Indiscriminate firebombing of civilians really helps streamline the process. Keep bombing until you have no more targets. Then just start bombing the sea.

The ICE budget is free college for everyone like 3 times over.

There was no daylight between her and Biden on Netanyahu’s genocide.

Don’t lie.

You may have missed the “No daylight, kid.” thing it seems.

Unfortunately there are some users on Lemmy very ready to see ICE’s new budget justify political deportations. But yeah, I don’t think any of them would have any cognitive dissonance about it.