Part of being powerful is a reduction in cognitive load. You don’t have to worry about what those strange foreign language speakers think or want because you have the guns and money. They have to worry about what you want. Being asked to learn another land’s language places them equal or higher in the hierarchy.

You just can’t allow that kind of thinking. I mean, what next, calling foreigners human? /s

*Inception Horn*

Someone wanders into the backrooms. They see all the usual backrooms BS. Then they find an Ethernet cable. They grab a random piece of desk and smash the everloving shit out of it and sit back to wait. Several hours later, a network technician comes in muttering angrily. They swear at the lost guy, saying something about the belfth floor printer, but the lost is able to follow them back out to a place that is at least somewhere.

It’s not sadism. It’s protecting the players from themselves. If you don’t keep players from treating RPGs like a game they can win, they will drain out all the fun and blame you.

Long live the devs. Fuck publishers.

Nope. Acid Spray.

Kame-homo-haaaaaaaaaa!

The cotton candy machine operator might be about to lose his job, but we’re having a great time.

‘Neither the silly name you call your deadname or the silly name you answer to now are your true name. Magic doesn’t care what you call yourself. I have your true name. Now, sit.’

This is 2026. Poe’s Law has never been more relevant.

Referred to as a thorn.

I particularly enjoy the fourth from the top.

I think I’m getting the mental model. It took me a minute to get how it cycles.

I think the material reduces entropy(atomic disorder), which is transformed into heat energy. Then you take that heat and move it elsewhere, say, into some coolant. Then that heated coolant is moved away, so when the power is deactivated the material re-entropizes(?), which transforms the same amount of heat in the material back into entropy, dropping its temperature.

I think the idea then is to use one way valves to let the expanded coolant move toward a heat sink side and then allow in fresh coolant from the heat source side. It’s not ‘solid state’ if you include the coolant system but it has definitely far fewer moving parts and far less friction than a common household heat pump.

I’m trying to understand. Is this a material that behaves as if compressed when electrified?

It’s already captioned though.

The world of business is FILLED with people more interested in their own leisure than the company’s benefit at every level. Everyone knows about the slackers making minimum wage but every time you hear a company has hired a contractor, that’s a manager looking at the choice between A) putting in the time and effort to hire an employee, train them, integrate them into the team, and manage and support them as they do necessary work, or B) just writing a check from company funds to the contracting company and taking off early to get a few beers with their buddies, and wouldn’t you know it, somehow it seems like the answer is always to spend the company’s money.

If you aren’t qualified and they have to pay for every interview, either you are being honest on your application and they aren’t interviewing you or you’re lying and you open yourself up to charges of fraud because you took money under false pretenses.

If companies have to pay for every interview, I doubt they’d do as many so you’d have a hard time getting enough interviews to make that viable.

A great many things that would be good for society are not feasible to be the first/only one to do. The world would be vastly safer if there were no nuclear weapons, but in a world where other nations have them it becomes self-negating to not have them. The only way to get the social benefit of all companies doing something is to legally mandate it so there is no disadvantage.