Starting a community (Omelas) in Nova Scotia

Already have the land. 13 acres. There's a lake nearby, technically the property touches it but it's not that accessible. Ocean is a 5 minute bike ride away. I've been here for 2 years so far. Open to hosting anyone temporarily, and if you're interested in staying permanently we could discuss that after a trial period.

Vaccines work

Gay rights

Trans women are women

Anarchy is Order

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 3 days ago

A quick lesson on gates

Gates need braces.

There are 2 types of these struts. Compression braces and tension braces.

Compression braces are the type of brace you install on a new gate.

If you're out here installing tension braces on new gates, you're scamming your customers.

Tension braces should only be used as quick fixes to existing gates that droop. The only advantage they have is their ease of install on an existing gate.

The type of brace you use changes the structure of the gate.

Tension braces overload the top hinge.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 3 days ago

I kind of like the idea of having a beard, but I also feel like i can see my jawline through the beard.

This is like 6 ish months of ungroomed growth. Help me out here.

Ignore the blemish.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 6 days ago
▲ 44 r/VaushV

Why is this the funniest thing I've seen in a week

Just the way he snaps around the screen.

How painful it must have been to watch vaush struggle through that sentence live if that's the edit. Pour one out for the suffering chatters. Vodfrog solidarity.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 30 days ago

Moral desert bugs me

Like, so what if there's no moral desert? It doesn't change anything

We'll keep punishing people because nobody has a choice in the matter. Not the punishers or the punished.

Like, say moral desert is false, okay? You can't advocate for any change because change is impossible. Your actions, much like everyone else's are determined.

If moral desert is false, does this change anything about anything at all?

EDIT: I've realized I've been using moral desert backwards. I thought it was related to like, the Sahara, because of deserts and shit. Therefore the moral desert would be the one where morality doesn't mean anything because determinism.

I've come to realize this isn't true, I've modified the text in the post to change (invert) it's meaning to what I meant.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 30 days ago

I want to move my shipping container

It's not *that* far. I want it lined up on the pad there. Any tips?

I was thinking maybe just jacking it up and letting it fall crooked over and over?

Maybe getting some steel cable and chain and trying to pull it? There isn't really much that's in a good spot to anchor the line too though.

I'm hoping there's something obvious that I'm missing. Idk.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/howto

How to fill a chest freezer with propylene glycol

Without the freezer leaking obviously. I'm looking for liner suggestions. I'm considering poly sheet, pond liner, I was looking into some sort of roll on or spray solution. I feel like there's an obviously superior option that I'm just not seeing.

I just want a freezer full of loose propylene glycol. I feel like I should be able to have this.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago

Everyome other than LFWers areunable to describe what a libertarian free agent would look like if it existed.

Prove me wrong.

Either you'll describe a deterministic agent, which isn't a libertarian free agent,

or you pretend that it's normal for you to be unable to describe it cause it's impossible. But that's also bollocks.

I can describe any impossible object. It's not hard.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago

Randomness and libertarian free will are indistinguishable to an observer

Of course they are

What else would you expect a free agent to look like if not random?

EDIT: so far no one has provided a definition other than "I'd expect to see causation"

But if you see causation, it's deterministic. If it's deterministic it's not libertarian free will. So you aren't describing a libertarian free agent

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago

So Everyone Who Said The Universe Acts Deterministically At A Macro Scale Was... Wrong Actually?

So quantum events definitely don't just apply to the micro scale.

So everyone can stop saying that cause it is not and was never true.

So determinism has fallen.

Free will reigns supreme.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago
▲ 233 r/tadc

Is it weird that I feel weird calling Jax she?

Like, I'm not transphobic.

It's just that, Jax is an egg?

At no point in the series does Jax come out and stay out.

Like, I know they aren't fucking real. I'm not chastising anyone for calling Jax she

But like, I feel like I'm ripping Jax out the closet.

He can come out when he's ready. Which clearly isn't yet. Even IRL Jax is still a dude.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 1 month ago
▲ 37 r/VaushV

Why does vaush call profit seeking rent seeking?

Not hating, just curious. I feel like profit seeking is more accurate to what he's describing?

Like, am I crazy? How is a contractor overcharging a city for a construction process rent seeking? Who is renting what?

Again not hating. I'm probably just stupid.

That's all

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago

There's a specific pro game cast that I remember and can't find

It's old as fuck, probably over 7 years old

The game ends with one player being down to a zealot, one player down to 2 zerglings and a drone

Toss has way more buildings, and both players have less than 50 minerals

They realize that the zealot can't protect its structures, so they base trade, and the zealot keeps taking chip damage from the broodlings every time a building dies.

There are 2 zerg structures left, and the zealot only has the HP left to survive killing one of them, but they're right next to each other, so the zealot gets both buildings down to red, and kills them both, dying gloriously to the broodlings

BUT WAIT zerg had 26 minerals left and built an assimilator.

I need this cast. Please help.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago
▲ 80 r/BobsTavern+1 crossposts

[request] Is this actually infinite?

What are we looking at here?

This is hearthstone battlegrounds. It's an autobattler. And this is a dumb combo that has a tendency to crash lobbies.

How does the game work? Well, in this instance we can just assume that the minions will die in an order. It alternates, first, the leftmost minion dies, then a random minion (it could be the leftmost minion), then the leftmost, then a random minion.

Now, all of these minions have a keyword called reborn, this means when they die, they resurrect (are summoned), without reborn

Also, all of the minions have an ability that reads "whenever a minion is summoned, give it reborn" it has 2 charges, and only one of them procs every time a minion with reborn dies and is resummoned.

So, at the the turn, they all have 2 charges

I'll represent them like this

2222222

Then the fleftmost one does, and it takes a charge from the next leftmost one to regain reborn

2122222

Then a random one dies, let's say position 4, a charge comes off the leftmost one

1122222

Then the leftmost one dies again

2022222

Then another random one, position 5

1022222

Then the first one again

2012222

Then another random one, let's say position 2 dies

1212222

Then the leftmost

2112222

And so on

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Does this on average go on forever? Does it always? What's the fewest/greatest number of minion deaths that it would take to fully kill all minions so they don't come back?

I've been trying to work it out, but my brain hurts. I can't decide if it's actually infinite or not.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago
▲ 38 r/leftist

Questions adjacent to the banned V-word

I know posts about veganism are banned, honestly I'm in support. I don't think veganism is a political topic.

We can still talk about abolishing factory farms though right? That's political isn't it?

We can talk about reducing meat consumption right? Cause that's political and leftist.

We can talk about the politics of dairy farming and how it's kind of weird that we keep cows perpetually pregnant and prevent them from feeding their own calves with their milk. Right? Cause that's fucked up. Probably shouldn't be doing that. Dial the capitalism down a few notches, let the calves wean more naturally, stop trying to maximise profitability from each animal.

We care about animal rights still... Right?

I just keep hearing vegans complain that the subreddit has decided that "the concept of reducing animal suffering" has been banned and stuff like that, (some people who I generally like and respect the opinions of, despite their dietary choices) and I guess this post is just a sanity check to make sure that I'm right and the vegans are overreacting.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago

If you're at a restaurant and you order a veggie burger, and then the waiter comes around with a full beef burger, do you send the burger back or eat it?

Just that.

I mean I guess the third option is you get upset and leave, but like, assume it's a genuine mistake. The restaurant isn't trying to be mean to you or nothing.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago

Pond progress

Hey it's me! The guy with the crazy plans. They've updated a little bit, the method has changed, we are moving slower than I said I was going to in my last post months ago. Also the ponds moved around. The big excavator only ended up doing the driveway, not the full build. We're getting in some storage containers too cause storage containers are cool and whatnot

Ones going on the pad on the driveway, the other is going a bit back from the driveway.(It's in one of the pics idk how to order them) One on the drive is gonna be a garage, the other one is going to be a fridge/freezer/pantry space

The plans have changed a bit, I didn't upload the new edition, I just copied the last one so y'all would recognize me

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago
▲ 31 r/ponds

Pond project, partway through

So I'm planning on digging out the back bank opposite the couple of rocks I have laid out there, I'm hoping the turbidity calms down when I install some bubble pumps.

Where I dig out the back bank Imma plant cattails and that's where the bubble pump goes, I'm hoping pulling all the water through the cattails is gonna catch the clay. Im also getting in some gravel and sand for the banks and the bottom and I hope that helps too.

Good pond? Dumb pond? Lemma know. Choccy milk.

u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago

People on this sub seem to be confused about what randomness is

I know this isn't directly related to free will but randomness comes up a lot and it bothers me how little people seem to understand it, also, I bring it home back to free will at the end. So

EDIT: Imagine some dice that are random. Some like, dice powered by nuclear decay or some shit. Truly random dice.

If I roll a d20 I get a random number between 1&20 it's impossible to predict which number I'm going to get. I mean, I know it's not going to be a 45, there are a range of possible outcomes, but the outcome is truly random.

You can tell me the past 1000 rolls on the die, and it doesn't affect how likely any of the numbers show up. Just because it's rolled a Twelve 6 times is a row doesnt mean it's next roll is any more or less likely than 1/20 to be a 12

We all understand this. I don't think there are many of us who struggle with this.

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Now, if I roll 1000 d20s, I'm going to get a result that's between 1000 and 20,000, but there's a curve to it. It's probably going to be pretty close to 10500. That doesn't make it any less random. Still, the records of past events don't affect future events. Still, it's impossible to predict what any die is going to come up as. It's still impossible to predict the total, there's just a range of options, and the ones near 10500 are a lot more common

This doesn't make it less random. If I roll the dice and remove all the dice that come up 1's, I can predict that the dice will have a half life of ~13 dice rolls. That doesn't make it any less random

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If I replace all of the numbers except the 20 with a 3 then I have a die that almost always rolls a 3. However, it's just as random as the first die. I still can't predict when it's going to roll a 20. Just because there are tendencies within a system doesn't mean it's not random. I can accurately predict the outcome of the system 95% of the time, but this a fully random system. Just because a system is highly predictable doesn't mean it's any less random. It's the same die. It's the same random.

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Also, and here's a big one, random doesn't mean uncontrolled.

If free agents (agents that have free will) exist, then we would expect their behaviour to be mathematically random. If it was not mathematically random, then we would be able to prove that they were not a free agent.

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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus — 2 months ago