I was turned off Sanderson in a big way back when he ran his first “secret project” kickstarter. I was all in on improving the lives of authors and voice actors by teaching Audible that there were viable alternatives to their audiobook monopoly. Then Brandon took $43 million, pocketed it (0 charitable donations from the sum raised on KS), and then sold those books “that will never be available on amazon” on Kindle and Audible within 6 months.

No changes for authors. No improvement for voice actors. Just 43 million dollars for the fattest, most selfish, most repugnant grifter since Patrick Rothfuss. He’ll write about LGBTQIA representation while simultaneously funding Mormon conversion therapy facilities. Fictional characters can be accepted in their fictional world but real breathing people need to be shamed into acting right.

Fuck Brandon sanderson and all of his works, petty and flawed as they are.

I can see why you’d say that.

Book 2 or 3 got so bogged down with MC indecision that I had to drop the series. I recently picked up the Sun Eater series on Audible for cheap and it’s looking like it’s going to trend the same way.

Instead of a story lead, it seems like the author wanted a story leaf that flits back and forth between overthinking this, melodrama that, and a whole slew of other plot contrivances that leave the story spinning in place for big chunks of the book.

Map doesn’t make any sense. There is no structure or organization beyond “make a huge block of confusing, pointless rooms”.

Maps are a part of telling a story. The story this DM is telling consists entirely of incoherent yelling and swearing.

The entire article is written as if this woman was a completely incapable, helpless invalid.

How did she even get that far up the mountain without her boyfriend/guide/hike chaperone telling her to put her left foot in front of her right foot? Clearly this attendant should have realized she needed to be carried and bottle fed. He didn’t even complain for her about how cold it was when she was getting sleepy. Very sloppy work.

As an asthmatic, fake trees are the only way to go. The mold real trees have and produce as they die often cause croup cough among asthmatic. You only need croup for one Christmas before you figure out it’s just not worth it.

Kind of, but not really.

Auroras dont necessarily need a stars radiation. Any old radiation will do, so long as there are charged particles floating around. Jupiter, for example, has gigantic continuous aurora around the magnetic poles. If auroras only came from the sun, and the earth is much closer to the sun than Jupiter, wouldn’t earth have a bigger aurora than Jupiter?

No, obviously. The size of the aurora depends on the size of the magnetic field interacting with charged particles and the number of those charged particles.

In the case of supermassive planets like Jupiter and this rogue planet, they produce way more of their own radiation than they recieve from the sun or space. This rogue “planet” in particular is so massive that it could actually fuse deuterium down in the core just with the pressures and temperatures of gravity crushing all that matter down. If you pumped enough hydrogen in there to quadruple the mass, it would probably ignite into a star quite comparable to our sun.

For that reason, it’s better to think of this as more of a baby star that didn’t quite eat enough wheaties than a planet in the traditional sense we think of here in our solar system.

With the crazy physics that come with suns and near dwarfs with similar mass, it’s no surprise that it generates a titanic magnetic field, and as a bonus, it produces its own radiation. It creates all the necessary ingredients it needs to make it’s own spectacular auroras with no actual outside interaction.

Tl;dr it makes it’s own aurora

Because the planet produces its own radiation. That much mass means this is less a “planet” and more of a proto star. It’s actually large enough to fuse deuterium if the right conditions arise. Pour enough hydrogen in there to raise the mass three of four times what it has now and it’d be comparable to our sun.

As a native American, I find your remark more than a little racist. You think I dont know how cooking oil is made because what?

I’ve made biodiesel. It’s a simple enough process. I was able to easily pick it up for a vocational education project way back in high school. The chemistry is easy enough a middle school kid these days could do it. You take the oil from any old fry shop or restaurant, you filter it free of any contaminants, add acid and heat to facilitate the breaking of fatty acid esters off the glycerine, then you neutralize the acid and let everything settle out. Pour off your oil on top and you’re good to go.

Bonus: you now also have a good supply of relatively clean glycerine that is perfect for making soap. Yet another application of simple chemistry that brings more yield from your resource with minimal effort.

So regardless of what the production is today with industrial methods, people could easily begin their own production in garage workshops. Imagine every McDonald’s having their fryer grease turned into biodiesel for a single year by local workshops. If 17 year old me and a burnt out middle age electrician can figure it out in a half powered shed in Oakland, anyone can.

Nobody, apparently. They think that if they pass the blame enough, most people will forget it ever even happened. They are right.

Until we start lynching killer cops in the streets, they’ll never even think about holding their own accountable. It is only the threat of direct, immediate consequences that will have any effect on the status quo

A primary energy resource? Like, idk, a sun? Even all that oil you’re salivating over comes from the sun if you shift your perspective back far enough.

The point was that even restarting from scratch, biodiesel is a viable option for replacing the oil dependency when it comes to fuel.

There is at least one in person interview with a representative of the ATF. In my neck of the woods, that means someone down at the local sherrif department.

https://youtu.be/LVLRIRo7z_s

Myron rambles a bit but it’s still really cool to see and understand why arches national Park is the way that it is. Never would have guessed “salt did it” but it do.

That’s just a tripping hazard, u can’t trick me.

The disrespect for iron in this comment is too damn high.

I understood most of those words and nothing of what you are trying to say.

I mean a lathe doesn’t really have a y axis tho. Tool height is just tool height. Even on a vertical lathe you usually only have x and z.

The second fellow is a machinist, like me.

I never said it was “easy”. It’s not. As the other guy pointed out, it’s a months long, expensive, and personally invasive process to obtain a FFL. That being said, certain individuals are highly motivated to go through the process anyways. My original point was that the entire process becomes streamlined so long as you don’t mind presenting yourself as a conservative. I’ve heard of people being turned down for a years old social media post, but somehow the redhats don’t run into the same issues.

I’m well aware of the difference. FFLs aren’t just for actual business owners. Plenty of private collectors run a “business” of reselling firearms specifically in order to make obtaining a FFL a lot easier. It also is possible to show that you are qualified for one with previous military or law enforcement service, as a firearms instructor, or simply with enough determination and charm around your local police academy.