Came here to suggest it and here it is, the newest comment! The modding scene is insane, too, for such a relatively small and unknown game.

I love Starsector. I just wish it was written in something more performant than fuckin’ Java. But, if it were, there probably wouldn’t be the mods for it there are today.

One of these days, I’m going to get around to writing a quest line of my own. Honest.

I understand. I don’t instantly block someone, but if the choice is between arguing pointlessly and blocking them or the community, I’ll block and move on. This does impact how useful the site can be for me, but I don’t think using it less is a bad thing.

I’ve come to the conclusion that social media is simply bad for a person, because I think it amplifies negativity. I’m not sure if it’s because we can’t see each other, or if it’s the asynchrony preserving what might have been a fleeting nasty thought and echoing it undiminished into the future, or that and more. I can’t think of a way to fix it - at least, not a way other than being the change I want to see, but it’s hard (as you’ve found) and takes a heavy toll on my emotionally-dysregulated ass. And sometimes I’m not the change I want to see - said emotional dysregulation is a bitch to manage.

Maybe that’s what community is, a constant struggle to communicate effectively with other people. Or maybe platforms like lemmy and reddit only claim to offer community, but don’t really. Maybe they can’t, with all the pseudonymity. Maybe nowhere can, nowadays, with so many bad-faith actors seemingly infiltrating every online space that exists.

I’m sorry you feel beaten down by it, bud. I don’t have answers, but you’re not alone. As a maker, remember: everything you build will outlast the negativity. The blizzard of shit takes will wash away with time, posts being deleted to save space and so on. Your creations will be shared and preserved by the people that like them and find them useful. I take solace in that, personally; maybe you can find some too.

Edit: top lel. I haven’t read this yet but the headline jumped out at me after having just posted the above: https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-01-07/the-internet-hasnt-made-us-bad-we-were-already-like-that-the-mistake-of-yearning-for-the-friendly-online-world-of-20-years-ago.html

It’s a little hard to read but I think it says:

• Water
• Quaternary ammonium chloride (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_ammonium_cation, this appears to be a disinfectant/cleaning agent)
• Water softening agent (this is the citric acid, which also acts as an antimicrobial)

There seem to be health concerns about quaternary ammonium compounds, so in looking at alternatives I found reference to hypochlorous acid which is available in product form:

• https://berkshireezbleach.com/
• https://efchlor.com/water-purification/
• https://effersan.com

Seems safe and effective: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypochlorous_acid

There doesn’t appear to be a reason not to mix hypochlorous and citric acids - it’s not like mixing ammonia and chlorine which makes deadly chlorine gas - but I’m not sure if mixing them would improve efficacy.

Just don’t use hypochlorous acid in your dishwasher, it starts to decompose into chlorine gas (and water, but the chlorine gas is the worry) above approximately 100°F.

The brick was probably just citric acid. Buy a bag from your local supermarket, you’ll find it in the kitchen section probably as a crystalline powder, and dump some of that in the humidifier water to also prevent buildup.

Fun fact, you can also run a larger amount of it through your empty dishwasher instead of those dishwasher cleaner packs; those are mostly citric acid too. Cheaper, and no horrible fake lavender scent or whatever it is they like to put in the packs.

Edit: the bricks could also have been hypochlorous acid which is available from various vendors:

• https://berkshireezbleach.com/
• https://efchlor.com/water-purification/
• https://effersan.com

Read the ingredients of this liquid. It’s probably just a bacteriostatic, meaning it’s simple chemicals designed to keep bacterial populations low between scheduled cleanings.

You can probably make your own by buying the ingredients and mixing them yourself. One of the most important is citric acid which you can get in the kitchen section of any supermarket; dump some in water and it makes a really good cleaning solution, and a few grains goes nice in a drink of water too (just a few grains though, it’s pretty strong stuff).

That is simply not correct in any way, shape, or form.

https://www.nature.com/articles/ni.3069

In addition to housing an extensive retinue of cells of the adaptive immune system, the lungs have other critical defensive abilities provided by the respiratory epithelial cells. Whitsett and Alenghat describe how the respiratory epithelium juggles its role as the surface of gaseous exchange with its ability to actively combat infectious agents and harmful particulate matter. On its most basic level, the epithelium represents a physical barrier that produces mucus, which entangles and sweeps away damaging agents via the action of the mucus ‘escalator’. However, even surfactant proteins, which are involved mainly in diminishing surface tension, ‘moonlight’ as antimicrobial molecules and are able to opsonise bacteria. The respiratory epithelium is also able to directly sense pathogens and respond via the release of antimicrobial peptides or signal escalation of the immune response through their production of the cytokines TSLP, IL-25 and IL-33. Collectively, these innate processes are usually able to maintain near-sterility of the lungs without the intervention of ‘conventional’ cells of the immune system.

It’s not necessarily “more dangerous” to breathe pathogens than consume them, the issue with evaporative humidifiers is that they don’t get cleaned as much as they should so the bacteria keep growing and growing and spraying more and more into the air until they overwhelm your immune system and make you sick. By contrast, you eat something bad and it’s one and done and out of your system (usually, assuming it’s not really nasty).

If you genuinely thought they were confused, you could have led with that, but then that just makes your sarcastic cap-off comment even worse. That’s how you speak to people you believe are confused? I don’t buy it.

I’m disappointed this is how our interactions end. I think I’m upset with myself that I thought better of you, as well. Time for some self-reflection.

So then why did you feel justified in responding like that?

Oh, you weren’t being hostile to me, I was just expecting it to come because I made comment. Here’s the hostility:

Do you honestly think someone was or is trying to attack you here? That someone deliberately misreading part of a line you wrote, so they could make an incest joke, was malicious? I genuinely don’t understand.

A pun is a play on words. They were trying to play on your words. But ok, you’re not receptive to the idea nobody was trying to do you harm and that it was just a joke. They definitely deserved your hostility, as do I. Please continue.

Man, the stress of moving and the world in general must be really getting to you. They were just making a pun based on what you said. It might not have been a very good one , that’s subjective, but the intent was clearly not malicious. It’s pretty hard to give you the benefit of the doubt here, responding so pettily and meanly to something so innocuous. They even explained it for you. I’d probably have responded with a Wikipedia article on puns before blocking you entirely.

I hope things improve for you once you’re in the UK.

My wife, but she’s the best thing to happen to me every year ♥️

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I’m not rewarding your clickbait bullshit on such a contentious topic, Account That Is Only A Week Old. Summarise the points in the video, say what you found interesting/agree/disagree with, whatever, but contribute something instead of just leaving this steaming pile here for everyone else to step over.

And emergency sirens of any kind. The number of times a track has had me looking for flashing lights while I’m driving is too goddamn high.

Well, of course. It stands to reason that the other main product would be O, too! 🥁

Hmm, okay, that’s not really what your “loose theory” above posited though:

I have a loose theory that the idea of habit formation only came about with trying to make a productive worker

So based on your latest reply, it seems like you’re not really looking for when habits formed in humans, but rather how modern styles of government have changed the habits we form and why they had that impact. (Or modern social systems, if you prefer that to “government”, since government has kinda fucked up every system we’ve tried so far)

It’s an interesting question! Just be careful to state what you mean, because clarification can look like shifting the goalposts. Also stay vigilant against confirmation bias, which is peeking through a little in your original post; make sure you’re not just looking for evidence that fits your notion.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6701929/

Creatures of Habit: The Neuroscience of Habit and Purposeful Behavior

Habits serve a critical purpose in making our behavior more efficient, reducing the decision burden we face each day and freeing up mental energy for more demanding tasks

This makes sense, because the brain already uses ~20% of our calorie intake as it is; reducing unnecessary use of it would have been an evolutionary pressure.

A good way to approach questions like this is to look at the behaviour in things other than humans, and compare. For example, I googled (searched, actually; DDG’d specifically) “habit formation in animals”; no corporate overlords, so if they form habits there must be something else to it.

It’s good on Deck? I was waiting for a sale, but not anymore.

Edit: It’s on sale for release, perfect 😁