Updates on the Pengshui landslide from my previous comment via random posts on XHS:

Some blasting has been done, and one of the large rocks on the upper level has been removed. 11 Confirmed fatalities so far, with 50 missing, both numbers are likely to increase, as they are focusing on recovering bodies, and not all people who were present are known. The warning went out 15-30 minutes before the collapse, and civil servants were still telling people to evacuate when it happened (and are now missing in the rubble). There is a mini-bus somewhere in the rubble that has not yet been found, I think this is one of the main sources for uncertainty on casualty numbers. Horrible tragedy all around.

Source is supposedly Chinese news, but I haven’t looked for it.

Assuming this is genuine, just look at that bomb shelter. I don’t think this would even stop shrapnel.

Holes in the ground are a lost technology.

Also, don’t use poast, it has some shitty owners AFAIK. I think nitter.net and xcancel are most preferred

Now my friends are always complimenting me and I’m just like “No, please, stop”

Oh no, my bread is too fresh and my fruit is too ripe!

The only people who will talk to me as a friend are randoms on god damn omegle. Spent years trying to figure out why people avoid me and kick me out of everything, but I guess the issue was not having a screen in the way. I have learned nothing about myself, become a less happy and more bitter version of myself, and am only now rewarded.

Critical support to police brutality?

Jedaal also has an english channel, for anyone interested, but it mostly posts longer form content.

Kissinger

The US has called AIPAC a terrorist organization

Minor China news:

There was a landslide in Pengshui (in/near Chongqing) yesterday that demolished multiple buildings and has killed at least 8 people, with 30 missing. With the scale of destruction, having fewer than 40 deaths is quite good - multiple apartments and stores are gone. Footage of the landslide itself is pretty unpleasant, but most of the footage coming out now is just of recovery personnel and not victims. The boulders are quite large, and it seems to be difficult to access people under the rubble. Its been filling up my XHS feed, and I haven’t seen it mentioned yet.

I don’t have a good way to get a source/videos from XHS on here, and all the stuff I see online has bad angles, so no source included.

“So yeah, I …” gets used a ton on XHS, and I assume it’s similar to that.

I will turn all of my organs into contraptions made of synthetic polymers and nickel alloys powered by diesel engines in order to look cool to my constituents who are made of slimy meat.

If you like PVP, Deadlock has a parry that’s integral to close quarters combat

If you’re doing simple stuff, FreeCAD’s sketcher is pretty useful.

FreeCAD has a lot of separate workbenches for different stuff, so I don’t know what OP’s “2D CAD” actually relates to, could be drawing a house or sheet metal. However, it does have a generic “drafting” workbench (that I have never used) that seems more 2D CAD oriented.

FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are the two that I see mentioned with any frequency. I only have experience with 3D CAD, so I can’t give a ton of advice on how 2D CAD works in any software.

Singleplayer games are easy by default because you’re just solving a puzzle not competing against another person

You are “competing” against the developer. Plus, the execution barrier for games can be quite high; as an example, if you are playing a single player FPS, even if you know the optimal solution to a challenge, following that solution still requires some level of aim and reaction time.

You don’t need to rub salt in the wound, I was just giving a counter example.

This is a terrible take because most of the people I know who play games on hard have girlfriends because they enjoy confronting challenging and unique situations.

I play games on hard and people don’t like me in general.

Wow that’s exciting. I’m not sure I understand the strategic importance of reconsolidating Yemen at this stage. Sitting here in my armchair, this is not what I would do.

This is the feeling I have had about half the stuff that happens in the RU/UA war.

I bet it’s similar in Beijing (may even have some carve outs for consumer drones, lotta places do).

From the very unbiased sources I see on XHS, this is actually enforced, and people do find it annoying. On the flip side, people also complain about other people flying drones anywhere, so