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Long as you're using dfhack, there's always autonestbox...

Also, enabling the nestboxes plug-in with

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enable nestboxes will cause DFHack to automatically scan for and forbid fertilized eggs, preventing them from being collected by your dwarves.

Quote from: Thorfinn on February 07, 2023, 01:43:23 am

As an example, I'd much prefer QoL changes like an easier method of poultry farming. When a hen is ready to lay an egg, she tries to path to an empty nest box, ideally one where she is pastured. Seems to me anything beyond that is complication for complication's sake.

Complication for complication's sake is the whole deal of this game. There is so much simulation that would be completely superfluous in another game, but the extreme (and sometimes perhaps pointless) depth I feel is the whole point. This is a simulation first, and a game second.

And yet, if by some freak chance a piece of debris hit and damaged something civilian, I'd be hearing "President Biden doesn't care what happens to any of us!  He'd probably bomb you right now if he wanted!" instead of "Our president's weak and waited days to shoot it down!"

Presumably the intelligence community thought there was no risk to letting it drift for a while before shooting it down over the ocean, but I doubt we'll ever get the full story.

It's silly because of just how much of the US is actually just uninhabited wilderness.  I mean, randomly drop a school bus on the continental US and compute the odds of it hitting anything.  Now drop it not randomly, trying to avoid hitting anything - even if you get something like 10 miles of drift due to winds aloft.  I mean falling with a "slow" terminal velocity of 100mph is about 150ft/second, or 9000 feet per minute. 

This means even from 60000ft it would only take about 7 minutes to hit the ground, call it 0.1 hours.  Even if you had 100mph winds aloft the whole way down, that's a drift of only about 10 miles.

There are many, many places in the US where you have 400 square miles (20 miles x 20 miles) that are basically empty, drop it down in one of those.

Thus the assertion: It's a silly argument.

Quote from: Thorfinn on January 25, 2023, 11:42:48 am

Pretty much every time the power goes out in the summer, there are some people who go around and buy all the ice available. Sure, part of it goes to keeping the food cold, but a lot of it just gets put in dishpans to keep some room cooler than it otherwise would be, or dumped in a kiddie pool in the back yard to keep the beer on ice. Quite a bit of it melts on the back porch, never having been put to any use at all, but, hey, at a buck a bag, why not? If you needed it, you had it. On the other hand, the guy who needed a small cooler full to keep his medication cold but got to the store too late is just screwed.

Lol why are you okay with this?

Quote from: Thorfinn on January 25, 2023, 11:42:48 am

In this world, there are people like the first guy. Whatever the policy, it has to deal with the problems these guys cause. Some stores try limits, which sort of work, but then the same guy just makes trips through each checkout line with 2 bags at a time, and more than once I've seen people with far more than the limits with the clerk giving him a nasty look, but making the sale anyway. At, say, $5 a bag, he's more likely to think, "Do I really need more ice? A bunch of it just melted last time." And the guy with the critical need is much happier to pay $5 than to not have any at all.

In this world people who tried price gouging everyone on PPE and alcohol gel got their stocks confiscated and redistributed for free to keep staff stocks high lol. In this scenario it's that one asshole who bought all the ice to resell it for $5 a bag being forced to give it to the guy who needs to chill their med stocks for free. Supermarket is happy because the price gouger already paid for it all, med stocks are chilled, price gouger gets gouged, world is good

Quote from: Thorfinn on January 25, 2023, 11:42:48 am

By the way, there's an easy way to keep from being exploited by gougers. Just don't buy from them. But don't even attempt doing the same with the taxing authorities. If you want to know who the real exploiters are, ask yourself, "To whom can I say, 'No'".

Price gougers only arise in situations where supply can be constrained by individuals with outsized market power compared to actual consumers; in such cases where a commodity suddenly becomes critical or supply chains are suddenly interrupted, only an active elimination of predatory gougers is sufficient. If for example someone tried buying all of a certain antibiotic to resell to hospitals, "not buying" is not an option, as the need is constant and immediate. This is especially true for any resource whose supply is being unnaturally limited by a few gougers accumulating great stockpiles to induce an artificial drought in supply

Quote from: Thorfinn on January 25, 2023, 11:42:48 am

I get the feeling you are coming from a lesser developed country.

I live in the UK. You can drink the tap water and breath the air, but give it some time, we're slowly sinking into the stone age ;(

Quote from: Thorfinn on January 25, 2023, 11:42:48 am

If you live somewhere that options like this do not exist, where there are no sales except gougers, I feel sorry for you, though I can't really empathize as I have no frame of reference.

Even countries with excellent supply in whatever resources can suddenly experience the conditions necessary to allow price gouging to exist, e.g. Covid-19, the blocking of the Suez Canal, Black Sea shipment blockade, sudden panic/hype over a certain resource e.t.c.