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Is S/He an Informant? A group of people who have been directly harmed by informant provocateurs have put together this checklist, drawing on personal experiences as well as those of other activists and information from ...

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Years ago, a group of people who were directly harmed by informant provocateurs put together this checklist, drawing on their own experiences and those of other activists as well as information from informants who have gone public.

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Someone was just on the phone with me really failing to process that "My stream starts at 8" means "I need to get a bunch of stuff done to prepare to start my stream before 8" so I'm running a tad behind, but I'll shortly be going live with these:

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Yeah, I've only recently seen some people try to summarize it, but it seems like someone wanted all the potential lag and disconnections of a distributed network, but with all the problems of a single bottleneck managed by people with no interest in doing so. Not sure where their pride comes in.

Are you over on this coast for a bit?

Have you been chosen as the dark messenger for the greater being we must now all worship/fear?

This would fix me.

specific nazis. They had plenty of financial incentive to do the right thing there, but they instead opted to keep all the nazis and just rotate in new consultants they ignored whenever the headlines got too bad, because ultimately dodging the responsibility mattered more than earning money for them

I'm sure they'd be LESS hostile, but I'm not even sure they'd take things seriously then. As I understand it, a good swath of staff are former twitter people, who were there a decade ago where my org was having meetings with them about how they could solve all their bad press if they banned like 10

And then, having the very childish nature these people CLEARLY have, rather than grow up and be responsible, or hand the reigns off to someone who wants them and move on, you've got that third option of "why don't I just throw a tantrum about how I'm not having fun anymore in public?"

the finger and laugh...

... but then you're suddenly burdened with running this big populous social media site, where you suddenly have all this responsibility to moderate it and pay the hosting costs and other lame grown-up stuff, which is going to outweigh the high of "winning" after a while.

I've seen it argued that the reason they're melting down the way they are is they realized that they don't actually LIKE winning. If you're making Alt Twitter out of spite because you used to work for the original one and hate it now, seeing it hoover up all the users is great, you give the old site

Alternatively, you can just drag a belt directly from the miners to the smelters to the assemblers, but that's so much less interesting than this train track sprawl mess where you have a high chance of being run over all the time.

what's most in need, and you don't have to worry about a damn thing ever... except for keeping the trains fueled, remembering to set some alternate time-based conditions besides "full cargo" and "empty cargo," alternate paths so trains aren't trying to go through occupied stations, and good signals.

have matching "iron dropoff" stations anywhere that needs iron, and just... go nuts with train track spaghetti so there's some possible, hopefully direct path from everything to everything else and the absurdly good train pathfinding will just go get iron from whichever mine is most full, take it to

priority (or more specifically, the closest station of those tied for the highest priority, that doesn't have a number of trains trying to get to it in excess of its train limit).

With a setup like mine, just slap a ton of miners down on every ore patch, take them to stations named oh "iron pickup"

priority of 50 or some other fixed value you set for them, they shout how full they are to the great train network. The possible buried lede here is if multiple train stations have the same name, and a train's schedule has it trying to go to that station name, it will go to whichever has the highest

arithmetic combinator (or a second if you condense multiplication and division down) where we have a constant of 100 and subtract (-) the result from the division ("B") presumably. Pass that along to the stop.

What does this do? It makes it so that instead of these train stops all having a default

from one of the outputs of the combinator that did the division into the train stop, click the little check mark to read priority, and make sure it's reading the same symbol you're outputting (by default it looks for P, either change that to B or use P instead of B).

For drop-offs, we need a third

true and if you're really being a miser or you're short on space, yeah, do that. Just watch out for edge cases where something with a small stack size or a quality container or whatever means the total storage doesn't evenly divide.

Anyway, if this is a pickup station you're done. Carry that result

result of 0.25 and not 25... if arithmetic combinators could handle decimals. They can't, so what would actually happen is it would just break.

Clever people might notice you can skip that first combinator if you just divide by 1% (or 1/255th) of your total available storage space. That's usually

are capable of storing in the station, and send that out as some other symbol ("B" works). Tada, we now have a percentage value (or a ... per-255-age value?) for how full the chests at this station are. We had to multiply it by 100 first because if we didn't, chests that were 25% full would give a

constant of 100 (or 255 if you're feeling spicy). I'll get to why in a second. Have it output whatever signal. "A" is a nice option. Take a wire from the output, feed it into combinator #2.

In this one, divide (/) whatever you're bringing in ("A" for argument's sake) by however many total items you

each to connect the different wire colors, and one of the biggest stumbling blocks people have is thinking they just drag wires to the combinator in general, and not specifically to the input or output side).

In combinator #1, you multiply (*) the symbol for what you're moving (i.e. iron ore) by a

An arithmetic combinator in Factorio, with the input and output green wire attachment points highlighted. The input is on the left, by the first of two yellow logic flow indicator arrow pointing to the right, and the output is on the right.

color of wire you prefer, and link together all of the chests/tanks acting as a buffer for when trains arrive (double check you didn't miss any by making sure they all have the same network number), and from one of those containers, drag that same color of wire into the input side (there are 2 spots

If you want to do this yourself and not search through a 7 hour video for me hastily explaining it, here's what you do:

Set up your standard train stops with big piles of chests/fluid tanks ready to be loaded up.

Plop down 2 arithmetic combinators at a pickup stop, 3 at a drop-off.

Pick whichever

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In this session:
- I finally stopped getting attacked every 3 seconds.
- I walled off 75% of the angles of approach.
- I finally put trains all over the damn place.
- I, after a lot of false starts and fumbling about, set up these cool snazzy train priority circuits.

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Not me learning you need these appointments just to get on HRT, I thought they were for like, SRS or something. Which would still be bad for that wait list.

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