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Context

Warhammer is a sci-fi/fantasy tabletop war game franchise developed by Games Workshop (GSW). The lore features different alien (called xeno) factions and a dozen human factions with deep lore set in a hopeless and dark universe. For a very long time the lore has been dominated by male characters.

In the lore, the Adeptus Custodes is an elite human faction of super-soldiers genetically engineered and trained by the Emperor of Mankind himself to serve as his personal guard. Until recently, this faction has only ever been seen as male in the lore, however the recently released Codex from GWS confirmed the presence of women among the ranks of the Adeptus Custodes. This development has caused a rift in the Warhammer community. These tensions and arguments seem to have broken out into full war between /r/HorusGalaxy and /r/AdeptusCustodes.

Inciting Incident

GWS released a new animation called Tithes which prominently features a female Custode. Users of /r/HorusGalaxy lost their shit and immediately started brigading in /r/AdeptusCustodes. What started as mouth-breathers crying over "wokeness in muh MAN hobby!" soon became targeted harassment of a trans mod on /r/AdeptusCustodes. The mod has since quit the subreddit due to the harassment and claims of threats made against her. Users of /r/HorusGalaxy are unsatisfied, demanding evidence of the threats and doubling down on the harassment. The drama is spread out over multiple posts and between both subreddits so I have selected a few pieces of popcorn to share.

Popcorn

Both sides guys! Both siiiiiiides!

Woman in my hobby is Neo-Marxism!

Just some casual transphobia sprinkled in there

Adding female custodes to the human factions makes as much sense as adding orcs to the human factions. Cause, you know, females are a different, inferior species to hu-MANS.

I've only included a small sampling of the available popcorn. /r/HorusGalaxy is basically /r/TheDonald but for Warhammer, and I'd rather keep my time there brief lest I catch the cringe. I invite any who can stomach it to dig in, there's plenty of popcorn to share.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1f9w3v1/users_of_rhorusgalaxy_do_not_take_kindly_to_the/

>I am a soul-time traveler from constellation Aquarius that took over this body that was prematurely abandoned by Natural earthborn Soul that went to the proverbial light. I have Technologies of a All Metals isolating magnet to increase the recycling and Mining efficiencies of this planet this coupled with a Shaker bed is able to get the particles airborne and counteract Earth's High gravitational force. lots of other inventions and ideas on this channel filled with random videos to try to get subscribers and lots of useful information about top secret military information and other great exhibits here on this channel just go through and enjoy all of the great information interested in space stuff look at my ideas about the accelerating expansion of the universe pass the speed of light being an illusion caused by dark matter. objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear. have a wonderful beautiful awesome amazing fantastic incredible excellent existence I'll see you later LU all

psychotic science hon with classics like showing their moobs

could they not have chosen LITERALLY ANY DIFFERENT SHAPE FOR THOSE?????? https://t.co/3ZlLv7GcHS pic.twitter.com/YYlB4xQh4Y

— aaron 🌌🔮🌿 (@sovereignofkent) September 2, 2024

Basically discusses arrow's impossibility theorem and all that shit like ranked voting

But its still a

since other forms voting still result in proper decisions

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!architecture !engineering without getting into the merits of apartment blocks (I believe they're great for social housing projects), here's /r/urbanhellcels discussing the horror of American Suburbia. I partially blame films like "American Beauty" for this.

Where the F**K are the trees?! That should be illegal...

Edit: I see the trees now - Thanks guys, I thought it was all bushes and shrubbery. I didn't realize ONLY having small trees could disturb me so, Lol

Ok, avoiding heat island effect is something suburban urbanists should take in account.

Idk, maybe it's just because I'm British and quite young so the best home 90% of us could afford is one room of 15 sheds stacked on top of each other but I always though these were kinda nice. A little samey sometimes, sure, but they don't seem THAT bad.

In the uk i feel like you. Can access stuff easily via walking or public transport if you are living in such a small space. As that's usually in cities more culture etc. lived in Oxford n the housing is tiny but theres stuff to do outside yk? Idk

Lmao, Bongs posting their

What depression really looks like

And here even /r/urbanhell isn't having ut anymore

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/10uskvs/sorry_but_american_suburbs_are_far_worse_than_any/

Y'all act like people can't walk 15 min to a park here, this looks a common middle to above middle income neighborhood. You know what you probably won't find here? Homeless doing drugs, gangs, traffic. This looks like peace away from home, they probably see their neighbors once a week. It looks like I can grill in my backyard all day long without anybody bothering me.

Now for commieblocks

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/15kjnk3/commieblocks/

Unironically comfy

the fact all the buildings look the same height is really satisfying ngl

I thought they hated the sameness of the suburbs

Looks like afforable and healthy housing, dense enough to be serviced by public transportation. Could use a new coat of paint and some additional facade elements like shading and such. But overall, I love it.

It just needs some painting

I grew up in a 5 story Khrushchevka. It needed better insulation, but the actual urban planning was brilliant. Huge play area for children up front, close to stores and public transportation. Lots of benches and green areas. Beat the pants off any shitty American suburb with no sidewalks, where you could get run down by an SUV without even being aware of it.

SUV chads continue to make redditors seethe!

!anticommunists

https://old.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/fvn45q/moscow_russia/

Meh. The apartments in the photo appear to have balconies and wooded courtyard areas between buildings. There are millions of people in this world who would love to live in a clean apartment with heat and running water; apartments like these would be like paradise for them. If you think this is urban heck, you ain't seen nothing!

Fine, but it doesn't change the fact those buildings look hideous and probably need maintenance, they were build with pre-fabs back in the 1960s and have problems with insulation.

!mathematics identify yourselves

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She also talks about lab grown meat and harvesting algae and jellyfish and the she doesn't eat meat because she doesn't like the taste of it and proceeds to eat a grasshopper on camera.

And yet there will still be people who say that "what's your favourite spider" is a bad pickup line

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!spacechads !engineering !ifrickinglovescience

The launch of Polaris Dawn is scheduled for tomorrow, August 28th. The launch window will open at 3:38am EDT and go up to around 7am. The orbital inclination will be of 51.6 degrees, same as the ISS.

The crew members are

Commander: Jared Isaacman

Pilot: Scott Poteet

Mission Specialist 1: Sarah Gillis

Mission Specialist 2: Anna Menon

Both Gillis and Menon work for SpaceX.

This mission is privately founded by Isaacman and possibly SpaceX as well. It was first announced in 2022 and will include a spacewalk testing the experimental EVA suits made by SpaceX.

Upon launch the crew Dragon Resilience will be placed on an elliptical 190x1200km orbit, after a series of checks Resilience will rise to an apogee of 1,400 km, the highest ever for a non-lunar mission and surpassing the previous apogee record held by Gemini 11 (1,368 km).

On day 2 they will go lower into an 190x750km orbit in preparation for the EVA. On day 3 the cabin will be depressurized, after the hatch is opened both Isaacman and Gillis will leave the vehicle while connected by ropes while Menon and Poteet remain inside the cabin while also being exposed to the vacuum. On day 4 they will test Starlink communications. Re-entry preparations will take place on day 5.

Mission patch.

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!engineering !architecture !macacos

Some pics and basic info about the Belo Monte hydropower plant.

Located near the town of Altamira in the state of Pará (in the mist of the Amazon forest) it was build on the Xingu river between 2011 and 2016.

The river was transposed and two dams were build. Belo Monte which is the hydropower plant, 88 meters tall and with its 18 Francis turbines it has an installed capacity of 11,233 MW. This makes it the largest 100% Brazilian dam (Itaipú, the largest and number 1 by energy production is owned 50% by Brazil and 50% by Paraguay).

49% of Belo Monte belongs to Eletrobras, the rest to other pension funds and private investors, the company organized to run it is called "Norte Energia".

The second dam is the "vertedouro" located at the Pimantel site.

It's a water dam with a transposing channel connected to take water from its reservoir to Belo Monte. The Pimantel dam has no turbines, it only has a water discharge.

The maximum discharge capacity for Pimantel is 63,000 m^3/s. While the discharge that goes through the turbines in Belo Monte is of 775 m^3/s for each turbine.

Pic of the Generators being installed.

In total over 3 million cubic meters of concrete and 160k metric tons of steel were used during the construction. Most of the cement was provided by Itambé and Votorantim.

The dam attracted a lot of criticism by environmental groups and indigenous activists like the Cacique Raoni

But leftist Presidents Lula and Dilma were the ones to approve the project.

At least Lula is good virtue signaling about environmentalism so annoying euros can leave us alone.

The construction of this dam is extremely dramatic as the construction site became a crime infested shithole (is in the middle of the rainforest and criminals offered services from drugs to prostitution to the workers). But that's another story. The dam flooded an area of 478 sq kilometers.

Schematics of the dam.