Thank you so much brethren and sistren, all these quotes are awesome and welcome in my rhetorical arsenal.
Trigger warning; Death
So, as my post history states, my mother died on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, and I have just recently gotten to a point where I can discuss this in detail without seeing red. This is my first time posting to this sub, so I am sorry if I break any rules. I would like to add that I DO NOT give permission for this to be used anywhere outside of Reddit.
My mother had been staying with my Great Aunt (GA) and Great Uncle (GU) to help care for my GA. Her passing was so, so sudden...she was doing fine on Thanksgiving, and there was nothing over the weekend that could have brought major concern. Her symptoms were pretty identical to a bit of food poisoning. We went to check on her when she hadn't responded to any messages on that Sunday, and she looked asleep, but her body was cold...
Of course, the first thing we did was call an ambulance. To add an idea of the layout, the dining room has two hallways connected to it; one leading to the bedrooms, the other leading to the living room. I did my best to keep calm, going to the hallway connecting the living room and dining room to allow the paramedics as much unimpeded access to her as possible, as well as to keep an eye on my GA who is not very aware of her surroundings.
Suddenly, I noticed that a new lady has entered (I will call her Karen, of course). Something did not seem right, as she was dressed in civilian clothes. She was standing in the middle of the dining room (which is not very large), staring at everything and making the paramedics have to squeeze around her as they carry the equipment. After a moment, I vaguely register through the mess that my throughts are in that this lady is a neighbor I met years ago. At first, I wonder if she came out of concern for my GA, so in an attempt to get her out of the way of the medical professionals, this exchange occurs.
Me; Excuse me...miss? If you are looking for (GA's Name), she is right this way gestures to the hallway I am in.
Karen; looks me in the eyes as paramedics walk around her before turning back towards the room and ignoring me.
At that point, I was more or less in robot mode. My GA was asking me what was going on, so my attention quickly turned to her in order to keep her calm. Soon after, my father sent me home, with firm orders not to tell my younger brothers anything until he returned.
A bit over an hour later, he came back...it was as I feared, and she was gone. Dead by the time we got there. My family, or
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In a capitalist society, the obvious drivers of innovation/invention are competition and the profit motive. This forces businesses to be more efficient which increases the supply of products and also to creates better products to increase the demand for their products. Many socialists although not all are against billionaires existing. This further harms innovation/invention because there is less disposable income/wealth for investment into cutting-edge products and ideas. So my question is essentially summed up in the title.
I had an idea about this a LONG while back, I was thinking “what if tarkov land had a gas shortage for.... 1 week” prices would go up, traders would have limited stock, people would refocus their looting priories
This idea could be tossed around for ammo.... (imagine the flipped tables when people can’t buy the best ammo). Meds could also see a scare for a week, armor, anything you could think of.
But instead of it being a “rebalance or nerf” what if this is BSG’s first look Into dynamic loot changes? It might be a long shot, but I think it would be a VERY NICE change to the game if this becomes the new “meta” rotating bountiful loot / loot shortages. Could be a week long, could be longer, could be shorter.
TL;DR: If you're complaining about the increase in fuel scarcity then you probably shouldn't be burning gas in your hideout. Even at 200k for a tallboy pays itself off without need for a bitcoin farm.
Disclaimer:
>!I'd like to say that this is one of my favorite subreddits on the website. If I ever feel like I'm in a bad mood all I have to do is come here and see how miserable some of you shit posters are and I realize that I'm actually doing okay. There are some posters who are very helpful and take time out of their day to inform others, I don't mean you. And I don't even mean people who complain about everything that BSG does. I mean people who are candidly offended by people who have different opinions than them and take time out of their day to comment meanspirited things on peoples posts. All this to say: bring on the downvotes. A downvote from a pathetic subredditrat is like finding a LedX for me.!<
With that out of the way, let's get into the fun stuff. I'm seeing people who are PISSED about BSG decreasing the Fuel spawn rate and the resulting upswing in fuel prices.
This change ties easily into some classic Tarkov narrative like "the rich Bitcoin farmers get richer while us average players suffer" and "BSG linking BTC prices to Real Life is the stupidest decision since they nerfed the Mosin at Pestily's behest".
But is all the fuss worth it? What if I told you that Fuel was pathetically underpriced before the changes and is only now approaching a equilibrium?
According to the wiki, without taking into account Hideout Management skill, a Metal fuel tank [grey fuel; tallboy] will power your hideout for 24 hours, 5 minutes and 47 seconds. Current flea market prices for the same Tank is 220,000 Roubles, which is more than a 400% upswing from a weak ago when they were around 50,000.
Dividing R220k by ~24hours we can currently price 1 hour of hideout power at around R9k. If we can generate more than R9k per hour using our hideout, we are turning a profit even at these newly inflated fuel prices.
So let's take the most basic of all hideout crafts: 2 powercords into 8 wires in 2 hours at a level 1 workbench. We'll use current flea market pricing as an assumption, this could change but I think this craft is pretty stable as it's been around for quite a while.
Purchase 2x Powercords at 20k for 40k
Sell 8x wires at 11k for 88k
Less 5k in fee
Is 43k gross profit every 2 hours equivalent to 21.5k every hour
Less 9k fuel costs p
... keep reading on reddit ➡There’s been a lot of great feedback from Simple users and we’re actively listening, combing through every post and working to update One. Our team is reprioritizing to make sure we fill in the biggest gaps first so our new friends from Simple can feel less anxiety and regain their financial peace of mind. Here’s a quick list of top requested updates (in no particular order) and how we’re approaching them:
1. Recurring Transfers
Request Level: High
Status: Currently working on
Availability: Shortly
You’ll recognize this feature as “funding schedule.” It’s automating the funding of expenses and goals. We completely agree this is a feature One needs STAT. Manually allocating funds whenever new money lands in your One account is not fun.
Right now, you can allocate up to 10% of your paycheck direct deposit (up to $1,000/month) to automatically deposit into your Auto-Save Pocket. You’ll earn 3.00% APY* in the Auto-Save Pocket.
Our team has conceived that an early version of the recurring transfers feature will allow a user to set similar rules for what money ends up in which created Pocket. Example: $100 to Grocery Pocket on the 3rd of every month.
2. Virtual Cards For Every Pocket
Request Level: Medium
Status: In queue
Availability: Launch first pass in Q1
This feature will help One users who have a very tight management around their recurring expenses. You’ll be able to set up dedicated Pockets, each with a unique virtual card number to pay these recurring bills.
Example: a dedicated card to pay for your “Streaming TV” Pocket bill only. We’re also planning to support these cards later in Apple Wallet and Google Wallet to make spending even easier.
3. Configurable Overdraft
Request Level: Medium
Status: Currently working on
Availability: Launching Q1
Currently, the only Pocket that has overdraft protection is the default Spend Pocket. This Pocket comes with a built-in Credit Line in case your account dips below zip.
We’re currently working on allowing any created Pocket to be auto-filled by available funds in the Spend Pocket when funds aren’t available to fill the transaction in the other Pocket. This update will take the guesswork out of bill payments that have different amounts each month.
4. MFA/2FA
Request Level: Medium
Status: Currently working on
Availability: Shortly
We recognize that multi-factor authentication is an important security feature and are actively working t
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/22/white-supremacists-plotted-attack-us-power-grid-fbi-says/4018815001/
####White supremacists plotted to attack US electric grid by shooting into power stations, FBI says
>MINNEAPOLIS — White supremacists plotted to attack power stations in the southeastern U.S., and an Ohio teenager who allegedly shared the plan said he wanted the group to be "operational" on a fast-tracked timeline if President Donald Trump were to lose his re-election bid, the FBI alleges in an affidavit that was mistakenly unsealed.
Chance the grid gets unexpectedly attacked during 2021 by this type of group: higher than average.
