Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
Weird meta-thought: if Hylinka had gone for a paraphrase of the Dr. Samuel Johnson quote about a woman preaching being like a dog walking on its hind legs (not done well, but you are impressed that it is done at all), would that have passed muster by seeming high-effort? Same sentiment, better language.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Apparently the Navy did pick it up, and probably informed the seach team despite it being protected tech, but you have to search anyway in case it was something else.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
The only thing inaccurate about the scene in Down Periscope where the guy stretches a string across the engine room, and it sags as they dive? He states that you wouldn't see it on a nuclear sub, which is wrong. I'm pretty sure every submarine is designed to compress under water pressure, and combat subs don't dive nearly as deep as exploratory subs.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Wanting to fire 750 000 rounds containing depleted uranium over Iraq causing thousands of children to get birth defects
the reviewed studies and the available research evidence do not provide a clear increase in birth defects and a clear indication of a possible environmental exposure including depleted uranium
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Man, I wish our resident blue jays would chase the grackles away, but the latter are completely ungovernable.
Actually, scratch that. It's not the grackles I mind half so much as the starlings.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
It's interesting to me that it seems to be like the whole Net Neutrality thing, where all of a sudden every single subreddit (exaggeration, but still) is announcing that they'll be going dark to protest it.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
kidnapping
How do you figure?
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Wait, is that meme from an ad? I thought it was from a sitcom!
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
As one historian put it, the NAUTILUS was Admiral Rickover's pyramid.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Anyone have any advice on moving from full-time employee to contract work (aside from "look at total compensation package value, not just wage rate")? Pitfalls, etc.? I'm considering making the switch, but want to make sure I'm not making a grave mistake.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I think a unique element of progressivism is, I’m not sure whether it’s dogmatism but I think there is a relatively unique tendency to not distinguish between values/opinions and fact. i just don’t find progressives often framing their convictions as opinions.
I think you really need to back this up in some way, if you're going to claim that progressives are unique (or uniquely bad) at this. I'm sure most people would make this claim about those they disagree with.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
"Brazil has decided you're cute."
It really is an underrated series. Well, more underrecognized, as youre the only other person I've met in the wild who's familiar with it, so thats 2 for 2 on rating it highly.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
so you don't order dessert
The economcs (or maybe just proprieter preference) must have reqlly shifted since the days of the dessert cart/front of restaurant dessert display, then.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I had friends who got into the VIP section of the Country Music Awards by just flashing their college badges as though they were passes.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Is there a good (legal) way to listen to World Cup games over the internet? Like, internet radio or something?
Separately and of less interest to me, I'm also assuming there's no way to watch (rather than listen) that won't cost an arm and a leg.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
BG2 is always going to be my favorite (Irenicus is just so damn good as a villain), but I've been enjoying the modern Pillars of Eternity games. Gilded Vale in the first is one of the finest CRPG setpieces I've encountered, but the rest of the game doesn't quite maintain that high point (understandably).
I also enjoyed Torment: Numenera, but I have a soft spot for the setting, and the game is not consistently good in play or writing. Some of the companions have fantastic ways for their stories to end, though.
Mantergeistmann
15d ago
You're thinking that it might be a case of, "if we're going to he accused of genocide for asking civilians to leave a combat area, we might as well commit some anyway to make it worthwhile?" Or more of a "just be less careful" sort of thing?
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
she's anti-Semitic, the goblin bankers* are Jewish caricatures!
I think that argument has been quietly dropped since Oct 7. Its very difficult to argue that *she's * dog-whistling by setting the goblin uprising during a year when something bad happened to a Jewish community elsewhere in Europe, but that chanting a slogan used by an openly genocidal group isn't an anti-semitic dogwhistle.
It will, of course, still be vaguely remembered on the internet that of course she's been proven to be anti-semitic and that the details don't matter, but that's just the way things always work. (And, as an aside, that sort of thing really pisses me off in a general way - that the accusations are bunk, but get forgotten and stick regardless)
Mantergeistmann
2mo ago
Ithaca: Eternal shithole, long has been, long will be. Those who must live there deserve nothing but pity. I’ve heard it’s even worse now, but how that’s possible is beyond me. 100.
I assume this is the part where you're taking the piss. Ithaca's always struck me as a very nice place, whenever I've gone there to visit family. Or is there a different Ithaca, one that doesn't host Cornell?
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Man, the confederate flag has really taken a nosedive in terms of cultural... something.... over the past decade or two, hasn't it?
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
There's a difference between "deliberately targeting civilians" and "collateral damage in urban combat".
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
That was the only weird part to me as well. Why on earth would someone have left it in the photo? But this makes a lot of sense.
Mantergeistmann
7mo ago
Again, though, we're back to the question of why it is that "not surrendering when you're invaded" is "Western warmongering".
My understanding of WP is that the "warcrimeness" is based entirely on if its being used (nominally) for smokescreens/illumination/whatnot, or if its being used as an offensive burning weapon against enemy forces in a civilian area - the latter being Bad and the former being Eh, Fine Enough.
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