I want to specifically highlight two sentences.
invariably stoked the fears of conservatives who see it as a Trojan horse for an insidious woke agenda
Vs
the goal of the synod is rather more aspirational — to seed a culture of inclusivity and dialogue that could, perhaps, lead to doctrinal reform
It's literally "there's 'The Truth :(', and then there's 'the truth! ;D'". Sneering at someone for believing the thing they openly state is their goal in the very next paragraph.
Honestly the whole period felt like nerds who didn't quite get it saying "what exactly do you mean by declaring all of us Moral Mutants to be Exterminated by Progress?"
I still hope something more productive things can be discussed now that everyone's finally realized. There's lots to talk about beyond litigating Current Thing attack #6836865 as if there's any questions about intent.
Good example: that Guardian journalist we talked about last week who was posting "hanging Mussolini" threats at people. Nobody said "oh wow you'd better not do that, people might think you're advocating violence", they just posted dead Che Guevara and Rosa Luxembourg's rotting corpse back at him, suggesting he'd enjoy the bottom of a canal so much he'd never want to leave.
There's a bracing level of mask-off bloodthirsty hatred that wasn't there even in 2020. Feels like living in the first chapter of a William Luther Pierce novel.
Merry hit him with the +1 Knife of Fuck Litches first though, which got rid of all his magical bullshit.
In the original Age of Wonders the undead had an expensive Wraith unit that was basically a black rider/witch king. They had mediocre stats but physical immunity that let them kill any number of normies. But since anyone with a magic weapon could kill them, you had to be very careful about when and where you revealed them, or next turn some methed-out hobbit riding a bird would fly out of nowhere and beat them with the purple-glowing stick a wizard gave him.
They were most powerful being everywhere and nowhere, strangling the opponent's economy by keeping him scared that ghosts would walk through the walls and murder everyone.
The closest "current thing flag" house to me took down their Ukrainian flag to replace it with some black power one in Feb, and have now replaced that with a "stars and rainbow stripes" flag. A positively patriotic rejoinder to the row of intersex-progress-pride+Hamas flags on the opposite side of the road.
The idea that the culture war is cooling down is insane. The gunshots we hear are just getting less frequent right now because the left are running out of their current victims, and haven't picked the next batch to march into the woods yet.
Justifiably paranoid take: the guys saying "it's safe to stop hiding in the bushes, come out now!" are luring out the next victims.
That's what I figured the industry position was. Although you're brave to say "always" without seeing my shitbox with vents to the crawlspace plugged with rags...
Some extra strands is a good idea. My issue is if I want to add extra cameras or control units at the property gate, I'm going to have to either add another batch of Ethernet for PoE to individual devices. Or run 120v in another conduit and a local PoE switch in an enclosure, at which point I may as well switch the whole thing to fiber.
But hell, why not just run some extra lines out there just in case, good idea. My time is more valuable than 5e (but less than 6).
Just gotta do a last check to make sure I've got my solid and stranded connectors right, and this damn project should finally be done.
Btw, do you have a favorite fitting for running out of a wall to conduit?
I, uh, was going to "improvise"
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Your worst case scenario matches my certain prediction, so I'm glad we're technically in agreement.
Like nybbler says, people have been postulating this for years. There's a particularly good one from right at the start of 2020 saying that as a real threat covid will force leftists to put aside culture-warring to unite the country.
Waves and tide is a good metaphor. There was a pushback to PC in the 90s too, with even Bill Clinton officially disavowing it. Then look what happened.
Why would anyone call a gossip page at all other than to maximize the spread of something embarrassing?
Gossip as a commodity and lever is worthless once everyone's read it (which is a huge reason why no-life ratking backchannel discord drama always beats "open debate" on the internet)
Actually, maybe there's a meta where people without gossip networks "open source" gossip to undermine the gossipers.
"Oooh, did you hear what happened at the Bronsteinbergs' little get-together last night? Well I was there, if you want to know"
"Of course we did, it was in Ms Snitchrat's column this morning. Who do you think you are?"
Smiling: I'll get you for this, you fucking cunt
I was always a bit confused by how weak or timid the black riders were in the first book. Explained it as not wanting to draw the attention of the remaining powers in the north, either Saruman or Rivendell.
You don't want your guys to find the baggins and the ring, only to meet Glorfindel in a dark alley on the way home east, or Saruman in the gap of Rohan heading south. And that's exactly the sort of thing sauron would be worried about, especially because he knows the enemy knows something (if only because saruman's developed ring-mania and elrond is still around), but not how much.
So even once they find Frodo they want to grab him far from watching eyes and get home quietly (Aragorn says something almost exactly like that after they leave bree iirc).
But it could just be the power scaling of the first book vs the third, as we'd call it today.
I read Joinville's account of the even-more-a-shitshow 7th crusade in school, so thanks for recommending the prequel series
There's one in the US south-west that cools by evaporating all the local sewage water, but that doesn't exactly scale well.
Higher reactor temps will eventually make the cold side less important. Delta-Ts on current reactors are at "1800s steam engine" level, terrible thermal efficiency. The Chinese are developing high temp air-cooled reactors for their northern desert regions for that reason, maybe the ozzies could piggyback off that.
All that said eastern Australia is in an amazing position for HVDC solar transmission from the deserts, which will undermine nuclear economics. Unless they can't be built because of some sacred spraypaint can worshipped by the local tribes.
Anyone else have long Ethernet runs out of their house?
I have several going to outbuildings, long range wifi bridges set up past the tree line, the perimeter security cameras, that sort of thing.
Right now they're all running through a hole in my exterior wall to a patch panel inside, and this sounds like the normal way to do things. But that makes swapping or adding cables a huge bitch once you foam-seal the hole!
Is there any downside to adding a weatherproof patch panel outside and running my exterior-rated cables to it?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Thanks, that's exactly what I mean. In twenty years the same people will be getting grants to talk about the generation 5 reactors they're not going to build.
When nothing gets built and 120 useless parasites get paid $400,000 sinecures to have meetings about the next thing that won't get built... I won't even bother saying I told you so because it's pointless to show you evidence.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
When I was a kid the stereotype was potheads being pulled over for doing 35 under the limit, and complaining they were being profiled for their grateful dead and Legalyze Medicine bumper stickers.
Now they're tearing through red lights like alcoholics running from DMT demons, I don't understand it.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Can I ask you to try reading some right wing literature from the late 80s, early 90s? They were also convinced that things couldn't keep getting worse and more degenerate, and that a glorious revolution would happen soon.
They were wrong.
SteveKirk
2yr ago
I work retail and can't really spare that much, but are you going to have any big expenses you're struggling to meet?
SteveKirk
2yr ago
Do you remember the most recent presidential inauguration when DC was literally locked down by troops despite there being literally zero threat of any kind?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Brinton
Like I said, the theory-crafting academic wing of nuclear that gets all the policy seats because they're with the DC in-crowd. Not the guys who actually run existing nuclear plants and know how to make more of them.
We keep getting these grants to fund "studying pre-prototype next generation technologies" with no intent of building them, because all-consuming parasites like they/them steal all the money.
Pretty realistic summary I think. They're giving Bill Gates 2 billion dollars for his pixie dust reactor project, and now they're going to pay for all his permitting too. At the same time as they pay the anti-nuclear activists to oppose the license, of course!
It's just another slush fund to make busywork for professional procedural manipulators, not a serious attempt to bring back the nuclear industry.
They're right in that mixing nuclear and renewables is pointless. The median electricity price produced by renewables can be too low for nuclear to be cost-compeitive even while the average price is extremely high. That's why simple gas turbines make so much money off of renewable intermittency.
Every afternoon where solar overproduces to the point energy costs are "negative" is time a nuclear plant is losing money, and nuclear doesn't have the variable/surge capacity to make up for it on the cloudy winter days when people will buy energy at any price. (I have some graphs of that from last winter if you're interested)
The key to making nuclear successful is capacity markets or long term contract pricing, neither of which we can have because they would destroy the artificial wind market.
The legislation directs the NRC to examine its licensing process for new nuclear technology and study ways to speed it up. It also sets aside federal funding to cover licensing and permitting costs for the first advanced nuclear power operator to successfully deploy its technology
Strengthen its workforce by allowing the NRC chair to appoint up to 120 exceptionally well-qualified people into the excepted service at any given time, plus up to 20 more into term-limited positions in any fiscal year.
Looks like a handout to investors who got caught by all those startups with ideas out of a physics class weed circle. The Super Conductive Americium Metamorphosing reactor is 100% proven to work on paper, get in at the ground floor of our high tech pyramid-shaped funding scheme!
That and jobs for the boys nonbinary individuals who come to work in stolen women's underwear. Throwing money at the democrat-captured grant-consuming academic do-nothing wing of the nuclear industry.
And they got Republicans on board just by saying it was pro nucular.
Call me when they're making it possible to build more copies of actually working plants instead of one-off prototypes.
Someone remembered that post!
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