ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
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ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
5hr ago
their homebrew processors are supposed to be pretty good although I haven't tried them.
They're 4-5 years ahead of their closest competitor, Qualcomm (even with the Nuvia acquisition). They're not actually any faster than normal PCs, but they're excellent when it comes to idle power consumption (which is what the computer is doing most of the time).
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
19hr ago
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a furry.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
20hr ago
Sun the vast majority of days (if it's going to rain, it should rain all day), high-80s to low-100s year-round, low humidity. Rain (especially that which is more than just drizzle) isn't a problem so long as it's sufficiently warm. Daylight should persist for no less than 10 hours a day in the winter.
I require the sun to be present in the sky to function correctly, and simply don't hold heat very well and need the environment to do it for me.
American newspaper headlines tend to provide both the city and the country, whereas their British counterparts only provide the city.
To be fair, though, North America has lots and lots of duplicate names, or duplicate-sounding names, for places (the majority of the states in the Union have a "Springfield"). No mandate for uniqueness between ~60 distinct polities and importing a bunch of people who decided to name things after the places they came from for some reason (when they weren't just calling them "New Whatever" in whatever their native language was; sometimes that got translated [New Mexico], sometimes it didn't [Nova Scotia], and rather humorously the former refers to a New World nation itself).
The same thing is true for London, to a degree; there are more than 5 cities and towns named that on the continent (and for bonus points, one of them is a relatively major city). Or Exeter: do you mean the one in NH, RI, Ontario, or the original one in the UK?
And the copying isn't even limited to Old World nations; does "Ontario, CA" refer to the province of Ontario, Canada? Or does it refer to the city of Ontario, in California? Did that event happen in Vancouver, BC; or was it Vancouver, WA? (Bonus points for being only a few hours away from other.) Which Grand Forks do you mean? And so on.
[Come to think of it, if Mexico was still called New Spain, would New Mexico have been called New New Spain? Newer Spain? If after that, an Iberian colony ship lands on a habitable planet would they call it Newest Spain? If they launched two would it be New Newest Spain?]
Sure, but unless the counterculture is classically liberal/in the middle of a genuinely prosperous age (which is generally the cure to "social pressure from one's peers) it just turns into "boldly advocating for 50 Stalins". One of the more visible new youth styles of clothing, "men in ill-fitting dresses", is ultimately (and perhaps ironically) more conformant to social pressure than not doing that.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
3d ago
and their anti-nuclear power campaigns are evidence of Just Not Being Willing To Be Happy With Anything, Ever
To channel Hlynka again, then, Greenpeace is on the extreme end of traditionalism/conservatism and their attitude towards the industrial revolution and its consequences oil pipelines is (predictably) the exact same as a certain other US group's attitude towards abortion clinics.
I don't think it's a surprise that countries defined by liberalism, specifically France, treats Greenpeace the way they do.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
4d ago
They don’t judge you or your life, they don’t complain, they don’t make demands, they don’t do things to annoy you or anything like that.
That hasn’t been my experience: they require attention at the exact times they can’t have it (and that needs to be regularly provided), they need to be trained just the same as any neural network does, they scream at you when they don’t get their way, they have regular maintenance bills, and the like. Oh, and they’ll be like that forever and you’re committing 1/8th of your life to it.
I really don’t see why people bother. If I’m going to go through all that hassle anyway why should I do it for anything less than a human being? Sure, it’s a little more hassle, but it’s far more rewarding in the long run because I can do more things with it (2 legs, opposable thumbs, language ability beyond a couple of words, smarter than the average crow), and because most of the hassle is the interruption to whatever it is I’m doing, I want it to at least be important.
It’s not like I don’t get along with pets; but I’ve honestly never found a 4-legged animal I liked simply because their presence demands too much attention relative to their benefits. Or maybe I just find constant barking uniquely unpleasant because everyone seems to tolerate it just fine.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
5d ago
So basically, those who supported the practice of associating his name with the bad part of town might as well have been the, er, MLKKK.
Activist goals (the stated ones, anyway) would have been better served by just trying to get more high-human-capital into medicine. But that’s a bridge too far.
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
6d ago
I think most only have any success in their country of manufacture
Yeah, because they're hilariously overpriced. When you can buy 6 ARs for the cost of one (in the VHS-2's case) and it's only marginally better it's not a surprise they aren't flying off the shelves.
People give HK shit all the time for this but all the European manufacturers do it with their military rifles (Beretta and CZ are better than average, or at least Beretta would be if they actually still sold the ARX-160). Sure, that strategy works in Europe where AR-15s cost just as much or more than the indigenous options, but expecting that to apply everywhere?
ThisIsSin
Tomboys: transgender or transcendental?
6d ago
At this point, it's hard to imagine it ever going away, or why there would even be competing designs in another few decades.
The only real thing wrong with the AR is that it doesn't lend itself as well to mass production (read: aluminum/plastic extruded upper, polymer lower) as the AR-18-based designs, and that if you're on a rifle replacement schedule that exceeds 50 years, you want a gun with slightly-beefed-up parts whose wear surfaces you can change out so that you don't have to do what the US does and replace bolts every 10,000 rounds because getting any kind of military spending in most Western countries is like pulling teeth.
Which is why all the modern rifles that kind-of-but-not-really compete with the AR all do the things that you'd do to an AR if you weren't constrained by its existing design, like:
- Replaceable cam tracks (that part held in by external screws on the top left side of the Spear; that's internal on the SCAR and Brens) and stopping the cam pin from being driven into the receiver (which happens on the AR)
- Bigger bolt, which means it stops being as much of a wear part like it is on US Military ARs; also allows for a better extractor and a more long-lasting spring within
- Making the upper an aluminum extrusion, and attaching the stock to the upper rather than the lower so it can't break off (which lets you make the lower a polymer extrusion); ARs can crack their upper receivers at the threads holding the barrel nut on at high round counts and these guns won't do that (traditional-style AKs eventually develop similar cracking problems at the front trunnion, as it bends there every time you fire)
And then the tactical considerations, which is that because these guns are a bit heavier up front, they can stand up to more use as ersatz automatic rifles; as far as I'm aware, you can dump your entire combat load in one sitting without destroying the gun or making it catch on fire (it'll sure cook your hands, though; hope you brought gloves!). If your nation is small, why not just give everyone slightly heavier RPK-equivalents so they're still perfectly serviceable in 50 years?
The HK416 is notable in that it does literally none of these things. Granted, it was the first real attempt to make the AR-15 a serious automatic rifle, but it fails to improve in any way on the original design and even makes some problems worse (it's heavier and the carrier tilts; contrast the MCX, which is a significantly better design).
Oh yeah: foreign manufacturers could always get development on their rifle platforms too, if they felt like passing the savings onto the customer (and actually commit- Beretta actually sold the ARX-160 at a very reasonable price, and that was even before hyper-light rifles were made cool again, but none of the other promised features materialized). But they won't.
Ever been to 4chan?
(And yes, I know a few people in that demographic that do this constantly for that reason.)
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