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				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
For pornographic videos, 4chan has only /gif/ (anything goes) and /hc/ (heterosexual hardcore). Users also will post off-topic pornographic videos on other boards when they can get away with it.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 16, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


stories from a defunct magazine




Note that many such stories never had their copyrights renewed (as the laws at the time required), and therefore are available legally as scans on the Internet Archive and even as HTML/EPUB files on Project Gutenberg.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 12, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The leftist future is one in which you are either an individual who can do whatever you want and cut people's throats to get ahead, or you are a member of a collective group determined by your sex/race/orientation determined by your birth. The rightist future is one in which family and neighbors are bond together by shared traditions, cultures, and mutual duties to each other.




Since when is there no such thing as a libright?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 19, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, "it" is still used for infants, and it used to be used for non-infant children as well.* Maybe it could make a comeback.


*Examples from a 1902 children's book coincidentally named Five Children and It:




Everyone [of the five] got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage that very minute, but no one seemed to mind.






Each of the [four] children carried its own spade, and took it in turns to carry the Lamb [the baby].






They [four] looked at each other in despair, and it was terrible to each, in this dire emergency, to meet only the beautiful eyes of perfect strangers, instead of the merry, friendly, commonplace, twinkling, jolly little eyes of its own brothers and sisters.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of December 19, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
News article




The U.S. Department of Energy has cleared the way for Texas power plants to pollute more than is usually allowed, such as by burning dirtier fuel oil instead of natural gas, to keep the electricity on through Christmas morning.




 




Plants will be able to take advantage of the waived requirements only if ERCOT issues a level 2 or higher energy emergency alert, which includes asking residents to cut back power and interrupting large industrial customer’s electricity, according to the letter. At least one environmental advocate applauded the specificity of the request.






So far, such measures haven’t been taken and the state’s power grid has withstood arctic temperatures through much of the state nearly two years after a catastrophic and deadly electricity outage.




Government  page




On December 23, 2022, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued an emergency order… to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), authorizing specific electric generating units (resource list) located within the ERCOT area to operate at their maximum generation output levels due to ongoing extreme weather conditions and to preserve the reliability of bulk electric power system.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for December 25, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Matrix > Discord


I'm a lot less tech-savvy than this site's admins, and even I have been able to set up an instance (using DigitalOcean's """one-click""" offering, which costs 6 $/mo).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 30, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Are any of you into electronics? What have you seen lately that you're into or looking forward to coming out soon?




I wouldn't say that I'm "into electronics", but I can say that I am impressed with the maturation of lidar surveying.


By firing your lasers out of the right equipment, you can create an astonishingly detailed survey with a tiny fraction of the time and effort that a traditional survey would require. In my job as a civil engineer, I have worked with lidar "point clouds", generated by putting the equipment on a truck and driving down the side of a road at low speed, that have one observation in every four inches (ten centimeters), extending over entire miles (kilometers) of six-lane freeway, including the trees and slopes in the roadside. And there are point clouds at resolution of around 1 dot per 1 meter (3 feet) covering most of my entire state—thousands of square miles (square kilometers)—that were obtained by sticking lidar equipment on an airplane.


Of course, traditional surveying is not quite dead. A UAV can't check the elevation of a pipe inside an inlet, or clear away debris to see where the true edge of pavement is, or use a metal detector and a shovel to uncover a monument that was installed three generations ago. And processing dozens of 300-megabyte 3D point clouds into 2D topographic features takes a powerful computer and a competent drafter many hours of work. But the technology still is very impressive, and a lot more accurate than redrawing topographic features from bad scans of as-built construction plans that were surveyed two generations ago—and it's accessible to amateurs. There are zillions of YouTubers touting aerial (drone-mounted) lidar surveying as a small business to get into. A lidar drone is in the low five figures to purchase.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for December 30, 2022
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I have not personally used any phone-based systems (or point clouds from such systems). However, based on some YouTube videos that I've watched (1 2), it's my understanding that phone-based lidar systems work only at short range, and therefore are not suitable for scanning large swaths of terrain.*


For your purposes, photogrammetry may be more convenient. The OpenDroneMap software (1 2 3) can digest aerial photos and spit out a point cloud. (Disclaimer: I do not have a UAV and have not used this software.)


*Phone-based systems can be useful, though. I recall attending one presentation at work (several years ago) where our resident tech guru gushed over his test of a phone-based system (I don't remember whether it was lidar or photogrammetry) in surveying the corner of an intersection, which would be very convenient for designing ADA-compliant curb ramps.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 2, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


nemeses (nemesii?)




Nemeses (Latin, third declension: 1 2), nemeseis (Greek, third declension: 1 2), or nemesises (English)


"Nemesii" would be the plural of "nemesius" (Latin, second declension).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I enjoyed Zeta Gundam a lot more than my abortive attempts at watching 0079 (in which I was filtered by the ugly animation) and ZZ (in which I was filtered by the goofy early episodes).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Were you watching the TV series or the movies of 0079?




The episodes. It's been my experience that episodes in Gundam series already feel very rushed, so I can't imagine how disjointed the compilation movies must be.




I would also beg you to stick with ZZ, it does get better later on.




Yes, I've seen the same said on /m/ about a zillion times. I probably will get around to trying again at some point.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


The Big Short




At the risk of straying into culture-war territory, I will also recommend the Financial Crisis Inquiry Report (free; includes separate Democrat, Republican, and libertarian viewpoints) and Hidden in Plain Sight (on Amazon, $10 electronic or $6 paper; an expanded version of the same libertarian viewpoint).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 8, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Isn't their brightness regulated?




Yes. The regulations can be found at this link—CFR title 49 section 571.108.S10, in the FMVSS. For example, if you want to find the requirements applicable to replaceable bulbs in a two-lamp system with mechanical aiming, check out the LB2M section of table XIX-a.


    

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    In the range 10 ° up to 90 ° up and 90 ° left to 90 ° right, the intensity must be no more than 125 candelas.
    

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    At the point 4 ° up and 8 ° left, the intensity must be at least 64 cd.
    

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    At the point 2 ° up and 4 ° left, the intensity must be at least 135 cd.
    

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    In the range 1 ° up and 1.5 ° left to [90 °?] left, the intensity must be no more than 700 cd.
    

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    In the range 0.5 ° up and 1.5 to [90 °?] left, the intensity must be no more than 1000 cd.
    

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				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 9, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
The standard workaround that I've seen is to use a username reference ("@‌ToaKraka") for a second or third person. Reddit silently disables username alerts if you attempt to use too many username references in a single comment, and I assume that this software has a similar limitation.


(Obligatory reminder that imageboard software doesn't have this problem, and allows conversation threads to merge as well as to branch.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 16, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Actuary tables






(economic) value




Note that the federal govt.'s figure of ten million dollars is based on revealed-preference studies that estimate how much money the average person theoretically is willing to spend in order to save his own life, not on economic studies that estimate the present value of an average person's expected future earnings (or net tax revenue).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for January 20, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are there any text-layout aficionados here?


What are your opinions on run-in headings? Personally, I am opposed to them. In my opinion, it makes no sense for the heading to be inside the paragraph to which it applies—and the situation is even worse when a run-in heading is inside paragraph A but is meant to apply to paragraph A and paragraph B.


Are there any obscure typography problems on which you would like to expound?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Reddit has the same feature.


My interpretation of this feature is that, if you find yourself embarrassed at being forced to upvote a comment that you made, then you shouldn't have made the comment in the first place.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
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Or you could just open the squirrel quokka link in a new tab, and close it after hitting the submit button.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Link to quoted article


A different article says of the same lawsuit:




Thursday’s legal victory for Stewart [the "victim"] was tempered, however, by a relatively small $100,000 award for damages, with the jury refusing to award her attorneys fees. The cost of litigating the case over the last five years likely exceeded $100,000.




				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of January 30, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


And that Biden one has to be a copypasta.




It's one of the more popular copypastas. 1 2


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Friday Fun Thread for February 3, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


have sex via appendage




According to the wiki: "The intertwining of queues is both highly erotic and profoundly spiritual, but is not the actual act of sexual reproduction."




appendage which looks similar to USB cable




It doesn't look like a USB cable to me.




Is it symmetrical and allows same-sex sex, or does it support same-sex sex in some other way, maybe using an adapter?




It looks symmetrical to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 29, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
I've seen TiddlyWiki recommended on 4chan.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 29, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
It's free (libre and gratis). You're supposed to install it on your own server.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
Are you sure? The limit prescribed by the US's International Building Code for apartment buildings (occupancy R-2) has not been increased beyond five stories of heavy timber (type IV-HT) or four stories of dimensional lumber (type V) on top of a concrete podium, with a total building height of 85 feet for heavy timber or 70 feet for dimensional lumber.


But maybe your city uses a different code.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of February 6, 2023
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
To be fair, until just last year the authoritative North American Industry Classification System did include both supermarkets and convenience stores within the overarching "grocery stores" category, so there is precedent for this nomenclature. (The 2022 edition of the NAICS now calls the overarching category "grocery and convenience retailers".)