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The Wisconsin school shooter, Natalie Rupnow, has been misidentified in posts online as Samuel Hyde, a comedian falsely linked to deadly attacks in the past as part of a long-running internet hoax.
Hyde told Reuters, however, that neither of the two photographs in the posts about Rupnow is him.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history", "one of the 19th-century engineering giants", and "one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, [who] changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions". Brunel built dockyards, the Great Western Railway (GWR), a series of steamships including the first purpose-built transatlantic steamship, and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering.
In 2002, Brunel was placed second in a BBC public poll to determine the "100 Greatest Britons".
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(I guess this comment may be somewhat low-effort and/or more suited to the Wednesday Wellness thread, but in light of recent discussion I feel that it may still be appropriate for this thread.)
Are racial sexual preferences natural and mentally healthy, or racist, unnatural, and mentally unhealthy? Is a white man who finds himself afflicted with "jungle fever", an Indian woman who feels a desire to become "bleached", or a black man who has succumbed to "yellow fever" suffering from a delusion that has been inflicted upon him by stereotypes in the media (both pornographic and non-porn)?* Or are these preferences inherent and natural? Is a person obligated to find sexually attractive all people who share the same general category of sex/gender, weight, and figure? Or is attraction permitted to hinge on such minor attributes as skin/nipple color, hair texture, and lip size?
*For example, perhaps the aforementioned black man suffering from "yellow fever" actually just finds skinny, demure-seeming women attractive, but has been brainwashed into thinking that the women who fit that role are overwhelmingly East Asian, and there's no use looking for them elsewhere. Maybe the Indian woman thinks that only white men are capable of building attractive levels of muscle, with few exceptions. Et cetera.
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That's another possibility. But, as the saying goes: "Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." Especially in the absence of any information regarding which possibility is more likely.
Have you finished your retirement calculation spreadsheet yet? If you're in the US, don't forget to take into account the fact that Social Security is expected to run out of moneyreduce benefits by one-fifth in 2033. (Unfortunately, a cursory search indicates that nobody has set up a betting market for precisely when, or whether, this will happen.)
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I felt chasing uniqueness was pointless
At least a modicum of uniqueness is desirable in a name. Using suffixes like "Jr." and "II" is highly inadvisable, as too many software systems do not play well with them. The child may be annoyed if he is unable to buy a domain name that matches his legal name because somebody else with the same legal name has already purchased it. And confusion between people with the same name can occur.
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Regulations were recently introduced requiring a minimum window sill or guard height of 1.1 metres (43.3 inches).
For comparison, the US's de facto standard prescribes for window-sill heights a minimum of 18 inches (0.46 meter) and a maximum of 44 inches (1.12 meters).
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DoorDash constitutes less than 0.1 percent of Vanguard's "Total [US] Stock Market Index Fund", and is not even large enough to appear in its "[S&P] 500 Index Fund". So it isn't worth worrying about in the end.
It probably wouldn't look too different.
Actually, according to this (not-very-trustworthy-looking) website, it would look quite different.
Some notable differences:
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Apple: 12.9 % of capitalization, 6.5 % of profit (6.4-% decrease)
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Nvidia: 11.2 % of capitalization, 4.0 % of profit (7.3-% decrease)
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Microsoft: 10.9 % of capitalization, 6.0 % of profit (4.9-% decrease)
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Amazon: 7.9 % of capitalization, 3.4 % of profit (4.6-% decrease)
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Saudi Aramco: 6.0 % of capitalization, 12.0 % of profit (6.0-% increase)
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Berkshire Hathaway: 3.3 % of capitalization, 7.6 % of profit (4.4-% increase)
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CEMIG: 0.0 % of capitalization, 14.2 % of profit (14.2-% increase)
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Toyota: 0.8 % of capitalization, 2.3 % of profit (1.5-% increase)
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I wonder what an "S&P 500, but weighted by profit rather than by market capitalization" index fund would look like.
The appeals panel's full rationale:
At the outset, we reject the notion that Chase's J-pay email constituted a threat to LGBTQ+ inmates, others, or his girlfriend, none of whom received the email. We recognize the DOC's concern and interest in preventing inmates from threatening each other or making threats against others. However, Chase's email, though vulgar, reprehensible, and distressing, does not constitute a clear and unambiguous threat based upon the objective analysis required under Jacobs v. Stephens.
In Jacobs, our [state] Supreme Court addressed whether a comment made by an inmate to a corrections officer constituted a threat. The corrections officer had asked the inmate, Jacobs, for his identification card and he responded, "Fuck you, I ain't giving you shit. If you want my ID, step in the back room." Another witness reported that, as the officer turned to walk away, Jacobs stated, "Come on, come on, I'll fuck you up." On appeal, Jacobs argued that there was insufficient evidence to support the conclusion that he threatened the officer with bodily harm. He asserted that, while he used abusive language, he did not intend to threaten the officer.
Our Supreme Court held: "The determination of whether a remark constitutes a threat is made on the basis of an objective analysis of whether the remark conveys a basis for fear." And a reasonable mind could conclude that Jacobs had threatened the officer. The Court noted, however, that other witnesses heard him make additional threatening comments. It stated: "When words of an inmate are of such a nature as would reasonably convey the menace or fear of death to the ordinary hearer, then that is a threat of bodily harm and therefore punishable under [the prison regulations]."
Here, Chase's email was directed to his girlfriend and allegedly offered to explain that he is not gay and how offended he was by her question. Unlike Jacobs, there were no witnesses to Chase's words, although they are memorialized in the email. His specific comments and disdain for the LGBTQ+ community, however, were not directed at any particular person, and there is nothing in the record to support a finding that Chase intended to harm any of his fellow inmates who may be gay, or his girlfriend. We are not persuaded that Chase's unsent email reasonably conveyed any menace or put any individual in fear of death to constitute a true threat of bodily harm.
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Doesn't exactly look like "fun thread" material
You are supposed to laugh at (1) the prisoner's writing two pages of "no homo" and (2) the appeals panel's being forced to defend the prisoner's right to send "repeated[] express[ions] of hatred of individuals belonging to the LGBTQ+ community" that it finds "vulgar, reprehensible, and distressing".
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Maybe he's alluding to the fact that government employees have lenient bosses and leisurely schedules that allow them to take solid two-week or three-week blocks of vacation leave around Christmas and New Year's, and large proportions of them use this opportunity to the fullest.
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- During a telephone call, a prisoner's romantic partner asks him whether he is gay. The prisoner becomes angry and ends the call. On the next day, he writes a two-page email explaining that he is not gay, he hates homosexual people, and if he had been at home he would have shot her for insulting him so badly.
- The prison reads the email, blocks it from being sent, charges the prisoner with the offense of threatening another person with bodily harm, convicts him of that offense, and imposes punishment of 90 days of solitary confinement, 60 days of lost good-behavior credit, and 15 days of lost recreational privileges.
- The appeals panel reverses. The prisoner's objective in writing this email obviously was to convince his romantic partner that he was not homosexual, not to threaten her or anybody else with bodily harm. Therefore, the conviction was arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.
In order to get a horizontal line (HTML element <hr/>), you need to type three hyphens ("---"), not a bunch of em dashes ("———").
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GURPS also incorporates rules for forced marching, terrain difficulty, and encumbrance, but I omitted them from this simplified overview.
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Markdown is just a middleman format. Writing in raw HTML and CSS from the beginning makes more sense.
Obligatory mention that GURPS, unlike Dungeons & Dragons, has multiple sets of rules for long-distance travel, depending on how much detail you want. Assuming default humans with no encumbrance at all:
- Basic Set p. 351: Hiking achieves a speed of 50 miles per day, at no cost.
- Low-Tech Companion 2: Weapons and Warriors p. 32: Hiking achieves a speed of 2.5 miles per hour, at a cost of 1 FP (Fatigue Point) per hour. Once you've lost 7 FP, you move at half speed. Resting regenerates 6 FP per hour. Some quick algebra indicates that the optimal strategy for a 16-hour day is 14 hours and 40 minutes of hiking mixed with 1 hour and 20 minutes of resting, for an overall speed of 37 miles per day. But you may want to keep your FP higher than 3, just in case you are ambushed while hiking.
- The Last Gasp (Pyramid vol. 3 iss. 44 (Alternate GURPS II) p. 4): It's unrealistic that your speed isn't reduced until you've lost an entire 7 FP. Instead, your speed is reduced by one-fifth after you've lost 5 FP, and by two-fifths after you've lost 9 FP. Also, it's unrealistic that your FP regenerate at 6 per hour. Instead, your reservoir of FP is divided into 5 points of mild fatigue, which regenerate at 1 FP per 2 hours, and 5 points of severe fatigue, which regenerate at 1 FP per 8 hours. Some quick algebra indicates that the optimal strategy for a 16-hour day is 8 hours and 40 minutes of hiking mixed with 7 hours and 20 minutes of resting, for an overall speed of 22 miles per day.
- Dungeon Fantasy 16: Wilderness Adventures p. 21: Hiking achieves a speed of 2.5 miles per hour. Instead of doing a bunch of finicky FP math, just assume that you spend 30 minutes striking camp in the morning, 3 hours resting throughout the day, 30 minutes pitching camp in the evening, and 12 hours actually walking, for an overall speed of 30 miles per day. If you are ambushed while hiking, you are missing 1 FP when the encounter starts.
Samsung uses the same method.
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