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15hr ago
The roof is metal panels at 1/12 slope (comparable to a sidewalk curb ramp), not plastic sheeting or built-up asphalt at 1/24 (comparable to a road shoulder) or 1/48 (comparable to a road travel lane or a non-curb-ramp sidewalk). I don't expect any problems stemming from bad drainage.
insert an image of a flooded curb ramp
That happens because bad coordination between the sidewalk installation and the road paving makes the road higher than the bottom of the curb ramp. No such problems exist on a roof.
ToaKraka
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16hr ago
my small town has multiple comparable parks in easy distance
Note: The official USAian definition of "walking distance" is 1/2 mile (0.8 km). (Of course, it's possible that different jurisdictions have different definitions.)
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16hr ago
The purpose of a world map is to see where things are at, not to make precise measurements, unless you're a sailor or something. I don't care if size or shape are distorted a little, as long as it doesn't look ridiculous, and Compromise projections are the only ones that don't look ridiculous
In the first place, I disagree with the idea that the cylindrical equal-area projection looks ridiculous. Use the Behrmann variant (standard parallels ±30 °) for global evenhandedness, or the Gall/Peters variant (±45 °) for a bit of Eurocentrism.
In the second place, you can just use the equirectangular projection instead of a wacky compromise projection. The Robinson projection's convolutions are totally unnecessary.
If people are going to be so insistent about the metric system then I'm going to be insistent about UTM, which by all rights should replace latitude/longitude since a grid is inherently superior to an angular system.
But latitude and longitude are a grid already.
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22hr ago
when I see someone essentially laying out a justification for bringing back slavery, how am I supposed to respond, as a black person?
I remember another person asked me if I sincerely related to black underclass criminals and no I obviously don't but I relate to people like Toussaint Louverture, Malcolm X, Steve Biko. The intelligent black men who dedicated their lives to fighting the people who wanted to keep us in eternal subjugation for all the same goddamn reasons.
ToaKraka
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1d ago
I'll pencil you down as "myriahedral projection" (gnomonic onto a zillion-faced polyhedron).
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1d ago
That's a rather harsh response. What are your preferred map projections, then? (They had better not be compromise projections.)
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Websites listing fan conventions: 1 (including a hidden list of adults-only fan conventions), 2 (apparently poorly translated from French)
Do you think anybody would attend a meetup on the topic of nonconsensual editing? (This is approximately half a joke.)
My vomit-inducing custom house is approximately three-fourths complete.
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Photograph 1: Apparently, in plumbing the modern practice is to divvy up all the water pipes through a "manifold" (like a circuit-breaker box), which looks pretty cool.
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Photograph 2: Spray-foam insulation
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Photograph 3: Behold! A boring beige box!
Which variations of the cylindrical equal-area projection are your favorites?
I am inclined to pick Behrmann (standard parallels ±30 °, so that exactly half of the map's area is stretched vertically and half is squashed vertically; aspect ratio ∼2.4) and Smyth/Craster (aspect ratio 2∶1; standard parallels ∼±37 °).
ToaKraka
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1d ago
we don't do sound insulation properly
Specifically, typical US code requires a sound transmission class of at least 50 between apartments, but at least one study (found via this article) has found that an STC of 60 may be a better threshold.
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3d ago
Five of the Supreme Court's nine justices approvingly quoted a claim that distribution of child pornography is worse than child rape and child prostitution. (The other four justices merely concurred in the judgment, so they did not endorse this particular footnote.) I would expect most people to find such a claim laugh-inducing.
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4d ago
Hilarious quote from a Supreme Court decision:
The distribution of photographs and films depicting sexual activity by juveniles is intrinsically related to the sexual abuse of children in at least two ways. First, the materials produced are a permanent record of the children's participation and the harm to the child is exacerbated by their circulation.10 Second, the distribution network for child pornography must be closed if the production of material which requires the sexual exploitation of children is to be effectively controlled.
10As one authority has explained:
[P]ornography poses an even greater threat to the child victim than does sexual abuse or prostitution. Because the child's actions are reduced to a recording, the pornography may haunt him in future years, long after the original misdeed took place. A child who has posed for a camera must go through life knowing that the recording is circulating within the mass distribution system for child pornography.
Shouvlin, Preventing the Sexual Exploitation of Children: A Model Act, 17 Wake Forest L.Rev. 535, 545 (1981). See also Child Exploitation 292 ("[I]t is the fear of exposure and the tension of keeping the act secret that seem to have the most profound emotional repercussions"); Note, Protection of Children from Use in Pornography: Toward Constitutional and Enforceable Legislation, 12 U. Mich.J.Law Reform 295, 301 (1979) (hereafter cited as Use in Pornography) (interview with child psychiatrist) ("The victim's knowledge of publication of the visual material increases the emotional and psychic harm suffered by the child").
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4d ago
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4d ago
New "handguns" (PCCs? SMGs?) currently available for purchase on guns.com:
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7.62×39 Soviet: 130
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7.62×51 NATO: 6
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7.62×25 Tokarev: 2
ToaKraka
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4d ago
The document doesn't specify. Table CGT-21 seems to imply that it's actually recorded as just "762" with no decimal point at all.
According to the ATF, in years 2022 and 2023:
Among the 770,000 traced pistols (part 3 table CGT-03):
| Caliber | Proportion (%) |
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| 9 mm | 60 |
| .40 | 13 |
| .380 | 8 |
| .45 | 7 |
| .22 | 4 |
| .25 | 1 |
| 7.62 mm | 1 |
| 10 mm | 1 |
| .57 (typo for 5.7 mm?) | 1 |
| 5.56 mm | 0.8 |
Among the 25,000 pistols recovered in Mexico (part 7 table SWB-10):
| Caliber | Proportion (%) |
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| 9 mm | 45 |
| .22 | 17 |
| .380 | 12 |
| .45 | 7 |
| .40 | 6 |
| .25 | 4 |
| .38 | 3 |
| 7.62 mm | 2 |
| .32 | 2 |
| 5.7 mm | 0.4 |
ToaKraka
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5d ago
I am in my early 30s and have always been a boring teetotaler. I see no reason to become addicted to alcohol on top of sugar.
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5d ago
Quote from By This Axe (a sourcebook for ACKS (the Adventurer Conqueror King System), whose author prides himself on thorough historical research):
Throughout Europe during classical and late antiquity, and well into the modern age in many places worldwide, most mines were worked by slaves. However, there is some archaeological evidence that some mines were worked by paid laborers. For instance: There are over a thousand ancient graves at the Hallstatt salt mines, and all of the bodies are interred with valuable grave goods that suggest care and respect for the dead. These might be the graves of miners, and if so that would suggest paid labor.
My cursory Internet searching did not find anything super-helpful, but here are some articles about slavery in Scotland.
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6d ago
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6d ago
It's a bit confusing to engage in evidence-free raging in one thread but then point to the evidence in a different thread.
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6d ago
Middle Easterners are counted as white
Note that in 2024 Middle Easterners and North Africans were officially separated out from whites. This change will be implemented in the 2027 American Community Survey and the 2030 census.
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7d ago
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7d ago
The total bill is 224 k$ for 858 ft2 of house, 720 ft2 of driveway (not including ∼110 ft2 that's government-owned), 395 ft2 of sidewalk (including 270 ft2 that's government-owned), and 396 ft of fence. (An item-by-item breakdown is not available.)
The land was 29 k$ for 1/6 of an acre.
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