netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
I wouldn’t call it a shitpost. I did screw up my phrasing. Mea culpa.
What I wanted to say was that the textbook “incomplete victory” had already discarded civility. The starvation, reprisals, and general weaponized disrespect only led to an even less civilized conflict.
I don’t believe WW2 was civilized, or that its atrocities can be credited with the completeness of the subsequent peace. @zeke5123a
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Reversed stupidity is still not intelligence.
In this case, I’d also expect it to be a flagrant 1A violation in a way which the status quo is not. But I’m not up to date on my “viewpoint neutrality” jurisprudence, and I’d be quite willing to believe that there’s some awful precedent here. It would still be an extraordinarily petty, expensive, short-sighted way to imitate the Cultural Revolution.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
what you would predict based on dysgenic fertility
How does that work? Under what population parameters?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
No, it’s a matter of evidence-based doctrine!
In Afghanistan, I could easily recognize which Afghan National Army officers had been on the losing Soviet side or the victorious mujahideen side during the Soviet-Afghan War based on their choice of Stalinesque mustache or majestic, freedom-fighting beard.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
In the infantry, maybe.
Navies have historically had much more beard-friendly standards.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
We could have nuked it and cobalt-salted the earth, too, and yet we didn’t.
Why do you think that is?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Unlike the famously complete victory in WW1? Or perhaps the famously civilized WW2?
netstack
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2mo ago
Are you denying one or more of those assertions, or are you accepting them but saying they’re actually fine?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Looks more like a finger to me. It’s not like I haven’t seen weirder artifacts from panoramas. But AI feels more likely.
Not that I think it matters. Trump doesn’t exactly have a history of insulting Mormons.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
I know somebody who just got back from safari in South Africa. Apparently suppressors are near-universal there; it’s considered rude not to use one. But accessing guns was extremely lenient.
Argentina is another lax one. Big history of ranching.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
It is definitely a case where technology (batteries and motors) has outstripped politics, but drones don’t really compete with firearms against undefended targets. Other than aircraft, I guess, which is where we see the leading edge of regulation.
Handguns are useful for personal violence in a way that drones can’t ever be.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Like the Tylenol thing, this smells like a special interest. I’ll guess that there’s some lobby, somewhere, which has been clamoring to remove this exemption. I can’t imagine who would care so much, but that describes a surprising amount of Trump II.
Even if this turns out to be a pet cause of the Daughters of the Confederacy, is it going to change anyone’s mind?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
You have a link to that? One of my coworkers will definitely get a kick out of it.
Shit, I’d prefer an AR15 to my bolt-actions in that case.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Uh, not really.
Political support for gun ownership is inversely proportional to distance from an urban center. It’s more a rural/redneck/rugged-individualist signal.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Genuinely kind of surprised that our site doesn’t support native latex.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
I don’t understand any of this.
Stuff with boundary conditions is modeled by differential equations. Differential equations have wave-based solutions. Waves must be represented with 2 numbers, and one way to do this is to separate the “real” and “imaginary” components. If we treat these like (x,y) pairs, we can graph them on a plane just like any other pair of numbers. The set of all these complex numbers is denoted ℂ.
Royst is talking about a different (but similar?) class of equations which have solutions that require 4 numbers. To graph them, we’d need two simultaneous planes: ℂ×ℂ. So we’re out of luck unless we want to get cute with color.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
I’m going to go with “no.”
Not that people weren’t interested, but the distances involved are just so much more than you might realize. A very tall thunderstorm with its top at 20 km might be visible from 500 km. The Galápagos Islands are 900 km off South America, and were discovered only by drifting off course. The Atlantic is 3-5,000 km across.
You won’t have any luck from wobble, either. The Earth’s crust represents the outer 20 km of our 6,371 km orb. Distributing that skin slightly differently isn’t going to change the orbital mechanics. We can confirm this because, well, we’ve tried it. Previous geological eras saw completely different continental arrangements, including one mega continent paired with a mega ocean.
Which leaves us with the wind. I…think you might be on to something here? I don’t know nearly enough about the current macro-scale winds to say. Does the polar jet stream count? Does it have a bigger companion over the Atlantic or Pacific? Ultimately, I’m going to guess they didn’t have the data to estimate ocean size based on wind.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
I’d absolutely be willing to write off the majority of lone-wolf shooters as apolitical, even when they insist on one or another CW issue. Shooting up a church or restaurant says less about the media environment than it does about the perpetrator. Stochastic terrorists are less common than stochastic parrots.
I don’t see such a detente happening. You can see it happening here, with posters trying to figure out how to cast Mr. Edge as some sort of LGBQT partisan. Next time someone shoots at a public figure, the knives will be right back out.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Your link is for 10% is broken.
Since there’s significant debate over the threshold for “mass shooting”, is it possible that statistic is using a pretty low minimum? I would expect the percentage involving psychosis to go up a lot with casualty count.
I also think there’s a categorical difference between spontaneous violence and ideological shootings.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Yes, exactly.
With the exception of a couple hobby horses, Trump makes decisions off one of two heuristics.
- Does it benefit Trump?
- Does it benefit America?
Note that #2 is not “the United States.” It’s more like a Schoolhouse Rock model of the country. Any additional layers add a penalty; if something is too complicated to fit in a high school civics class, he’ll probably oppose it.
Thus, America is supposed to be respected and powerful. We have the most stuff and we won all the wars that mattered. Our government should be really effective at tasks listed in the Preamble. It shouldn’t mess with anything else. Above all, America consists of people who love these particular ideas. That means it’s white (but with room for assimilating immigrants), middle-class (but with room for people to make it big), and Christian (but not, like, in a specific way).
…which brings us back to #1. Trump has done a really really good job aligning his personal brand with this America one. It’s simple and effective. People who like the idea are supposed to like Trump, and people who hate Trump must be standing against America. Easy tribal support. None of the Democrat frontrunners since 2016 have managed to shake the association.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Powerful enough to steer global policy, powerless enough to skip basic market research.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Battlefleet Gothic Armada II. Basically a Total War game for space navies. Lots of factions, lots of ships. Hard to tell them apart, a lot of the time, but at least I can pause and check. Gameplay is satisfying. I don’t love the focus on casting abilities and maneuvers; they feel too reactive, like a very low APM tax. I’d rather set up the pieces and watch them duel. Boarding, though, easily earns its keep. I particularly enjoy that it distinguishes subfactions like Space Marines. Why are enemies terrified of a puny 1,000 marines? Because they’ll teleport onto your bridge.
Excellent visual and sound design, as expected from a GW license. The biggest exception has to be the protagonist. His deliveries are flatter than the literal undead. We’re talking VN levels of white bread. Which, since it’s the Imperium, has that self-abnegating zealot crunch…but come on.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Okay, but what makes you think the historians didn’t account for that already?
And you’re right; XXI has the weavers. XX has the “woman weavers of tunicas”.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
2mo ago
Taxes.
Diocletian is credited with starting the process of tying tenants to their land as part of a combined land/labor tax regime. So it’s technically the opposite.
That just means you’re paying more for less!
And if they don’t overlap, how exactly are they countering? Is there someone out there who would drop grievance studies if only they had more creationist papers to read?
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