pigeonburger
2hr ago
most people who answer red assume children wouldnt' be asked.
I think a lot of people who would answer red assume children old enough to understand the question and to press a button would be asked, but that enough children could be convinced by their parents to seriously, not joke around, just press red. Now if you assume babies who don't understand the question and are unable to push the button as a deliberate act are included, then blue is a more reasonable answer.
pigeonburger
4hr ago
Is not that they're blind, it's just that some things are not realistically in question; a blind tribalist would be 100% on board to dump these assumptions if their tribe also dumped them.
pigeonburger
4hr ago
For a lot of people, and not necessarily fully blind tribalists, their side is better because of prior assumptions that are not in question. For instance, if you consider all immigration to be inherently enriching, or the kind of environmental positions that the Democrats have been pushing to be a non-negociable minimum, then there is no need to analyze the "soul of the DNC"; you are not going to alter these positions, you might at best appear to compromise on them publically but still intend on cynically carrying them on when in power. Basically, you just need to manage the situation with regards to the public, including avoiding giving the other side ammo.
pigeonburger
3d ago
Oh! Oh! Phantasy Star Online!!!!
There's something in the aesthetic of that game that always look "new" and shiny.
pigeonburger
3d ago
Interestingly both ways make sense. In the US, antisocial is against or uninterested in socialization, whereas in the UK it's meant as the opposite of prosocial.
pigeonburger
4d ago
Ohhhh, can it be retroactively applied so we can say that Pretti and Good were shot by NICE?
pigeonburger
4d ago
I liked the aesthetics of Guild Wars 1, but the heavy bloom style is very of its time.
pigeonburger
4d ago
That's a deep cut, but yeah, I can see it
pigeonburger
5d ago
And honestly, there's probably one of the easiest cases to argue for it being good for a kid's development to make them face their fears in the form of gentle tension building in family movies while surrounded by their family for support. It's hardly "losing" their kids in the forest with a compass and a knife.
pigeonburger
5d ago
Pretty much anyone else is going to be at their hardest to assassinate when they are in proximity to the POTUS. Unless the assassin just wanted a challenge, he could have waited until any of these people were not being indirectly protected by the President's Secret Service detail and have an easier job of it.
I'm pretty sure #1 is the model you should assume. If it so happened that the Democrats were in a position to stop the war, and that they were to still take these votes then they'd have some dastardly blue dog democrats in purple states "betray" them. That's their main duty to their party. The party can maintain the virtue signaling while achieving the result the politicians want, the blue dog Democrats find their position in their purple state strengthened by their appearing "bipartisan".
pigeonburger
9d ago
Huh. Why do they always pick such long words for the “new” versions of these things? Master/servant still too hierarchical? Dom/sub too sexual?
I prefer pimp/ho
pigeonburger
11d ago
Here, the whole province went ahead and did it, starting last fall (they were already banned from classrooms since january 2024).
Not being a teacher, a high school student or a parent of a high school student, and not being in frequent contact with either of these groups, I can't really say if that's the case, but the mainstream reporting I read on it seems that it has had a very positive effect.
pigeonburger
11d ago
I'll be 40 this year. I drink usually once a week; my friends have a weekly hangout on tuesday evenings at a neighborhood bar, a tradition we've kept up for almost 15 years. I drink usually between 2 and 4 pints, over three to four hours. If I go for 4 pints I feel it quite a bit at the end, 2 pints not really.
My alcohol tolerance has declined quite a bit over time. I used to drink over 5 pints without much of an effect but those days are over. In social gatherings, I'll have a couple of beers, or a couple of glasses of wine, but in general I don't drink on my own or with my wife, unless it's a pairing I really appreciate a lot (for instance, a nice bowl of restaurant ramen requires a beer).
pigeonburger
12d ago
Strawberries, not necessarily by size, but redder, darker seeds usually indicate a sweeter and more flavorful berry. Blueberries though, smaller wild varietals are more flavorful.
pigeonburger
14d ago
It's what they want to signal, but it's pretty naive to believe it. I'm sure most of them are overjoyed with Trump attacking Iran now; it's something that might have needed to do in the future, that would almost certainly have a political cost no matter who does it and why, and their current impotence makes it so they can virtue signal as loud as they can since they cannot be blamed for not doing enough to stop it (since they can't anyway).
pigeonburger
15d ago
For a lot of more centrist or left wing people, I get the feeling Trudeau is the sin-eater for the results of the unchecked immigration they supported, right up to the point where the return to public life from COVID made the frog boiling trick miss a beat and made canadians finally notice just how much the country had changed.
I just checked and yeah, Kasich dropped right after Cruz, but his campaign was very dead way ahead of that, with Cruz being the last credible obstacle to Trump's nomination. The reporting at the time was indeed that the establishment had lined up behind Cruz. Bush and Rubio endorsed Cruz.
I don't think the counterfactual Cruz that won without Trump being in the mix would have been a bad president (if he had any chance in the general, which I doubt), but a Cruz that won the nomination as the GOPe's last stand against Trump would have had a different mandate.
pigeonburger
15d ago
I would think a lot of them probably thought that since all the RINOs lined up behind Cruz once it became clear that Jeb, Rubio and Kasich were not gonna beat Trump, that a Cruz administration would just become RINO central, even if that's not what it would have been in a counterfactual world where Trump didn't run and Cruz beat Jeb, Rubio and Kasich.
pigeonburger
15d ago
I dunno, but I find there's legitimate advantages to having a reliable copilot, even if that person doesn't themselves drives. Someone to read the GPS when I get on the highway and tell me what the exit number I need to take is. Or someone who checks their side on an unprotected turn to tell you if it's clear (I will check anyway right before turning, but having to divert my gaze between two sides when alone means I can miss some open gaps). But it's important to stress the "reliable" part. If I just hear panicked noises with no obvious reason, it's not helping; it's more dangerous.
I think I should have a conversation with my wife about the importance of clear, brief communication in emergencies. Like, she should start immediately with the direction she wants me to look at, then after what I should pay attention to. Like "Right! Car!" is more likely to save us than "iiiiiiiih" and bracing for impact.
pigeonburger
16d ago
The part that annoys me is not so much the backseat driving, it's the lack of information in panicked yells, that could lead to worse reaction than just ignoring her. And of course, whenever an interaction happens that I would like a second opinion on, like "honey, was I in the wrong there?" she was not paying attention.
pigeonburger
16d ago
Any Trump supporters care to steelman this? To me, the most parsimonious explanation is that Trump is a narcissist with a god complex.
Boomer posts cringe on social media, news at eleven!
pigeonburger
16d ago
That said, I do love automation, orchestration, and I suppose hyper-convergence, and I do use them extensively in my homelab. It's definitely a goal of mine to use those at some point in my career, and I know of some shops who use them. Perhaps time will bring them more into the mainstream of general IT, because IaC is awesome (and is genuinely something that use of AI makes significantly easier to learn).
Yes, it's a good idea to play with the bleeding edge stuff in your homelab, because when you start having to make recommendations for clients, you need to understand what is "forward" for them and every cycle try to bring them closer to that. You're not usually going to be given the time, budget, staff, and freedom to disrupt money-generating activities necessary to turn a company that does remote work by RDPing onto machines accessible from the internet into a modern network in one step. But you can make a list of the biggest, fastest steps you can make right now to move them closer, your "quick wins". You can get them to put their RDP behind a modern, updated firewall and VPN. Once that's done, you can start segmenting their network, putting internal boundaries with firewall policies, setting VLANs... You can later leverage the work into getting to separate who should be able to access what to migrate them to ZTNA... Sometimes though, the way forward is also simply blocked by other considerations. One that I often encounter is line-of-buisness applications having specific requirements that just aren't meant to work in a bleeding edge environment. Infrastructure as Code and orchestration are great ideas, and I totally agree that the ideal is that your servers are cattle, not pets. That if you login to a server to do installs and configs directly you're not being efficient. But all line-of-business apps I interact with require manual installation and configuration. Pretty much all LOB software sold to small/medium businesses is designed for pets, and so is a large portion of the software developed internally for these companies. So you get that company better prepared, you try to mitigate the inconvenience of pets by making the pets as easily replaceable as possible, but you'll hit a point where you just have to wait on the software to catch up. In the meantime, you prepare by learning how to take the next step in your lab.
pigeonburger
17d ago
I suppose one can contrive a scenario where a woman could have an elective abortion refused because her prior actions indicate the pregnancy was intentional. For instance, if she took active steps to restore her fertility not long before the pregnancy; not just forgetting to take a pill or not wearing a condom, but something like reversing a tubal ligation or removing an IUD without a medical justification.
I have to wonder how rare those scenarios are though.
Yeah, but I imagine they spent a significant amount of time in ports or around beaches. When the ship is anchored for a foreseeable amount of time, they would have had a chance to learn it.
I know that since most didn't learn it that it probably somehow made sense to them not to learn it anyway, but it's hard to explain from my perspective too. I learned as a kid and it felt pretty much effortless, but maybe it's harder for an adult to learn it. And it's not like it's very likely to save your life; from their point of view, it's likely if you fell in the drink it was in a situation where swimming wouldn't help much (ship just got sank, big storm). Maybe it'd mean additional dangerous tasks might be asked of you if your superiors find out you can swim.
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