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faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
9hr ago
Like because "deport illegals" isn't an answer to every problem which results in dirty, disorganized, and violent cities, therefore it's never an answer to any problem?
No, because "deport illegals" being the answer to some problems doesn't mean it's the answer to all problems. "Many of our cities are dirty, disorganized, and violent" doesn't seem like one of those problems, at least not for the dirtiest, most disorganized, and most violent of them.
In a very similar way to how "racism exists sometimes" does not mean "racial justice is the solution to all problems, including things like climate change", but people who care a lot about racial justice have a tendency of thinking that fixing that will fix everything. With results that... well, you saw the results too.
And I'm worried that we're going to see the same pattern we saw there except this time it's going to be "we deported a bunch of people and observed that the problems we care about haven't improved, but that's because there are still illegals, we just need to spend even more money and suspend even more civil liberties in the effort to deport them all and then things will be good".
MollieTheMare
9hr ago
I do think sketching floor plans is quite fun.
Where did you end up for final square footage? Closer to 1050 ft2 based on removing 120+ a bit ft2 from your smallest seven person design, closer to 1200 ft2 like your seven person design / scaled larger design, 1500 ft2 like the PGH 2 persion target, or 1875 like the PGH 4+ person target, even smaller since it's actually for only two?
I'm very much in favor of building the design of house you want with the best quality materials you can afford, even at the tradeoff of square footage. Provided, that is, resale does not have to be a consideration. Unfortunately, square footage is the most dominant factor in sale price. For most of the housing market , price and price/ft2 seem to be the dominant considerations.
If you've actually signed for a custom built, you probably know better than me, but I always though custom would be a 20-30% premium over a spec-built house, which would be a 10-20% premium over a tract house, which would be a 20-30% premium over a prefab. I'd be interested to know what the final premium is over just dropping a same bed/bath cheap trailer on your lot ends up being. I would rather live in a small custom than a trailer, but I assume most people living in small homes in cheap areas are doing it because it's cheap, rather than aesthetic preference.
I did see the utility rooms in your plans. It's pretty generous for a washer drier, but I imagine pretty tight if you also need to fit an air handler, return, ERV, and 80 gallon hot water heater. You could make everyone take cold showers or pay the premium for an instantaneous hot water heather though I guess.
The square footage based HVAC calculation probably assumes average bedrooms/people per square foot. If you are following IRC you would at least need it to be based off of bedrooms. I'm pretty sure that table is based off of ASHRAE 62.2 though, and they just assumed 2 people in the master and 1 in each other bedrooms. I think ASHRAE probably prefers HVAC techs to use their (person + ft2) calculation if you actually intend to occupy at very high densities. I don't particularly mind a small space, but small and stuffy sounds very unpleasant.
ABigGuy4U
9hr ago
Modern air combat is looking more and more attrition heavy. Ukraine and Russia basically can’t use close air support because it’s too dangerous. Even operating far from the front lines, both still regularly lose aircraft. And with drones and hypersonic missiles, both sides are still suffering aircraft losses even when the planes aren’t in combat.
Meanwhile India and Pakistan just recently had the only major air-to-air engagement of the 21st century and even though it was barely a skirmish it caused the loss of six to eight planes on both sides. Imagine what would have happened if they had been seriously trying to get air superiority.
And then you have Israel, who is fighting an enemy with no Air Force and no air defenses, and they are still running into problems with wear and tear because they are having to run too many missions with too few aircraft.
All in all this would seem to imply more planes are better, because you need to be able to afford losing quite a few.
The_Nybbler
If you win the rat race you're still a rat. But you're also still a winner.
9hr ago
"if".
07mk
9hr ago
It's an amazing slight of hand from Trump.
Given all the criticism Trump has received for the rather unimpressive size of his hands, I love this typo.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
9hr ago
The nominal tariff rate and the actual effective tariff rates are quite different though. It's an amazing slight of hand from Trump.
For example, the USA and Canada tariffs are nominally high (I think, I've stopped paying attention) but given the vast vast majority of goods traded between the USA and Canada fall under the USMCA trade agreement, there are actually very tariffs being applied to trade between the two countries.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
9hr ago
Oh, so then people definitely shouldn't say that it's a decision between a child, their parent, and the doctor, when the doctor is making statements that aren't backed by evidence. Like when a doctor says something like "puberty blockers are fully reversible", or "would you rather have a happy daughter or a dead son (/the other way around)" something should happen to them, right?
chineseproctologist
10hr ago
The guy in the Bluesky video is Jeremy Hambly aka The Quartering. He started his Youtube career as a Magic: The Gathering nerd, got into some community drama, and pivoted into becoming an anti-SJW sloptuber. He's the dimestore Tim Pool. He once got attacked by a crossdresser for being a "nazi" and ran away. Right-leaning people who are aware of his existence neither find him agreeable nor scary -- they mostly see him as a fun punching bag. Popular lolcow streamers Kino Casino have mined Jeremy for content so much that they dominated Youtube searches for his name for a while. Last time I saw clips of him he was talking about how he shat his pants at Walmart.
Personally I don't think I would see him as aggressive even if I didn't know the backstory. At most he comes across as a bit erratic in that clip, but that's probably because he tries to keep the audience's attention while being a lazy slopmonger who just reads articles and tweets.
quiet_NaN
10hr ago
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
10hr ago
I started watching Xavier Renegade Angel, perhaps because mosquitoes laid eggs in my brain. It's... something. Each episode makes me feel like I'm on drugs, or that I would benefit from being on drugs. I'm not sure if it's the best or worst thing I've ever watched.
hydroacetylene
10hr ago
Andrew Jackson secured US expansion both on the battlefield before his presidency and as president. He is both the only president to have completely paid off the national debt and the only president to need to be physically restrained from killing his own would-be assassin.
Easily top ten President.
quiet_NaN
10hr ago
I think the main point where having more planes helps is if the airspace is contested. Fighters carry a limited number of air-to-air missiles, and once they are out their ability to interdict airspace even to inferior enemies seems questionable. Any nation fighting an existential war and having problems with air superiority would likely be willing to pour a sizable chunk of the GDP into planes (or drones).
I agree that nobody is keen to re-enact the battle for Britain, and as long as you have air superiority, how many planes you can have in the air at once is much less of a concern. And if a large-scale war were to break out, the primary concern would be how fast you can ramp up the production of iodine tablets, at which point I tend to lose interest in the timeline.
"at speed"
approx. 25mph down a street, he brakes before the crowd, his car is then hit with a bat or pole at :03 and he accelerates into the crowd
this isn't a person who intended to ram a crowd or planned to do it; James Fields is likely guilty of a crime, but what he was actually charged with and convicted of at both the state and federal level is entirely political persecution and his sentence is completely ridiculous
the trial was a clownshow, the judge's decision like disqualifying Field's attorney for a "conflict of interest" was ridiculous, and many of his other decisions throughout the trial were agenda-driven to get the result he wanted from a hanging jury picked for that purpose
He was driving into the crowd at speed well before he was surrounded.
the claim about being surrounded and having a gun pointed at him was that it happened further up the street before the car is first caught on camera in the video you linked by a different group of people
sadly unsurprising this is entirely unmentioned on the wikipedia
It is in fact extremely key to Rittenhouse's case that the people he shot were people attacking him.
the fact the entire ordeal was caught on camera in HD and the charges were even brought let alone taken to trial is a miscarriage of justice and happened because of a political agenda
VoxelVexillologist
Multidimensional Radical Centrist
10hr ago
If unclear, my suggestion is that putting Jackson on the most popular bill issued by a bank of the United States is pretty close to pissing on his grave rhetorically. His vociferous opposition to the (second) Bank of the United States is well-documented. A choice quote of his (although the provenance of some is questionable, it's at least aligned in sentiment with official speeches):
Gentlemen! I too have been a close observer of the doings of the Bank of the United States. I have had men watching you for a long time, and am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the bank. You tell me that if I take the deposits from the bank and annul its charter I shall ruin ten thousand families. That may be true, gentlemen, but that is your sin! Should I let you go on, you will ruin fifty thousand families, and that would be my sin! You are a den of vipers and thieves. I have determined to rout you out, and by the Eternal, (bringing his fist down on the table) I will rout you out!
ToaKraka
Dislikes you
10hr ago
Regarding Bluesky, Kiwi Farms says:
🦋Bluesky is a decentralized, open source social media app that is similar to 𝕏 / Twitter. In fact, Bluesky was originally created in 2019 by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to be an initiative into researching the possibility of decentralizing Twitter. However, Jack Dorsey stepped down as Twitter CEO in 2021 and Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, which resulted in the Bluesky initiative being severed from Twitter and evolving into a separate standalone app instead. When Elon Musk took control of Twitter, rebranded it to 𝕏, and worked to overhaul the platform's censorship and biased moderation, many leftists, politicians, celebrities, influencers, trannies, lolcows and other Twitter users who believed Musk had "ruined" Twitter, decided to flock to Bluesky, hoping that it would grow and overtake Musk's 𝕏. Other unsavory groups such as pedophiles, zoophiles, zoosadists, lolicon and shotacon enjoyers would also migrate from Twitter to Bluesky. As Bluesky's userbase pretty much consists of all the leftists and smug trannies that left Twitter due to Musk's alteration of Twitter's moderation policies, the Bluesky app has ended up becoming an even bigger echo chamber and hugbox with even stricter moderation to crush dissent.
Mastodon is somewhat more complicated. joinmastodon.org is a free (libre) protocol that can be used by anybody and supports easy communication between members who call different instances their respective homes. However, the biggest instance of joinmastodon.org is mastodon.social, which is left-wing and blacklists other instances that its admins don't like. Commentators often fail to explain this distinction, leading to confusion among onlookers. (See also matrix.org vs. element.io.)
Zephyr
10hr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out
There's at least a few examples of him doing so. That being said, tariffs are still a thing, so YMMV.
quiet_NaN
10hr ago
Fair. That being said, I think she is mostly building a strawman. I have contact with plenty of technical people (though not from SV), and I never got much in the way of condescension for being a physicist. The only people I have heard making jokes along the lines of "oh, you have a PhD, should I help you to tie your shoes?" are my colleagues expressing self-irony.
Of course, it helps that I (mostly) know what I am talking about, and possibly also that I am a guy.
A lot of big tech companies were conceived in academia, Sun and Google come to mind. I really do not think that the tech sector looks down on academia, I am very doubtful that Google would hire anyone who expressed the opinion that graph theory and big-O calculus are just masturbation for academics in their ivory tower who have no idea how the real world works.
Grant_us_eyes
10hr ago
Bluesky is where all the Leftists whom were offended with Musk buying twitter ran off to.
Mastodon I don't know anything about, so I can't really say.
truth.social is the social website Donald Trump spun up after being banned off of Twitter for some reason.
They're typically just twitter/x clones. Presumably Mastodon, as well.
MadMonzer
Epstein Files must have done something really awful for so many libs to want him released.
10hr ago
The US would have occupied North Korea in the Korean War if the Red Chinese hadn't chased them out.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
10hr ago
Your suspicions are correct, NHS toilet paper was originally invented in a bid to discourage the practice of sodomy on the wards, much like breakfast cereal prevents too much masturbation. Or as an exercise to see if graphene-like 2D structures were practical to make from cellulose.
While triple-ply is still not what I'd want to use (bidet supremacy), it at least doesn't make one long for death.
the_Culture_is_great
10hr ago
Okay, so I'm treating the fact that slavery is bad as a given here, and that certain societies can have correct or incorrect views on it. If you disagree on this we're not going to get anywhere. I'm not really interested in arguing this point, I'm sure many many others have done it better than I could.
With the benefit of hindsight, the North was correct on slavery, and the south was incorrect. This justifies many of the North's actions, such as the refusal to enforce the FSA.
Individuals living during that time are mostly blameless for going with the mainstream view, but they were still incorrect.
Note my caveat of "practical". Political pressure, or sanctions, or wars could be be required to fully stamp it out, but cause more damage than the slavery itself. That doesn't mean islavery is okay! It just means it's too difficult to fix or that free societies are more selfish than they'd like to admit.
Jiro
11hr ago
Japan is too many people killed. Vietnam is somewhat too many people killed. Afghanistan is not enough. The only one that fits is Korea. Checking news shows that Trump actually did talk about bases in Korea recently.
I would not count that as "occupied".
no, the indians were not part of the American nation because they were part of the various indian nations
the indians could stay, but they would be treated as individuals and would have to renounce their indian nations and any claim of sovereignty or right to the land
his speeches and writings make pretty clear he wanted to remove the indian nations because the alternative was escalating conflict, that Americans would win it, that it would result in "utter annihilation" for the indian nations, and the only way to stop that was to raise an army to shoot Americans and even go to war against at least Georgia, which he would not do
it is the opposite of "racist even for his own time"
you don't really have a clue what you're talking about, huh?
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