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pigeonburger
6m ago
"loose bulk will shift during flight and create dangerous center-of-gravity,"
Actually, I saw something about how dangerous it is for ships, I imagine it's similar issues for planes.
Browser
11m ago
Christian, non-violent, tragically shot. I might not agree with everything he wished for but it'd be impolite not to memorialize him
crushedoranges
Can Marx explain the used panties market?
17m ago
Women often overreact.
But in Shoe's case, I think she's right to do so, in that social media influencers - especially political ones - receive death threats on a daily, perhaps hourly basis. You develop a thick skin for such things - you have to, if you want to keep your sanity - but even a slight increase in the probability of the threats being carried through suddenly gives that torrent a terrifying valence.
She has a child, and a husband, that she very much does not want to leave, and I think she is deserving of sympathy. The fact that Kirk was young and similarly at the beginning of starting a family makes it personal to her. Women are empathetic in that way.
AnonymousActuary
23m ago
See I think words of radiance might be my favorite but the end of way if kings is wonderful.
I do love the see with Adolin in the Sadeas camp... And Adolin in general. What a baller.
EverythingIsFine
Well, is eventually fine
24m ago
It’s a mean joke, I didn’t find it funny, but it absolutely is a joke. I’m not gonna go down that route and analyze it in depth unless I have to, but it follows enough of the rules of comedy that it counts, with the cadence I described. Much of comedy tiptoes a line of meanness, that’s not really new. To me a joke can be insulting, the two are not mutually exclusive at all.
Supah_Schmendrick
24m ago
But this has been the case for at least ten years, and the so-called "fascists" remained remarkably unshot until about a week ago.
Ehhhhhhhh...
"Opposing Obamacare is Killing People!" -> Congresional Baseball shooting where, but for the grace of God and Hodgkinson's bad aim, a nontrivial part of the GOP congressional caucus could have been killed.
"Opposing BLM/supporting Trump is fascist!" -> Killing of Aaron Danielson, the kidnapping and torture of a white mentally-disabled person (incidentally, I just found out when digging this back up that the animals who did this all got less than 10 years in prison and one only got 4 years' probation and 200 hours of community service, and I'm horrified all over again), and having a philosophy professor bash your head with a bike lock.
"Right-wingers should be killed!" -> Killing of Cayler Ellison
And that's just the obvious cases that actually made the media - there's plenty more attempts and foiled plots, including the two attempt on Trump during the 2020 campaign, the wacko who flew out from California to try and kill Justice Kavanaugh, the "Ruth Sent Us" firebombings, BLM riots, etc.
It's not like it's all been sunshine and roses out there.
daguerrean
52m ago
My neighbor's youngest, older than my oldest but close, started public pre-K this month as a boy and came back this week a girl. The mother of the family seems to think the school knows best
I have nothing meaningful to add. This is just so insane to me, it is hard to believe we ended up here and normal functional people are just accepting this
daguerrean
1hr ago
His videos were fine when they were twenty minutes long, but as they grew to one or two hours I lost interest. They just became obsessive recountings of every change to the record over time. “But then, in June 2017, a Canadian runner named MisterPoop69 did the impossible and had this run…” which proceeds to shave maybe half a second off the record and will subsequently be beaten one week later.
In his obsession to accurately detail every change to the record he neglects to tell any kind of story at all and he buries the interesting parts in two hours of meaningless microimprovements.
He is more or less unwatchable to me these days
MathWizard
Good things are good
1hr ago
I've never perceived the Socratic dialogue to have much of a point at all. It's mostly one of the following (or a combination), depending on how kind we are being to the writer:
1: Attempting to get away with strawmanning an opponent by presenting someone who starts disagreeing with you but then immediately caves and agrees with all of your counterarguments as soon as you present them.
2: Attempting to leverage pathos to trick the audience into agreeing with you more than your logical arguments alone would by building them a character who starts in their position (opposition or ignorance) and build empathy with them before the character switches to agreeing with you (causing the audience who identifies with them to subconsciously follow suit).
3: Trying to explain something in a way that's less boring than a monologue, by simulating characters and counterpoints and a skeleton of a narrative to the explanation so the explanation is presented in a more engaging way.
Theoretically if your characters are intelligent and aren't just strawmen meant to prop up the MC in the most shallow way this can work, but basically the only example I've ever seen of something like this is in some of Scott Alexander's works. The vast majority, including and especially the classics like this one, are shallow and pointless.
AvocadoPanic
1hr ago
No. He was shot and killed by his girlfriend during a domestic dispute Halloween night in '89.
Then let some UN or NGOs do it.
Yes, let the organizations that are actively trying to secure a Hamas win distribute food. That'll definitely fix the problem.
An explicitly pro-Israel NGO doing it would have better results, because they will genuinely attempt to make sure that does not occur, but their work would be frustrated because of (and by) the above.
ThisIsSin
PC is for progressive-conservative
1hr ago
I believe this is a social contagion
But not an organic one. That one's pretty obviously top-down. That'll teach him to get along with the girls and choose the dollhouse or toy stove over the blocks and trucks in centers, I guess- or at least, it'll certainly teach him how idiot adults see those things. Certainly an important lesson, best learned early.
What the hell do I do?
Nothing, or however you'd nominally handle the general form of "but his mom lets him X and Y" if and when your kid asks why he can't be a girl too. Your way of doing that may be productive, or it may not, but that's up to you.
As for "what's he called today?", well, you'll likely be sorting that out with him directly (as will your kids, in their own way). I'm sure you have enough social grace to figure out how to confirm someone's name if you forgot. Preferably when there's nobody to answer that question for him present, of course.
I also believe that kids emulate each other.
Ah, but kids also question each other, especially if it's about something particularly unusual. You might not find the answers to those questions satisfactory, but I assure you they do eventually get asked.
CrispyFriedBarnacles
1hr ago
Maybe some day... although I'm trying not to overshare too much here. A lot of the experiences were really specific, and interesting in large part because of how specific they were - I had a lot of "in the right place at the right time" in my 20s in addition to putting in a ton of hard work.
I have to say, We’re Finally Landing gives the MST3K credits song a run for coziest theme. I’ve woken up to both after nodding off many a time.
So yeah, love me some Summoning Salt videos; his stuff is, for my money, some of the best “videos to fall asleep to” content out there. Really nails that sweet spot of engaging enough to prevent your mind from racing/wandering (which I struggle with), but low stakes and “cozy” enough that it doesn’t really keep you up. Video melatonin, like lazy afternoon Golf broadcasts for the YouTube generation.
That said, on the occasion that I am watching not before bed and/or legitimately interested in the game being discussed, I will admit I generally watch his videos at 1.5x speed. He has a very, say, deliberate, delivery.
Nevertheless, it is possible for one people to actually oppress another. Palestinians don't get to jury-vote their coethnics out of crimes in Israeli courts, there is/was no Palestinian president of Israel... they're actually being oppressed.
Sure, but why? Because they’ve engaged in a (so far) futile decades-long campaign to reverse the Jewish settlement of the levant that eventually angered the settlers enough that they imposed a series of escalating forms of oppression on them. Losing East Jerusalem, much of the West Bank, various other territories was the direct consequence of losing wars (just as it was for the Native Americans) many times in a row. The walls and checkpoints that prevent many Palestinians from living and working in Israel were likewise erected solely in response to terror attacks on Israeli civilians committed by these people and in their name. At every juncture, the noose tightened slowly because the Palestinians did not admit defeat and surrender, culturally and militarily, which is the route to survival for any conquered people.
Native Americans have reservations and affirmative action, sure, but many live on territory far removed from their ancestral homeland due to the westward forced migrations of the 19th century, and in total they have only a tiny percentage of their historical holdings (obviously), far less proportionally than the Palestinians have. Much of the Indian welfare and casino apparatus also only came into being a century or more after the great majority of the country was ethnically cleansed of most or all of its native population, so Israel has time yet.
Many on this forum are too accustomed to dismissing racism and oppression. Most of the time, the concept is used inappropriately. Blacks in America receive all kinds of special privileges, the US media and govt tries to sweep black anti-white terror attacks under the rug.
There has been no effective organized black nationalist movement in American history, and the last ineffective one fizzled out in the 1970s. Crime stats are one thing (almost no black-on-white crime is ‘terrorism’, that ascribes a political and ideological aspiration to the perpetrators that, as mentioned, they just don’t have), 300 armed and trained black men aren’t invading the country club to slaughter the men and rape the women as part of a race war against whites designed to drive them back to Europe, that isn’t something that happens in America.
There is a world in which the Palestinians accepted the reasonable 1967 borders (after already losing to Israel twice), kept a substantial proportion of their land, fortified their borders with the help of their Arab neighbors (such that no settlers would be coming in) and set up a relatively peaceful coexistence with Israel. As they did before and after, they chose otherwise. Gaza would not have been destroyed if Hamas hadn’t gambled on Hezbollah and West Bank Palestinians successfully joining a huge uprising on October 7th.
The Arabs are actually oppressed, certainly. But they are oppressed because they have continued to make very bad decisions in service of their pride over their comfort, liberty and life for so many years and show no sign of stopping. They had options and still do, if worse ones.
KMC
2hr ago
Prose seemed fine, although difficult to judge because I was reading in Spanish.
What was the glyph Navani painted, and what is unit of value in the climactic trade?
The reason I love the book so much is because of those scenes, starting from when we see Syl full size.
I don't think he's written a better book since, but he's written plenty of good ones.
I actually haven't played much Victoria 3 either—I've just made mods and observed what the AI-controlled countries do with them in "hands-off" campaigns. But, from watching YouTubers play Victoria 3, I imagine that adding sea access to the interiors of North America and Europe would significantly increase those regions' economic output by alleviating infrastructure bottlenecks that otherwise cannot be overcome until railroads are constructed and expensively (due to the high cost of engines) maintained.
In the vanilla game, these navigable inland water bodies are represented with a flat +15 or +20 bonus to infrastructure. This is equivalent to getting a blockade-immune level 5 or level 7 port building for free, which IMO is a bit extreme.
Which, I'd guess, is also why when state politician #586 is killed, the resolution honouring her and condemning the killings gets passed unanimously. No toxoplasma.
I think a literal palletload of MREs dropped out of a C130 has a pretty high chance of being an accidental kinetic weapon. Probably possible to do a bit better though.
I was thinking more hot-glue two packs to a stick and see if you can get them to airfoil like a maple-seed, or even just dump the packs out loose from, say, 200 feet up. I've never seen one of these packs, I'm going off handling MRE packs before, which were relatively light and packaged in very tough plastic.
My assumption is that Israel is absolutely trying to put food pressure on Gaza; I think there was a link in the international thread that 10% of the gazan population is now dead, and I would expect that number to increase significantly before this is over.
wemptronics
2hr ago
Very cool, is he still with us? Get'em on here! (But probably Friday Fun not on my Gaza polluted post)
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2hr ago
I think a literal palletload of MREs dropped out of a C130 has a pretty high chance of being an accidental kinetic weapon. Probably possible to do a bit better though.
Part of it, though, is that helicopters are just not that expensive in the grand scheme of things - I see $2400 / ton from the World Food Program for their program of doing very similar airdrops of food over South Sudan.
And yeah beans and rice are cheaper, but even if you cut the cost of the food itself to $0 you still need to ship about 1-1.5kg / person / day, which works out to 1M metric tons / year of food. At that point the cost of delivering the food by air is the strong limiting constraint.
Israel has already spent $30B on this war, so if getting costs down by 10x really is viable I am even more confused why they haven't done it, absent the obvious explanation of "they really are trying to put food pressure on Gaza".
vorpa-glavo
2hr ago
But honestly, the best comparison is probably MLK as there are few instances to choose from. Would you hold a moment of silence for him?
I think the issue is that most of us, Left, Right or Radical Centrist, grew up in a world where we were told MLK was basically a saint our whole lives. It's trivial for somebody with that background to say they'd hold a moment of silence for him in 2025.
We're in a very different position from the people in 1963 who were watching things like the March on Washington with fresh eyes, and who might have validly feared that 250,000 black people marching on the nation's capitol was an implicit threat to anglo-American culture and values at the time, and not just in a straightforwardly racist or xenophobic way. Even if MLK himself was intentionally non-violent, I think a lot of people living through his rise to prominence were scared of the downstream effects of what he was advocating for.
The question of holding a moment of silence for him in 1968 would have been in a vastly different political context than asking the same question today.
Yeah -- did the, um, repair shop try replacing the fan at all? I could see just blowing it out on the first visit, but they cost like ten bucks -- just throw one in and see is what I'd do, but @striker gattsuru's test plan sounds good if you can make it buzz with the case off.
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