Rivalarrival
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 hours ago:
Long ago, yes, but not by 1989.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 hours ago:
Agreed. Seems we’re losing the distinction between “one-to-many” (broadcast) and “one-to-one” (streaming) transmission models.
- Comment on kya 2 days ago:
Self defense is predicated on the “reasonable person” standard. Anyone finding themselves (or another) imperiled by what they reasonably believe to be a machine gun is justified in doing anything they reasonably believe necessary to end the threat.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 2 days ago:
So 20 miles per hour across 24 hours gets us a distance of 480 miles.
Going from Europe to the Americas by way of Scotland and Iceland is going to be a bit of a problem for that bird, as it can expect pretty consistent 10-20kt headwinds for the entire journey. America to Europe by that route is a comparatively easy trip.
I doubt that owls are capable of effective dynamic soaring, but that would drastically reduce the energy requirements.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 6 days ago:
They don’t need the cooperation of telecom providers. They receive the same signal you send to the cell tower. Even if the signal is encrypted so they can’t see what you are sending, they can identify that you are sending.
With enough receivers listening, they can identify your location to a pretty high accuracy.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 1 week ago:
Privacy policies are irrelevant here. They are picking up unique data as your phone communicates with a cell tower. You can do it with a $15 RTL-SDR receiver.
Get a hundred receivers and you can pinpoint anybody in a city.
- Comment on Finally I understand it 1 week ago:
Go back like generations, and see how many times people had to have fucked just to make you. 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16…
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 week ago:
30, you say? Ok doc. See you Wednesday.
- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
That might be the worst salute I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 week ago:
Some context might provide the distinction.
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Adam: "Jane told me that he licked her asshole."
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He never licked my asshole, and I never claimed that he did. Adam is lying about both parts.
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- Jane: “I never said he licked my asshole.” <-- He licked my asshole, but I never told anyone that he did. Adam learned about the asshole-licking from someone other than me.
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- Comment on Acetaminophen-American 1 week ago:
Saluting in the US, your hand should be rotated so that the palm of your hand is toward your own face. The person in front of you should be able to see the back of your hand, not your palm. Also, the tips of your fingers should be touching the outside corner of your eyebrow, or the outside corner of your glasses, or the corner of the brim of your cap. The middle of the forehead is right out.
- Comment on Say it slowly. 1 week ago:
I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone else said it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- I was accused of having said it; I’ve never said it. I never said he licked me asshole. <-- He licked my asshole, but I didn’t talk about it. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- Someone licked my asshole, but it wasn’t him. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He did something with my asshole, but it wasn’t licking. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked an asshole, just not mine. I never said he licked my asshole. <-- He licked some part of me, just not my asshole.
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Paracetamol" takes the “para” part, and then a few other random letters that don’t really make sence.
Because it actually comes from a different chemical name for the same compound: para-acetylaminophenol
- Comment on proof of wormholes 2 weeks ago:
Americans know “paracetamol” about as well as you apparently know “acetaminophen”.
They are the same compound.
“Paracetamol” is the generic term used in Europe and Australia. “Acetaminophen” is the generic term commonly used in the Americas.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 2 weeks ago:
I’m pro-abortion with few limited exceptions.
If you’re under 30 in today’s society, statistically, you are not economically prepared to adequately provide for a child. Choosing to have a child before 30 is tantamount to neglect, both of that child and of any future children you may decide to have.
All children deserve to be planned and prepared for. Finding yourself unexpectedly pregnant, the only reasonable decision is abortion.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 weeks ago:
A contradiction in terms.
- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 2 weeks ago:
I’m going to start putting those signs on public microwaves…
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 weeks ago:
Depends on how exactly it’s implemented, sure. That obviously isn’t the result I’d be looking for.
My point, though, is only that a “downvote” need not mean “hide this kind of post away from the general public”. A downvote can mean something more like “This pissed me off and more people should read it.”
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 weeks ago:
Communism/socialism requires some mechanism to compel cooperation with the collective’s objectives. The greater the degree of central planning, the greater the authoritarianism required to implement it. When you reach a level of centralization sufficient to justify the “communism” label, you’re well into the “authoritarian” quadrants.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 weeks ago:
Your position is reasonable if down votes are suppressive, but I wouldn’t develop a content algorithm that treated them as such.
I would use an “engagement” algorithm. Upvoting increases engagement, commenting increases engagement, down voting increases engagement, reporting increases engagement. The viewing time - the time between initially accessing it and viewing a new page - increases engagement.
The most suppressive thing you can do to a piece of content is click away in less than 20 seconds.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 3 weeks ago:
Indeed.
Unfortunately, no matter how well you tune your carburetor, just a change in atmospheric temperature is enough to throw off your mixture.
The only feasible way to adjust it fast enough to keep up with atmospheric changes is with some kind of fuel injection, an ECM, and an O2 sensor to provide the feedback needed for closed-loop mixture control.
Fortunately: speeduino.com
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 3 weeks ago:
Lean burning produces nitrous oxides.
Rich burning produces carbon monoxide, which eventually converts to CO2 in the atmosphere.
Unit for unit, NOx emissions are 265 times as damaging as CO/CO2.
…ucar.edu/…/some-greenhouse-gases-are-stronger-ot…
To successfully convert NOx, catalytic converters need a stoichiometric or slightly rich fuel/air mixture to the engine.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
The sine qua non of censorship is the authoritarian component missing from your definition. A moderator or administrator removing an article from a forum is censorship. A user demonstrating their disapproval of that article within the forum doesn’t qualify as censorship.
The Oxford definition is not wrong, just incomplete.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
That is not at all a reasonable definition of censorship.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 weeks ago:
It used to be that the best posts would have hundreds of upvotes and hundreds of down votes. They showed +100/-98 and you did mediately knew this was an interesting comment.
Then they stopped showing both up and down, and only showed the summation. 100 upvotes and 98 down votes is now +2, and this comment is now lurking among all the other +2 comments.
Showing the total instead of the ratio was the end of reddiquette, and the earliest Reddit enshittification that I can point to.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 3 weeks ago:
Nor can communism.
- Comment on Don't miss this Lunar event! 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clock logic 3 weeks ago:
Geometry.
The first clocks were sundials, which worked by putting a line on the ground. As soon as you comparing two different lines on the ground, you are doing geometry to represent time.
When you start messing around with geometry, you need an easy way to describe the angle of an equilateral triangle. 1/6th of a circle, or 1/3rd of a line. Trying to represent 1/3 or 1/6th in base 10 is fugly. Trying to divide a circle into 10 equal sections is just as fugly.
Dividing a circle into 6 equal sections is trivial: after you draw the circle with your compass, walk the compass around the perimeter. You have just inscribed a hexagon.
You’re still missing the angle of 1/4 of a circle: the angles of a square. Those are pretty important in geometry as well. It’s fairly trivial to draw another 6 points between the first 6 on your circle.
We use a 12-hour clock because of basic geometry. The 360-degree circle is the bastard child of basic geometry and a base-10 number system.
- Comment on Aged like milk 3 weeks ago:
Broken Clock.
