SteveKirk
1d ago
Can you confirm she's actually moving? That's the first suspicion I'd have.
Yeah, I only got dragged to the first film by gf fam, but at least in that one they... didn't seem to know what to make of some of the characters.
Guess I need to read the books again, because that name only sounds vaguely familiar. He was filching stuff from Sirius's house, right?
(Spoiler: he will not in fact read the books again)
Why don't you just ask her executor for a keepsake. I have my grandfather's planes and chisels, my uncle's t-square and plumbobs, a hand-knitted doll from my aunt, various knickknacks of my mother's, all better memorials than buying something at walmart. Especially with only half a mil in the brokerage account, not much room for extravagant spending.
The combinator witches have been complaining because the system doesn't expose a way for them to do it either, which is encouraging because those are the people with a direct line to the devs. Plus the spedrunners who are just as frustrated by it.
It's not the only half baked thing about the rocket logistics either. They had to quickly fix a frequent double launch bug, where stuff would get requested again after delivery.
You get the feeling from this and the dev log that a lot of stuff was being worked on (and fought over) right up until release day, like the last minute "better to ask forgiveness" change to the entire fluid system.
Typical "team expands, collaborative consensus management style fails to adapt" stuff.
SteveKirk
1d ago
Unless they've fixed it, a space platform asking for 2 inserters, 1 blue inserter and a combinator will get a full rocket load of each. And there's not a way to set the load with combinators.
"a math class aide repeatedly called B.W. 'Whitey'... A teacher asked him if he 'enjoyed his white gospel music', a teacher told B.W. 'i will not have a white man talk to me about gender issues!'"
But these were of course not based on race in any way, says the court. Fuck this clown country, it needs to burn, because there's nothing left to salvage. How many billion dollars would the payout be if a teacher asked a black kid "hey darkie, where'd you steal that bike?"
Yes, it's a ridiculous comparison. Just about every Republican politician will happily talk with coalition members about getting rid of DEI and disparate impact policies, even if they don't have a realistic plan or honest intention to do it.
Would Kamela Harris repeat the 14 words if Spencer asked her to? (unless he replaced "white" with "BIPOC" of course)
Why would you want to get rid of it? Keep it to run a gas burner in a power outage. I have half a dozen half-full camping bottles I use up whenever it's not worth dragging a 30lb tank around.
The fastest and cheapest way to solve that is making sure gas peaking plants weatherize their turbines and have a supply of alt-fuel on hand in case the natgas supply goes down, which is standard everywhere but Texas. Cap the surge prices paid to electricity suppliers who don't guarantee uptime in a disaster (and use the same system to cut prices paid to wind owners too, so they only get the base rate even if they're coincidentally selling power during a shortage)
Nuclear won't fix intermittent supply problems without changing most of the grid to it. Huge fixed cost, low running cost, not good for "filling in the gaps".
SteveKirk
2d ago
Be still my beating heart. Nuclear process heat would be a game changer if we can buy it from the Chinese.
Ironically it's not easy to export energy to the northeast because they banned everything from pipelines to ships to high voltage wires.
The Canadians basically have a monopoly on selling them energy because they can tap into the existing local grid without building anything new on the American side, take advantage of grandfathered pipelines, and legally deliver LNG due to the shipping being international rather than interstate.
SteveKirk
2d ago
Did you just cut out the backstrap, or do the whole thing? What cuts went to the grinder?
SteveKirk
2d ago
Also a big hint that the super-mega-hypersonic cruise missiles aren't actually in any state to be used as an actual threat. Correct escalation would have been blowing up the Ukrainian Congress building and saying "stop that", but obviously Russia can't.
SteveKirk
3d ago
The train logistics rework has changed things massively, and the new systems are going to be radically different and much fancier.
It's unfortunate the space logistics came out so half baked. I think that's going to get reworked, because a lot of high profile players have been complaining at talking to the devs about it.
Saying it in 2020 rather than once it became the safe party line, perhaps?
Because if they're only saying it now and actively worked against the conditions that led to them being comfortable saying it, you can safely conclude they will go right back to 2020 speaking-in-tongues academic leftism the second it becomes fashionable again. People quickly emboldened by circumstances can be deboldened just as easily.
Or at the very least, they'll go back to denying that it exists, they've never seen it personally at their job, you're paranoid and probably racist if you notice it because hit dogs holler. You know what and who I'm talking about.
For myself, I did make a list of good, trustworthy liberals who spoke out in 2020, who I will always trust to tell me the truth regardless of social pressure. Unfortunately it is much shorter than the other list.
Do you expect us to just forget Ezra Klein wanting leftist policy to generate a "haze of fear and confusion"? To make young men "feel a cold spike of fear"? When he hasn't even apologized for it, let alone been made to pay for his crimes and make restitution to the victims?
SteveKirk
3d ago
Probably a dodgy genealogy chart claiming they've been cracking heads for the malfoys since 1352, and a dubious claim on the family heraldry they put on everything. That sort.
SteveKirk
3d ago
I thought their house was described in that "not enough money to keep up the manor" state, and they were paying off servants or something. Maybe I was mixing that up with something else.
Between cheap gas, cheap solar, and limited grid interconnects, Texas is a weird place to be boosting nuclear because it can't possibly compete.
It's the north that needs it desperately, with $.60/kwh prices, banned pipelines, solar not working in winter, and the Jones act literally prohibiting coastal shipment of (relatively) cheap LNG.
SteveKirk
4d ago
I can't understand why shareholders don't insist on tying CEO pay to company performance, Musk-style. Does it reveal too much about the board's expectations for growth/decline?
Maybe it's a 4' band, although I'm not sure which one's worse.
Oh, Snape's wifebeating dad definitely was. His mom married down and Paid The Toll in American racial terms.
Unless he got a very good match Snape's children would have fallen out entirely, which is one reason him being in love with Lily in spite of his class anxiety was so meaningful.
Dursleys were middle class social climbers (the most universally despised class). weasels and malfoys were the two types of old money with no money (and fathers who had to stoop to taking govt sinecures as welfare, or in shady business with The Wrong Sort ("directly in business" being the most disreputable part of course)). Hermione was the acceptable kind of rising middle class (dentist, daughter in higher education, probably going into non-profit work). Harry was the ideal form of old money, with a good pedigree on the father's side, fresh blood of undeniable quality from the mother's side, and the money still there (and nobody asks where it came from because it obviously wasn't from anything as tasteless as working for it). Goblins were the international finance class obvs.
Harry is the classic storybook prince who grew up noble living in a pig pen and instantly takes to the ways of his people through pure blood memory.
I'm not sure we even saw anyone who was legitimately from the lower orders except a few parodies like hagrid and the house gnomes, maybe the bus driver? There was probably a scholarship boy hanging from a bannister by his underwear that nobody bothered to mention because it would be gauche to bring attention to it.
I love that Americans can look at the same scene through an entirely different colour spectrum, and all the flashing red bits just look gray to them.
Do you have one of those gradual brightening wake lights?
My system for winter mornings is having one of the bedside lights on a cheapo dial timer (the whole setup is dumpster loot for testing the concept). It works, but it's a bit too sudden a change in light level. Looking for something better.
The variable alarm apps that listen for you stirring are also very nice, since you won't be broken out of a deep sleep.
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