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ToaKraka
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2mo ago
IIRC, at least one browser (Brave) refuses to obey the "highlight this passage on the page" section of URLs due to privacy concerns.
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2mo ago
It's not such an easy to do thing as with breathalyzer
Civil court uses a preponderance-of-the-evidence standard, not the stricter beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard that criminal court requires. The plaintiff can call witnesses who observed the doctor's intoxication on the day of the harmful act, and the jury can convict on that basis, with no breathalyzer required.
What are those incredible positives this legalization brings to the society?
Victimless crimes that harm no one should not be crimes. This is not "a generalized argument for the legalization of anything".
What benefit will you have if your plumbers and doctors and teachers can go about their lives high as kites without any legal repercussion or stigma?
If a plumber, doctor, or teacher causes injury or damage due to being intoxicated on the job, he can be sued for negligence in civil court, even if the intoxicating substance (whether alcohol, marijuana, or some other drug) is legal.
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2mo ago
Non-glowing brain: " - "
Dimly-glowing brain: " -- "
Moderately-glowing brain: " – "
Brightly-glowing brain: "--"
Galaxy brain: "—"
But the motorists literally just stopped. They didn't even inch forward to either (1) scare the geese into either moving faster or turning around, or (2) run them over at speeds low enough to avoid damage to their cars.
Also, on the most recent occasion (just a few days ago): A westbound motorist had stopped for geese. I, going east, observed a gap in the formation of waddling birds and barreled straight through it at 25 miles per hour—and I distinctly heard the other motorist (a woman) shout "Fucking asshole!" at me as I passed. (The windows of both cars were open in the heat of the afternoon.)
So I think the motorists genuinely do care about the stupid geese.
ToaKraka
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2mo ago
Normies don't care about geese.
I wouldn't assume that. On multiple occasions, I have seen motorists stop in the road to allow geese to cross.
Non-glowing brain: Ten thousand dollars ($10k)
Slightly-glowing brain: Ten kilodollars (10 k$)
Galaxy brain: Two hex byte dollars (or two four kibidollars, |¦¦¦ ki$)
Inspired by @ThisIsSin's recent comment, but I have been using "kilodollar", "megadollar", et cetera for a while.
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2mo ago
There's a helpful Wikipedia page.
See also the Ballotpedia page.
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2mo ago
What's up with the separation of kitchen, dining, and living rooms? I strongly dislike it.
I personally like explicitly separating the different rooms. Even if zoning is bad, having individual blocks (not entire neighborhoods) dedicated to residential, commercial, industrial, and office uses still looks more elegant on the map of the city.
Is this how modern apartments/houses in the US are designed right now?
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2mo ago
Post the floor plan of your dream house!
Resources: International Residential Code, International Property Maintenance Code, International Zoning Code, accessibility code ICC A117.1
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2mo ago
According to Google Maps, the sailing distance is around 80 miles.
According to GURPS Low-Tech Companion 2:
In the ancient world, galleys on long journeys relied mainly on their sails, attaining a speed of about 5–7 mi/h with favorable winds or 2–3 mi/h with unfavorable ones. Fleets were much slower—partly because they had to keep together and partly because galleys needed sailing ships to carry supplies. A fleet could make 2.5–3.5 mi/h with favorable winds or about 1.5 mi/h with unfavorable ones. In an emergency, a trireme could sustain a pace of 10 mi/h for a full day under oars; a penteconter, 8 mi/h. This meant extremely hard labor for the oarsmen, however. Normally, they would row in shifts, with 1/3 of the rowers being enough to achieve 2/3 of the speed.
So the travel time could be anywhere from eight hours to fifty hours, depending on what your assumptions are.
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2mo ago
The Shadow of the Torturer has been on my shelf for a while. I need encouragement to pick it up again.
Personally, I enjoyed books 2 and 3 of that series more than books 1 and 4. But I am far from a cultured reader.
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2mo ago
decimal is definitely much more compact for doing math on paper
This concern is addressed in the article. In the author's opinion, comparing "1234" to "100 1101 0010" is unfair, and "|.. ||.| ..|." is comparable in compactness to "1234".
The two binary digits only need to be distinct from each other, not from eight other unused symbols. [Using 0 and 1 for binary] is the equivalent of using Chinese characters to write English, but by just picking twenty-six characters to substitute for Latin letters.
This shit is fucking ugly
Obligatory reminder that the reality of that photograph is significantly less objectionable
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2mo ago
My ass isn't 8 feet wide, you don't need to give me a full lane, just don't pass so close the breeze threatens to knock me over.
According to the AASHTO Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities: A bicyclist has actual width of 2.5 feet, minimum operating width of 4 feet, and preferred operating width of 5 feet. A shoulderless lane needs to be at least 14 feet wide for a motor vehicle to pass a cyclist with an "adequate and comfortable clearance" of 3 feet, without encroaching into the next lane.
According to the AASHTO Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets: Passenger cars are 7 feet wide, and trucks are 8 to 8.5 feet wide. The standard lane width is 12 feet, going down to a minimum of 9 feet on lower-volume roads.
There just isn't enough room.
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2mo ago
New law: A bicyclist is permitted to ride on sidewalks, but must dismount whenever a pedestrian is within a certain distance in front of him. (I don't know what a good distance would be. Maybe twenty feet (six meters).)
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2mo ago
Angela McArdle, in her second term as the chair of the [Libertarian National Committee] and from the Mises Caucus faction that did not want Oliver to win [the party's nomination], is a major public voice for the party. Oliver's victory was hard-fought and narrow, only beating "none of the above" with 60 percent on a seventh ballot. On various podcasts and videos posted to her X account since Oliver got the nomination, McArdle has made it clear her goal for the [Libertarian Party] this year is to ensure that Trump wins the presidency. She said in her endorsement video, "I endorse Chase Oliver as the best way to beat Joe Biden," while talking up promises Trump made to commute Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's sentence and put a libertarian in his cabinet. A party pamphlet being given out at FreedomFest this week contains two paragraphs of praise for Trump before mentioning Oliver; the thought behind this strategy is that by leveraging Libertarian voters' power strategically, it can ensure that a major party candidate wins who will, its proponents believe, achieve significant libertarian, if not Libertarian, goals.
Personal anecdote: When my grandfather (let's call him Alfred) unexpectedly died in a car crash at a relatively young age, the probate court split his house seven ways between his second wife Beatrice, the four children (Charles, Dorothy, Egbert, and my mother Francine) that he had with Beatrice, and the two children (Gerald and Henrietta) that he had with his first wife Irene. Francine told me that Gerald and Henrietta signed their shares over to Beatrice (who was left destitute due to Alfred's failure to buy life insurance). But, on a whim, I paid for a title search, and this alleged signing-over was never recorded at the clerk's office! Francine insists that the signed papers must be somewhere in Beatrice's possession. But, as things stand, the signed papers are missing, so Gerald and Henrietta seem perfectly entitled to claim shares in the house.
But that's just one anecdote.
Standard contracts from reputable sources are available if you look for them. For example:
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3mo ago
Associated Press: Kansas judge throws out machine gun possession charge, cites Second Amendment
A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment.
If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, including homemade automatic weapons that many police and prosecutors blame for fueling gun violence.
The actual opinion, however, paints a rather different picture.
To summarize, in this case, the government has not met its burden under Bruen and Rahimi to demonstrate through historical analogs that regulation of the weapons at issue in this case are consistent with the nation’s history of firearms regulation. Indeed, the government has barely tried to meet that burden.
Importantly, this decision says little about what the government might prove in some future case. Rather, under Bruen’s framework for evaluating Second Amendment challenges, it is the government’s burden to identify a historical analog to the restrictions challenged in this case. This the government has failed to do. The court expresses no opinion as to whether the government could, in some other case, meet its burden to show a historically analogous restriction that would justify [the ban on machine guns].
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3mo ago
It's my understanding that emulation of the GameCube and earlier consoles is essentially perfect, while emulation of the DS and later consoles is somewhat iffy but generally tolerable.
>>>/vg/emugen can answer questions as well.
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3mo ago
See also The Unincorporated Man, in which every person is "incorporated" at birth into tradable shares, of which the parents get 20 percent held jointly, the government gets 5 percent, the person cannot sell the last 25 percent (which is enough for him to support himself in this high-productivity future setting; the percentage might have to be higher in the present day), and the remaining 50 percent can be sold off to pay for education and other needs.
Punishing activities that harm no one is nothing but a waste of resources. When you want to deter negligent car crashes, punishing drunk driving separately just because it may lead to negligent car crashes is unnecessary.
Driving intoxicated: No victim
Hitting someone with your car while sober: Victim
Hitting someone with your car while intoxicated: Victim (extra penalties for negligence)
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