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7hr ago
See GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Treasures 1: Glittering Prizes for lots of guidance on using custom coins in TTRPG campaigns.
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7hr ago
Based. I have 700 hours in Nioh 1 and still haven't even started Nioh 2.
Associated Press, Reuters, ISW: Just a week after declaring independence, Yemen's Southern Transitional Council has lost its capital and dissolved.
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(1) What problems do browsers have with displaying images? It's my understanding that browser display of images has only been improving, with "lazy loading" specified in HTML and implemented in browsers.
(2) What do images have to do with my comment? I'm talking about emoji, not images.
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The money promised must be significantly more than what Denmark is currently providing
One article indicates that Denmark's current subsidies are a bit more than 10 k$ per person-year.
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Convince the locals to declare independence.
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources familiar with the matter.
While the exact dollar figure and logistics of any payment are unclear, U.S. officials, including White House aides, have discussed figures ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per person, said two of the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
The idea of directly paying residents of Greenland, an overseas territory of Denmark, offers one explanation of how the U.S. might attempt to "buy" the island of 57,000 people, despite authorities' insistence in Copenhagen and Nuuk that Greenland is not for sale.
One of the sources familiar with White House deliberations said the internal discussions regarding lump sum payments were not necessarily new. However, that person said, they had gotten more serious in recent days, and aides were entertaining higher values, with a $100,000-per-person payment—which would result in a total payment of almost $6 billion—a real possibility.
Among the possibilities being floated by Trump's aides, a White House official said on Tuesday, is trying to enter into a type of agreement with the island called a Compact of Free Association.
The precise details of COFA agreements—which have only ever been extended to the small island nations of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau—vary depending on the signatory. But the U.S. government typically provides many essential services, such as mail delivery and military protection. In exchange, the U.S. military operates freely in COFA countries, and trade with the U.S. is largely duty-free.
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Not-so-fun fact: All the little icons on this website are, not actual emoji characters, but private-use characters in custom fonts. For example, underneath a front-page post you see icons that look like this:
💬︎ 81 ⤢︎ View source 👁︎ Subscribe 💾︎ Save ⚑︎ Report
But that is just in appearance. In reality, each of those icons is a private-use character (inserted as a CSS pseudo-element, so it doesn't even really exist in the page and therefore can't be copied-and-pasted) that shows up as a blank box if you try to use it without the custom font—e. g., , "private-use-F4AD", instead of the proper "speech balloon" emoji. (For details, run searches for 'content:"\f', 'content: "\f', and "font awesome" in this file.) I guess modern web developers don't like Unicode, and prefer to retvrn to Wingdings.
The UN's official "degrees of urbanization":
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Rural area: Density < 300 per km2
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Semi-dense town: Density ≥ 300 per km2 and population ≥ 5000
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City: Density ≥ 1500 per km2 and population ≥ 50,000
The next step is obvious (another ×5 density and ×10 population).
- Mega-city: Density ≥ 7500 per km2 and population ≥ 500,000
From a glance at the downloadable dataset, using the very-roughly-equivalent criterion "density ≥ 7500 per km2 and area ≥ 67 km2" (which is all that I feel like figuring out in QGIS—I used the "reclassify by table" and "polygonize" tools):
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Mega-City One (393 km2) is the only US mega-city. Los Angeles (60) is not yet worthy of the title Mega-City Two.
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Mega-Ciudad Mexico is gigantic, at 673 km2. Guadalajara (152) and León (72) also qualify, but Monterrey (56) does not.
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If you keep going south, Tegucigalpa (92 km2) and Managua (86) qualify as mega-cities, but Panama City (53) does not.
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London, 316 km2; Paris, 344; Brussels, 67; Berlin, 88; Istanbul, 230; Cairo, 593; Beijing, 537; Tokyo, 1498; Jakarta, 1865; Lagos, 463; et cetera.
When you make a mistake on your US federal income-tax return, the IRS sends to you a letter telling you that you made a mistake and informing you of your new tax bill. In November, the president signed into law a bill that will require this letter to actually explain what mistake you made, rather than merely saying that a mistake exists and giving to you a new tax bill with no explanation of how it was recalculated.
Quotes from the committee report:
Each year, the IRS sends millions of "math error" notices to taxpayers that propose to adjust their tax liabilities. These math error notices often do not explain the reasons for the adjustments, and some are never received by the taxpayer due to lost mail.
With respect to the description of the math error adjustment, the IRS must include the type of error, the section of the Code to which the error relates, and the line on the return on which the error was made. In identifying the type of error, the notice may not rely on a list of multiple categories of math errors in the alternative. Instead, it must identify the specific type of math error authority relied upon for each specific error on the return.
The itemized computation of the adjustments must address all changes to any component of the computation of taxable income and tax liability or tax due. These items include adjusted gross income, taxable income, itemized or standard deductions, credits (whether or not refundable), losses, and other items specifically listed in the provision.
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Gold (lot of 100 troy ounces): 4500 dollars per troy ounce
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Platinum (lot of 50 troy ounces): 2300 dollars per troy ounce
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Silver (lot of 5000 troy ounces): 78 dollars per troy ounce
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Copper (lot of 25,000 kilograms): 5.9 dollars per pound (0.40 dollar per troy ounce)
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Aluminum (lot of 12.5 tons): 3100 dollars per ton (0.11 dollar per troy ounce)
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These prices are based on large lots. Individual copper coins (called "rounds", since they aren't minted by a government as currency) actually cost around 3 dollars per troy ounce (when they're in stock, which they are not at the time of writing—but they were a week ago).
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Iron is traded as raw ore (100 megagrams at 62-percent purity), and steel is traded as finished product (20 tons of hot-rolled coil), so those metals cannot be properly compared with the metals listed above.
I don't know the law, but there must be some limits on what the police can do to put themselves into dangerous situations.
This hasn't yet gotten a definitive answer from the courts.
We do not address here the different question [officer, defendant, appellee] Felix raises about use-of-force cases: whether or how an officer’s own “creation of a dangerous situation” factors into the reasonableness analysis. As in another of our recent Fourth Amendment cases, that issue is not properly before us. The courts below never confronted the issue, precisely because their inquiry was so time-bound. In looking at only the two seconds before the shot, they excluded from view any actions of the officer that allegedly created the danger necessitating deadly force. So, to use the obvious example, the courts below did not address the relevance, if any, of Felix stepping onto the doorsill of [suspect, plaintiff, appellant] Barnes’s car. And because they never considered that issue, it was not the basis of the petition for certiorari. The question presented to us was one of timing alone: whether to look only at the encounter’s final two seconds, or also to consider earlier events serving to put those seconds in context.
Of course, naturally a softening euphemism emerged: "consensual aggression".
See also CNC (consensual nonconsent).
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buried in a gigantic cluster of a thread
Protip: The best way to browse this website is through the "firehose" all-comments page.
Hamtrack style takeover
what is this referencing?
Hamtramck, Michigan, has been in the news a lot for having been taken over by Muslims. One article of many:
A Detroit-area community has banned LGBTQ+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles after a tense hourslong meeting that raised questions about discrimination, religion and the city’s reputation for welcoming newcomers.
Some members of the all-Muslim council said the pride flag clashes with the beliefs of some members of their faith. Businesses and residents aren’t prohibited from displaying a pride flag on their own property.
Hamtramck, population 27,000, is an enclave surrounded by Detroit. More than 40% of residents were born in other countries [and 70 percent speak a language other than English at home], according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and a significant share are of Yemeni or Bangladeshi descent.
The council voted unanimously to display only five flags, including the American flag, the Michigan flag and one that represents the native countries of immigrant residents.
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Refreshing the new-comment feed is a perfectly normal way to browse this forum.
I wasn't really thinking too deeply when I originally came up with the username fifteen years ago, but I guess it would be reasonable to imagine that "Toa Kraka" is a male Krahka (not affiliated with an element) who has sufficient mental discipline to wear Kanohi and therefore is considered an honorary member of his local Toa team (perhaps wearing a Great Mask of Fire, which is confirmed to be possible but was never actually shown in canon).
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Example legal wording from a cursory search:
The relevant provision of the sentencing guidelines provides:
(1) An offender has possessed a deadly weapon if any of the following were on the offender’s person or within his immediate physical control:
(i) Any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or
(ii) Any dangerous weapon [including a knife], or
(iii) Any device, implement, or instrumentality designed as a weapon or capable of producing death or serious bodily injury where the court determines that the defendant intended to use the weapon to threaten or injure another individual.
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2d ago
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I'm a Bionicle or a volcano, not a living island. >:-(
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Relevant Supreme Court decisions:
This case requires us to determine the constitutionality of the use of deadly force to prevent the escape of an apparently unarmed suspected felon. We conclude that such force may not be used unless it is necessary to prevent the escape and the officer has probable cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury to the officer or others.
The "reasonableness" of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. The Fourth Amendment is not violated by an arrest based on probable cause, even though the wrong person is arrested, nor by the mistaken execution of a valid search warrant on the wrong premises. With respect to a claim of excessive force, the same standard of reasonableness at the moment applies: "Not every push or shove, even if it may later seem unnecessary in the peace of a judge's chambers", violates the Fourth Amendment. The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.
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Left-wing extremists from the Vulkangruppe (Volcano Group) had claimed responsibility for the power outage, claiming in a statement on Sunday that it had "successfully sabotaged" a power station.
In the statement, the group said its main target was the fossil fuel industry, pointing out that the action "resulted in power outages in the more affluent districts of Wannsee, Zehlendorf and Nikolassee."
"We apologize to the less affluent residents of southwest Berlin," the group added.
In a letter posted on website kontrapolis.info, [Vulkangruppe Tesla Abschalten] said destroying Tesla was "a step on the path to liberation from patriarchy".
So I don't think so.
Technically, yes. But as a shell of its former self, with its former admin having committed suicide.
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2d ago
This comment may be more applicable to state-government employees than to federal-government employees.
Employees of my state government definitely have low wages in comparison to private industry. Resignations for higher-paying non-government jobs were continual during my time there. I saw multiple highly-regarded employees, including one person who was widely considered a shoo-in for future director of my entire department, leave for private industry.
Pension is 1/100 of salary per year of tenure for federal workers (based on contributions of 4.4 percent of salary—Amadan's figure of 6 percent appears to be incorrect), but 1/60 of salary per year of tenure (two-thirds higher than federal government) for employees of my state government (based on contributions of 7.5 percent of salary).
They definitely have stable employment. I am ignorant of the details of the health-insurance situation.
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2d ago
I am referring to witches who overwhelm the moderators with low-quality posting and thereby indirectly force the moderators to increase and dilute their own ranks (assuming that the moderators are the true defining core of the community), not witches who are racist.
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3d ago
growth
t. wants the site to be flooded by seven zillion witches
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It is, but it's also a confusing non-sequitur, since the previous discussion was of a car's bumping a pedestrian, not a fender bender between two cars.
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