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20d ago
Pilot suicides might be less bad than ramming attacks... but it's an open question about whether they are less common, or if the security doors enable more suicides-with-all-aboard than they do mitigate ramming attacks.
They are much more common but the right comparison would be between pilot suicides and ramming attacks if the latter was still possible. But the safety doors don't really matter for pilot suicides, they happened just as much before and logically you don't need a long time to crash a plane. You couldn't do it the way the germanwings guy did it but the SilkAir way would still work.
References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_by_pilot#By_pilots_in_control_of_whole_flight
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20d ago
Roe v. Wade was a decision of the supreme court, not a law. They decided that it was not appropriate for them to make such a decision, therefore returning the issue to individual states.
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26d ago
It was already slop. I still can't understand to this day how they managed to spend this much money on what was essentially a less interesting Bioshock at every level. Especially after they managed to make 2 so good.
It was endlessly rewritten during production, with ideas being constantly implemented only to be scrapped because Ken Levine kept changing his mind. I'm pretty sure it's been talked about extensively, but I don't remember where.
You can even tell from the finished product, how the story doesn't make much sense in many points and how even the powers of Elizabeth are inconsistent (the first time you meet her she's opening a portal to another town but later she's only able to open portals to alternate dimensions of the place she's in).
Pretty common failure mode.
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1mo ago
The Waymo in California thing is such a small experiment and the upside of fudging with it is so high that if it turned out in 5 years that actually it was mostly indians in a warehouse doing the driving I wouldn't even be surprised
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1mo ago
I think it bears asking the question how exactly average Blue Tribe normies believe Trump’s political ascendancy could have been averted, assuming it wasn’t some inevitable turn of events
I don't know about the blue tribe normie but if we're doing alt history I vote for not doing the mail-in strat in 2020. Without it Trump would have eeked out a meager victory in 2020: Trump 1 was lame and an immediately consecutive second term, with Pence VP and no Musk would have been much of the same if not even worse.
The post-covid immigration surge would have been smaller because of Trump and the post-covid inflation would also have been smaller because the war in Ukraine would have probably ended through diplomatic means 2 months in. Nevertheless with no immigration platform and a bad economy whoever would have run as a republican candidate in 2024 (Pence? De Santis?) would have lost badly, possibly historically so. And the dem republican would have not been Biden, possibly more radical and capable of running whatever agenda they had for 8 years (or more!) uninterrupted.
Second best would be picking a different date as the presidential debate in 2024. Had Biden not been sunsetting that one fateful day his poll numbers wouldn't have crashed, there wouldn't have been an assassination attempt on Trump and he could have won with a small margin. Then in 2028 Trump would probably have been too old to run again. It really was just a little bit of bad luck.
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1mo ago
For example, kayaking doesn't seem to have any immediate 'practical use', but I can tell you with full confidence that it's a much better hobby than playing Donkey Kong Racing on repeat.
At this point many speedrunners are living off of it, so it's more like a career path.
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2mo ago
There is something different going on with China, either it's much harder to translate or the output is just much worse
The chinese government was heavily censorious for a long time, maybe it still is. It doesn't necessarily have an effect on quality but in practice it does. Look at US cultural output, ever since the creative milieu has gone censorious, as a grass roots effort, the quality of its production has fallen off a cliff.
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2mo ago
did the transgender opera in Columbia like, actually happen?
It did, it was "As One" it was performed three times in Bogotá on march 16th, april 22nd and april 28th of 2022, in three different theaters. It was even announced on X (then twitter): https://x.com/OLA_opera/status/1501640790988275721
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2mo ago
I dunno: it may include the morbidly obese, but also the senior citizen health nuts
The point is that a lot of people who die each year already look like they are about to die and Trump doesn't.
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2mo ago
In German, "der Hund" is masculine while "die Katze" is feminine, in French "chien" is masculine while "chat" is...
Whenever you are tempted to interpret grammatical gender as meaningful remember that in spanish pussy (coño) is male and cock (polla) is female.
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3mo ago
It was a late 1980s/early 1990s comic that touched on transsexuality
I wonder if someone's going to dig up that one issue of the sandman with the transexual to cancel him. I haven't read it in 15 years but if I recall correctly it had something along the lines of "moon magic won't work for you, YWNBAW".
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3mo ago
Did you mean day 9 part 2 where you wrote day 6 part 2? The code for day 9 part 2 was very slow because it did a loop with decreasing file ids, for each file id it scanned the array to find where the file id was, did a second scan to find an empty spot and then actually moved the file.
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4mo ago
How good are these solutions? I find that they seem quite easy to solve (I have only looked at a few of the problems so far though!), but that memory and time-efficient solutions take a bit more thinking and coding
Aside from day 9, which was bad, I haven't noticed anything. I don't recall any problem this year, aside from day 9, which was solvable with a suboptimal solution. As far as microoptimization go: I asked it to write python, so they were all shit, couldn't be better.
Something which surprised me here is that the outputs weren't too long for chatGPT. I have never tried giving it the full input as I simply expected it to be too many tokens
I'm not sure what you mean that the outputs are too long. But I didn't give the full input to ChatGPT, I did give it to Claude as an attachment.
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4mo ago
Israel exists because the US pays for its existence, if support from the US wanes sooner or later Israel will be overwhelmed by its hostile neighbors.
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4mo ago
Fahrenheit has more reasonable degrees within human comfort zones to accurately describe the temperature so I think it is superior to Celsius.
The human mind can in fact adapt to 40 as "very hot" and "0" as cold instead of 100 = very hot and 32 = cold.
Important clothing decisions might depend simply on whether the temp on the weather app shows up in red or blue.
The point where numbers become blue is in fact completely arbitrary.
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4mo ago
And yet, 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 6 picas into an inch, 12 inches into a foot, 3 feet into a yard, 1760 yards into a mile and 3 miles into a league. But you will be pleased to know that you can, in fact, ask for half of a liter or a quarter of a liter if you like fractions (and many fraction lovers do just that).
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4mo ago
Ironically, these are the same people who tend to be fans of SI (popularly "the metric system").
I think opinions on DST vary a lot among fans of SI given that includes almost everyone on earth except citizens of the united states, the united kingdom and aviators.
Oh, so now you want to preserve a human-centric unit (like every system of measurement did before SI, metric or not) now that it affects you
There's nothing less human-centric about the SI the meter is just a standardization of the toise (also known as fathom, klafter and many other names), a measurement approximating the distance covered by a human's outstretched arms. If you wanted a unit of measure that wasn't human based you would invent something like the nautical mile, not the meter.
The other argument people make along these lines is about units of temperature but firstly nobody actually uses the Kelvin outside of scientific papers and is brine really a more human substance than distilled water?
Besides length and temperature nobody ever talks about anything else. Nobody ever argues that the pound is more human because the roman libra just exists in nature but the french bushel, precursor of the liter is an inhuman monstrosity. Or that the inch of mecruy just gives them a better intuitive understanding of pressure than the hectopascal.
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5mo ago
Also she does that stupid zoomer not using capital letters thing even though she's a millennial. Very annoying.
Not using capital letters is also an old internet thing. Jerry Yang, the old CEO of yahoo was famous for it.
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5mo ago
It's because conservatives live in rural areas, close to their extended families from which they receive millions of dollars in free child care.
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5mo ago
Another interesting example of high birth rates in non-African countries are central Asian countries like Mongolia and Kazakhstan. These countries seem to have been able to reverse, and not just slow down birth rate decline
Kazakhstan fertility rate is declining. You are thinking of Mongolia and Georgia. I already talked about them two months ago they are very unusual countries and the reversal in TFR is probably just a fluke.
The reason for the fertility rate decline is simple: the cost of children greatly outpaced growth in wealth for various reason deeply rooted in how modern western societies are organized. It can't be fixed without some deep changes nobody is willing or capable of making. Telling people something is high status doesn't work, you actually have to make them perceive the high status and in a capitalist society high status roughly correlates with more disposable income, therefore you either have to abandon capitalism or shower parents with so much money that having a child is a cash positive decision at any level of income.
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5mo ago
I did look into some of those:
Stock market hits record high Bitcoin hits record high EU will buy U.S. gas not Russian gas Zelenskyy phones Trump & Elon
These are true.
Hamas calls for end to war
This is true but highly misleading, they want Israel to surrender, basically.
Qatar kicks out Hamas leaders
This is unclear, Israel says they did, Qatar says they didn't.
China wants to work peacefully with us
This is true but they say it after every election.
No. The conclave system is designed to insure political continuity: cardinals can be made and undone by the pope at will and Bergoglio took full advantage of this, of the 135 cardinal electors that will participate to the next conclave only 17 were not invested by Bergoglio.
The reason for the crackdown on the latin mass is that a lot of congregation that practice it are borderline scismatic, see also thinking that Vatican II is in any way in question.
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