36934 pts · April 14, 2015
For instance, on my GDQ Reviewed Slow site, there's ?m= in the URL to track which event you're looking at, so it's ?m=agdq2026 to see the last one, ?m=sgdq2025 to see the one before that, or ?m=everything to load all of them at once. If you take that out, the page loads to a "pick an event" menu, since it doesn't know which one you're trying to view.
A lot of missile combat, especially pre-industrial, is less about aimed attacks on specific targets and more "shoot a bunch in the area of the enemy, it'll impede them, cause some wounds and maybe kill a few". If you're riding into a cloud of arrows not aimed at you but just aimed at your whole formation, having partial armor or even just a shield will block enough to be worthwhile.
I'd prefer to live a life where I get to eulogize him.
So first you accuse me of being on the verge of mental breakdown, based on a tone you entirely projected. Now you accuse me of being some sort of bad-faith troll, based on pedantry about using quotation marks for paraphrase.Amazing that you have the time and energy to rant like this, but expecting anyone to spare a few seconds to tag their post correctly is unthinkable to you. Maybe while you're offline touching grass for the next four months, you can pull that stick out your ass?
I did not say they should not post them. They absolutely *should* post them. I just want them to correctly tag those posts. The same way you give a spoiler warning before you discuss the big twist, or a phobia warning before you show trypophobia stuff.And to support that argument, I did not say "I need to be coddled and protected", I said "doing this demoralizes some of the best people on your side". It is as much an argument of tactical efficacy as it is about feelings.
So you're diagnosing me as completely abnormal and in need of multiple months of recuperation, based on... a few annoyed comments?You have no idea what my mental state is. All you know is that I disagree with you. Apparently that's enough to make me borderline insane? Or is "go touch grass for months" what you fall back to when you have no way to address the *actual* *points* I made?
"The internet is designed to make you feel bad by giving you no control over what you see!" says the person arguing against using the tools built to control what you see.Driving every anti-fascist person off the internet is not a good outcome for the anti-fascist movement. "Log off for however many months it takes to become apathetic" is frankly terrible advice.
If all the horny posters can properly add tags for Bunday and Redhead Monday and Latex Wednesdays and whatever else they've come up with, the politics posters can tag their posts.I'm not demanding everyone else be responsible for my mental state, I'm not asking people to stop posting anything. I'm asking you to not *deliberately ignore* the tools that have been made so people can be responsible *for themselves*.And I'm pointing out that this behavior *directly hurts the cause*.
This is also why people need to TAG THEIR POLITICS POSTS. Because part of not giving up is knowing when you, personally, need to take a step back and rest, so you can be ready for the next fight. This is a war, not a battle - nobody can be on every front line.You may think that it's justified, to get your message in front of people who blocked politics because they're apathetic. The problem is, you also demoralize people who have been fighting the hardest. I don't think that's worth it.
So you're just completely ignoring my actual point, then?
And your post betrays a further lack of knowledge, with an aftertaste of dunning-krueger. Most pre-christian religions consider their rules to be correct, but *you* breaking them is only going to cause problems for *you* and perhaps those nearby. Or consider judaism, which has some rules god told everyone to follow ("no cannibalism") but others he only told his chosen people to follow ("no eating cud-chewing land animals unless they also have cloven hoofs").
It's not that odd. There's a big high pressure cell pushing eastward, into a low-pressure area, and along the border you get thunderstorms and strong, chaotic wind. This one's pretty strong, I think it caused tornadoes farther west, but it's a typical US weather pattern. It's early in the year for it, but that can be chalked up to global warming.
Notice how the saw seemed to get and stuck, while cutting on the side they didn't want it falling towards? That happens bc the tree is already leaning that way, as you cut away it bites down on the blade and jams it. It can be hard to tell from looking* which direction it's actually leaning, but seeing that should be a big red warning sign that the tree wants to fall this way.* This one you probably could tell from looking, tbh, but they should definitely have known after they got a saw jam.
Technically neither, arguably both.
#1 The English J is (usually) a dʒ affricate, starting with D and then doing a sound we don't have a distinct letter for but it's the Z in "azure" as opposed to "zebra". It's a voiced equivalent to CH making a tʃ affricate, starting with T and then doing an SH sound. Depending on how you pronounce R, it could hide the ʒ. And English phonotactics don't allow for an affricate to go into another consonant without a syllable boundary, so you might just be skipping it as "impossible".
It's also just practice. Pilots need to actually go up in the air and fly the things, and "form up alongside a jetliner" isn't that much different from "intercept an enemy bomber", except for the shooty bit. So it's like air show appearances and flyovers - shows support while not really costing anything, that wasn't going to get spent already.
What era was this from, to have both (relatively) modern ports like Firewire and DVI, but also ancient ones like serial, parallel, and composite video? Plus two slim optical drives?
I remember reading about an anti-missile laser system installed in a 747, around the time the Iraq War started. It was just a prototype but it was a flying, testing prototype, not some pipe-dream thing.
My electric bill actually did go down, when I replaced my HVAC. At least in the summer - in the winter, it went up, but my gas bill also went to zero, so still a win. And last year my rates went down, due (IIRC) to a law limiting profit margins on electric utilities and all the solar being installed.
They're actually trying to push Starlink as lower latency in certain niches like HFT. The idea is that the speed of light in fiber is only 2/3rds that in vacuum, so over long distances the laser interlinks between satellites make up for the latency of added hops.IDK if it's actually been used that way. It might work in theory but fail in practice, or maybe they don't have enough sats with laser interlinks up yet.
Knowing how to read the archaic letters goes a surprisingly long way. That little "f" without a line through it is an S, when not in the first or last position or following another S. The one that looks like P but the hump shifted down is a TH sound, and the curly d with a line is also a TH sound. The one that looks like a lowercase 3 was a "g" that was in the process of being pronounced like Y is now. So you can look and see "Frensce words cometh in" and make sense of it.
P4: "Come we now two hundred years before, to Chaucer's time. It seems as though English, but it is not easy to read without great cunning (skill)."P5: "Yet two hundred winters earlier, soon after the Normans came to this land, English is much changed. The tongue's work is shattered, French words come in, and the writing is all separated."P6: "The further back you go, the more English resembles Danish. English books from these years no maiden nor man can read except by special study."
The US isn't a surprise, we're directly across the border and buying guns is legal as hell. Israel's a big surprise, they aren't a huge arms manufacturing country. You mean to tell me 20% of the cartel is using Uzis and Desert Eagles, and not one is running around with a Chinese AK or SKS, not one has a CZ pistol or FN rifle, nobody bought milsurp from any of the dozens of countries that have downsized or re-equipped their army in the past four decades?
Have you figured out yet that arguments to a command *do* need to come before a pipe to the next command, and that your test of "ls | less" against "ls | less " only worked because "less " does that too? Or are you still too busy teaching zoomers about the existence of Windows for Workgroups? :P
There was a time in college, I'd pretty much dozed off in a Unix class, because I'd been running BSD for like a decade at that point and knew more than the teacher.Thinking he could trap me, the teacher loudly asked me a question. idr what, something like "what command do you use to check disk usage?"I popped my head up, immediately and correctly answered, and then dropped back to using my arm as a pillow..
Fair enough. Carry on.
It was a half-joke about how we have relatively little rail transport in the US, especially passenger rail.
Judging by the fact that there's a train in the video, this is likely outside the United States.
Yes, most countries have "official names" that usually declare their type of government (Canada is the only exception I know of). But most countries also have a short name for use in less formal contexts.
Yes, they started pushing harder for it in 2016, but as your own Wikipedia screenshot shows, they were recommending "Czechia" from the beginning.
For instance, on my GDQ Reviewed Slow site, there's ?m= in the URL to track which event you're looking at, so it's ?m=agdq2026 to see the last one, ?m=sgdq2025 to see the one before that, or ?m=everything to load all of them at once. If you take that out, the page loads to a "pick an event" menu, since it doesn't know which one you're trying to view.
A lot of missile combat, especially pre-industrial, is less about aimed attacks on specific targets and more "shoot a bunch in the area of the enemy, it'll impede them, cause some wounds and maybe kill a few". If you're riding into a cloud of arrows not aimed at you but just aimed at your whole formation, having partial armor or even just a shield will block enough to be worthwhile.
I'd prefer to live a life where I get to eulogize him.
So first you accuse me of being on the verge of mental breakdown, based on a tone you entirely projected. Now you accuse me of being some sort of bad-faith troll, based on pedantry about using quotation marks for paraphrase.
Amazing that you have the time and energy to rant like this, but expecting anyone to spare a few seconds to tag their post correctly is unthinkable to you. Maybe while you're offline touching grass for the next four months, you can pull that stick out your ass?
I did not say they should not post them. They absolutely *should* post them. I just want them to correctly tag those posts. The same way you give a spoiler warning before you discuss the big twist, or a phobia warning before you show trypophobia stuff.
And to support that argument, I did not say "I need to be coddled and protected", I said "doing this demoralizes some of the best people on your side". It is as much an argument of tactical efficacy as it is about feelings.
So you're diagnosing me as completely abnormal and in need of multiple months of recuperation, based on... a few annoyed comments?
You have no idea what my mental state is. All you know is that I disagree with you. Apparently that's enough to make me borderline insane? Or is "go touch grass for months" what you fall back to when you have no way to address the *actual* *points* I made?
"The internet is designed to make you feel bad by giving you no control over what you see!" says the person arguing against using the tools built to control what you see.
Driving every anti-fascist person off the internet is not a good outcome for the anti-fascist movement. "Log off for however many months it takes to become apathetic" is frankly terrible advice.
If all the horny posters can properly add tags for Bunday and Redhead Monday and Latex Wednesdays and whatever else they've come up with, the politics posters can tag their posts.
I'm not demanding everyone else be responsible for my mental state, I'm not asking people to stop posting anything. I'm asking you to not *deliberately ignore* the tools that have been made so people can be responsible *for themselves*.
And I'm pointing out that this behavior *directly hurts the cause*.
This is also why people need to TAG THEIR POLITICS POSTS. Because part of not giving up is knowing when you, personally, need to take a step back and rest, so you can be ready for the next fight. This is a war, not a battle - nobody can be on every front line.
You may think that it's justified, to get your message in front of people who blocked politics because they're apathetic. The problem is, you also demoralize people who have been fighting the hardest. I don't think that's worth it.
So you're just completely ignoring my actual point, then?
And your post betrays a further lack of knowledge, with an aftertaste of dunning-krueger. Most pre-christian religions consider their rules to be correct, but *you* breaking them is only going to cause problems for *you* and perhaps those nearby. Or consider judaism, which has some rules god told everyone to follow ("no cannibalism") but others he only told his chosen people to follow ("no eating cud-chewing land animals unless they also have cloven hoofs").
It's not that odd. There's a big high pressure cell pushing eastward, into a low-pressure area, and along the border you get thunderstorms and strong, chaotic wind. This one's pretty strong, I think it caused tornadoes farther west, but it's a typical US weather pattern. It's early in the year for it, but that can be chalked up to global warming.
Notice how the saw seemed to get and stuck, while cutting on the side they didn't want it falling towards? That happens bc the tree is already leaning that way, as you cut away it bites down on the blade and jams it. It can be hard to tell from looking* which direction it's actually leaning, but seeing that should be a big red warning sign that the tree wants to fall this way.
* This one you probably could tell from looking, tbh, but they should definitely have known after they got a saw jam.
Technically neither, arguably both.
#1 The English J is (usually) a dʒ affricate, starting with D and then doing a sound we don't have a distinct letter for but it's the Z in "azure" as opposed to "zebra". It's a voiced equivalent to CH making a tʃ affricate, starting with T and then doing an SH sound. Depending on how you pronounce R, it could hide the ʒ. And English phonotactics don't allow for an affricate to go into another consonant without a syllable boundary, so you might just be skipping it as "impossible".
It's also just practice. Pilots need to actually go up in the air and fly the things, and "form up alongside a jetliner" isn't that much different from "intercept an enemy bomber", except for the shooty bit. So it's like air show appearances and flyovers - shows support while not really costing anything, that wasn't going to get spent already.
What era was this from, to have both (relatively) modern ports like Firewire and DVI, but also ancient ones like serial, parallel, and composite video? Plus two slim optical drives?
I remember reading about an anti-missile laser system installed in a 747, around the time the Iraq War started. It was just a prototype but it was a flying, testing prototype, not some pipe-dream thing.
My electric bill actually did go down, when I replaced my HVAC. At least in the summer - in the winter, it went up, but my gas bill also went to zero, so still a win. And last year my rates went down, due (IIRC) to a law limiting profit margins on electric utilities and all the solar being installed.
They're actually trying to push Starlink as lower latency in certain niches like HFT. The idea is that the speed of light in fiber is only 2/3rds that in vacuum, so over long distances the laser interlinks between satellites make up for the latency of added hops.
IDK if it's actually been used that way. It might work in theory but fail in practice, or maybe they don't have enough sats with laser interlinks up yet.
Knowing how to read the archaic letters goes a surprisingly long way. That little "f" without a line through it is an S, when not in the first or last position or following another S. The one that looks like P but the hump shifted down is a TH sound, and the curly d with a line is also a TH sound. The one that looks like a lowercase 3 was a "g" that was in the process of being pronounced like Y is now. So you can look and see "Frensce words cometh in" and make sense of it.
P4: "Come we now two hundred years before, to Chaucer's time. It seems as though English, but it is not easy to read without great cunning (skill)."
P5: "Yet two hundred winters earlier, soon after the Normans came to this land, English is much changed. The tongue's work is shattered, French words come in, and the writing is all separated."
P6: "The further back you go, the more English resembles Danish. English books from these years no maiden nor man can read except by special study."
The US isn't a surprise, we're directly across the border and buying guns is legal as hell. Israel's a big surprise, they aren't a huge arms manufacturing country. You mean to tell me 20% of the cartel is using Uzis and Desert Eagles, and not one is running around with a Chinese AK or SKS, not one has a CZ pistol or FN rifle, nobody bought milsurp from any of the dozens of countries that have downsized or re-equipped their army in the past four decades?
Have you figured out yet that arguments to a command *do* need to come before a pipe to the next command, and that your test of "ls | less" against "ls | less " only worked because "less " does that too? Or are you still too busy teaching zoomers about the existence of Windows for Workgroups? :P
There was a time in college, I'd pretty much dozed off in a Unix class, because I'd been running BSD for like a decade at that point and knew more than the teacher.
Thinking he could trap me, the teacher loudly asked me a question. idr what, something like "what command do you use to check disk usage?"
I popped my head up, immediately and correctly answered, and then dropped back to using my arm as a pillow..
Fair enough. Carry on.
It was a half-joke about how we have relatively little rail transport in the US, especially passenger rail.
Judging by the fact that there's a train in the video, this is likely outside the United States.
Yes, most countries have "official names" that usually declare their type of government (Canada is the only exception I know of). But most countries also have a short name for use in less formal contexts.
Yes, they started pushing harder for it in 2016, but as your own Wikipedia screenshot shows, they were recommending "Czechia" from the beginning.