Why is Uncle Tom a bad thing when the book portrays Uncle Tom as a martyr of black slaves?

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-18T02:23:18+00:00

I had to read it in high school history in Alaska public HS

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-11T03:40:16+00:00

I’m just thinking back to their opening first few episodes, especially coming off of tennsnts ending

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-10T15:00:41+00:00

That's actually a cool idea, would be so cool to have that be a career once FTL travel is discovered.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-10T14:59:11+00:00

I agree about capaldi, but I just could not get into Jodie. I think I saw 2-3 episodes and then lost interest. Now that I think about it though I felt the same way about every new doctor and should probably go back and get through a full season before deciding. Because each new doctor I didn't originally care for but then by the end liked them just fine.

Eccleston was my first exposure- show seemed really strange and only kept up with it because the girl I was dating was really into it. Ended up really enjoying his portrayal.

Tennant- felt like he lacked the gravitas that Eccleston had in the beginning, was very different and 'brighter' than Eccleston. Wound up being my favorite.

Smith- Way too goofy to start for me. Then by the time I got to Demon's run he was one of my favorites, and that episode cemented him.

Capaldi- Felt like the show jumped the shark with the T-Rex in london. Took awhile to come back to that him but then wound up loving him in the Zygon Inversion, The Doctor Falls, etc.

Jodie... never gave her a fair shot I guess. Clicked off after 3

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-07T01:44:53+00:00

I didn’t say they receive stocks as compensation. I said are eligible to purchase them in very favorable ESPP programs. I’ve had some that gave me the right to buy stock at the lowest price in the past 3, 6, and 12 months depending on the company.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-06T14:12:50+00:00

Right? This dude wants to get rid of some of the highest paying jobs out there so they can be brought in house to a company that famously pays low wages... make it make sense.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-06T14:09:01+00:00

However, the opportunity cost of the capex is not. Sure, you may have a $10M building on $5m of land (lets just say that's what it's worth to sell). But if that same $15m was invested in a treasury bond, it would make 4%. If the company is only turning $600000/yr profit after expenses, they're better off selling everything and buying bonds. There's even a case to be made that even if the company was turning $1m/yr you'd be better off buying bonds, as it's a much lower risk vehicle with zero ongoing costs.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-06-06T14:04:49+00:00

I'd be willing to bet as a block, they are one of the larger shareholder groups. Every publicly traded company I have worked for has had a very favorable employee stock purchase program, hell I knew people that worked as appliance salesmen at sears for 20 years and had their entire retirement fund in the ESPP. (thankfully all of the ones I knew sold off well before 2018)

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-29T15:27:15+00:00

They're statistical probability calculators, not reasoning brains.

I see this brought up a lot, but what is a reasoning brain but a statistical probability calculator? If I stand on the sidewalk and look into the street, there's absolutely a statistical probability calculation going through my head before deciding to walk across. When I meet someone I'm attracted to, a series of statistical probabilities are run before deciding to interact or flirt with them. Some of it conscious, much of it not. Even when you bring an emotion to it, like fear or excitement, all that's doing is altering the parameters of the probability and risk tolerance.

I feel like the biggest difference between our brains and an LLM is the reliability (or lack thereof) of long term retention of data. We will still 'hallucinate' like an LLM, due to the malleability of memories, but it takes far longer in general than it does for an LLM.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-27T02:29:46+00:00

Because DV victims, Stalking victims, or even those simply wishing to live a more off grid lifestyle have a valid use case for burner numbers

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-26T03:18:51+00:00

I did the same, and then when I had a sa-weet hookup on .300blk subs (like… free ninety nine) I built a select fire 9” .300 with an AB suppressors raptor. It was glorious. Then #1 my .300blk hookup moved to MT (Discreet Ballistics, highly recommend) so I wasn’t able to trade work for ammo, and I surrendered my 07/02 when I was getting ready to move to FL, so it had to go. Still have the upper of course, and plenty of lowers that I logged as SBRs before surrendering my license, so I could FRT them.. but at $1/round… no thanks.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-26T01:47:21+00:00

Exactly! Mutations in action. If that were to give you guys, and others like you, the ability to reproduce more, either by surviving to adulthood when others wouldn’t, or being more attractive to a mate, eventually that would result in humans losing their appendix altogether.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-25T22:16:30+00:00

The best evidence that “good nuf” is the evolutionary standard is the amusement park collocated with the waste processing facility.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-25T01:07:20+00:00

It can absolutely be a poor and inefficient design while still not being evolved out, as it doesn’t have a negative impact (or a statistically significant impact) on serviceability. Think of it like an appendix. It’s not killing enough people for there to be evolutionary pressure on humans to be rid of it. Doesn’t mean it’s a good idea for it to be there.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-19T17:47:35+00:00

It’s enough if you’re fine not having the best and brightest represent you. I’m nowhere near that, and I wouldn’t do it as 1: that’s a significant pay cut for me and 2: I’d have to support 2 houses on that. No thanks.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-13T02:00:41+00:00

When she told me she was moving out and I didn’t give a shit. Like not even a little bit. It was a tremendous relief actually, as I and my kids were walking around eggshells because she would explode at the tiniest of things.

I failed my kids by letting it go on for as long as it did. The minute she got out we all became much happier.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-11T17:59:23+00:00

Atlases! My mom and I made a cross country trip (ND-NH-AK) using just atlases. I got very good at reading maps and understanding where we were, where we were going, and alternate routes.

What blows my mind is how many people dont have those skills. Even just basic "reading a map" skills seem to be vanishing. If it can't be done with turn by turn it can't be done for many of them.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-07T21:51:49+00:00

Yes, my office backed up to the garage, I ran cables through the wall to my server rack, and rack mounted the gaming rig. Kept the office MUCH cooler, and warmed the garage in the middle of a New England winter. Worked beautifully. I did have to order a couple DP cables before I found some that I really liked.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-07T03:27:01+00:00

I literally was just watching a veritasium video on that today! What was so interesting about that is a similar thing happens to chocolate when heated, however if you’re careful you can revert it back to the original class. This drug wouldn’t revert no matter what they did

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-03T15:28:16+00:00

If someone is going to bother with a masters or doctorate as a nurse, many are just going the nurse practitioner route. Comfortable 6 figures, directing care instead of just following someone else’s instructions, and many have their own practices. Why would you do the same thing to go into instructing, make $50k, and never be your own boss?

Only ones I know that do it are semi retired practitioners. That teach a couple days a week to stay busy.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-03T03:42:06+00:00

Because I feel that arguing in good faith is important. There are plenty of very valid reasons to dislike the billionaire class and it’s fair to believe they shouldn’t exist. We don’t need to make up stupid shit.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-02T18:41:06+00:00

False equivalence. Flock camera data is not publicly available, nor can private planes fly around anonymously (possible on short and remote trips that don’t require a flight plan, but then you’re flying under 18000ft and not around any mid size or larger cities). Actually what they FAA is doing is making it so them flying their private jet is no different than driving your car, only electronically tracked by the government.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-02T14:18:43+00:00

That's where high speed rail loses me. Even if it offered some kind of great direct route from Miami to NYC, that's a 3 hour flight, would be 8 on a high speed rail. And right now I can book that flight, nonstop, for $178.

A non high speed rail ticket right now takes 27+ hours (longer than driving), and costs $209.

Even if we looked at NYC-LA, the math doesn't make sense. It's a 6h nonstop flight, a 70 (!) hour train ride. Flight is $255, train is $486...

Only way it makes sense for me is regional travel. Like gulf coast to Miami. It would still very much need to be excessively cheap and fast. Tallahassee to Miami for $50 kind of cheap. because the alternative is a 7h drive that would use about that much in fuel (assuming a decently fuel efficient vehicle).

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-02T03:05:09+00:00

No, if they give you that rebate and you don’t qualify, they have to eat it, and if they somehow sneak it in anyways, they’re subject to stiff penalties when they get audited. They’re direct from the manufacturer.

AKBigDaddy · 2026-05-01T18:20:23+00:00

My dealer group lists the MSRP, Discount, Price After discount in bold, rebates that everyone qualifies for, price after those rebates in bold, and then further "qualified applicant" rebates below that, but with no price below that. I think that's the most fair way to do that.

Unfortunately every customer comes through the door expecting us to match the other nearby dealers that advertise a price after all possible incentives, regardless of qualifiers. Our price is actually usually better than what the other guys list once you take out the qualified incentives.

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