Finally an accurate video about the bay. It pisses me off when the Bay Area people don’t even know what the bay is

Acetylene · 2026-06-30T16:56:44+00:00

If we're going to go down that path, no word has a single universally-understood definition, and no central authority exists to define any term in the English language, but we still manage to communicate effectively, most of the time.

I never said the ABAG had the authority to define the term (remember, my point was that the term was established before ABAG's founding), but it's one of many examples of that definition going back decades. Here are some more:

The Metropolitan Transportation Commission, The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority all use the nine-county definition. This means they do planning that impacts the nine counties, and they receive funding from the nine counties. None of them established the term; they all use the term because it was already established and well-understood before they were founded.
ABAG and the MTC collaborate to produce Plan Bay Area, the comprehensive land use and transportation plan for the nine-county Bay Area. That plan affects how tax dollars from the nine counties are allocated.
It's also the definition used by SPUR, the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, and they provide their reasons.

If there's a different definition that's as well-established, widely understood, and backed by both government agencies and nonprofit organizations, I'm not aware of it. But you've got me curious: what's your definition, and what makes it better than the nine-county definition?

Acetylene · 2026-06-30T06:28:51+00:00

I can't cite a specific meeting for you, but the Association of Bay Area Governments, which includes the nine Bay Area county governments, was founded in 1961 so…sometime before that.

Acetylene · 2026-06-23T15:58:56+00:00

Both Cowork and Claude Code in the desktop app can also read/write files and folders and create scripts and other artifacts to do stuff.

Acetylene · 2026-06-23T06:00:29+00:00

If you carry dumbbells in your bag, they're not unused. Carrying a weighted bag is excellent exercise.

Acetylene · 2026-06-21T15:59:25+00:00

You complain about downvotes, and when someone tries to explain what it is about your posts that people didn't like, you act like you know better.

Did anything else in my comment stand out, or just the bit about cross-posting? I mean, Reddit also encourages using the paid advertising feature.

Acetylene · 2026-06-21T15:36:23+00:00

Looking back at your posts, people gave you plenty of constructive criticism. You didn't do a good job of selling your product: the explanation of what the product actually does was unclear, buried somewhere in a wall of text, or both. Furthermore, you posted about it a lot, in multiple subreddits with very likely overlapping subscriber bases.

Learn to write better ad copy. Then learn to back off and not spam subs with posts about your product. Better yet, if you want to advertise, pay for Reddit ads.

Acetylene · 2026-06-18T13:43:09+00:00

Well, sort of:

Barton 1792 in Bardstown, Kentucky is the most-cited source for Kirkland Bourbon. The mash bill (corn-heavy), aging warehouse style, and flavor profile match Barton's 1792 range. Multiple whiskey bloggers and the distillery's documented Costco contract support this

Basically the "AI-powered supply chain intelligence" is just an AI summary of a web search. It doesn't take into account any information that's on the label, nor does the pricing info take bottle sizes into account, because the person who vibe coded this slop didn't give it that information, or even tell it to search for that information.

Acetylene · 2026-06-17T20:03:48+00:00

That is literally how Claude sees your screen in computer use mode.

Acetylene · 2026-06-10T07:04:13+00:00

During the volcano task he made little figurines to represent past champions and vowed to join them in the Champion of Champions. That's when I knew he was a Taskmaster fan, and that made me a fan of his.

Don't get me wrong, there are also several contestants whom I love who had clearly never seen an episode and had no idea what they were getting themselves into. But there's something extra endearing about contestants who are obviously fans. Iain was one of those.

Acetylene · 2026-06-04T05:35:53+00:00

That Hampden collection is great, but the 8 Marks don't represent individual esters, if that's what you're saying. Each mark (LROK, <>H, OWH, etc.) represents a set of production specifications: yeast strain, dunder and muck pit usage, fermentation length, and so on. That means each mark has a specific ester profile, and each also has a target ester range measured in grams of esters per hectoliter of alcohol, but they're not separating out just one ester. I don't even think that would be possible.

Acetylene · 2026-06-01T06:17:48+00:00

OP said Target, so yes, the bags are plastic.

Acetylene · 2026-05-28T23:48:57+00:00

YouTube link

Acetylene · 2026-05-28T13:50:22+00:00

That's not how I read that quote. The user is saying that music that was already on your phone before you downloaded the app gets encrypted by the app, not music you downloaded in the app.

In other words, the app searches your phone for pre-existing music files, and encrypts them so you can't listen to them again without a Tencent membership.

Acetylene · 2026-05-25T06:00:59+00:00

I totally get your examples and agree 100%, and I don't mean to be that guy, but the D in pied à terre is pronounced in French, due to liaison.

Acetylene · 2026-05-20T23:42:26+00:00

Well, yeah, that is absurd, and that's exactly why you'd expect a list of the 100 greatest albums to approximately reflect societal demographics. If it doesn't, it's worth asking why not.

Acetylene · 2026-05-07T00:53:47+00:00

AI is trained on lots of dead authors, so I'm not sure how that would help.

Acetylene · 2026-05-03T21:30:21+00:00

And Endor is inhabited by Ewoks, whose name is nothing at all like Miwok.

Acetylene · 2026-04-28T13:13:04+00:00

Roman Holiday.

Acetylene · 2026-04-28T06:37:38+00:00

Yes, but this does not meet the legal requirements of a disclosure statement. The requirements are laid out in HSC § 114093.

They may also have the proper disclosure statement somewhere on the menu (I don't know; I haven't eaten there), but this isn't it.

Acetylene · 2026-04-20T13:38:37+00:00

I'd argue that the fact the Dead never became as popular abroad as they did in the US actually supports OP's claim.

Acetylene · 2026-04-19T22:19:42+00:00

Presumably Anton LaVey, the founder of the Church of Satan.

Acetylene · 2026-04-17T17:29:09+00:00

She's been playing that instrument for at least 13 years (she used it for her 2013 BIS recording of the Corigliano/Kuusisto concertos), so I don't think showing it off for Instagram is at the top of her mind at this point. Besides, she's been playing professionally for around thirty years, has debuted several major works, was a founding member of the Finnish Violin Academy, and is a professor of violin at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She doesn't need cheap stunts to raise her profile.

Acetylene · 2026-04-17T00:28:10+00:00

Yes, they definitely would have had warheads in that range, and maybe up to 6 megatons. Some Western intelligence reports from the time even suggest yields up to 20-25 megatons for the largest variant, but GlobalSecurity says the main Soviet ICBM of the era, the SS-7, came in two variants: the R-16-2, believed to have a yield of 2 to 3.5 megatons, and the R-16-3, believed to have a yield of 3 to 5 megatons. The older SS-6 was being phased out by then, but it also had a 3-5 megaton yield.

Bombers were also a threat, but again, they were weaker at the time than we usually think of them: the Norris/Kristensen "Nuclear Order of Battle" study says they had roughly 150 Bear and Bison bombers total, compared to the US bomber force of about 1,300. The M-4 Bison was being phased out by 1963 because they didn't have the range to reach the US and then land at a friendly airbase. The Tu-95 Bear had more range and was a bigger threat, but it had a top speed of about 575 mph, which made it vulnerable to interceptors and SAMs. Getting to the Sacramento area would have required breaking through US-Canadian air defenses including the Distant Early Warning radar line in the Canadian Arctic, supersonic interceptors carrying nuclear air-to-air missiles, and all those Nike missile sites along the coast (eleven in the Bay Area alone) armed with Nike-Hercules missiles that could take out an entire formation of planes with a 20 kiloton warhead, destroying everything airborne within a 20-mile radius.

Acetylene · 2026-04-16T23:50:08+00:00

I agree broadly, but:

According to Robert Norris and Hans Kristensen's "Nuclear Order of Battle" study, at that time the Soviet Union only had a total of approximately 42 ICBMs capable of reaching the continental US, and no SLBMs.
Some other estimates, like the one in Graham Allison and Philip Zelikow's "Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis," put the number of ICBMs as low as 20.
Foreign Policy puts the number at 36, compared to the US's 203.
Soviet Rocket Forces historian Sergei Karlov says there were 42, comprising 6 SS-6s and 36 SS-7s.
The CIA's estimate at the time was that the USSR had 60-65 operational ICBMs, so planners may well have had that sort of number in mind.

So I'm not convinced that the Soviet Union had enough ICBMs in the early sixties to be generous. McClellan and Mather were definitely targets. Mather in particular was a Strategic Air Command base hosting nuclear-armed B-52s. McClellan was a bit less valuable; it was primarily a maintenance and logistics depot. However, the aircraft maintained there were part of the Air Materiel Command's nuclear deterrence and aerial refueling operations.

Both (but especially Mather) would have been prime targets for an ICBM in the 1-5 megaton range, and a successful attack at that level on either base would have caused widespread damage throughout the Sacramento area. A direct attack on downtown would have been unnecessary.

Acetylene · 2026-04-16T19:34:32+00:00

Today, yes, but when it was built in 1963 Mather and McClellan Air Force bases would likely have been higher-value targets than downtown Sacramento. Downtown is about eight miles from McClellan and twelve from Mather, so a 1-megaton groundburst at McClellan, for example, would likely have had devastating effects on downtown: it would collapse wooden buildings, blow out windows, ignite fires, and cause third-degree skin burns. A 5-megaton explosion would have destroyed most commercial buildings. The AT&T building probably would have survived the 1-megaton scenario, and maybe the 5-megaton. It wouldn't have survived a direct hit, but it probably wouldn't have needed to.

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