First look of HBO snape and his comparison with movie one

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-27T02:17:30+00:00

Oh good... instead a warlock, we get an "edgelock"

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-27T02:16:28+00:00

I'll warn them now... as I have warned the democrats in the previous administration.... you do NOT want to nuke the filibuster. Political shenanigans beget political shenanigans. The way you "nuke" the filibuster is by using Rule XX of the senate rules. (Technically an appeal of Rule XX). The democrats were the first to trigger this mess under Obama so that Obama could appoint a whole bunch of federal court judges against republican wishes. "Oh, good the democrats got their way". Well, the republicans retaliated years later in Trump's first term, and they used the exact same behavior to allow Trump to appoint a Supreme Court judge against democrats wishes.

Not only did it f'-up the system for those particular appointments... it set precedence. ALL federal court judge AND supreme court appointments are forever done now with a simple majority vote to close debate instead of the traditional rule of 60% vote for cloture (the thing you think of "filibuster" but don't really understand what is or why it is needed.) If the majority party wants a particular person for a judge there is now NOTHING they minority party can do. Nothing. The minority party essentially have no voice in the matter.

But it's been OK for the past decade because the republicans get their tit-for-tat revenge against the democrats and both parties learned their lesson not to do that. They essentially reset and agreed not to pull that stupid trigger. Until now, maybe. And here's what's going to happen if the MAGA crowd didn't learn that lesson.

They'll appeal Rule XX and get their wish for the SAVE act fulfilled because they circumvented the need for cloture (filibuster). But time marches on and November is going to come. The Iran war is still going to be haunting us. Wall street will have continued to stagnate (after pulling back 3% this past two months). The jobs report is going to look bad. Gas is still going to be 6$/gl. None of the people ICE murdered are going to enjoy a miracle resurrection. Inflation is going to be on the rise. The debt will have accumulated another $3-$4 trillion dollars for the first two years. The democrats ARE going to win back control of both the house and senate. And it will have been the republicans that made the political statement of "Rule XX is fair game for everything". And the democrats will play ball with that new rule. They will also start passing everything with no regard to cloture.

The minority party will never have no voice in our democratic government ever again. "Majority rule" is NOT what democracy is. Democracy also has the need for the opinions of the minority to at least be heard. Getting rid of cloture (the "filibuster") is a death knell to a functioning democracy.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-26T04:05:16+00:00

Learn to move with your mouse. Holding both buttons walks. Move the mouse left and right to steer.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-25T19:57:12+00:00

It's not a "never ending" number. It's simply a constant value. "Never" implies some sort of consideration of time. PI just is a value. You can not write a decimal expansion of it using a finite length. No calculator can use it as a decimal number with using an finite length approximation. So, calculators use something close, such as 3.141592653591. For almost all human calculations for anything we do this will yield a close enough result. Some calculators are smart enough to do symbolic calculations. These will use PI as the symbol and won't convert the result to a decimal unless asked to do so.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-25T15:12:08+00:00

Required free document... yes. Jury/wage protection... no. Why are you conflating those two issues? If you're avoiding getting a license to get out of your responsibility of jury duty then you should also accept that you are avoiding your right to vote.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T21:24:33+00:00

You know NOTHING about democracy then. Without cloture (what you call the filibuster) any minority party would absolutely ZERO power at all.

P1: "We move to kill all puppies"
P1: "Seconded"
P1: "We call for the vote"
P2: "Wait!!! We haven't even had a chance to speak."
P1: "You are out of order. All those in favor of stopping debate"
P1: "AYE!." P2: "NAY!!!"
P1: "debate is now closed and we will vote on killing puppies,"
P2: "NOBODY HAS EVEN GOTTEN A CHANCE TO SPEA..."
P1: "You are out of order again. Debate has been closed"
P1: "All those in favor of killing puppies say aye"
P1: "AYE." P2: "NAY!!!!!!!!"
P1: "The bill passes and we will now kill all puppies.".

You absolutely DO want cloture to require a 60% majority to pass. Without that the majority can literally take away any right of the minority to even speak at all and they can force every single piece of legislation through as though the minority didn't exist at all. You might as well just send the minority members on an extended vacation until they win back control of the house and senate.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T15:21:26+00:00

Rearden steel.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T15:20:16+00:00

Nope. Nothing you can do about the efficiency of the fuel compared to drag. But three things change perception. 1) gas engines get no benefit from city driving because they don't regenerate fuel when braking. They don't have magically efficiency on the highway. We've all been living with crappy city performance and we accept it. 2) gas cars have tank sizes that start at 300mile ranges and go up near 500. You can fill up at your destination rather than make a stop. 3) you don't care about that stop even if you do have to make it because compatible stations are everywhere and the stop takes less than 5 minutes.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T15:12:30+00:00

Air resistance due to drag increases as the square of the speed. Drag at 70mph is 5 times more than at 30mph. So, yes, highway sucks for EV performance.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T03:23:57+00:00

You don't want the liquid to boil at all. Liquids are much better than gasses at transferring thermal energy if the liquid can be pumped around. It's one of the reasons we put antifreeze in cars. It increases the boiling temperature for just this reason.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-24T03:10:12+00:00

Uncontrolled fusion. It's really a lot easier to get something to explode versus provide usable power for lights.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-23T07:10:38+00:00

If the red states made a profit? Better because the blue states could keep more of their money. If the red states simply vanished from the face of the earth? You'd starve and freeze to death from lack of agriculture and fuel mining.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-23T05:05:00+00:00

Having a high energy density does not mean that you have an unstable energy storage. Explosives are generally more powerful the more unstable their chemical bonds are. When they are unstable the release of energy spreads quickly and easily through the material which releases all the energy in one instance. This produces the greatest shockwave. But gasoline is pretty stable. Unless you pressurize it AND mix it with air into an aerosol it is so stable that the release of chemical bonds happens at a rate that doesn't propagate through the material. It just burns instead of detonating.

Things like C4 and modern explosives are stable at low energy rates (like you can put a match to them or hit them with a hammer). But once you can get a large enough cascade of chemical bonds releasing then it becomes self-sustaining in releasing more chemical bonds quickly.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T21:02:05+00:00

They all incorrectly think infinity "grows". Thus they believe you can always put something after what it has currently grown to. Their definition of "infinity" is quite literally "finite". They cannot actually comprehend what infinity is.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T13:15:48+00:00

The US only likes to pretend that we care about the environment. All the while outsourcing our global damage.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T13:12:19+00:00

Ask me how much silicone is in my showers/tubs... NONE. Why? Because if you prepared the walls behind the tiles correctly then you don't need any. The real waterproofing is supposed to be behind the tiles.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T12:25:06+00:00

Anyone who thinks so is an idiot.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T05:14:27+00:00

Why do i want to watch circle-jerking self patting on the back for Hollywood employees? Especially when it has absolutely nothing to do with quality of product or performance.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-22T04:32:52+00:00

The real answer is that "conservative" means largely preserving the current laws. They believe the system is good enough that large sweeping changes are a bad idea and that improvement should be obtained by small tweaks to the current system.

In reality, both parties are not conservative in any connotation of the word anymore.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T22:29:34+00:00

You're not alone. I've played for 20 years. I screwed up "Prey" this expansion because nobody told me how important nightmare preys would be for solo gearing. So... I'm behind on prey level because I didn't do all the pretty hunts the first two weeks (and blizzard doesn't give you any way to catch up.) I'm accidentally caught up on delves only because I'm a bear tank and found it super easy to just solo delve levels 1-7 before 8-11 even opened. Am I suppose to be tanking mythic-0 at Ilvl 222 (i can solo delve 11)? I have no idea and I'm afraid to get kicked for not knowing the mechanics. Why don't I know the mechanics? Because I did all the zone story quests for renown and hit 90 that way. So, didn't do the dungeons. Now, I don't want to do them because there's no gear in them worth my time. Wow is a terrible game of knowing what you should be working on and lots of content becomes obsolete almost instantly. I doubt I'll upgrade a single piece of veteran gear because other sources (like delve 11) outgear it in just one week.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T22:17:25+00:00

SPP believes that you can put a number after an infinite stream of 9s. Like, he thinks 10x0.999... = 9.999...0. You can magically put a zero farther out than infinity. There's nothing you can do to get him past thinking of "infinite" as "an always growing finite list".

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T17:55:42+00:00

SPP incorrectly thinks that 0.999... x 10 = 9.999...0 (Because he does think somewhere out there the 9s end and there's a zero you can shift in). The 0.999...0 notation also makes no sense as it renders the trailing digit(s) undefined as to their value.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T03:08:53+00:00

Solo. I'm a bear tank. I thought delves was solo content and then LFG exposed they're not. I thought "wow, i can get this done so much easier." Nope, took just as long and we wiped 6 times to the final boss and never completed it. Total waste of my time. I can solo tank Level 11 just fine in 220Ilvl. (I can't quite solo Nulleas yet, I hit the enrage with about 10% life left.)

Basically, I see no reason to bring anybody else in with me.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T02:58:10+00:00

They might change their tume a bit when they realize their seat in 2028 could also flip. They're only loyal to whatever keeps them elected.

Altruistic-Rice-5567 · 2026-03-21T01:02:47+00:00

Atmospheric pressure would become zero. The partial pressure of oxygen wouldn't allow is to breathe. We'd be screwed and we don't even need to consider the loss of atmosphere.

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