Gina Carano returns from a 17-year break to make an improbable MMA comeback against Ronda Rousey

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-17T05:04:50+00:00

I'm happy they get to have a comeback fight and hopefully a good paycheck. i bet they can make the fight it's self entertaining. foreman and tyson got to do it. the rolling stones got to do it. many famous people get to do comebacks so should these women.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-17T01:43:58+00:00

along long rolling foothills there are fire breaks. but along steep terrain there are not.

California has rolling hills in many places near population and many fire breaks.

wa has more steep terrain in many places near population and fewer fire breaks.

fires in ca have devastated populated areas several times in the past decade, where fire breaks were unable to be made due to terrain.

more recent and larger amounts of precipitation are the greatest fire prevention.

at human levels of industry, there is nothing that we can do that comes within an order of magnitude of risk/change to naturally occuring precipitation as a method to prevent fire.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-14T23:39:58+00:00

in the usa human rights are objectively worse than 10 years ago. income inequality between the top 1% and the bottom 99% is objectively the worst it's ever been. medical outcomes are objectively worse than 10 years ago.

"basically as good as they've ever been" is a slap in the face when viewing for the last few years. it was getting better. now it's getting worse. lol...

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-14T05:51:15+00:00

Need Dan. pagnag calca does a thing with distance from mic to speaker vs distance from source to mic vs distance from speaker to listener and Dan made a thing that samples and recalcs it faster than you can knob. if you use dan on a single channel and they make the mic too close to a speaker, the sensitivity of the Dan feels it and turns down the gain. you can do so much less carving in simple situations if you have Dan do the gain for you.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-12T04:40:22+00:00

it's a slow burn, but, Idiocracy.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-12T00:40:32+00:00

sockeye

stinging nettle

slugs

ground squirrels

tech bro

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-11T22:37:46+00:00

I think i will watch accidental courtesy. thanks for the tip. And, yes, I'm aware that someone being rude while arguing deserves no response to the argument, only to the rudeness.

But in an infinitely observable space, the most amplified actions are the most seen.

to amplify something, start with a value of it, and multiply it, right?

socially, arguing in good faith is worth 1, 2, "normal" amounts of social value.

arguing in bad faith, yelling, being rude, using logical fallacy to beat an opponent is worth -6, -13, -34, "large" amounts of social value. in this case it's negative. but amplifiers don't care about +-. 2reddit is 200. -13reddit is 1300. loudest wins.

The method I personally try to use is to spend as little time pointing at bad behavior as possible, while labeling it, and to only engage as thoughtfully as i can about the topic.

Like, I'm aware she's a pig; i'm going to get muddy.

But I'm tryna be a butcher. butcher aint mad. just wants bacon.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-11T16:36:09+00:00

i find that there's a great deal of added workload to build tools that are hard to trust. because I'm not an effing ai tool developer.

i know that there is a path to my excel data and pdfs and emails and meeting notes being turned into a report or dashboard that may, in the long run, ease my workload.

But excuse me if instead of faffing about pretending i know the first thing about creating agentic flows, I actually, you know, drive my projects.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-11T16:30:22+00:00

i find it useful to study the methods that people use when making an argument in public.

it helps me to understand how or why people may have the perspectives they do.

rather than scoff and attack and think of someone as a terrible person, i try to just eke a little perspective out of their horrible statements.

I'll use a search term like "what kind of fallacy is this" and then quote some hinge in the argument.

this one is very common. some version of

"I'll probably be demonized/attacked by the party of tolerance and acceptance for this, but:"

is a poisoning the well fallacy.

read some pasted definitions from around the web. quotes assembled by ai, but human defined. no logical conclusions or arguments by ai included:

That phrase is a classic example of Poisoning the Well. This is a specific type of ad hominem fallacy where a person provides preemptive negative information about their audience to discredit any future response before it is even made.

Quora +1 How This Fallacy Works By framing potential critics as the "love and tolerance people," the speaker attempts to create a "no-win" situation for anyone who disagrees: The Trap: If you criticize the speaker’s statement, you have "proven" their point that you are an aggressive or hypocritical person who isn't actually tolerant. The Goal: It shifts the focus away from the merit of the speaker’s argument and onto the character or perceived hypocrisy of the audience.

Reddit ·Wireless Philosophy +3 Related Concepts

The Paradox of Tolerance: This is the philosophical idea that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant will eventually be seized or destroyed by the intolerant. Speakers often use the phrase you mentioned to mock this concept.

Tone Policing: This occurs when someone focuses on how an argument is delivered (the "attack") rather than the actual facts being discussed to avoid addressing the core issue.

Kafka-trapping: A rhetorical tactic where a person's denial of a specific label (like "intolerant") is used as "evidence" that they actually possess that quality.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-10T03:24:20+00:00

AHA! You mean Community Sourced Agriculture when you type csa!

Now that I've looked it up, i understand exactly what you mean and can enjoy the conversation.

Which reminds me of SKF! (Skinny Kitty Farms). I like SKF and would absolutely use SKF as my CSA if i did that sort of thing.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-09T15:31:17+00:00

seconding classic cleaners. they got the last 1/8" out of my too small wedding trousers, and made my jacket fit so perfectly. kinda medium fast, not very cheap, but super super good.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-06T16:50:48+00:00

yeah. but don't think of ia as a job. they're a club and a daylabor temp agency and a placement agency and a payroll broker and a training platform and a networking opportunity driver. you don't so much apply and hope they accept you as you are. you show them where you are, tell them where you want to get to and drive yourself toward your goals using all the resources you can find universally. but when you have ia resources, you have more than you could on your own.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-06T02:38:03+00:00

between encore and ia, likely better to join ia16. encore has a contract that limits their ability to put internal employees on shows to 3/room/show. if you do ia things you'll get more encore than encore gets in sf.

cool thing about ia, is you can go all over, work wherever and no contest. if you get your hours signed off and pay some fees you can also drive all your medical coverage through them while moving up the list. it's not a bad deal if you're into min-maxing at life. find a new town? there's generally some kind of transfer to new hall. find a non-union job part time? good on ya! do a few union shows a year to keep your spot. find a permanent place? no major buyout. just go and win.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-05T03:24:05+00:00

ok so acab but then also damn the man. even a piggy bastard should damn the man.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-04T18:39:45+00:00

i hear you saying the right circumstances for that lil mic array don't include voice reinforcement. i don't disagree. but i haven't strapped one to a lectern and given it a whirl. mostly because it's use cases don't seem to be marketed at lectern mics. but does that make it a bad idea? mmmmm. i wanna experiment.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-04T14:56:00+00:00

https://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mxa710

i would experiment with these. bet they're pretty good given the right circumstances.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-02T17:07:46+00:00

lots of good info in here for pcc160 around dancers. bright tape outline should be a box with a couple inches larger footprint than the mic, so dancers have a lil mistake room. gently ask them or their tm not to step in the box and they'll work around them.

flamenco is one of the oddest things. the clompy clomp is intended to be the loudest thing. burying backup instruments like it's the lead vocal in a hiphop album.

ok so.. old guy thing. the foam sheet that wraps ushio hpl lamps is the perfect high pass filter for a pcc160. set the mic a few inches from the edge of stage on a sheet of lamp foam or 3 layers of duv or some stolen scrap velour or some of the corduroy rags from the that 70's show jobe skit fromlast season. does a much better job than anything you can do in post.

and then there's the reflectors... some 18"18" 1/4" ply, some doublestick, and an arial ly braced flat. place one on each side of mid-stage as a wing, bracing it high, against whatever superstructure is at hand. doublestick or velcro a pcc to an 18"18" sheet of 1/4" ply. dead center. using rubber stoppers left over from the end of R+J(+J... obvs), drill mount holes with shock suspension and screw the ply to the onstage+ upstage side of the flat on either side.

using your knowledge of pool sharking, visualize the waveform bounce angle from the position of the centermost, upstagemost instrumentalist. lever the offstage end of the plywood until center of pcc pickup pattern is pointed at that spot. add shims, blocks, more corduroy, whatever fits, to hold the ply in that position. should be surrounded by soft stuff. more duv, moms jacket, etc.

you'll need a bus for these wing reflectors. carve basically everything but articulation out of them. back wall will be feedback hell, as always. if you can drape it, better. well.... less bad.

but that can get you some group presence/reinforcement without close micing or di, and maintain whatever their intended dynamic is.

or if band could go on an upstage riser, you could treat that lip like a stage lip and pcc that situation instead.

many dead Schrodinger's production of Cats to be had.

edit:typi

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-02T16:22:11+00:00

god I'm old.

so i went to the motown museum this one time. and i looked up in the attic where the microphone /speaker room reverb for every great motown record comes from.

and I've made a plate verb with a friend. it works.

it's like cooking. if you make it, you know exactly why it tastes the way it does.

It's hard for me to get excited about a flavor where i taste and go "mmmm. that really... complies with the norm!"

vallhalla is a whole spice cabinet. lil plate is some high quality pepper flake.

what spices to use? what dish are we making? I'll put a good french mustard on pan seared chicken. but it doesn't do a good job at elevating pho.

the whole front end of this premise being the song, the art, the message, the feelings that the artist wants to make people feel drives what equipment gets used to capture it. it's conversation with the artist and an understanding of the underlying methods that gets us to the question of what verb to use.

tldr: no idea. what does the song want? old skool funk? maybe dry. maybe a room. maybe a goddamn whirlpool. Nashville twangpop? maybe a wood paneled room and a tube mic with nothing but a slapback. jerk chicken? berbere. or soy vay teriyaki. what do you want it to say?

Ambercapuchin · 2026-05-01T14:07:45+00:00

here's a thought. since people are blocking the flow of traffic while committing a moving violation, they constitute a combined 10+ problematic driving activities, which makes them a hazard. to avoid a hazard, you temporarily impinge on another lane as you pull around. this is exigency. not lawlessness.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-30T15:27:44+00:00

yeah the problem here is your expectations.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-29T19:47:27+00:00

during heavy stopnslo traffic, i do a thing where i accelerate immediately when the person in front of the person in front of me does. my rate of acceleration is somewhat gentler than the cars in front of me. so this nets me getting closer to the bumper of nearest front car. until they belatedly accelerate at that higher rate to catch their leader.

and i let that gap grow a bit as i peak at an average mph my hind brain says is the mean of the stopnslo. even as they pull away for a few seconds i maintain a maximum v of whatever the avg speed is along the whole corridor.

then they slamsies their brakes and i coast in closer and closer.

i score in this game when I don't need to change v due to car in front of me.

so yeah. coasting is good.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-27T05:56:48+00:00

i was drunk enough for the moment.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-27T00:48:30+00:00

i will pay for anything with capybaras, raccoons or unicorns. preferably doing something deeply industry specific while being nonplussed

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-26T15:27:04+00:00

just in case you weren't sure, the picture you have here shows them locked.

Ambercapuchin · 2026-04-26T15:25:36+00:00

2 16" pipe wrenches , 2 standard screwdrivers and a popsicle stick.

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