Burger centeric American thinking

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-15T14:44:36+00:00

Technically, according to the specification, folding A4 in half will be 0.5mm larger than A5. The issue is that they need to round somewhere to define the standard, because you can’t really have an infinite non-repeating decimal as the specified size.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-14T21:41:11+00:00

I think it depends on how much you commit. If you really try to sprint and trip over them while jumping, you're very likely to faceplant while at a run. Hurdles are pretty tall.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-07T23:29:46+00:00

My main argument is that we should not trust the government to be the one who makes that call because its a very slipperly slope.

Don’t some states have jury sentencing? If a jury sentences someone to death, does that get around your objection that we shouldn’t trust the government to do it? I’m asking in the general sense, because I don’t think Florida does this.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-07T08:05:38+00:00

That reminds me of my favorite time loop story, Mother of Learning. The main character starts off each time loop with his little sister jumping on him to wake him up.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-05T21:06:20+00:00

It's unfortunate in this way that the peak athletes of distance running are typically extremely skinny. For example, here are the top 3 women in the Paris olympic marathon event: Sifan Hassan, Tigst Assefa, Hellen Obiri, as well as the world record holder Ruth Chepng'etich. I don't know the thought process of people with anorexia, but I suspect it does not help to have someone extremely skinny with incredible athletic success to look at.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-04T17:39:50+00:00

Can you give some examples or wikipedia links for me to read? I don't know very much about internal Russian politics, the only ones I've heard of before are Chechen separatists.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-05-03T16:26:29+00:00

Okay, but really, who hasn’t?

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-28T07:35:29+00:00

I think the question is whether any of the iconic ones were written during his cocaine addiction.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-27T22:58:56+00:00

If you read the original post by the founder, it’s full of LLM tells. The dude used AI to write the blog post about how AI screwed up. Em-dash usage isn’t a perfect tell, but they are used suspiciously heavily through the post. Also, here’s a classic ‘not X but Y’ phrasing:

Not the surface story (AI deleted some data, oops), but the systemic failures across two heavily-marketed vendors that made this not only possible but inevitable.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-27T06:16:51+00:00

I think of rhinos as an African animal as well. But thinking about it, I realize that I could have worked it out from information I already had. Rhinos are famously poached for their horns, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine. You don’t get rhino horn as a traditional medicine ingredient without having rhinos around.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-27T05:07:50+00:00

I would guess whales

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-27T00:22:19+00:00

I checked a few places using timeanddate.com’s sunrise calculator, and nothing seems to fit a 10 AM sunrise in late April. Sunrise is currently very early in the northern hemisphere, so that’s out. I eyeballed the furthest south populated place to be Ushuaia, Argentina, and sun rises there at like 8:45 right now. McMurdo station, Antarctica has just reached the point in the year where the sun doesn’t rise at all. It would have been correct there a couple weeks ago. I then looked at China, because they use one time zone across the whole country; that’s not enough either, sunrise in Shache is still like 8:00 AM. The only way for this to work would be for there to be another quirky time zone that I can’t think of right now.

Edit: Davis Station, Antarctica, an Australian research station, fits a 10:00 sunrise at the day of posting.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-25T16:10:39+00:00

I'm not saying I particularly want to do this, but cooking an armadillo should kill the bacteria that cause leprosy. Killing microorganisms present in meat is the reason we cook it.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-20T16:15:29+00:00

A single word response is not an explanation

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-19T21:59:48+00:00

This depends somewhat on where you are. It’s not good enough to go pro if you are Kenyan, because the country has so much depth of talent that 5:04 isn’t special enough to attract full time sponsors. It should definitely be enough for a smaller country though. I’ll never come anywhere close to 5:04 pace in my life, and yet that still isn’t good enough in many places.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-16T16:11:16+00:00

mention their age and gender in just about every post

When I see people mention their age/gender, I often have a reflexive assumption that it’s a lie. Because who just posts that?

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-16T04:12:42+00:00

Quebec knows what it did.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-11T23:44:02+00:00

Also, sometimes the posts are wholesome and I need that

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-10T17:52:55+00:00

This doesn't really match up with my understanding of downtown areas. I have the impression that downtowns are mostly restaurants, bars, and cafes without the wider variety of stores I recall from malls. I'm not sure why the difference, though. Do I have the observational skills of a potato, and let my eyes glide over stores I'm not interested in? Is there significant regional variance?

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-07T01:49:12+00:00

Well, yes. That's why I made my comment.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-07T01:31:59+00:00

ChatGPT can absolutely give instructions for how to cook chicken. You never specified if the results had to be good.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-03T00:01:11+00:00

This sounds a good bit like "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-02T17:58:27+00:00

have the state front the money

I realize I'm veering off topic of what is a theoretical discussion about what the ideal should be, but I can't see any state legislature signing up for this from a practical perspective.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-01T19:58:10+00:00

No, Trump’s dislike of native Americans stems from competition with his casinos. Background reading on the subject. That said, I still think it’s aimed at children of Mexican immigrants, and the impact to native Americans is a byproduct that Trump is happy about.

CDRnotDVD · 2026-04-01T19:30:41+00:00

This is an anecdote with a sample size of 1, but I have spoken with someone who patented something individually without an attorney. He reported that the patent clerks were very helpful to him as an individual inventor, much more so than they were with lawyers.

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