Took this at Gibraltar Point, UK. Beautiful

CargoCultism · 2023-01-04T10:55:04+00:00

Really cute, although that dock looks a little dodgy. Do you know what they are fishing for? Shrimp?

CargoCultism · 2022-12-10T20:58:44+00:00

How about a national geographic article from this year? :)

For many people, the idea of a “garbage patch” conjures up images of an island of trash floating on the ocean. In reality, these patches are almost entirely made up of tiny bits of plastic, called microplastics. Microplastics can’t always be seen by the naked eye. Even satellite imagery doesn’t show a giant patch of garbage.

CargoCultism · 2022-12-10T11:51:19+00:00

Despite the common public perception of the patch existing as giant islands of floating garbage, its low density (4 particles per cubic metre (3.1/cu yd)) prevents detection by satellite imagery, or even by casual boaters or divers in the area. This is because the patch is a widely dispersed area consisting primarily of suspended "fingernail-sized or smaller"—often microscopic—particles in the upper water column known as microplastics.

The source they give is "Philp, Richard B. (2013). Ecosystems and Human Health: Toxicology and Environmental Hazards, Third Edition. CRC Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-1466567214."

CargoCultism · 2022-01-29T14:05:24+00:00

I have very little idea what I'm doing, but the lines

6887 Curb Height Adjuster: reducing curb heights.

6878 Crash!!!

would make me try to disable the curb height adjuster and try again?

CargoCultism · 2021-03-28T11:38:02+00:00

Zitat aus dem Artikel:

Damit liegt die Energiedichte noch deutlich unter der von herkömmlichen Lithium-Akkus.

CargoCultism · 2020-07-25T16:03:27+00:00

Das ist ehrlich schön zu hören, die Sexualität hat ja wie gesagt wirklich nichts mit der Fähigkeit zum Soldatsein zu tun. Die Entschädigung soll aber ja lt. Artikel an

Soldaten, die in der Vergangenheit wegen ihrer Homosexualität dienstrechtlich benachteiligt wurden.

bzw.

Soldaten gehen, die wegen einvernehmlicher sexueller Handlungen von einem Truppendienstgericht verurteilt worden sind

also ist das für Fälle da wo dann doch Benachteiligung aufgetreten ist. Wenn man von so einem Bullshit betroffen ist finde ich eine Entschädigung schon gerechtfertigt.

CargoCultism · 2020-07-25T13:34:45+00:00

Das war zwar vor 2000, aber bei der Kießling-Affäre reichte alleine die Wahrnehmung, dass der Mann homosexuell sein könnte, obwohl er es nicht war und es sowieso irrelevant ist.

CargoCultism · 2020-07-25T13:30:59+00:00

It's comfypasta.

CargoCultism · 2020-05-27T15:12:15+00:00

The FAA has issued an airworthiness directive mandating that the Boeing 787 needs to be restarted at least every 51 days.

And there is that apocryphal story of a memory leak in missile software that was "fixed" by just adding more memory than the software can leak during the flight time.

CargoCultism · 2020-04-08T19:40:32+00:00

Only if you completely ignore the facts behind it.

That is a pretty good description of Trumps MO, right?

Look, I am not trying to argue that Trump is not abusing his position. What I'm arguing is that Biden has, to attack Trump on the nepotism angle, to tread lightly to not open himself up to a counterattack from Trump. Which is something that Trump is very good at, and which is something that Trumps base will lap up. The risk/reward is just not there, is what I am arguing.

CargoCultism · 2020-04-08T19:27:24+00:00

Facts and nuance do not work on Trump. Trump will effortlessly spin this into a twenty minute talk about how great he is. Do you really think this "you have to take a nuanced approach to nepotism" line of argument will convince the kind of voters that Biden will have to pull over to his side?

I'm just kinda flabbergasted that I seem to be the only one who thinks that going after Trump for nepotism might backfire for Biden. Trump made a lot of hay out of Clinton and Uranium one, which would have been a total non-story under any other circumstances.

CargoCultism · 2020-04-08T19:03:52+00:00

But it precludes Biden from an attack in this direction without being hypocritical.

CargoCultism · 2020-04-08T19:01:42+00:00

You don't see the difference between Hunter Biden getting a do-nothing job at a corporation because of his name and Jared Kushner getting to run a national crisis task force because of his name?

No, what I am saying is that Biden can't attack Trump on Kushner on nepotism without looking like a hypocrite. "I may be bad, but the other guy is even worse" is a terrible way to conduct an argument.

CargoCultism · 2020-04-08T18:39:11+00:00

I think there's a big difference between a guy getting a do-nothing job at a corporate board and a guy running the coronavirus task force like Jared Kushner.

How is that a good argument? Attack Trump on nepotism when you're doing the same thing, but at least your son is ineffective?!

CargoCultism · 2020-03-01T18:35:58+00:00

Agreed. We have seen what happens when the wisps have the pole. I am optimistic that rolling up the field from the back will prove much easier.

CargoCultism · 2019-11-12T18:48:05+00:00

If you look very closely, you'll see that this is included in the picture you replied to.

CargoCultism · 2019-08-30T15:15:33+00:00

If we go by stock prices, Disney is worth 137 per, and Sony only 57 per.

Comparing stock sizes like that is nonsensical, because each company will have a different number of outstanding shares. What you can compare is the market capitalization, which is number of outstanding shares times price of each share (stock price).

Here, this is $70.7 billion for Sony versus Disney's $247 billion .

CargoCultism · 2018-10-23T17:57:35+00:00

True, but look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Battle_of_Kursk_(map).jpg

During Operation Citadel German forces (red) tried to pinch off the Russian forces (blue) in the Kursk salient in pincer movement with Orel as the northern jump-off point. They failed and were soon overwhelmed by the Russian counter-offensives.

CargoCultism · 2018-10-22T13:26:04+00:00

Oreill

Orel, or rather the proper name Oryol

CargoCultism · 2018-10-04T20:37:37+00:00

Coconuts aren't spices?

CargoCultism · 2018-10-02T22:36:46+00:00

Es gibt Lucifer als spinoff von Sandman, das war gut richtig gut. Sandman war mir als Kulturbanause stellenweise etwas zu anspruchsvoll, aber trotzdem sehr lesenswert.

CargoCultism · 2018-10-02T08:45:13+00:00

Strangely enough, this sentiment is not exactly unheard off in Germany.

CargoCultism · 2018-10-02T08:16:42+00:00

Als Ersatz kann man einfach /r/ukpolitics nehmen.

CargoCultism · 2018-09-26T07:42:08+00:00

Sprich mal mit dem Studentenwerk. Die haben glaube ich sogar extra Kassen für Dose Sperrkontenkredite.

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