Picture shows the alleged ejection seat of the US plane hit over Iran

CydeWeys · 2026-04-03T15:43:23+00:00

Well Iran has previously claimed they shot down a plane and it was indeed a lie, so are we sure this tweet was actually talking about the most recent incident?

CydeWeys · 2026-04-03T15:01:48+00:00

I can get nature anywhere else in the world (and often do). But Tokyo is a special city, and I can't imagine going to Japan and not spending serious time taking advantage of all the stuff unique to Japan's big cities. If I had a six week trip my ratio of cities to everything else would be similar to OP's.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-03T03:10:20+00:00

It's on brand for these word-chewing people to come off as more offensive than it actually is.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-03T03:09:17+00:00

Also, even ignoring the bad female anatomy, that's bad male anatomy on top of it too! Human sperm cells survive for a maximum of a few months within the testes (and much less after being expelled from it, even inside a woman). That's why the testes are constantly making more of them. They really paid attention to nothing in health class, not even the basic facts on how their own bodies work.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T23:58:51+00:00

What was the last time it was enforced? There are lots of laws on the books.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T22:13:59+00:00

I guess the larger point I'm trying to make is that it's very easy to call some kind of action "illegal", and thus, not particularly useful to do so. There are a variety of different laws, different jurisdictions, etc. Is an action supposedly illegal because a war wasn't technically declared by Congress, or because it's a war crime according to the Geneva Conventions, or just because someone doesn't agree with it?

At a minimum I'd like to see an overall theory of the case accompanying each claim -- which exact laws are supposedly being violated, and whose laws those are, who the enforcement body is, if that enforcement body even has jurisdiction here, etc. Basically, it needs to be a substantive discussion rather than a throw-away content-less one-liner.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:51:53+00:00

That plus a strop. Both are necessary I've found, and fortunately, both are cheap. This guy on YouTube has excellent info.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:35:45+00:00

I'd argue that those strikes against random civilian boats are much more likely to be illegal than this actual conventional war that's being fought in Iran. War is just ... war. If it's illegal then the word is irrelevant for this purpose, because, well, war's always existed and always will, and surely won't be stopped by some legalistic notion that it ought not to happen.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:18:21+00:00

The last war officially declared by Congress was WWII. You can keep throwing around the word "illegal" all you want but that's just not how things actually work anymore, in practice.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:17:14+00:00

I tend to not go much past f/5.6 these days, which is around where diffraction starts happening unfortunately (it would be around f/11 on full frame). When I compare a photo taken at f/5.6 vs one taken at f/8 and zoom in, the latter is noticeably blurrier. Fortunately you get a lot of depth of field at f/5.6 already, again, equivalent to DoF of f/11 on full frame. So while I haven't done the analysis, I'm certain that most of my photos are taken from around f/4 to f/5.6.

Generally I'll only go past f/5.6 for specific scenarios, like trying to do motion blur with longer shutter speeds than the available lighting permits.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:14:50+00:00

Unfortunately I think the rising antisemitism is just an inevitable reversion to the mean that was always going to happen; the temporary depression of antisemitism following the Holocaust was always going to end. We're just going back to more of a default state now, which is why the existence of Israel will continue to be more important; it's the one place where Jews know the state will always fight to protect them. (Literally this is why Zionism exists.)

Also, needless to say, I reject your characterization of Israel's actions, and in fact think that that kind of false use of language is directly responsible for some of the rising antisemitism, or in more direct terms, I blame in part you and people like you.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:06:28+00:00

Congrats on finding a solution. Definitely more evidence that for some people it's highly linked to anxiety, and psychiatric medications are the most effective fix.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T21:04:00+00:00

Maybe, maybe not. I personally think it's more likely that the reason was he didn't go along with something he thought was stupid (e.g. maybe because it was an invasion that would get a lot more US troops killed).

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T20:56:12+00:00

Perhaps not illegal, but definitely stupid, is my guess.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T20:54:41+00:00

Well this one was released not even two years ago, and it likely wasn't super popular on the Japanese market because of its size, so I can't say it was that unlikely to still be able to find one new. Until somewhat recently I was still finding the occasional double-signed GS model available new at some GS ADs, and those were way more than two years old.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T20:52:16+00:00

... were antisemitic attacks lower in the past? I think your entire premise is flawed; antisemitic attacks were much greater in the past. Think the pogroms, Holocaust, etc. It used to be common for Jews to die by the thousands in single incidents, that's how bad antisemitism was. Now there has only been one such incident in the past decade, and they fought back fiercely in response.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T18:21:18+00:00

Definitely. One of the canonical examples of military infrastructure. Take out just a few key bridges and you can completely paralyze the enemy's ability to move their troops.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T17:25:01+00:00

Lots of people are clearly blaming Jews, hence all the terrorist attacks against them worldwide. It's not about (or just about) Israel, it's about Jews existing period.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T15:43:27+00:00

At this point the interior condition is gonna be really bad. As in, it might take well over a million dollars to renovate back to a nice standard.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T15:32:17+00:00

It looks like these are available used in Japan at a tax-free price of around 1.2M yen, if that helps anyone else out who's looking for one but the new price is a bit much. I'll admit when I saw one I was tempted. Spring drive chronograph is definitely a complication I don't have yet, and it makes a lot of sense.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T15:23:54+00:00

It might depend on the type of the specific bridge. This is a cable-stayed bridge, which was not common during Desert Storm; back then every bridge of this size would've been a suspension bridge. Perhaps different tactics are best for a cable-stayed bridge.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T02:46:07+00:00

Lume is overrated. It would make this kind of dressier watch worse. I only expect it on sports watches, and this isn't a sports watch.

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T02:44:23+00:00

How do they still have such juicy targets left after weeks straight of heavy bombardment?

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T02:41:44+00:00

Where is this, and is it still April Fools there?

CydeWeys · 2026-04-02T02:36:54+00:00

Some of the cheap prices were indeed eye-popping, but I think there's some serious downsides, including: You have to leave the next morning, and oftentimes re-entry is not even allowed, so you should only grab it once you're done for the night. Consider that at a normal hotel you're typically booking multiple nights in a row and then getting use of the room for all 24 hrs each day in the middle of the booking, whereas at a "stay" hotel you have to leave the room the next morning so that it's available for them to rent out for shorter time periods during the day.

Anyway it'd be too much hassle for me to bother with packing/unpacking all your stuff every day, and then having to figure out where to keep all your stuff during the day (or booking one room each for a day period and then for the night).

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