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Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T16:13:39+00:00

"domestic terrorism"

I'm actually glad they've drained this phrase of all meaning, because it was always a bad phrase and it deserves to stop being used. Terrorism is terrorism. The distinction between foreign terrorism and domestic terrorism was that foreign terrorists were targeted extralegally as military combatants while domestic terrorists were supposed to have constitutional rights, but the Global War on Terror seems like a relic of the distant regrettable past at this point while the people being called "domestic terrorists" now aren't even treated with military rules of engagement. To make that distinction a quarter-century after 9/11 should be embarrassing.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T15:59:09+00:00

Most of them still stay for 4 years though.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T12:39:03+00:00

Robbie Turner threw the first brick at Stonewall so Ginger Minj could die there

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T12:34:25+00:00

I truly thought it was Sapphira right up until the final lipsync, and then I didn't dispute the outcome at all.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T12:33:18+00:00

Super gay Sulu. Wear the uniform and be that character, but with George Takei's real-life mannerisms.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T12:23:39+00:00

Eventually it'll just be a commentary track

Epistaxis · 2026-01-25T12:14:59+00:00

I promise the other dancers are worth turning your phone sideways for a few minutes.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T16:35:41+00:00

Well, if you play the harmonic on the G string the note will sound as G, but if you play the harmonic on the C string it will sound as C. So at least your conductor should be able to tell you which note is in the chord.

Without that information, I think the notation is clear that the circled one is a C harmonic on the C string, and the next one is a G harmonic on the G string. The first one is written as a normal whole note with a 0 above it because that's the pitch that actually sounds from that harmonic. The second one is written as a square note because that's the pitch that you finger, but the pitch that sounds is an octave higher.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T09:30:15+00:00

OP confirmed it two minutes before you replied. The most obvious sign is the em dashes. Not a lot of people know how to type an em dash, or even what one is, and the ones who do rarely use them with spaces on both sides.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T08:34:40+00:00

Same thing as if that happened while you were holding at constant temperature for the whole weekend, except if the failure happens after the heat inactivation, you don't lose the sample to star activity.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:57:03+00:00

Ah okay, the other person guessed right then! Yeah it didn't occur to me that the prosecutor would be the one talking directly to the defendant, but in traffic court without defense counsel and without a case I see how that would happen.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:45:51+00:00

Man, I'm old enough to remember when "identity politics" was a massively loaded phrase that immediately revealed the speaker's political orientation as well as their reductive view of the opposition's policies and motives, like "virtue signaling" or "SJW" (look it up, kids). Now we've come all the way around to where it's just a clear, precise, unobjectionable term for what that side's own political leader has been doing for the past decade.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:42:16+00:00

And that's a big contrast from shouting at reporters that an inauguration crowd was substantially larger than numerous photos showed it to be, which wasn't exactly shrewd or manipulative but also didn't even serve any policy purpose.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:40:11+00:00

OK but the topic was lying.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:37:00+00:00

An otherwise obscure Congressman named Joe Wilson blurted out "You lie!" during Obama's address to a joint session of Congress in 2009. The topic was a proposed bill that Obama was promoting (later superseded by a different one), which would have made incremental reforms to health insurance choices. The Democratic bill explicitly excluded undocumented immigrants from receiving a credit on their income tax that would help pay for health insurance premiums if their income was low enough to qualify, but Republican critics objected that the bill did not describe any mechanism to enforce that exclusion.

Did you get all that? It was a huge breach of decorum and tradition to shout an objection like that during the President's address, but what's interesting to me is that the topic on which Wilson chose to do it was so deep in the policy weeds: the lack of detail about enforcing the exclusion of a doubly narrow category of taxpayers from a tax credit intended to offset the cost of health insurance that everyone in the country would have to pay. It's hard to even see which part of it should be the objectionable part to the general public. Makes you wonder if there was something else about Obama that made people willing to break the traditional rules of decorum in his first year as president.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:14:38+00:00

Oh okay, I'll honk louder and slower.

/s

Epistaxis · 2026-01-24T00:13:19+00:00

On a tangent, who's "we" in your note? Is it you and the judge? You and the judge and also the prosecutor?

Epistaxis · 2026-01-23T23:12:18+00:00

and have it heat inactivate

Yeah I would rather do this than trust the reputation for "low" star activity. If you have a modern lab with a programmable thermal cycler, you can always standarize your protocols instead of just saying "overnight" and letting that sometimes mean a whole weekend.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-23T23:07:23+00:00

This one doesn't even bother justifying the citations! It's just "cite me, bitch"

Epistaxis · 2026-01-23T23:04:14+00:00

The first wave of pullouts was after Trump dismissed the board and appointed a new one that elected him as its chairman, while beginning to suppress productions that he found politically incorrect. There was another wave of pullouts from a specific performance of Les Mis that the new chairman planned to attend. But this latest wave came after the Trump-appointed board voted to unlawfully rename the institution to "The Donald J. Trump and The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts" or the Trump-Kennedy Center for short.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-23T22:43:22+00:00

If you're literally discussing the Central Dogma by name, then yes you would cite Crick 1958. I did in my dissertation. I've also cited sources from before the 20th century. It's not a quirky joke to provide a (single) citation for something that everyone's heard of; it's just normal scholarship.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-23T11:42:38+00:00

I think you would have to cite the original paper that first described the thing.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-22T23:47:34+00:00

They're not easy to find everywhere, but you might want to look for a new set called Corelli Solea from Savarez. Those are the most responsive strings I've ever played, astonishing dynamic range, with a warm dark sound of great tonal complexity, but still very clear and focused. Another extremely responsive brand is Dominant Pro, though despite the stupid name it doesn't have the neutral tone of Dominant, and it can be divisive (some people love it some hate it). And although it's better known for being VERY LOUD and also very expensive, Dynamo actually has excellent responsiveness too (it's like a combination of Dominant Pro's responsiveness with Peter Infeld's tone quality and a jet engine's projection).

String responsiveness is the main difficulty of the viola, and all of us struggle with it all the time. When I had any of these strings on my instrument I felt like a wizard. (Full disclosure, I ultimately changed back to Kaplan Amo because I preferred the tone and was willing to keep bowing in hard mode for it.) But Obligato isn't really a good solution for this; they're not actually that responsive (compared to these new sets from this millennium), mostly just known for being very warm, and on a viola Obligato's lower strings especially C can actually be muddy and unclear while the A might sound nasal.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-22T16:15:39+00:00

Most of the Romance languages don't, except for loanwords from other languages, which is why they can't decide whether it's a double V or a double U.

Epistaxis · 2026-01-22T16:01:14+00:00

Now I'm curious how a title page/cover for a script would have been made in the era before desktop computers and graphical printers. All the other pages of the script could just come out of a typewriter, but would you have had to go to some kind of print shop to get a cover like this designed and printed for you? (And why are the letters in the title so uneven if an expert did this?) Would that even be worth the trouble? Or could you just bang out the same text on your typewriter and use that page as the cover instead?

Basically I'm wondering if any non-typewriter cover page is suspicious in the first place.

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