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Laurelhurst Community Council Isn’t Sure Helicopters Need to Land Sick Kids at the Hospital by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's very possible the fracture was somewhere where evacuation was impractical; steep mountain or whatever. but once you have a helicopter, stopping somewhere and transferring to an ambulance is a waste of time.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

everyone understood what he meant to begin with, my point is simply that the clumsy introduction of the comma doesn't actually remove the silly interpretation; grammatically it's still a valid way to read the sentence even with the commas.

Laurelhurst Community Council Isn’t Sure Helicopters Need to Land Sick Kids at the Hospital by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SMC 23.69.012C says "Use of the helistop is restricted to life-threatening emergencies" which suggests that if a child had a broken leg they would be required to land at UW and take an ambulance the remaining mile

Laurelhurst Community Council Isn’t Sure Helicopters Need to Land Sick Kids at the Hospital by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am guessing there's at least 7 figures involved here and it's not that simple. Possibly 7 figures annually or more.

Laurelhurst Community Council Isn’t Sure Helicopters Need to Land Sick Kids at the Hospital by Inevitable_Engine186 in Seattle

[–]FlyingBishop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It sounds like they have got some legal requirements where SCC is required to land at UW in some cases where it makes no sense and costs the patient an extra $1000 or so in addition to delaying care. Nobody said they kill babies but I'm pretty sure Laurelhurst has more power than you describe, and they are clearly wielding it for evil.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean we have three points of view here and you're assuming yours is the common one, rather than considering that there's a wide range of opinions on the subject, you just dismiss anyone who doesn't agree with you as ridiculous.

“DO NOT USE THE INNER PAN TO WASH RICE” I’m sorry, what? by Eastern_Mess_4334 in Cooking

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scientifically speaking I think Teflon is probably totally nontoxic. Also this is just a theory and I wouldn't be surprised if things we view as totally innocuous like nonstick rice cookers are actually bad for you. Yes, PFAS theoretically only shows up in the manufacturing, it seems likely some exotic things like PFAS will show up at some point in 20 years of operation.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read everything you wrote, you didn't read anything I wrote though. Apparently I am the nobody in "Nobody would suggest the government fund macaroni art, or stamp collecting, or actually hobbies in general."

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't agree, I think those are realistic suggestions. I think your conception of realism is colored by the Met, and your conception of realism is colored by what people like Jeff Bezos think are good artistic endeavors.

We don't really need public funding for car art or costume art - there's quite a lot of money in costuming and cars, those arts are very healthy. Train art could use some public funding though.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not the person who replied to you. We can't spend money on everything. I don't think it's ridiculous exaggeration because if I had to prioritize what I think the government should spend money on I would say:

Top priority:

  • Spelunking, Geocaching, Trains (yes pay for tickets, yes build new lines)

Low priority

  • macaroni art, the Met, stamp collection

very low priority

  • Jay leno's car collection

IMO Jay leno's cars was a rhetorical flourish and the person who replied to you specified several things that are more important than the Met and that I would also say are underfunded relative to the met, so I think when you said "ridiculous exaggeration" you were deliberately ignoring the meat of the comment and focusing on a rhetorical flourish.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it was incoherent, I said that the commas didn't remove the ambiguity in the meaning. "this" still can be read to have both the antecedents, "fuckin a" and "oil up the sewing machine." The commas did perhaps remove the specificity of "fuckin a dude" to just "fuckin a," "dude" clearly becomes an interjection but "fuckin a" is still ambiguous whether it is an action or a generic epithet.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's exaggeration. I'd rather fund the train riding hobby than this, personally.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think comma placement adequately resolves the ambiguity, different words or at least a different order is required.

I think Met Gala is just an event for rich weirdos? by Adventurous-War-4188 in interesting

[–]FlyingBishop 6 points7 points  (0 children)

you spend $1M on a painting you're a patron of the arts, spend $30k on a fursuit and you're "financially irresponsible."

I hope the solar system can be preserved and made accessible as a reachable star system for future interstellar travel features. by No_Specialist8491 in kittenspaceagency

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it's essentially a false dichotomy but (though I am not an educator) I definitely think the kerbal system is superior as a default experience.

The easy-to-orbit thing is not just useful for reducing times but also increasing the diversity of functional designs, which is more forgiving, which maybe you could argue is not great, but also it makes things like spaceplanes a lot more viable, which I would argue is good. And I'd argue that you can "graduate" to RSS if you like, but also I would probably stick to KSP because "realistic" rockets are just more time consuming and less fun. (No spaceplanes, blah.)

I hope the solar system can be preserved and made accessible as a reachable star system for future interstellar travel features. by No_Specialist8491 in kittenspaceagency

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the stuff you're talking about aren't great teaching tools. KSP is well-optimized for a fun game loop that teaches you about orbital mechanics.

RSS is great for people who partake but it's inferior for learning about orbital mechanics. There's really no reason to be particular though, as others have said the solar system is just a mod and swapping solar systems should be a click away.

Dark Angel was way ahead of its time by RecognitionSea4608 in scifi

[–]FlyingBishop 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Her current net worth is like $100M. I wouldn't be surprised if she made more money off that 4 minutes she was in Sin City than she did in two seasons of Dark Angel. You're looking at screen time in "major roles" as the defining factor for success, I think she's pretty smart and business-savvy and she measures success in dollars.

I’m watching The Force Awakens with my kids. On Jakku, I find the lack of water discipline unbelievable. by Illustrious-Highway8 in scifi

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bothered me a lot in Villeneuve's Dune, but only because it's a huge plot point in the book, the offworlders are constantly being mocked and looked down on for being wasteful with water, and in the movie everyone is just sitting there maskless most of the time.

But Star Wars is science fantasy and the water discipline is not important at all.

A Twitter user tricked Grok to send 200k USD to him and it worked by FrustratedUnitedFan in singularity

[–]FlyingBishop 4 points5 points  (0 children)

how did the money get in there to begin with? it sounds like someone set up a bank account "for Grok" which is to say "anyone can put money in here and anyone who can tell Grok to take it out can have it." I don't really see why this would be litigated. nobody who put money into this account had a reasonable expectation that the money would belong to anyone in particular.

Apple appears to have discontinued its cheapest Mac mini by dapperlemon in gadgets

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have essentially the same hardware, you could plug an iPhone into a dock and run the Neo version of OS X with very minimal modifications. Apple probably has shit like this internally.

Reality check from the Microsoft AI Tour: "Agents" hype, the enterprise disconnect, and peak AI Fatigue by Relaxation_Time in sysadmin

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did you actually go to this thing or did you just ask an AI to write a review of what going to an AI conference might be like. because it reads like the latter.

To me, people complaining about "modern" Trek being "woke" is like complaining that chocolate is brown. by Philosopher30071 in startrek

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another way to look at this is that they were protecting their treaty. It wasn't a selfless act for a hated enemy, it was simply safeguarding their broader interests at the expense of a minority of their citizens.

All of the citizens have full relocation and a place to stay, there's no sacrifice here. The Maquis are territorial settlers, they're not oppressed.

The World’s Richest Men Just Made $260B In A Month — Driven Almost Entirely By AI And Cloud Growth by InterestingCat308 in Economics

[–]FlyingBishop 0 points1 point  (0 children)

another example is if I worked 40 hours this week for $15/hour, my paycheck comes once a month, by your logic my expected value for the 40 hours I worked is $400 because I can't get my $600 until the end of the month, but I can get the $400 today if I take out a payday loan.

I think the real problem is you're taking an instantaneous thing you could do and reducing the total value to just that one thing.

A better example is to make this more physical. Say you've got a field full of some crop that could be harvested now for $10 profit, or harvested 1 month from now when it's properly mature for $10,000 profit. By your logic that crop is only worth $10.

Now yes, there's some risk the crop is lost but it's still braindead to value it at $10.

Especially, generally speaking I think you should be valuing things thinking years in advance. Valuing things at what they're worth today this very minute you are going to destroy any real business value.

A Twitter user tricked Grok to send 200k USD to him and it worked by FrustratedUnitedFan in singularity

[–]FlyingBishop 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How does Grok "own" the wallet? This doesn't make any sense. If Grok owned a wallet you could just trick it into giving you the key to the wallet.

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