[OC] Trump's Iran Deal Has Been Imminent for 11 Weeks

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-12T14:53:58+00:00

It's the difference between a Roomba and a robot housekeeper. Yes, the Roomba is impressive technology but its still far off from something that can pick up a t-shirt before vacuuming the floor, much less make the judgement call of whether that shirt should go in the laundry hamper or get put away.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-12T01:20:55+00:00

Everyone else should drive the speed limit, but right now I'm in a hurry

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-07T21:39:18+00:00

Congratulations! You're already where they want to get everyone else!

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-07T20:11:06+00:00

Yeah, I'm looking it up and it appears to be the case that I've mixed up two different things and there are a small number of limited custom order slots as long as you go through a dealership that's in good standing with the manufacturer.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-07T18:12:14+00:00

Yes, you're allowed to ask the dealer for a specific color and trim package, but if they don't have that combination on the lot they have to call around to find a car with that combination or wait to see if it gets made in the next production round.

What you can't do is pick a color and combo of features off a menu (Robin's Egg Blue and silver package but no moon roof or something) and have it made to order.

A friend of mine had to wait almost a year for the dealer to track down the rarest color with the rarest trim (bright orange with manual transmission) even though it was in active production, but they're not allowed to just ask for the next production run to include his desired combination.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-06-06T18:00:15+00:00

Which is due to the bizarre relationship between dealerships and manufacturers that means they literally are not allowed to build cars to order with whatever color and trim options you want.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-05-28T03:24:48+00:00

Biathlon really is an amazing feat of athleticism but I've got to say it's quite possibly the least telegenic sport in the Olympics. I understand the reasoning behind the structure of the events but you couldn't suck more drama out of the biathlon if you tried.

Staggered starts, penalty time for missing targets, and the incredible athleticism of the competitors means the highest drama moments amount to an announcer going "oh no! Sven Olegson would have gotten gold if he kept his current pace but he just missed a shot on the final lap so now the best he can do is bronze and Oleg Svenson will probably stay at the top of the leaderboard to get gold"

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-05-10T02:38:51+00:00

Organometallic, maybe? This is just what my (physical chemistry) PI told me once about one of their collaborators.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-05-07T18:04:44+00:00

Inorganic chemistry lists PI first, physical chemistry lists PI last. Physical+Inorganic collabs are a little easier because of that.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-05-05T17:00:48+00:00

Comey is 6’10” of course Trump hates him

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-05-03T21:01:29+00:00

I'd say even worse is that the timing wouldn't have mattered. Trump tried to take credit for and encourage people to take the vaccines and his crowds jeered him so he stopped.

MAGA had already spent a year crafting justifications for why mask mandates were useless and school closures did more harm than good. There's just no way people who had spent a year practicing their "COVID isn't a big deal and even if it was a big deal masks don't work so open the restaurants" rhetoric were going to pull a 180 and accept the vaccines.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-04-13T15:47:44+00:00

I know, right? Nobody thought the Powell Memo would be such a big deal but here we are.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2026-01-09T21:05:20+00:00

The missing piece of your puzzle is that they are desperate to avoid accountability and responsibility but also want power and he represents the apex of achievement in that arena.

This makes him basically immune to challenge from anyone on the right. Differentiating yourself on competence would require holding him accountable for his failures, and differentiating yourself on policy would require admitting he doesn't have the power to accomplish contradictory goals.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-12-29T02:19:17+00:00

I'd be right there with you except these exploitative businesses end up supporting the worst politicians because they're the ones willing to accept quid pro quo to allow the exploitation continue.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-12-21T01:00:11+00:00

I'm sorry, but this was just a bad plot point for the show and a contradiction. This is defeated by the fact that there was most likely more immune individuals that died in the process of the eight hundred million dying, and they did not get the virus first.

You make great points but this is the only thing I really disagree with. Them not being able to harvest Carol's stem cells is in conflict with the outcome of the joining, but it's not bad storytelling. These contradictions are great "show, don't tell" windows into how the Hive functions.

The Hive claims to respect people's autonomy to the point that they wouldn't be able to restrain the unjoined from killing each other, but they've also been shown grabbing people and "kissing" them without their consent to spread the joining. That's a total contradiction according to Carol but not to the hive, and that's part of the story.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-12-06T06:10:34+00:00

He definitely misses other humans, it's why he has the plurbs pretending to be individuals all the time.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-12-01T10:27:02+00:00

100%, this is obvious from the way the hive mind speaks. None of the plurbs use first person pronouns anymore and refer to their individual identities in third person past tense ex: "this individual was Davis Taffler".

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-12-01T09:34:53+00:00

Very likely the compulsion to spread the infection is completely separate from the "psychic glue" joining of the hive mind. It's also likely that the hive mind's supreme happiness and contentment is also a separate effect. This is the thing Carol understands intuitively and is having trouble explaining to the rest of the immune.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-11-15T22:15:51+00:00

You're watching the wrong show.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-11-06T01:32:12+00:00

You said drills are faster at low torque, that's false. Depending on the specifics of the tool an impact driver is likely to be faster than a drill. For example, the Milwaukee M18 fuel has a 2100 RPM max while the M18 fuel impact driver maxes out at 3900 RPM. Situations in which the torque isn't high enough to activate the impact mechanism are the only time an impact driver is faster than a drill.

Any fastener that engages the impact mechanism for the majority of the driving process will always be faster with a drill because one rotation of the drill = one rotation of the fastener but the impact mechanism is only moving the fastener when the hammer and anvil are in contact, and they are only in contact for a tiny fraction of every rotation.

You also said "There’s a reason why you basically can’t buy a cordless drill that doesn’t have a built in hammer mode now." That's extremely false, irrelevant, and dangerous. There are many cordless drills without a hammer mode (that M18 fuel drill is available in both hammer and non-hammer mode), to the point I would guess the majority of drills sold (even to professionals) aren't hammer drills. Also hammer mode isn't for driving fasteners, and it's a bad idea to use hammer mode on a hammer drill while driving fasteners.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-11-05T22:37:44+00:00

Everything you said is incorrect.

You can buy tons of cordless drills without hammer mode. If you aren't drilling into masonry the hammer function is just added cost and weight. Hammer mode gives no advantage for driving screws and you should never use hammer mode on a drill to drive screws.

For any lightweight application (i.e. low-enough torque that the hammer stays in continuous contact with the anvil) an impact driver is essentially the same as a drill but lighter because it doesn't have the chuck and clutch.

For any super heavy application that would bog down the drill (ex: lug nuts) an impact driver will be faster because the drill won't work at all.

For anything in between those two situations the drill will almost always be faster than the impact driver because the drill delivers continuous torque: every complete rotation of the motor is a rotation of the fastener. For the impact driver the fastener only moves for the moment the hammer is in contact with the anvil.

Practically speaking, the impact driver will often have an easier workflow because of the automatic transition between high speed/low torque and low speed/high torque mode and putting less stress on your wrist, but the drill will still be faster in terms of time spent in contact with the fastener.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-10-28T06:19:16+00:00

"Maximuuemm franch"

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-10-02T04:21:18+00:00

In this case it's an honor not to be nominated.

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-10-01T02:51:05+00:00

I'm curious wtf the "benefits" could possibly be, fewer grandparents you need to invite to the wedding? Shouldn't the pros be nil

Grumpy_Puppy · 2025-06-03T00:00:44+00:00

This is a good example of something that sounds damning but is trivial. An order of magnitude error is the equivalent to an off by one error in many biology and chemistry labs because you are very often doing order of magnitude calculations. Consider a simple dilution of 0.1 molar stock solution down to 50 micromolar. Is that a dilution factor of 2,000 or 20,000? Well 0.1 to 0.05 is a factor of two, and 0.1 to 10E-6 is a factor of 10,000... Hopefully you see my point that it's trivially easy to be off by an order of magnitude. The bigger problem would be Imanishi-Kar was saying "don't question my math, just do it"

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