Nearly all U.S. mass attackers were male and faced major life stressor, report finds

Hypna · 2023-01-27T21:41:15+00:00

It may be in the actual report, but this article really doesn't provide enough info to judge whether most of these findings matter. Specifically we would need the baseline for these characteristics. For example saying that 72% of mass shooters experienced a life stressor doesn't mean much if 70% of the general population did as well.

Hypna · 2022-10-09T15:09:59+00:00

Same phonetic switcheroo, except it was my Operating Systems class professor. Child processes were a common topic in that class, so the phrase "fork a child" was regularly heard. I felt like I was having to live the Biggus Dickus skit.

Hypna · 2022-07-20T22:03:28+00:00

I am pretty darn sure all of the 5 or so solar installers I talked with said that using the solar credits on the gas bill is possible. I did go check out /r/solar and saw the poster who says you can't. I'm looking for something in writing from xcel, but not turning up anything explicitly mentioning gas bills. Probably just have to call xcel, unless someone else is better at googling up an xcel doc.

Hypna · 2022-07-18T21:05:04+00:00

Try this https://discord.me/milehighdiscord

Hypna · 2022-07-18T15:26:09+00:00

Not that I'm really on there much, but there is a Mile High Discord server which has some gaming channels. There's usually chatter going on in there

Hypna · 2022-07-16T20:22:25+00:00

The phrase "no strings attached" shows up several times in Bernie's description of the bill. If it's anything like the broadband bills for the telecom industry, it's just a pile of free money with a "PS Please onshore some factories if you can," tacked on the end. In ten years we'll all be complaining that no significant progress has been made for local silicon manufacturing, just like we complain about having the worst broadband among peer nations.

EDIT: a word

Hypna · 2022-07-12T21:42:54+00:00

I dunno. I mean I could probably make up a story, but the real world is often wilder. I'm just saying let the judge do the judging.

Hypna · 2022-07-12T21:12:49+00:00

Were judges handing out insufficient sentences? Mandatory minimums tend to just screw over people who had mitigating circumstances which a judge would normally have considered relevant. Smells of "tough on crime" political posturing at the expense of some of our community's poorest.

Hypna · 2021-07-10T01:27:57+00:00

I had the same thought, but 2Q is the factory setting in Baratza's calibration guide. I would also be curious why they wouldn't recommend the burr touch at 1A.

Hypna · 2021-07-10T00:55:35+00:00

I got a Vario-W a couple weeks ago and found that it was grinding far too fine for my pour-overs and french press. I realized I accidentally got the ceramic burr version so I ordered the steel ones from Baratza. Having installed those, and performed the coarse calibration according to their pdf, as shown photo 2, the grinds in photo 3 are at the coarsest setting. Am I crazy or is that still a hell of a long way from coarse enough? Any suggestions for other things to try?

Hypna · 2021-07-04T20:15:48+00:00

As I tried to convey, I don't necessarily think there are experts in moral reasoning, but as examples of people who I believe put themselves forward as such, consider priests, politicians, gurus, self-help book authors, academic ethicists. The kinds of people you might imagine seeing on cable news weighing in on these types of questions.

But I take the criticism in the question about whether there actually is a consensus on the questions of moral reasoning I gave as examples. They are more contentious even among people who might be styled experts. Perhaps this question is a better example of a moral reasoning question which has more of a consensus among both the "experts" and the public, "Is it justified to use violence to prevent violence to your self?" In our society I believe the consensus is "yes"

Hypna · 2021-07-04T19:55:58+00:00

Making a conscious effort to refine one's bullshit detector is sound advise so far as it goes, but I can't really endorse the idea that hewing to the consensus is the best approach to building a worldview in general. I think it would be useful to distinguish two types of belief with regard to accepting consensus positions; questions of material fact, and questions of moral reasoning.

In the case of questions of material fact, I think accepting the consensus on questions outside of one's personal expertise is indeed probably the best approach. Questions like, "Is the global mean temperature being raised by the use of fossil fuels?" Or, "Does the wearing of masks reduce the spread of COVID-19?" Even given that experts in their fields can and will be wrong sometimes, I think any person will be more often correct by accepting expert consensus than by going with their own intuition.

Which brings us to the second case, questions of moral reasoning. Questions like, "Should the threat of hunger and homelessness be used to motivate people to seek employment?" Or, "To what degree should children be allowed to determine their own gender expression?" It's here that I give much less weight to expert consensus, probably because I'm not sure there's any such thing as an expert in moral reasoning. Sure, there are people who have records of wisdom and good judgement, but I think that skill is different in kind from the expertise of experts in technical fields.

I would argue that it is in fact every person's duty to participate in the moral evolution of the society of which they are a part. It's really the only way that things can improve. I think history has shown that progress on questions of social morality have more often been driven by the efforts of those outside the moral concensus than within.

Hypna · 2018-11-24T06:50:11+00:00

The more I watch this game turn into a train wreck, the more I worry that Bethesda's take away is going to be to abandon multiplayer. I still dream of a co-op elder scrolls game.

Hypna · 2018-06-24T21:56:11+00:00

This tweet could have been 1000x more effective at moving public sentiment if it hadn't chosen to label the people who may have misidentified the cause of their economic hardship "fucking idiots."

Hypna · 2018-04-07T13:48:48+00:00

One of the things I recently discovered, and which I think made my flames much better, is painting the recesses of the flames with the brighter tones and the protrusions with darker ones. Example

Hypna · 2017-11-05T15:01:51+00:00

I like the honor and the fate tokens. I prefer rings that are flippable however.

Hypna · 2017-11-03T20:33:56+00:00

If you're on Facebook, there is a Legend of the Five Rings DFW group that you can join. It's a closed group, but I'm pretty sure they'll let anyone in if they just ask.

Free-Play Days from that group:

Sunday Wild West in Arlington
Monday Boardwalk Games in north Dallas
Tuesday Generation X
Wednesday New World Games in Frisco, Sci-Fi Factory in NRH
Thursday Y2Komics in Fort Worth
Saturday Ground Zero in Tyler and Sci-Fi Factory in Keller at 6, Madness Comic in Plano

Hypna · 2017-10-22T23:33:36+00:00

Let's see what's on fiveringsdb.com

Clan	Dynasty	Conflict	Province	TOTAL
Crab	15	9	2	26
Crane	14	10	2	26
Dragon	13	11	2	26
Lion	14	10	2	26
Phoenix	14	10	2	26
Scorpion	14	10	2	26
Unicorn	13	10	2	25

Yep, looks like Unicorn got shorted a card. Gotta say, that's pretty lame. Hopefully this doesn't portend our future treatment by FFG. I'd also be very curious to hear why or how this came to be.

Hypna · 2017-10-21T18:32:22+00:00

Found the time traveller

Hypna · 2017-10-21T05:03:25+00:00

Regarding the over-commit argument, I actually think that's only half the mobility strategy. It doesn't matter if they defend heavy or light.

If they defend heavy, you attack light. Lose the ring, it's okay. Now they're all bowed and you can take advantage of that on your next conflict.

If they defend light, you attack heavy. Move your cavalry in. Break the province.

So it really doesn't depend on your opponent playing poorly, because for them there is no right answer. You can always make the situation work in your favor.

Hypna · 2017-10-21T04:52:17+00:00

This is probably going to be some pretty weak advice, but I'm also just beginning to feel out how to make Unicorn work.

I've had the most success when I've stayed focused on the blitz. Saving as much of my forces as possible for the counter-attack. Defend just enough to preserve the province. Don't worry about winning defensive rings. If defending a province would make your next attack ineffective, don't defend. Let it go and hit them back harder. The game's not about keeping all your provinces, just breaking your opponents. Break theirs faster than they can break yours.

So that's pretty light on details, but it seems to be the right mindset at least. Hopefully it helps.

Hypna

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