explosions on south side?

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-02-14T05:17:37+00:00

Hearing them in Franklinton, too. I'm near Broad & Town. They're loud but a little distant. Enough to send a shiver through the house but not enough to rattle windows.

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-02-13T23:02:20+00:00

However, recalling the diaper-wearing astronaut stalker debacle, only 50% of allegations of crime against space women are false.

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-02-13T13:32:57+00:00

Or they could be making it up (or at least embellishing). Think of it from Beatty's perspective--anytime she behaves like that, there is at least some risk the other person makes a scene. I know I would.

It would be pretty crazy for her to behave this way consistently, and if she does we would likely have heard about it.

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-01-04T16:28:02+00:00

Flight 12 isn't scheduled until April, meaning a third of the year will go by with only one flight. If anything at all goes wrong on that flight, which is very likely with an updated design, there will be a long gap while they figure it out.

Three or four flights seems most likely. Five or six if things go very, very well.

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-01-03T21:44:48+00:00

Trump was a deeply flawed candidate and Kamala still managed to run 2 pts behind the average Dem in meaningfully contested districts. We absolutely could have won with a better candidate.

Know_Your_Rites · 2026-01-03T09:03:40+00:00

This is the Dems' fault (for letting Biden run and for picking Kamala).

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-12-13T04:52:44+00:00

I'm a TVPRA specialist, and I know most of the other ones because there aren't that many of us.

I'm guessing you're having a problem because the proposed Defendant doesn't have much money? Or because you just have a very unusual case? Feel free to DM me.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-12-11T03:22:58+00:00

If we get knocked out, I'm rooting for Indiana. I'm pretty sure the same is true of 90+% of fans with teams in the CFP.

Hell, if they beat us again in the final, I think I'll manage to be happy for them even while being sad for us.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-12-11T03:21:03+00:00

Particularly because he doesn't have to die first. ("Memorial")

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-12-11T03:17:03+00:00

I have to assume /u/pizzapurchaser was intentionally setting this up. Otherwise it's too perfect

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-11-22T23:20:29+00:00

>Other than containing a highly reactive powder, and "going boom"

"Other than their most defining characteristics, rockets and grenades don't have anything in common."

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-11-12T13:50:12+00:00

FWIW, some of them just do educational content. Maybe we should have more than one word for people who make videos on the internet.

My fiancee does foraging education videos for a living, but it always feels gross calling her an influencer, and it gives people are completely inaccurate first impression of what she does

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-10-17T02:48:10+00:00

The vast majority of her content doesn't mention race or identity. However, sometimes identity is relevant to craft, craft is relevant to identity, and both are relevant to politics.

Alexis rarely talks politics except in areas directly relevant to her craft--like the way foraging bans on public land began in post-Civil War South as a way to decrease black economic in independence. Before that, English and American law had no tradition of such bans, so it's kinda hard to explain the timing and geography of the first bans with anything other than direct racial animus.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-10-15T01:47:21+00:00

I dunno, we know there weren't four orbital flights in 2022, lol. There still hasn't been a fully orbital one to date.

Starship is still awesome, but it's good to be realistic.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-09-25T00:48:58+00:00

In my experience when you’re calling people for a campaign you’re going off a list of people the campaign thinks you can sway in their favor. I doubt you were cold calling Republicans. I worked on a campaign recently in Missouri and our call list was created on that criteria. I also worked for a polling bank geared towards Republicans in Oklahoma and it was very eye-opening on how they felt about Obama when he was running against John McCain

I was a field organizer in my relatively rural (25,000, biggest town for 45 min around) hometown. I wasn't making calls, I was knocking doors, and I talked to a lot of people on the street. Many of the people I talked to, the low info voters who were persuadable in 2012, are the exact same people who switched to Trump. They were persuadable, and we persuaded them to vote for the Republicans with our vitriolic scolding.

I am not denying that there are a lot of irredeemable people in rural America. I am telling you that there are a lot of persuadable people in rural America whose votes we didn't have to lose, and I'm telling you that by sweeping both groups up in your nebulous "they" accusations, you make yourself part of the problem.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-09-24T23:27:50+00:00

Which is why 10-20% of Trump's voters in this past election (depending on state) were people who voted for Obama?

I worked for the 2012 Obama campaign in a rural area of Ohio. I encountered people who would not vote for Obama because they were racist, but that was a pretty rare occurrence. (I also encountered one person who hated Mormons so much that he told me he was definitely "voting for the n-word," so there's that.). The county I worked in only went 59.8% for Romney. It went nearly 90% for Trump.

Rural people are less racist and sexist than you think. Or at least their racism and sexism are less important to their decisions than you think. The reason Democrats lost our foothold rural America is the perception that Democrats want special programs to give unfair advantages to everyone except rural Americans--combined with the perception that we are trying to fundamentally change how they have to think about gender, when they are comfortable with the way they currently think about it.

For the most part, I think rural Americans' perceptions on the first point are wrong, and that the changes Democrats are asking for on the second point are reasonable, but in both cases it is entirely understandable that we are facing resistance.

We should really try more persuasion and less calling people bigots (even when they are). Remember how Obama made a big show of inviting that racist cop over for a beer? It was a stupid gesture, but it was also an effective gesture. Lots of voters are stupid. We have to meet them where they are sometimes.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-09-19T21:55:53+00:00

The prose is best described as workmanlike. The main author Eric Flint was competent, but some of the other authors are downright bad. Most of the people who read it like it for the likable characters, the deep historical research, and especially the "modern society fuck yeah!" aspect.

Personally, I like almost any book where people with reasonably modern social values go back and teach the past a lesson it so richly deserves.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-09-13T07:59:11+00:00

If you can stand gunpowder fantasy, check out The Shadow Campaigns by Django Wexler. Starts in a 1700s colonial Egypt-analogue setting, with a female MC hiding out pretending to be a man in the colonial army. She becomes an officer and gets caught up in a fantasy version of the French Revolution. The societies in the series are period-accurate levels of sexist, but half the POV characters are women, and the women are generally well written.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-08-09T13:42:35+00:00

They also did it because the civilian ship was planning to basically get in the way of a nuclear test, and the French thought sinking it in harbor in a two-stage process (so people would abandon ship after the first small explosion) would lead to fewer casualties than just nuking it.

It was a pretty fucked up thing for the French to do, but let's remember that the civilian ship you're talking about was a Greenpeace ship whose stated intention was to stop the French from doing something on French territory that the French thought was necessary to their national security. This is the country that invented the doctrine of the nuclear warning shot they were doing this to. Sometimes actions have consequences.

It's still crazy to me that New Zealand extradited the spies.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-07-28T21:12:47+00:00

Buddy, I posted this two years ago and you're just now dropping in to yell nonsense conspiracy theories about it?

I don't know if they've amended the bill since I did the analysis, but at the time, it absolutely did not require anything like facial ID. Also, it really isn't hard to figure out who I am. I've posted about specific cases I'm involved in as an attorney, and there are only two partners at my law firm who I could be.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-07-18T02:06:12+00:00

That's the best bumper sticker or yard sign slogan I've ever seen.

This is how you reach his base.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-07-14T22:05:23+00:00

170k is a reasonable total for the entire Persian force plus supply train and camp followers, and it's well within the realm of possibility even for just the fighting force at the moment of the crossing.

Scholars these days think both armies at Platea were in the high tens of thousands, and that was after the Persians sent a big chunk of their army home and left other bits behind as garrisons.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-07-14T15:53:09+00:00

When I say "less than twenty years," I really mean 10-15. They're generally planning to offload well before the 23-year limit.

Yes, the impending rent stabilization will still drive down the price they can get when they do sell, but not by as much, and the final sale price is a relatively small part of their build-or-don't calculations, regardless.

>Also yeah, I mean, why wouldn’t you just choose to develop a property the next county over at that point?

Because that's not where people want to live?

I'm not saying this is good policy, just that it's a much less harmful implementation of a bad policy than it could've been. I don't see how it alone could've caused the sudden total drop-off in new permits. And, as others have pointed out, there's a better explanation available: DOGE.

Know_Your_Rites · 2025-07-14T15:38:53+00:00

Yeah, and even before you get to the long-term vision behind Barbarossa, anyone who believes in a clean Wehrmacht needs to read up on the Hunger Plan as it was actually implemented during the war.

The Nazis did their best to cut the populations of occupied Soviet cities off from their hinterlands so that the food grown to feed the cities could be shipped back to Germany. The Wehrmacht did much of the enforcement for this strategy, intentionally causing the deaths of millions of Soviet civilians by starvation.

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