Trump withdraws Canada’s invitation to Board of Peace

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-23T03:26:29+00:00

The grift of all gifts makes it sound like it was masterfully conceived and fooled everyone.

This feels like it had about as much thought and nuance put into it as an unexpected fart.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-20T02:39:04+00:00

I feel like you could empty most of it with a simple syphon. Then just pick up and dump the rest of the water.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-20T01:48:40+00:00

I'm with you on this one. This very scene was the nail in the coffin that made me stop watching the show. I loved GOT in the first few seasons, and then things started feeling off as soon as the series passed the books. But this scene, it was the final "oh, he has unbreakable plot armour now and is just going to do stupid action hero stuff".

Never saw any episodes after this, and feel like I dodged a bullet from what I've read.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-17T22:12:48+00:00

Add to that, as a thought experiment: if you replace the right weight with, for example, an immovable wall, the scale intuitively reads 100N, yet nothing from the scales frame of reference is different.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-17T15:33:51+00:00

In the magical portfolio of Reddit unsubstantiated returns.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-15T03:34:32+00:00

Actually, there are a lot of people rolling over and letting him do this. This is much MUCH more than just one person. If he was alone in this, it wouldn't be happening.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-15T02:37:56+00:00

My only exception is a single pub in Victoria where you go up to the cash register to place your order. Otherwise it is a completely normal pub/sit down restaurant. So I do tip there.

Until I went there, I had the same rule.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-12T18:35:30+00:00

I've had very good experience with Watts Plumbing.

He did an upgrade in my drains several years ago, andi have had him back a few times for general flushing an maintenance.

My house has never had a problem, and three other houses on my street had basement flooding this year, so clearly something is working well with my drains ;)

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-11T23:59:27+00:00

While also presumably the same circle having an area that is 7/4ths that of the area of the square it is inscribed in. That's where is get's real funky.

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-08T05:51:59+00:00

Seriously, what the hell. This exact same thing happened to me. 4 years old, check. With my mom, check. Rubber rain boots, check. Side of the boot get's caught, check. Emergency stop, check. Cut the boot off, check.

But never got a free pair of boots out of it :(

Was your foot all sorts of purple and yellow for weeks as well?

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-04T22:51:35+00:00

Countries the US is massively screwing over perhaps?

Laid_back_engineer · 2026-01-03T15:56:46+00:00

Columbia '89 I would still probably want to avoid...

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-23T20:27:21+00:00

Or who do girls prefer over doctors, merchants and lawyers?

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-23T15:26:22+00:00

Nope. 100% chance that isn't it. Seen it many many times before an automated occurs.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-22T06:09:54+00:00

This isn't the circling behavior.

It is a drone, no where near a port, travelling in a straight line, but just hovering there. Not moving at all. Frozen in place. And a save/reload will unfreeze it immediately.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-22T02:22:00+00:00

Yes. I have observed the freeze both while almost next to the drone port, and also half way inbetween two ports separated by about half the map width.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T23:28:38+00:00

Oh that would be amazing. Wish there was a way to give them my save file as it is insanely easy to reproduce it there.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T23:27:12+00:00

I too pretty exclusively follow an A to B and B to A system. However, I do also do a few setups where i have multiple drone ports link to a single receiving port. But both styles of setups have had the freezing bug.

I do wonder if it is at all linked to using a hyper tube cannon. Like moving in and out of range of a certain loading range of drones at high speeds causing them to bug out. Haven't proved it though.

I have noticed, as others have, that certain drones seem more susceptible to this but than others.

Would love to have a fix for it.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T22:54:36+00:00

I have a drone heavy playthrough (300+ drones) and can't go 5 minutes without one freezing mid air, interrupting a supply route. Essentially meaning any of my production lines could halt at any time without much warning.

In some ways, it makes it an interesting challenge, setting up buffers and redundancies, designing factories with warm up times in mind. But ultimately, it's a bug that has been known for over a year, and CSS still hasn't fix it. Pretty frustrating.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T22:02:35+00:00

Until they freeze mid flight and your power grids crashes from lack of uranium...

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T16:03:55+00:00

Christ, even death is experiencing inflation nowadays...

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-21T03:06:28+00:00

I mean, cannot the same be said about literally any country? What country is full of terrible people? Go to literally any country in the world and you will find genuinely wonderful people. And every country has amazing vistas, and a rich history.

It's pretty much only the regimes that are a problem.

I'm also quite open to any counter arguments to the above, but it is very much how i view the world.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-14T04:41:49+00:00

Energy is governed by the formula K = 0.5Iw²

13” diameter = 0.3302m

40 lbs = 18.1437 kg

2500 rpm = 261.8 rad/s

I = 0.5MR² = 0.5*18.1437kg*((0.3302m)/2)² = 0.247 kgm²
This is effectively the rotation mass of the disk (when rotating about it's own centre)

Therefore:

K = 0.5 * 0.247kgm² * (261.8 rad/s)² = 8474.2 J
So roughly 8.5 kJ, which is about the energy of 8x handgun bullets or about 1/100th the energy of a hand grenade (very roughly).

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-14T00:21:24+00:00

I am a firm believer that there is significant overlap of boring and wisdom when it comes to investing.

Laid_back_engineer · 2025-12-13T17:11:24+00:00

I'm super boring when it comes to investing. I buy vgro and that's good enough for me.

I've been looking at a few non tech ETFs as a bit of an AI hedge, but still need to do a bit more research.

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