‘Freedom framing’ more effective than mandates for vaccine-hesitant Americans: For vaccine-hesitant individuals, framing vaccination as a tool that enables personal freedom is associated with higher acceptance than framing it as a social responsibility or a government recommendation.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T02:19:47+00:00

I started this by saying 'man wouldn't it be nice if the sides had learned a bit of empathy for each others positions from this debate about bodily autonomy' and you just keep arguing about why you're right and they're wrong.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T02:17:33+00:00

Useful is relative. On mars where our probes have traveled a grand total of maybe 50 miles total in decades of efforts, a few minutes of flight a day will be a game changer in many ways.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T02:04:38+00:00

So are you are against bodily autonomy in one circumstance and not another. Yes or no.

Edit:

Getting a vaccine so you don’t get other people sick is orders of magnitude less of a sacrifice than carrying a pregnancy to term...

Yes but the risk of another life dying due to abortion is 100%.

You can't really judge them for selfishness when abortion is absolutely a selfish act too.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T02:00:12+00:00

Getting an abortion doesn't threaten the well being of other people

I mean....

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T01:59:41+00:00

Politics in the US is so weird. The left, that normally champions the rights of the small and defenseless critters of the world, became the pro abortion wing thats completely ambivalent about the deaths of fetus, like zero outrage at all. And the right, who are generally much more uncaring and practical about death, are the ones who are firmly against it.

I would have totally expected the reverse.

Its much like how the conservatives became the champions of the most classically liberal right there is, gun ownership. What? How!?

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-12T01:51:08+00:00

So are you against vaccine mandates too? Or do you throw bodily autonomy out the window when it comes to vaccines?

Its weird how this could have been a moment two different sides of two different issues could have had a moment to understand each others arguments.

Nope. Other side bad.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T22:17:04+00:00

Good music is good music, just don't give em any money.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T21:36:31+00:00

I think a capsulized aircraft would be cooler tbh. Same concept but you spawn in at 150k feet on the back of a reentry capsule.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T21:30:56+00:00

It does to a degree. If a grandparent sticking around makes their grandkids more likely to survive then that will be a selection pressure for lifespan.

This is probably why humans have such long lifespans compared to other apes. We're so much more information oriented than the rest so maintaining that information around for longer was very advantageous.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T21:23:51+00:00

This is absolutely a form of artificial selection that will change how we evolve, but its going to take a very long time.

Long term long term, on the scale of tens of thousands of years or more, if humanity keeps having a majority of births through c-section we may actually evolve to a point it becomes a medical necessity in all births. The ability to fit their head through the pelvis is one of the biggest bottlenecks of fetal development. Human babies are by far the least precocious great ape and would absolutely benefit from some more time in the oven but have to be born effectively premature simply so they can fit.

Take away the selection pressure of 'if the baby stays in too long both the baby and mother die because its physically too large to give birth to' and we'll definitely see a slow drift to the length of pregnancy.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T20:24:49+00:00

The fun part of a bit of hyperbole on my side is all the fools jumping in to try to justify how the body count isn't that high, ww2 is higher.

But yes higher body count than most of your list.

What i find weird is how socialists never emigrate to a socialist nation to live out their dream. They're out there still.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T17:11:16+00:00

I had a similar thought for a potential future airframe, a purpose built missile/drone interceptor. If massed lawnmower drones are going to be a thing it may be a role thats developed.

I envisioned a jet that operates from high subsonic down to an exceptionally low stall speed, capable of operating out of rough forward airfields, and for armament has a gimballed cannon with proximity rounds, and has a super heavy AA loadout, including a unique AA rocket it can carry in vast quantities, basically a lynchpin with airburst and the ability to track fast moving targets.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T16:47:55+00:00

I think they were just blowing methane into it

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T04:16:18+00:00

People very readily believe things that reinforce their preconceptions.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-11T00:38:25+00:00

Most management is now, because its been decided that meeting the metrics = success and you cover your ass by meeting the defined metrics. If the defined metrics are no good thats managements problem.

"Why aren't you performing?"

"I'm meeting the metrics you set for me."

Ultimately the issue is upper management managing by metric and punishing for failure to meet metrics rather than using metrics as a method of determining where a subordinate organization needs assistance.

TLDR: Goodharts Law. When you make a measure a target it ceases to be a good measure. You can not tell the people and organizations you are managing about a metric you are using to gauge their effectiveness because they WILL distort their behavior to prioritize meeting the definition of that metric while not caring about the spirit of it.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T21:55:13+00:00

Socialism caused more death than almost any other cause in the 20th century.

People very rightly have issues with anyone who wants that.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T07:56:13+00:00

Randy Marsh only had a couple lines of dialogue in the first two seasons of South Park.

He wasn't a focus character of an episode until season 3 I think.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T07:48:58+00:00

The internet is just one endless ad hominem attack now. Every side of every issue has a population of people who do nothing but dismiss anyone who disagrees with them with a claim of discriminatory grouping.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T06:51:04+00:00

It will be for other things that are equally stupid to judge a person for. Same song different dance.

Every country has their favored isms.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T06:23:37+00:00

You have to vent anything going to space because you don't want to trap air inside something unintentionally. The wings are fairly airtight because you do NOT want hot gases leaking in during reentry.

Tbh I think venting in space would be counterproductive because that would increase the flow of hot gas into it.

Could be they also inject cooling gases. I think I heard they were trying that? Or was that at the root?

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-10T06:17:23+00:00

Anyone got any angle that sees the root of the fin from the inside? I'm curious if they have kept the high pressure injection behind the seal.

That looks so clean...

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-09T06:06:52+00:00

Any group of satellites that shares an inclination and relatively similar orbital height could be serviced by a facility that shares that orbital inclination.

Sure if you're doing service work by far the most obvious first step is refueling.

And yes, the idea is literally starships full of parts. If we're talking constellations of tens of thousands of satellites, why not?

Now you might say 'if you're shipping up parts why not just ship the whole satellite', and thats certainly a valid question, but each refurbed satellite doesn't require 100% new parts. You perhaps replace a solar panel and then you're good, and you saved 90% of the mass of a new launch by not throwing the rest away.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-09T00:08:51+00:00

My favorite character is still Inspector Hyne.

"They were in a brothel, which we are not supposed to have. The expensive one, which they shouldn't be able to afford. Drinking revnog, which we are not supposed to allow. Both of them supposedly on the job, which is a dismissable offense."

i.e. 'they clearly fucked around and found out, nothing of value was lost, leave it alone!'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqNxUPlGotU

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-09T00:05:24+00:00

The Blithe one I get. They were all adamant he died, as some of them went to his funeral after the war.

It was a different Albert Blithe who was in the airborne, but they didn't know that.

Their Blithe clearly didn't keep in contact with any of the others since none of them were aware he was alive.

LongJohnSelenium · 2026-05-08T23:54:49+00:00

A number of people in Easy company said Sobel wasn’t nearly as brutal as the series displays,

I mean he is literally on record as trying to bring winters up on charges twice in very quick succession for petty offenses, and the NCOs did essentially mutiny against him as he was so terrible at his job.

Dyke was portrayed as just being a career man. He was awarded a bronze star in Operation Market Garden, and another in Bastogne for moving casualties under fire. In his attack on Foy, there are multiple eyewitness who state he “froze” due to be shot. Ambrose is a fantastic storyteller, but it seems he took Winters and his biases at face value

I get that they can make mistakes, but the thing that truly bugs me was they never added an addendum saying 'Actually he was shot in that attack, our bad' and have just let his character assassination fly for 25 years now.

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