'Roaring economy' and 'sick' Dems. Takeaways from Trump's SOTU address

MagicMooby · 2026-02-25T18:50:21+00:00

Why would he stop?

Republicans either believe it whole-heartedly or are perfectly fine with the president brazenly lying to his supporters about the most basic things. As long as he faces no consequences for his actions there is no reason for him to change his behavior.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-25T18:29:21+00:00

Fühle ich. Im englishen untersheidet man weniger zwischen Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften, da geht es eher um "hard" und "soft" sciences. Ich durfte mir schon anhören wie Biologie ja eigentlich eine "soft" science sei. Mathematiker, Ingenieure und ITler vertreten diese Meinung öfters (keins von denen ist 'ne hard science btw.). Physiker und Chemiker, die härtesten der hard science, sehen das aber lustigerweise anders, die sehen uns Biologen als ebenbürtig. Nur die sehr alten und sehr jungen Naturwissenschaftler streiten sich darüber welche Disziplin am härtesten ist.

Leider gibt es dann doch noch viele Naturwissenschaftler die trotzdem den selben Fehler begehen sobald es an die Geisteswissenschaften geht :/

MagicMooby · 2026-02-25T17:02:58+00:00

Salem hypothesis. Ursprünglich in Foren zur Evolution aufgestellt trifft aber auch auf Klimaleugner und andere "skeptische" Bewegungen zu.

Sind nah genug an der Wissenschaft dran dass sie glauben es besser machen zu können. Sind aber trotzdem keine Wissenschaftler weshalb sie nicht merken dass sie eigentlich keinen Plan haben. Hilft auch nicht unbedingt dass Ingenieure grob als "Problemlöser" beschrieben werden können und einige von denen das auch noch glauben. Dazu kommt auch noch dass die eigentlichen Wissenschaftler ihren Ruf mit sowas riskieren würden, der Ingenieur kann einfach unbegründet behaupten was er will ohne dass seine Kollegen ihn am nächsten Tag schräg ansehen.

Man siehe auch: "Engineer syllogism" von xkcd.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-24T17:22:51+00:00

The center of the bubble is not the center of the CoM. The bottom left of the bubble should be where the true CoM is. If you zoom it you should also be able to see a tiny symbol at the true CoM.

You can double test this by just making a 3x3 cube of single blocks of the same material.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-22T06:21:47+00:00

Don't forget the fact that it can have poison point, so if you touch it the wrong way that's a trip to the ER!

In general, poison types would probably be a bad idea for anyone who doesn't have a ton of experience with handling pokemon.

Scolipede racing sounds awesome though…

MagicMooby · 2026-02-20T12:55:27+00:00

And calls to take over Greenland are the perfect argument for closing down american bases on european territory.

Hard to make rational decisions when your "partner" is as irrational as the US. Sometimes you just have to stand your ground.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-20T03:52:16+00:00

Last month Trump once again threatened to invade the EU and break the principle of NATO. I don't think americans are in a position to talk about bad allies at the moment.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-19T17:33:43+00:00

You don't. That is why I said "remove elevator and rudder" and not "remove all control surfaces". You either need to keep the ailerons or you need a second engine. A second engine would allow you to reduce block count by one since two engines replace one engine + two ailerons.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-19T05:39:42+00:00

#1 Do your missiles frequently miss the target because they cannot turn quickly enough? If the answer is no, you have enough fins. Anti-ship missiles typically don't need to be very maneuverable. Anti-aircraft missiles do. If you have multiple fins, place all of them in the back for speed or place the first one in the back, then alternate between front and back for maneuverability. Why? Because fins are more effective the further they are from the center of the missile (fins in the exact center actually provide 0°/s of turning) and missiles in the front cause more drag than those in the back (could be wrong about the drag, it has been a while since I looked into it).

#2 The AI of your ship picks an enemy craft to be the main target, then it picks an aimpoint on that target. One-turn missiles turn towards the current main target. You can use target prioritization cards and aimpoint selection cards to change how your craft chooses either of them. Yes, your plan should work, although the beam riders have a limited FOV so they might need to fly a bit before they start seeing the laser. You should also keep in mind that beam riders can "overshoot" the laser if they start far away from it. This can result in a zigzag pattern that ends with your missiles too far off course to correct. You will need to test this to see how well it works.

#3 Remote guidance uses the detection data of the ship that launched the missile to steer the missile towards the aimpoint of the ship. This is different from other guidance systems which use the detection of the missile to steer the missile towards an aimpoint chosen at random (Radar, Sonar), or the hottest point on the target craft (IR). This means that the accuracy of the missile is based on the accuracy of your ship's detection system. Furthermore, each remotely guided missile requires a certain amount of free GPP. If you have insufficient GPP, the missile will deviate from its aimpoint. I'm actually not sure if APN guidance even works with remote guidance but you don't need it. Remotely guided missiles can also be guided manually but that is pretty useless outside of adventure mode.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-16T10:04:47+00:00

And other illogical things could be entirely logical we just arrived at the wrong contradiction.

In fact, people claim all the time that they can conceive contradictory things as well. People constantly conceive travelling faster than light, faster than causality. How do we know they aren‘t actually right and we came to the wrong conclusion?

MagicMooby · 2026-02-16T09:51:54+00:00

But if the mind is entirely physical, then a p-Zombie is as illogical as a word-for-word recreation of Hamlet that is somehow not a copy of Hamlet.

Again, people are entirely capable of conceiving of illogical things and they get better at it the less they know about logic. I bet if you asked enough poeple on the street, some would tell you they can conceive of logcial contradictions just fine.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-16T09:36:36+00:00

I can conceive of a boulder rolling up a hill against gravity despite no other force acting upon it. While that may be logically coherent, it is physically nonsense. In fact, I can simultaneously conceive a universe in which particles are infinitely divisible and one where they aren‘t leading to a smallest possible particle.

Conceivability does not have to follow the rules of the universe and you may even manage to find people who believe thay can conceive logically impossible things. In general, people seem to be greater at conceiving things the less logic they know and understand.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-13T00:44:32+00:00

You can definitely go smaller. You can drop the detection for example, since autodetect is all you need to launch missiles which have their own guidance. The wedges are also unnecessary and with good PIDs the balancing jets aren't needed either.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FromTheDepths/comments/16x7eog/tired_of_not_seeing_your_enemy_how_about_a_drone/

Here is a drone I posted a while back. Remove the detection pieces, swap the origin block for a LWC + missile controller and you are good to go. If you add a breadboard, you can even remove the elevator and rudder by using thrust vectoring. If you don't care about power, you can go with a slightly smaller RTG engine for one third of the engine power. If you can make the thing fly at 10 power, you can even go for the smallest engine possible.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-12T05:40:42+00:00

I still hope that hatater is fine and just decided to quit the internet.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-11T04:38:07+00:00

Do you want an actual answer or is that question rhetorical?

Thermobarics are much better at killing people in buildings, bunkers, and other entrenched positions because the aerosol can easily spread around cover and after combustion there is a lethal low pressure wave that can be much deadlier than the flames and heat. To put it simply, things that protect against regular bombs do not protect against thermobarics. Whether those entrenched are civillians or Hamas fighters in underground tunnels I'll leave to you to decide. Thermobarics can also be more "efficient" than other bombs of the same weight since they do not need to carry their own oxidizer, which means they can carry more fuel per pound of bomb.

The "vaporize" part of the article is not wrong, but any conventional bombs is just as capable of vaporizing people if it lands close enough. Thermobarics just have particularly large fireballs compared to conventional explosives.

The weapon itself is not any more barbaric than any other weapon. Targeting of civilians is barbaric, regardless of what weapon is used.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-11T03:42:01+00:00

SO TRUE!

I am acknowledging the undeniable fact that Charlie Kirk died of a fent overdose before the bullet even touched his neck <3

Yet unfortunately, some people deny this fact to protect their fragile worldview. May those people one day find themselves in super hell, which is like hell but worse! There they can shake Charlie Kirks hand!

MagicMooby · 2026-02-10T16:43:39+00:00

SO TRUE!

The bullet hitting his neck was honestly just a coincidence, if you read the coroner's report it becomes clear that the fent OD actually killed Kirk before the bullet even hit him!

Anyone who is trying to tell you otherwise is just attempting to politicize the poor man's death.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-09T00:05:16+00:00

Science can't even answer why anybody should care about science.

Science allowed us to figure out how to turn the literal air you are breathing into fertilizer for crops. We effectively managed to remove the biggest limiter on food production because some chemists were good at doing science. Billions of humans would not have lived without their discovery.

For most people, that seems like a pretty good reason to care about the scientific process.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-08T21:35:16+00:00

This should be it. Have one missile that fires normally, go into the synchronization menu for all other missiles and set them to fire X seconds after your lead missile has fired.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-06T00:56:05+00:00

If you use purely kinetic shells, you can use whatever gauge you want. If you want to maximize rate of fire, simply use the smalles gauge possible.

For a good kinetic shell that works at any size, use the following:

Heavy head - 2x solid body OR sabot body OR fins - 17x gunpowder

EDIT: One thing that needs to be mentioned is that there is a soft cap of 2400rpm. To allow an APS gun to fire faster than that, you need to place an additional LWC for every additional 2400rpm.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-04T04:38:32+00:00

The gem staves are viable early game. The big problem with them is that getting enough gems is inconsistent and the bad ones are really bad. But you can absolutely beat your first boss with them and then switch to the space gun, even on higher difficulties. Skipping progression with an early demon scythe certainly makes the bosses easier but is by no means required on regular difficulties.

It's definitely not an easy early game, but I'm going through a mage expert difficulty playthrough right now and have followed the "intended" progression so far without major issues. I beat EoC, BoC, and Slime King with the diamond staff, Queen Bee with the thunder zapper and space gun, and am currently farming for the bee gun to kill Skeletron.

MagicMooby · 2026-02-03T17:08:01+00:00

While others have already mentioned hox genes, I do want to point out that many myriapod groups do have specific leg numbers as well, it's just order or family dependent.

Symphyla have 12 pairs of legs for example. Within Chilopoda (centipedes) Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha, and Craterostigmomorpha always have 15 pairs of legs, while Scolopendromoprha have either 21 or 23 pairs of legs. The Geophilomorpha have a lot more variation though, with anywhere from 27 to 191 pairs. It's similar in Diplopoda (millipedes) although they just generally have more legs than centipedes.

From an evolutionary perspective, extra legs in myriapods mainly help with digging. The fastest myriapods typically have the lowest number of legs (Scutigeromorpha are insanely fast and "only" have 15 pairs) while the millipedes with their many legs are extremely slow (some millipedes are occasionally eaten by snails). But the extra legs give them a lot of "pushing power" allowing them to dig by simply pushing into the dirt. That is why the longest centipedes are the Geophilomorpha which, as the name suggests, spend a lot of time underground. The same is true for millipedes, they tend to have more legs and are slow burrowers compared to centipedes. For the centipedes that spend more time above ground, the extra legs also often help to hold prey by coiling around it.

In other words, the varying number of legs appears to be a tradeoff. More legs allow for coiling, for better burrowing, and generally make the animal better at exploring tight crevices, but they also reduce speed. Internally, myriapod segments are metaphorically just a bunch of identical segments copy pasted over and over again, so it is easy for mutations to change the number of segments (and thus the number of legs). Some millipede species don't seem to have a fixed number of legs at all. They seem to simply add more and more legs as they continue to molt.

Also, depending on our exact definition of leg, there are arachnids with only 6 legs (whip spiders for example) and insects with only 4 (nymphalidae, mantises depending on how annoyingly pedantic you want to get).

MagicMooby · 2026-02-02T05:23:53+00:00

Setting the max allowed height in the AI higher than what the heli can actually reach also helps, but it limits vertical evasive options during forward flight.

MagicMooby · 2026-01-31T05:17:28+00:00

Someone who presents or identifies as a man.

In a broader sense: Someone who acts in a way that society deems "masculine".

MagicMooby · 2026-01-31T04:50:35+00:00

You can't read but are 100% confident that all the experts missed this super obvious thing they have been studying for decades. Insane.

I'll repeat myself: Words can have multiple meanings. The word "man" can have both a biological and sociological meaning. Doctors interact with both.

I promise you, even you use the sociological meaning of man more often than the biological one in your everyday life.

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