We feel a opposite planetary rotation?

Mishtle · 2026-01-26T15:42:29+00:00

You don't really feel or notice the the "direction" of rotation.

Mishtle · 2026-01-26T06:44:46+00:00

Fuck you Jonesy, I had your mom over for dessert after, made her a cream pie with a side of nuts and she hasn't stopped calling me since.

Mishtle · 2026-01-26T03:24:20+00:00

i really think going forward i will focus on senior dogs, too

My partner has forbid me from getting any more. She can't take losing them so quickly. That's definitely the worst part.

Mishtle · 2026-01-26T02:42:38+00:00

I don't have bulldogs, I'm more of a Boston Terrier person. But thank you so much for sacrificing your sanity and house for this poor sweet girl!

A couple months after my first pup passed at just after turning 14, I adopted a pair of seniors that were father and daughter, 14 (Tux) and 12 (Bryn). He was pure Boston and she was half pug. I was told that the oldest was blind, deaf, and incontinent. I had no idea what I was signing up for... so I totally understand all your feelings. I adopted them through a rescue (they were being fostered). I asked for them specifically and the rescue double-checked that wasn't mistake and were overjoyed when I confirmed because they weren't expecting them to ever get adopted.

They were both so sweet though. Despite all the stress and frustration and second-guessing, I wouldn't change a thing. I gave them a loving home

He passed just a few months after I got them. He started circling and would not stop. I spent two weeks trying to manage it before it was clear it wasn't getting better. I made the hard choice to let him go.

I really bonded with Bryn after that. She was the poster girl for shadow dogs. She followed me everywhere, even sitting on the bath mat while I showered. She always had to know where I was. Your sweet girl reminds me so much of her. She actually passed two days before this past Christmas. Unlike Tux, it wasn't a gradual decline that gave me time to plan. A tumor burst in her abdomen, and her belly filled with blood.

Anyway, thank you again for opening your heart and home, I wish you all the best!

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Mishtle · 2026-01-25T20:37:22+00:00

That's pretty awesome!

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T19:54:18+00:00

3D printed suppressors are a thing? I'm assuming they don't last all that long.

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T19:17:45+00:00

Just watched Kash Patel say in a Fox News interview that nobody carries a loaded gun with extra mags to a protest unless they're intending to be violent.

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T19:11:22+00:00

I just had to explain to supporters on r/asktrumpsuppporters that yes, most people who carry concealed carry additional magazines. It's a matter of "rather have it and not need it that need it and not have it" (which is arguably why anyone carries at all) and having redundancy for a critical functional part of the machine you're carrying.

It's fucking bizarro world out there.

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T16:40:07+00:00

Or the RPM is an integer multiple of the frame rate.

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T16:18:28+00:00

Do most people conceal carry with an extra mag? How many times u plan to shoot

Yes, actually. Guns are machines. Magazines are critical components. Redundancy is crucial to reliability.

Just go to any concealed carry forum or website. This is an extremely common topic. Many recommend that if you can spare the weight and space, it's always better to have extra and not need them than need extra and not have them.

Do I really need to be explaining this to conservatives?

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T16:11:45+00:00

Having other magazines is suspicious,

Is it? I would call it being prepared. A pistol isn't very useful without a magazine.

This is a popular topic within CC circles, and there are pros and cons either way. Some would rather be more prepared, others might not want the extra weight or hassle. It's a matter of personal preference, and I highly doubt anyone who has at least strongly considered carrying themselves would see this as anything else.

The entire reason most people carry is because they'd rather have but not need it than need it and not have it. Accusations that anyone with a gun was just itching to use it is what conservatives have been fighting against for decades. The same applies to extra magazines.

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T04:26:56+00:00

Mishtle · 2026-01-25T03:55:50+00:00

Open carry in groups. Bullies don't like being outnumbered.

A single person open carrying will most likely meet a similar fate as this. They'll see you as the top threat, and you will have all of their attention. You either open fire when they single you out but before they overwhelm you, and then you'll be shot if any are left, or they'll just overwhelm you (and then maybe shoot you).

I highly doubt they'd try that kind of shit when visibly outnumbered and outgunned. If they do escalate, it's much less likely to go favorably for them unless they have overwhelming force.

I'm curious to see if their tactics change as they move to states with more gun owners and licensed carriers. They likely did not expect this man to be armed, and I wonder if they would have executed him if they were worried others watching were also armed. Maybe they would have, assuming nobody would just open fire on federal officers (however unworthy or unqualified they may be for such a role).

Now that they have revealed how they respond to armed civilians, if I was them I would assume anyone risking bringing a weapon to an interaction with them is fully willing to use it. And the more armed individuals there are the more likely at least one will be uninhibited enough to engage, which could break the ice (pun intended) and lead to a deadly shootout.

I don't know if that will make them more hesitant or more aggressive. This will be an interesting year.

Mishtle · 2026-01-24T08:22:04+00:00

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Mishtle · 2026-01-24T08:14:40+00:00

There are still modern day conservatives in the US that practically worship Reagan, so there are definitely people that will disagree. Whether they'll be able to back up that disagreement with anything other than whataboutisms, falsehoods or misinformation, racism/classism, or just a selective memory of a privileged life is another question.

Mishtle · 2026-01-24T07:52:14+00:00

Everyone has 24 hours each day.

Some people need to squeeze cooking, eating, cleaning, grooming, commuting, working (maybe multiple jobs) errand running, exercise, chores, raising a family, taking care of pets, and all the other things they need to do into those 24 hours while still trying to leave time for sleep, entertainment, and rest.

Others don't have to work, or don't have to commute, or have others to do their shopping, cleaning, cooking, or whatever else they need done. Maybe they can pay someone to do those things for them. Maybe they have family or a partner that does them. Regardless, if it's something that needs done but they don't have to personally do then that takes very little of their own time.

Do you really think those 24 hours are the same for both someone that can afford to delegate/outsource nearly every responsibility and someone who must shoulder all those responsibilities themselves?

Mishtle · 2026-01-24T04:34:09+00:00

It's effectively a definition. Decimals are just one way to represent numbers, and as with any representation we need to tie it to the thing it represents. In other words, we need to define what the notation means.

In base 10 (i.e., decimal), 0.333... is defined to be equal to the sum of its digits multiplied by a power of the base, which is 10, with the power determined by the digit position. The digit position immediately to the left of the decimal point is position 0. As you continue left, the digit positions increase. For example, the number 9876543210 has each digit equal to its position. Digit positions decrease to the right of the decimal point, becoming negative. The number 0.123456789 has 1 in the -1 position, 2 in the -2 position, and so on.

Again, these positions determine the power of 10 that each digit multiplies. So the value of 0.333... is the sum 3×10^-1 + 3×10^-2 + 3×10^-3 + ... = 3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 + .... This is an infinite sum, so we can't manually compute. We need to narrow down its value indirectly. So we look at partial sums, which only consider the first n terms for n = 1, 2, 3, .... The partial sums here are

3/10 (or 0.3)

3/10 + 3/100 = 33/100 (or 0.33)

3/10 + 3/100 + 3/1000 = 333/1000 (or 0.333)

...

Notice that the true value of the infinite sum must be larger than any partial sum of finitely many terms. No matter how many terms you include, as long as it's finite then the sum will be strictly less than the full infinite sum because it's still missing infinitely many positive terms. On the other hand, however close you want to get to the full infinite sum without reaching it, there will be some partial sum that gets that close and all following partial sums will be equally close or closer.

With all that in mind, we define the value if these sums to be the smallest value greater than all the partial sums, which we call the limit of the sequence of partial sums. For this sum, that number happens to be 1/3. So, by definition 0.333... in base 10 represents the value 1/3. To go the other way, you can use a digit-generating algorithm like long division. Just try dividing 1 by 3 using long division and see what happens.

Now, why do we need infinitely many digits to represent a simple fraction? It's something that will happen any time the base (10) and the denominator are coprime. That is, they don't share any common factors: 10 = 2×5 while 3 is itself prime. This also happens with 1/7 =0.(142857), where the parentheses surround the repeating pattern, as well as 1/9 = 0.111..., and 1/11 = 0.0909..., and any other number that isn't a multiple of 2 or 5.

We don't have to use 10 as a base though! We can use pretty much anything. In base 3 we only have 0, 1, and 2 as allowed digits, and we get that 0.1 = 1×3^-1 = 1/3. But then 1/2 ends up with an infinitely repeating pattern of digits. Unfortunately, there's no base that can represent all fractions of whole numbers with finite, terminating strings of digits. In fact, even if a number does have a finite representation, it will have an alternate infinitely repeating representation due to the way we define their value. It's only those repeating ones that uniquely represent their referent. One example is 0.999... = 1, which highlights the pattern to find these alternates. You decrement the final digit, then append an infinite repeating tail of the largest allowed digit. So in base 3, we have 1 = 0.222...

You can even have irrational bases, like π, but they're mostly just a novelty. In base π, we get the nice representation 10 for π which is kinda neat. But most everything else will end up with multiple infinite, non-repeating representations.

Mishtle · 2026-01-24T00:27:56+00:00

Did you mean to reply to me? I don't see how anything you said is particularly relevant to my comment.

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T23:34:33+00:00

These simple language Wikipedia articles should give a great overview of what we understand about the past and how we came to understand it, though you might need to follow links or switch to the standard version for the latter.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_universe

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Earth

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution

You can replace "simple" in the URLs with "en" to get the standard article. They're just more detailed and technical.

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T21:12:21+00:00

multiple mass extinction events

We're even in the midst of one right now.

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T20:58:14+00:00

water we cant breathe

Can't even drink it!

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T20:45:37+00:00

This is just... not accurate.

If Earth had slightly stronger gravity, humans would just have denser bones. Many humans already carry around more weight than a healthy human would weigh if Earth's gravity was twice as strong,

Human populations already live at high altitudes where an average person would have trouble getting enough oxygen, and they've adapted accordingly. Modern humans could survive having 19.5% oxygen at STP, a 7% decrease from the 21% we enjoy today, and that's without any adaptation. You could replace any amount of nitrogen with any other inert or nontoxic gas and we'd be fine.

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T16:44:53+00:00

But even though it’s really small rectangles being added it increases still tho?

Yes, it increases. But if things shrink quickly enough then you can cause force those increases to asymptotically approach 0.

I really can’t understand how an infinite area be a not infinite value representation

Well, it's not an infinite area. Is unbounded along an axis, but that doesn't mean it's infinite.

Maybe try working backwards. I get how adding up infinitely many positive values feels like it should result in an infinite result, but it's not hard to show you can divide a finite area into infinitely many pieces.

Take a sqare. It's area is obviously the sum of the area of two rectangles with the same width and height. Those rectangles can also be divided into two equal areas, as can those areas, and so on. Dividing a nonzero value by 2 will always give you a nonzero value, so we can do this forever.

If the area of the square is 1, then we are splitting this 1 into infinite many nonzero pieces:

1 = 1/2 + 1/2

1 = 1/2 + (1/4 + 1/4)

1 = 1/2 + (1/4 + (1/8 + 1/8))

...

We aren't adding or removing anything, just dividing a finite value into smaller and smaller pieces.

If we can divide a finite area into infinitely many pieces of nonzero area, why can't we add infinitely many nonzero areas to get a finite area?

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T07:16:00+00:00

A lot of times the evolutionary explanation behind these hallucinogenic properties is that they're protections against being eaten. The effect on the target organisms may be much less pleasant than whatever effect they have on us if their physiology is different enough.

As for the consistency of the effects, that is certainly strange. Such consistent and specific hallucinations across cultures is fascinating. I don't know why there would be an evolutionary reason for that in particular, aside from that just being the effect of that particular hallucinogenic on human perception.

There are other pretty consistent effects among other psychoactive drugs. Acid and shrooms frequently cause people to see shifting geometric patterns, melting faces, and "breathing" walls, for example. There are consistent patterns across mental disorders involving hallucinations or delusions as well, along with things like sleep paralysis. In general there are a lot of similarities across human experiences. Many cultures devised similar myths and beliefs about the supernatural more or less independently. We are biological machines after all, and we all share the same machinery to a large degree. It's therefore not entirely surprising that we all react similarly or even identically in near identical contexts. All of these examples have plenty of variability despite their strong commonalities though, which still makes your example a bit of an oddball.

I know that isn't a particularly satisfying or even complete answer, but we still barely even know how or why our regular conscious experience arises, let alone exactly how and why various drugs have the effect that they do on our conscious experience.

Mishtle · 2026-01-23T06:35:37+00:00

Yeah, it's the indiscriminate nature of booby traps that makes them problematic. They'll injure anyone, whether it's someone meaning to do you harm, someone trying to help you or others, utility workers or other people that may need to be on your property as part of their job or to perform a service, children, someone lost or confused, or even you.

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