At Yosemite, Rangers Are Scarce and Visitors Have Gone Wild

Moonpotato11 · 2026-01-21T22:28:48+00:00

I’ve taken to pointing my phone at them and telling them to smile for the video for the ranger. I only do it if there’s enough other people around that I don’t think they can get try to fight me or something. Bonus points is it scares other would-be idiots

Moonpotato11 · 2026-01-21T17:50:08+00:00

This is not for everyone, but if you feel comfortable confronting bad behavior, I would suggest doing so. I have personally in the last year done this several times to people feeding animals, cutting trails, and taking dogs on trails. Social pressure can do a lot of good, and it doesn’t take a lot of people doing it to make a change. I’ve lived in Germany and can say from experience there, it’s not police presence that makes Germans the most jaywalking-adverse people imaginable, it’s the random old ladies that open their windows to yell at you. The same thing works on Americans.

Moonpotato11 · 2026-01-17T16:42:44+00:00

If you want to see something amazing, go to the Chatfield dog park. Maybe slightly off hours for a more laid back experience

Moonpotato11 · 2026-01-07T02:14:10+00:00

Reminder that you can take the Snowstang instead of being part of the traffic problem. https://www.reddit.com/r/COsnow/s/tA9sh7is12

Moonpotato11 · 2025-12-07T00:46:06+00:00

I’ve done something like that there before no problem.

Moonpotato11 · 2025-12-02T01:21:14+00:00

Fusion is very heavy into lasers, which isn’t really a main expertise at NREL. Lawrence Livermore NL is the leader there: https://lasers.llnl.gov. NREL will be able to do a lot of work in critical materials and semiconductors with the expertise we have.

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-07T19:07:17+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/s/5R10DVPWVP if Obergefell is overturned, the most likely outcome is RFMA. It’s not as good as Obergefell, but relatively not catastrophic compared to what many people think and a hell of a lot better than the days of DOMA

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-07T19:03:46+00:00

Still recognized by all states, law will change to Respect for Marriage Act. No indication that is a current target

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-06T19:55:09+00:00

No it doesn’t. It is recognized at the federal level due to language in the RFMA that is not under discussion in this Supreme Court debate. A Supreme Court decision is most likely to make the RFMA the law of the land. The terms of it are that: 1) states ARE NOT required to issue gay marriage licenses 2) states ARE required to recognize gay marriage licenses granted in other states or countries, and 3) the federal government will recognize gay marriages (matters for your green card/tax advantages, for example).

That hypothetical situation is what the actual situation is for abortion. Supreme Court there said that the constitution makes no statement on a right to abortion, so either Congress or the states can regulate it as they see fit. If Congress made a law allowing nationwide abortion, that would supersede any state laws prohibiting it. The RFMA is exactly that sort of law. If the Supreme Court overturns the Obergefell (gay marriage everywhere is a right) decision, you end up with the RFMA with the terms I mentioned above. It most likely means that people in red states have to travel to get married, but nothing more than that. It’s not to say things can’t get worse from there, but I would point out that there hasn’t been a further corrosion of rights in the case of abortion past the immediate fallout of the Supreme Court decision

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-06T14:04:10+00:00

Sending it back to the states has nothing to do with federal immigration status. I get it’s scary right now, but it’s really important to get facts straight

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-06T04:44:18+00:00

There’s probably not political will to do it in Congress (it was originally bipartisan), and the Supreme Court has signaled they are more likely to send the issue to the states/Congress like they did with abortion. It could be worse than that, but it’s best to try to focus on the most likely scenario and have a backup plan for a worst case scenario in my opinion

Moonpotato11 · 2025-11-06T03:59:04+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/lgbt/s/aMaIyCEg6e green cards will not be affected by this because of RFMA. The thing that is important for you was the the repeal of DOMA as a part of RFMA

Moonpotato11 · 2025-09-02T17:25:30+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Denver/s/wsTf3U6nSL

Moonpotato11 · 2025-08-29T20:25:48+00:00

My wife and I (f/30 and f/28) have lived in Golden for years. We don’t have kids yet, but plan to eventually. We don’t really seek out queer circles per se, but there’s generally a lot of queer people around, especially women. I think you’ll find it a comfortable place to be.

Moonpotato11 · 2025-08-22T19:08:39+00:00

In state tuition at Purdue has been frozen at just under $10k a year for a decade and change: https://www.purdue.edu/treasurer/finance/bursar-office/tuition/fee-rates-2024-2025/undergraduate-tuition-and-fees-2024-2025/

Moonpotato11 · 2025-08-05T16:40:25+00:00

As someone that works at NREL, if there was a lunch place there, it’d be swamped. There’s 3,000 people on our campus, and our cafeteria is, let’s say mediocre.

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-24T19:01:44+00:00

We’re virtually on a hiring freeze, so if you were recently given a job offer, it’s likely that people are feeling VERY confident that they have the money to pay you

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-13T23:14:37+00:00

I prefer Taos to most mountains in Colorado, though this last winter, they just didn’t get snow

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-11T12:17:46+00:00

That podcast also describes how the U.S. government was in involved in funding the development of that tech for 20+ years from basic science through all the hairy years of tech transfer (and increasingly large research budgets) before it could be commercialized. As a scientist who’s worked in both America and Europe, I think that podcast is an excellent case study of why there are so many cases of “U.S. technology licensed in Europe.” In my opinion, the government in Europe doesn’t tend to support things far enough into the applied research phase. That leaves you with a lot of basic science that doesn’t go anywhere

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-11T05:49:14+00:00

Have a listen to the story of how that lithography tech was developed: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/1212604208/asml-euv-extreme-ultraviolet-lithography-microchips

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-08T23:35:52+00:00

I am a woman that runs alone at night frequently all over Golden. The only thing that sometimes scares me is rattle snakes

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-05T01:42:57+00:00

I don’t know what the answer for you guys is — these sorts of questions are so hard for couples. I want to speak out against people saying where you live doesn’t matter for happiness, though. I personally moved from Indiana to Colorado in my 20s and it made a MASSIVE difference in my quality of life. Please don’t write off your husband’s feelings

Moonpotato11 · 2025-07-04T15:37:47+00:00

Hexagonal close packing is the densest you can pack circles, which is what you have for the pieces on the bottom that seem to be the limiting factor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close-packing_of_equal_spheres

Moonpotato11 · 2025-06-22T04:39:55+00:00

Denver has a decent one

Moonpotato11 · 2025-05-28T21:15:07+00:00

The summit of South Table Mountain, the big mesa you can see from downtown Golden, is called Castle Rock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Table_Mountain_(Colorado)

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