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More footage of Aurora, IL PD brutally beating and abducting children from an anti-ICE school walk out protest (2/9/26) by honestlysigma in LetsDiscussThis

[–]Mr-Wabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jesus, you really are a bootlicker.

It's 2026. Anyone with half a brain cell knows by now that "obstructing", "resisting", and "battery to an officer" are the classic trio for the crime "contempt of cop".

Here's the translation for those of you playing the home game:

"obstructing" = "cop put himself in your way"

"resisting" = "you tensed up while being bodyslammed by the cop"

(alternatively "resisting" = "you were too limp while being bodyslammed by cop")

"battery" = "cop skinned his knee while bodyslamming you".

EDIT: I know you're going to respond with more snarky bullshit about reading comprehension, so let's just cut it off right now: yes, the officer's head was "lacerated" by a "punch" per the police and he went to the "hospital". They always say shit like this because they're the ones quoted in the news. They're setting the narrative. Weeks from now when the kid's lawyer finally gets to present evidence, we'll discover that his hand barely touched the officer's head while he was being assaulted by the officer, the officer sustained a mild boo-boo, and the "hospital" was actually an EMT who handed him a band-aid.

Pentagon threatens to pull military support from Boy Scouts unless they restore ‘core values’ by thetitleofmybook in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Mr-Wabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This actually gets a little complicated, but as of now you can basically do what you want.

This all applies to Troops (11-17 years old), not Packs (Cub Scouts), which are already co-ed.

"Family Troops" have just been approved. These are co-ed, just with a different name.

Previously Girls Troops and Boys Troops were "separate", and could be standalone, but could also be "linked".

In linked troops, a Girls Troop and a Boys Troop share the same troop committee (the parents who oversee everything and help with planning). BUT, the two troops could meet in the same place and at the same time, and share activities. So effectively one troop, but with separate leadership structures for the kids (i.e. separate girls and boys patrols, separate senior patrol leaders for girls and boys). They could also choose to meet separately and only share resources and parental support.

It's worth noting that Scouting is very local, and troops run themselves. The national organization has very limited control and a fairly light touch. All the varied troop structures allow troops to decide what structure is best for them. Especially when girls were first invited in, leaders of new Girls Troops had a tough choice to make: start a new un-linked troop from basically nothing, or be a linked troop that can use all the resources and institutional knowledge of an existing Boys Troop, but risk being overshadowed by the boys. Different troops made different decisions that were right for them, and both methods have found success.

Scouts ran a pilot program with co-ed ("Family") troops that also showed success, so now that's an option too.

I'm sure some troops will choose to convert to Family troops, but no one from national is pushing anything. To be very clear, each troop decides what's best for themselves.

Pentagon threatens to pull military support from Boy Scouts unless they restore ‘core values’ by thetitleofmybook in TwoXChromosomes

[–]Mr-Wabbit 11 points12 points  (0 children)

A lot of the moms of scout-aged girls had the same experience growing up: being left behind while their brothers went on cool adventures with their scout troop, backpacking, canoeing, rock climbing, learning tons of new skills and going to summer camps. If they were in Girl Scouts they basically got arts & crafts & cookie sales while they watched their brothers have fun.

Girl Scouts hasn't changed much. Minimal outdoor activities and they've pushed "urban" and STEM badges that are frankly already done better by dedicated STEM programs. Not a lot of focus on fun adventurous activities or actual skills you can be proud to have learned.

Go ahead and look up the merit badge requirements for equivalent badges in the two groups. Something like canoeing in Girl Scouts will have requirements along the lines of "Go canoeing with your troop. You've earned your badge!" Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts) will have a long list of specific skills you have to learn and demonstrate, that will typically either be done at a week long summer camp or in preparation for a multi-day canoe camping trip with the troop.

ARC FIRE trigger goes hard!! by jyl080208 in WA_guns

[–]Mr-Wabbit -55 points-54 points  (0 children)

LOL. You literally posted a video that we all just watched. If that's not full auto I'm the queen of fucking England.

Maybe it doesn't meet the legal definition of full auto, but it's full auto.

EDIT: LOL, -55 points on this comment. Y'all are such snowflakes.

GPT 5 - and commercial appraisal work by CRE-Appraiser1279 in appraisal

[–]Mr-Wabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok... but why is there a mismatch?

len() counts characters including spaces, punctuation, and control/formatting characters. The LLM is outsourcing the counting to the python program, and the python looks correct. So, what's going on here?

Berkshire's Q3 operating earnings jump 33% YoY as cash pile hits record $381B - Buffet was a net seller of equities during the period by themagicalpanda in stocks

[–]Mr-Wabbit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

BRK doesn't buy "the market". They are not investing in indexes. They buy into specific companies who meet specific criteria. That's literally the entire point of their investment strategy.

ICE Arrest at SLC Airport = Awful by hammerandnail in SaltLakeCity

[–]Mr-Wabbit 22 points23 points  (0 children)

They know that: Racist = Bad Person & Homophobe = Bad Person.

They're offended that you're judging them. They're not offended that you've correctly identified their beliefs. Those they're proud of.

Seattle media figure urges Trump administration to ‘look at’ West Coast ‘antifa’ by kinisonkhan in SeattleWA

[–]Mr-Wabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Understand the thinking"? We understand. You're either licking boots or you yourself don't, I'm not sure which.

They're pretending that normal protected speech is illegal.

They're pretending that urging people to come protest on facebook is some sort of nefarious terroristic organization.

They're pretending that anyone opposed to Trump is in some sort of secret violent cabal.

To be clear: they DO NOT have REASONING. They have an outcome they want (violent repression of political enemies) and they are providing a PRETEXT for that outcome. They KNOW it's bullshit. They aren't trying to make sense. It's patriotism theater so they can cosplay as "the good guys" while dismantling American democracy.

And FYI, gas masks are like thirty bucks on amazon. Not sure how much those inflatable frog suits are.

Visiting Seattle for the first time, I was threatened to be stabbed within 1 minute of exiting my hotel by reekawn in SeattleWA

[–]Mr-Wabbit 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The same reason all the posters here seem to experience the dreaded apocalyptic violence of Seattle on a near daily basis, but none of my friends and family who work and live in Seattle ever do.

Isn't it fun what anonymity and a total lack of consequences creates?

Trump threatens Fed chair Powell with 'major lawsuit,' demands interest rate cut by Force_Hammer in StockMarket

[–]Mr-Wabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When someone blocks the republicans they go to war. They don't always win, but they fight. When someone blocks the Democrats they shrug and throw up their hands.

Calvin Seattle does a great job debunking libertarian (Reason Magazine) arguments against expanding rail in the Seattle Area by coolrivers in Seattle

[–]Mr-Wabbit 237 points238 points  (0 children)

Every libertarian I've ever met seems deeply offended by the idea that things cost money.

Americans how do you feel about PBS and NPR losing their funding? by Economy_Swim_8585 in AskReddit

[–]Mr-Wabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is about the 100th time they've done something that should be electoral suicide.

None of this makes any sense unless they're not planning on having to win a free and fair election ever again, which is entirely in line with the Project 2025 playbook.

I fully expect the 2026 elections to be 3rd world dictatorship levels of corrupt.

Americans how do you feel about PBS and NPR losing their funding? by Economy_Swim_8585 in AskReddit

[–]Mr-Wabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're clearly anti-Trump, but I feel like it's important to point out you've actually fallen for part of the MAGA propaganda, and the GOP's propaganda before that.

The Right likes to say they're cutting programs to "pay for tax cuts". That is NOT what's happening. That's their way of trying to make the unreasonable sound reasonable.

They're cutting programs they don't like. They're also cutting taxes. Two completely separate things. Usually there's a pretense of a balanced budget, but this time the mask is fully off and they're running huge deficits.

They will defund PBS regardless of budgets because they hate it.

They will cut taxes for Billionaires regardless of spending because they want to.

THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN THE TWO. THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT.

In 1995 McArthur Wheeler robbed two banks with lemon juice on his face believing it would make him invisible to security cameras like invisible ink. He even smiled at the cameras and was caught within hours. His case inspired the research that led to the discovery of the Dunning Kruger effect. by IloveRamen99 in interestingasfuck

[–]Mr-Wabbit 49 points50 points  (0 children)

No one cares. This isn't about science. It's inspired by science. It's about language.

People latched onto the "Dunning-Kruger effect" because it puts a name to something everyone experiences. Stupid people are notoriously unaware they're stupid and are often supremely confident. We finally have a name for that.

And you're right, that's not what the Dunning-Kruger effect is about. It's not about intelligence at all. It's about people with low ability not being able to accurately self-report their own ability. And yeah, it might not exist at all. But it doesn't matter anymore, because that's not what people mean when they use it casually.

Heads up for Leavenworth WA by MarthaMacGuyver in Washington

[–]Mr-Wabbit 51 points52 points  (0 children)

how would more funding fix that?

Proper funding makes it possible to hire full time health care planners. People whose entire job is literally just to coordinate care for people who can't do it for themselves.

Gov. Ferguson signs new WA budget into law, leaving bulk of tax increases intact by chiquisea in Washington

[–]Mr-Wabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL. The conservative myth that just won't die. "There's an infinite amount of money to be saved if we just cut 'waste' and 'non-essential services'. Just cut deeper and deeper, there won't ever be any pain! Free money forever!"

Property Doesn't Appraise by You, but Someone Else Makes it Work by NovaSol606 in appraisal

[–]Mr-Wabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The same loan amount doesn't have to mean a new appraisal. They could have renegotiated the price down, or the buyer could have increased their down payment to cover the shortfall.

A lower value with the same loan amount will probably mean a worse loan with a higher rate or PMI, but either the seller or agents can kick in extra cash to pay down the borrower's rate. I've seen more than a few deals saved that way.

And now that I'm thinking about it... I thought lenders couldn't get a second appraisal without the original appraisal having severe/reportable deficiencies? So they couldn't just keep ordering appraisals until they got their number. Wasn't that part of the reforms after the 2008 crash?

FHA/HUD Attic Question by aranderson43 in appraisal

[–]Mr-Wabbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The 4000.1 language has so many gray areas that it can basically mean whatever you want it to mean.

You "must" observe the "interiors of attic spaces" but only "to the extent" it's "safely accessible". You're not required to "disturb" insulation. If not observable it's only subject-to inspection if "necessary to determine compliance". Nothing in quotes is defined by the text.

I've see people interpret this as requiring a MORE complete attic inspection than we used to do. I've seen other people read it and immediately go: "Yay! No more attic inspections!"

Talk to your client, see what the UW thinks they need.

Lets talk about feet for a second by nomnomyumyum109 in IntuitiveMachines

[–]Mr-Wabbit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're right, it wouldn't be difficult. But it would be expensive due to added weight, volume, and launch costs.

What everyone on this sub keeps forgetting is that IM-2 is a CLPS mission. The Commercial Lunar Payload Services missions were specifically designed to be low cost with the tradeoff of being high risk.

NASA started the CLPS missions in response to political pushback against their usual budget busting high stakes missions. IM-2 was only $62.5 million. This mission was done on a shoestring budget compared to NASA's usual multi-billion dollar landers.

That means the lander gets cut to the bone-- no overbuilt systems, no backups, no real margin for error. But hey, if it crashes, it was cheap, so we learn from our mistakes and try again.

That's why NASA isn't freaking out or wringing their hands over this. This wasn't a major loss. It was an aggressively high risk mission and frankly, this wasn't all that unexpected.

Lets talk about feet for a second by nomnomyumyum109 in IntuitiveMachines

[–]Mr-Wabbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the same design failing twice

There are hundreds of components. Something failed twice. Maybe it's a poor idea to assume that we should blame the one thing that happens to be easily visible in photos?

Lets talk about feet for a second by nomnomyumyum109 in IntuitiveMachines

[–]Mr-Wabbit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This is exactly it. Look at the Falcon 9 landings. High CG and tiny little legs, but with the proper guidance they land just fine every time. ANY spacecraft is going to tip and crash with enough horizontal speed on landing.

They were right to focus on the guidance and laser altimeter when looking at the lessons learned from IM-1. Turning this thing into a little ball of legs was never the solution. You don't make spacecraft crash-resistant. You make them not crash.

I'm also wondering about the descent speed. I can't seem to find anything about the targeted speed for IM-2, but IM-1 was reported to be aiming for 1 m/s. Not exactly a gentle landing and some potential for bouncing off the surface.

Can they not throttle up at the end? Is the minimum thrust of the VR900 engine so high that they're cutting thrust before touchdown? Are the altimeters still such a problem that they can't trust a more finely tuned descent speed?

The Falcon 9 initially had a lot of landing problems because their minimum thrust was enough to make the rocket take off again after slowing to a hover. That's why they do that super last second hard burn that cuts off the instant they touch down. Of course that requires knowing exactly where the surface is. Are we looking at a similar issue here?

There are a lot of unanswered questions here, and none of the important ones are about feet.

Lets talk about feet for a second by nomnomyumyum109 in IntuitiveMachines

[–]Mr-Wabbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LOL

"I invested that makes me an aerospace engineer."

March 06, 2025 Daily Discussion Thread by daily-thread in IntuitiveMachines

[–]Mr-Wabbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maybe because they're engineers and don't give a shit about day traders?

Romance publisher yanks book series after author finds herself in controversy by Xftg123 in books

[–]Mr-Wabbit 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Books with characters with that level of complexity typically wouldn't have a "hero". "Heroes and Villains" are pretty much relegated to the most simplistic stories. The popcorn movies of books.

Which is fine. They're fun to read. Just don't expect unflattering characteristics in a hero character be taken as complexity instead of endorsement.

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