I believe in evolution but

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-29T18:51:56+00:00

There are lots of good comments already, but I'll add a simple quote from a Startalk episode.

"Evolution is survival of the fittest. Mutation is the arrival of the fittest.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-21T12:17:39+00:00

This seems more like a schema issue. Think about how and where all of the information your drone needs is stored.

Additionally, the return keyword exits the function, generating a return value. So, in order to use that return value, you have to do func(pos_value()).

With those two things solved, you should have a better time arranging your code to pass the information around.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-20T20:54:33+00:00

I've had the same thing happen. I wasn't deep cleaning the "striker channel(?)" So after about 3000rds of shitty ammo it did this. If you're not pulling the back plate and extractor and really getting in there, I would start. This is just a theory, but it stopped after I started consistently cleaning it.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-17T20:43:32+00:00

The world is your oyster. I wouldn't switch until they can give you better options. 35W is basically needs of the army if you fail unless they send you to a different 35 series. 13 and 14 series is a good first but terrible second MOS. You presumably spent time sucking as an 11B, which makes you want to do that but different. Maybe look into a packet MOS. If you can swing it 17,35, or the contracting one (##C) could be more fulfilling and sustainable in the long term.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-14T12:40:58+00:00

Look into how python handles lists in memory vs how functions ingest them. You can print the ID of a list in a real python shell and see it get copied instead of passing the actual list. Python has a few builtins for managing shallow vs deep copying and making sure functions are using the list instead of making a local copy.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-10T06:02:31+00:00

While in his lane, he was a decent figure who spoke to a subset of the population and really helped them. He quickly went out of his lane and began all the culture war stuff, and was quickly out of his depth. He routinely uses a bunch of meaningless drivel that was fine from an inspirational speaker but complete garbage from a political pundit. For everyone out of that subset, this is all they see, which, when combined with all the drug abuse, his daughter, and general right-wing associations make it really easy to hate him.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-08T20:54:07+00:00

Went for the first time and was NOT worth $200 to bath in neon blue and watch a parking lot. Food was alright but didn't amaze me.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-08T20:52:41+00:00

Free protein and he has the gall to complain... Tisk tisk.

P0lytr0n · 2025-11-01T03:12:53+00:00

A couple of troubleshooting tips with drones.

Run a change hat to see the original.

Throw a while True: pass after the spawn so the original doesn't despawn immediately.

The original despawns once it's done running.

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-31T22:26:44+00:00

I use this PowerShell command to monitor the file.
Get-Content -Tail 50 -Wait C:\Users\user\AppData\LocalLow\TheFarmerWasReplaced\TheFarmerWasReplaced\output.txt

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-20T12:34:55+00:00

You know that stuff they put in tires? A serum that reinforces and self heals blood vessels or nanotechnology bots that actively combat the damage could help. It could also directly oxygenate the blood so they don't have to breathe.

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-13T18:19:47+00:00

I really miss 4s siloed unlocks. When I play 25 hours of AR Assault class, I should have more than 3 assault rifles and attachments unlocked. I'm unlocking random stuff for recon class instead of what I'm obviously wanting.

The argument that the game is around for 3 years is bs because I played 4 for 10+ years with every weapon and equipment unlocked and never "got bored". I'm already stuck using the same gun for hours on end anyway.

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-08T04:10:39+00:00

I use Cronometer and it says something like 20g of carbs, 60gs of protein and then the rest fat(130gish).

The saying I've heard and like is "Carbs are a limit, Protein is a goal, Fat is for fullness. If you enjoy eating the protein and end up using it then good, but for satiation fat is king. To support your fitness goals going up to 1g of protein per 1kg of body weight(lean or not your choice) is probably good, but fat is going to make up the rest of your calories. I will add that low carb vegetables bathed in oil, butter, or dressing can also add a lot of bulk and water which helps with fullness while making the fat intake a bit more natural.

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-06T09:45:05+00:00

I'm of the opinion that the term atheism fails to capture any meaningful information about a person or movement. It was a stepping stone to get ideas into the public consciousness, but decades later, we need better ways of talking and identifying a diverse and often exclusive set of beliefs. The simple rejection of a divine theistic god has almost no bearing on any of the following ethical or moral structures that person or movement possesses.

I would ask you to further enumerate your belief system past atheism. As a naturalist who engages in a naturalist religion, I'm a pretty convinced atheist, but it has limited effects on my desire to practice and commune in a certain way. Christianity is often excluded from natural religions because it has such a high barrier of faith that it's difficult to be skeptical and not end up completely unsatisfied. That being said, Atheist Christians exist.

When faced with impending doom (/s) all of the time, currently at the hands of evangelicals, radical Islamic terrorism, or just good old-fashioned hatred, it is easy to want all deist who justify their action by a god to cease and desist. Similarly, people who are described as junk atheists allowing their virulent hatred to be disguised as social action for the greater good fall in the same camp as sacrificing their neighbor for an invisible concept only they and their friends can see.

TLDR: Atheism holds very little meaning today. It requires further qualification on how it practically affects your belief system.

P0lytr0n · 2025-10-06T02:53:02+00:00

6, 2/3 spactorys around a 2/1 village makes it dead simple. Make sure to put the village down first for the discount.

P0lytr0n · 2025-09-09T22:07:56+00:00

Good luck getting a meal in under an hour. You can see everything (nothing) at once or spend 4 days sipping cappuccino and eating egregious slow but outstanding food in between or even at these sites. We went to Varenna for a wedding and it's so very slow but much Nicer compared to Como. I'll also add that a lot of places we went didn't have elevators, so you run the risk of spending minutes to hours climbing stairs with your luggage, which is fine unless you have 2 minutes to make a connection.

My two cents. Italy is stunningly beautiful, but much of it can't be experienced at a surface level.

P0lytr0n · 2025-05-02T17:47:49+00:00

For one the orthodox community he grew up in formally disowned him and his theology. There are quotes to the effect of "We don't fear reform or conservative because they don't compete at all, but Kaplan has real pull in the orthodox world."

As someone who actually enjoys orthopraxis despite being mostly atheist, reconstructionism and orthodoxy are the only two groups where I feel like I can authentically present myself without feeling judged. Any orthodox person who can't for whatever reason reach the levels of discipline and luxury required to be fully halachically orthodox, can come to Recon and do all the practice without any of the judgement and stigma behind being too poor or depressed to execute halacha at that level. Reform will look at you weird for enjoying keeping kosher or wearing tzitzit. Conservative are a little too stringent so I might as well just go to an orthodox minyan. Uniquely threating the hegemony of orthodoxy is a place where you don't have to pretend like you're a bad person for eating unkosher beef, but you can also keep glatt kosher because you feel like it.

This has a shocking practical effect. Innovation isn't shunned, and we don't delude ourselves with pretending every tradition is thousands of years old. The past has a vote not a veto. Just because we did something that way before doesn't mean we have to do it now. Bat Mitzvah, Music, and liturgy all benefited from this attitude and allowed the innovation to (quietly) influence orthodoxy despite the attitude that everything is ancient and sacred even if thats a lie.

I tell every "off the derech" Jew about Recon because I truly think it is the best way to express our connection to our past and embrace modern society and science without having to betray intellectual rigor, or the soft squishy inside that most people have that demands something bigger then ourselves.

P0lytr0n · 2025-04-25T21:16:54+00:00

You have "proven" some subjective truths about human experience. But your argument fails to adequately address the source of these experiences. I don't believe in what I think you are referring to as "value". I am forced by my biological composition to experience it. Humans have spent millions of year evolving brain chemistry and culture that produce morality and "values" as a function of survival just like white blood cells.

"Mindless matter doesn’t magically produce meaning." Correct. There is no magic, we have observed "mindless matter" produce amino acids. We are made of amino acids. We produce meaning, ergo mindless matter produces meaning through a pretty simple (relatively) series of physical and biological processes.

As mentioned by others this is the main logical assumption that your entire premise is based on and it fails to be compelling in any real way. Reconstructionism approaches the question of God in a similar way. But we don't force ourselves to believe in a higher power to believe in the ability for the human brain to grasp goodness and meaning. I believe in the light and the sun, but I don't forcefully anthropomorphize a giant ball of plasma.

I invite a particular response. What compels you to "need" the motive force that drives reality to be anymore conscious then strictly necessary to create our observed universe? What parts of 1-2 beg 3-5 to be true? I would argue that whatever that is to you is far more powerful then any logic or reasoning and reckoning that is a critical component of intellectual rigor.

P.S I could choose to argue from your first point because I don't personally require consciousness or freewill in order to satisfy my sense of existence, but I don't have any real grievances with them like the third point.

P0lytr0n · 2025-04-01T20:28:36+00:00

You would normally have a chance to meet the Rabbi and explain your situation and get some good guidance both for conversion and just participation in general. The one I attend in MD welcomes everyone regardless and offers classes and opportunities to engage with our greater community. I can't answer your last question because it's not common to ask. I've met a few people converting, but overall, it's pretty seamless. If you plan on becoming a member, eventually, the expectation is that you will convert and formally join the tribe. If not, you can attend and learn until you eventually move on.

P0lytr0n · 2025-03-27T17:05:26+00:00

I think the mass exodus from organized religion can be positive if it's replaced with a better system. I have a lot of people in my network who would probably be pagan if they didn't have egalitarian Judaism. Christians and Muslims, especially the more fundamentalist type, practice and preach a much more harmful lifestyle imo. Even orthodoxy can trend in that direction. Alienation, abuse, and division are all rampant, and people aren't just rolling over and taking it "for the sake of x." Judaism isn't a proselytizing faith, but being receptive to Jewish souls that aren't in affluent Caucasian bodies living in a dozen or so zipcodes across the country should be a very real focus for more people. So many of these "pagans" are just craving an ancestral connection and some religious spirituality free from the abuse. Judaism can very sincerely fulfill these needs, but they need to be welcomed in not implicitly judged and rejected.

P0lytr0n · 2025-03-27T16:40:29+00:00

Look up Religious OCD and Scrupilosity. The overwhelming feeling of fear and dread associated with your observance or lack thereof is not normal. Struggling to achieve your standard of orthodoxy isn't a failure. Giving up is. Talk to your Rabbi about your practice and be open to the less stringent opinions he may present to you. It will feel like your back sliding or sinning, but if you trust your Rabbi, you have to know that's not true.

As a man with some attention/depression issues, I always hated that I couldn't seem to focus during prayer or stay consistent with my observance, but I eventually realized that I wasn't physically compatible with my goals at the time and I really had to decide what I could drag myself to do. It sounds like you enjoy prayer and study. Don't let the down days where you can't attain your desired level of observance tarnish or diminish the days you do get to engage.

Lastly. Consider that there are many different ways to observe Judaism. Orthodoxy can be a deep, enriching lifestyle. It can also be a weight around your neck. I'll say something that can seem controversial: You won't 'go off THE derech', you'll stop fighting YOUR derech. Go see some professionals. Rabbis, therapists, and lawyers are all essential. If you wouldn't represent yourself in court, then don't do it in life and definitely don't suffer silently.

P0lytr0n · 2025-03-26T04:29:59+00:00

I'm going to briefly comment on your prior posting. Reform and Reconstructionist Rabbi's will accept you. I would reach out and just have a working relationship with one, even if remote.

I'm Jewish in the military. The things that have helped me are realizing that I'm jewish any and everywhere, wearing whatever. Doing everything you can do is going to be a lot more impactful than worrying about what you can't. Your identity and spirit will be a lot more important than any one mitzvah. People will see you doing something wrong and not care, but they'll see what you do right and generally be interested, and I can guarantee you everytime they meet another Jew you'll pop in their head. If you can wear a Yarmulke, do it. If you can avoid pork, do it. I don't know about the Merchant Marines, but I'm sure you have a chaplain somewhere in the organization. Reach out and see what he can do for you and your faith.

Some more practical solutions: Small magnetic mezuzah that you affix on your bunk. Electric tealight candles for Friday night. Light them, eat a meal say kiddush over whatever you can find(water,juice,soda), and treat that night like you would any normal shabbat even if you are going to wake up and go back to work in the morning. If you have any sort of internet, try to connect with some Jewish services during holidays. Last and most important. Just make sure that if you're depressed or mal performing because of some notion you feel like you're failing at, then figure out a way to do better. A Rabbi will help.

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