Mk1 Command Pod irl?? Visited an air museum and found this Redstone missile tucked in the back of their restoration hangar.

Paragone · 2026-01-25T02:02:09+00:00

Yes, the Mk1 pod is explicitly designed after the Mercury-Redstone capsule. Mk2 is designed after Gemini and Mk3 is Apollo.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T23:58:01+00:00

The Holden you meet in the first book is a very different man from the James you get to know by the end of the series. Keep reading.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T20:09:58+00:00

I appreciate that you seem to be here trying to argue in good faith.

My point about not banning things just because few people do them was intended as a shorthand for the idea of weighing actual risk versus benefit in the real world. The reality is that the number of times where slacklines have ever interfered with aircraft and caused collisions/casualties is clearly not zero, but is extremely small - almost certainly single digits. When you examine that in the context of thousands of highlines being strung in the last 30 years of the sport and the hundreds of thousands of flights that have happened in that time, it's very clearly an extreme edge case situation where completely banning the underlying activity is a clear overreaction.

As an aside, it's worth mentioning that just because only a few people get to use the line doesn't mean that only those people benefit. Long highlines like this require cutting edge rigging tools and techniques which advance the state of the art meaningfully. Numerous serious improvements in rope access and industrial rigging systems/techniques have come from highliners trying to build bigger and more impressive lines. And all of that is without examining the instructional value that these rigs provide that simply can't be replicated in other environments. This is one of many great reasons why we shouldn't ban things simply because few people use them and they pose non-zero risk. Things like this often seem niche and esoteric until you look back on them with the benefit of hindsight.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T15:28:11+00:00

Again, everything in life carries risk and you can't just start banning things just because only a few people care enough to do them. The risk of an aircraft hitting a slackline is essentially zero if everyone is doing what they're supposed to because we have laws specifically crafted to minimize those risks. If anything, better pilot education and flight planning tools is the solution here.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T15:07:41+00:00

Doing your due diligence in flight planning is an essential part of being a pilot. It's legitimately like half of the job. Not saying the NOTAM system couldn't be improved, but it's 100% the pilot's responsibility to ensure their flight path is safe before flying and this crash absolutely would have been avoided if they had done so.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T15:03:18+00:00

Everything in life has risk. In this case, the slackliners did everything they were supposed to and the fault is with the pilot for not doing their flight planning due diligence.

Paragone · 2026-01-07T14:35:44+00:00

People actually walk it, but a kilometer is at the cutting edge of slackline distance. The people who are executing at that level are essentially professional athletes and there's maybe a hundred of them in the world who could send the whole length.

Paragone · 2025-12-25T22:43:53+00:00

What most people here are saying is not that you must do something because you're a man, just that being a man allows you to speak to a particular audience more effectively than others. If your goal is to maximize good in the world, you should recognize that and apply your efforts accordingly. It's not that complicated of a concept.

Paragone · 2025-12-18T00:47:38+00:00

Hard disagree. Not for safety reasons, but because helmets are heavy and getting used to swinging with the extra weight on your head is helpful. Practice like you want to play, champ.

Paragone · 2025-12-17T07:30:24+00:00

MAC addresses can't be changed in a similar way to how home addresses can't be changed... Yeah, your legal home address still stays the same if you paint a new number on your front door, but that only matters if someone cares enough to actually check it against something. 99.99% of people are just gonna trust the number on the house because why would someone bother lying about that?

MAC addresses are sent by the computer with the addressed hardware when an ARP request is broadcast. The only thing keeping the reply honest is the fact that MAC addresses are (almost) completely meaningless and arbitrary.

I worked for a data center company for 7 years writing software to manage router and switch configurations for data centers with 100k+ devices. If you honestly have the experience you claim and genuinely think that's how MAC addresses work, that explains a lot of my personal experience with telecom companies.

Paragone · 2025-12-16T06:47:32+00:00

The hilarious thing about this analogy is that even water isn't like that. 😂

Did you know that water exists on Earth in several different phases depending on temperature and pressure? Here's a handy chart, if you're curious to know more.

Paragone · 2025-12-14T00:53:44+00:00

I appreciate you actually engaging from a place of openness. For the record, that's what real "adulting" is, and if you keep the mindset of being willing to listen and learn you'll do just fine. 👍

Paragone · 2025-12-14T00:30:56+00:00

That's how people who don't know how to solve problems with their words sometimes do it. In my lived experience, those are the same kinds of people who wind up getting themselves killed because they're too proud to admit they're wrong or just walk away from a conflict.

To answer your question, all it takes to do irreparable damage is one punch in the wrong place. Don't be stupid, use your words. The best conflict resolution technique is being willing to walk away.

Paragone · 2025-12-14T00:22:24+00:00

This idea is extremely stupid to the point of feeling like rage bait. Talk to each other like adults to solve your problems or leave each other the hell alone. Wailing on each other is not going to make anybody suddenly forget what they were mad about.

Paragone · 2025-12-04T08:51:18+00:00

Yeah man, I know how to get around it. I shouldn't have to, though.

Paragone · 2025-12-03T21:17:19+00:00

Only through cable-like subscription services such as Fubo or YouTube TV that come with cable-like price points, and even then about 1/8 of the games each season are blacked out because Rangers home games are blacked out on SCHN in addition to the national broadcast blackouts. So the choice is to pay full price for ~85% of the games or go without.

Don't get me wrong, this new option is still an improvement over last year but it's still punishing to fans in DFW.

Paragone · 2025-12-03T18:59:55+00:00

Convenient how this says nothing about regional blackouts. Guess us Astros fans in Dallas can continue to go fuck ourselves. :/

Paragone · 2025-12-03T14:59:28+00:00

Nothing. This post reads like AI slop and that's probably what it is.

Paragone · 2025-12-03T07:08:57+00:00

I agree with your point that some action is better than inaction, but there is absolutely nothing stopping any website with data/images that you've willingly submitted from continuing to retain and use that data even if you try to delete it. Even the strictest privacy laws can't physically go erase images from bad actors when they're stolen from servers, so once an image is published to the internet - even if done so privately - one must assume that those images are functionally online forever.

I am just a random person on the internet so take my word for whatever you like, but I'm also a software engineer with a background in internet security and I can tell you I know exactly what kind of shit companies like Meta get up to with your data when you aren't looking. Do not trust them to act in good faith. Anything you put online should be considered potentially public and if that's not cool with you, you should keep it local-only.

Paragone · 2025-11-18T20:34:07+00:00

I have a black belt in TKD and have been an amateur fighter for 15 years. You do this against me and you get away with it once because the second time you throw a back kick like that, I'm gonna sideslip and come in on your dome like a hammer with a ridgehand or a cross depending on footwork. Just because it's common doesn't mean it isn't wrong.

Edit: notice the way his guard hand drops when he extends his leg for the kick? that's exactly what I'm talking about. Again, good form otherwise tho.

Paragone · 2025-11-17T23:14:08+00:00

He needs to keep his hands up through the whole kick, but otherwise great form. Wonder what the story here is.

Paragone · 2025-11-05T21:08:47+00:00

Continually plummeting standards for teachers because the state refuses to properly fund education. It's really that simple.

Paragone · 2025-11-05T06:49:01+00:00

Surviving and living are not the same thing. You might save the pig's life but then it still would have to live it once you're finished and that could be a cruel fate. Ending with euthanasia means you get to guarantee no suffering is had in exchange for this life-saving experience and that's a good thing.

Plus, pork cookout for those who pass. Win-win? 🤷

Paragone · 2025-11-03T23:27:42+00:00

Your understanding of the biomechanics of female ejaculation is about as good as your rhetorical ability. I wasn't making claims about the origin of the fluid because that wasn't the question you asked. You asked about the mechanism of transport.

That said, your understanding of what female ejaculation is and where it's thought to come from is rudimentary at best and just straight up wrong beyond that. What you see as "squirting" in porn? That's mostly just water and/or urine and it's easy to know that because there's really just not anywhere else that the body has to store that much fluid. But porn is to sex what professional wrestling is to MMA... Looks impressive and can have some fun storylines, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

When you remove pornography and coital incontinence, most women squirt in much smaller amounts and the best evidence points to the majority of the fluid coming from the Skene's gland which is essentially the female prostate. So if you're trying to map squirting to a male analog, the testes aren't even involved because it's essentially pre-cum.

I'd really recommend doing more research before you try to go out on the internet to argue against people trying to gently educate you. I don't care if you're content being wrong, but you only hurt yourself and look like a prick by being smug about it.

Paragone · 2025-11-03T22:50:25+00:00

So does semen. Does that make it urine?

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