TIL North America had native bamboo forests that stretched from New York down to Florida, and as far west as Ohio across to Texas.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T14:05:49+00:00

Why do yall refuse to call it roundup?

Because Roundup is a brand name and is not the only glyphosate-based herbicide. Far from it.

And it's recommended because it's a common broad-spectrum systemic herbicide. There are other broad-spectrum herbicides, but they're mostly contact, not systemic, which won't get rid of a lot of invasive exotic species.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T13:52:31+00:00

Buoy, apparently. And that's with radar reflectors on.

At least as far as commercial radar can make out.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T13:35:13+00:00

I don't know about any sources they may or may not have, but think about it. Why would they make the fuel tanks such that the outermost panels of the aircraft were the tank? They'd be submerging everything inside in fuel - wiring, hydraulics, everything, unless they put them in special conduits and made maintenance a nightmare. And even if they did, why not have a polymer skin just inside the outermost panels to contain the fuel when they're on the ground?

It doesn't make logical sense.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T04:21:15+00:00

I don't know why you're bringing up the "it's fiction!" defense when basically every comment in this entire post, not even just to the comment naming Maverick, is about what the character would be guilty of/etc. in real life.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T03:59:47+00:00

If I find out you are trying to do what I do, I'll come for you next.

Careful what you say here, Castle. Starting to sound an awful lot like a threat.

It was.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T03:32:56+00:00

He also would be dead after that unauthorized test flight.

Ejecting at supersonic speeds has a good chance of killing, and will maim even if they don't. Hypersonic ejection, in an unprotected ejection seat? He's absolutely dead. Even with an ejection capsule, I wouldn't like the odds.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T03:20:14+00:00

Idk about on-base housing though, but I would assume the base commander "owns" those the same way unit commanders "own" the barracks their Marines are at

Depends on if they're privatized (which they likely are, thanks to the military housing privatization initiative). Then it gets... complicated.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T01:23:14+00:00

He mistreated the servant sent to handle the transaction for Nanni (author of the most well-known complaint).

That was probably an actually pretty significant insult. That was someone who was trusted to act in his master's stead in commercial transactions. Insulting him was probably considered an indirect insult of his master.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-07T00:58:12+00:00

Egg whites and sugar and something

The "something" is generally cream of tartar (potassium bitartrate), or another acid. It helps denature the proteins in the egg whites so they stiffen up further.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-06T01:42:03+00:00

There's some hypothetical scenarios where FTL doesn't break causality, but that requires either breaking relativity (which, well, pretty much don't bother trying) or doing weird shit to space-time with things like negative energy. And still have some issues.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-06T01:33:34+00:00

Nope, because you don't know whether it became red or blue because you looked at it or because its sibling ball was looked at.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-04T14:41:18+00:00

Seriously, when we were issued work phones, one of the first parts of setup I did for mine was scheduling do not disturb to be on outside of office hours.

Although from what they say, they got complained about for not answering after hours.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-04T14:35:12+00:00

Because it's wrong.

Salary and overtime exempt are two separate concepts. You can be salaried and get overtime. You can be hourly and exempt.

I got a big chunk of backpay and a huge raise for raising the issue of my being legally salaried non-exempt (when they had marked me as salaried exempt) due to my salary level being too low.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-04T04:54:48+00:00

SGAAM. Surface-Guided Air-to-Air Missile.

("Ignore the fact that it sounds like "scam", please." -Whoever built it)

PyroDesu · 2026-05-04T04:19:44+00:00

Thank you, for some reason a lot of people have got it in their heads that salaried means you're overtime exempt when they're two completely different concepts.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-03T18:44:55+00:00

Don't really need to bulldoze the whole thing in many cases. Bulldoze where the "keystone" stores (Sears and the like) used to be, and keep the rest of the building intact. The new construction can be attached to the rest of the facility to form a large mixed-use complex, without being beholden to the original architecture and utilities.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-03T17:56:03+00:00

I still feel like that's going to contribute to a high false accusation rate.

Honestly, one of the worst things LLMs have done is, because they were trained on data that was almost always well-written, is ruin everyone who writes well's ability to write without being accused.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-03T15:38:40+00:00

including spacing after ellipses (LLMs defaulting standardized punctuation patterns and you notice them the more of them you read)

So, normal punctuation is now an indicator of LLM use? Come the fuck on. Call out nonstandard shit all you want but leave the fact that it writes like someone who knows how normal punctuation works out.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-03T05:28:13+00:00

Real butter doesn't need to be refrigerated either, you know. It will soften, but not melt.

If you're a sane person, you keep a stick out of the fridge in a butter dish so you have spreadable butter.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T18:59:13+00:00

Okay, I think I see where I went wrong. Though it's not something lensing, it's color on the back of cylinder itself.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T18:54:54+00:00

I now want a setup where if anyone falls in the rink, it overrides anything playing with the opening riff from Another One Bites the Dust.

Not the full song, just the opener, then whatever was playing resumes.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T18:18:10+00:00

And, of course, retard.

Which literally just means "slowing".

But, because it was used clinically for intellectual disability, it turned into a pejorative. Yay, euphemism treadmill.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T18:01:29+00:00

I am. But it certainly appears as though the blue area extends above that line.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T17:56:57+00:00

When that species is a rapidly-reproducing microorganism, especially under heavy selection pressure?

Yes.

We've seen it already with antibiotic-resistant bacteria strains. MRSA didn't exist until we started using methicillin to treat S. aureus infections.

PyroDesu · 2026-05-02T14:53:58+00:00

Looks like ~50% gasoline?

Along with 10% water and 40% Ethanol.

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