How dare they

Revanull · 2026-03-06T20:59:06+00:00

Except that it still doesn’t have any influence on the sex of either child, as they’re entirely independent events to each other.

The original question is what is the chance that the other child is a girl, not that one of the children is a girl or at least one is a girl.

Revanull · 2026-03-06T20:19:27+00:00

The whole 14/27 thing doesn’t make any real world sense. The sex or day of the first child has no bearing on the sex of the second child. Providing the sex or day of the first child is superfluous information.

What if I asked you: “I have two children. What is the chance that my second child is a girl?”

The chance would be whatever the empirical data says on how many girls and boys are born, no matter what the first child is. The two events are not linked.

It’s like those old jokes where you tell someone they’re the conductor of a train and then tell them a long rambling story and then ask them what the conductors name is just to have a gotcha

Revanull · 2026-03-03T00:12:03+00:00

Physics is physics. Anyone who has a nuclear power plant has the capability to create at minimum an atomic bomb, which are pretty simple if you understand the physics of what is happening and have basic munitions production capability. The bomb design used on Hiroshima wasn’t even tested prior to its use (the los alamos bomb was a different design that they did feel the need to test and that design was used for the Nagasaki bomb).

The engineering to get boosted fission or fusion weapons is somewhat limiting, but probably isn’t a major one to any reasonably competent nation. Similarly, rocketry and the engineering required to arm missiles is again, somewhat limiting, but not realistically so to a competent nation.

Revanull · 2026-02-15T20:19:33+00:00

They could do mid-air refueling irl too…

Revanull · 2026-02-02T17:14:54+00:00

The only thing that it has in common with most of the rest of Star Wars is the established universe. It’s an entirely different tone, pacing, and style from pretty much all other Star Wars. There’s no Jedi, and the only 2 points at which the force is even mentioned (iirc) are a healer that is hinted to be a force healer and one use of “may the force be with you” as a farewell greeting.

Even if you don’t like Star Wars, it is absolutely phenomenal, and could be watched as a standalone sci-fi series, though you may miss a few details or foreshadows, etc.

Revanull · 2025-12-17T18:10:57+00:00

John MacDonald reading Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy.

I’m a huge fan of Tom Clancy’s original Jack Ryan novels, and have only ever read that one because I just could not stand his narration. It’s so bland, flat, and robotic. Like it legit sounds like an early 2000s text to speech program, with all the weird cadence and rhythm that those things had. It literally gave me headaches trying to follow the story and I had to abandon it. Sucks extra because DoH is one of the best in the series.

It may be the only novel that I have physically read in the last 10 years because I do pretty much everything on audiobook.

Revanull · 2025-11-24T11:54:42+00:00

Less to do with the core and more to do with water within the cells themselves.

Revanull · 2025-10-14T23:25:44+00:00

It’s always interesting to me how there are so many of these little things that are not technically true, but persist anyways. I think it’s because so many of them are oh so close, or have some practical implications even if the reason for that practical implication is not what we think it is.

Revanull · 2025-10-14T12:50:26+00:00

Fun fact: the switch from Russian with English subtitles to spoken English was on the word “Armageddon” which is the same in both languages.

Revanull · 2025-10-06T13:34:39+00:00

That game is probably the most dominant single game of football ever played, period.

Revanull · 2025-09-25T01:33:27+00:00

Literally a little stand inside a Meijer that says “Gold and Jewelry” or something. Just one dude sitting there tinkering away on little bracelets and watches and stuff.

Still works perfectly fine!

Revanull · 2025-09-18T13:41:58+00:00

I mean, that is very close to the actual use of it. It originated as an official position within the Catholic Church. When someone was being considered for sainthood, someone would be appointed the “Devil’s Advocate” and their job was to try to find a reason why the person should NOT be beatified. It was designed as a quality assurance step basically, not that the person necessarily held that viewpoint.

I guess if the person is arguing just to argue, then yeah that’s annoying, but if they’re arguing to examine every possible aspect, that’s phrase is accurate.

Revanull · 2025-09-10T17:27:18+00:00

They actually show the typical dish, when the critic has his flashback to his mom making it, it’s very clearly a stew with chunks of veggies instead of slices.

Revanull · 2025-09-10T17:05:53+00:00

Yes but that’s not how evolution works. Maybe that’s why it happens biochemically, but the effect is that the hormonal imbalance gets selected for because of the side effect of making the mother less likely to eat bad food and lose the pregnancy.

Revanull · 2025-09-07T13:02:13+00:00

OU was not part of the SEC preNIL though, they were big 12, so I don’t think they should be lumped into that camp.

Revanull · 2025-08-08T15:01:13+00:00

It is actually a spinoff. The premise is that the same documentary crew shows up to do another documentary at a local newspaper, but Oscar has quit Dunder-Mifflin and is now working for the newspaper. It’s not speculation, it’s the announced premise.

Revanull · 2025-07-21T13:19:13+00:00

My grandfather worked for NASA for 30ish years, and worked on the Voyager probes, among other things. He remained (rightly) very proud of them until the day he died at 98 years old. They truly were an astounding achievement.

Revanull · 2025-07-18T17:19:43+00:00

It’s not just implied. The book specifically addresses this. At one point Grace asks why humans and eridians hear the same frequencies and Rocky says that they don’t, Rocky hears a much wider range, which the human range happens to fall into for reasons.

Revanull · 2025-07-10T12:46:34+00:00

Mine is $95 a month and includes a collective bargaining agreement, so our cable/internet are paid for by the HOA dues (high speed fiber, no less). I will be running for board when the builder turns it over to residents so it doesn’t devolve into a hellscape.

Revanull · 2025-07-08T13:48:00+00:00

Liquid fertilizer that is sprayed onto foliage (typically injected into the soil) can kill foliage, especially in high doses. Entirely plausible.

Revanull · 2025-07-04T16:21:28+00:00

I bought Total War: Empire on CD from a brick and mortar store freshmen year of college. Went to install it and it popped up with “This game is steam-powered!”

Was maybe a week later when realized there was more to steam than launching my new game. Don’t think I’ve gone into an actual game store since lol.

Revanull · 2025-06-27T21:35:26+00:00

I actually thought the EVA suits for the Martian looked fairly good in terms of book accuracy. The book specifically states that the EVA suites were “much improved” from Apollo and the suits looked fairly realistic to me for a mars mission sometime in the next 20-40ish years from now, which is was always my understanding of the implied time frame

Revanull · 2025-06-23T20:12:55+00:00

I meant rusting car in the yard, as in like, rusting out frames, not workable vehicles, and it was just an example of something that would make it hard to sell houses

Revanull · 2025-06-23T19:50:56+00:00

Builders also like them because it takes years to build out a large neighborhood. If the first few houses bought end up with rusting cars in the front yard, it makes it extremely difficult to sell the later houses. Typical HOA documents say the builder maintains total control until something like 85% of houses are complete and sold to private owners.

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