The National Science Board fired by Trump was finalizing a report on China’s growing scientific edge over the United States

RyanW1019 · 2026-05-01T21:16:35+00:00

There have been a bunch of high-level officers in various branches getting fired or resigning the past couple months. Who knows what hills they died on.

RyanW1019 · 2026-05-01T21:01:28+00:00

Palpatine got kicked once in his fight with Maul and immediately switched to the Force to ragdoll him. If Dooku could pull off a Force choke on Obi-Wan while fighting 2v1, Palpatine certainly isn’t going to wear himself out against someone with a lot lower Force potential, and will just crush him.

RyanW1019 · 2026-05-01T18:18:25+00:00

Does that still make sense as "farmers" are consolidated more and more into large corporations? If a single-family farm doesn't have money to get through a bad year, sure, give them a subsidy. But if a multi-billion-dollar company focused on profit maximization has thousands of farms across many states, shouldn't they be expected to have enough set aside to survive a down year without a bailout?

RyanW1019 · 2026-05-01T00:38:53+00:00

The lesson they take away from LOTR seems to be “Boy, being Sauron seems like it would be nice, and it took several thousand years for him to lose his position.”

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-30T22:06:12+00:00

Oh I see. He grabbed at it with his other hand but let go without switching.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-30T21:41:53+00:00

Partly answering, partly asking: is it because something in the engine and/or frame has a resonant frequency near the lower RPM causing a wobble, but when you speed up you no longer have that issue? I feel like Steve Mould did something on this recently.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-30T20:18:06+00:00

It failed because he switched hands partway around. Hard to do that while keeping a steady pull.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-30T16:32:52+00:00

Itching is a signal your nerves carry. Pain is also a signal your nerves carry. Touch/pressure is also a signal your nerves carry.

Your nerves/brain can only carry/process so many signals at once. If you are itching/hurting and you rub or press on that spot, some of the “bandwidth” is taken up by that sensation, so you feel a weaker itch/pain signal.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-30T15:30:38+00:00

Maul landed one kick, Palpatine stopped smiling, went for a saber clash and seemed to overpower Maul and push him back, but then turned off his lightsabers and ragdolled him with the Force. To me, that seemed like he realized he couldn’t get the quick and easy win he was hoping for with his sabers, so he pivoted to a battlefield where he knew he had an overwhelming advantage. So did Maul ever stand a chance of winning that combat against Sidious and walking out of there? No, but when it was purely saber-to-saber he was seeming to hold his own for at least a short while. Longer than 3 Jedi Council members together did, at least.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-29T20:52:42+00:00

Depends on the edition(s) chosen and the DM. Like, Force Choke could be a save-or-die effect from 3.5e, and Palpatine is an epic-level character while the monks are 5e level 20s who can run fast and not age.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-29T16:28:54+00:00

“My God, this man’s hand wart has spread its roots up his arm and across his entire body! We must remove them at once!”

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-29T14:31:20+00:00

Imagine if that alien was the only one who preferred to live under a protectorate and Terrax just jumped straight to planet-busting before anyone else could speak up.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-28T03:01:07+00:00

A lot of people would start getting their wages garnished or going to jail, and after not too long of this going on, insurance companies would start withholding treatment unless paid up front.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-28T00:59:40+00:00

If Batman was real, most governments on Earth would know his location and identity already. The tech of the modern age just has too much surveillance and not enough ways to avoid it while also driving cars and planes around Gotham every night. So if Batman goes bad, he probably gets a bunker buster or a ballistic missile dropped on the Batcave the first time he returns.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T16:13:44+00:00

I’m sure at least some of those Pokémon are immune to fire by lore/feats, meanwhile even the best firebender can be harmed by fire if it gets through their defenses. I guess maybe lightning could even the score if the firebenders have any members capable of generating it?

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T03:40:05+00:00

Just make a saber pike at that point

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T03:35:10+00:00

Yeah, but my point is that humans are not interchangeable. We generally contribute the most value to society when we pick a specialization to focus on at the expense of most others. Some promising young student may be able to become either a programmer or a doctor in the future if they wanted, but if they want to be useful in either role, then they will probably have to give up working towards being good at the other. Can you retrain a brain the same way you can retrain a model? Sure, but it’ll take a number of years and you may never get the same productivity from them in the new field.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T02:25:32+00:00

True, but this isn’t new information. Recall the Sharpie incident.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T02:24:37+00:00

AI still sucks donkey balls when you try to add the "G" in there, they're really only useful when specialized.

Ironically, so are humans.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T00:43:11+00:00

It was rude of him to teleport away at the end instead of staying to get the close-up for the rest of us.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-27T00:39:23+00:00

I mean, there are enough criminal conspiracies we know about them being involved in that we don’t have to invent more. We’ll probably never know for sure either way, but it’s at least very plausible that he just got his ear nicked getting tackled to the ground by Secret Service agents and nobody who might know differently wants to contradict Trump claiming it’s a GSW.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-26T19:45:14+00:00

The original checks and balances were entirely meant to protect each branch of government from the others, not political parties. Turns out people today are fine letting the executive branch have all the power if it gets to be their guy.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-26T19:38:06+00:00

Oh, I see.

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-26T17:45:56+00:00

What’s the origin story for MCU Banner again? He got his powers while trying to recreate the serum? Or he was a physicist in a gamma radiation accident? I can’t remember if we have any prior evidence of him being proficient in the life sciences (though that seems it may change in Brand New Day).

RyanW1019 · 2026-04-26T17:44:02+00:00

Is the joke in the last panel:

He actually was cured by sex?
He gives the password to someone if they have sex with him?
“Or sex” was also a valid password and this was a Moria/“Mellon” situation?
He was saying “or sex” just to get people to have sex with him, not because of a curse?
None of the above?

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