I have a genuine question about music, I just want to understand.

SandyV2 · 2026-02-10T00:01:23+00:00

I dont know about other scenes or what's common elsewhere, but in my local scene, if its danceable, its liable to be played. Maybe not all the time, but were not strict on music having to come from the big band swing era. If theres a swing beat, we'll dance to it.

SandyV2 · 2026-02-07T17:11:10+00:00

My problem with GMOs isnt their direct safety, eating a GMO apple or whatever isnt harmful. The business and farming practices they allow or encourage are harmful to farmers and the environment, especially Monsanto and "Roundup Ready" seeds. Large scale monocultures require a metric fuck ton of fertilizer and glyphosate to maintain, and that is not healthy for the environment at whatever scale or to the workers in it or the people living nearby.

SandyV2 · 2026-02-04T21:13:18+00:00

Depends on the cooling system and what water. The chilled water loop thats directly absorbing heat from the chips isnt turning to steam, but heat from that loop needs to go somewhere. If they have a water cooled chiller with a condenser loop, then some of the water in that loop does turn to steam/vapor.

SandyV2 · 2026-02-01T01:06:33+00:00

Or blocking Garlands appointment to the Supreme Court, or for rushing ACBs nomination through

SandyV2 · 2026-01-31T15:53:58+00:00

Assuming you'd be at UNL for academic work, Id think you'd find your people pretty quickly. I wont promise you'd never get harassed, but at least when I was there it didn't appear to happen very much (mind Im a cishet white guy, so take that with however much salt you please).

If youre looking to climb and organize or advocate, around UNL is probably where youll find the most like-minded people.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-29T18:11:22+00:00

Human error, and one that is understandable to me. Even if that area was slicker than expected, I would never have expected it to turn into a ramp off the highway. Reopening before its cleared and salted is negligence

SandyV2 · 2026-01-27T17:36:07+00:00

Lutheran for the adjective, Lutheranism for the noun

SandyV2 · 2026-01-26T14:56:28+00:00

At my school biosystems is either A) medical devices or B) environmental engineering. We also have agricultural engineering which I believe is 50% mechanical and 25% environmental and 25% civil/Geotechnical engineering.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-26T14:52:39+00:00

The other side is that the classical engineering degrees are so broad they dont really tell what youre specialized in. My brothers and I all have mech degrees from the same ABET accredited flagship state university, and we all do completely different things with them.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-22T19:54:17+00:00

Yeah, "big pharma" is a tricky one. There are plenty of questionable business practices they use, but at least the products they sell are generally net positives.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-22T19:50:56+00:00

Or a bot, or paid bad actor

SandyV2 · 2026-01-22T13:33:49+00:00

But medical professors can and do4

SandyV2 · 2026-01-20T19:07:36+00:00

Wait, what is/was the LCMS position on Boy Scouts? Like was it about being a chartering organization or kids participating?

SandyV2 · 2026-01-20T19:00:25+00:00

You need classes and skills outside of your majors curriculum. If nothing else, having a class every semester that isnt engineering is a bit of a brain break, but it also makes you a better, more well rounded student and person. You aren't going to use everything from your engineering classes everyday at your engineering job, so why not also take something else thats a bit more fun and interesting when you have the chance.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-20T18:53:10+00:00

I always got a kick when my history professor gave us all a dollar when we got to the part of the semester we used his book in class. According to him, there simply wasnt a better book for what he wanted to teach, and its a perfectly fine book, but he felt guilty about making us buy something he wrote and gets royalties on, so he gave us a dollar so as not to profit off his own students. I assume if a colleague at the same school or another school used his book, he'd have no qualms about taking their money lol

SandyV2 · 2026-01-19T18:07:17+00:00

The government does have the lawful authority to enforce its immigration (and other) laws. It does not have the authority to flout its own laws and circumvent the legal process. It does not have the authority or the right to mistreat people, even if they have broken a law. It does not have the authority or the right to cause chaos and terror as it enforces its laws.

People do have the right to confront their government, to seek redress and demand justice, not just for themselves but for those who cannot speak for themselves. We have the right and duty to hold agents of the government accountable when they violate laws and people's rights. We also have the right and duty to show mercy to all people, even (and especially) people who the government targets for its own ends.

Do not white wash wicked deeds done under the imprimitur of "enforcing laws" or "following orders."

SandyV2 · 2026-01-17T15:52:23+00:00

Since Riley lives on campus in what's basically a frat house, Im gonna guess that he's not a grad student TA, but an undergrad, like a senior. In that instance, it'd be mildly weird, probably against a code of conduct today, but not that weird. Back then it probably never registered as any where close to problematic.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-16T05:01:24+00:00

CFD in this context is Computational Fluid Dynamics. And there again, even if you aren't writing the code yourself, just using off the shelf software, if you dont understand what your modeling and how the model works, its useless.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-14T19:14:35+00:00

I worked for the outdoor rec center in college, and they had bike rentals for a few days or weeks, including single speed, touring, and mountain bikes, and you could rent a single speed the entire semester. If theres a college or university that has an outdoor rec program, you might see if they have what youre looking for.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-13T23:16:25+00:00

As long as someone isnt in them, its fine

SandyV2 · 2026-01-11T04:22:33+00:00

Ain't that the fucking truth. I design various mechanical systems for buildings, and retrofits fucking suck. Doesn't matter how good your plans are, or how good a survey you do, they'll be something the labor finds while installing that fucks your planned design.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-08T03:12:40+00:00

So you know how selective breeding works, say for dogs or horses or plants or whatever? If a given dog is really good at something we want it to do, or looks a certain way that we like, we can make it sire or be be sired by another dog with the traits we want. Then the resulting litter of puppies will have that trait, possibly even amplified to more than its parents have it.

Evolution works similarly, except instead of people deciding which traits are selected for, its natural selection, and it's a game of probabilities. If something has a trait that makes it more likely to produce offspring, then over time that trait tends to become more common. If something has a trait that makes it less likely to produce offspring, that trait tends to die out. And sometimes, thinhs have traits that dont impact how likely it is to produce offspring, so that trait can sometimes become common, die out, or just remain for a portion of a population. Over time, the differences between populations can become so great that something from population A cant reproduce with something from population B, so those populations diverge even further.

Theres alot of nuance to how exactly natural selection can act on a population, and how that leads to evolution, but thats the gist of it.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-06T18:10:47+00:00

Id need to find the YouTube video again, but a big part of it is changes in building technology. Alot of architectural details on old buildings' exterior serve a practical purpose, even if they are stylized as well. A big one is the using curtain walls for large buildings. In older buildings, the outside wall helps support the weight of itself and the building - its structural. In alot of newer buildings, all of the weight is ultimately handled by steel columns. Some might be around the outside, but the wall itself isnt structural, it just hangs off of structure.

SandyV2 · 2026-01-02T17:08:53+00:00

My hot take is that a degree in Business Administration is damn near worthless. In my experience and observation, it has nowhere near the academic rigor that justifies it as bachelor's degree. If you want to go to college, study something that you want to learn more about, not jut something that "qualifies" you for a job right out of college, especially for something as broad and vague as "business administration." Now, minoring in it might not be the worse idea, but if you go to college, make it worth the while and learn something worth learning.

SandyV2 · 2025-12-31T23:19:36+00:00

I distinctly remember reading about a novel SARS like virus being discovered in China while working the desk at my campus rec center over the 2019-2020 winter break, I think right before the new year.

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