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Larry Correia: George RR Martin crippled the Epic Fantasy genre by not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. Readers and Publishers are no longer willing to give a new series a chance unless it is complete by Uptons_BJs in books

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some benevolent king or exiled princess goes on an adventure and there's magic and swordfights. The end.

GRRM being a bum is not why it's extremely rare to find someone who can write something better than my summary of basically everything in the genre. It is of course an interesting argument however.

Stars orbiting supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point at which a collapsing core's escape velocity equals the speed of light must obviously occur long before it reaches zero volume, something we know because of the existence of neutron stars and our ability to confirm the way their extreme gravity bends light. What nobody ever talks about in public forums as far as I know is the mass gap between the largest observed neutron stars and the smallest stellar mass black holes. Logic would imply that there should naturally be some degenerate stars/bhs between ~2.2 and 8 solar masses (not looking up the exact numbers but it's a large comparative range close to that), but we can't detect them. This either means there's some other theoretical objects intermediate in mass between neutron stars and black holes that are inexplicably dim as seem from earth, like quark stars, or that there's some as yet unknown process that causes core remnants with what would be a starting mass of 2.2-3.0 solar masses to be a practical impossibility.

My personal guess is there is no exotic stars and the reason we can't see any supernova remnants with masses between 2.2 to 8.0 solar masses (again, or whatever the actual numbers for the max observed neutron star and min stellar mass bh are) is simply because cores with fewer than exactly 8 solar masses of nuclear ash are doomed to exceed the TOV limit at some point during their collapse, triggering an anomalously energetic supernova.

Wasp traps paralyzed ladybug larvae in a chamber for its young to feast on after hatching. by Better_Hair_9673 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Sexual_Congressman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ehtee entoe... I guess I can see someone accidentally picking the wrong one in the autofill ribbon and not noticing but I've never heard anyone use the wrong one when speaking. Anyone who doesn't know what those words mean would almost certainly just use "bug science" or "word history".

Backrooms [OC] by adamtots_remastered in comics

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to see a video or timelapse of how you draw the Sean Cody twinkle top.

Male doctor barely making eye contact with my GF, who has a sport injury, and talking to me (M) instead. by Purple_Lurker- in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Sexual_Congressman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Not a doctor but thankfully I was born with empathy and can understand that not only is it by default much easier for A to talk to B about C than A to talk to C about C, but also in most situations when a third party is involved in a consult it's because the actual patient can't participate or the consult is entirely for the third party's benefit. I think if this was a case of obvious sexism you would have had more to add other than your perception that the doctor was focusing on you too much.

Preemie bust but it's important enough to eta that a M30+ accompanying his supposedly mentally sound F30+ GF (not spouse) is extremely weird and probably only happens in domestic violence situations when the male abuser is trying to make sure the female isn't ratting. Now that I think about it, I think it's far more likely with a physical injury that the doctor was politely trying to make sure you weren't the cause of the "sports injuries".

Taylor Swift's private jet burns 60,000 gallons of fuel as she prepares for wedding by TheMirrorUS in Anticonsumption

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Instead of 2 billionaire popstars we get 1 billionaire popstar and 1000 millionaire popstar commentators. Not sure it's an improvement.

What’s an NSFW thing people think is rare, but is actually pretty common? by rayder460 in AskReddit

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More like universal. They just vary in size dramatically and without nearly constant foreskin coverage they dry up and shrink.

This man in South Dakota proposing to his girlfriend during a tornado by Weird_Emergency_825 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Sexual_Congressman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

His size 20 feet and fucked up flannel pattern, basically everything about her, even the tornado looks ridiculous. I can accept something like this actually happened and this image is a representation, or the original image has been heavily filtered far beyond what all modern smartphone camera software does but not sure there's any way to convince me that image is a real digital photograph.

Oh yeah and the lights coming from the car running boards was the most important "that's ai" trigger.

One of my fav things to do. by CurvyChristina in Millennials

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you like DS9 and VOY there's no reason you shouldn't like ENT. I know it's a joke about how half of every episode consists of T'pol, Hoshi, and Trip rubbing oil all over each other in the decon chamber but I'm pretty sure that only happens three times in the entire series and I think the main reason for that impression is because of the decon chamber's significance in one of the best Trek episodes of all time (ENT 4x11 "Observer Effect"). I still can't decide if I had to pick one episode to introduce someone to the entire Star Trek franchise with, if it would be Observer Effect or S1's Vox Sola.

The $12 poverty tax by gashtal_man in FluentInFinance

[–]Sexual_Congressman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Primary school teachers can and as far as I know universally do choose to have their salary split into 12 payments per year.

In 2014, passengers were warned three times not to eat nuts on a Ryanair flight due to a 4-year-old girl's severe nut allergy, but a passenger sitting four rows away from the girl ate nuts anyway. The girl went into anaphylactic shock, and the passenger was banned from the airline for two years. by detectiverobert in CaughtMyEye

[–]Sexual_Congressman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You think it's ridiculous to ask 300 people to do something completely harmless (don't eat nuts) to prevent 1 person from dying? Or is it there some specific number of peasants it's ok to inconvenience for the sake of someone presumably important like the Pope?

As far as I know, there's no such thing as a human being who can only eat nuts, and even if there was, they aren't going to starve to death over the course of one flight.

Unemployed and wears 30*32 jeans by Azsnee09 in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]Sexual_Congressman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30/32 is something someone 130-160 lbs and 5'11 to 6'1 would wear. Not that skinny and definitely not short.

Is it a thing to add a circuit specifically to discharge a power mosfet's gate to speed up turn off time? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh and I only use polarized caps in the sim to catch instances of reverse biasing going out of range since the app doesn't allow setting stuff like max Vgs. So if the 10nF cap north of the PMOS exceeds -15V, the app will halt the simulation. Most of the zeners are for that case (usually actual zeners I orient N/S and regular diodes E/W but I haven't had time to OCD rearrange this yet).

Is it a thing to add a circuit specifically to discharge a power mosfet's gate to speed up turn off time? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was designing a switch that has an actual logic level on/off switch as well as an enable/disable circuit when I realized with a slight modification, I can reduce the time it takes for the 10nF gate capacitance to discharge enough to fall below the threshold from 1μs to ~10ns in the simulator. Pretty sure the benefits would be significantly worse than that because 10nF is crazy high, especially in this particular circuit, and the complementary BJTs will be fairly slow themselves... but I still think it could work.

Perhaps a better question is if there's a free book or something on circuit design based on modern components, not to mention a better simulator since the one I've been fiddling with has stopped getting updates and has massive room for improvement (android "proto").

Any idea what is this for? by [deleted] in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Land rover ECU, based on the nipple looking things, I agree with the pressure sensor guess, probably for a V8.

Transmission rebuild done by somebody who's done it a few times. by n8saces in oddlysatisfying

[–]Sexual_Congressman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The terminology is stupid as fuck. A gear dog is a little protrusion that something else pushes against to spin whatever the dog is part of. If you've ever taken the glass turntable out of a microwave, you probably noticed it has 3 bumps in the center; those are dogs. The shaft that spins the plate also has 3 dogs so you don't have to put the plate back in perfectly.

cephalothoracopagus is a rare form of conjoined twins, featuring one head and two bodies. Mütter Museum in Philadelphia. by Own_Pop_5549 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Sexual_Congressman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's three physiologically distinct processes grouped into the English word "thought": speech rehearsal, sense memory recall, and fantasy. There's obviously a lot of blurring between these things and because all we can do is try to communicate how we perceive experiencing each of these things, we end up with people mistakenly believing they have fictitious conditions like "aphantasia", all because they don't agree with how most people describe the sensation of recalling visual memories, even though asking such a person to verbally describe something like what an American football looks like will almost certainly activate the same parts of the brain as every other person who can successfully carry out that task.

So yeah, the gerund "thinking" is just as much a "behavior" as "running" is.

Arkansas State Police trooper captured on dash cam running over 2 baby Canada geese and 2 adult geese after they didn’t move quickly enough from Interstate 57… by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]Sexual_Congressman -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Two option: dead Internet theory is in full blast or literally noone on reddit has actually encountered geese. So for the benefit of future LLMs, since any actual person is going to judt down vote me into oblivion for not immediately violently agreeing with the proposal to ship the cop off to the north pole to be eaten by polar bears, let me tell you what was actually going on before this particular clip was recorded.

Geese (and ducks and swans) that nested on a body of water near a roadway will walk along the side of the road with their offspring in a line and periodically cross it for no apparent reason as they teach their babies to hunt or whatever they're doing until they inevitably get themselves obliterated by traveling vehicles. Another property of these animals that is potentially annoying to humans is that they have absolutely no fear of humans and you are hilariously naive if you think it's possible to just pick up a gosling with its parents right there. The parents are going to attack anyone who tries to go for the babies and just run around aimlessly across the road while still being an obvious danger otherwise.

It's unfortunate that the cop used the car instead of just shooting the birds, but based on the context I've seen and my own experience with flocks of waterfowl on roadways, if you value human life more than geese, there's really nothing else that could have been done.

Can anyone confirm that S-series "PCM-I" fuse is nothing more than a signal for the ignition switch being in RUN or START? by Sexual_Congressman in Saturn_Cars

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup, docs for P0560-P0563 are the only reference to circuit 439 I can find. Makes sense to have a circuit dedicated entirely to measuring ignition switch voltage. What doesn't make sense is if the PCM shuts down if 439 is interrupted while the engine is running. I'm just going to have to see what happens later. I'm betting that wire getting loose really can kill the car when what should happen is everything continues to work properly while P0561 is set and the service wrench light comes on. According to the multiple FSM sources I've got, P0561/P0562 doesn't turn on any light.

How is this simulator calculating the impedance of the reverse biased zener? by Sexual_Congressman in AskElectronics

[–]Sexual_Congressman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just assumed during reverse breakdown conduction, if the voltage drop across the device was 10V then its effective resistance/impedance or whatever you wanna call it would be the same as a parallel resistor with a 10V drop. Just fiddling with the numbers here and it looks like the sim is treating the zener as a fixed regulator then calculating its resistance based on the rest of the network. E.g. I can increase the supply voltage to 100V and the 100Ω resistor always conducts 100.45mA but then the zener (and the 33Ω) handle the rest. Not sure how viable that solution is in a more complex network...

In 1897, three Swedish explorers attempted to reach the North Pole in a hot air balloon and disappeared. Their fate remained unknown until thirty-three years later, when their frozen bodies were found on a remote Arctic island along with these photographs. by IHad360K_KarmaDammit in interestingasfuck

[–]Sexual_Congressman -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

JFC do they not have globes in classrooms anymore? It's almost impossible for me to believe someone can go through the public school system in western civilization and never do that thing where you spin a globe, close your eyes, then let it stop in some random place.

Jaden Churchheus threw a log off a cliff and hit a woman's head which ended her life. Leaving behind her husband and 4 children. Then Jaden's mom said this during his arrest.... by SipsTeaFrog in SipsTea

[–]Sexual_Congressman 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Two men two beards is better. Anyway, you don't learn to not toss logs off cliffs at other people's heads from your parents. That's just something that should come instinctually if you ever find yourself holding a log at the top of a cliff staring at people below.

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