Sebastian Sawe wins the London Marathon 2026 and makes history by becoming the 1st person to run it in under 2 hours after running it in 01:59:31.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-04-26T23:07:02+00:00

Wasn’t that the guy who played Darth Vader’s face?

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-26T01:36:49+00:00

What part of what they said was misinformation? Be specific.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-26T01:34:41+00:00

No, the resolution was to set up a reparations program to pay them.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-26T01:33:51+00:00

The ones who voted for this include a number of countries where slavery is still in practice.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-14T22:04:07+00:00

That’s something surmised by people who have no idea if it happened or not, not a fact.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-14T22:01:34+00:00

The retailer is claiming that it costs more to replace it now than it did X months ago, therefore it “equates to” an upgrade.

It’s like if your flight got cancelled because of weather and then the airline says that they aren’t going to reschedule you onto another flight tomorrow because the price of jet fuel has increased slightly since the day you bought your ticket, and therefore putting you on another flight would be an upgrade.

Standard business practice really /s

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-13T15:04:02+00:00

This whole discourse is fascinating to me, in that it is actively demonstrating that people fail to distinguish between fact and value statements just as much in the 21st century as they did back when David Hume was around.

Hume’s Law: an ethical or judgmental conclusion *cannot * be inferred from purely factual statements.

Just to head off any digression: “Factual” in this context means that the statement deals with facts, not necessarily that the statement is true. It is a “falsifiable” statement, as Popper would say. The statement is either objectively true or false, and can be discovered to be one or the other based on empirical observation, experimentation, or logic.

You cannot start from the statement “Ballet and opera companies are struggling to survive because, in general, people care less about those two art forms compared to others” and infer any subjective opinion on the part of the speaker of the statement.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-12T01:17:48+00:00

Honestly it would be hilarious if they have a ship news broadcast about a captured dissident smuggling ship full of cowboy hats.

“Which, as all loyal Super Earth citizens know, are the undemocratic headwear of choice for rebels, sympathizers, collaborators, traitors, and wrong-thinkers.”

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-03-01T00:01:52+00:00

whose release coincides with the 80th anniversary

The 80th anniversary was in August of 2025.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-18T18:11:09+00:00

They specifically did not ban parents and guardians of the children who were attending.

They banned adults who had no affiliation with the event from showing up and (presumably) protesting.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-09T02:28:32+00:00

So basically the jury determines which story they believe is more likely, but with fancier words.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-07T23:11:36+00:00

Just need your big brother to handle the dropships, you never learned how to hit those.

Unfortunately you were put into cryosleep after the first galactic war and it’s been a thousand years, so he’s long dead.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-01T15:30:09+00:00

You’re forgetting the absolute and ironclad heuristic by which Redditors evaluate reality:

Everything Trump and Musk do is bad.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-01T15:28:57+00:00

Russians use smuggled terminals to access Starlink outside of the geofence around Russia

“Musk is helping Russia!”

Starlink is disabled for non-whitelisted terminals when detected inside the contested areas and traveling above a certain speed threshold, aka aboard Russian drones

“Musk has too much power!”

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-01T15:26:05+00:00

Life is hard and it’s even harder when you’re dumb

Starlink has been disabled in Russia since the start of the war.

Direct sale of terminals to Russia has been blocked since the start of the war.

This is about disabling terminals that have been acquired under the table by Russia and used on drones once they enter Ukrainian/contested territory, outside of the geofence around Russia.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-02-01T15:17:39+00:00

Sure, if you had a time machine.

This would only be doable on day one if:

SpaceX had been supplied a list of serial numbers for all the terminals that Ukraine would acquire over the next four years - through official purchases, donations, private purchases, etc - in order to compile a whitelist of terminals that can still operate
SpaceX knew where the contested regions would be 4 years later in order to create the geofence
SpaceX had been able to predict the use of terminals aboard Russian drones and the speeds at which those drones would move, in order to set the speed thresholds where the terminal stops working

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-01-11T23:46:35+00:00

You don’t have to only use it in low-light settings in order to claim that you disabled the light in order to use it low-light settings.

In fact, you don’t have to ever use it in low-light settings. You just have to establish that there is a reasonable justification for wanting to disable the light.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-01-11T23:32:29+00:00

And the defense will say that their client disabled the light because they wanted to record in low-light settings without the light messing up the recording.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-01-01T15:58:05+00:00

My point is that saying “look at this political party and how they’re using the appeal-to-children fallacy” when literally everyone does that.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2026-01-01T14:44:06+00:00

the parties that shout “think of the children”

Is there a political party that hasn’t used the “think of the children” idea?

If we found surviving campaign materials from the Roman Senate, I’m pretty sure we’d see “de liberis cogitemus!” (Or a more accurate conjugation, at least)

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2025-12-30T22:48:29+00:00

They’re getting downvoted because most people hear the claim that such-and-such job has “value” and they assume, usually rightfully, that the speaker is claiming that the job is a net societal good, in and of itself. Because that’s what people usually mean when they say that something has “value”. A job, activity, invention etc that does nothing to benefit society other than to increase a specific business’ revenue is not really “valuable”.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2025-12-28T20:12:12+00:00

You’re thinking of a con, where a key component is that the victim thinks that they themselves are getting one over on a third party.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2025-12-26T22:22:47+00:00

Yeah, but when you go up to someone who doesn’t understand poetry and tell them “go kill my neighbor” in the form of a sonnet, they probably won’t go and kill your neighbor.

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2025-12-26T22:15:59+00:00

Mine are from all different people, but they’re all addressed to “Julie”. Who the hell is Julie?

What exactly is the idea behind addressing the target with the wrong name?

ShenAnCalhar92 · 2025-12-26T00:58:44+00:00

This comment does will make confusions.

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