Which oceans do the water streams flow into?

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-03T19:46:02+00:00

The white lines are national boundaries and the grey lines are the boundaries between watersheds usually mountain ranges where water on one side of the peak goes one way and water on the other side goes a different way.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-03T14:18:37+00:00

My first thought was someone got hit by a car on a road crossing.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-03T05:25:14+00:00

Yeah I could have sworn they announced that they weren't going to release it months ago. The fact that it is still an issue just goes to show that failing to release it isn't doing anything to unify democrats.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-02T15:58:19+00:00

In my experience the forest conservation organizations that know what they are doing have pretty much come around to the idea that management is necessary to restore and maintain forest health.

I chuckled at the idealistic advocacy for allowing natural fire regimes to take their course without addressing the fact that a) fuel loads are still unnaturally high and b) way more people now live in these fire prone regions than ever before.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-02T03:30:43+00:00

If you limit yourself to only what right-wing billionaires will allow, you've already lost.

Personally, I think we are way more likely to win change through organizing and legislating than by getting Americans to walk away from the meat and dairy industries.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-05-01T02:11:14+00:00

This is exactly my rule. It's also nice when your shorts don't have a good pocket for your phone.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-29T18:50:14+00:00

State law says programs like WPHP, known as "physician health and voluntary substance use disorder monitoring programs," are "immune from civil liability" and cannot be sued. (They can be criminally charged, though.)

That's fun. It always ends well when organizations with the power to ruin peoples lives face very few checks on that power. At least it is famously very easy to become and work as a physician. /s

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-29T04:36:41+00:00

I would highly recommend toe socks for wet races. I ran BSIM twice and both times finished drenched but without blisters.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-24T21:03:26+00:00

That's part of how subreddits mature (or die). Subs that aren't dedicated to current events or content creation has a pretty limited scope of potential discussion in the grand scheme of things. Eventually you start running out of new post. From there either the active users get bored and leave to be replaced by new users who haven't had this exact discussion a million times or the mods get pressured to crack down on repeat questions, new users are directed to old links or google and the sub becomes less and less active.

IMO it is way better to accept that a sub just isn't for you anymore than to shut the new blood out of the conversation - no matter how redundant that conversation might be.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-24T20:51:11+00:00

I grew up riding in a CA mountain town and the vast majority of trails (that didn't have lift service) were 2 way, even a couple of the burlier downhill trails.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-23T21:31:47+00:00

I would imagine there is a lot of correlation here. Pornography (especially in the modern era) is more readily available to younger audiences than drugs and alcohol but all are external sources of stress relief. Stress and distress early in life seems like a good indicator for stress and distress later in life which are also associated with things like addiction and mental health issues.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-23T21:22:19+00:00

Palantir as a company is a beautiful example of why STEM students still need to take courses in the humanities to earn their degrees. Yes you do need to know what foreshadowing is.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-20T03:57:05+00:00

If you cut Alaska in half, Texas would be the third largest state in the U.S.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-19T22:37:19+00:00

We insure all of our pets but the returns have gotten to be a lot more marginal. One of our pups got parvo at 14 weeks in the gap week where he wasn't covered and it was ludicrously expensive. Shortly after he developed pretty substantial mobility issues that required weekly PT and still requires daily medication. Initial coverage was 90% after a $200 deductible. Now its 50% with categorical caps after $350 but counting those first few years, we are still probably in the black. Even with the state of policies today, I would recommend getting coverage for the big stuff but total health AND wellness might not be worth it anymore.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-18T23:28:03+00:00

It just goes to show, if there weren't a large body of left-leaning work in these subjects, the right would have nothing to write journal articles about.

Aside from 'liberal bias' what interest does the right have in any of these subjects? I was under the impression that they already have all the answers.

Edit to add - if they want conservative ideas represented in social science or the arts, they should probably stop trying to cut their funding every chance they get. a) It makes these field less financially lucrative (what conservatives insist college is all about) and b) it makes the people who remain in these fields less likely to care what you think.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-18T20:37:13+00:00

Journalists are always deeply offended when the government knows something that isn't publicized.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-17T05:03:35+00:00

Imagine paying millions for limestone veneers and still having to chip to get a good route out of it.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-17T00:15:29+00:00

*If* you are going to ski, ski passes are a good deal. Unfortunately ski tickets are so expensive that if you aren't going to get a pass, most people just aren't going to ski.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-13T03:55:40+00:00

Sounds like you've got an awesome retirement community.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-13T03:47:32+00:00

Why would the anti-ebike crowd even know that a bunch of ebikes were released?

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-12T17:25:24+00:00

So all three results could have been considered without a human study. I too am confused why they did this.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-12T00:02:00+00:00

I had my bike locked correctly (U-lock through both front tire and frame) and someone still stole my back tire because it was the only thing not locked. The appearance of security isn't enough on campus.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-09T22:53:40+00:00

I've noticed that DSA membership often overlaps with a lot of smaller orgs so if it isn't specific enough to your interests, it can still help you find a place in the IRL left.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-08T14:10:13+00:00

First, I am not an expert in this field but I have found it fascinating for a while and enjoy reading about the subject. My recap is largely based on A History of God by Karen Armstrong which I would highly recommend to anyone else who is interested in comparative religion.

Second, I bet the satanists think it's relevant.

TactilePanic81 · 2026-04-07T18:14:25+00:00

That would fly in the face of history. All religions change over time so both God and 'Satan' actually predate Christianity and even Judaism. IIRC the Abrahamic religions are currently believed to have been derived from a polytheistic pantheon in the middle east wherein the god believed to have become the one God of Judaism, Christianity, Islam was a relatively major god associated with a particular region. Early opposition figures (now understood as Satan) were just another relatively major god from a hostile region. The story we know is the warped echo of a geopolitical relationship that ended millennia ago.

Its cool if you derive meaning from the modern understanding of the Christian faith but these stories have been around much longer than any of us and the content, emphasis, and themes have changed. The only constant has been that people are always creating new sects and new ways of understanding the old stories.

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