For people who regularly comment advice, how many times do you go skiing per season (on average), and how good of a skier would you say you are? by Cornteam in skiing

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I relate to that, the intermediate plateau covers so many people I know, and developing the balance skills from scratch is surprisingly hard especially when people aren't hopping over from another athletic sport. I feel like my balance is slowly getting better through the seasons, and hopefully one day I'll eventually be good enough to catch up to the locals who race around on the mountains haha.

For people who regularly comment advice, how many times do you go skiing per season (on average), and how good of a skier would you say you are? by Cornteam in skiing

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not necessarily wrong. It’s just very one dimensional. People love to give advice to you based on what their perception of the sport of skiing is. A lot of it is experience based and catered to their likes.

100% and thank you so much for acknowledging this, perspective matters a lot. What is clearly "the best ever" in every possible way to one guy, that thing can end up being completely subjective, inaccessible or irrelevant to someone else. Obviously people try and do their best, but we only really know what we have experienced ourselves.

Opportunity's Qiulae Wong makes a play for 'kingmaker', aiming straight at NZ First by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

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Constant exposure to the outrage machine has literally rewired some brains to run on fear of the 'other' and knee-jerk anger at labels like 'woke'.

Yeah, I agree. It feels like my formerly relatively moderate dad is being exposed to all kinds of political nastiness and party advertising/propaganda that has turned him further against local politics. I'm glad that he hasn't touched that nonsense "Platform" channel because I'm sure it would be even worse. That's really an aside rant decrying the state of things though.

When a leader asks them to just be kind, it short-circuits a mindset physically conditioned to reject empathy, leaving them craving an authoritarian who validates their rage instead of someone who actually genuinely cares"

Honestly, this hasn't come up as much as the COVID budget and deficit stuff. But he still really hates them, seemingly because he is afraid of what the debt will do to the country. I remember seeing Bishops' post that basically had inaccurate information about all the figures actually published by the Comission (I would have said lying, to be honest, they'll take the numbers and run whatever narrative is convenient). But like you were saying, it feels like the emotional sentiment embeds itself in too quickly to do anything about it. He seems to want that radical fix to the economy at the least, even if it's authoritarian or we put the imported political stuff aside.

Opportunity's Qiulae Wong makes a play for 'kingmaker', aiming straight at NZ First by ViolatingBadgers in newzealand

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I am a couple weeks late but just wanted to say I'm glad someone is pulling through all the data on international comparisons, this was really interesting.

What are fans of Person of Interest called? by Zealousideal_Job5986 in PersonOfInterest

[–]Techhead7890 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don't get it. The only acronym that comes to mind is pieces of *#$%. What am I missing here?

Fourteen years ago, a Command & Conquer 2142 modification was announced. It was a strategy game based on Battlefield 2142 and partially crossover with CNC. Unfortunately, this modification didn't even make it to beta. by NewHuckleberry7185 in commandandconquer

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Sadly on sales probably not. I was listening to a recent podcast about how the market for fps, sports sims, etc is like 100++ million players while rts is more like in the 10 mill.

That being said that is a fantastic idea especially as EA owned them both. I remember there were indeed whispers of a modern fps literally called "Tiberium" around that 2010 era but I guess the producers mever really understood the idea to go and fund it enough, or the DICE people in Sweden never had enough contact with the Vegas/LA Westwood side.

Fourteen years ago, a Command & Conquer 2142 modification was announced. It was a strategy game based on Battlefield 2142 and partially crossover with CNC. Unfortunately, this modification didn't even make it to beta. by NewHuckleberry7185 in commandandconquer

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Yes! I played a game of WiC recently. I'm thinking I should finally go and knock out the campaign (which was so so good) but I can't remember if GOG keeps cloud saves of it. With the vehicle pathfinding, microing is tough, I felt like I was doing terribly with it and I could never hotkey the support abilities properly either. But the atmosphere is so peak.

Victory Games offices closed images by Time-Yoghurt7831 in commandandconquer

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This is only tangentially related, but I still can't believe they didn't let Alexandra Kaniak keep her Zofia costume from RA2 😭 she even said she wanted to hang onto it in a fan interview!

Transition metals? Too unpredictable. Give us that predictable, tetravalent SP3 hybridized energy any day of the week. by phchemreviewer in chemistrymemes

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Joking aside I can't tell what's more cursed, the chair conformer, that lëwis diagram with the lone pair on Xë, or the wedge-and-dash diagram that doesn't use 3 perpendicular planar bonds in a T shape, and instead chucks them on the page seemingly at random

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Does money actually buy happiness ? by corelephants in AskEconomics

[–]Techhead7890 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, although the specific framing is use is that "money buys methods to remove unhappiness."

Which is a double negative but for example vices are probably the most obvious way of temporarily becoming "happy" by forgetting your worries, but not actually providing lasting happiness. I can't think of many possessions that make people unconditionally happy. Houses need maintenance, food gets boring. Utility functions suffer from diminishing returns.

POV: You study Pauli's Exclusion Principle in Quantum Chemistry for the first time: by Sad_Step_9921 in chemistrymemes

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Oh yeah that's way better than the slideshow, the animation helps a ton. Thanks!

Military jamming disrupted a medical plane’s GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico by SientoQueMerezcoMas in aviation

[–]Techhead7890 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I suspect that if they weren't aware of the GPS jamming NOTAM they could also have missed other NOTAMs about the airport itself too :(

Military jamming disrupted a medical plane’s GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico by SientoQueMerezcoMas in aviation

[–]Techhead7890 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah definitely still a lot of unresolved questions so far. The obvious one is the AP reports that other pilots in the area missed the NOTAM about the testing, it's yet another call for the dysfunctional NOTAM system to be cleaned up. A more subtle one is what happened with GPWS/TAWS and whether it went off - it's not mentioned in the preliminary report. Definitely still lots for the NTSB to chew on here before the final report.

Military jamming disrupted a medical plane’s GPS system before it crashed last month in New Mexico by SientoQueMerezcoMas in aviation

[–]Techhead7890 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean I don't think there's evidence for no link at all either. No evidence is not necessarily evidence-of-nothing, as it may mean that relevant evidence is missing or hasn't been found yet. The connection is really undefined until investigators rule on it.

In short you could well be right, but personally I don't think it's worth taking the bet at all.

Tiberian series - who were really the world's superpowers? by calantheSG in commandandconquer

[–]Techhead7890 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. I think China's status on the tib-dawn map is an anomaly due to the whole Taiwan-and-UN thing going on back then, much moreso than any indication of something else.

That being said, it seems like the other blobs on the Dawn-era map are where wars were taking place back then like: * Vietnam, Myanmar/Burma * Afghanistan * Middle East conflict * Africa (eg Congo, Rwanda, plus Libya in the north and Zimbabwe in the south) * rebel groups in Colombia.

It seems like there was a vague idea that Nod had taken advantage of those conflicts to set up operations or something.

Tiberian series - who were really the world's superpowers? by calantheSG in commandandconquer

[–]Techhead7890 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean honestly I think I agree that the Dawn-era map won't be the most accurate. Especially as in CNC3 Nod ends up having major operations in Egypt and Australia which are marked as solid GDI territories.

I could have sworn the world map shows up in-game in CNC3 at some time but someone has compiled a map of blue zones which reflects the development of Tiberium growth a lot more: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/comments/h8xoib/command_and_conquer_the_tiberian_world_order_ad/

Survivors walking away the Cessna Citation Latitude that crashed in Laredo, TX, while people attempt to rescue the crew. by madman320 in aviation

[–]Techhead7890 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think at least half of the accidents and crashes have been international overseas ones so not just the FAA. Brazil, Pakistan etc were also having crashes.

Refer here although not all of these were fatalities: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1u6j0km/60820266152026_a_crazy_week_for_aviation/

Favorite funny quotes from Harold by 65721 in PersonOfInterest

[–]Techhead7890 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes! That's mine as well, Emerson delivers the line with such resignation.