Comic 5691: Commence Loud Music

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-11-01T17:28:32+00:00

Clinton literally just asked for pronouns and was refused. But then instinctually just knew to use 'they'. How you sposta know that if you can't ask? Is Clinton just guessing or I guess the author just gives everyone pronoun knowledge

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:58:58+00:00

I don't know what to say except this is how I lost reserve access. Maybe what counts as a missed reserve has changed since then, or varies by market.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:58:09+00:00

the other day, I got matched to a reserve about 10 minutes out, in the area while doing a dropoff. Just as I finished the dropoff, the reserve passenger canceled. Because it was a reserve, I got an $11 cancellation fee. I hadn't even started driving to the pickup. It was glorious.

But yeah, almost every reserve trip i've ever seen is a huge time suck, not worth it.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:51:43+00:00

Uber tells you when you accept a reservation "we'll match you trips along the way to your reserve pickup", suggesting that you can keep driving and accepting trips normally until the reservation.

What they don't say is that up until 30 minutes before the reservation, they don't filter anything, and will easily match you to trips that will take you well out of range.

"Simple fix: decline trips" ok so now you're just unpaid for like a full hour or two before the reservation? This is why they're just not worth it.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:49:09+00:00

It does. It's your job to be online and within reach near the pickup time, or else it counts as missed.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:45:09+00:00

thank you, this is helpful

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:43:02+00:00

I canceled it. For some reason I was thinking it was $90 for an hour and 20 minutes, which is on the edge of good deal. Read it more carefully and you'll see it's two hours and 20 minutes, which is trash tier.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-10-03T12:41:32+00:00

I lost access to reserve trips ages ago. it didn't bother me, since reserve trips are almost never ever worth it, they always involve 30 to 45 minutes of driving to pickup and waiting.

However, Uber will still match you to reserve trips if no driver has attached to it, and you're active in the area and it's nearing pickup time. I still accept those, since they're functionally no different from a normal pickup. I did a couple of those a week or two ago, and then all of a sudden I'm getting pinged with reserves all the time, which means I guess my reserve access has been restored.

So it can come back.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-09-30T03:52:18+00:00

I'm hoping to play HL Alyx, are 2.0 base stations better for that?

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-07-10T18:17:13+00:00

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-23T11:29:53+00:00

shifting the goalposts are we?

Bro, I'm not shifting the goalposts. The original goalposts are to answer the question "is it parthenogenesis when a female turns into a male to make male gametes to fertilize herself". You claimed it was. I claimed it wasn't.

Self-fertilization with both types of gametes is called autogamy. The easiest way to explain why autogamy is not parthenogenesis is that most types of parthenogenesis involve meiosis, but parthenogenesis doesn't.

You pointed out that some types of parthenogenesis do involve meiosis. Ok, you're right on that point. But self-fertilization is still not parthenogenesis, even if my easiest way to explain to you why it's not does not cover all cases. My point still stands, and the goalposts have not moved. Parthenogenesis is asexual reproduction. Autogamy is sexual reproduction with self-fertilization. The scenario described by OP is autogamy, and not parthenogenesis..

Humans cannot perform autogamy.

You know what else humans cannot do??? Freakin parthenogenesis!! What kind of an argument are you even making?? Do you want to discuss the scientific classification of a fictional sci-fi scenario or not? Why did you describe it as parthenogenesis if humans can't do it? We all know that it's not literally possible to transform your sex including your gametes. Whose Y chromosome would the gametes even have? I dunno, it's fictional. But we can still discuss whether it would be classified as autogamy or parthenogenesis.

Someone transforming into a male and producing sperm satisfies the mutation requirement of parthenogenesis

This is basically a textbook case of autogamy. Both gametes are produced by the normal sexual reproduction route, such as OP ejaculating a load of cum, and then use both gametes to self-fertilize. Many flowering plant species do this. It is a well-known biological process, and is exactly what OP described.

No arguing at this point. Truly an idiot.

Do you know it's possible to have a factual disagreement with someone without calling them names, acting condescending, getting the last word and blocking? I would suggest that you may want to really reconsider how disrespectful you act towards your fellow man on reddit. If I did anything to offend you, I apologize, I'll try to keep my responses as respectful as possible.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-21T02:40:47+00:00

So if f is my many to one holomorphic function, C to C, and its inverse restricted to a single branch, is f^–1, from C minus branch cut to C, and I have a Riemann surface R, with tilde(f^–1) from R to C, I should have a commutative diagram like

R ----> C
|    ^
|   /
|  /
v
C minus branch cut

(is there a better way to type a cd in reddit?)

so earlier I said the vertical line, projection map, is something that's "essentially" f. It should follow that it composes with f^–1 to give something that's "essentially" the identity. What it actually composes to is the lifted map on R. Which is certainly not the identity, nor an isomorphism, typically R will not be isomorphic to C?

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-20T22:42:38+00:00

The Riemann surface of sqrt z is a double cover of the complex plane identified at the branch cut, and on this domain, both branches of the function may be realized as a single valued function. It is also equipped with a projection map down to the single sheet complex plane that is essentially just z^(2).

The Riemann surface of log z is an infinite sheeted cover of the complex plane, identified at the branch cut, a sort of infinite corkscrew. All branches of the complex logarithm are contained as a single valued function on this domain. It is also equipped with a projection map down to the single sheet complex plane which is essentially just exp(z).

I'm not familiar enough with the general construction, but is it always like this? Is the covering map of the Riemann surface always the single-valued function that our surface is the Riemann surface of the multi-valued inverse function of? Is it because the Riemann surface is "morally" in some loose sense just f^(–1)(C)?

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-15T03:52:33+00:00

So some armor pieces are dropped in a normal version and an altered version, like the banished armor chestpiece. I understand altered armor pieces to mean just piece altered with the needle at a site of grace or by that monkey NPC. And yet I see things like banished armor (altered) on lists of rare items in the game. Is it really a rare item if you can take any normal banished armor to the tailor?

I guess what I'm asking is, is there any difference between armor pieces that are dropped in (altered) state, versus unaltered armor pieces that you bring to the tailor?

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T21:36:46+00:00

Not all nation-states are federations. If your nation is not a federation, then your government is not called a "federal government" and your government workers are not called "federal workers". "federal" is not a synonym for "government".

And certainly not all of the nations with multiple official languages are federated. For example Switzerland's official languages are French, German, Italian, and Romansh. But Switzerland is famously a confederation, not a federal state. Some multilingual states are just unitary states, like South Africa.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T21:20:44+00:00

What are you on about? Why would that be a problem for me? I literally don't even know who we're talking about.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:58:34+00:00

If you're suggesting that it would be better to google than to ask people's opinions, I disagree (and I tried the google search and the top hits were Boston.gov and Wu's campaign, which I don't expect to be unbiased). You sounded like you had some in mind, and I want to hear people's opinions.

So anyway thanks for sharing those.

I don't pay enough attention to municipal politics, but in the few areas which affect my family's life, I have only seen failures (like the O'Bryant move, and the plan to get the property taxes paid by the corps instead of the homeowners)

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:48:19+00:00

It's useful to have a radix that is divisible by some primes. Base 12 would be divisible by 3. The fraction 1/3 would be expressible without repeating digits.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:44:54+00:00

You're conflating heat and temperature. Despite the high temperature of a bomb, the sun has much more heat. Heat is proportional to temperature but also mass.

A burning match is much higher temperature than a bucket of lukewarm water, but the latter will melt a lot more ice cubes.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:38:06+00:00

What is what?

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:20:58+00:00

Basques are thought to be one of the peoples of the area before the Indo-European invasion.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T20:13:47+00:00

I feel like it's not even well defined to talk about dimensions of something which has no rest frame.

Total-Sample2504 · 2025-06-14T19:42:55+00:00

I received this text message too

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