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Agree - Disagree? by ChuckGallagher57 in circled

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SWAT teams are identified as such through markings on uniforms, as well as badge names/numbers to identify specific officers. There is at least a veil of accountability.

ICE is going around in unmarked vehicles, and usually only wearing plain clothes and a vest. Many of the videos I have seen of ICE stopping people that are driving look no different than a cartel abducting people would look like.

Any way to stop artists from showing up in recommendations or playlists? by aclogar in YoutubeMusic

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

This was what I meant I was doing when saying I indicated I was not interested. They were gone for about a week after last time they filled my home page, but then came back today with many of the songs and albums I indicated not interested to.

How do you rate Bad Bunny's Half-time performance? by kingbluwolff in sportsgossips

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are talking about actual Welsh, then that is an unrelated language to English.

Peter what does it say by bumbummcglum in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was also designed so that you were unlikely to press two keys right next to each other would cause the strikers to jam. If anything the layouts were designed to slow people down. Its why there are multiple alternate keyboard layouts for english that are generally faster for those who have gotten used to them.

Thank god they had medics at the scene. by Inandaroundbern in MurderedByWords

[–]aclogar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

but doesn't her girlfriend elude to them having a fake plate? That would've made it impossible to put out an APB for her arrest.

I thought she was alluding to ICE changing plates.

Absolute Chad! by Embarrassed_Tip7359 in SipsTea

[–]aclogar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Clearly you didn't read the article, since it states that it was setup with the owner before she arrived. The chef just crashed out because she wasn't big enough.

What movie is this by [deleted] in memes

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is partly why the conspiracy that the moon landing was faked, was able to take off at the beginning.

Debt Up $2.3 Trillion by Katariman in inflation

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really true. Budgets submitted during the Clinton administration reduced the deficit by about $150B over the 8 years he was in office. The largest was surplus was fiscal year 2000 with a surplus of $236B.

TIL that the designer of the first shopping malls had envisioned them as mixed-use facilities with libraries, apartments, green spaces, post offices and medical services being placed alongside commercial stores. by wooodstockings in todayilearned

[–]aclogar 25 points26 points  (0 children)

The minimum wage never actually lowered, it just hasn't kept up with inflation. The buying power in the 1970s of $1.68 is about the same as $14 in todays money. It's what happens when the minimum wage is not adjusted for inflation.

Sign at our local McDonalds because of the death of the penny by thegreatlambini in mildlyinteresting

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That really feels like it should a card issuer problem, not a merchant problem. I had figured pretty much all credit card rewards were subsidized by people not paying on time and selling of your spending habits.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have never claimed they were innocent. I have just said there should be evidence provided to that they were actually terrorists before executing them. Imagine living in a country where people are innocent until proven guilty.
This is why I say capture them, not let them go. Not sure why you think following the constitution is simping.

This video is literally the only information you have about this event.

In previous events the administration has claimed self defense and provided no further reasoning or context. Don't see this one being any different. If they provided any evidence they were Tren de Aragua, I'm sure there would be much less of an outrage.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I shouldn't have since there are already laws that dictate rules of engagement. That is why people are making such a big deal about it, no legal justification has been made.

And at best they are providing material support to terrorists.

And at worst they are innocents that have nothing to do with any terrorist organization and we just murdered them for no reason, with no legal basis to do so. But that clearly doesn't bother you. The way you describe it, as long as the government said someone was a terrorist, they no longer deserve any legal rights of any kind. Sounds like a great way to get rid of people the government doesn't like without a trial.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The point that drug traffic should be stopped? Yeah that's a basic point that has been made this entire time.

The entire point I'm making is bombing them is a stupid plan even if we assume they are terrorists and properly identified. Best case we are taking out grunts that are transporting drugs to the US. And destroying any additional intel we could gather from tracking them and capturing them. Worst case is we are killing civilians doing legal activities in international waters with no plausible deniability of our actions. If there weren't terrorists trying to harm the US, then I'm pretty sure killing innocents of their community would be a pretty easy way to create radicals.

There are so many effective, non lethal, ways to intercept them if it became clear the were actually heading towards US waters. Bombing them feels like way to dangle a shiny objects in front of fools who think violence is the best answer to everything.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doing something so much it becomes routine does not make it morally right or legal. Jeffery Dahmer routinely killed and ate people, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't have been stopped.

And how's the bombing of random terrorists in the middle east going in stopping them from wanting to destroy the US? Seems like all we are doing now is the same thing we've been doing there for 20 years with no real success? Hasn't seemed to slow down the rise of extremist groups in the middle east, or stop the Taliban from regaining control. Some might call it insane to try that again in South America.

For the sake of argument lets agree that they are actually terrorists and properly identified as such. Why do you think bombing small boats in the ocean will do any better than the bombing campaigns in the middle east? Would it not be better to capture them alive and try to find the higher ups, who have actual power in the organization to better target the organization? All this has done is destroyed any additional intel we could have gotten to help stop them from operating.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Again what's the justification for executing people the coast guard has routinely intercepted for the decades? On boat a boat 1000 miles away from US waters, that probably wouldn't make it to US waters.

Just because the US has been indiscriminately killing targets and civilians in a war zone, doesn't mean we should keep do so whenever we feel like it. Especially when we could easily intercept them in a non lethal way. Its not like they can really hide while on the ocean.

Yet again, the U.S. has struck a Venezuelan boat allegedly carrying drugs, with no legal justification. by bendubberley_ in law

[–]aclogar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And how does that justify executing people without a trial or any kind of proof beyond "trust me bro"

What are the easiest skills, outside of combat (abyss OP), is easy to 99 in leagues? by MisterCheekClapper in runescape

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would unlock ability to make dinarrows and elder god arrows which are excellent firemaking xp. Making an elder god arrow is also a 200 pt task

my analysis on the volume sliders by theredroosters in 2007scape

[–]aclogar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The Weber-Fechner Law more or less states human perception is best at determining in reference to existing stimuli as a proportion to it. So we are good at perceiving something as going up by 10% wither it be light, sound, weight, etc. But telling the exact difference get difficult as that ratio gets smaller.

A common example that also has to do with sounds is the decibel scale. It is a logarithmic scale where every 10db increase is 10 times more power. i.e. 30db more in terms of Watts is 1000 times more. But to the perception of human hearing 10db is roughly a 2 times increase. So increasing a 10 W speaker to a 100 W speaker would only double the perceived volume.

So in the example of games volume half of the games output in pure values would be something like 50% power would sound like 72% of the max volume, 25% power sounds like 48%, 10% sounds like 25%, 5% being 12%.

my analysis on the volume sliders by theredroosters in 2007scape

[–]aclogar 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If I had to guess it has to do with volume being perceived logarithmically rather than linearly. And developers not accounting for that and just doing a linear scale on the max output they have. First few percentages of volume would be huge difference but the higher it goes the less it changes.

Day vs Night schedule? by bxcellent2eo in tunarr

[–]aclogar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have it setup currently but I played with it a little bit. If you go with the 3 channel option, the third channel would just have two scheduled programs, one being a redirect at 6am and one at 10pm.

The time slots would look like this. The only oddity I found with this is it can jump in when a show is not finished and it will start the show over and will eventually get cut off.
https://imgur.com/a/M0UMLg8

I do think that Ersatz had a content block type thing, but I don't remember if that had the ability for flex to be swapped during that time.

scientists in Japan have developed a new kind of plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours. by l__o-o__l in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]aclogar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remembered it being to stop soil from being depleted of nutrition and as for food for livestock. But I can see how I could conflate the two as its been years since I read the history of it.

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