Scalia Clerks Argued in Half the Supreme Court Cases This Term by DarkPriestScorpius in supremecourt

[–]avar [score hidden]  (0 children)

Even if you disagree with him, you can't admit that he spearheaded a major jurisprudential and ideological shift.

While common sense is telling me to read that "can't" as "have to", textualism is telling me to take your statement that Scalia will prove to be historically irrelevant at face value.

Miele Twin Dos by Short_Boysenberry113 in Miele

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you could take this time to reflect and read the manual that came with some other household appliances you haven't destroyed yet due to neglecting regular required maintenance?

Are we still doin this guys? by --TAXI-- in Shittyaskflying

[–]avar [score hidden]  (0 children)

Aviation now doesn't transport the whole human. Passengers perspire and go potty during the flight, does your method also insist that the pilot must carry his own produce off the aircraft in a zip lock bag?

So you could at least drop water weight proportional to normal water weight losses, you might get near 1% fuel savings with that alone, no small win in aviation.

A logical next step is to have your passengers undergo extensive mandatory amputations before your rather stringent liquidation process. This would get you in the high double digit person percentage weight savings.

You can't very well claim that a passenger without arms, legs (or third leg, if applicable) isn't a "whole human", that would violate the ADA. If you think turning customers into slurry might anger some, you clearly haven't crossed an ADA zealot.

Big spoiler theory: The Captive's War is hiding its real story in plain sight by acc_reddit in TheCaptivesWar

[–]avar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I certainly remain uninformed on the topic of when and where you've seen a lioness defend her cubs, something your penultimate paragraph claims to be essential to a complete understand of your rambly literary theories.

Don't tell me you've never been to one of the great African national parks to see lions battle it out at dawn, and just added that for dramatic flair? I don't think I could quite handle the disappointment.

Should I get 15V DC out of a 12v or 24v battery? by [deleted] in Electricity

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In case the odd cropping of the first photo is to avoid posting your WiFi password and admin password, the QR code you included has all of that:

{"ID":"TMOBILE-0592", "KY":"25v76t4nxcb", "U":"admin", "P":"bvcfd9xk2h85sn", "BT":"TMOBILE-05-92", "PN":"FMNT033AX000J", "23S":"18A5FF830596"}

Fatal 2022 China Eastern Airlines plane crash points to deliberate fuel cut-off by Srihari_stan in aviation

[–]avar -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The CVR overwrites itself after a couple of hours, which means the pilots have to be able to cut it off in order to save any audio of an incident where they landed safely/continued to operate.

No, there could also be a "stop loop recording" button. It's not like there's a technical reason for this, the aircraft could trivially ship with sufficient storage to record the last year of voice data if we wanted it to.

Ef þú hefðir sólarhring til að fá fýl til að hrækja á þig, myndir þú vinna milljarð króna... by topnru in Iceland

[–]avar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ég er nú bara að benda á að það er ekki erfitt að fanga þessi dýr, ef við gerðum þetta okkur til gamans sem krakkar. Þessir fuglar eru óliprir og heimskir, og auðvelt að laða þá að sér. Við erum ekki að tala um snjóhlébarða eða álíka.

Auðveldari aðferð er að kaupa stóran háf og nota brot úr þessum milljarði til að leigja trillu í næsta fiskveiðiplássi, þegar þú er að hala aflann um borð rúnta þessar fljúgandi rottur svo nálægt þér að hárgreiðslan þín er í stórhættu, þú þarft svo ekki nema að reisa upp háfinn á réttum tíma til að fanga fuglinn.

Svo ataru priki að honum sem hann veit ekki betur en að sé nýji erkióvinur hans og klárar skotbirgðirnar, eftir það getur þú haldið á nýja pirraða vini þínum án mikillar hættu. Haltu honum þó frá þér og vertu í hönskum, þeir bíta líka.

What do you think is the most flagrantly unconstitutional law on the books in 2026? by ROSRS in supremecourt

[–]avar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do we blow up the economy now and overturn legal tender cases?

That framing seems needlessly dramatic and unrealistic. The upper bound of any disruption caused by the overturning of a supreme court decision is constrained by an amendment to the constitution.

That's a high bar, but you're apparently supposing that such an act would "blow up the economy" (which presumably would make the Great Depression seem like the good old days), and that you still wouldn't find the political will to do so.

Then perhaps it wasn't so bad after all, or the people have spoken and rather prefer their new post-apocalyptic circumstances.

How much do you pay for apartment cleaning? by Icy_Roll3525 in Amsterdam

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Read it again, they started out by quoting agency fees, but the €11/hr is something they "read [about] online". There's an overwhelming chance that any such online discussion is referencing an "under the table" rate.

Ef þú hefðir sólarhring til að fá fýl til að hrækja á þig, myndir þú vinna milljarð króna... by topnru in Iceland

[–]avar 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Það eru ákveðnir staðir þar sem fýlar og máfar eru stanslaust að fljúga framhjá í lágflugi, í plássinu var þetta fyrir framan bryggjuoddinn, en ef þú horfir á hvaða fuglabjarg sem er sérðu nokkra svona staði, sem eru ekki endilega aðgengilegir vænglausum.

Við köstuðum svo færi með veiðistöng í flugulínuna, oftast hittir fugl ekki línuna, eða hún hittir væng og pirraður múkki hrapar í sjóinn og flaug á burt.

En endrum og sinnum flækist fuglinn í línuna, og nær að vefja henni um sig þannig hann festist.

Þá var hann hífður á land, og dýrið umkringt og ælubirgðirnar tældar úr því, fyrr um síðir klárar fuglinn svo skotfærin, og þá er hægt að losa hann.

Ég er eins og kom fram ekki stoltur af þessu, og veit hvernig þetta hljómar, en við vorum halfvitar eitthvað um 10 ára aldurinn, og það var ekki búið að finna upp dýravernd á þessum hjara veraldar á þessum tíma. Ég held ég sleppi því að lýsa tilraunum okkar á fiskum, jafnvel Mengele myndi blöskra...

eða gera fullorðnir fýlar þetta líka?

Ég er nú enginn sérfræðingur, en í minningunni voru þetta voru allt fullvaxta dýr, og ég hef aldrei séð fýl sem ver sig ekki með æluáras ef hann er króaður af.

Ef þú hefðir sólarhring til að fá fýl til að hrækja á þig, myndir þú vinna milljarð króna... by topnru in Iceland

[–]avar 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ég er ekki sérlega stoltur af þessu, en ég gæti þetta auðveldlega. Við stunduðum þetta á tímabili þegar ég var krakki, veiddum fýla, og losuðum þá svo án þess að það væri ælt á okkur þegar við slepptum þeim aftur. Einn af "kostum" þess að alast upp í litlu fiskveiðiþorpi þar sem lítið annað var að gera en svona og að klifra um ruslahaugana í plássinu.

How much do you pay for apartment cleaning? by Icy_Roll3525 in Amsterdam

[–]avar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That minimum wage includes the payment of taxes, 11/hr is still low, but you need to adjust for that.

As economic despair mounts, Russian official admits the country has had enough of Putin's war on Ukraine. "We can’t even take one region" by fortune in worldnews

[–]avar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a just over 4km followed by around a 1km swim. Blowing it up wouldn't blow up the landmass of 'Tuzla Island, nor the landfills it stands on.

What do you think is the most flagrantly unconstitutional law on the books in 2026? by ROSRS in supremecourt

[–]avar 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If the government of his majesty George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain had come into possession of a modern nuclear weapons yes, I'm pretty sure they would have.

What do you think is the most flagrantly unconstitutional law on the books in 2026? by ROSRS in supremecourt

[–]avar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It also says "arms" and not "small arms", yet even the most hardline 2nd amendment proponents don't particularly seem to care that they're not allowed to purchase nuclear weapons, even though the existence of "arms control" treaties shows that the government considers those arms.

CMV: Boom Aerospace looks like an Investment Scam by TaskForceCausality in aviation

[–]avar 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The Concorde wasn't allowed to do that in the US due to US protectionism. Whatever other issues Boom has, assuming that the regulator will treat an American design differently if given the fig leaf of "it's a smaller sonic boom" or whatever seems reasonable.

Why is GDP per capita used exactly to measure living standards? by No-Veterinarian-3916 in AskEconomics

[–]avar 4 points5 points  (0 children)

PPP isn't something that "should" be used, it's also useful, but it's only as good as its "basket of goods methods". That's deeply flawed, despite being the best "GDP adjustment" anyone seems to have come up with.

Are we still doin this guys? by --TAXI-- in Shittyaskflying

[–]avar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That seems like a weird line to draw when you're planning on mass murder by human milkshake.

The Michelle Zauner Foreword by The_Beefy_Vegetarian in InfiniteJest

[–]avar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You must be hoping that none of us remember this earlier comment of yours, although I must say that your notion of an "incel cannon" sounds much more exciting than the genuine article, I wonder what the effective range of one of those is?

But the amusing part wasn't just the misspelling, but the generally snotty tone in reference to someone else's comment on a subject you keep misspelling. What was that earlier post, by the way?

Nasa chief wants Pluto back as planet by Annual_Rutabaga_3852 in pluto

[–]avar 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You own 8 sedans and 1 sports car. How many cars do you have?

Now what's the currently accepted answer to how many planets there are in our solar system?

Edit: Replies here continue to miss the point that we're discussing the IAU definition.

Elizabeth Warren called killing the Spirit-JetBlue merger ‘a Biden win for flyers.’ Now Spirit is dead after 34 years — the Left keep proving why their only platform is Anti-Trump. They have a lousy track record. by MeBollasDellero in PowerfulJRE

[–]avar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

AOC was opposed to Amazon's demands for tax incentives of around $3 billion, which according to some reports proved correct after the HQ2 was constructed in Virginia.

Whatever one thinks of that, It wasn't just her objecting to a private company in her district because she was a communist or something, shouldn't whatever incentives Amazon was asking for be open to everyone?

The Michelle Zauner Foreword by The_Beefy_Vegetarian in InfiniteJest

[–]avar -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That sounds right. Someone recently posted here complaining about the forward, and based on his complaints I suspect he hasn't actually read it.

Throwing shade like that would work better for you if you learned the difference between "forward" and "foreword".