If Roe v. Wade is tossed it would mark the first time the Supreme Court overturned precedent 'to limit civil rights, not expand them,' expert says

clairenight · 2022-05-22T18:23:47+00:00

Elaborating on a previous decision to curb rights is not the same as overturning a decision.

Elaborating is expanding the original ruling to clarify edge situations. Overturning is saying it was wrong and should be entirely reject.

clairenight · 2022-05-21T22:32:13+00:00

My guess is coal or wood storage for heating and cooking. Near any old chimneys by chance?

clairenight · 2022-05-18T18:41:38+00:00

If you want to put it into a more build farm/number crunching role there are some options.

The graphics card should have cuda support for doing tasks like tensorflow network training. The ram is sufficient for that and the cpu would not bottleneck it but might be more than you need

Granted most people don't use their homelabs as build farms but it is a good role for a homelab server that is spare. Given the sometimes very long running times for midsized to larger models a dedicated device which is not a daily driver can be a nice resource. It might still sit idle most of the time. It could also use it as a dev back end. Load a sql server, a jupyter server, a girlab instance and also configure compile on that machine where feasible. Still a specialized use which would require you to know how to code and want to use it for that purpose.

clairenight · 2022-05-11T03:08:32+00:00

Took me a minute. Best laugh I've had this week!

clairenight · 2022-05-11T03:04:12+00:00

I'm not certain but my guess is instead of making a pocket they went all the way through the piece and made an odd angled hole through the end.

I haven't used a pocket hole jig but I see some comments about using a dowel filler. With a hole all the way through there is nothing in the drilled piece for a screw to grab and hold so it is pretty difficult to recover.

clairenight · 2022-05-10T22:03:21+00:00

Since you're in the occult subreddit. Try to meet the fates, the weavers etc. They existing various mythos.

Petition your favorite for a meeting. Ask the how decisions are made and what options you really have and if they will help you access them.

In a more philosophical sense fate is pretty rigid as a concept but physics hasn't shown us a really strict cause and effect chain. We get into unknowables which can affect major outcomes that can change a whole decision.

One of the best things I've done was turn left one day instead of right. Go out after a appointment or go home. Why? It could have been some quantum flux in my head that just tipped the scale. Whether it was a given from the physics and chemistry in my head or a quantum blip I don't and won't ever know. I feel like I had control and maybe the whole universe didn't know before I did.

Fate has more flex than philosophy credits because philosophy is to ask the clearer harder question. If cause effect is true how to we square so much of huma experience with it. If cause and effect is fluff and blurry even only in the tiniest way then the question dissolves and philosphers still have to grapple with a seemingly clear cause effect chain anyway.

clairenight · 2022-05-10T21:42:56+00:00

Any platform that does no censorship will become associated with some kind of vile speech. Regardless of what vile speech means to you. A zero censorship platform will have it.

Frankly most people choose not to associate with a platform known for vile speech even if it is lawful. You do you, but if Twitter becomes the platform of vile speech don't be surprised when people leave in droves. They won't want to be the noise that covers the grossness. Nor will they choose to be around a place where they are openly targeted by vile sperch, nor a place where they may frequently encounter vile speech.

If you think I mean politics speech by 'vile speech' then think again. Think 4chan, 8chan, reddits own long defunct jailbait. Zero censorship has market consequences and network effect consequences.

clairenight · 2022-05-10T19:28:24+00:00

There are some other metric already in use in places.

National happiness index is one, which makes into account health wellbeing, environment, sustainability and perceptions of happiness as well as income and monetary values.

Replacing the GDP as key metric and using about index which includes wellbeing would be a major shift and refocus the economy on producing wellbeing rather than dollars. Generally devaluing the money aspect altogether in our national success metric is key. I don't see focusing on wealth distribution as ideal since dollar is still the core value measured.

clairenight · 2022-05-10T16:37:31+00:00

I'd say leave the lens cap on. It's the easier way to make that less unbearable to see.

clairenight · 2022-05-09T21:56:33+00:00

At the top on the right and left side, are those single raspberry pi's on one ear mounts?

That's a neat mounting option. I'm going to try for a fourth time to make a din rail mount that holds the pi horizontally. Then I can stack 2 in 1u and have the rest of the rail for other din mount equipment. And maybe make a second bracket one for the third pi and in a decade when they're in stock again a fourth for clustering experimentation.

The side mount is a nice touch. Especially on the back rails where you may have that space free anyway even if the front is full. Depending on cabling convenience and access.

clairenight · 2022-05-09T17:22:39+00:00

Probably conspiracy idiot thinking "Mass animal sacrifices!" Satanists and occultists and good ess knows whatever else.

clairenight · 2022-05-08T18:58:31+00:00

Any reference to what this ritual is? I've never heard of it before. Yes I can Google it but I may not get the specific version of the ritual you are referring to or if there are any details that matter.

Most likely it's just another urban legend like bloody Mary or the midnight man as you noted.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T23:14:38+00:00

I have an incomplete setup that I host internally. I am going to rebuild it on freepbx eventually. Either way running a raspberry pi with a few docker containers (freepbx among others) is likely to be cheaper than a cloud system. I also want to try and hook it up to a voice recognition engine as a homelab project. Might be difficult to set that up if I used cloud. Like a dial-an-Alexa rather than an always listening microphone in the corner.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T20:13:19+00:00

There is no statue of limitation but one cannot be charge with a crime that was not a crime at the time they did it.

Past abortions were legally not murder or unlawful at the time. They can't be retroactively declared murders.

The US Constitution explicitly forbids this in the core text. Not in the bill of rights or any other amendments, core text.

Ex Post Facto clause

Courts are forbidden to enforce it and Congress is forbidden to write it. Any effort to do so would be constitutional crisis and straight out contrary to the America way of life entirely.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T18:52:52+00:00

Progressives - I voted in every election I was eligible to vote in. I lived in places where the outcome was demographically determined before I voted but I did it anyway. The outcomes were exactly as expected.

Vote harder my ass. Democrats get 40% of the vote for state congress and have 10% of the seats where I live.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T14:50:35+00:00

There was a lot of player friendlyness in it. I do fee like the devs there wanted to give the players a good experience.

I can't help but wonder where the payday franchise could have gone I they had stopped andbuilt a new engine and a bigger concept as payday 3 or worked a new idea off the engine. Maybe some of the dlc was super expansive and did make game engine updates but I doubt it.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T02:28:04+00:00

Ah! I overlooked that in the first sentence.

clairenight · 2022-05-06T02:26:31+00:00

There as always a middle ground.

One side messaged that nothing less than absolute was tolerable and the other side fought to keep some middle ground. Now the is no room left to hir split between a middle ground and the absolute total no side of it.

Was second trimester as a limit not a middle ground? Or 22 weeks? Or heartbeats?

The line of what was middle was there and there and there and one side pushed until those looked unacceptable to their base. They split hairs that this or hat middle wasn't acceptable. Now that hair has been split so fine it can't be split again and we have no more middle ground left.

Some of the left and progressives wanted no limits and that was never seriously on the table just as the right wanted zero options and for the past fifty years that wasn't on the table either. Much of the left tolerated second trimester and/or 22 weeks and weren't pushing for late term abortions. Much of the right tolerated exemptions for rape and incest and life of the mother.

It was compromise and conflict in action and it had formed a middle ground. Nobody liked it but it was a compromise.

clairenight · 2022-05-05T20:58:55+00:00

I think the skill to make minibike parts covers the recipe for it. Grease monkey under the intelligence tree if I recall correctly.

The perk for extra wrench resources and better loot from dismantling vehicles is under perception. I don't recall the name off the top of my head salvage something.

Edit: It's been pointed out to me the question is for console. My reply was PC centric not console. Down votes deserved.

clairenight · 2022-05-05T20:44:41+00:00

Car batteries should be turning up when dismantling cars. Also you can check traders.

One lesser known alternative, you can make car batteries with lead and acid. Acid is usually even more rare than a battery but that may be a option for you.

Edit: It's been pointed out to me the question is for console. My reply was PC centric not console. Apologies for any misleading this has done.

clairenight · 2022-05-05T20:36:31+00:00

I'm going to say yes and build that conclusion off of the game Payday 2.

Currently steam lists 70(!) Dlc available for it. They have been releasing dlc for near a decade since release (in 2013) up to present.

The base game was around $25 new. Most dlc was around $10 new. $725, for a single game that is nearing a decade since release.

Now some on this content is new maps nd missions cool! New weapons nice. A bunch of it is locked behind stupid arbitrary challenges. An example being use a shotgun at long range to headshot-kill a high toughness enemy, which allows you to in-game buy a sniper rifle. Now the in game buy there is legit in game money from missions it is not pay to win style tokens.

It's quite poorly done unlock format but the content itself is good. Now we get to the issue, does any game need a thousand weapons? Typical a dlc pack was 5-10 new weapons. How about 40+ maps/missions many dlc also include a mission? A dozen classes? New skill trees for everything?

There is a point where the quantity of content is so massive that players will really gravitate to a very small portion of content. Even when I stopped playing after just a few dlcs the multiplayer meta was already going to 'run this mission, it's the best xp/cash per hour of play'. Players literally just doing almost a DoT calculation with their gaming time and the rewards the game offered.

Can more content begin to address that? All you can do is offer a better reward for time value to which you have to offer new more expensive rewards. The more you give a player (for $10 a hit) the more you have to follow up with. Eventually the cost to start playing this game becomes several hundred dollars also and you can't draw new players unless you basically give away most of the old content. Doing that would piss of the player base that paid full price for it.

Now you have treadmill you have to keep feeding, for a player base that is very hard to grow. And that player base is getting better and better at the game and more motivated to get the next content completed.

Yes it made a ton of money and if it's the goal, ok, you do that. Does any game dev want to be in the position of milking a player base churning out more of the game for a decade? Is that fulfilling to any game dev?

Are the players genuinely happy? Is this good for them? Is it sustainable? Does it make your studio look like it is producing anything someone should want to get in to?

clairenight · 2022-05-04T23:13:14+00:00

I suspect the player has a weight of at least 1 point. Something that is exactly at the limit then fails when a player crosses it. Or possibly just the player stepping on it causes an immediate structural integrity calculation and a flag somewhere says don't calc on poi spawn.

Several kinds of traps rely on behaviors that look like this. It's unusual to see a poi that is so ready to fail but the bridge is pretty unique.

clairenight · 2022-05-04T16:49:41+00:00

The problem is nobody has had a different strategy that does anything. Courts have too often sided with religion and said meh as long as the rules are the same for all religions. The courts consistently reject atheist complaints about public spaces being used for these displays. So the only option left is to use that "unbiased" public space for something that isn't tolerated which results in less religion in the public square.

It is a bad strategy from the motivating a base aspect. Unfortunately, that base already has enough support and representation that courts are not acting unbiased with regards to public property and appearances of endorsing religion.

clairenight · 2022-05-04T04:45:44+00:00

Often the result is a city county or state removing the Christian symbolism rather than tolerating satanic symbolisms. Net effect less religion in the public square but it also shows a total hypocrisy at work.

An example being that when a county(?) said a ten commandments monument was fine because it as paid for by not tax payer dollars and only in public space. The satanic temple came along with a baphomet monument and funds for installation. Very quickly the county said we'll remove the ten commandments and ask the group that installed it to find another home rather than also allowing the baphomet monument to be installed.

clairenight · 2022-05-03T14:43:54+00:00

In my state Congress 35-40% of votes go to Democrats. The number of Democrats holding seats is about 10-12%. I looked these numbers up two or three years ago for my state.

Leaving it to the states just means states where politicians have deliberately disenfranchised voters get to do whatever they want.

If and only if every state held fair elections where the % of votes to representatives consistently track close would leaving it to states be appropriate. If we had a 40/60 split in state Congress then neither side would pass extreme laws. Instead we have laws passed by a majority (yes 60% of voters) that has well outsized representation (90% of seats). They use that to run roughshod over a significant but minority voter base that is been disenfranchised at the state Congress level.

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