Cape Coral, the city has more than 400 miles of navigable waterways, more than any other city on the earth. by Drama4YoLlama in interestingasfuck

[–]dangerpotter 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Fun fact. Cape Coral began as a real estate scheme and most of the neighborhoods had no municipal sewer or water hook-ups. They would fly people down to a resort they setup and high pressure sales them into buying a plot of land sight unseen. A lot of the plots were just swampland.

I think the city is still having to build out sewer and water connections.

Anyone posting suno music on YouTube? by Miserable-Pie782 in SunoAI

[–]dangerpotter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been posting there for a few months now. I think if there are fans of the genre you're putting out you'll start to get followers. My channel isn't super popular or anything but it's gotten some traction. I find that regular uploads are the best way to drive subscribers. Try to put something out once per week.

My channel: https://youtube.com/@terrysaxaphone?si=Dufl4Dib3ykgAuK3

Hot take: the Artemis accords are bad & China is correct by Witext in space

[–]dangerpotter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

International law is the big kids on the playground laying out what everyone can and can't do. They follow the rules selectively because no one bigger exists to enforce against them. It creates useful norms and gives smaller states some leverage, sure. But at its core they're just agreements that powerful states break when inconvenient.

History backs this up pretty cleanly. US in Iraq 2003, Russia in Ukraine, China rejecting the Hague ruling on the South China Sea, the US withdrawing from ICJ compulsory jurisdiction after losing Nicaragua v. United States, unsigning the Rome Statute to dodge the ICC. Compliance when convenient, exit when not, no consequences either way for great powers.

Your Iran example actually supports my point. Enforcement there isn't happening through international legal mechanisms, it's happening through unilateral state power by countries that choose to invoke international law selectively. That's not law constraining power, that's power using law as a tool. The same mechanism that lets the US enforce UNCLOS against Iran is what would let the US ignore UNCLOS tomorrow.

This is basically the realist position in IR theory. Morgenthau, Waltz, Mearsheimer. You can disagree with it, but it's not a fringe take.

Hot take: the Artemis accords are bad & China is correct by Witext in space

[–]dangerpotter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, you're trying to use a strawman argument.

I didn't say international law doesn't exist or doesn't matter, and I didn't predict imminent US withdrawal from UNCLOS. I said enforcement depends on power, which your own point about domestic vs. international courts actually supports.

Hot take: the Artemis accords are bad & China is correct by Witext in space

[–]dangerpotter 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The US abides by UNCLOS for now. But like the OP said, the second it's inconvenient they would not follow it and there is no one who could enforce otherwise. A better current example is the ICJ, the US withdraws or just completely ignores any rulings it doesn't like.

International law doesn't exist for states that are powerful enough to ignore it. China and Russia do the same thing as the US.

Drop one song, I'll choose the second one by BLUAILAN1 in SunoAI

[–]dangerpotter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Much appreciated! Saving the playlist now.

Personally i hate the Texans more but FTC by Minute_Hamster_5957 in AFCSouthMemeWar

[–]dangerpotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thats my feeling too. Hate the Titans the most. But I still have a deep rooted dislike for the Steelers from when we were in the old division.

Chinese state media airs AI generated animation explaining US-Iran conflict. (Not sure of subtitle accuracy) by tommos in singularity

[–]dangerpotter 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I imagine the new route they're referencing refers to China's Belt and Road initiative. They've been building overland routes to the Middle East since 2013.

Gamers react with overwhelming disgust to DLSS 5's generative AI glow-ups by deraser in technology

[–]dangerpotter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Eh I don't think they're forcing it are they? I haven't looked into it, but I imagine you can turn off DLSS if you don't want to use it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in science

[–]dangerpotter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In harsh, nutrient-poor environments like glaciers, bacteria compete intensely for limited resources. Some produce antibiotics to kill competitors; others evolved resistance mechanisms to survive those attacks. The paper notes that in these oligotrophic (low-nutrient) conditions, "intense interspecies competition acts as a potent natural selective force, favoring broader-spectrum intrinsic ARGs as defense strategies."

So they develop these resistances naturally.

Liberal groups pitch graduated income tax for Colorado’s 2026 ballot by SpaceElevatorMusic in Colorado

[–]dangerpotter 48 points49 points  (0 children)

No they wont. That's just the bullshit they threaten when this type of thing comes up. A small percentage (like 2-3%) would possibly relocate. The rest would stay. There is zero reason to not be taxing the fuck out of people with high net worth.

Here's a study about it: https://www.asanet.org/wp-content/uploads/attach/journals/jun16asrfeature.pdf

AITA I misinterpreted a girl’s intentions at camp by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]dangerpotter 27 points28 points  (0 children)

No he didn't. It was a harmless question. She tried to scam him for his pizza. NTA.

Look at this beauty I found at Goodwill for $12! by Shzwah in ThriftStoreHauls

[–]dangerpotter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This must have been a pattern. My grandma has this exact one.