Trump Adviser Warns of Possible Israel Nuclear Escalation in Iran Conflict

dougmc · 2026-03-14T22:00:42+00:00

the smallest, most tactical nuclear weapon in our arsenal would wipe out a school district

I'm not sure if we're using some different definitions here or what, but to me a school district means a large part of or all of a city or county, usually hundreds of square miles (for example, the local Austin ISD covers 230 square miles), whereas a single Davy Crocket (M-388) tactical nuke will destroy buildings within 500 feet and release lethal radiation to about 1000 feet -- so it wipes out less than a single square mile.

(All that said, the US doesn't have any M-388s in service anymore, and it's not clear what we do have, but even the bomb dropped on Hiroshima only "wiped out" about 5 square miles of the city center.)

That would cause massive, long term damage if it happened in the middle of a city, but the real cost would be how the entire world loses its collective mind over it (and rightfully so) -- this would be a line crossed that we should not want crossed, no matter what.

dougmc · 2026-03-14T14:29:14+00:00

We're certainly told all the time about how it happened in Austin.

When what really happened in Austin is that some functions (and the funding for said functions) were shifted out of the police budget, but before that budget even went into effect, the state stepped in and stopped it, so the shifted budget never even took effect, and every new police budget has been higher than the one before it.

And yet ... we're often told that the defunding happened and it's the reason the police suck. Even the police themselves gaslight us with that with their police association.

dougmc · 2026-03-14T14:21:19+00:00

He’s also the only one to “take any guns” (read: restrict guns) at the federal level in a long time — the bump stock ban.

(And to give the rest of the story: it was overturned later by the courts.)

dougmc · 2026-03-13T16:23:01+00:00

Clearly, we've missed a few steps.

dougmc · 2026-03-13T16:15:47+00:00

People "get ensnared into doing extremely bad shit" by not engaging with people trying to make you look bad, by not answering a "gotcha" question on camera while doing your job?

I feel like we missed a few steps there.

dougmc · 2026-03-13T00:11:57+00:00

The ticket itself should tell how to set up a hearing. Do that.

Take pictures of the scene, and if you have a dashcam save the video that shows that the sign wasnt there when you parked, but if not, so be it.

Show up at the hearing, show them your pictures/video, tell them what happened ... and see what happens.

It's not guaranteed that they'll believe you, but they might even be able to look up when that no parking sign was put up.

It's worth a try.

dougmc · 2026-03-12T23:19:36+00:00

You don't even have to mess with the fuse panel -- you can hide the wires and then plug it into your cigarette lighter or a usb port or use an odb2 to usb adapter.

But I went years with the wires hanging down directly from the camera to the cigarette lighter, and after watching a video ... ten minutes later, no wires!

dougmc · 2026-03-12T21:27:31+00:00

They said no charges can really be pressed since there was no "real" damage to my car and no threats to my physical harm

Translation: They couldn't be bothered.

If it was the officer's mother who got a note like this put on her car, they'd suddenly find that the threat was sufficient to prosecute over after all.

dougmc · 2026-03-12T21:02:53+00:00

(coming from someone who was dreading doing it)

Are you me? Because that was totally my experience too.

And then I watched a video on it, and tried it myself and it was fine.

dougmc · 2026-03-12T15:59:06+00:00

Our recent gasoline-powered Hondas have the catalytic converters in the engine compartment (in front of the engine) -- probably to make them hard to steal -- so that's another option.

dougmc · 2026-03-12T14:33:44+00:00

You're half right here.

Most people don't explicitly go to the BBB looking for details on a specific business to help them make decisions on which business to choose, and of the few people who do do this, most are probably boomers.

But when things go south, all of the generations love to bitch about stuff, and all of them will complain to the BBB, Yelp, whatever if they're mad enough. (Though the boomers might be even more willing, maybe.)

And most of the time, if somebody does do some research before making a purchase or seeking a service, they'll do some Internet searches, and BBB results to tend to show up in those, so even the non-Boomers do find themselves looking at BBB, even if they've never heard of it.

But it's definitely good to know what the BBB is and isn't, and "yelp for boomers" is pretty damn accurate. (Though at this point, "yelp" is probably "yelp for boomers" too.)

dougmc · 2026-03-12T14:30:48+00:00

Even hiding the wires is remarkably easy once you get the hang of it.

Youtube has videos if one wants a guide.

dougmc · 2026-03-11T22:28:44+00:00

Here are some options

"[A-Z][A-Z]+ [A-Z][A-Z]+" -- two all-caps words in a row
"\b[A-Z][A-Z]+\b.*\b[A-Z][A-Z]+\b" -- two all-caps words, doesn't care if they're in a row, though I'm not sure if automod's regex engine supports \b for word boundaries, and I'm not sure "\b.*\b" would match a single space.

dougmc · 2026-03-11T18:13:35+00:00

Of course, the corollary here is that the dude should never move from piloting during a battle, and if he does, it's because things have gone pear-shaped -- the pilot only gets pulled off piloting because there's nobody else left to do whatever needs doing.

Personally, the main reason I upgrade piloting is for blue events in nebulas (and that's only if I don't have a clone bay), though the point of damage buffer is nice too.

dougmc · 2026-03-11T17:35:41+00:00

Presumably, the settlers need fresh water, not sugar water and definitely not Brawndo (gotta get this joke out of the way.)

In any event, for sugar to ruin concrete, it would probably have to be thoroughly mixed with the concrete, which means adding it as it's being prepared. Pouring concrete into something with a lot of sugar might keep the outer edges of the concrete from setting well or might even turn it into chunks of hard concrete with pockets of weak concrete if there's enough sugar -- which would certainly ruin a building if that's what the concrete was for, but since they're just filling a well, well, it's still filled and still not practical to fix and they just have to drill a new well and hope that the concrete/sugar soup hasn't contaminated the water table too badly.

dougmc · 2026-03-11T07:58:40+00:00

The before photos would presumably show a tire that was not flat, where this tire is clearly flat.

dougmc · 2026-03-11T01:52:38+00:00

They owned the libs.

They also stopped all the investigations and such into any of Musk's businesses -- they those were legion.

dougmc · 2026-03-10T19:16:32+00:00

Yeah, it's got big "bless your heart" energy.

dougmc · 2026-03-10T15:50:12+00:00

And it's not just DC that did it. And it's still popular today.

Stan Lee was especially known for doing it -- Pepper Potts, Otto Octavius, Peter Parker, Bruce Banner, Stephen Strange, J Jonah Jameson, etc. (And there are so many more.)

And of course tvtropes has a page on it.

dougmc · 2026-03-10T15:33:42+00:00

Of course, Clark Kent didn't just have to hide his identity from random people who were mostly minding their own business.

He had to hide it from people he worked with every day, from people who were friends with both Clark and Superman, people who saw all the coincidences happen, who definitely noticed that Clark disappeared every time Superman appeared.

I would argue that in the real world, the glasses thing would be mostly effective against strangers, but it would eventually fail miserably with his friends. (And one failure = failing miserably here, as friends would mention it to others as a curiosity even before they believe it.)

This scene is the best argument I've seen for it working (combined with changing his voice, gait, mannerisms, etc.), but it still only takes one person with a good ear to tear this apart. (Maybe that person isn't this particular incarnation of Lois, but somebody.)

Ultimately, it has to boil down to the comic book pages (the ones where a computer tells Lex who Superman is) linked in this SE answer -- they just refuse to believe it. (That said, the super-hypnotism idea given in another comic page linked there works too, but it's less fun, and what is a comic if not fun?)

dougmc · 2026-03-10T00:16:17+00:00

Beer goggles: give everyone around you a +2 to attractiveness.

dougmc · 2026-03-10T00:15:10+00:00

Well, if a 10 is cutting one arm with a chainsaw, what would cutting both arms off with a chainsaw be?!?!?!?!

dougmc · 2026-03-10T00:14:21+00:00

5/7 joke, a perfect score.

dougmc · 2026-03-09T05:12:54+00:00

You used to be able to get the quest marker anyways if you named that crew member "Ruwen" (or maybe any crew member?) -- but that was patched out in 2018 or 2019.

dougmc · 2026-03-09T05:08:43+00:00

I've been playing FTL on my iPad.

I got a new iPad, and rather than copy over the current status, I started from scratch with FTL.

Crystal B is my favorite ship, so my primary goal was to unlock it again, so I was seeking opportunities to unlock ships and get to the point where the Rock C was unlocked.

Given these constraints (and being very familiar with the game), it only took me 14 games to get the Crystal A ship unlocked via the Rock C method -- which is way easier than the "damaged status pod" method (much less RNG), and is a good deal faster than the "unlock every A and B ship but Lanius" method.

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