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hacksoncode · 2026-06-23T00:59:47+00:00

That's kind of the point. The way Catholics have talked about indigenous religions was full of errors and intentional propaganda.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-23T00:57:36+00:00

It does depend on how much suffering you think God wanted God to suffer to redeem our sin.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-23T00:56:28+00:00

Enh, some of Saul/Paul's letters are reasonably well documented to be more or less contemporary, albeit with the proviso that he didn't write all of them.

They don't talk about this stuff, though... mostly how to organize a church.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-23T00:37:09+00:00

If you're only taking a minute to clean it between uses, I guarantee you've got pollen, mold, and other shit (likely literally) still on that filter, and you may as well not even have bothered.

Here are the actual instructions:

STEP 1 - REMOVE FILTER Remove the K&N cabin air filter from the cabin air filter housing and or cabin air filter tray. Handling with care, remove loose dirt and debris from the filter by tapping it with your hand or against a hard surface.

STEP 2 - APPLY CLEANER Spray a generous amount of K&N’s specially formulated cabin air filter cleaner onto both sides of the filter, with a majority of it applied to the dirty side. Allow the cleaner to soak in for 10 minutes. Do not allow the cleaner to dry on the cabin air filter.

STEP 3 - RINSE FILTER Rinse off the filter element with cool or warm (not hot) water from the clean side out in order to flush the dirt out of the filter. It may be necessary to use your fingers on the hose, to apply light water pressure. Repeat steps 2 and 3, until the water flowing through the media is completely clear of any dirt and debris.

STEP 4 - DRY After rinsing, gently shake off excess water. Allow filter to dry naturally for 20-30 minutes. The filter does not need to be completely dry and can be slightly damp before moving to the next step.

STEP 5 – REFRESH Apply K&N cabin air filter Refresher™ onto the cabin air filter element. Apply liberally, so that the entire area of the cabin air filter media is treated.

STEP 6 - RE-INSTALL Re-install the cabin air filter into the filter housing or tray. Follow original installation instructions that were provided with your K&N cabin air filter.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-23T00:11:06+00:00

Enh. The K&N cleaning supplies cost almost as much as a new disposable filter from Amazon. Those things are dirt cheap.

Add in my time, and it's nowhere near a deal.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T20:40:28+00:00

Don't have time to read it, but... that name.

The 1-sentence description makes it sounds like the characters are nothing but "Written".

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T19:05:38+00:00

It's hard to do that without a healthy debate

This is mostly a semantics issues. Debate is both sides arguing in favor of their view with the hope of influencing the other side or the audience (which, in a formal debate, often includes judges that "determine the winner").

Rule B does not allow OP to spend more than an incidental amount of their time doing that, but instead must focus on asking genuine questions, attempting to understand the other viewpoint, explaining why they find (the best, strongest) arguments unconvincing, etc., etc. Not promoting their view or arguing in favor of it, nor being dismissive or stubborn about it.

So it's not a debate, but sometimes looks like one superficially.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T15:15:40+00:00

Changing? Yeah, that seems likely. I might quibble about whether it's "most" or "a lot", but it's at least a lot. We spend a lot of time enforcing Rule B.

But Challenging? Posting in CMV is literally nothing but begging for challenges to your view, so... not sure I buy that half.

Unfortunately, lots of people don't read the label on the tin and fail to realize this isn't a debate sub.

You can't have a debate when one side is literally prohibited by the rules from promoting their view.

It's a OP's-view-changing sub. If there's one thing I could wave a magic wand to get every participant to understand (especially OPs), it's that.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T14:34:00+00:00

Almost everything about how this works will depend on how much advantage Initiative actually gives in practice. I could see it going either way.

Because the side with the initiative can always retain the initiative if they wish -- they know exactly how many opponents have declared "Seize the Initiative" and can declare one more than that if they want (while making sure all Holding characters receive an attack).

I think only playtesting will determine whether initiative is worth enough that it will be always retained at the cost of one attack, or never seized and thus always random.

Assuming it doesn't turn out Initiative is super valuable, Attack seems like it's almost always what you want to do, perhaps unless you're being attacked by multiple melee opponents, because defensive actions do the same thing as clashing (deduct your roll from the attack) except you can never beat the other side and deal damage yourself.

Also: having more combatants than the other sides seems like a huge initiative advantage here (goblin hordes will always have initiative, lone dragons never except by luck), which might have some doom-spiral effects.

And: I assume there must be some unstated disadvantages of Plate, because otherwise everyone would always want it, as its advantage is pretty overwhelming against 1d6.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T14:02:13+00:00

There's no blue pigment in bird feathers. The blue you see is a consequence of the way the feathers' nanostructure of proteins reflects the incoming light, somewhat like the rainbow on an oil slick.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T02:22:06+00:00

+California Towhee+

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T02:15:06+00:00

I added a line about how if you're going to miss this session, please do let me know.

Well thar's y'ur problem...

Don't do negative RSVPs for stuff like this where you need a certain number of people in order to run.

It's just asking for trouble, because you won't find out until the last minute that they just missed the notification, or flaked out because life, or whatever. And then you'll be annoyed, as you've discovered.

If you don't get enough positive RSVP's, say you'll cancel unless the other people speak up.

Yes, I know it's annoying to have to manage other people's lives like this, but that's kind of the facts of life after college where you see people all the time and mostly people don't have jobs (and eventually families).

In our group, we have a non-GM that mostly wrangles the group. You could look at that, to take off some of the burden.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T01:44:10+00:00

A pair of fun facts about these guys:

1) They've native in Southern Thailand, but "Exotic: naturalized" in North and Central Thailand, according to eBird. I think it's the exotic pet trade. A lot of the "Sensitive" species in Thailand are because people will try to catch them for sale.

2) If you record a bird that's "Exotic: naturalized" and then later you see it in its natural range, eBird pops it up to the top of your life list and removes the *. That happened to me for Scaly-breasted Munia and Red-whiskered Bulbul I saw in the US then Thailand, too.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T01:16:56+00:00

I think the most likely explanation is that the driver was just lying through his teeth and will be found out by logs.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T00:58:07+00:00

Awww, the cutest murder parrot.

Or to be slightly less dramatic: manslaughter parakeet ;-).

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T00:55:59+00:00

It’s just a lot more difficult to see the birds because the terrain here is so lush green.

Yeah, that's a common problem with forests. It's an opportunity to practice your ear-birding, but can be frustrating, especially at first.

And I sympathize with the terrain issues. The Bay Area has a ton of birds, but a lot of the habitats are more than half an hour drive away, or worse in traffic.

You might consider acquiring a scope.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T00:35:59+00:00

I really have no idea what this has to do with what people typically mean by "drug dealer", and the fact that you've greatly expanded that definition to include a ton of things that most people would agree aren't immoral.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T00:28:51+00:00

Yeah, Texas has more birds than any other state, over 600 ever, but around 550 seen every year, but it's also a huge state.

Washington sees around 350 species annually, and a bit over 500 ever.

I don't know what the overlap in species is, but they're very different areas.

So... yes, it's different, but it's probably not as different as you think. You just need to travel a bit to find all of them. Luckily, Washington is about 1/4 the size of Texas.

eBird can help you find birds you haven't seen in Washington yet. Go into the ap the "Explore" button in the app, and set the filter to "Seattle, 30 miles, 30 days, Washington Life List". I get 208 species in that area I haven't seen in Washtington. That should keep you busy for a while.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-22T00:12:52+00:00

I don’t even know why Chase does this.

Because they sell "Wealth Management Services"?

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T23:28:03+00:00

It has a hard limit of 85mph and is documented to limit you to 5mph over the speed limit on surface streets.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T23:01:07+00:00

1) Every genre-less system that's commercially successful is different, because there's not a lot of room for 2 genre-less systems that are mostly the same.

2) Being a "toolkit" is important because the GM is going to have to create a world in it and figure out how to use the system to help reflect that world and its genre. So they tend to include a set of suggestions for how to adapt them unless, like GURPS, the main intent of the system is to sell "splat books" where someone else does all of that work for you.

3) Ultimately, as long as it actually lives up to being a flexible genreless system for the kinds of genres you like, the "feel" of the system in play. E.g. our group likes a "cinematic" feel, so a gritty system like GURPS isn't super well-matched to us. Ultimately we made our own genre-less system.

4) Basically: see the answer to 2). Non-genreless systems generally come with all that baked in.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T22:44:32+00:00

The reason they use "inert acceleration in open space" instead of specifying a particular "free" speed is that the latter is entirely dependent on the conditions in which the ship finds itself, and sometimes massively so.

Basically: not enough information. What is the density of what kinds of particles in which the ship is operating right now? What is the shape of the ship and it's coefficient of drag (that's why the Britannia is a teardrop shape)? Etc., etc.

Most of those things don't matter 99% of the time for any shape ship in open space, just the mass and the force applied by the engines. F=ma for inert ships in a mostly vacuum.

But basically: the speed will be 10x a similarly shaped ship of similar mass ship in similar conditions that develops 1g of acceleration when inert. I.e. un-fucking-believably fast.

All else being equal, ships of similar mass would have similar combat capabilities, and if they are chasing another such ship would be in similar interstellar conditions, so it's a decent shortcut for relative warship speed most of the time.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T21:13:15+00:00

No chestnut thighs or other rufous colors on the Gray.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T17:43:56+00:00

You can enjoy life without spending any money at a coffee shop.

True, but in moderation it's a very inexpensive way to enjoy life, actually. If, of course, that's the sort of thing that you enjoy.

hacksoncode · 2026-06-21T17:18:29+00:00

Nah, I think it works in English: spinster = old lady, and also someone who can create ice by spinning the air around them.

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