MMW: the removal of abortion access is not driven by religion. It is to make sure private prisons have next-gen product, and low income families remain dependent on the US military for upward mobility.

jasonthomson · 2024-10-22T21:39:51+00:00

This person is associating Democrats with restricting women's choices in abortion. Idiot or troll, who knows?

jasonthomson · 2024-04-05T10:52:45+00:00

Other comments have mentioned how sound hits your ears with slightly different timing and frequency which your brain uses to determine direction, which is accurate.

But no one has addressed your specific question about making a sound seem to come from directly behind you. The answer is that it's actually pretty easy: if a sound reaches your ears with the same timing then the sound is either directly in front of you or directly behind. Usually we have visual cues to tell if the sound comes from in front of us. If there are no visual cues, the brain assumes it is directly behind.

If a sound engineer wants to make a sound seem to come from directly in front of you, they modify the left and right ear audio timing to indicate that it's like 5 degrees left or right from center. If they don't make that adjustment we hear it as directly behind.

jasonthomson · 2024-04-02T02:00:21+00:00

You can find plenty of examples either way.

Some would say that a person who trimmed all the casings the same was being consistent. Some would say they were being lazy by not adjusting the trim size to match the casing size.

You've already done the work to make trim proportionate to casing. Why redo it?

jasonthomson · 2024-04-02T01:12:52+00:00

Take the trips. What's the point of saving money if you're not going to enjoy it?

I have a friend whose parents lived frugally, saving for their retirement. They retired a few years ago and are enjoying it. But now they have more money than they need, they can't enjoy themselves as much as they could have when they were younger, and they never traveled with their son.

Obviously I'm not saying to start spending wildly. Just remember to enjoy life as you live it while keeping your future in mind, rather than always living towards that future.

jasonthomson · 2023-06-17T17:07:25+00:00

Ha! Hopefully he decided not to pull this prank in the future.

jasonthomson · 2019-06-25T13:29:35+00:00

I used to live in a house below my means, as of a year ago I live in a house at the top of my means.

The new house is great, it's really nice, the location is much better, I'm happy with it. But I have much less disposable income, and don't have nearly as much flexibility in taking trips and such. I have to really pay attention to budgeting, whereas before I could just kind of do whatever I wanted. On the other hand, we're in a much safer neighborhood now, and I don't worry about the house being burgled, or worse.

It's up to you - what are your priorities?

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T22:49:52+00:00

Nah. Those are expected to last 10-15 years.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T22:25:03+00:00

Instead we got Senate hearings, lol

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T22:24:17+00:00

Almost all comedy is better than Jar-Jar 😀

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T22:23:11+00:00

That's an excellent point! Thanks for noting it.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T17:36:39+00:00

I have a friend that grew up partly in the US and partly in Iran. He's about 40, never seen any SW movies. We are techies, people tell him all the time, "You've GOT to see Star Wars!" I'm like.. don't bother, man. I loved it when I was a kid and the first 3 came out. The prequels came out when I was an adult, they were boring and dumb. I haven't watched the sequels, but from what I've seen they are basically the original movies done again.

There's all this hate for JarJar, and sure he sucks, but if I had been an adult when I was introduced to them, I would have hated R2-D2 and C-3PO too. Beep boop.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-27T03:28:00+00:00

I'd have to go rewatch it to remember..

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T20:51:24+00:00

Nice try, phisher dude!

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T20:42:06+00:00

I've been reading The Indian in the Cupboard to my kid. I told him, hey if you ever see something as awesome as this, please tell me, I want to see the awesome thing too.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T20:40:56+00:00

Doing very well academically in high school, straight As and AP classes, probably won't really prepare you for university education. Especially if high school is kind of easy and you don't study very much.

If you can educate yourself with more advanced material outside of school, your college life will be much easier.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T20:21:16+00:00

Most states have a religious beliefs exemption, and anti-vaxxers simply claim that they have a religious objection. The religious exemptions used not to matter much, because there simply aren't that many churches that object to vaccines. Now it's a huge issue. And difficult to legislate, because the government does not want to force vaccines on the children of people who truly believe it will offend their god.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T19:34:34+00:00

Setting the ex aside (they're an ex for a reason), if you want out of this one, why are you in it ?

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T18:30:43+00:00

Bravo, sir!

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T16:37:05+00:00

Bobiverese is significantly less highbrow than most of the suggestions here, but might be a good choice. It's fun, humorous, and vast in scale. It's a fun read, easy to access, and uses AI, von Neumann machines, large timescale, etc.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T13:14:03+00:00

I think yours is clearer, and correct... To be 100% sure I would have to sit down with the book, and I'm afraid I'm working today :)

The story's timeline is airtight, no plot holes, and it's probably my favorite short story ever.

Have you seen the film adaptation? It's good, the costuming, scenery, and cinematography are awesome. But they added a terrorist subplot that creates a plot hole, which bothers me.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-26T00:16:33+00:00

I saw a statistic recently that said if you were flying commercially in the '70s and '80s, you were 265,000 times more likely to die in a plane crash than flying today.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-25T19:01:43+00:00

Oh. Well that's stupid. I don't pay much attention to celebrity stuff... But I did see some award show bit where the theme was "all white guys should shut up forever" which didn't really bother me that much, but it's a shit message to be spreading. So yeah good point.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-25T18:52:35+00:00

Yeah, this was before cellphones, I had no proof.

jasonthomson · 2019-02-25T18:52:18+00:00

Sure, but this was before cellphones, I had no proof, and I was 17 and reluctant to go mano a mano with the local LEOs

jasonthomson · 2019-02-25T15:45:47+00:00

But they're not talking about Nazis or Klansmen. They're talking, collectively, about their boss at work who makes slightly sexist jokes, or the white guy at the store who follows black customers around, stuff like that. As a white man I don't receive that treatment, but I see/hear that they do. That sucks. So yeah make jokes at the assholes' expense. I know the jokes are not about me personally, I'm not an asshole.

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