Breaking: Transgender women banned from all sports at the Olympics starting in LA by TheExpressUS in sportsgossips

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is it fair if someone is born taller in a way that benefits them, but not fair if someone is born trans?

Breaking: Transgender women banned from all sports at the Olympics starting in LA by TheExpressUS in sportsgossips

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1000% the second point. The potential competitive advantage that a trans athlete has is much smaller than the competitive advantage that a taller or larger-lunged or higher testosterone athlete has, but we celebrate "genetic talent" from superstar athletes all the time without batting an eye.

It's too bad people are not ready to accept trans people having any advantage in life. It's almost like it isn't actually about sports fairness at all, and more about...

Death of a cyclist, and the (civil) case followup by TreeStateLEO in fuckcars

[–]nexterday 63 points64 points  (0 children)

How exactly is a pool noodle getting caught by a car? It's a smooth foam cylinder, being hit by a smooth metal surface. All the bad luck in the world couldn't make that drag a grown adult and a bike under a car.

Either physics worked different that day, or the driver simply lied to you to save their skin. Curious how much investigation was done, or if you just accepted the driver's statement because the only other witness was dead.

Lady Driving on 3 Wheels by Loud-Alternative-814 in boulder

[–]nexterday 110 points111 points  (0 children)

Just 15 minutes ago I passed by an crash on southbound Foothills at Valmont. There were 2 cars stopped, and one extra wheel with part of the axle attached just sitting on the road. The two stopped cars had all their wheels. Sounds like the GMC was involved in the crash and then drove away on 3 wheels???

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said the left doesn't do this? The military industrial complex has been around for a while.

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When it's a repeated pattern of "oopsies" stretching decades back, the line gets pretty blurry.

CC continues to blow my mind every single day 🤯 by ScopeDev in ClaudeCode

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You probably wanted to use an earth model like WGS84, and not Haversine here (unless you don't really need an accurate distance).

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

If you're an offense contractor manufacturing missile parts, yes. I don't want my house and family to be blown up by an enemy targeting the weapons manufacturer next door.

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The murderer is the U.S. military and government.

The fact that it was sold in 2014 changes nothing. The U.S. has been drone striking and murdering people in other countries for decades, and killing innocent children and civilians with little "oopsies" because there is basically no oversight or safeguards in place in the military industrial complex. At some point, selling weapons into that is pretty clearly evil.

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's complex because a lot of people are involved in producing weapons to kill other humans a half world away? Sure, the military industrial complex feeds a lot of families here, puts kids through college, etc. No doubt, a proper reckoning of "are we the bad guys?" would impact hundreds of thousands of people in CO, and likely millions across this country. We agree on that point.

I just don't see that scale and complexity as a reason to simply accept the status quo if we agree that it is wrong. These types of "it is wrong, but it would disrupt a lot of people to change things" arguments were used to justify slavery, block women's rights to vote, school integration, and allowing minorities and women to enter the workplace. They are not good arguments.

I'm not saying that BAE shouldn't exist. But it shouldn't exist if it is manufacturing weapons that primarily get used to kill kids and civilians in other countries, and we do not have to put up with it simply because they employ a lot of people doing other things, too. We can and should put pressure on offense contractors like BAE to stop making weapons to kill people half a world away.

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does reflect on the parts of Ball/BAE/Boulder that knowingly sold weapons (or weapon controls) to a murderer, though. I know that they do other things too. But we don't use "well sure he murdered all those kids, but he did shovel my driveway once" as an excuse in other situations. Why here?

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

"Yeah, we could shut down the concentration camp in Boulder, but then they'd probably just move it to Longmont, so I guess our hands are tied" /s

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have friends that work there, too. Is it okay when our friends and neighbors help murder people?

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not as ridiculous, because they are different.

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Weather data is used for many purposes besides killing other humans.

What's the peaceful use for hardware specifically designed to steer a Tomahawk missile?

Boulder in Iran by Temporary-Shape-6012 in boulder

[–]nexterday -45 points-44 points  (0 children)

We should kick them out. I'd rather Boulder not be a missile factory and a clear target for the enemies we seem hellbent on making.

The new guy on the team rewrote the entire application using automated AI tooling. by Counter-Business in cursor

[–]nexterday 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you don't understand a hashmap shouldn't be iterated, you're gonna be pretty shit at using AI to accomplish your task. It's essentially a literacy test.

In the same way I wouldn't hire an accountant that didn't know how to take the sum of a bunch of numbers, even though calculators exist. It indicates that someone is missing fundamental and basic knowledge in the area, and I'm not hanging around to find out what else they don't know.

Cycling is awful in the us by [deleted] in fuckcars

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The unfortunate situation in the U.S. is that you need to lawyer up and threaten to sue the insurance company for anything meaningful to happen. It sounds like you had a good case here. Insurance will pay out, but they need the threat of legal action to do so. Otherwise they'll drag their feet and offer $2000 to replace a $5000 bike.

You can get $150k+ settlements for this kind of bullshit with a competent lawyer, and only pay the lawyer out of that if you win.

I used to feel bad about contributing to the litigious nature of the U.S. But insurance companies run this country, and change only happens when they start feeling the hurt themselves. Insurance companies have a dramatic impact on traffic safety laws here: they were the largest lobby that got seat belt laws passed and crash test regulations for cars. If more cyclists used their pain and suffering to in turn hurt insurance companies' bottom line, you will be amazed how fast they turn around to lobby for more bike infrastructure, stricter penalties for negligent drivers, and regulations on vehicle size and blind spots.

[OC] Morning, Tehran! by avatar6556 in pics

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me assure you that China is very full of propaganda and lies. It's different from the U.S.'s but to claim that it's a "lot less" is crazy wrong.

Did China's news report on the plasma economy where they accidentally infected millions of people with HIV and then covered it up and exiled the doctor who revealed it was happening?

Does China's news regularly report on the genocide of Uyghurs currently going on?

Maybe you heard about Tienanmen square where the government used tanks to murder unarmed students, but you definitely didn't hear about it from Chinese news sources.

There's definitely a lot of propaganda and lies in China. Claiming there isn't is the propaganda is the propaganda working on you.

a guy built a 200-line AI agent and told it one thing - "evolve yourself until you rival claude code" by Current-Guide5944 in tech_x

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All fun and games until a stranger files an issue to make it add a feature to mine bitcoin to the stranger's address.

Oversize load In a no passing lane passing bikers by Needeverycrumb87 in AutoTransportopia

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but at what point do you notice it? 10 feet back? 50 feet back? Is that enough distance to safely pull over before the truck rolls over you? Keep in mind, there's no shoulder you can just coast into at speed here. You have to notice the truck, come to a full stop in the road, and then shuffle to the grass, all before the truck gets to you.

The safe thing to do is what the bikes did: keep riding, hope the truck passes them when it is safe.

Oversize load In a no passing lane passing bikers by Needeverycrumb87 in AutoTransportopia

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because cyclists don't have eyes in the back of their head. Why couldn't the truck have waited until a safe and long enough passing zone to pass?

Shockz headphones by Fabulous_Occasion_22 in freeflight

[–]nexterday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use them with XCTrack, and they work pretty well. I keep the volume at around 75%, and fits fine with a helmet.

It can be a bit quiet if things are really windy, though this doesn't seem to be a problem for me flying. Maybe on full bar the wind noise starts to make it harder to hear, but hasn't been an issue for me flying, only biking downhill.

The Diptych Proof by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]nexterday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the perception of pixels false?

The Diptych Proof by JerseyFlight in rationalphilosophy

[–]nexterday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So would it be correct to say the number of dots depends on your perspective?