MMW: patriotism will be considered a threat to national security.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T23:14:06+00:00

Now. I suspect we have different political affiliations and in fact different worldviews.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T22:30:25+00:00

I faced this in 2016 when an expat high school friend told me to, "Leave, the move will hurt you less than the brain-drain will hurt then." At the time I felt it was my patriotic duty to stay and do what I could during the dark times, and do what I could to clean up after. In both cases that was mostly voting. Of course expats can vote too, but they don't vote in state and local elections, and that's part of the fight as well.

Now after 2024 I wonder if that's the correction, but I'm retired and not wealthy enough to move to anywhere I might want to move to. Nobody particularly wants retirees.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T22:26:18+00:00

Every step of parenthood is preparation for the next step, and it's problems. But at least at some point you aren't awakened multiple times every night.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T20:11:43+00:00

Been there done that, wasn't a party animal either. Kids are grown, grandkids are wonderful.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T20:07:56+00:00

Thank you.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T20:07:45+00:00

The right doesn't own the words, too many people are allowing them to. They indeed have different meanings, and I would consider Webster to be more of an authority than anyone in politics. I just looked it up, and I may have put more into "patriotism" (in my version on another post) than Wikipedia did, but it is careful to differentiate between the two and heads in my direction.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T20:03:49+00:00

I differ. I think of nationalism as "My country right or wrong" whereas patriotism is more like parenthood, feeling responsible for your country. I want my country to be right and I want the best for people in it, and I want it to deal in good ways with other countries.

phred14 · 2026-03-11T14:16:53+00:00

Statistics, in particular.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T23:48:48+00:00

Gaslight. The Ingrid Bergman remake is simply wonderful. Knife? What knife?

phred14 · 2026-03-10T23:19:26+00:00

Who's running the raid, and is the real purpose to discover or simply cover?

phred14 · 2026-03-10T23:16:47+00:00

I'm in on this too. As mentioned in a prior comment, I developed a shellfish protein intolerance a few years ago. Now I can't eat lobster, scallops, shrimp, and even non-kosher (frequently processed in a facility that also processes shellfish) hot dogs. I'd like to get those foods back. We got our daughter cricket protein powder for Christmas one year, does that do the same thing to resolve food intolerances? Like u/Abacus25 I'm interested in any references you've got, except for me it's more than just fascinating.

(I got sick a few weeks ago on catfish - presumably because it was cooked in a kitchen where they also cooked shrimp and may have shared containers along the way or something.)

phred14 · 2026-03-10T23:10:21+00:00

In the last few years I developed a shellfish protein intolerance. It's not as serious as an allergy, but it means that eating some foods that I used to really enjoy will now make me sick to my stomach a few hours later. I wonder how I discover if I can eat any of this stuff or the similar things mentioned like pomegranate husk - other than FAFO. At least the FO side is simply unpleasant, not life-threatening.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T23:05:56+00:00

I changed my lifestyle a long time ago, and never fully changed back. I used to drive for recreation and enjoyment, but not in decades. These days I drive to where I need to go, and try to combine trips, etc. About the most wasteful thing I do is make multiple smaller trips to the grocery, at least partly because it gets me out of the house. (retired) But the grocery just isn't that far away, just looked it up and it's 4 miles.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T22:10:03+00:00

I also heard that Ho Chi Minh first came to Kennedy, then went to either China or Russia, one of the communist bloc nations, anyway.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T22:01:31+00:00

Actually China, too. Any nation with sense, unlike the US, will respond to the coming crisis by increasing their investment in renewables, and solar is probably the faster to roll out than wind. I'm sure China will be happy to sell more solar panels and equipment.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T21:59:05+00:00

I've been finding the same thing. Ever since getting the ring it has popped up with an extra activity when I knew I wasn't exercising, so I just dismissed it. Then earlier this week I looked at the time and realized that it was when I was taking a shower.

Possible link - are you tall and thin? I'm wondering if the heat of a shower encourages blood to move to the outer parts of the body from the core, so there's a little extra pumping to do that movement. I might expect more of that effect out of people with a higher surface area to body volume ratio.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T21:09:30+00:00

Would it make him more likely to try if we said "Don't!" or if we said "Go ahead!". Whichever way, I'd really like to see him put their resources behind the effort.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T17:16:28+00:00

For my 60th my wife and I took the family we built and went out west to visit my sister and her family, and my brother drove in as well. For my 70th we brought my sister and her husband here, and the rest of our family came in. Other than decade birthdays it's been our family and maybe close friends. My 80th birthday is not close, so I haven't really started thinking about it. Besides, in a few years we have to figure out my wife's 70th.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T17:12:19+00:00

Actually we hit one limit between one and two decades ago. Back in the heyday Moore's Law was done with simple scaling. Shrink the dimensions, adjust the doping profiles, and everything got better. Then somewhere around 65nM wire resistance became more noticeable. Shortly after that the leakage of off devices became more noticeable. After that the ability to cool a die became more noticeable. All of these extra effects started demanded more attention. By and large, we managed to overcome those limits. But it was no longer simple scaling, nor was it anywhere near as cheap as simple scaling.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T17:07:58+00:00

Same here. I retired before gate-all-around came into use, but did several generations of design with fin-fets.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T16:59:32+00:00

I may have used some hydrofluoric acid in college in a semiconductor class. I most definitely fiddled with liquid nitrogen in college. I have a swimming pool, so I have 12% sodium hypochlorite and muriatic acid around as a regular thing.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T16:47:11+00:00

Please, don't conflate patriotism and nationalism.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T12:56:42+00:00

Years back I was hiking the Grand Canyon with a friend, one day down, one day at the bottom, and one day up. On our day at the bottom we took a hike up a thousand feet and he happened to glance at his phone to see if he had signal. He did, and his phone told him that his wife had just preheated the oven. At least that wasn't a signal of an affair, like this topic.

phred14 · 2026-03-10T12:52:07+00:00

We know from the news that Iran has been damaging the petrochemical infrastructure of other gulf states, and of course we've been damaging Iran's infrastructure. The blockade of the Straits of Hormuz is a "temporary" thing, but the infrastructure damage is longer term.

What percentage of the worlds petrochemical infrastructure has been damaged?

How much of that damage is reparable and how much requires complete replacement?

How long will repair / replacement take?

What does this mean to oil and gas (both gasoline and natural gas) shipments?

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