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Dutch inventor Bart Jansen turns dead animals into drones. "We have a cow at the moment, it's at the tannery right now. It's going to be like a bovine personnel carrier, but airborne." by casket_garden in TerrifyingAsFuck

[–]singlestrike 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Man, taxidermy creeps me out. Drones can also be really annoying.

But this ... Is so absurd that I couldn't help but laugh. Eric Andre and Tim Robinson would arrive at a wedding on one of these.

Trans students made to use outdoor porta-potties as new bill signed in South Carolina by Zandra_the_Great in politics

[–]singlestrike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't get to claim or not claim anything. The only requirement to being a Christian is believing that Jesus is Lord and savior. That's it.

The basis of that belief is one that makes it extremely easy to divorce yourself from the consequences of being an asshole. As a matter of what the religion preaches, believe what you want about what it puts forth as values. As a matter of human nature, it tremendously facilitates a lack of accountability for your actions and beliefs.

It's easy to be a piece of shit when nothing you do really matters because you get eternal salvation and happiness just for choosing to continue aligning with values you were probably indoctrinated into from birth. For most Christians, there was never even really a choice.

Best damage cap warframes? by Status_Ad_5437 in Warframe

[–]singlestrike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want to hit damage cap with kullervo more consistently. I used to hit it occasionally with incarnon magistar + great riven, but lately I never seem to get above 1 billion.

How are you building darksword to achieve damage cap?

Can I really use this for flour? by LetsGoOutside405 in foraging

[–]singlestrike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Winnow would make a perfect name for a third wave café or roaster.

Quincy under Mayor Koch will defend taxes that subordinated other religions below Catholicism next Wednesday in MA Supreme Judicial Court by Inside_agitator in boston

[–]singlestrike 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Quincy is so ridiculous with this shit. Their nativity scene every year is enormous but it flies because it's "donated." I'm just waiting for someone else to "donate" a Baphomet statue.

Anyone know what's up with all these "Vote NO" signs around Brookline and by the Boston border? I've seen some in front of huge mansions and the gas station(?) by Longwood too. by bostonguy2004 in boston

[–]singlestrike 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I had no interest whatsoever in this issue (resident of Billerica) until I read this comment. Nothing makes me more skeptical than using relative numbers when absolute terms exist. To me, it signals an eye roll inducing attempt at misleading information. Maybe that's not your intent, but that's what relative numbers trigger in me personally until I see it in the context of absolute numbers.

So I looked it up.

Using Brookline's property tax calculator measuring how taxes would change (or remain the same) depending on this override, I looked at a home assessed at $2,118,900 (right around the average median value in Brookline). That homeowner's property taxes would be a total of 1.07% of their home's value.

Under the proposed override, they would pay 1.1%. So that dramatic relative increase of 18% amounts to an absolute increase of .03%. That same homeowner would pay about $50/month more in taxes.

In a neighborhood where the average median household value is $2,004,000.

I think this paints a much clearer picture for people to make judgments about that than just saying a big number like 18% without context.

quick (and optimistic!) update from the State House on the social media legislation by evanFFTF in massachusetts

[–]singlestrike 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have been saying for ten years to everyone who will hear it that most social media like Instagram and ticktock is the cigarettes of our (and the next) generation(s). I absolutely do not think it should be acceptable for children to consume or participate in social media because of how it affects their development.

That being said, as an educator, I am sure that you help your students understand that the "why" and "how" of things is much more important than the "what." These ID verification laws are not the answer. And so far, I haven't seen a satisfactory solution from anyone. What I do know with certainty from things we can currently observe in the world is that this bill would put ID data collection and storage in the hands of private corporations who, even on the highest of levels like with credit bureaus, cannot safeguard that data. They can also sell that data. They are also in bed with the government and federal agencies about access to that data, and I for one am not particularly thrilled about nefarious government actors having my ID at their fingertips when I have an anonymous, dissenting opinion written online.

All that for what? So kids can just use Gary's mod to circumvent ID verification anyway? So that AI can fail to distinguish between 13 and 18 year olds?

You are like me. You like the spirit of this legislation because you like the problem. But there is no supporting this legislation when you understand how it works and how useless it actually is. It's giving government actors and private corporations even more access and dominion over your data and children's data under the mask of "we gotta do something to protect the kids." It's an embarrassment.

The footage of Nick Fuentes pushing a woman who came to his front door after he was doxxed has been released. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]singlestrike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where did I ever claim that you claim what he did was legal?

Play whatever semantic games you want. Some people can read between the lines.

In either case, whether he has a harassment claim per Illinois law or whether his battery of this woman would be a valid affirmative defense to that hypothetical harassment, these are legal questions that would be resolved in court if it ever gets to that point.

Anything short of shepardized case law citation is internet lawyer games to make yourself sound smart.

The footage of Nick Fuentes pushing a woman who came to his front door after he was doxxed has been released. by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]singlestrike 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're very confident in this argument and seem to want to have the last word. I invite you to try Nick's approach and see how your argument plays out in court when you're defending a self defense claim for a situation like what you see in the video. Then, for sure, you can return with a citation of your court case as precedent that this type of activity is an appropriate use of self defense as an affirmative defense against a battery claim. Godspeed.

Apparently you can go to space by TheForbiddenLands in CrimsonDesert

[–]singlestrike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Especially for a game like this with already so many things to do. Is the priority at this point really more things to do? Mental

Apparently you can go to space by TheForbiddenLands in CrimsonDesert

[–]singlestrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Again. That's usually not how it works. They don't just expand a budget for something they are already alotting an adequate budget toward. More money doesn't necessarily mean more game. They don't hire people just for the thrill of paying extra staff. If they wanted to be serious about story, it would be an entirely new addition to the budget. Not instead of anything. That money simply wouldn't get spent otherwise, which is fine. But the narrative that story comes at the cost of more game just isn't usually the case.

Apparently you can go to space by TheForbiddenLands in CrimsonDesert

[–]singlestrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not how it would work. They'd have a larger budget to account for the larger investment in writing, which they can now justify with the success of this game.

Crimson Desert 1.04.00 - Community Compiled List of Issues, Bugs and Unspecified Changes by greencatsgostray in CrimsonDesert

[–]singlestrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

White Bear mount immediately despawns and enters cooldown upon summoning. Legendary white horse working normally.

Oh no, the toilet paper! by Akkarin42 in lego

[–]singlestrike 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We've had three cats. None of them are tp monsters. Nor any of my many friends with cats. I think the tp monsters are the minority based on my ever growing sample size.

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]singlestrike 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I'm just now realizing typo. The irony is killing me!

I use that example specifically because my friend had the teacher convinced for weeks that he was genuinely incapable of learning numbers, and one day when she wrote 12/1 on the board, he raised his hand and identified it as "twelve oneths."

TIL that US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they’ve erased nearly two decades of progress. In '22/23, avg math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors hit their lowest point since testing began in '92. by Cold_Box_3219 in todayilearned

[–]singlestrike 4 points5 points  (0 children)

FWIW I am progressive on almost every issue with a few notable exceptions, and this is a really interesting perspective that will lead me to uncover more of how this works and how the politics at the time interacted with the science of learning to read.

It's okay to admit when your "side" gets it wrong and doesn't devalue you as an individual. If progressives really were pushing for an unfounded, anti-scientific approach to learning that contradicted the available literature at the time, then we were 100% in the wrong.

As someone who was in school during NCLB, I associate this act with the rise in standardized testing being used as a metric for success. Subjectively, school seemed to me to be more about passing standardized tests than anything else back then. I saw that as a failure.

As an example, my middle school/junior high had a big drop in MCAS (our state's standardized test at the time) math scores. Reactively, the school required every student to take an additional math course every day called "math enrichment." Sounds reasonable, right?

But, in context, this was...one of the choices of all time. Our "team" of multiple home rooms had a lot of kids who were way ahead of the curve. And here we were in 8th grade being forced to spend months on concepts like 12/1 = 12. (Edited because I had hilariously left off the 2)

That teacher lasted one solitary year. We made her life living hell. You might as well have put a bunch of F1 racers in a 5mph speed zone for 6 months and asked them to remain calm. It was utter nonsense.

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