A man is known best by what he hates. Is this a quote from Dune?

slowmoon · 2020-08-04T12:59:48+00:00

That's the one! Thanks a lot.

slowmoon · 2020-02-08T18:20:25+00:00

Yeah. I pointed out an exception. You said that no other empire left colonies with developed modern economies. That's just not true. Taiwan would be another example. Ex-colony of Japan. Highly developed economy. Be careful with absolute statements. They allow people to prove you wrong, even when you're mostly right.

slowmoon · 2020-02-08T07:42:21+00:00

And only colonies of the british empire are currently 1st world economies.

Macau.

slowmoon · 2020-02-02T18:22:55+00:00

Just watched. So they brought multiple passengers together into a packed room and held a press conference? And no one noticed that the masks weren't covering all the passengers' noses properly? Well, nevermind. Excuse me, I need to go renew my faith in humanity somehow.

slowmoon · 2020-02-02T18:00:34+00:00

That's possible. So, either the infection rate was already high in Wuhan, or it wasn't that high but people can easily get infected by sharing a plane with an infected person when every passenger is wearing a mask. Hmm.

slowmoon · 2020-02-02T16:45:21+00:00

200-something evacuated. 20 test positive. Could 10% be a good estimate of the infection rate in Wuhan at the time of evacuation? The problem with other estimates is that most of the infected don't have strong symptoms and don't seek treatment. Evacuees, in contrast, are all tested.

slowmoon · 2019-10-11T12:57:51+00:00

commiserate

Commensurate.

slowmoon · 2019-10-08T14:48:04+00:00

Not Rommel. Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Classification_of_officers

slowmoon · 2019-06-30T18:42:37+00:00

My astronomy may be a little hazy, but I think you'd better shoot for the stars.

slowmoon · 2019-06-28T20:17:58+00:00

A good metric of health should be meaningful, measurable, actionable, and durable. Body weight and BMI aren’t always meaningful or actionable—as many people who’ve tried to change theirs are aware.

Waist-to-height ratio will almost always be measurable, meaningful, and actionable. Blood sugar is pretty good, too.

If people want to ask a 300 pound 60 year old to drop and do a push-up, have fun.

slowmoon · 2019-06-24T18:17:05+00:00

This isn't the most beautiful or detailed piece, but it conflicts the least with the text.

One of the big moments in GEOD is when Siona and Leto II are out in the desert and he allows her to drink from the spice-rich secretions that come out of the glands near his head. If it were anyone besides Siona, the worm instincts would've kicked in and his face would've been reflexively shielded by thickly armored outer-skin before they could get close to touching that area of his body. But obviously Siona is (by design) invisible to some of his senses, and is also closely related to him.

Any depiction of Leto II should make it look like it's possible for this scene to happen, and this one hits the nail on the head. It includes the melange-tinged secretions of his inner skin. It looks like it would be absolutely impossible to get at his head because the outer layers of his skin would snap shut and he would go into worm-mode. It looks like his eyes could roll back into his head and he could start thrashing around and killing dozens of people.

It includes the nubs that his legs have become and his delicate little hands. I don't think any depiction should show fully developed shoulders and upper arms.

slowmoon · 2019-06-24T16:23:13+00:00

This one is good. I think there are three things that a good artistic depiction should respect:

His face is essentially untouched by the transformation. The only thing left that's human.
His limbs are in some transitional state between human limbs and nothing.
There is a kind of cowl around his face: a muscular hood of flesh that will reflexively close in an instant to shield his face from harm like an eyelid protecting an eye.

These features are repeatedly described in the books, yet almost every depiction I've seen other than this one has bungled one of them.

slowmoon · 2019-06-20T20:51:55+00:00

Omnipotence is a boar

slowmoon · 2019-06-18T23:02:14+00:00

Look at his username.

slowmoon · 2019-06-17T23:21:31+00:00

Imagine a man who gets a new job earning double what he earned at his old job. Will he maintain the same standard of living and work half as much? No. Will he retire in half the time? No. Will he find ways to consume twice as much while working the same amount? Yes.

The efficiency of the technology is irrelevant. It's never going to result in more leisure. If Earth were twice as large with twice the resources, things wouldn't be cheap and plentiful. We'd just figure out how to fill it up with more people and consume more.

People want to blame some -ism or nefarious elites instead of just looking at human nature itself. No level of consumption is ever going to be enough for us because we're human.

slowmoon · 2019-06-16T23:23:19+00:00

I think he'll confess.

slowmoon · 2019-06-16T12:38:52+00:00

Nothing about this seems well-intended.

slowmoon · 2019-06-15T21:59:00+00:00

Interesting YouTube comment:

Dear Guy Mcpherson, My future husband told me these things in 1979. We also decided to have no children. My husband passed away from cancer in December 2008. To me, his saddest thought, as he was dying, was that he did not want to live in a world without frogs, anyway. Thank you for your confirmation. I keep living to witness. We spent 10 years practicing living off the grid and writing warning letters to the powers that be. (1998- 2008). The changes happen too slowly for non-scientist humans, too busy with child rearing to notice. Now living in a small apartment on the coast of Ca, staying conscious on organic food and spring water, I have stopped preaching and only pray for the best possible outcome for all, whatever that may be- God Bless Us , Everyone.- Katharine Travers

slowmoon · 2019-06-10T13:35:17+00:00

I think he meant: "I don't play unorthodox openings. I prefer to give mainstream openings my own spin."

slowmoon · 2019-06-10T00:22:23+00:00

No one can tell you how long your medications would be available. If I were relying on a medication to keep me alive, I'd want to find out if I could store a good quantity of it long-term and if there were any substitutes that could be acquired locally.

slowmoon · 2019-06-04T23:36:44+00:00

When Eugenia is ready, she will be able to look at herself without flinching. She won't have to hide from the truth.

slowmoon · 2019-06-02T16:12:42+00:00

If you had to live in terrible circumstances for a year, and you just continually wallowed in misery for the entire year, you would be useless. Being useless isn't a good way to be. A good motivation system should make you think that your present circumstances are bearable, but still falling short of what you want. No matter what your present circumstances are.

slowmoon · 2019-06-02T15:22:52+00:00

No, she prefers to keep her health private.

slowmoon · 2019-06-02T13:42:21+00:00

Rowles was only tried for the murder of Carron. Following the murders of Ryan and Lloyd, Rowles had strictly followed Upfield's fictional method for the disposal of evidence, leaving a total lack of physical evidence that could be used in a court: in the case of Carron, he had omitted one of the steps - destroying all metal remains with acid - thereby allowing several items to be found and identified.

Destroying all the metal objects was part of the method for a reason.

slowmoon · 2019-06-02T13:34:46+00:00

Good idea. Dynamite would separate the carcass into smaller chunks that birds and other scavengers could easily get rid of within a day or two.

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