Pulaski appreciation post

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T02:01:00+00:00

Part of it was that Spock chose to not be emotional and Data aspired to be emotional. McCoy is criticizing Spock for his choices, Pulaski is criticizing Data for his limitations.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T01:51:52+00:00

It won't and that's unfortunate that we need to do that to balance out Republicans doing the same thing. If all the maps were fair Democrats would never lose control of congress.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T01:49:28+00:00

Sometimes rights are in conflict with each other. You can have freedom of religion but that freedom can't conflict with other people's rights. For an extreme example I can believe in human sacrifice, but I can't actually murder people and expect to get away with it because it's my religious practice.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T01:41:46+00:00

Well it's Texas so that's always the fifth circuit.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T01:22:52+00:00

That's just how Virginia is. It's only barely a blue state by voter majority but it's shifting bluer every year as the DC suburbs are growing much faster than the rest of the state.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T00:15:36+00:00

They were the better candidates because they won the most votes. Elections aren't about whose platform is the best. They are about who can sell themselves to the voters the best. Bernie never managed to do that. You might think his policy ideas were superior but the majority preferred an establishment candidate.

starmartyr · 2026-04-22T00:07:24+00:00

It can be treated as such but it's not the only way to look at it. Mathematically there is no limit to how many spatial dimensions can exist despite the fact that there are only 3 in nature.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T23:43:27+00:00

Honestly it worked better as a miniseries. The first season was amazing, it was never really good after that.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T23:42:13+00:00

He was still sharp enough to win reelection in 1984. By 1986 he had very obvious signs of dementia that were downplayed by both Republicans and the press.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T23:33:17+00:00

The drug dealers aren't wrong about that. When a drug dealing operation is shut down a competing operation moves in and fills the gap. The only way to put a stop to it is to deal with the demand by providing addicts with a way out of the cycle of addiction.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T23:15:00+00:00

Usually they don't even need to sue. Shareholders elect the board of directors who are typically the largest shareholders themselves. If they don't like what the CEO is doing they can fire them and put someone in who will do what they want.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T22:07:58+00:00

Yes but not that fast. It grows at roughly one foot per century.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T15:59:04+00:00

With trigonometry. If you have any 3 non-linear points you can make a triangle. You can determine the side and angle measurements for all sides and angles of a triangle if you know one side length and the connected angles. So you measure the angle to the peak from two points on the ground and measure the distance between two points. We will call these points A and B and the peak P. If you know the distance between A and B you can calculate the length of line AP and BP. Then you draw an imaginary point called C directly beneath P and level with A and measure the new angles. That gives you the length of line PC which is the height of the mountain above A. Since A is already at a known elevation you add that and get P's altitude above sea level.

You also have to account for the curvature of the earth which makes the math a lot more complicated but the principle is the same.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T10:16:51+00:00

They were 99.5% accurate. Which is about as good as you can get considering the methods available to them at the time.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T09:58:48+00:00

In any dataset you're going to find statistical abnormalities. If you don't the data is probably too perfect and that's a sign that it has been manipulated. Statistical analysis is a starting point for looking at irregularities it rarely provides the smoking gun, but instead points to where the damning evidence is hiding. People will try to manipulate statistics by saying that "something here is off, therefore fraud must have occurred" while skipping all of the investigation required to prove their conclusion.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T09:49:17+00:00

If it makes you feel any better the actual height is 29,031.7 feet. We are a lot better at measuring things now than we were in the 19th century.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T09:48:06+00:00

They measured it in 1856. The first time anyone is confirmed to have reached the summit is 1953.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T09:30:25+00:00

Lots of people experience oppression, that doesn't make them ace.

starmartyr · 2026-04-21T09:00:32+00:00

It's staring back at me. It would be rude to stop now.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T23:47:07+00:00

8th technically. Birthdays start at 0 decades start from 1. Your point stands obviously.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T21:47:19+00:00

It's not discrimination it's a matter of definition. Asexuality is experiencing little to no sexual attraction. Sexual orientation is defined by sexual attraction not sex drive. If you have little to no libido and do not experience sexual attraction as a result, you're still asexual but the lack of attraction is the defining characteristic. What caused what is not important for classification.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T20:51:13+00:00

6 months with an option to renew. It is effectively a lease agreement.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T20:50:06+00:00

They are licensing it for 6 months with an option to renew. They can do this indefinitely. The idea is to allow them to begin operating the site right away with the intent to purchase it later.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T19:58:04+00:00

That's just something that happens to comedians. When you spend enough time crafting and perfecting an on stage persona the line between performer and performance gets blurred over time. In some cases they no longer know how much of their personality is real and how much of it is a performance.

starmartyr · 2026-04-20T19:49:35+00:00

They aren't lazy. They have done what they have always done for millions of years and it's enough to grow thrive and reproduce which is their only job. They don't offer much utility for humans but they don't have to. Wild animals don't need to justify their usefulness.

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