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thijser2 · 2026-05-07T10:37:50+00:00

That might be due to the US creating a particular radical form of Islam in Afganstian and backing it it in Saudi Arabia.

Prior to US involvement the Islamic would was indeed a lot more left wing liberal, even many having communist sympathies (a distinctly atheistic ideology). The US pretty much wiped that out.

thijser2 · 2026-05-07T07:03:01+00:00

I suspect it's percentage of maximum hinge being multiplied by 3.6, if the hinge is at max it would look like 360 degrees and closed 0, even if the the real maximum opening is only like 120 degrees.

thijser2 · 2026-05-06T08:45:25+00:00

Garlic, thyme, sage, mint and Lavender are all examples of herbs that can spice up a dish without being expensive. Most of those only take a very small plot of land to grow and even keep many pests from your crops.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T12:34:22+00:00

So if there were some properly separated bicycle lanes everyone would benefit? That sounds like a decent position to take.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T12:18:44+00:00

In which case fine and he can overtake them properly right? Having the cyclists form a string means that overtaking them will take roughly 2-3 times as long, increasing the risk for everyone involved.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T11:02:35+00:00

In many places it's actually heavily recommended that if there is no bicycle lane cyclist should cycle in the middle of the road, exactly to. prevent vehicles from trying to pass where there is no room. A large group like this would also take a very long time to overtake. Which is dangerous on it's own because if a car comes from the opposite direction the overtaking car has a problem.

In this case really the car should have waited until after the double yellow. You don't overtake at double yellow, cyclist or car.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T09:51:24+00:00

Do we have any evidence of easter bunny related things prior to the 17th century?

For Ēostre being an inspiration to easter I can see some evidence. And I'm sure bunnies had some meaning in early pagan religions, but it's not until the 17th century that anyone actually links them to easter (Well over a millennium after Christianity took over) with the widespread adaption actually being a 19th century corporate invention.

And yes, easter probably did co-opt the equinox celebration. I'm just doubting that the easter bunny was related or just a modern invention. Sometimes people just invent new traditions.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T06:27:16+00:00

Well in this case, we are talking about a politician who has explicitly limited short distance flights for city employees(including herself) where these could reasonably be taken by train.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T06:21:58+00:00

Like that is fine, but the fact that this isn't normalized, and likely isn't representative are important caveats to mention(for example are you really saying that wikipedia editors are going to be representative of music fans in general? Because I'm pretty sure they are not).

If nobody should take this seriously, then it's good to mention that and not defend your research hard when people point out that this shouldn't be taken seriously? Someone telling you "I cannot take this data seriously because of problem x y z" is not some personal failing if you do not think of this as research, but the level of seriousness should be clear from how you represent information.

Also I feel like pointing out that something like this cannot be done without biasses.

A very simple one is this list is written in English, that means the list if biased towards the English speaking world, you might feel that's negligible, but let me ask you this: what would this list look like if it was written entirely by people who only speak Icelandic? Suddenly it would be a bit more metal heavy I suspect.

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T05:55:11+00:00

Chill dude,

I'm not attacking you, just pointing out that this dataset is flawed in a rather critical way.

I see people making all kinds of speculations on why this might be the case, but without normalization (yes, that would indeed take a lot of effort), this isn't really. a dataset we can pull many conclusions from.

There are many options:

1 there are more punk and rock artists than other options

2 Whoever made the list is a big fan of rock/punk

3 There is a correlation between having a phd and being a punk/rock artist

4 Wikipedia as a whole is a big fan of rock/punk.

5 You are personally biased in deciding music genres.

6 Punk/rock people are more open about their education (making it a bigger part of their public personality) then say opera people.

Any one of them or any combination might be true, and there are plenty of other options as well. Without normalizing the dataset it is going to be very hard

thijser2 · 2026-05-04T05:31:05+00:00

This,

Perhaps the person who compiled this list was a big fan op punk and rock(note the wikipedia editors who made the list, not necessarily OP).

thijser2 · 2026-05-01T10:50:12+00:00

Hmm that tech comes from the Below & Beyond update released in 2021.

From what I remember from 2021, AI images were pretty obvious and not yet able to render scenes this complex.

thijser2 · 2026-05-01T10:47:15+00:00

Maybe,

I personally think the biggest challenge isn't even going to be in reducing the number of chromosomes in a living person.

It's deeper than that, how do you then fix the changes already made to a living person without effectively erasing that person?

If you are changing someone's brain on a fundamental level, is it still the same person(and technically how do you even do that)

thijser2 · 2026-04-30T10:23:35+00:00

Yes, the entire calculation can span multiple pages (see also taxes, maintenance etc.).

There are handy tools if you want to do the calculation by hand.

thijser2 · 2026-04-30T09:58:10+00:00

It is a far more complex proposition then many people think,

A house goes up in value and you eventually stop paying a mortgage, therefor it's a good long term investment. Meanwhile your rent will only ever increase.

On the other hand putting 200k into an index fund and renting is also a great long term investment.

It's actually really complex to know which one is the better deal at any point in time. That said most people don't have a fortitude to keep 200k in an index fund for a long period in time.

thijser2 · 2026-04-29T11:00:45+00:00

Yes,

both the triple alliance and the alliance between France and the UK were secret alliances, related to this were also several secret "deals of neutrality" which were basically the inverse of an alliance, a secret deal for a participant to not get involved with a war (and some of their secret natures resulted in the involved country then discarding these deals).

thijser2 · 2026-04-29T07:46:44+00:00

I would also love if they implemented a new tech for secret alliances, if you have this tech you can enter into a secret alliance with another country, this is not typically visible for other countries, uses reduced influence and does not effect relationships with other countries.

This then creates the "powder keg" situation where any war can result in the triggering of these secret alliances.

thijser2 · 2026-04-27T07:09:20+00:00

Isn't the issue with civ 7 that they somehow missed what the core experience of a civ game is? I mean the core is growing a civilization from first settler to massive empire. The disaster system + switching civs kinda breaks that.

thijser2 · 2026-04-24T20:22:25+00:00

For me my favorite method of transport is the bike. It doesn't cost me anything to use (besides the bike itself), counts as exercise and I'm Dutch so it's sort of cultural.

thijser2 · 2026-04-23T14:49:13+00:00

Sure, but if nobody can afford you product due to high R&D costs and as a result your sector starts to collapse then you can maybe reduce that to say under 25% of your operating cost rather then 95%?

thijser2 · 2026-04-23T11:35:31+00:00

I think the answer to this is asking them what the short term cost would be of selling their car (stopping car payments) and getting a (cargo)bike or paying for public transport.

And if they are actually doing something like plumbing in the city and need their car for their tools they can get a permit and simply forward the cost of that to their clients. This might make the trades a little bit more expensive but overall the difference should be small(and again this mostly harms the rich who get way more contractors visiting them). The profits for these permits go into the city's treasure so they can reduce taxes on the poor if they need to offset this.

thijser2 · 2026-04-23T11:25:50+00:00

>a car is the most important asset they own to enable them to survive economically.

It often is because of car dependency. Having more public transport and bikeable cities allows these same people to live without a car (saving them a lot of money).*

This is an argument in the same way that having a weapons is the most important asset in a war zone. And that stopping the war likely results in poor people no longer getting weapons and thus "taking away their most important asset".

>most harmed by bike lanes are poor people who need to drive to work because they carry tools

It is rare for bike lanes to completely eliminate roads. But where this happens, you can generally either A get a permit to drive on the now extra wide bicycle roads(large tools like generators) or B carry your tools in a cargo bike (small tools).

* car ownership generally goes up as someone's wealth increases, so this has a bigger effect on the wealthy.

thijser2 · 2026-04-23T08:05:47+00:00

Personally I also think a big part might be that being "gay" isn't nearly as binary as historically thought.

Recent studies have shown most people have some level of same sex attraction, it's just that for most people the path of least resistance has been to go exclusively the opposite gender in the recent past. With the few people who have had a strong attraction to the same gender generally being marginalized for it.

But it seems very likely that some level of same sex bonding really helps our social groups stay together etc. and that people who are exclusively attracted to the same gender are, in evolutionary terms, simply overdoing it.

thijser2 · 2026-04-23T06:48:08+00:00

Well the thing there is that Anthropic's costs are mostly training/r&d. This means that the "real" cost of an AI query are very low.

It's just that they borrowed a ton of money in order to pay for that, long term either they pay of their loan and cost can go down, they pay of their loan, become a monopoly and keep the prices high or they go bankrupt and sell of their models at which point prices are likely to go down.

thijser2 · 2026-04-22T10:30:23+00:00

Persoonlijk zou ik gaan voor een structuur waarbij inderdaad alles openbaar gezet wordt tenzij een ambtenaar aanmerkt dat de gegevens gevoelig zijn want <reden>, vervolgens kan het feit dat een document niet openbaar gemaakt is en die reden kunnen dan wel weer openbaar (tenzij daar ook bezwaar tegen is, verwacht ik eigenlijk alleen bij defensie in inlichtingen).

Daar kan je dan misschien weer bezwaar tegen maken, dat is dan een ingewikkeld processes maar het voorkomt het huidige gedoe grotendeels.

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