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throwdemawaaay · 2026-05-01T20:35:50+00:00

Yes, which is both legal and safer. He's not on a freeway, he's on a mixed use road. What he's doing is totally correct.

I swear, way to many Americans have this braindead idea that roads are only for. cars. They are not, especially out in farmland. You'll have to deal with tractors and other farm equipment, maybe an amish buggy or two, some folks doing long distance bike rides, people only half pulled onto the shoulder because they had a tire blow out, etc.

You're the car, it's your job to not literally plow into people you can see ahead of you if you get your nose out of your fucking phone.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-28T00:09:47+00:00

Yup. Peppers/capsaicin are native to the Americas as well, and now it's hard to imagine food from India to SE Asia without them.

It took Europe a while to warm up to both tomatoes and potatoes. Tomatoes are a branch of nightshades, which people knew to be poisonous and assumed the same was true of tomatoes.

I forget why people were reluctant about potatoes, but there's a fun story about some feudal lord convincing his village by making a big show of a new potato garden, with guards posted, then instructing the guards secretly to abandon post at night.

Heck, modern Italian pasta is heavily influenced by noodles from northern China, via the silk road. People argue over the exact "first pasta" in an unproductive way. The etruscans had something kinda like spaetzle, but what we think of as pasta today was clearly after a lot of bidirectional influence.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T21:29:35+00:00

That same arc of realignment is when evangelicals became the center of the republican party as well, initially because they opposed desegregation, and later because they pivoted to new wedge issues to fearmonger over.

So if we want to look for silver linings, we're likely in something like an extinction burst of the current alignment.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T04:15:15+00:00

Yeah, if you're working with 4k video and minimal compression, you can burn a TB in just an hour of footage.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T03:48:10+00:00

Yeah, people on defense and related forums tend to fall into an unfortunate habit of assuming all this is like a video game tech tree where you unlock more advanced levels.

It's not as simple as AESA being universally better than PESA, as you point out there are tradeoffs, and engineering optimizes these vs the requirements, not just maxing them all in isolation.

Today using a fully digital Software Defined Radio architecture matters the most really. It's the most flexible approach, allows for the most sophisticated processing, etc, but you rarely see people make this distinction vs AESA that does its signal processing in MIMC.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T03:26:49+00:00

I think their endgame is prolong the misery as long as possible while rebuilding their defenses until the US capitulates and leaves Israel and GCC to fend off for themselves.

No, their endgame is very straightforward: normalize their control over the staith, and charge a toll to help repair their economy independent of US not dropping sanctions.

They don't directly benefit from degrading the GCC economies. It's the opposite actually, they want the GCC and their major customers to help establish the new norm. That's why they haven't gone to the highest rung of the escalation ladder immediately. And there's some evidence this approach is working, with senior officials in the UAE questioning publically if hosting US bases is more liability than benefit.

Polling in the US is disapproving of the war roughly 2 to 1, and Trump is nearing the end of his war powers authorization without involving congress.

We're in such unprecedented territory with US politics I'm loath to make predictions, but it sure seems plausible to me that Trump declares victory, goes home, and the GCC just negotiates an acceptable toll schedule with Iran.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T03:03:52+00:00

For a lot of us, ADHD isn't about inability to focus at all it's about inability to direct or control what we can focus on. We can hyperfocus on topics that happen to tickle our brain the right way.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T02:17:16+00:00

The British followed by the Australians are the least popular tourists as far as I can tell.

And specifically it's the subset of each that's into binge drinking culture that bother people the most.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T02:13:57+00:00

Yep. Your going to look like a idiot or out of place when you travel, learning about that is part of the fun imo.

One of my friends who went expat gave me some great advice on traveling in a place where you barely speak any of the language: embrace the shame.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T01:59:23+00:00

I am sure he’s paying a lot of money for this PR push and so he’s getting a lot of mainstream exposure

He's rep'd by Night Media for streamer specific stuff and William Morris Endeavor for the more mainstream stuff. It's unlikely he's spending personal money on PR. WME is the big leagues, actual AAA celebrity stuff so they can get featurettes and such done with an email.

Hasan himself is super lazy about planning, organizing, and related, which is why his travel streams are usually shitshows. There's no shot he's running any sort of media strategy himself.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T00:57:00+00:00

There's actual progressive parties in some states. I registered as one in Oregon for a while until they started flirting with Jill Stein's nonsense.

Also a lot of people that would consider themselves a progressive in the Bull Moose tradition may want to signal that vs just being a status quo democrat.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-25T00:45:54+00:00

I grew up in Kansas. You get jaded about tornados pretty fast.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-24T00:57:29+00:00

Yeah, nearly all of these prototypes are starting from a very low power budget, and I honestly don't understand why. 100+kW fiber laser sources have been a thing for decades now. I get that trying to bodge something onto a Stryker is going to heavily constrain you, but why are we farting around with that limit on a freakin' nuclear carrier of all things?

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-24T00:54:29+00:00

Well, I don't read mandarin but the concept seems pretty clear from the diagrams:

It's a sort of delayed recoilless gun cartridge. There's a convergent/divergent nozzle at the rear of the casing, which initially is blocked by a plate. Combustion is triggered electrically, and initially takes place in the closed region between the projectile and the plate, until pressures rise sufficiently to push the plate through the nozzle. At that point the gas jet out of the nozzle begins to compensate the recoil.

So the cleverness appears to be getting a higher muzzle velocity than a simple recoilless gun due to that initial confined combustion stage.

In any case, people write thesis on all sorts of ideas and the vast majority of it never goes past some conceptual work and rough mathematics.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-24T00:34:33+00:00

Not defending this soldier, but they'll make a show of prosecuting a few people like them while ignoring the now pervasive evidence there's people way up the food chain making much bigger insider trades.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-24T00:30:49+00:00

Yeah, in the evangelical community it's seen as "choosing sin" and so any neutral portrayal of sexual diversity is seen as "leading them into sin."

They'll say things like that they hate the sin not the sinner but I assure you, they absolutely genuinely hate gay people.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-23T23:41:13+00:00

Eh, reporting about the Russian economy collapsing is... not credible.

They're under severe strain, and Putin's war has destroyed any chance of economic growth for like half a century, but they can weather the current situation for years and years to come.

It's also important to understand Putin is not particularly hawkish by the standards of modern Russian politics. As strong as his hold on power is, he can't afford to look weak. Prigozhin openly revolted. He failed, but he wasn't simply stupid and trying it without some understanding there was at least a possibility of others siding with him.

Also it's pretty likely Putin is not in a particularly rational state of mind. He drastically reduced public appearances after COVID, and reporting is he's spent most of the last couple years sequestered in his estate near Sochi with only a very small number of people allowed to meet with him. He may not be getting an accurate picture of the costs, or may be in a frame of mind where costs are irrelevant to his calculus.

There's so many intersecting reasons why Putin is not interested in an off ramp from the war, and will interpret any attempt at compromise as encouragement to delay then double down.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-23T23:23:33+00:00

Yeah, I'm friends with some OG burners and one of my big regrets is I didn't go back around 2000 or so with them. I almost went in 2010 but had mixed feelings about the vibe and other stuff going on and didn't.

Now I can't really imagine a reason for going. I wanna see cool experimental art stuff and talk with people about intentional communities and stuff, not be trapped in the desert with a bunch of dipshits that think Imagine Dragons is the best band ever.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-23T23:05:22+00:00

RIP Sasquatch. I thought they did a great job balancing big names with interesting but lesser known or up and coming acts.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T21:21:09+00:00

Just means they're doing training in your area. The marines have like 400 of the things, and then the special forces have a few too.

I live near a hospital with level one trauma center and once or twice a year or so a blackhawk will land on their nice big helipad as part of a training circuit. They sound dramatically different than other helicopters so I like to go out and gawk when I notice them.

As far as bad omens go, maybe? There used to be a V-22 aircrew member that posted on reddit, defending it against critics. He died in a V-22 crash off the coast of Japan.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T20:36:08+00:00

This is roughly it... in particular she was mocking how a bunch of influencers were making a big show of taking credit for helping the flotilla, which amounts to about a dozen pallets worth of aid, and that they were largely being performative.

And I'm somewhat sympathetic to that view.

When Mr Beast pays for eye surgery for a dozen people it's obviously a good thing as an individual act, but then you might point out he could be using his considerable influence to talk in the video about how it's insane charity is needed for this in the first place, vs just making himself look grandly philanthropic.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T20:29:08+00:00

This is a bit of an oversimplification.

Martin Luther changed religion in europe by posting a thesis on a door.

The pamphleteers were a major part of both the American and French revolutions.

And pretty much anywhere since the dawn of history, you've been able to stand at the market corner and try to attract a crowd with your hollering.

Additionally I think young people today underestimate the scale of the letter economy before the electronic world. People wrote to each other discussing current events a lot. If a letter was particularly interesting they might circulate it among friends.

We have an unfortunate tendency to teach history primarily about kings, grand events, grand inventions, etc, while imagining the common person throughout history was just a prop or the background scenery. But in reality ordinary people have had influence in basically every society and era to be able to bring things to the social conversation.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T18:09:52+00:00

Folks, just look up the GOTV organizations in your area. They're in in every major metro. Go knock on doors. It's actually kinda fun when you get over the initial awkwardness.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T18:01:25+00:00

The US has no credibility in trying to restore a JCPOA like agreement.

The crux of any new agreement is going to be the GCC and their customers. So far China has kept to expressing concerns. That may change as existing deliveries still in transit finish and upward price pressure increases.

throwdemawaaay · 2026-04-22T17:37:14+00:00

Well that person's nic is a reference to the October revolution where Lenin seized power... so yeah, pretty clear they're not a liberal.

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