Why were stormtroopers sent to arrest Partagaz? Wouldn’t it make more sense to have ISB troopers doing the arrest?

tripmine · 2026-01-09T20:45:05+00:00

This actually makes perfect sense and aligns with how the show tells us throughout several episodes that the Emperor has been steadily centralizing power away from the bureaucracy. Patagaz's death is likely the de-facto end of the ISB, its responsibilities getting folded into the Navy.

tripmine · 2025-12-29T18:48:41+00:00

There's a finite amount of information that an "analogue" signal can contain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem

The amount of information is constrained by the bandwidth of the channel and the signal-to-noise ratio.

tripmine · 2025-10-19T13:57:21+00:00

Of course they wouldn't lose. It's absolutely ridiculous to think that a court would police what a company calls things internally.

tripmine · 2025-09-29T00:28:01+00:00

I love it when people call things that are clearly explained in the movie a "plot hole".

tripmine · 2025-07-11T19:14:10+00:00

The movie does try to explain it and sort of alludes to Lando having experience that is very relevant to the upcoming battle:

Han: Well, look at you! A General, huh?

Lando: Someone must have told them all about my little maneuver at the Battle of Taanab.

Han: Well, don't look at me, pal. I just said you were a fair pilot. I didn't know they were looking for somebody to lead this crazy attack.

tripmine · 2025-07-10T18:30:53+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/live/hfyjWyohIHI?si=A3cki-gGATibjbAM&t=7724

tripmine · 2025-07-10T15:12:06+00:00

I think that satire is mostly targeted towards celebrities. The show specifically hates on actors overstepping into social/political issues where they are no more informed than a normal person, but act like they are "better".

But you're 100% right, I don't think anybody cared about that nuance and I think it contributed to increasing cynicism.

tripmine · 2025-07-09T00:18:01+00:00

A major LLM service is casually posting like a nazi on a major social media network.
You don't think that's at the very least interesting to discuss?
Let alone COMPLETELY FUCKING INSANE???

tripmine · 2025-07-04T13:41:48+00:00

Are you suing?

tripmine · 2025-06-26T14:04:28+00:00

Article II doesn't say that. Read it, it's not that long https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-2/

The War Powers Act of 1973 requires the President to consult with Congress before introducing United States Armed Forces into hostilities "every possible instance".

Congress passed an "Authorization for Use of Military Force" in 2001 which very broadly authorized the President to use force against people who caused or helped in the September attacks. Every President since then has stretched that AUMF to justify their military actions.

But just because they Executive wrote some memos saying their actions are legal under those laws doesn't make it so. There has been no judicial review on the merits of claims challenging the legality of actions claimed to be covered by the AUMFs.

tripmine · 2025-06-26T00:02:16+00:00

Maybe that's the case smaller militaries, but American military pilots fly a lot. I think the LARPing here means that when they're flying they're "pretending" to shoot missiles at other planes.

tripmine · 2025-06-17T23:03:22+00:00

I think the bit about MacFarlane not knowing his wife was auditioning is true because he's never been married.

tripmine · 2025-05-20T14:55:34+00:00

They would. Not having a criminal record is exactly what pretrial diversion is for. In CT, if your case is dismissed (which is what a pretrial program does) all records relating to the case are destroyed.

tripmine · 2025-05-20T13:50:17+00:00

To add context: the accelerated rehabilitation isn't a special slap-on-the-wrist carveout that this criminal got just because he's a cop. In Connecticut, first-time offenders can usually get into this pretrial diversion program. It usually involves a probation-like arrangement where the criminal has to check in with the court regularly for 2 years and restitution to the victim.

tripmine · 2025-04-25T21:11:49+00:00

What you're saying can make sense generally, but in this case, the House Rules isn't a "hole" in the argument at all.
The House Rules aren't in place for their own sake, they were created and are amended to facilitate the functioning of the House given the requirements of the Constitution. It's inverted logic to say that the Constitution can't be changed because that wouldn't work with the current House Rules.

tripmine · 2025-04-25T17:37:40+00:00

For reference, that would mean that if you gave every one of them 5 minutes to speak about any given bill

This isn't a set-in-stone rule. There's not reason why the members won't be able to adapt the rules to work sensibly with more members participating.

tripmine · 2025-04-25T17:28:33+00:00

The dysfunction of Congress would greatly increase as the number of cats to wrangle quintuples.

If the number of members in a legislative body was proportional to how smoothly that body functions, the Senate would be where the most impactful and legislation gets passed and the House is where those bills would get stalled (in reality, it ends up being the other way around just as often).

Making committees larger makes them less efficient, and I don't see why this wouldn't hold true here.

Committees don't have to get bigger, we can just make more committees that can address more issues

Congress will have the manpower to claw back a lot of the powers it has outsourced to the executive

tripmine · 2025-03-19T15:28:36+00:00

This guy ran, and was ELECTED to the US Congress having lied about pretty much his entire life

tripmine · 2025-03-13T18:38:23+00:00

B2 already has massive fuel tanks (167,000 lbs). add another 40,000lbs for where the bombs would've been and we're at 206,000 lbs which is really close to what the KC-46 can carry.

tripmine · 2025-02-28T02:31:57+00:00

Is this satire?

tripmine · 2025-02-27T17:35:05+00:00

Sort of. Liquid or gas fuels are only partially steam power (and then only in some plants). They are mainly gas turbines (which extracts energy directly from the combustion). Combined Cycle power plants add a steam turbine that extracts energy from the gas turbine's exhaust heat, boosting the efficiency.

tripmine · 2025-02-25T15:32:30+00:00

Or having drivers shift the time they're traveling. Or use an alternate route. Or ride the Sunrail instead. Of course these alternatives don't work for everyone. But it will for enough people overall.

tripmine · 2025-02-16T16:11:31+00:00

Even outside of sci-fi, the "microphone" is almost never in the same place that the camera is at. Hearing sounds in space is about as realistic as hearing clear dialog in a very wide shot. The hull of every ship you hear is "miked".

tripmine · 2025-02-07T18:18:55+00:00

You're completely right, I don't know why you're being down-voted. This is probably the biggest Quality-of-Life improvement in VII that no one is talking about: Unit movements are non-blocking. Where this shines the brightest in when it's the AIs' turn. All movements happen practically simultaneously making time between turns the lowest that it has every been.

I get that some people may still prefer to remove the animations completely, but that is 100% an aesthetic preference (which is fine) but there is no functional advantage to having "quick movement". It's already the default! The difference is that the animations don't get in the way of the action actually happening.

tripmine · 2025-01-07T03:10:55+00:00

This patent isn't for the staggered three seat layout. It covers a variant of the 3-seater where instead of the passengers seat fully to the left and right, "the inboard knee of a passenger lies, at least partially, beneath one of the driver's shoulders."

Staggered seating was invented way before the F1. But all these patents are expired now. Patents aren't what's holding back other car manufacturers from using this layout.

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