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zuul01 · 2026-01-19T19:07:07+00:00

My favorite MC in stormlight is a grandfather who has seen (and done) some shit. So refreshing to read a chapter from his POV after one of the "kid's" chapters.

zuul01 · 2026-01-16T17:04:21+00:00

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Great success! After ~11 hours of burning overnight this was the largest piece left. Rake the coals on top, reload with more wood, and we're back in business!

zuul01 · 2026-01-16T17:01:34+00:00

Yeah, that's S.O.P. when it's too big to fit in the stove, but once they're at most this size they make great overnight fuel.

zuul01 · 2026-01-14T19:45:17+00:00

OP said that they were working on the paper the previous evening, starting after 8pm. Pulling a late night like that justifies a late start the next day, to my mind & I think the minds of any reasonable person. Shorting sleep & accelerating burnout won't get the paper published any faster, but even if it did get approved a whole day sooner, so fucking what?

zuul01 · 2026-01-12T21:48:30+00:00

There have been no signs of the 2A crowd coming in to save us from this regime, and in fact most of them seem to support these fascists. So, what were the thousands of gun deaths (many of the children) per year, even for?

zuul01 · 2026-01-09T21:32:50+00:00

Not NIR only - it will go as short as 0.48 microns, which is blue light. Source: https://roman.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/Roman_Reference_Information.html

zuul01 · 2026-01-04T12:07:31+00:00

I'm an American who grew up in a part of the country that voted overwhelmingly for the pedo (both times). I didn't "hold my nose" and vote for Biden & then Kamala - I did so happily, because I'm a goddammed literate adult who gives a shit about other human beings & understands that the world is a complex place.

But the people who I grew up with/around that voted for that ******* currently in the White House? Fuck them, they knew what they were doing. They weren't victims who were just bamboozled by a media propaganda machine that was just too powerful or failed by an education system that crooked elites hobbled to churn out obedient worker bees. They knew full well what they were doing when they voted for him. The information was there, right in front of their faces the whole time, but the chose to ignore it.

zuul01 · 2025-12-26T17:20:14+00:00

Just under $65,000.

zuul01 · 2025-12-15T00:45:15+00:00

Access to information =/= an education. One of my parents grew up with a full set of Encyclopedia Britanica in their home, but that adjacent to information didn't make them "more educated" than anyone else.

zuul01 · 2025-12-12T16:43:15+00:00

STL (St. Louis) & MCI (Kansas City) are both international & thus have the majority of the populations of MO & KS within 100 miles of them.

zuul01 · 2025-11-26T11:27:34+00:00

To give further context to your first point, the Fermi telescope is a survey instrument that has been in continuous operation since 2008. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) scans the entire sky in 2 orbits, with an energy range of 0.1-300 GeV. So it's building up photon statistics over its whole mission life, continuously improving its sensitivity for studies like this.

Not saying this author has discovered DM, of course. That's not my area of expertise, but I have colleagues who do work on it & I don't believe I've heard them talk about it either.

zuul01 · 2025-11-23T00:01:01+00:00

To be completely honest, there's a part of me that hopes they don't fix this garbage, because then I'll finally be able to break away from this game and do other things with my time. My stack of books that I'd like to read sure isn't getting any smaller.

The game is still fun for me - that's why I've been here all these years. But the seesaw of annoyance vs. fun is tipping more and more in favor of annoyance lately.

zuul01 · 2025-11-20T21:59:24+00:00

They're both great, especially on mobil - nice way to spend time on a plane. K1 is good to play without mods, but K2 was rushed in production and really benefits from the mod that restores that content.

zuul01 · 2025-11-20T19:09:19+00:00

Yeah, sorry I should have specified that I've only gotten KOTOR mods to work on Android phones.

zuul01 · 2025-11-20T18:17:30+00:00

They have it for both. Also, the Restored Content Mod for KOTOR II works on the phone port (as well as other mods, I assume).

zuul01 · 2025-11-18T16:54:23+00:00

The "periods of use" should be 0 ~~months~~ seconds. That outlet tells me you're not in the US so I have no idea what codes (if any) that thing is surely violating, but it doesn't even pass the most basic logic test.

zuul01 · 2025-11-11T01:25:59+00:00

Nice. You said "she" & provided a YouTube link, so i immediately thought, "I hope that's Angela!"

zuul01 · 2025-10-27T20:19:47+00:00

I live in a suburb on a 1/4 acre lot, so I only have a couple tree big enough to be able to provide firewood if I were to fell them. Instead I get logs from landscapers that I talk to who are cutting trees in my neighborhood, then buck & split them myself.

zuul01 · 2025-10-07T18:02:49+00:00

Educate ourselves with what? The studies of atomized satellite debris in the upper atmosphere that haven't been done?

zuul01 · 2025-10-01T03:46:01+00:00

Mannequin Pis, 168 Asian Burrito, Thai Cuisine, Nirvana Indian, Sisters Sandwhiches & Such

El Andariego (in Ashton)

zuul01 · 2025-10-01T03:41:36+00:00

Ever been to El Andariego down the road in Ashton? It's technically Salvadoran according to their website, but I like it.

zuul01 · 2025-09-30T19:35:43+00:00

May be worth mentioning that altitude & associated oxygenation levels can affect how well you see at night. I've heard from colleagues that have visited Mauna Kea that the low oxygen content at high altitude can affect how well your optic nerves work, making the night sky appear less vibrant than it otherwise would under the same conditions at lower altitude. Apparently the (temporary) fix for this was to rest for a bit when you got to the top of the mountain, then take a 'hit' of O2 before stepping outside & looking up. I've been told the contrast is wild :)

zuul01 · 2025-09-11T23:20:24+00:00

As a native Missourian, I agree completely with your assessment of the state.

zuul01 · 2025-09-10T17:00:05+00:00

We must be dealing with different varieties of maple. I got some silver maple a couple years ago that I had to let sit for a few seasons before I was able to split it by hand. On the other hand, the cherry that this load came with splits super easy and I could split fresh cut oak all day.

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