yep the smaller subs feel like a whole different website. The main pages have so much political doom and rage bait in my experience.

Don’t worry housing won’t crash until I buy a place, THEN it will be the best pricing in decades

It’s hard to describe since it’s mostly based on feel. You start by feeling around to build a kind of mental map in your head. Then when you start you’re keeping the right amount of pressure on the tension wrench as you mess with each pin. You gotta have a gentle touch and it takes some time to find how much is enough.

MIT has a paper on the process too, I’ll see if I can find it and link it here

Right? I know it’s all about making money in the end but just a few minutes of picking might be enough, and if not you can say you tried.

Look all I’m saying is if you didn’t work on at least one weird skill during covid you did it wrong

A basic kit from sparrows costs like $20 and it’s way easier than most people think

Can’t get shot down if they can’t live long enough to make it up

With my AI nightmare camera glasses!

We do, but like anything else you learn the basics and a few classes won’t make you fluent. You need immersion to get good and if you don’t use it you lose it.

The people that use it are already in a multi language home and took the class because it’s super easy for them. Just about everyone else won’t really have a chance to use it outside of the classroom so everything we learn fades quickly

Go on radio.garden and try to find non-english music. My point is it’s wild how much English has become a common language worldwide, even if it’s not the first language

If every state had a different language they’d be more like europeans that have second and third languages as a normal thing. But it’s almost all English, everywhere all the time unless you are near Mexico.

I would look at ESP32 boards and make something like this

Kazoo for the meme videos

War gaming, which is basically thought experiements with some rules and writing down results.

If red team had this stuff and blue team has that stuff what would you attack and how would you defend it. If you lost it what would you do to make up for it?

Absolutely

From what little I know of research projects data is never ever complete enough. Or recent enough. Or analysed enough.

OSM is nice because it’s open source but as a mapper I agree it’s far from complete.

Cotton eyed Joe

just look at it’s widdle cheeks!

You get orders to do a thing (“Blow up that orphanage soldier!”)

You ask for clarification (“That looks like a civilian target, do you mean the outpost next to it?”)

Get claification that confirms unlawful order (“No the orphanage full of kids, level it before the enemy uses it for cover.”)

You are OBLIGATED BY YOUR DUTY TO INTERNATIONAL LAWS OF WAR to reject the order (“Negative, I cannot do that”) and to report others who obey unlawful orders, outside of your chain of command if neccesary (“Fine, I’ll get someone else to destroy it. You’re finished.”)

Then you’ll likely be pulled from your unit, and face court matial where the situation will be investigated like most other court cases. (“There was an outpost nearby but the orphanage was not a legal target”)

That’s how it’s supposed to work, but like most things we don’t live in a perfect world and things get messy when careers, commands, politics and reputations are on the line. (“The officer made a big mistake in the heat of combat, but we can’t have this make world news. Maybe we can just move him to a different unit and classify this whole ordeal…”)

Steam is cool and all but I think I’m going to go with GOG a lot more going forward.

And I’ll never stop buying discs for consoles

Civilian: Hike around in mil surplus and dry fire because it saves money. Never see combat. Get called out for larping

Military: Hike around in mil spec kit and dry fire because it saves government money. Never see combat. Get thanked for your service

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