TheBlight

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by TheBlight 2y ago
My suspicion is this is also why they won't let SpaceX rescue the crew prior to the election.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
"Just very very far away." Many of them have probably had ample time to travel the galaxy.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It seems like application of the Copernican principle should be the default and the burden is on others to show that the Earth and its observers are somehow extraordinary.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I saw your other message in this thread. Life changing arrests? Are we discussing the same topic? My previous statement stands. There are definitely more parks geared towards kids in suburbia today vs. 30-40 years ago.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I grew up in car-centric suburbia. I played outside everyday. Rode around on my bike with my friends. We'd play wall-ball, stick ball, street hockey. Hang out at the neighborhood pool. Make bike jumps out of stuff. Play in the park. Th
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Isn't this the covid "Hammer and Dance" article author? Not getting another click from me for the rest of my life.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
"I asked GPT" is the new "I saw it on TV."
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by TheBlight 2y ago
RIP B.I.G.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
MTV News was pre-celebrity deathmatch or PMR. That's how us gen Xers found out Kurt Cobain died.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Unfortunately there may be some unavoidable casualties.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
My suspicion is shared reality will end up bending to accommodate LLMs not vice-versa. Whatever the computer says will be "truth."
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I don't necessarily believe canonical MOND is the answer, just that it seems more reasonable to me to assume we don't have the Universe completely figured out and accurately modeled just yet vs. being emphatically sure most matter
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It's also safe. There is no reputational risk because "everyone" (who matters to you professionally) already agrees with you. There isn't much immediate upside to sticking your neck out. Especially in the era of social m
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Which best satisfies Occam's Razor? 1) The vast majority of matter in the Universe is invisible. We've tried looking for it in a variety of ways for decades but we can't find it but we're sure it's there. 2) Our mod
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by TheBlight 2y ago
There are also tremendous social/professional/monetary incentives to stick to Lambda-CDM (or whatever the consensus happens to be.)
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Most of those places haven't been staffed with enlisted men at any sort of real capacity for decades (if ever.)
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by TheBlight 2y ago
More active military personnel in the area likely explains it.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I think a significant aspect of this specific problem is that a notion of a "field" is very difficult to translate to everyday language no matter how easy it is for a physicist to conceptualize and model with math. Similar to comi
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by TheBlight 2y ago
>Saying that was half of Trump supporters was hyperbolic and perhaps inaccurate Sounds like we're in agreement that this was a strategic misstep.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
That part of my comment was probably the least interesting but for the record, her exact words were that half of his supporters were deplorable.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It's been nearly 8 years now and the elite class still seems reluctant to come to grips with the fact that they lost an election to a boorish gameshow host not because of foreign adversaries or clever marketing but because many people
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Fair enough.
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I'm convinced in a few hundred/thousand years scientists are going to be urging politicians to figure out how to pump more CO2 into the atmosphere due to cooling from cyclic perturbations of Earth's orbit. Too bad I won'
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Maybe the effect can manifest when oils from the meat/fat and water separate similar to the effect with gas/oil? With this hypothesis the iridescence would be incidental to the meat having gone bad but more to do with age and not
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by TheBlight 2y ago
Predatory in what sense?
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I've definitely been turned off of ham on occasion due to this property. I had no real conscious reason since I generally enjoy ham but the effect has made it less appetizing to me. I wonder how much of that was due to primarily associ
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by TheBlight 2y ago
IMO, this falls short of directly implicating the USG in the revolution but it certainly highlights their detailed concern in the region and a desire for specific outcomes. It makes it harder to believe USG intelligence operatives were comp
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by TheBlight 2y ago
To what extent do we expect to see direct evidence the Euromaidan protests were instigated/leveraged by intelligence officers and associated cutouts for strategic purposes? I don't know and the lack of concrete evidence makes me r
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by TheBlight 2y ago
It could be argued that Ukraine's 2014 revolution occurred with the backing of the US and was the most immediate precursor to the present situation. I'm not claiming it was or wasn't just that there is a case this was brewing
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by TheBlight 2y ago
I agree with this. Growing up we had nothing but some small patches of "woods" and some industrial areas but we still had plenty of fun. We also had various school grounds and the little league park. Definitely zero bike friendly

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