jordanb

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by jordanb 6d ago
> they brought in management that was more interested in 'doing management. than making money. Boy it'd be tragic if these guys felt like they were over their heads, decided to "hire some experts" and ended up with MB
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by jordanb 6d ago
Real bummer I have their manual lathe and mill and have made a lot of things it would have been impossible to make without the ability to machine (even at small scale their machines could do). One reason why I bought sherline is the company
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by jordanb 7d ago
Not miniskirts but: https://myairmanmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Nellis... Anyway in the 1960s the navy was making movies like this: https://youtu.be/rUKcHe0-m_I?t=234
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by jordanb 7d ago
> so sexist and misogynistic It doesn't really seem that sexist for a 60s show. There's definitely a ton of male gaze, much like the miniskirts in TOS. OTOH the men are also in tight fitting clothing as well, and just like TO
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by jordanb 7d ago
This caused me to go on a bit of a deep dive. 99LB (the German version) has the baloons getting released and the generals deciding to treat it as an opportunity for a show of force blowing them up intentionally. 99RB, on the other hand, has
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by jordanb 8d ago
Understanding the lesson of the Guns of August was a big part of the anti-MAD/nuclear disarmament movement during the cold war: if you build a doomsday weapon eventually you will use it. A country does not spend as much effort and mone
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by jordanb 8d ago
Using the same logic (important diplomats dead or retired or disgraced) you could say that firing Bismark caused the war. If the top diplomats had managed to avert the Serbia crisis then the war would have been delayed until the next crisis
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by jordanb 8d ago
The basic problem is that they had built a domesday machine in Europe, which was the mobilization schedule. After the Franco Prussian war people realized that the next war would involve massive armies full of mobilized (conscripted) men and
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by jordanb 8d ago
Also 99 luftbaloons which was about a kid releasing some party balloons in Germany which confuses the EWS and causes WWIII. Or the War Games movie and the Norad training mistake that inspired it.
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by jordanb 8d ago
"It's still there" only in a technical sense because it's being buried by the automatic slop machines. It used to be that, no matter what you want to do, there's a video on youtube of some guy who knows what he&#x27
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by jordanb 10d ago
I think there's a statuary limit at 150 million because there must be an "emergency military reserve" but the caverns start collapsing at 70 million.
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by jordanb 10d ago
Are the round things brine ponds? They look like floating roof tanks
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by jordanb 10d ago
"Axon is Flock but worse" will be the next big fight as police departments are pulling a fast one and saying "we got rid of Flock" by switching to Axon.
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by jordanb 10d ago
More like "go woke because you've run out of ideas." The only "woke" thing about Whittaker was that the doctor was female, something they would have done in earlier episodes (in fact, did do) and wouldn't have
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by jordanb 10d ago
Maybe Capaldi ended on a high note. I was done with the show after the moon episode and quit watching. I couldn't keep suspending disbelief after that. It wasn't just one bad episode the whole thing felt tired. Capaldi was a great
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by jordanb 10d ago
This person may be an expert but I have no way to assess that because this low-effort garbage comment provides absolutely no evidence their background and no effort to back up their claims. Most of this comment, after saying I'm "
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by jordanb 10d ago
It fell apart in the Capaldi era. The "kill the moon" was the "jump the shark" of neu-Who
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by jordanb 11d ago
I once changed a person's mind on flock cameras by showing them the More Data music video.
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by jordanb 11d ago
A huge part of the Soviet period before Stalin was the civil war and minimal efforts to do anything other than fight it ("war communism"). After that you got the NEP and things going traditional. Stalin pushed classical and actual
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by jordanb 11d ago
I actually think this is a big part of nimbyism. People know that whatever is built is going to make the neighborhood uglier because they have no faith in architecture, so they start opposing everything.
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by jordanb 13d ago
I think Cal's point is that while dogs may do these things it reduces to a set of behaviors where maybe 90 percent of them are beneficial to the dog-weedwacker system and the remaining 10 percent are really unfortunate. We can't r
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by jordanb 13d ago
Cal Newport has an analogy to "putting a weed wacker on a dog's back to mow your lawn." The dog will wander around the yard and it may mow the lawn, but the dog will also chase after birds or run up to visitors for pets and t
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by jordanb 14d ago
OK understood. But you understand this makes them sound like the type of person who doesn't believe any of the "worldly concerns" are worth addressing because "the end is near" right?
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by jordanb 14d ago
Yes El Niño creates sheer in the tropical Atlantic inhibiting tropical cyclone formation in that area
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by jordanb 14d ago
The problem is the "AI Safety" people seem entirely focused on a sci-fi "the computer is a vengeful god" plot and not at all on the AI talking people into suicide or ruining children's educations. This makes them se
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by jordanb 14d ago
They can get a "government mandated freeze" on the grounds that "ASI is at hand" then they IPO promising to deliver right after the freeze ends and you, lucky investor, will be able to take advantage of the pause to get
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by jordanb 17d ago
Dragnets have been constrained on both fourth and fifth amendment grounds. It's not merely the inconvenience of being stopped and questioned that makes a dragnet illegal, it is also an illegal search.
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by jordanb 17d ago
The other thing that's going on is that Flock is essentially an always-on "dragnet." A "dragnet" is when you set up police checkpoints everywhere and essentially put entire cities under watch to find a fugitive. Thi
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by jordanb 18d ago
This kinda reminds me of the guys who decided to industrialize digging up dinosaur fossils, in order to feed the dinosaur fossil collector market. They were amazed that paleontologists were so "inefficient" at finding and digging
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by jordanb 18d ago
I feel like this is a submarine ad for the glasses by Meta.

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