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I wrote: "T.You" as a note two weeks ago and I've spent most of this week wondering what the hell I was trying to communicate

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It's gotta be "Thank You"

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So I'm on Episode 3 of Strange New Worlds and it's true that it's classic Star Trek - we just make up new science to save the plot, and

this one hits different, like the writers aren't really interested in disguising the hand-waving: it's all part of the fun.

Which I enjoy but I was wondering if anyone else noticed?

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When one of the actors laughs involuntarily, breaking character while delivering a particularly absurd science explanation, I believe the director must have left it in on purpose

They're just feeling the way we're all feeling

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"Professor Thandie, of Finnibus Three"

This must be the dungeons and dragons episode

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Totally untested take that might be 100% wrong in several ways, tell me if I am:

Walking advocacy has had trouble attracting heat, because everyone just… does it. But runners are organized in clubs, persnickety about routes, and maybe can be engaged to fight for better pedestrian networks, maybe?

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@DrTCombs @bikepedantic Generally if you're dependent on walking to get around, you're probably not making it out to the board meeting

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@bikepedantic So, in Indiana it's absolutely true that bike trails are billed as recreational amenities and advocated for by recreational cycling orgs, and also that the primary beneficiaries of those projects are commuters. This has a lot to do with who has the resources to be both a recreational cyclist and an activist.

So it makes perfect sense to me that mixed-use/running trails would get the same boost from runner advocacy, because runners are in the same class and have similar complaints

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I am not a physicist but it seems reasonable to be skeptical of a physical model of the universe that recently had to invent the unobservable and theoretical concept of "dark radiation" to explain the unobservable and theoretical existence of "dark energy" which was intended to explain the unobservable and theoretical existence of "dark matter"

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I get that these all have statistical proofs but we live in an era where statistical models perform lots of life-like illusions and lie to us because that's what we've trained them to do

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When the ICC issued an arrest warrant for Putin, it was celebrated as a moral victory for international institutions, despite the US having withdrawn its membership over its war crimes in the Middle East and Africa

Now we're doubling down with the hypocrisy, threatening sanctions because now it's an ally that's doing war crimes

Very nice international law & order you've got there, would be a shame if

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FYI you don't need to dump your Windows PC, you just need to avoid buying a new one

"To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU). "

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@bigtuffal Yep. I think the biggest risk of these is your employer using them, but with that kind of dependency you're not likely to see one for 5-10 years, if ever

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It's not a coincidence that both Zionists and anti-semites argue (falsely) that 80+% of Jews are Zionists

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(it's because they're both telling racist stories about Jews to further their ethnic nationalist political agendas)

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By the way if you're trying to use MSFS to recreate the Darkstar flight from the movie:

You can't really, but if you go into the weight settings and take out the superfluous stuff (the bomb and the pilot) now you can exceed mach 10.0

Which is funny because the whole thing in the movie is pilots are the past and Maverick is like "not yet!" and this MSFS implementation flips the script like "wanna bet"

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Top Gun: Maverick is a bad movie for anyone except aviation geeks who want to geek out over aviation, for whom it is an extremely generous lil treat

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The practical jets have negative value on an already mediocre story: you just want to escape the plot as soon as possible and get to the next jet scene

The mission is hilariously video-gamey which also drives interest in the flying: the whys and hows are too stupid to focus on

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@pkw In general, liking planes sucks because all of the cool planes are exclusively for blowing things up or practicing to blow things up

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@pkw Oh yeah STOL is great. Bush planes are still essential to civilian operations in much of the world: delivery vans, ambulances, and taxis

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This Black Panther Lego set features a Wakandan shooting range and a tactical skateboard, neither of which were in the movies

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If you find yourself trying to define genocide more precisely,

that should be a big "oh oops duh, I am deploying semantics in active support of a genocide, my bad" moment for you

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About the Qur'an's prohibition on usury:

“One of the last verses to be revealed was the verse
on ribā, and when the Messenger of Allah died, he had not explained it. So avoid ribā and any
dubious manner.” (Musnad Ahmad 350, Book 2, Hadith 255)

Musnad Ahmad advises that you avoid "any dubious manner" of financial transaction, just in case it might be usurious

This is sound advice and it's how you would behave if you genuinely wanted to avoid the sin

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So it seems like, if you genuinely wanted to avoid sin while committing yourself to a military campaign, you'd probably try really, really hard to avoid doing anything that might resemble or in the aggregate approach genocide, just in case it is actually genocidal, and you'd probably care more about the spirit of your actions than the legal definitions that do or do not apply to them

Which sends the semantic squirming up a level: arguing over "intentions"

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Which is, ya know, public

Rhetoric

Privately, if you're honest with yourself, you know if you're engaging in the exercise of defending the intentions behind your sin, this activity is happening because you are fully aware of the fact of your having sinned

To argue about the relative spiritual criminality is to acknowledge the criminality

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There is a school bus driver here with a history of somewhat antagonistic behavior toward people on bikes (at least, toward my kid and me).

We encounter her everyday on our ride to school, and she never fails to honk after we pass each other. Why, IDK.

Today, she added "sticking her tongue out at us" to her routine, and it was all I could do to not fall off my bike laughing.

You win this round, angry bus driver lady.

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@DrTCombs @Andres4NY

According to Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, your antagonist most likely has a crush on you and in another timeline you're together

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@DrTCombs @Andres4NY

I mean, that's a pretty accurate description of butch fashion

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