I hated Wolf's Rain. It was depressing in a way that didn't feel enjoyable to watch.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.
A close second would be thousands of 12 episode shows from the 2000s that started off paced like there was going to be all this intrigue and shit, but then it's like "oh shit it's episode 11 ok then the bad guy showed up shit it's episode 12 everyone lived happily ever after the end!"
Apparently some people thought wolfs rain was the best thing ever, but I just don't like permenant death and sadness until deus ex machina.
Unlike today, you really had to take a lot of time downloading a big series like that so whereas a shitty series today you can drop, a long show like that back then you were in for a penny, in for a pound.
You're generally correct which is why one technique for making cement last longer in winter conditions is to add air bubbles to the mixture which gives the ice somewhere to go, but another problem is that the Ice can freeze from the outside in, so it creates its own pipe. The ice covering the thing doesn't want to go anywhere so the water turns to ice in the cracks of the cement, and boom! Like a beer left in the freezer.
Congrats to Pierre poilievre, who won his new seat in Alberta, beating over 200 registered candidates in the riding.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
This unusual situation was caused by an electoral reform campaign called the longest ballot, which sought to make a point about first past the post voting systems by messing with the election process. This is a new record for number of candidates, the previous record being set in poilievres Carlton riding in the last federal election at 90 names on the ballot.
Elections Canada chose to use a write-in voting campaign because the resulting ballot would have been 1.5 meters (1.5 yards for Americans) long.
Damien C. Kurek, the Member of Parliament for Battle River—Crowfoot since 2019, stepped down to make his seat available for Pierre Poilievre’s return to the House of Commons. That seemed like a deeply honorable move to me, and we should keep that guy's name in mind.
On the topic of 3d printed houses: In my home country of soviet canukistan, concrete walls with lots of little gaps would be destroyed by freeze-melt cycles.
Another major issue with concrete in climates like mine is that the concrete will shrink and expand with weather -- going from +40 to -40 and back a bunch of times has a real chance of just cracking because there's nowhere else for the material to go but apart.
I've seen videos talking about how strong concrete is, and one video even showed someone trying to break the concrete wall with a sledgehammer. Thing is, the same strength becomes a weakness when it's brittle strength. Same reason we temper metal.
Someone who has been to Canada might go "But I've seen concrete used in building!" and you'd be right -- but that's because of building techniques that aren't available when 3d printing, such as pre-stressed concrete, bubble entrainment, or specially designed spots that are designed to break to protect the rest of the structure.
Another major issue with concrete in climates like mine is that the concrete will shrink and expand with weather -- going from +40 to -40 and back a bunch of times has a real chance of just cracking because there's nowhere else for the material to go but apart.
I've seen videos talking about how strong concrete is, and one video even showed someone trying to break the concrete wall with a sledgehammer. Thing is, the same strength becomes a weakness when it's brittle strength. Same reason we temper metal.
Someone who has been to Canada might go "But I've seen concrete used in building!" and you'd be right -- but that's because of building techniques that aren't available when 3d printing, such as pre-stressed concrete, bubble entrainment, or specially designed spots that are designed to break to protect the rest of the structure.
Thanks for this, I'll spend some time looking deeper into it.
I never claim to be anything but a retard, but I like to try to be less retarded by learning more.
I never claim to be anything but a retard, but I like to try to be less retarded by learning more.
The reason it matters is the common genetics of all modernist ideologies have something in common that they think they're rational, logical, and empirical. Socialism, national socialism, and fascism all share that they think that they are scientifically the obvious way to run the world.
If you think that your method of running the world is rationally, logically, empirically, and scientifically the obvious and correct way to run the world, then there's going to be an ideological coherence and unity among people, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to promote that ideology. It becomes a moral good to push your ideology. In that sense, if National Socialism came to pass without Bolshevik soviets to the east, it's probable that they would have been the aggressive hornet just the same.
Even liberalism (which is more enlightenment immediately before the modern period) has this problem, and so after it "won", it turned into neoconservatism which wanted to take over the world and install itself as the single correct ideology for planet Earth.
So you're not wrong, but modernism was always fated to die the way it did by ramming totalitarian ideologies against each other until they break, because that sort of epistemological arrogance and stupidity is built in. That will eventually result in totalitarianism and expansionist ideas because when you're convinced you've found the mathematically perfect way to live you have a duty to spread your mathematical truth.
If you think that your method of running the world is rationally, logically, empirically, and scientifically the obvious and correct way to run the world, then there's going to be an ideological coherence and unity among people, and a willingness to do whatever it takes to promote that ideology. It becomes a moral good to push your ideology. In that sense, if National Socialism came to pass without Bolshevik soviets to the east, it's probable that they would have been the aggressive hornet just the same.
Even liberalism (which is more enlightenment immediately before the modern period) has this problem, and so after it "won", it turned into neoconservatism which wanted to take over the world and install itself as the single correct ideology for planet Earth.
So you're not wrong, but modernism was always fated to die the way it did by ramming totalitarian ideologies against each other until they break, because that sort of epistemological arrogance and stupidity is built in. That will eventually result in totalitarianism and expansionist ideas because when you're convinced you've found the mathematically perfect way to live you have a duty to spread your mathematical truth.
[Admin mode] Might have to screw around with my topology soon. Somehow, updating my (basically idle) nodes running on weak hardware was enough to rip down most of my Internet connection. Compared to my actual Internet connection, there's no reason that should have done anything.
[Admin mode] A few minutes of downtime due to a back-end upgrade. One of the attached USB storage drives chose this moment to be totally dead, which is great -- exactly the moment I want my USB storage to choose to die is in the middle of a system-wide upgrade.
The video game industry is something where if you have kids you need to go "Look, I know you like video games, but everyone does -- and everyone wants to make them. So if you're going to get into them, you're going to have to be willing and able to be more insane than the next guy to get in. If you succeed and it's a huge company, then congratulations you're probably spending 4 years on swarm simulations for the ravens on different levels. If you succeed and it's a tiny company, then congratulations you're probably working a normal job on the side anyway."
Every teenage boy thinks he wants to be a game developer or a porn star, but those are monkey's paw wishes right there.
Every teenage boy thinks he wants to be a game developer or a porn star, but those are monkey's paw wishes right there.
If you are ever faced with a real life trolley car problem, be advised that it is in fact unlawful to manipulate a real car control apparatus in an unauthorized manner. Therefore, the correct answer to any trolley car problem is to do nothing. Even if there are zero people on the other track and 15 people on the track that you are about to pull the lever for, don't pull that lever. If you do, you will then be guilty of a legal offense.
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The ideological etymology I see has all of them having a common ancestor in the French revolution, so they're all closer cousins than anyone would like to admit.
It's the safe space they asked for. The thing is, as I wrote in the Grayson ethic: don't be a fascist, because they never stop being authoritarian just at your enemies.
And for the pedants like me who will point out the subtleties of fascism, I was specifically referring in that passage to people who worship the state and hope the authoritarians will take out your enemies. State worship, creating an US vs them mentality, and authoritarianism being three (but not the only three) elements of fascism.
Eventually, all you're free to say is "good morning. I love the regime. That is all."
We obviously aren't talking about a state here, but the core principle remains.
And for the pedants like me who will point out the subtleties of fascism, I was specifically referring in that passage to people who worship the state and hope the authoritarians will take out your enemies. State worship, creating an US vs them mentality, and authoritarianism being three (but not the only three) elements of fascism.
Eventually, all you're free to say is "good morning. I love the regime. That is all."
We obviously aren't talking about a state here, but the core principle remains.
Gotta be careful of centrism. If the left wants to kill Bob and the right wants to kill jim then the centrist take is to half kill Bob and Jim.
The independent view might be that killing people any amount because a mob wants to kill them is probably wrong.
The independent view might be that killing people any amount because a mob wants to kill them is probably wrong.
Bit of a reality check: people acting as if Donald Trump is the first American President to say something ignorant about Canada really don't know anything about the relationship between Canada and the United States.
In the 1960s, old enough for an individual who was born when it happened to have died of old age, the president of the United States at the time made comment about "the tail wagging the dog" what's the implication being that Canada was small and powerless, and should know it's place in the hierarchy of American Continental politics.
In some ways, Trump's 51st state talk is an elevation from being treated like a mere territorial holding that many previous presidents expressed.
In the 1960s, old enough for an individual who was born when it happened to have died of old age, the president of the United States at the time made comment about "the tail wagging the dog" what's the implication being that Canada was small and powerless, and should know it's place in the hierarchy of American Continental politics.
In some ways, Trump's 51st state talk is an elevation from being treated like a mere territorial holding that many previous presidents expressed.
"Workers are putting away a record share of their income for retirement," per WSJ