alcoholicorn

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alcoholicorn,

Only problem is accepting dates in anything except YYYYMMDD, or unix time stamps if you need more precision.

alcoholicorn,

On the bridge of the USS Voyager:

Janeway: What are you… Is he?

Jeffry, you’re still on the viewscreen, we can see you.

JEFFRY YOU HAVE TO END THE TRANSMISSION!

God dammit he turned off his own screen…

…

… Kim, load torpedo.

alcoholicorn,

Looks fine to me.

alcoholicorn,

What game?

alcoholicorn, (edited )

Back in the early 70s, NASA engineer tests on a part indicated that a joint with 2 O-rings was too wide and could expose the o-ring. Northrop Grumman and NASA’s project manager said it was fine, 2 o-rings meant one was redundent right? and the design made it into the solid rocket booster.

Then in 1977, a different test indicated 1 oring was letting gas during certain levels of mechanical stress. The engineers proposed a solution, which was ignored.

Then in 1980, they asked to test what would happen if 1 oring weren’t there and what would happen if the oring was cold. This was denied.

Then in 1981, a return booster was inspected and they found soot between the orings and one eroded, and the problem was added to the critical issues list. And ignored.

This happened again in 1984.

In 1985, they realized when the oring was cold at launch, the problem got way worse. Northrop Grumman finally changed the design to fix it.

But they had a bunch of the old, unsafe part laying around, and NASA didn’t want to miss deadlines, so in January of 1986, they launched a shuttle with the part that they knew was unsafe in cold conditions, coldest morning they’d ever launched and a middle-school class watched a live stream of their teacher exploding 10 miles in the air.

alcoholicorn,

Nope.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, Ronald Reagan’s admin was the reason NASA had to launch so quickly, he wanted to mention it during the State Of The Union Address.

We’re lucky that he didn’t give someone a medal for blowing up a passenger aircraft (again).

alcoholicorn,

They weren’t wrong about jellied eels being the only protein the working class could afford, hence why they stopped eating that crap as soon as they could afford anything else.

Beans on toast with ketchup on the other hand is as indefensible as percolated coffee; there’s easier ways to use those same ingredients to make something that isn’t awful.

alcoholicorn,

They’re not non-native, but I’d love to introduce more mountain lions if they could be adapted to this sprawl. There’s way too many deer and feral cats around here.

alcoholicorn,

What was the results of the experiment?

alcoholicorn,

Wait they introduced the most mischievous animal in existence to the place where they’re trying to contain the worst nuclear accident in history?

alcoholicorn,

The USSR had 100s of nuclear reactors, yet the only meltdown was in the only nuclear plant that raccoons had access to.

alcoholicorn,

gold-communist maduro-katana-2

alcoholicorn,

We can infer that at least some portion of it is from your comment quietly getting downvoted to hell while nobody bothers to refute it.

alcoholicorn,

That’s what it’s from I thought it was the Event Horizon

alcoholicorn,

This is Dronerights alt trying to be a wrecker.

Why do you keep deleting and recreating the post?

alcoholicorn,

Pointing out that your on a sock puppet known for doing wrecker shit is not doxxing.

alcoholicorn,

This is DroneRights alt btw.

alcoholicorn,

This is a droneRights alt btw.

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    alcoholicorn,

    Do they still teach that?

    Nobody talks like that and they(singular) has been common since the 1300s.

    alcoholicorn,

    Those other entries are all insane.

    Like OK I can understand stealing a loose hair, kinda creepy but w/e, but her shoe? Is this some kind of gaslight where she thinks nobody would steal only one shoe, so it must be around somewhere, then a week later you can be like “Hey, I found this shoe, it looks alot like your old shoes? btw, why do you keep rubarb in your shoes?” and “What/who are you getting 9 units of fresh blood from?”

    alcoholicorn,

    It’s the thing you use to create a local copy of the main code base, and then merge your changes back in.

    OP hasn’t done anything, and there’s 7 conflicts between his code and main. Presumably because someone else merged their changes in the time between when OP pulled his local copy and tried to push his (non-existent) changes.

    alcoholicorn, (edited )

    Any kind of “no u” clapback isn’t productive.

    Rather it’s better to point out that tankies are absolutely vindicated by history because we’ve seen what counterrevolutions look like in Indonesia, Chile, and Korea.

    If they squirm around with “actually tankie means that you support AUTHORITARIAN states like RUZZIA”, it just gives you more opportunities to dunk on them for lying about what MLs actually believe, and for implicitly supporting NATO by pointing at what every single place NATO has defensively bombed looked like before and after.

    Of course, always remember the person calling you a tankie doesn’t actually care about the content of your arguments. You’re not trying to change that person’s view, you’re trying to show everyone else how bloodthirsty and ignorant they are.

    If LED bulbs are supposed to last for 10 years, why do I still need to replace them every 9 months? (hexbear.net)

    I’m in a nasty frame of mind right now, and this is what my 'tism brain decided to laser focus on for several hours. I’m mad that my light bulbs cost 10x more than they used to, and don’t last any longer, and my power bill is higher than ever....

    alcoholicorn,

    That’s a cop-out. Why else would the companies agree to a fine for every bulb that exceeded a certain lifespan?

    alcoholicorn,

    America’s rail is almost all low-speed or higher-speed (125-150 mph, but much lower average speeds)

    For comparison, China has built ~20,000 miles of HSR, much of which goes up to 220, some lines averaging 200 mph.

    alcoholicorn,

    1923, virtually every capitalist country in the world had just invaded the USSR 5 years ago, Japan only pulled out in 1922.

    The USSR being gone only becomes shocking post WWII when they went from an agrarian nation wracked by civil war and famine, with zero tractor factories to sending 100,000 tanks into Germany 20 years later to putting a man in space 20 years after that.

    alcoholicorn,

    Wait until you find out why the lifespan was so low in Africa during that time

    alcoholicorn,

    Europeans acting smug like knowing how close to boiling the temperature is is more important than knowing how close to 100% hot out the temperature is.

    alcoholicorn,

    If it’s 0 F, it’s 0% hot out. If it’s 50 F, it’s 50% hot out, if it’s 100F, it’s 100% hot out.

    It’s a more human measurement. Who the hell knows how long a kilometer or meter is? Everyone knows what a football field looks like and a yard is 1/100th of it.

    alcoholicorn,

    It has never been literally boiling outside (except for when you’re in the middle of a forest fire or next to a lava flow).

    Besides, Fahrenheit is more scientific because it translates 1:1 to Rankine, where 0 is absolute zero.

    alcoholicorn,

    Percent of how close it is to 100% hot out.

    But in seriousness, 100 was supposed to be based on the human body temperature. When it’s above 100, it’s harder to cool yourself off.

    alcoholicorn,

    It’s based on how humans react to the heat, you need active cooling such as sweat, moving air isn’t enough above 100 degrees. 100% hot out is just a silly way of putting it.

    alcoholicorn,

    Supposedly the temperature salt freezes at, but it’s off by quite a bit. I’m not sure if it has any implications for staying warm in cold weather.

    alcoholicorn, (edited )

    We mostly don’t, neither do you.

    Caliber is decimalized inches

    Gauge is 1.67 over the cube root of the diameter in inches. Technically it’s derived from lbs since the number refers to the number of lead balls the width of the barrel you’d need to equal 1 lb. Eg, a 12 gauge is the width of a 1/12th lb ball of lead.

    alcoholicorn, (edited )

    A company tried that in 1999/2000, just before the dot com bust.

    You got a $500 PC for free, but were locked into a contract with an ISP and had to spend 10 hours a week on the PC, and 1/3 of the screen was ads at all times.

    We’re moving in that direction, but nothing is free.

    alcoholicorn,

    They’ve got blast chillers, that are like air fryers/convection ovens, but cold.

    alcoholicorn, (edited )

    The DM is about to punish that player for not using insight on rocks.

    alcoholicorn,

    If they didn’t want to be gaslit, they wouldn’t be using insight with 2 wis.

    alcoholicorn,

    Don’t forget turning off all their nuclear plants to become reliant on brown coal and russian (now american) gas.

    alcoholicorn,

    The idea that something that affects society can be nonpolitical is just your bias towards the status quo.

    Everything was always political, and the status quo has always depended on hordes of lumpen trained to identify with their own oppressors over their own interests.

    Before there were networks of right-wing radio and websites distributing right-wing talking points, they just used TV, newspapers, mailing lists, posters, etc. The effect was still 100 million Americans cheering when the national guard shot students protesting against the state sending their friends to die while participating in atrocities in Vietnam.

    Even gardening is political; the notion that you should only plant grass and ornamental plants, mow your lawn once a week, and any deviation was a flaw was popularized and enforced by William Levitt to keep people from having too much time to read and become communists.

    Similar sentiments spring up after the civil war regarding edible gardening and use of fruiting trees in urban planning, for fear that black people will live off foraging instead of working.

    alcoholicorn, (edited )

    skeuomorphism

    The only time the chunkiness of grafting visual clutter and UI elements from a machine that was designed with mechanical constraints and older use cases/capabilities makes sense is if users will not have time to learn the UI and already learned another UI.

    Using knobs you have to turn with the mouse with a wooden background instead of volume slider+number field because that’s what was on some piece of audio equipment from the 1900s just makes the software awful to use. It has no place in specialist audio software the user is expected to spend hours using.

    alcoholicorn,

    The US created south korea out of thin air at the end of WWII, literally just drawing a line on a map.

    Then they both held elections. The south’s election was rigged by the US, who used their sway at the UN (the USSR was boycotting at the time and PRC still hadn’t been accepted) to get South Korea’s puppet state recognized as the gov’t of all Korea, including the parts that didn’t even have the US’s sham elections. As preparation to invade the north, the US purged any non-compliant elements from the gov’t (going so far as to put compradors who’d worked for Japan during occupation in high ranking positions) and carried out massacres of elements likely to side with communists (such as rural villages that lead communal lifestyles).

    The north saw America was coming for them and the longer they waited, the worse position they’d be in.

    alcoholicorn,

    I always liked the Nostromo’s design.

    alcoholicorn,

    Civil disobedience is rarely a productive tool. Unless you already know how the media will cover you (if they will at all), you’re just getting yourself and potential comrades fucked over by the legal system.

    Don’t do the pigs job for them.

    alcoholicorn,
    1. That was over half a century ago. The state and media apparatus are different now. A local jail isn’t going to run out of capacity, now they just call in buses from nearby prisons. The msm ignores, distorts, or outright lies about you when they don’t like your objective.
    2. The civil disobedience was a tiny part of the whole action. Same with Rosa Parks, the organizers looked into these people’s backgrounds so the media would have difficulty portraying it negatively and communicated with aligned newspapers beforehand to ensure enough favorable coverage so they’d have the first word.
    3. These actions weren’t done in isolation. The point of peaceful protest is to create a credible threat and offer a more peaceful alternative. The civil rights act wasn’t passed because the oppressor just had a change of heart, it was passed after every city burned for a week after MLK’s assassination when politicians saw people who looked just like them getting beaten to death in the streets.
    alcoholicorn,

    I don’t think it has a meaningful effect. Libs call themselves socialists all the time. For every case you’re able to argue for socialism and not have people’s brains shut down, you get 10 “those tankies aren’t real socialists! Socialism is when you vote for food stamps and means-tested college subsidies”

    alcoholicorn,

    Well yeah, of course I’d trust the experts in genocide over countries that have no experience.

    alcoholicorn,

    See, that’s because your car was still too nice.

    Once your engine has sheered off 90% of the flywheel’s teeth and it takes an average of 7 tries to start, anyone’s gonna assume it doesn’t start.

    alcoholicorn,

    And then it unlocks itself when the kia kids come by!

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