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- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 6 hours ago:
They don't actually give a shit about Charlie Kirk. They just want a catalyst for their enabling acts.
- Comment on Pied 1 day ago:
I'll allow it
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 2 days ago:
Great now it has captured my soul
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 4 days ago:
Fucking welfare queens thinking they are just entitled to blood like that
- Comment on if charlie kirk is so pro life then why is he dead? 4 days ago:
K
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
This guy over here doesn't even know about java.
- Comment on language learning 1 week ago:
Shit I don't have any kids
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
So it's basically the standard platformer formula going back three or more decades?
- Comment on Misogyny or something... Idk 1 week ago:
Left thumb, upper ankle, clavicle, ears, appendix
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
Right, Obama didn't snap his fingers and fix every problem in the world or country, but it really felt like we were finally getting to a point where we had a new liberal voting coalition which would start to push US politics left, so that we could finally unwind a lot of those underlying legacy issues.
Fixing the core issues which created this "obligate imperialism" in the first place were never going to be fixed in the span of one decade, but Obama arguably set us up to grind out more progress in the next administration.
That's why this whole thing is so frustrating. We were on the path to a supreme court majority and burying a lot of old school conservative ideas in the coming decades, and now we are farther away than ever, because so many people can't see the long game.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 1 week ago:
It was 2014. That was the final year of that Obama high where things really felt like they were turning a corner before we were slowly confronted with a world where Donald Trump might actually be president, and the only one standing in his way was somehow Hillary Clinton, a woman that Republicans had been preparing to beat for literally 20 years.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
This vexes me
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
I am literally shaking
- Comment on Can you share 2 weeks ago:
Deeper daddy!
- Comment on I saw what you did there 2 weeks ago:
A folding job site saw fits nicely into a closet. The nicer ones are very nearly "cabinet grade" as they say. There's also safer ways of doing this, though perhaps not more compact.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
I mean there's other things besides brain rot. Also people did raise kids prior to iPads.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
So an entire third of the road is basically left empty so people can speed?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
From a purely traffic load perspective, the whole "fast lane" thing doesn't make a huge difference, and the aggressive obsession with it is actually a big part of the psychology which creates traffic in the first place. Traffic capacity is generally optimized when everyone is traveling close to the same speed and has enough following distance to safely maintain that speed, which is why speed limits are set for the slowest road users. Just in general, speed does not increase road capacity beyond a certain fairly low limit because it requires dramatically increased following distance, or in the absence of such responsible behavior, it massively increases the frequency of traffic disruption.
The worst case is a few people traveling much faster than the slowest road users, as these few users both take up more space, and cause more disruption. The "fast lane" concept is rooted firmly in an unfortunate behavioral reality and has basically no real scientific basis beyond that. Even if you had perfect robot drivers with perfect reaction time and the ability to see far ahead of themselves, the critical capacity speed only increases slightly because the maximum stoping distance is still limited by rubber and asphalt.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Then leave another gap. There are finite idiots in the world, and you cannot actually go backwards.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Right, if you think about the creation of traffic as a negative speed wave which causes compression, and traffic alleviation as a positive speed wave which requires rarefaction, then it becomes clear why traffic is so stubborn. When people are so bunched together, no positive speed wave can propagate. Which is why you literally get to to the point where the original idiot slammed on the brakes and the traffic magically disintegrates. If everyone stayed 5 car lengths apart in traffic, that alleviation would actually propagate backwards as fast as the initial congestion.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Hey I studied this in grad school for a bit, and it really is just "someone does some dumb shit which leads to a cascading wave of additional people doing dumb shit which propagates backwards for miles." Basically when the offered load is getting close to the maximum load, all it takes is one person aggressively changing lanes to throw that section of highway into gridlock, and it will remain that way until the total integrated traffic flux across that incident boundary again falls below the critical offered load inflection point.
Basically, pick a lane and just stay in it. Maintain proper following distance. Counterintuitively, the following distance should be for the speed you want to drive, so even in traffic it should be like 5+ car lengths even though you are going slow. This is because it reduces the offered load, and once that number falls below the critical point, speeds will increase again. Bumper to bumper traffic basically prevents that from happening because it dampens the ability for a "speedup" wave to propagate.
Of course this is all impossible for humans. All it takes is a few idiots to throw off the balance.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
Immanuel Kant has left the chat
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
I have worked at several startups where I was like employee number ten, and you can always feel the culture shift the moment they start hiring MBAs.
- Comment on Car community shenanigans dump (open post) 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, a micropenis only a mother could love
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 3 weeks ago:
Presumably the average temperature of the room pre fart Includes the gas in your colon.
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 3 weeks ago:
People are missing that the fart is under pressure is the body. Increasing the gas volume from your colon to the room will produce a drop in mean enthalpy due to the reduction in mean gas pressure.
- Comment on Evolution: 🖕 3 weeks ago:
That one looks attached at the front ...
- Comment on A simpler time 3 weeks ago:
White people yelling "I'm rick James bitch" at hims is literally why he stopped doing comedy for like a decade.
- Comment on A simpler time 3 weeks ago:
What?