knightly the Sneptaur

Not after they’re dead.

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Wait, how many other ADHD people are median systems too?

The Time Being, as distinct from:

Autism screening.

Source: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.712572v1.full

Arch w/KDE Plasma desktop, of course.

“Smart” TVs should be kept off the internet and only used as video output for actual computers.

5d Chess with Multiverse Time Travel isn’t hard.

If you start losing, all you’ve gotta do is send a piece back in time to give yourself some breathing room. =D

A lot of medicinal compounds are alkaloids, which are naturally bitter

So, either you’re accusing me of tone policing and engaging with me anyway, or you’re not accusing me of tone policing yet continue to meander off topic anyway. XD

To be frank, I don’t care about your tone, I’m concerned with the disconnect between what you say the topic is (why people feel a certain way) and how you’re choosing to engage (insisting on another perspective instead).

In what way is making a counter point disingenuous?

It reveals that your intent is not to comprehend another perspective, but to insist upon your own.

Why do I need to just blindly accept what someone says without any pushback?

The thing that you’re being asked to accept is that this someone believes what they say they believe.

Nobody’s asking you to blindly assume that this someone is being honest, but making a counterpoint is not the same thing as asking clarifying questions to better understand their perspective or probe it for the inconsistencies that would indicate deception.

I’d like to argue that this isn’t a slow collapse, but a remarkably rapid one. The Roman Empire, for example, took almost 300 years from the Antonine Plague that halted it’s growth before the last western emperor was deposed, or almost 500 years if counting from Julius Ceasar and the eruption at Pompei.

The USA, by contrast, entered its decline a mere 25 years ago when it expended vast resources attempting to conquer the Graveyard of Empires, and only just last year ceded its position as global hegemon to China. At this rate, the American Empire might only last another generation or two.

My intent was to try to understand why people feel the way they feel. If I disagree with a reason someone has, am I just supposed to be like “oh, ok”, and move on?

Make up your mind, is your point to understand why people feel the way they feel or to convince them to feel in a way you agree with?

Am I not supposed to give any rebuttal to any points whatsoever

Rebuttals are for arguments, not for understanding.

If you can’t look at things from their perspective then you should be asking questions, not trying to convince them that their perspective is wrong.

The early days of “AI” were a full generation before the beginning of the internet, as it was formalized as an academic field back in the 50’s while ARPANET didn’t start admitting non-Defense users until the 80’s.

Are you saying I am being disingenuous in my intentions by making counter points in a discussion?

Yes, that’s very clearly what’s happening here.

The two are inseperable. The scale of large language models means they can only be trained by those who are able to spend hundreds of millions on data harvesting and compute.

Good luck!

Short version, distillation isn’t a chemical process but a simple physical state change from liquid to gas and back. Alcohol vapors can be explosive when mixed with Oxygen in an appropriate ratio, but there generally is no potential source of ignition between the boiling chamber and the cooling chamber and the expanding vapors push the oxygen out of the system early on in a production cycle.

Producing meth, however, is a multi-step process requiring both chemical and physical state changes with a panoply of reagents and waste products which are corrosive, toxic, flammable, explosive, or even potentially radioactive. Some of those waste products are gasses that react explosively with air, or volatile organic compounds which have to be vented from the production equipment and subsequently settle and condense into a residue that contaminates all surfaces in or near the meth lab. That residue can include substances which ignite spontaneously on contact with water, further increasing the risk of fire or explosion and turning any firefighting operations into a hazmat operation.

Depends on the orientation of the gain. Most “high gain” antennas are still omnidirectional, they’re just focusing the signal out into a horizontal ring, like so:

More dB, and you get a flatter donut with more horizontal reach at the expense of vertical reception. Low-gain antennas reception area starts to approach a sphere, so those don’t need to pointed up for best signal as much as higher-gain omnidirectional antennas.

Directional antennas are the ones that need to be pointed at something specific, as they have more of a cone of effect depending on the dB:

Neutrino astronomy is only just picking up, too! China’s JUNO detector came online last year, and the IceCube Detector in Antarctica might have picked up a spectacular one if it turns out not to have been some kind of fluke.

Misread that as “Midwest Counties”.