dnick

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[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

From what I've seen, hail rarely harms the paint at all before the point where it will leave dents.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did he do that? Was there a threat that would make anytime think that's what happened? Was that known before he was treated 'differently'? Or was he treated differently just because the person that was murdered was rich? If the guy that has been killed had been a homeless person or a drug dealer do you think we'd have seen his face on national news?

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 44 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Supposing he is a 'murderer', is there some reason he should be handled any different than any other murderer? Why the death penalty, tv coverage, nationwide man hunt, etc? Why don't all murderers get federal charges and the death penalty by default?

The point is, if he's going to be treated special by the prosecution then it's fair to treat him differently on the defense side, and that meant in the court of public opinion as well. Why villainize him while letting someone else off with a public defenders and a half asleep state prosecutor?

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Likely a mixture of these answers, though if you want to wait for an expert to weigh in maybe ask for that. A roadway is obviously a very different environment with a lot of money and research put into ensuring it can handle a lot of traffic and weight, having to accommodate worst case scenarios so it's obviously going to have a very strong base, and a comparitively very durable and thick base of asphalt. Your driveway, on the other hand, is probably going to be covered in a mixture very much driven by price. If you do the minimum underlayment and thickness, you're probably going to need to give it every advantage possible to avoid rework.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that was the joke. I don't know how they can lie about the height of someone who must certainly be one of the most photographed people in the world (POTUS, I mean, why in the world anyone would want to photograph Trump himself is beyond me), but pretty sure even that one is wrong. The others are much easier to lie about, even if they are obviously wrong.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So if you invested 10% of your monthly income every month for 20 years, in a single company, you could be worth 0.00001% of what bezos is worth. Or you could have picked the wrong company and have every cent of your savings wiped out. Sounds like a win/win!

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well that's one place we can agree anyway, trial and error are very valuable tools, they just need to be weilded carefully and not considered an error too soon. That makes it risky though.

I know i come of as pessimistic, and by a lot of measures i am, but usually only in comparison to the dismissive or condescending attitudes many people seem to have on the subject. Just build trains, duh... They work here, just do it there!

The backlash to poorly thought it arguments are usually people doubling down on their argument in the other direction, so I'd prefer to temper optimism and encourage actual conversation. Even if i may have trouble with that second part :)

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Right, if it's good enough it can quit advertising itself.

Really the only reason for a logo like that is to advertise to other people that you are wearing good quality. Upper income people who can afford actual high quality can't effectively 'show off' that way, so they usually content themselves with flying under the radar while still comfortably fitting in wherever they feel like, or showing of in other ways like cars and vacations, but mid or lower income didn't have as much leeway and have to take advantage of what they have available if they want to feel either part of a group or better than others.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean by constant, it is definitely a huge gradient, but the layout of the US vs the EU is so drastically different that at almost every level routes that are well suited to train in Europe are often overwhelmingly inefficient in the US.

Everything from building up routes between major cities to regional and local end up being too low volume to support themselves.

There is at least an argument to be made that some/many routes should be heavily subsidized long enough to allow industry and society in general grow around them, by which time they could become self supporting, but most people don't realize just how big the US is in land compared to it's population, and that often results in a lot of ground to cover just for relatively few people each to get to a lot of places.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Suspenders. .

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago

The only real question is who is making the decision.

If it's the woman, all that matters is that she consider the person to 'lack desire' from her perspective and she is fine. Seems like this should be fine from God's perspective, he would know if she made the judgement in good faith.

If the judgement is made by the community, then most of your interpretations are going to be so subjective that they either can't be made at all, or could only be judged to have been faulty after the fact, in which case the woman should still be okay, since there's no way for her to judge beforehand if a male has desire.

Unless society, or at least get community, comes together and says certain men can be expected to have no desire with a high enough degree of accuracy that she is free to choose one, it would be wrong to judge her to be at fault if a specific male had the wrong kind of desire unbeknownst to her.

[–] dnick@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

Does say that vertical takeoff is part of the plan. Probably worth an awkward looking plane if the goal is to eliminate the need for infrastructure like modern airports.

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