Like taking the intersection of a shapefile representing the Aleutians in the 60s and the Aleutians in the 70s takes like 100ms???
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Like taking the intersection of a shapefile representing the Aleutians in the 60s and the Aleutians in the 70s takes like 100ms???
Is there like, a reason GIS operations take forever? I feel like they shouldn't take forever
There was also a strong emphasis on cheese, which doesn't appear to be a big thing this time?
I feel like growing up the case for raw milk I always heard (I knew a bunch of hippies/gourmet enjoyers) was "it tastes better and pasteurization is less important now that we have a better cold chain" but every raw milk news story is about some random tiny farm that you'd have no way to verify
Like the Romans were just extremely sexist and perceived certain bottoms as being feminine which is bad
Though according to some stuff I've seen recently, people probably overstate this to some degree, and a lot of Romans didn't care about this that much either way
One of the things though that complicates it is that there were definitely Romans who were not homophobic by modern definitions who didn't like bottoms
And that the text is just not engaging with the concept as we have it today at all
Yeah, I like the way that he does it because he's very clear that the ancient people writing these texts would probably have been homophobic if they were introduced to the idea, they just didn't have the concept
There's this extremely annoying thing liberal Christians do where they are clearly using "Christian" as a synonym for "good", criticize Conservative Christians for not being Christian, and then when they get pushback for this, claim their actual issue is some obscure doctrinal difference
Ehhhhh my suspicion is the secret service is way less on the ball than you're imagining (as evidence, 1: they're cops, 2: they almost let trump get shot last year)
Honestly, unlike the pro-war and pro-cop stuff I don't really have a great explanation for this part but the media seems to have like, extremely hippie priors on health and medicine
This is obviously true if you narrowly view MAHA as being just the Healthy Living™ parts of the agenda and completely ignore the anti medicine insanity, which the media does for some insane reason
Is it most anime literally just 1:1 adaptations anyway
Which would be fine, except that like everyone talking about it acts as if this was a thing that we were all aware of before. "Dead Internet Theory isn't a theory anymore" acts as if there was a time when it was a theory!!!
Ah, I misread the first line of the Wikipedia page, it's a 2019 era theory about the internet having been fake since 2016. Still, wasn't popular for 4 years bsky.app/profile/andr...
Like also, ok, I'd literally never heard of this before the recent wave of LLM generated spam. It's not like this was some common thing (double checked Google trends on this) that's been validated. People just pulled up some old conspiracy theory to say it's true for no reason
The way people talk about "Dead Internet Theory" is so weird to me, like people are acting like there's any connection between a weird sollopsistic conspiracy theory from 2016 about how everyone you interact with online is a bot and the fact that spam is more common now online
Look I wouldn't have this attitude if they allowed the bike lanes in north end,,,
If there's not a significant difference, it doesn't really make sense for people to be emphasizing the alternative hypothesis
Like the complaint is often correlated with a lack of culture, which isn't really associated with gay people
Tbh I feel like the kinds of things people complain about when they talk about transplants are largely straight dink 30something couple things
At best, the Republicans will be vaguely upset about trumpism and then seamlessly pivot into a new kind of conservative stupidity, like they did after neoconservatism
Like believing the whole Fever Will Break thing in 2019 was a little embarrassing but I kinda get it. Believing it *now*????? What??????????
Lol
Like it's not like all vacations have gotten more expensive in some equal measure, specifically, Disney has specifically gotten more expensive, relative to other things. They're reörienting their market
I feel like a lot of the comments are also falling into a trap of assuming that because Disney was a accessible middle class destination when they were kids, that means that all middle class vacations are gone, and like, going to DisneyLand/World is now more expensive than a trip to Europe
Unfortunately this only works using Linux, so what you'll want to do is compile a docker container running Linux into webassembly and then run this command on that docker container
I saw a few vague comments before I finished the video and I was like "huh people really don't like criticism of the Pax Romana" and then I got to the Aurelius part lol
(1) by then trump had won (2) democrats lie less on this kind of thing
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For being straight in the first place. Rome objectively should've stuck to gay emperors
You may watch this and think “wow Marcus Aurelius catches some strays here” but these are not strays - all Aurelius slander is intentional and I even go out of my way to do it
USSR in WW2?
Like people in the comments are like "how are Republicans happy with this???" They're not! They're clearly lying. Same as democrats who thought everything was great last year lol
Ig on some level "approve/disapprove of the president" is the same kind of thing but that one feels way more direct
It's kinda interesting how we keep polling questions like this for decades, despite the clear fact that nobody answers them honestly lol
But also South Dakota. Mostly for reconciliation reasons, restoring native names
Alaska largely
Also like legitimately 0% chance Vance would go along with any such scheme
Census changing FIPS codes when they rename counties without actually changing the lines on the ground is so evil
This is incredible.
Let’s gooooo It’s out finally
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Wtf wtf wtf wtf I can't believe all those packets were lying to us
The press seems to have a structural issue where highbrow press is dominated by war journalists (who tend to get accolades due to bravery or whatever) and lowbrow press is dominated by crime journalists (who get money via clicks) so they're all warmongering nixonites
There's quite a few buses that are not MBTA on that route
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Exposure to ideas makes you more likely to believe them, even without any reason! This can lead to feedback loops. This is the fundamental problem with Bayesianism
163. Massachusetts avenue should be cleared of cars and only have buses between Harvard and the orange line. It already has a bunch of different bus lines
162. Local governments, which have long time horizons, should do stuff like buy options to purchase housing in 30 years from developers for small amounts of money as a way to build out public housing
161. It takes a weirdly long time to get across Manhattan, which demonstrates that speed isn't actually that important in a transit system
160. The LIRR is shockingly slow and should be sped up
The idea is you'll boost people who would have supported you anyway, but now they're more successful, and you also prevent people from drifting away from you
Like, even most bribery of politicians takes this form. You rarely see oil companies buying out anti-oil activists, it's already we're already ideologically aligned with oil
Yeah, this is normally how these things work in practice
In medieval Muslim society this was largely handled by just having religious diversity to begin with, but their solution (personal law) was different
Christianity's reformations caused it to become more progressive, in the long run, in that it caused it to deal with a massive amount of religious splintering that led to a need for liberal pluralism
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I had no idea they made trains, in my head they're the ones who make those tiny airplanes or nothing else
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By which I mean it's a streetcar not light rail
The E line on Heath is spiritually brt
Like it's a thing in Montreal and also in Paris?
This is a French thing right
Oh right, I forgot about that part; yeah that's also separated. I I think the issue I have is just like if you can get stuck in that tunnel then you're pretty much screwed in terms of bunching whenever there's a lot of traffic there, regardless of everything else
Hmm ok that's not how I'd define it but I get what you're saying
I have unfortunately never been to South America 😔
Ah did not realize!
Hmm interesting, I guess they do a decent job of hiding it from the user
Merging is slow, especially on a bus, especially on high traffic routes where you'd want BRT in the first place
I mean you can build it
I've never been stuck in traffic for like an hour on the E line! (Almost missed a flight lol, now I take the blue line despite that being annoying as hell when I'm on my way to the air ort)
Having used both (SL extensively, E like dozens of times) this is not true at all, unless you just mean the parts of the SL that are a bus subway
The green line has a bunch of issues but the main issue is not that it's getting held up by cars, it's that it has a stop every 200m and an atrocious top speed
(at first I was so confused by this because we have express non-BRT buses in Boston called CT (crosstown))
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Hmm
At this point, are you even saving that much money over a light rail?
How so? I know a libertarian friend of the family is also BRT's strongest soldier but I don't know if there's actually a nexus
Idk. I feel like this whole conversation has a strong "real BRT has never been tried" vibe to it
Like I don't think anyone has actually solved the "merging cars end up in the bus lane"problem or even really the "parked cars end up in the bus lane" problem
I've heard this take a lot, but like, I've used transit in a bunch of cities and I have literally never been on a bus line that worked as well as even the LA metro light rail
Ok yeah this makes sense, I'm also guessing even pacific ends up being higher among liberals in rural areas
Yeah, a lot of my parents' non desi friends are transplants, but they're from the East Coast mostly not the Midwest
I think that's a rule that would basically allow for most legitimate hobby usages while preventing the real dangers (domestic violence, suicide, gangs etc) would be to ban guns outside of hobby zones like hunting areas and gun ranges
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Yeah this might be a regional thing?
Maybe a lot of this is that my parents' friends are overwhelmingly desis or something? Idk, I just don't hear this except occasionally from conservative acquaintances of my parents
Like if you entirely banned civillian gun ownership I think one person I know would be affected, and he only uses a gun at a range he goes to occasionally
Like yes, this is a bubble. But so is bluesky? Like we're all liberals here, not like, rural churchgoing conservatives or orange county investment bankers who are terrified about crime in Irvine
In general, with guns, there's this weird phenomenon where liberals keep talking about how they're gun experts, know a lot of gun hobbyists, etc. And like I don't think I know a single person who keeps a gun at home. Or has gone hunting in the last year. Certainly nobody talks about it
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