Better late than never, at least. And with Rogan specifically I can actually believe he supported Trump out of stupidity in the first place.

Plus, a middle aged masculine presenting white dude actually admitting that he was wrong/decieved about something is unironically a desperately needed role model rn. As somebody who previously had absolutely no respect for the man, he's earned at least a sliver of my respect.

I wouldn't be too surprised if you could achieve that kind of density for a few fractions of a second with explosive powered compression. I'm thinking something like the electromagnetic flux compression technique used by Nakamura et al to make the 1200T magnetic field back in 2018. The package absolutely wouldn't exist for long though lol

Yeah bruh. I don't want to fight. I hate fighting and violence. I just want to make number bigger, and the gym is one of the only places I feel safe to have emotions. The fact that I can squat a quarter of a ton now is just an inevitable side effect of the first three things. Please don't focus your inferiority complex on my coping mechanism

(Responding to your hypothetical reddit comment rather than directly to you)

I'm not going to repeat the slang for it but it makes so much sense that he's a "named 4chan user." Even among the most crusty basement dwelling community in modern history he's shunned for being lame.

Paintballs are trickier than just a water balloon. They have to be rigid/strong enough to survive the blast of co2 or compressed air that propels them, then they have to be soft enough to break on impact without harming the other player.

They also just aren't that messy. I worked under the table as a referee at a Paintball place when I was 13, and we played such that gameplay didn't stop when refs were doing paint checks. We'd toss people out if they were intentionally focusing on us but I got lit up probably 10+ times a day, every weekend for 2 years. My jersey and slider pants came clean in the wash every time, and to this day the only lasting blemishes are the shredded fabric on the knees/elbows/ass from when I dove and slid a lot.

Oh dang, I totally missed the name of this community when I commented. My knowledge of and opinions on rf connectors come from working on large aircraft mounted systems, where turbulence can cause a nightmare of threaded connector sleeves vibrating loose and bent pins. In this situation you either need vibration damping or a more mechanically robust connector like BNC

Man, corvids are so cool. My life goals include becoming friends with a murder of crows. I came close one time while training a pup to walk with training treats; she was super messy and dropped them all the time, and the crows started to recognize whenever we were walking and follow us to get those fallen treats. Unfortunately the pup loved to bark her head off and chase them around, and they did not like that. They even tried to drive me off once or twice by feinting diving attacks at my head

I feel like batch should be in the evil alignment section. My experience with batch files is that .bat may as well be written .forkbomb

The spyro remakes they did were faithful to the originals in a way that was super satisfying to my nostalgia. My only minor complaint is that they are clearly using better physics engine/edge detection, so most of the glitches used in speed running of the games are not in the tfb remake. Beyond that though it was exactly what I wanted; near carbon copy of the ps1 gameplay with ps5 graphics and hardware

SMA or bust. The other three connector types introduce a lot of noise compared to SMA in my experience. BNC is my goto if I want a noise profile similar to SMA but the device I'm working with isn't vibration damped.

A spectrum does imply a total order, but I'd argue that the meme stating there is exactly 1 who is the gayest, OOP is referring to a strict total order. I'd also argue that the gayness spectrum allows degenerate states (heh) and as such is a non-strict total order, rather than the strict total order implied by OOP

I'm generally not a fan of the Chinese government or how they run their country, but the response to the evergrande collapse was downright admirable. I dream of my government letting overleveraged parasites hold the bag when their market manipulation crashes part of the economy, rather than calling them too big to fail and bailing them out on my dime.

It gives people context for what kind of ai math I'm familiar with/formed my opinions about ai on (ie, generally lightweight transformer models rather than LLMs), as well as a small logos appeal of "hey I spent years of my life researching that shit, I at least kinda know what I'm talking about"

Kilroy was here

Not OP that you asked, but I've used ai before to examine netflow data at the head of a medium sized network and identify malicious traffic via netflow anomaly, rather than the signature based methods that are used by current network intrusion detection systems. It's effectiveness is contingent on having good data that contains labeled malicious packets to train on, but it was pretty dope in lab conditions to watch a graduate ethical hacking class try to compromise my testbed network and my best performing ai powered intrusion detection algorithms were able to accurately flag something like 90% of the malicious traffic.

If we had an organization dedicated to creating like a modern version of the NSL-KDD dataset every 6 months or so I think this type of network intrusion detection system would be extremely effective.

Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.

I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit

I'm not complaining about spotty enforcement of the law against American police, I'm complaining about things like qualified immunity or the thin blue line shit used to protect cops from consequences when they explicitly and clearly break the law. A regulation with less than perfect enforcement is still a regulation. A regulation with legal doctrine (QI) explicitly stating that it can be broken with no consequence however absolutely stops being a regulation.

I generally agree with the content of your second two paragraphs, but i do not see how they are relevant to discussion about whether the police can accurately be called an unregulated militia. Yes, law is subjective and generally defined by the mores of the society that follows it. "Cops don't have to follow the law and should be allowed to murder people with no consequences" is absolutely not part of the zeitgeist

The fact that they commit less brazen violence than unregulated militias of the past doesn't change the fact that they are unregulated militias. How many times have you read about the bastards being punished for "excessive force" (read, cold blooded murder in broad daylight), then found that their "punishment" was a few months of admin leave and a new job in another precinct? Regulations don't exist unless they're enforced, and we have a wildly long public record of cops breaking the law followed by the legal system choosing not to enforce the law in those cases.

This. I was a phd seeking cybersecurity researcher leaning heavily into AI up until last year, and it bothered me to no end that some of the most promising technology I have ever seen was being primarily used to enhance the police state or increase BP profits by a few %. AI is literally a step towards a utopian post scarcity future, but instead of being used that way it was immediately weaponized against the working class for the benefit of the parasite class.

We already have that. Cops with qualified immunity are almost definitionally an unregulated militia