m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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Holly shot! Reminds me of a recirculating linear bearing, not what they were testing and not what they're suggesting the Egyptians did but neat parallel.

Could you elaborate on the distinction between demand and request?

I think having the FBI arrest the leadership is a better approach than troops killing each other.

Reminds me of a comment I'd previously written:

Don't make threats (also don't kill people, it's usually wrong). It is too easy for Power to amplify and harness sincere backlash against your movement and whip it into counter progress outrage.

At a consultation stage don't threaten lives and infrastructure. Ask how the company will protect against sabotage and vandalism.

Are they building infrastructure that is vulnerable to ecoterrorists? If an ecoterrorist were to attack their pipeline with a high powered hunting rifle would it be an ecological disaster?

If a saboteur spread diamond grit abrasives on the rail track the coal cars travels on, would that cause damage, a derailment, or just increase maintenence costs? What about grease?

If seepage from the tailings pond was spread onto the plant manager's lawn, would he let his kids play there?

I understand the electronics. I don't understand why you think this would be worth replacing all my appliances

As a person that wants Canadians to have access to social housing, Healthcare including mental and dental, and MAID this comic does highlight my concern.

The answer isn't making it more difficult for people to get MAID. If I recall directly, the existing criteria are pretty reasonable.

Invest in the other things.

This doesn't seem better.

Here's the report that the article is based on.

I'm not an economist but it's the internet so I'm not going to let that stop me from telling you what I think.

The graph that shows the year over year variation of real capital per capita shows growth every year except for 2022 and 2023 (flat, and negative respectively).

That's the news. For the first time since 1960 (where the graph begins) Canada has less capital per person at the end of the year than at the beginning.

They talk about population growth and immigration. (Births & immigration minus deaths & emigration) and capital:labor ratios, but they don't talk about retirements.

These economists are complaining that boomers are retiring but not dying. (Population up productivity down).

But different devices need different voltages. Does every outlet in my house have to have its own connection to the central rectifier? It's a lot of re wiring.

Another way of thinking about it is betting your entire bankroll for 99.9....% certainty that you will win $1.

Say you go into the casino with $1000.

Bet:

        $1 lose.
    $3 lose.
    $9 lose.
    $27 lose.
    $81 lose.
    $243 lose.
    $729 oh wait you can't bet that much, you only have $457 left. Dang, do you bet $457 or find another $272? 

    Bet $457 and you win $914! Congrats you're now only down $86!
    Or maybe you lost and are down $1000.
    
    Or maybe you scrounged up $272 so you could keep playing
    Bet 729 and lose. Now you're down $1272.
    Or
    Bet 729 and you win 1458. Pay back the $272 you borrowed from your buddy, you're still up $186. 
    You just bet $729 dollars for a %50 chance of winning $186.
    

  

But what are the chances of getting 6 or 7 losses in a row? 1 in 64, or 128 respectively, actually worse because roulette wheels aren't 50/50, they're 18/19 (18 wins and 19 losses in 37 plays on average) or worse. So losing 6 times in a row will happen 1 in 54 plays, 7 losses is 1 in 106.

Google says roulette wheels spin 55 times per hour so with your strategy you will lose your bank roll in about one hour assuming your starting bet is 0.1% of your bank roll.

We don't need AC in the home anymore.

I laughed and wrote out a list of things in my house using AC but I see you're talking more theoretically. Most of the things using ac in my house are only ever plugged into one circuit, so we could leave those circuits alone. I don't think USB C PD could handle a hairdryer though, and they aren't always used on the same circuits (eg sometimes bathroom, sometimes bedroom)

It's really tough to displace entrenched standards.

What happened to your kids?

Yeah, oh traffic congestion? Heaven help us!

I get it, the problem is everybody else's cars, not their cars.

I think it was a pretty big fuck up for the military to handle it this way.

But at the same time isn't it very common for espionage to happen through prostitution? Prostitutes collecting the badge information of their military customers is legitimately the sort of thing that's a huge intelligence risk.

She's probably now under significant csis communications surveillance. It's actually a little surprising that they sent a memo to the Forces instead of finding a good way of blackmailing her to get her to stop. I'm not saying that's what they should have done, just that it's a little surprising they didn't.

I don't know how they ought to have handled this, but I think they should have done better.

It may not have been illegal. Spavor has accused Kovrig of conducting espionage by gathering intelligence from people like Spavor on behalf of the Canadian security apparatus. (Also, illegal according to which laws?)

Edit to add: but also fuck authoritarian governments like the CCP.

Is this one of those hereditary chiefs vs band council things? Is the federal government properly consulting with band councils, but not hereditary chiefs? Or do these numbered treaties establish chiefs as a legally important position? I only know enough to know that this stuff is really tough to untangle.

I reckon that the perpetual suitability of drinking water is an implicit part of just about every land treaty with first nations. Ensuring safe water supply is literally the least we can do.

I was thoroughly impressed by Technology Connections exploration of the Sunbeam automatic beyond belief toaster. Bought one cheap off Craigslist a while ago and added a ground wire. Works great.

I also picked up an IBM selectric pretty cheap, mostly works.

I'm not sure what to do with this information.

Totally

Lmao why would gravity waves point away from the universe being a simulation?

Sorry what I meant is miniscule gravitational forces across billions of light years.

Because of the ridiculous cost of calculating the force of gravity between every water molecule on neptune and carbon atom on exoplanet xjwhatever. Gravity waves suggest this is actually happening.

Also you put a comic strip as your source, you have less than zero credibility in anything.

What community are we in? I don't actually believe simulation theory... it's a concise explanation.