I always rush to finish first when I learn someone else is working on the same files. Ain’t nobody got time to figure out how to merge your shit with my beautiful, perfect, new feature.
The train is not moving. The rest of the world is moving underneath it. Therefore, by the principle of “speedy thing go in, speedy thing come out”, the people will be launched.
I have used this phrase a lot, but in the last couple of years I’ve seen usage of this phrase by folks who aren’t Native Americans start to come under fire. I think it’s because it appropriates and makes light of Native American culture.
Not wanting to cause someone else discomfort or pain, is not about being "offended" on their behalf. We need to get away from this "offfence" paradigm and back to the human. We are all people. Let's treat each other with respect.
If you genuinely want to know "which tribe specifically", start here with the big picture:
Individual totemism is widely disseminated. It is found not only among tribes of hunters and harvesters but also among farmers and herdsmen. Individual totemism is especially emphasized among the Australian Aborigines and the American Indians.
Group totemism was traditionally common among peoples in Africa, India, Oceania (especially in Melanesia), North America, and parts of South America. These peoples include, among others, the Australian Aborigines, the African Pygmies, and various Native American peoples—most notably the Northwest Coast Indians (predominantly fishermen), California Indians, and Northeast Indians. Moreover, group totemism is represented in a distinctive form among the Ugrians and west Siberians (hunters and fishermen who also breed reindeer) as well as among tribes of herdsmen in north and Central Asia.
If that’s old-school it’ll be neon, modern ones get the same look with LEDs. If it’s flickering slightly, it’s neon.
Large ones are pretty rare these days, because they’re horribly inefficient at turning electricity into light. The main place you’ll still find them are as heating lamps (for things like terrariums).
The main place you’ll still find them are as heating lamps (for things like terrariums)
I thought they used incandescent lights for those, and some (like the terrarium heaters) aren't even incandescent, they're just ceramic resistance heaters that fit into an E26 base (screw-in light fixture).
They definitely use incandescent globes for heating as well. I just remember when I had fish, the shops would advertise neon heat lamps for terrariums. (I think it might have had something to do with infrared heating, but I’ve never had a terrarium so I’m kinda guessing now.)
LEDs will flicker without smoothing circuits too. Great circuits will have capacitors to smooth out the ac cycling and diode rectifiers to get power in both halves of the phase. But for $50c less, they can skip that and trust that the customer won’t make a purchase decision based on an indicator light. If the item or your eyes move quickly, you’ll likely catch them blinking like stop motion at 50/60hz
I definitely remember a specific neon light over my head in class giving me a headache once, but I think it had a problem at was flickering a bit slower than normal
I can understand why people make this mistake. The word sure seems like a place where we’d use “hyper” instead of “hypo,” because it’s an above average sense of being unhealthy, and “hypo” tends to indicate below average.
However, the word “hypochondriac” comes from a Greek word meaning “under the cartilage (of the breastbone),” referring to the upper area of the abdomen, which in old school medicinal thought was where we kept our anxiety about our health.
Thus the “hypo” in “hypochondriac” has nothing to do with the amount of anxiety, but rather the imaginary location of that anxiety.
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Soju is the same thing as what we used to call “fortified” wine like Great White. It lures you in with 20% alcohol being sneaky enough to not immediately buzz you like liquor which then lowers your guard until suddenly you’re black-out drunk singing 80s Nami songs in the nearest noraebang. OH YEONG WON HAN CHINGU! OH HAENGBOK HAN MAEUM! OH JEUL GEO EUN INSAENG! YEAH!
The problem with internet was always that access to bullshit is way easier than access to information. Except now the difference gets exponentially bigger, and bullshit is indistinguishable from truth.
In 1877, he wrote, “It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine gun which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease would be greatly diminished.”
Why would he not realize that countries, generals, kings, and those in power would simply send more men to die? They will not send 2 guys with a machine gun and then simply accept that the battle was lost if their guy loses. No, they will send a million men, as many as are needed to take another foot of ground.
Colonialism was super popular, so a couple of dudes with machine guns could mow down a field of natives with much less risk.
Plus a machine gun is much more impressive than some dudes with single fire guns. A platoon (or whatever fits on a boat or three) can be overrun. Throw a couple of machine guns in with a couple of brutal shows of force and you got yourself a colony.
WW1 was still a ways off and it wasn’t really the target market for your Gatlings and Maxims.
It’s the cotton gin logic. Eli Whitney thought his invention the cotton gin would reduce the need for manual labor on cotton plantations and reduce slavery. Instead it made cotton farming more profitable and revitalized slavery.
Bringing back strong 1990s Pizza Hut memories. Sure they are the same still today, but I have not stepped into one since the 1990s as I value my health. Ahahahaha
Pizza hut pan is my favorite fast food pizza and I don’t understand how anyone could feel otherwise, unless you have something against crispy buttery overindulgence in which case… fair. But nothing I’ve seen has come close to that perfec " box kraft Mac n cheese " level of junk food perfection
Sadly it is not really even an imperfect solution. Yes there have been a few departments who lost insurance, but it did nothing to stop the cops responsible for the bad behavior from working as cops, often at the agency who has to take over. Additionally the number of departments shut down is just a drop in the bucket of bad behavior. Lastly this can leave communities without adequate law enforcement.
I have nothing against increasing the cost of bad policing, but this does very little of anything to actually cause change.
it did nothing to stop the cops responsible for the bad behavior from working as cops
That’s why it would work better if they individually had to carry insurance. Cops with a history of bad behaviour would find themselves priced out of the job.
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