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Skua ,

Mine definitely isn't gentle, but I think that that's only because I don't mind getting a little bit scratched up when playing with him so I only taught him to keep it to that. He understands that playtime is over otherwise. He seems to understand when he has done more than he meant to as well, he immediately goes from fighting to affectionate

Same experience with kneading though. It's very cute that he's so happy and comfortable but holy shit cat your claws are so sharp

Skua ,

Lynch is a professional communicator, surely? His job is literally to represent the interests of the members of the union. And he's very good at it.

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How does that actually benefit Israel, though? The "war" against Hamas at the moment is so lopsided in Israel's favour that it seems ridiculous to even call it a war. A regional heavyweight like Iran could do some real damage, even if Israel's supporters all show up. I'm not seeing the argument for "anger a country with a fucktonne of missiles in order to get help winning a war we were already easily winning"

Skua ,

We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then

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Holy fuck hahaha https://old.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftEdge/comments/zgwt1f/edge_crashed_with_1600_open_tabs_clicked_inbuilt/

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https://i.imgur.com/xtwCyjy.png

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This is how the indicators look in the UK

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it said something like “this is very high”.

Maeshowe, in the Orkney Islands off the northern tip of Scotland. It's a properly ancient structure, and there are 30 runic inscriptions in it which are all just straight up graffiti, including "Tholfir Kolbeinsson carved these runes high up". My favourite part is it's not even that high up, like the guy was probably just on someone's shoulders.

Oddly enough we probably have the story of the graffiti artists. The Orkneyinga saga tells the tale of some 12th century Norsemen who took shelter there during a snowstorm and looted the place. By the time they did so, Maeshowe was already about 4,000 years old, and whatever they looted was probably left there by their own ancestors a few centuries beforehand.

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Ehh, what you call yourself isn't important. The point is you're still eating a diet that's compatible with not fucking the environment

Skua ,

Never change, kbin thumbnails

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I like the future that this suggests

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Well my username is a bird, so I'm going to say it's just a severe case of self-loathing

Skua ,

You can get caught in the sun's pull by just leaving Earth's sphere of influence, but remember that all of the planets are already caught in the sun's pull and have remained distinctly outside of the actual sun for essentially forever

Skua ,

He'd still have the 30 km per second (67,000 mph) of sideways velocity that Earth has when it's orbiting the sun, and that speed is enough to prevent Earth from ever hitting the sun.

Orbits aren't very intuitive; if you want something you launch from Earth to fall straight into the sun, you actually need to fire it directly opposite to the direction that Earth orbits in. So if you imagine Earth orbiting clockwise, you want to shoot the thing counterclockwise. If you do that at the right speed, you counteract all the orbital speed and the thing just falls into the sun.

If you can speed something up a completely unlimited amount then sure you could aim straight at the sun and just fire it so fast that it hits the sun anyway. It'll be off-centre a bit but the sun is pretty big. Consider how much of the sky isn't sun though. If the sun is directly overhead and you shoot straight at the sun, the thing you fired is already going 30 km/s sideways before you even started. We could do the trig to figure out how fast you need to shoot it to still hit the sun anyway but I think the more important part here is getting a feel for the motion involved.

Skua ,

Depends on what you mean by the "come to a stop" bit. Stop relative to Earth? You're still going Earth speeds relative to the sun, which is what you're trying to hit. It's like throwing a ball at something while driving past it. If you mean stop relative to the sun then sure, you don't even need to shoot him towards the sun, he'll fall right in. The trouble is that stopping relative to the sun is specifically the bit that takes a lot of energy.

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Even if we fail, Elon Musk ends up further away than he currently is

Skua ,

Should be exportant, obviously

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To be fair it was a prefix in the Latin word that it's ultimately derived from. We still treat it a little like a prefix when we use the im- part of the related "import" like a prefix, as we also have "export" and "transport"

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“It’s like It is relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,”

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I wouldn't even mind them as much if they showed you who posted the short before you watched it. There are a few creators I like enough that I'd watch shorts by, but I've got no way to know it's by them

Skua ,

If there is a heaven, patatas bravas is what I will eat there

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https://i.imgur.com/piyx3RH.png

Sample Red Green Blue
Thigh 87% 92% 96%
Calf 87% 91% 98%
Ankle 84% 87% 91%

Samples taken as the average of a 5 pixel radius circle. The ankle is a little darker than the rest, but the colour is consistent

Skua ,

Pale, but like... Swedish pale, not clown makeup pale

More tanned. Outlines are a bit fucky on this one and I had to change the building behind him a bit because it was too close to the new skin colour, but I'm not doing an effort job for this

Skua ,

It does if you can convince them that only giving you more power will keep them safe, unfortunately

Skua ,

9/11 did give Bush a pretext for the Patriot Act though, and his own presidency was not in question at the time.

To be clear I don't think that Bush did 9/11 and don't know who did this shooting. Just pointing out that Putin absolutely can benefit from it politically.

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They're actually American-built!

The Virginia-class submarines will be primarily from a U.K. design and will have a U.S. weapons system onboard.

oh no

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The Charleston Country police statement is that he died “from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound”

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Heads up OP, you might want to change the community name to "loneliness" rather than "lonelinnes" before it becomes a hassle to move stuff over. People are definitely more likely to find it and immediately understand what it's about that way

Skua ,

The entire countries of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan were autonomous republics within the Russian SFSR for the first ~16 years

Skua ,

I don't know enough about this specific topic to give you more info than Wikipedia could, but:

  • The Russian empire goes into WW1 controlling more or less the post-WW2 borders of the Soviet Union. It has Finland and eastern Poland as well, plus a few other diffferences, but you get the idea.
  • Russia collapses in the war, several years of civil war ensue, the Bolsheviks win and name the new version of Russia "the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic". It should be noted that the civil war was not at all just a "rebels vs government" deal, the list of different factions is utterly ludicrous. There was an enormous heap of different groups in the former empire and basically every European country was backing at least one of them.
  • The RSFSR does not control all of the former Russian empire, only most of it. Several parts did their own thing during the civil war and are currently independent, often fighting their own ongoing civil wars. The RSFSR begins a bunch of wars to try to regain all of the former territory, losing some and winning others.
  • The RSFSR regularly backs allied factions in the various national struggles, such as backing the Bolshevik-aligned Ukrainian Socialist Republic against the also-socialist but German-backed Ukrainian People's Republic, the anarchist Makhnovshchina movement, and the also-German-backed but not-socialist Ukrainian State.
  • In the cases that the Bolshevik-allied factions won, you now have a bunch of Bolshevik-aligned states outside of the RSFSR.
  • Delegates from the Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian soviet republics (Transcaucasia is today Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia) get together at the end of 1922 for the First All-Union Congress of Soviets and agree to make a sort of country-of-countries. Something a bit like the EU, but communist and with more power centralised in the new government. This new thing is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Nominally all four "union republics" are equal, although Russia remains enormously more powerful in practice than the others.
  • One of the early principles of the Bolsheviks was equal rights for the various nationalities in the new state that they envisioned. To this end, they had a Commissar for Nationalities even before the revolution, a position whose job it was to make sure the nationalities got represented. This position was held by none other than Joseph Stalin.
  • Over the next twentyish years, a number of regions in the four SSRs are broken off into new SSRs for different nationalities - Turkmen, Tajik, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Kazakhs, and more out of Russia, Trancaucasia gets split into Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia etc. Several conquered countries like the Baltic states also become union republics. I have no idea what logic was used when deciding which ones got to be their own republics and which just got to be autonomous parts of the RSFSR. A policy called korenizatsiya is implemented, under which people are meant to be able to run their lives in their own languages.
  • The Kazakh and Kyrgyz SSRs stand out because they were autonomous regions of the RSFSR for quite a while before becoming their own SSRs. Their Central Asian neighbours in the Tajik, Turkmen, and Uzbek SSRs became union republics pretty quick, and others like the Bashkirs and Tatars stayed part of the RSFSR until the Soviet Union collapsed. It was only really those two that were somewhere in the middle.
Skua ,

To be honest even if it was a power plant... they're already in the business of generating power. If generating more clean power in the same space is an option, that sounds great

Skua ,

That's a yes from Linde then

Skua ,

Either patatas bravas or roasted. Or just roasted potatoes with bravas sauce. But to be honest I'll be happy with most forms of potato. What a stellar vegetable

Skua ,

As a fellow scared-of-the-ocean-ist, I actually feel like it kinda adds to Subnautica. The game is meant to have some horror. We just get a bit extra

Skua ,

I picked up Tunic after wanting it for quite some time. I'm enjoying it a great deal. I was sure that it couldn't possibly be that much like Dark Souls when it has that art style but, uhh, no, turns out it's the opening is basically exactly Dark Souls right down to being told to go ring two mysterious magic bells in opposite directions from where you currently are

Skua ,

Because you will wrongly execute people. It is not a matter of if, but of when and how often. There is no standard of proof good enough to be perfect. And the more effort you put in to try to be sure, the more expensive it is, so it winds up not even being cheaper.

There's not even any actual evidence that it's an effective deterrent. People don't do things like that with the expectation of being caught.

Skua ,

The point is that you can't remediate a wrongful conviction if the person that was wrongfully convicted is dead. It's awful to wrongfully imprison someone, but if you do then at least you can let them out.

If you've got any ideas on how to make a perfect justice system that makes no mistakes, please do share. Nobody else has ever managed it, and not for a lack of trying.

Even if you do manage to solve this unsolvable problem, what's the benefit to executing people? Like I said, there's no proof that it's an actual effective deterrent. There isn't an elevated rate of heinous crimes in places that don't have the death penalty.

Skua ,

In terms of proof of ineffectiveness, can you point me to some research?

From "Deterrence and the Death Penalty" by Daniel S. Nagin, John V. Pepper, and others:

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: The committee concludes that research to date on the effect of capital punishment on homicide is not informative about whether capital punishment decreases, increases, or has no effect on homicide rates. Therefore, the committee recommends that these studies not be used to inform deliberations requiring judgments about the effect of the death penalty on homicide. Consequently, claims that research demonstrates that capital punishment decreases or increases the homicide rate by a specified amount or has no effect on the homicide rate should not influence policy judgments about capital punishment.

What I’m saying is that the chances of wrongful conviction shouldn’t arise. Ever.

Right, well in reality they do. Everywhere. And it should be pointed out, your initial comment was that you don't see a problem with Saudi Arabia executing people in the present; do you think that Saudi Arabia has this perfect justice system already?

We’ve solved it for space travel, airlines, medicine and countless other fields with implications far beyond what we can cover here. All it takes is collective willingness.

You know people still die from all three of those fields all the goddamn time, right? Even in spaceflight, the one with by far the fewest operations in which something might happen, we're fewer than ten years out from the VSS Enterprise crash that killed Michael Alsbury

Purported benefits in order:

    1. In the real world, executing someone costs more than life imprisonment due to the costs of investigation and appeals. And it's still not enough to prevent errors.
    1. See research above
    1. That's literally just revenge. Do you have any data showing that execution is actually good for the mental health of the families of crimes that, in your opinion, deserve the death penalty?
    1. The law values human life by... ending it?
Skua ,

nij.ojp.gov/…/five-things-about-deterrence

Are you sure this is the link you were looking for? It literally has a header saying "There is no proof that the death penalty deters criminals."

Capital punishment literally has irreversible consequences, which means we need laws to be upheld.

This is no less true without capital punishment. We shouldn't and don't stop worrying about wrongful convictions for other punishments.

That is the ultimate problem we need to go chase, not capital punishment.

One of the two is actually possible to solve immediately and basically for free. If you get rid of the death penalty then there is nothing taken away from any other effort to improve the justice system and ongoing miscarriages of justice become less severe. Do you think that everyone gave up worrying about miscarriages of justice in the over 100 countries that don't have the death penalty?

There are also other points against the death penalty even if you assume it is being used only in a justice system that makes literally no mistakes. How do you know who can and can't be rehabilitated? Who carries out the executions, and what are the effects on them? Do you actually want the state to hold the power of death over its own citizens?

Maybe re-read my initial comment stating that I do not believe what Saudi is doing is correct either. A differing opinion =/= implicit agreement with a regime. Wtf?

I read it just fine. You said you're not defending the Saudi royal family. That doesn't mean that you're not rejecting criticism of the system. And if you are trying to say that, it is really odd to have started the comment by dimissing the whole article with "And?"

So that’s it? Society stops trying? What sort of asinine view is that? Fear of failure should not impede progress. This also applies to laws, regulations, legal frameworks etc.

No? How the hell did you get to that? Society should recognise that it cannot do these things perfectly and act with that in mind, like by not using something so permanent as execution as a punishment.

If we aren’t subsidizing prisons, we can afford it.

"We can afford it" is a much weaker position than "it will save money over the alternative", because it permits execution being more expensive. If execution if more expensive - and in the US, it is - then you can put more money towards rehab by not doing it.

Says you. Go ask the parents of the kids that died in Uvalde massacre on what they want done with the murderer.

I'm literally asking you for data to support your point. I'm not sure how the parents of the kids at Uvalde would have a particular opinion on what they want done with the murderer considering that he was shot dead at the scene though.

Accountability of our own laws, enforcement and the justice system… it’s thing you know.

Are you suggesting that it isn't a thing in countries that don't have the death penalty? I don't understand the point you're trying to make here.

Skua ,

Different people. The one you're replying to didn't make the first comment

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Ahh, that edit hasn't made it across to my instance yet. I see it if I go to yours

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If cats are any sin, it is pride without a doubt. Hell a specific kind of big cat is already called a pride when they're in a group

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They did for a long time, having him gradually come around and begin to redeem himself, and then made an incredibly confusing decision to have him suddenly revert to his old ways right at the very end with no warning whatsoever

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I'm not sure that Israel actually would have to stop in that circumstance. It's a wealthy country with one of the world's biggest arms industries, and it's not like this is a peer conflict

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Who needs a render when the Rheinmetall Wiesel exists and is actually even smaller https://reaperfeed.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/94637658_117156439963695_5041534802201673728_o.jpg

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Small clarification, the Niger delta is in Nigeria rather than Niger. Shell still has a lot of operations in Nigeria and doesn't appear to be intending to leave the country altogether, (see "What is included in/excluded from the scope of the announced transaction?" section) so there is the potential for Nigeria to actually put some pressure on here. That said I agree completely with you that Shell will do everything it can to dodge responsibility here

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Nigerien, rather than Nigerian. Niger is pronounced /niːˈʒɛər/ nee-ZHAIR rather than /naɪˈdʒɪər/ ny-JEER so they're a little easier to tell apart in spoken English

Skua ,

To be honest I'd be surprised if this was Russia. It's certainly not outside of Russia's capabilities, but at the end of the day they're just cables. Plenty of the Red Sea is right next to Houthi-controlled territory and not all that deep. Something like this is commercially available and easily capable of reaching the floor of the area near the Bab el-Mandeb that any cables from Europe to East Asia have to go through

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