okay, next question: why aren’t they getting those sterols?

follow up: are wild, native bees also affected, or is it just the European honeybees?

yeah. I’m wondering if GPT-5 being a wet fart is going to be the thing that pops the bubble.

Oh, absolutely. But that doesn’t stop civil engineers from making residential roads that are wide enough to function as interstates, post a 25 mph speed limit, and be SHOCKED when people do 50. It’s not safe to do 50 mph on that road in any sense, but it feels like it is, so that’s what people do.

Reminds me of that 4chan post where anon gets stopped by a stranger who tries to explain that Aluminum is the best metal. Anon tries to stay calm and explain the iron is the best metal, but the guy just kept going off about Aluminum and started talking about rust and ruined Anon’s whole day.

okay, report:

• good lord, Antares and Vega are offensively bright once you adjust to the dark.

• M4!! HOLY GUACAMOLE WOW! M4 by itself made being out tonight worth it!

• M80: cool, felt cool to find it, but it looks like any of the other tighter globs and I didn’t want to mess with switching to one of my narrow AFOV higher power eyepieces on my manual dob. May revisit once I invest in a higher power eyepiece with a decent AFOV.

• Epsilon Lyrae: hmm, am I maybe just not using enough mag? looks like a regular double star to me.

• Took the telescope for a slew through Sagittarius, for a laugh, was not disappointed. Breathtaking amount of stars there.

• Was all aboard the strugglebus making sense of Hercules’s constellation. Didn’t help that he was at the zenith, which made using the dob weird when looking for M13 and made looking at the constellation annoying after staring straight up like a turkey for minutes.

• Took some time to re-acquaint myself with Draco, Cygnus, and Aquila.

• Didn’t pick out any more DSOs, in part because I got annoyed with blowing out my night vision, even with the red light, on my charts.

• I’ve been fairly serious about the hobby for about 9 months now, and it seems like I saw way more satellites out tonight than I did when I stopped back in May. Bruh, the little bastards were everywhere.

What you’re describing is what I meant. If you’re driving at a speed that feels uncomfortable, it’s likely because it feels unsafe. I’m glad you’re a human cruise control, because I’m not, I often do vibes based speed control and I’d be very vulnerable to speed traps. I know I’m a bad driver, and I’d much rather take the bus, train, or bike lane if it was realistic to do so; I honestly hate driving.

re: first study

Results. The relative risk (RR) of a road collision occurring on the beltway after (vs before) installation of speed cameras was 0.73 (95% confidence interval [CI]=0.63, 0.85). This protective effect was greater during weekend periods. No differences were observed for arterial roads (RR=0.99; 95% CI=0.90, 1.10). Attributable fraction estimates for the 2 years of the study intervention showed 364 collisions prevented, 507 fewer people injured, and 789 fewer vehicles involved in collisions.

I looked it up, it looks like the Beltway is functionally equivalent to a US interstate. This makes some sense, as speeds on interstates are going to be higher than on arterials (and the arterials in Spain probably aren’t as bad as our stroads in the US).

I’m actually sympathetic to these folks, because there’s a bunch of studies that show that people drive the speed that feels safe. You can’t engineer a road to be safe for 15 mph over the posted speed limit and be shook when folks do the speed that feels safe (the US does this ALL THE TIME). That kind of engineering is all but guaranteeing that an enforcement control is going to be a money printer.

maga: “Everyone needs to stop being such fucking snowflakes”

also maga: “Filming the police is VIOLENCE”

It’s much more clear, especially if you read the book, that JP is about accountability. All throughout the book, as shit’s going sideways and people are dying, everyone’s playing hot potato with accountability. At the end, Grant forces Genero into investigating a wild raptor nest with him, in spite of Genero’s protests that he’s “just the lawyer” because somebody has to take some accountability.

this is You Kiddin geometry

yeah, catfish can be pretty unpleasant.

yeah, not a fan; I thought it tasted remarkably of how piss smells.

It wouldn’t change anything, might even make it worse because then he could shit talk about “see? I survived!” Folks like this by default see themselves as the exception rather than the rule.

Unbelievable. It’s so jarring to me to have been raised on the western mythos of the arc of history bending towards justice, only to see right wing assholes the world over, at every level, having their moment in the sun, literally murdering poor people for laughs.

I mean, yeah. I’m glad he’s suing, this is bullshit and never should have happened at all; this would be grounds for impeachment and worse in a sane world. That said, we all kind of knew this, right? Donald even bragged about it at one point; the cruelty is the whole point.

I mean, let’s just drop allllll the pretenses here and call a spade a spade. We’re speedrunning both imperial decline and final act of the death of the republic. That means that what’s happening now isn’t so much the end of things taking shape; that dye was cast arguably as far back as neoconservatism and the death of the Soviet Union. No, what’s being shaped now is what comes next, and so far, it’s looking like a freak hybrid between neo-feudalism and neo-mercantilism, leaning more towards mercantilism imo, with a whole new nobility class formed purely off the basis of who holds the money and the assets right now. I mean, this should and would never be allowable under the republic, but the republic is dead and they’re just doing a little puppeteering with the corpse at the moment, while it’s handy to do so.

Let me be totally unambiguous here: the republic is dead, there is no going back. Even if we have elections again (lol, lmao) and even if they swing super hard left and even if we get a bunch of Democrats who are serious and result-oriented, and even if those Democrats actually do want to surrender the tools of fascism (unlike their predecessors), it’s going to take decades to walk back the damage. Before anyone will be able to feel the results of the course reversal, people are just going to get pissed and vote the next batch of right wing assholes in who’ll finish the job. The wounds are too deep, too grievous, and our political establishment is too captured and lacking in vision and intestinal fortitude. The republic is already gone in all but name, and what’s coming next will ensure that the people who sponsored it death are enshrined at the center.

If that’s not the world you want to live in, then you need to start networking at a local level, working with likeminded people across your local and state, and probably start working on secession movements. We’re going to have a very narrow window between the death of the empire and the birth of the monarchy to determine what kind of world our children inherit, don’t let it slip past. Get out there, go to city council and county supervisor meetings, join secession initiatives, get active and start seeking people out and networking. If we work together, we can at least forge a better tomorrow than what Zuck and Bezos have planned for us.

I wonder what the breaking point will be? I worry that we’re still a long, long way from it.

I think this is a really insightful comment that adds more depth to the conversation than the original article does. It definitely feels like we’re living in a society where all subconsciously agreed, to some extent or another, that we owe each other nothing. That doesn’t seem like a sustainable way for a society to be.

I dunno, I’m mixed on what the author is talking about here. On the one hand, it’s really not good to have any half of society just checking the fuck out; I think that the loneliness epidemic, regardless of gender, is a problem that is both real and addressable. On the other hand, what the author is pining for here is, imo, best left in the past. The kind of social norms she’s missing sound really unhealthy/toxic to me, and like they don’t really benefit anyone. I half expect some shit like this in Project 2025.