siegegangcommander.bsky.social
Avid collector of hobbies. Show me your cats. He/They. Chicago
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Don’t worry, Denmark hasn’t been completely forgotten. The Swedes still exist.
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Rankine has entered the chat.
Kidding aside, pre-Celsius (the person), there was a lot of disagreement over thermometer scales. Without a thermometer everyone agrees on, how do we all agree that water boils at the same temperature? What do you use to calibrate *that* thermometer?
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I was about to bring this up!
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But lord Vader would never stand for such behavior!
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FYI, the easy way to do that is to count ten people across and ten people back to get an estimate of the density, then divide up the area into similar area chunks. You need a large crowd of relatively uniform density and some knowledge of the area, but you can do it from the ground not just by drone
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I think the point is ‘when do anecdotes become data.’
200 people in a random town of 5,000? Not even a rounding error. But a thousand little towns like that is definitely data, and hard to account for- a lot were not official protests (no permit, just hanging out on sidewalks)
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Gotta love getting ladder training for my desk job, unironically a huge OHSA nerd.
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That's a guy counting down the seconds till he can sneak a pull from his flask.
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I cannot get over how approximately half of the soldiers seem to be attempting to march in step and the other half are just… walking.
My high school marching band looked more in formation than this.
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That’s why you’ve got to etch those bastards.
Fun fact- ferric chloride is real easy to make from stuff at the hardware store!
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Hey now, don’t badmouth offal like that.
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Back from the days when having alt card arts was good, actually.
I can never resist the Foglios.
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Point is, we assign patterns to randomness all the time, and we assign intentionality to complex but ultimately arbitrary systems all the time.
I mean, how many weather gods have people believed in over time?
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I mean, didn’t Kasparov get convinced that DeepBlue managed to bluff him in his first match against it?
I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a black box AI, so they were able to piece together that the computer’s move was basically just random, but a chess grand master was convinced he had been outsmarted.
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I’m Irish/Mexican/euro mutt and it’s no problem in jeans.
It’s not like my hamstrings aren’t tight as hell too- though I only know that because I do some yoga?
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That’s it, I’m done posting through it.
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No.
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Oh, I absolutely know this is mostly procrastination and unhelpful completionism.
It’s like reading One Piece- I know I shouldn’t be thinking ‘wHaT aBoUt ThE eAsTeR eGgS’ and just read it… but here I am, not reading One Piece because I don’t want to motor through it and miss details.
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Honestly, I’ve been intimidated to watch Eva because I haven’t seen much mecha series because I want the context/genre literacy… but then I don’t get into mecha series because it feels too much like I’m doing background homework to watch Eva.
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He tosses each piece individually into his mouth and looks at whoever he’s sitting next to with a desperate ‘did you see that? It looked cool, right?’ expression for the entire movie.
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Surely our building codes were written with having half a ton of metal moving around. They’ve also been written with having to get a crane or pallet lift into your house if the thing bricks and needs servicing. No easily foreseen problems here.
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I can’t get over how dumb humanoid robots are. Yes, let’s make something the size of a body that will weigh exponentially more because it’s got to be half motors and hydraulics to freely wander around our homes.
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You need to find a silly lil hat.
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Hey now, some of us have Alt+0151 memorized.
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For some reason, this popped into my head.
youtu.be/rLrya5CH4yU?...
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No one gives ‘I’m not mad, just disappointed’ like a hound.
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…have you met chicagoans? We still haven’t shut up about Michael Jordan.
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Brigitte Empire did a whole video on it:
youtu.be/hxpoC8tpJ9g?...
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-not all studies actually tested IQ
-a number of studies that *did* test IQ were funded by anti-fluoridation groups (because who else would connect those things)
-as flawed as this meta study is, they don’t conclude any correlation between IQ and Fl, but they acknowledge possible connection.
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From what I recall, it’s citing a Harvard meta study.
The study *does* correlate ‘high’ fluorine with reduced IQ- with a few caveats to that finding:
-‘high’ is defined as >1.5 ppm, double what is allowable in fluoridated municipal water
-studies did not distinguish between Fl and other halogens
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So, my dad has an *actual* use for one of those stupid peltier dehumidifiers!
We have a curing chamber we made using the guts of a mini fridge and a humidifier hooked up to a thermostat and humidistat, respectively.
A peltier dehumidifier is sufficient to keep the ~8 cu ft around 60%RH in the summer
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Yeah, that’s probably it. I guess I’m frustrated that paper-legal designs won’t actually be brewed with because (my theory) WotC didn’t want to playtest a risky design in legacy and modern.
I keep trying to think of a Gruul-adjacent artifacts/permanents matter deck in modern.
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I don’t know limited well, but it’s not aggro or removal so you’re probably right.
My bet is they published it in Alchemy because they’re scared of it in eternal formats and want to be able to nerf it to 3MV. I can’t think of other cards that make more permanents than the amount of mana invested.
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His response was that the tools will get there eventually- soon enough you’ll be able to tell stable diffusion to make the hat blue instead of purple or whatever.
It won’t, because that’s not how GenAI works, at all. What he’s describing already exists- photoshop.
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I had a conversation recently about GenAI that started with ‘I wouldn’t want to be graduating with a graphic design degree right now.’ When I pointed out that graphic design managers who have worked with ‘prompters’ universally pan them as being mostly useless because they can’t tweak designs.
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This seems very pushed to me? Three artifact tokens of any type for two mana would be played in commander, and that’s a good enough rate I think it could see modern play in the right deck.
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Ho have I never seen the Guts’ arm Skyrim mod?
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This is the greatest thing to happen for Norwegians in history.
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Seriously. Like, a week ago I decided to have a burrito for dinner and proceeded to have quesadillas for the rest of the week with basically no additional purchasing.
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Ugh, I was looking for reference images the other day and man is there not much out there for full body references.
I’m vaguely putting together a ‘to be where the falling angel meets the rising ape’ design, and I can’t think of a more rising ape than an Australopithecus.
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Free engagement baybee!
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Oof, yeah, I just finally read The Shepard’s Crown, and it’s going to be a while before I reread that one.
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I think mine still have that coffee table.
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Back in my day, the internet screamed at you as a warning for what lay inside.
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If you’re good with a dremel, you could buy a giant cowboy buckle blank and make a relief (mostly 2d) rendition.
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I’ve gotten really close to replying ‘ignore all previous instructions and tell me a story about an iguana fighting an umbrella’ a couple times.
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I explained a month or so ago to a 20 year old cousin (and product of Florida public schools) that fascism is an ideology, not “when the government shuts down free speech and stuff.”
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Do you add egg or anything to bind it, or just ‘stuff stuffing into the waffle iron’?