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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I take it you don’t live in the US, since a lot of what you’re saying is just grossly wrong if you do.

    Since the conversation was about the US I’m not sure I understand bringing another countries laws into it.
    I certainly don’t understand your response to the antler comment. I don’t know a single hunter who doesn’t have at least the antlers of their best buck mounted on the wall, and in many cases an ominous number of heads.


  • Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and every other state I can think of to check with a deer population?

    I’m not sure what you mean by selling a felling permit. You charge a fee for a deer hunting license.

    Trophy hunting is quite different and also usually illegal.

    What are you talking about? Hunting deer for the antlers is about half the reason people do it. If it’s illegal it’s probably the most regulated and licensed crime I’ve encountered.


  • It’s seriously funny how freaked out people get from garbage disposals.
    They’re quite safe. They don’t have spinning blades. They have something closer to a dull grater and arms on swivels that catch loose food and push it against the stationary grind plate.

    You shouldn’t put your hand in one because the little weighted arms are going very fast and could hurt your fingers if they got hit, but it’s unlikely to push them into the wall.

    They’re great if you have proper sewage treatment, since it keeps the trash from getting stinky and it basically just gets turned into fertilizer like a more efficient, roundabout compost heap that I don’t need to remember to poke.


  • He was pretty explicitly a world class research chemist. Even with a written recipe there’s a lot of room for variation in chemistry and knowing what’s happening is how you correct.

    In earlier seasons it’s because he does stuff right and uses the right tools correctly. People are impressed with his product but it’s just uncommon.
    In later seasons he’s making industrial quantities of laboratory grade meth. A rough estimate would have his output being a serious competitor to a pharmaceutical company (walt made ~15,000 kg of meth, and the US produces about 30,000kg of amphetamine per year).

    So his competition is mostly people who work for Pfizer. Similar to how most bomb makers work for national governments. The people who are good at it make more, safer, by doing it legit. It’s why it’s always newsworthy when a professional level player does private business.


  • They’re made of gypsum most often, so they’re fragile but not that fragile. I don’t know that I’ve ever accidentally broken drywall.

    https://youtu.be/_FJ8fG1pAzg

    I currently have my foot leaning against some drywall and am tilting back in my chair. Not at all worried about it breaking. I can bounce about as much as I can without falling and it’s solid.
    We use it because it’s cheaper, faster, pretty durable, easy to repair and paint, a decent insulator, sound blocker and most importantly fire resistant.
    For almost all uses it’s a better material.
    It’s less common where houses are older than the 50s.


  • More a key role in tourism and managing deforestation. Natural resource management agencies take care of the difference at the end of the season to prevent starvation regardless of hunter involvement.

    We almost hunted them to extinction and our continuous destruction of their habitat and eradication of their predators means they can basically never reach equalibrium again, so it’s just a constant risk of over consumption, over population and starvation.

    Hunters mostly make a lot of money for the area selling the license, both through fees and the economic activity of the hunters.
    Actually letting things get better would involve reintroducing a non-trivial number of wolves, which is largely opposed by farmers and some hunting groups since it would reduce the population of deer.

    So they do currently play a key role, but largely because it’s something they want and it’s generally pretty profitable. It’s just treading water though, since no one with power is particularly interested in fixing it.



  • “build it at the gym and show it off in the kitchen”

    The only way excercise significantly contributes to weight loss is by building more muscle mass, particularly lean muscle, that burns more calories at rest.
    Since your resting metabolism is a bit more than half of the calories you burn in a day, making it larger adds a notable chunk to the “Out” side of “calories in < calories out”, in some cases making it so the out side is capable of being larger than the minimum a person needs to eat to be healthy.

    By happy coincidence, it also makes it easier to excercise, makes you feel better and be healthier, and helps with awkward panting.






  • I think it just stands out because you suddenly understand a word in a different context. When English does it it doesn’t stand out because it’s so riddled with words from different origins that basically any random mouth sound passes as a plausible English word.

    I went to a cafe and perused the menu, but I didn’t see anything I liked, not even coffee, so I waltzed out and went to the gourmet delicatessen across the street where I got a Reuben with extra sauerkraut. Hard to say no to corned beef.
    Afterwards I picked up the kid from kindergarten, and we picked a restaurant to go to. I wanted sushi, and they wanted tacos, so we compromised and got hamburgers.
    We went home, took a shower with the new shampoo, got into our pajamas and read our favorite genre of story: macho poncho wearing jungle robots singing opera karaoke in a salsa tsunami.

    We didn’t adopt the words to be cool, it just fit better. It’s hardly surprising that other languages would at least occasionally find one of ours useful in some mysterious way that words blend across languages.



  • There’s a line, and I don’t know where it is. I’d very much rather someone go who didn’t need it than the other way, but medical care is to some extent a finite resource that can be over utilized.
    Maybe the answer is to incentivise using it correctly instead of penalizing using it incorrectly. Get a check for showing up to or giving proper cancellation notice for all appointments, getting your regular checkups and stuff like that. Appropriate use of whatever we’re calling non-emergency walk in clinics. (At least where I am, your doctor has a lead time before appointments, and the emergency room is more geared towards immediate specialized care. The clinics are designed for “let’s give that sprained ankle a double check and pop a stich in that gouge”. Routine care that shouldn’t wait)


  • It’s that, plus other factors. The regulations are more lenient, it’s easier to get a more efficient engine in with more mass to work with, it’s easier to pass safety ranking checks, and it’s easier to put comfort features in that consumers want.
    Putting a large crumple zone on a compact isn’t as easy as putting one on a giant truck.
    (Note this isn’t saying big cars are more or proportionally more efficient , but that the efficiency advances they’ve made over the years are easier to implement in a large engine)




  • You’re more right than you might have expected, but not because it’s a fallacy or misleading. You noticed something important in how it all works: time is a dimension, but it doesn’t act like “up” or “forwards”.
    This doesn’t make it less of a dimension or a hindrance to understanding, it’s an observation that leads to: there are different types of dimensions.
    Typically called time like and space like, they can also be thought of as “one directional” and “two directional”, although a physicist somewhere is (correctly) coughing politely and glaring at some of the shit photons get up to at the thought of one directional time.

    You’re thinking of time as a parameter, which is how it is in classical mechanics. It’s a different category of thing, but it technically makes the system 4d.
    When you start looking at how light moves and relativity you find that you actually need time to act much more like another direction because it no longer defined an order or sequence, and you get stuff like “time slows down when move faster in space because acceleration shifts your movement vector in space time”.

    It’s even simpler in math, because a dimension is simply a number required to specify a point in a space. If you cared to you could use “left” as your parameter and talk about how a thrown ball changes position in time, up, and forward as a function of left.
    Then you could do some real math and use that function as a point in some space and talk about how the different components are different dimensional aspects of the infinite dimensional polynomial function space.


  • A dimension is “simply” a direction that can be changed without changing any of the other directions.
    What people often mean is a spatial dimension in “normal” geometry, where “up” is independent from “left” and “forward”.

    A square is a two dimensional shape. It can have points on it specified in two coordinates.
    When you hold a block, you’re holding a 3 dimensional shape. It takes 3 coordinates to specify a point in it.
    When you draw a 3d cube, you’re drawing the 2d “shadow”, or projection, of that 3d shape into 2d.

    A tesseract has the same relationship with a cube as the cube has to the square. What we often see represented is the 2d shadow of the 3d shadow of the 4d object.
    On it’s own it doesn’t tell you much about the shape. What tells you more is seeing how the lines and points change as you rotate in 4d.

    https://www.geogebra.org/m/mzycqzgt

    This seems like a fine little tool for seeing stuff.

    The 3d shadow of the tesseract isn’t the tesseract though. We can’t actually see them, only the shadow. Thinking hard and looking at the shadows changes as we move the 4d points can let’s us intuit how they work though.