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DenverCoder9 strikes again?

When Wahlberg assaulted people when he as 15 and 16 years old. That doesn’t excuse the behavior, but 15/16 year olds aren’t adults with fully formed brains. Wahlberg also went to the police and claimed responsibility for the attack. He then plead guilty in court and served time. It still bothers me how racially motivated it was and for that I would personally always have disdain for Wahlberg.

Cosby was 28 years old for his first time of rape allegations. There would be more than a dozen other women that came forward with reports. The most recent was Feb of 2000 when Cosby was then 63 years old. Cosby was a fully formed adult doing these horrible acts to women he had power over, and he used that power to abuse them.

Spacy and Weinstein also did their horrible acts as fully formed adults and had a repeated pattern of doing them again and again to people they had power over.

Corporations to workers: “Use AI for everything you do!”

Workers use AI.

Corporations to workers: “Not like that!!”

You’re going to be even more angry to learn that your apartment neighbor is using the shared building power to run an industrial aluminum smelter on his balcony as his side hustle. It does explain why he’s posting all of those pallets of 6061 alloy bar stock and ingots for sale on Nextdoor and Facebook Marketplace though.

Not today, Mandela.

What surprises me most is that I don’t think Apple ever sold an expensive cradle for this mouse to be held upside-down. Die hard Apple fans would have bought it.

I feel this. I help where I can and it feels like an infinitely deep abyss of need unfillable by what resources I can provide. In times past I’ve been able to come up with $1000 to help someone and before its been the difference between life success and failure. Now $1000 may only fix a single problem for the person and they have 3 to 4 other problems of equal weight with equal consequences. So fixing the one still causes their lives to go off the rails from the other remaining problems.

It makes me feel helpless to not be able to do anything meaningful.

I was asking about the song. Thats it. If you want to listen to a 3+ minute song to get a better understanding of the poster, you’re welcome to. I’m not. If you want to accept the poster’s points without the song, you’re welcome to. I was interested in the poster’s viewpoint. They included a song which appeared to hold a large part of their viewpoint with respect to an experience with a teacher. I still have no idea what they’re talking about with the song. They communicated they aren’t interested in explaining more. I’ve accepted that. If you really want to wrap yourself around the axle on this feel free. I won’t be responding to you anymore.

Thats fair.

Those two examples are not evidence, they are suppositions. They may be fine suppositions, but the poster provided a link that appears, by context, to be actual evidence. I respected the poster enough to ask what they meant by the song instead of just dismissing it.

I was also absolutely told this by at least one teacher, and in my case they weren’t wrong.

Can you provide evidence to your point without having to listen to a 3+ minute song?

I had something similar in elementary school. There was an assignment given and something like 2 hours to do it. The reward was extra recess time. I saw the exercise knew I could do it quickly so I screwed around for about 1 hour and 50 minutes. The teacher saw this and commented on it. In the last 10 minutes I blasted out the assignment, handing it in when everyone else did. I received a passing grade on the assignment. The teacher stopped me anyway from getting the extra recess time because she didn’t like that I spent so little time on the assignment even though I completed it sufficiently.

I stopped trusting teachers for years because of that and so no reason to put in full effort when arbitrarily applied rules would take away the rewards anyway. That didn’t mean I didn’t put effort into learning, it just didn’t really care about scoring well or doing assignments. I’d do well on tests, but had low grades from simply not completing or not turning in homework. Occasionally I’d even do the homework if I was working on grasping the concept being taught, but I didn’t see a point of even turning those in many times even though they were complete.

Looks like shakshuka, Eggs in Purgatory, and Eggs in Hell are all names of the same dish.

TIL!

Looks like shakshuka, Eggs in Purgatory, and Eggs in Hell are all names of the same dish.

TIL!

Is this possibly a slight mis-translation of “Eggs in Purgatory”?

I wonder how quickly he’ll flee to Minsk or Moscow as soon as the details of his deeds in office are uncovered by the new administration.

Shuttle was always a Low Earth Orbit craft. It was never designed or capable of even a flight to the moon, much less another planet.

infinite resources for capitalism to exploit.

That is potentially still alive with robotic missions for orbital asteroid capture and mining.

I walked outside last night looking up at the sky and knew for the first time in my life there were people circling the Moon right then. It was a profound feeling.

The narrative of space colonization just doesn’t sell to me.

For me one of the most important parts of human spaceflight is working as a constant reminder of how hard it is to keep humans alive outside of Earth. It should work to underscore that we only have one Earth and there is no realistic “plan B”. Without human spaceflight we could get complacent and just think we can find another home for humanity. When we see live on video feeds how much it takes for just 4 humans for a week or so to live off Earth and close to the moon the illusion of an alternative to Earth shatters.

That just isn’t true.

If you want a well researched and referenced argument. Here is a good one.

It takes far more people to build, maintain, and service airplanes and the infrastructure to support them than to do the same for trains, and even when traveling a train requires fewer personnel per passenger-kilometer.

If you’re moving the goalposts to include all the infrastructure of air travel, then you must also include the infrastructure costs of long haul rail travel. Building out new rail travel for hundreds of miles of long haul service (which is what I think OP is looking at, and what I specifically replied to) is monstrously expensive.

Airplanes and cars are massively subsidized

Can you point me at examples unsubsidized financially self sustaining (profitable) long haul rail anywhere in the world?

and their uncovered externalities are much more costly to society too.

We’ve to enough moving parts in this conversation. Lets table this one to include actual costs paid and ticket prices please.