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If the threat is the Russian plane or ship will blow you to burning pieces if you don't, why wouldn't you? Proving a point that leaves you dead isn't usually the best course of action.

One of the big ones I remember from the last decade was the Congressional baseball shooting in 2017, where luckily nobody was killed. This isn't a sudden problem to brace for, it's a continuing problem to finally accept and address.

Charlie Kirk was not an elected public official, but he was definitely still political in a way that a lot of regular Americans are political. So even if it's less significant with regard to elected officials being targeted, it was political violence that regular people felt and could conceive of being targeted with, for similar reasons as Charlie. I believe that was what made his assassination resonate with people, much more than an elected official being assassinated does.

No. You are still your own independent person, even in a marriage. If your bonds of friendship are merely the result of you holding the same opinions, then you are not so much friends as you are common-goal acquaintances, such as two strangers meeting at a sports event where they are both rooting for the same team. If a change in your opinion is grounds for no longer being friends, such as the same strangers meeting at a sports event and realizing one of them "defected" to root for the other team, then it is clear you as a person had little to do with the friendship and it was more about convenience or selection bias.

With this in mind, most "friendships" on social media are driven by the ideas you align with, and it is a reason why the old idea of "cancel culture" can be subject to such whiplash. If you are only friends, followers, or mutuals with people who believe the same ideas as you, one of them expressing an idea you did not think they would have might lead you to distrust them - even though you don't know them as a person at all, but a "collection of ideas" you agree with.

Depends on what she thinks IS art. Are movies art to her? Something cinematic might be good if so.

Otherwise, show her Mario Paint and MAKE some art :)

You might be thinking of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image (https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/hubble-ultra-deep-fiel...). I believe it was the result of NASA saying "Let's look at what appears to be a completely dark spot in space, zoom in as far as we can, and see what's there."

We see stars in our galaxy because they are close enough to us that we see them as individual stars. Compare that to the Andromeda Galaxy, which is far enough away that without intense zoom, it looks like a single source of light. There are galaxies even farther away, which we cannot see with the naked eye at all, but zooming in on them like Hubble did means we eventually get enough resolution to see they are individual galaxies, unfathomably far away.

JWST being able to see infrared means we'll see galaxies that are so far away, their light is redshifted so we (and Hubble) cannot even see them at all.

With regards to your question about how to test the bubble hypothesis posted by parent, we would be limited by how variable our point of view can be. We can gather what data we can at one end of Earth's orbit, and then try to see from the opposite end and compare what we see, comparing data sets to see if certain galaxies or stars are in different positions. We already do some of this when dealing with gravitational lensing and I believe it's one of the primary ways we can detect black holes, as they bend light a lot.

That, and the unfortunate truth that if Firefox only exists because Google needs a fig leaf against monopoly charges, it hasn't proven its value in enough ways for it to stick around. I love Firefox, but the market in general has centralized on Chromium for a lot of reasons.

Philosophical reasons to exist are great, but philosophy doesn't pay the bills, it seems.

They are Mennonite parents in a Mennonite community, so I don't believe they would see it as murder.

The President is the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Military. Currently, European leaders are discussing sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, but the UK has claimed they will only send troops if the US promises to provide a "backstop".

So a lot of the power of the President to direct foreign policy is because they essentially control the military and many other countries rely on the US military for a lot. On the other hand, if you anger the US, the President can decide to change tactics suddenly such as Obama increasing the use of drone strikes or Trump using NATO as a bargaining chip.

The US is still looked upon as the final say in military situations because it also has the largest military in both active combat forces and equipment.There is an expectation that the US will act as world police - I remember Obama catching grief over not intervening in Syria. All of this adds up to America being "the big stick" and has somewhat changed the Presidency. This is also why Isolationism vs Interventionism is such a heated debate.

If the demons control your body by abusing your brain and nerve impulses, it could be. Our bodies work through electrical signals and various neurotransmitters like serotonin, so an anti-psychotic that affects brain receptors could prevent such a "hotwiring".

Would it be any different than if aliens could beam signals to individual neurons to force you to do something? What about a skilled surgeon with an Arduino, or those seizure prevention circuits they can install?

Roblox Studio is a very powerful system, my 8 year old has played around with it to make simple maps and obbys. People have coded Call of Duty style games on Roblox (such as Frontlines) so it's pretty surprising how far you can stretch the engine.

Aerogel with CO2 is pretty common, I wonder if helium aerogel will be viable, or if the helium would slowly escape like it does in a balloon? I don't think we could use hydrogen for it as supercritical hydrogen sounds very dangerous.

My son loves airships (thanks Mario and Bowser lol) but I think the main issue is that even with the most buoyant gas we can use, hydrogen, physics doesn't really allow for much lifting capacity once you add the lower compartment where passengers or cargo would be. Even the Hindenberg had a lightweight grand piano made, but eventually had it removed to save weight.

The numbers look even worse with helium, and it's a lot easier to make hydrogen than to capture enough helium. I'd love to see some kind of hybrid airship/aerofoil system that could lift more with powered assistance, but I don't know if that would be more or less efficient than huge cargo jets.

Same group who claimed to have Fulton County, Georgia data, pushed back the pay deadlines, but never released anything after Fulton County didn't pay the ransom. I don't doubt they have actually hit targets but that seed of doubt is planted.

I wonder how long the pool will stay open?

Glad to know you didn't get sucked down too, neck deep water draining has some crazy strength. I'm sure that was quite a magical experience for Flashlight Stoner as well!

Fiber can be patched, but it take a lot more than just twisting the ends together like you can with copper. Usually they have a portable fusion splicer in case of a fiber cut and can at the very least fuse a length of fiber on each end of the break so it can pass light again.

If an inaccessible wallet is able to be recovered, how does this not scare people who don't want someone else to access their wallet? Do they do a modern brute force attack on them?

Another fun thing to consider is older orchestral music as the "gold standard" for what music as theory intended. If an orchestra had the same amount of bass modern music does, it would have to be very heavily overpopulated by low brass instruments to the detriment of the rest of the instrumental ranges. Instead, each instrument is a "sound" which can be used to craft a greater musical phrase. A good example of this is a pipe organ, which has stops to add/remove particular sounds, ranges, and timbres depending on what kind of music you are playing.

Compared to modern music where the instrument isn't limited by the sounds it can physically make (due to digital production) as well as the things they make each instrument do, as you said much of modern music is carried by a beat rather than a melody, so a vocalist might be the only discernible melody. Back to a pipe organ, it would be really difficult to play a modern song on the pipe organ as a result because the structure is so different that it's hard to really compare. However, the pipe organ was a marvel in that it allowed a player to basically BE the entire orchestra if needed.

Depends on what you are listening to and the band's decisions. Not quite 80s, but Metallica released an album with nearly all the bass guitar ducked. On the other hand, something like Duran Duran or The Police wrote their music not to thump, but to have the bass guitar actually carry part of the melody. Modern music uses bass quite differently than older music, and what many people think of when they think about "bass" is usually the really rattly sub-bass that only subwoofers can really produce.

80s music was intended to be played on a boombox radio with no sub-woofers and still represent all the sounds the band recorded. In the end, it's just one of the ways music has changed over the years.

Manufactured outrage at its finest.

You have to wonder what it was about though - was it a coup similar to Altman and OpenAI? Was it a "Hey you seem more focused on other projects so you should just focus on those since that's what you want" thing? Was it that Jack didn't get to have his way on every little thing?

It's pretty telling that he is advising people not to use Bluesky though, guess he isn't happy with the direction they are going.

On the pottery art the article references, it looks like both figures have a dangling penis. That doesn't strike me as a depiction of Yahweh and his wife, regardless of what the translated text says.

Pretty cool, looks like they chilled lithium atoms to near absolute zero to remove their momentum, and flipped the laser lattice on and off to let them cool/warm and then record the change from cold, stationary single atom into warmer moving waveform.

I had to zoom in a bit before it showed the satellites but yep, that's a lot of tin cans!

Is it possible there's a mechanical/design cutoff where most planes designed to be fully mechanical would feel the "burble" while a more modern plane would not, similar to ABS vs non-ABS brakes or powersteering vs none? Are there hydraulic assists for flight controls that might smooth out those mechanical tells?

They've already tried banning synthetics. I remember 14 years ago when buying JWH-018 it was sold as "bonsai fertilizer" and then my state banned it by name along with "all other analogues" though I don't know how effective that particular ban was as the people importing/making spice just used different chemicals that weren't explicitly named.

The main draw to this isn't that it's a 3rd rate experience, it's a high that won't show up on drug screens so it was very popular among people on probation back then. Delta 8 still shows up on drug screens but many of the synthetics don't, so if you "can't get caught" but still want to get high people are more likely to reach for research chemicals for the same reason people do krokodil even knowing they will likely have side effects.

Well it worked so perfectly in Chicago :/

It looks like dang has previously had discussions with you regarding the way flagging works, and this could be a similar issue. Enough HN users flag something, and if a mod doesn't reverse the flagging it just stays flagged. The mods are usually busy fighting bots and spam, so don't take this personally.

>I thought the article was going to talk more about how Twitter isn’t really used for breaking news as ubiquitously anymore.

Same, I was kind of expecting some kind of stats comparing tweet numbers for this disaster with previous disasters to show something like "people aren't talking about the real world on twitter as much." Instead the article is lamenting how twitter has changed into a psyop/influence network that you can't trust anymore. Perhaps we never should have trusted twitter or assigned it as much value as we did if "racist mobs" can move in and overwhelm a narrative so easily.

The editor they interviewed pointed out that there were unsourced videos and conspiracy theories about the disaster so it really sounds like they were unhappy that twitter isn't primarily used by journalists who provide sources and receipts. Sure, that's a way people can use twitter but it's definitely not how most use twitter.

During my junior year at high school, someone wrote a bomb threat as a joke on the stall. Suddenly every building entry had a backpack checking station you had to go through. Every bathroom break was scrutinized and logged, and only one person was allowed in the bathroom at a time. Small school (my class had 36 kids or so) but it's a great example of one person ruining everything for everybody.