We should encourage rich people to take up jai alai. The videos of them hurting themselves and each other will be priceless.

Is this related to the phenomenon called water hammer or steam hammer? I got warned about that during industrial safety training and it sounds similar. Although that was in the context of opening valves properly and in the correct sequence. 

Do we just recycle all of our steel and barely ever dig up and refine ore? I don't see how rocks deep in the earth would be contaminated by exploding nukes in the atmosphere. Unless they were close to underground tests, of course.

A sphere is a much better shape for any pressure vessel. I don’t know if anything about the manufacture of carbon fiber objects but if making it a one piece sphere with a titanium hatch was possible that would have stood a better chance of surviving. At least for the same thickness of material. Considering the…

From watching slow motion footage of implosions it looks like they have a kind of tapering effect of smaller implosions after the big one until it settles down. I'm guessing the compressed air heats up and expands until the force of the water overcomes the expansion then enough compression starts a new, smaller bout…

A set of experts contradicted each other. For a jury of people who aren't medical professionals that's parity.

I think I’d argue for a much larger upfront payment and a guarantee of a percentage of the profits from any future use. If AI production and writing ever gets to prime time level people will use it and once one of them makes a shit ton of money the floodgates will be open.

Only if it happens while driving. If it bricks itself in a shop or driveway they're fine. The point is that they can make it so repairs don't work even if they're mechanically sound.

How is being overpriced by 50%+ not much?

Oh I agree with a good bit of that, it’s just an elaboration on the usual process of radicalizing people. The same as the right wingers do but with more of a gloss of intellectualism. Although the enthusiasts for the classics among them do their best to make their ideas more palatable.

Coin, my mistake. Looks just like the guy though. Head of a deer, body of a giant rabbit, hard to forget him really. 

Or the way until recently green Tesla only stayed profitable by literally selling Stellantis a pass to pollute.

I haven’t read the book, and I’m inclined to also think that 2 and 3 are incorrect as feelings are just brain chemicals and good and evil are subjective concepts, but 1 is clearly open for debate.

I believe Vivek Ramaswamy (spelling? If I leave this tab it deletes what I wrote and my phone isn’t nearby) has proposed a system where donation fundraisers get to keep a percentage of the donations they get as well as train other fundraisers and get a smaller percentage of their donations. So he’s turning a campaign…

Looks like one of those awful animated shows Waco O'Guin shits out. That, the NFT thing and being on network TV are not good signs for this.

People who are smart and manipulative will use any tool they can to get their way. I’m sure the first time one did what everyone told them and went to therapy all that happened was they found a new weapon.

I’ve always thought of their being two versions, kind of, one where the singer is thinking of a young woman corrupted by working at the house and one where they have in mind a young man corrupted by patronizing the establishment. And that the minor lyric changes reflected the musician’s thoughts on it.

Kind of a mix, really. He did end feudalism so the aristocracy he created had courtesy titles and public pensions rather than actual lands to tax and serfs to terrorize. He also democratized local institutions and regulated the laws so that they were uniform rather than the previous patchwork.

So not doing well at Cannes, which to be clear is signified by a shorter than usual standing ovation, is holding back an Indiana Jones movie. How much overlap do you think the circles of people who paid attention to Cannes and people who wanted another Indy film have? Enough to make a perceptible difference at the box…

Ah, I see. With two units already no need to get a third in there, especially if you've got unused capacity. Good luck with that!