I have to wonder how much 911 systems not having proper geolocation capability enables swatting. Would this have gone any differently if the 911 operator had gotten the call, been given a Wichita address and then seen that the cell phone reported its location in California?

If you run at a cop acting panicked, screaming, “He’s got a gun, he’s going to kill me!” you will absolutely be held liable if the cop then responds by pulling his weapon and shooting the person behind you, and it turns out that they didn’t have a gun or threaten you in any way.

But if you aren’t accelerating, then your pursuer can just accelerate and catch up with you. They weren’t burning fuel to maintain their speed, they were burning fuel to maintain their acceleration.

Fractional values, as Gandalf said.

Nevermind, I guess when you report something like that, Twitter blocks it from your view.

I think it’s worth pointing out that one of the three videos got pulled by Twitter because it was a complete misrepresentation—making it a piece of pure hate propaganda.

It is, first of all, a baked good that not even your most hopelessly kitchen-challenged relative can fuck up—even the simplest version with a frozen pie shell and Libby’s canned filling is delicious.

Calcbot is my go-to calculator app. https://tapbots.com/calcbot/

Wow, I always thought his claims about Alice Practice just made her seem more talented and brilliant.

Interesting segment on the TED Radio Hour by a woman who researches how memory works. The bit in her segment that I remember most and seems most appropriate here is that we alter our own memories, buffing them into a reflection of the person we want to be, not necessarily who we actually were or what we did.

I have to admit, I was honestly expecting (and dreading) seeing “Zero” on the list of choices.

In a campaign I played in, our party got recruited into helping a competitor in a cooking competition retrieve ingredients, primarily a giant (monstrously so) bass. It included fending off undead giant bass and retrieving a live one using a chain for a fishing line.

By comparison, we’re seeing YouTube content creators like MXR struggling with getting demonetized for having the word ‘crotch’ get uttered in one of his videos.

I dunno, somehow I took the majority of her bit to be satire of the sort of “well that’s just awful” sit-on-their-hands approach that many Americans are taking, so I’m rather surprised by the negative reaction the bit got from the left.

In the books I seem to recall it’s implied that he sees through the weirwood trees, and possibly through non-human animals around the weirwood. And that implies that there is still a limit to what he can witness.

flimsy and constantly falling apart

SAC is definitely the version most worth watching.

SAC is definitely the version most worth watching.

“Watching Predator at work” was a couple days ago.

I believe it’s Gabe filling in or taking over as DM for Tycho’s campaign, not just starting a new one.

In a dark field at night is a GREAT place to show off one’s mod.