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> you need to actually get out of the basement, grab a gun, and storm the Capitol.

This is not what happened on J6, and is specifically why it was not an insurrection.


They were terrorists. Every single participant in J6 was a terrorist and deserves the full fury of the United States of America to treat them as such. They were also attempting to assassinate the VP. 1500+ terrorist and failed assassination attempts.

It's a shame we went so light on them. Care bear punishment. Sweetheart deals, and then pardoned by a man that literally, factually, supports terrorism against the USA and supporting the attempted assassination of his VP.

Geronimo.


Windows supports dhcp failover, where multiple dhcp servers can exist on the same subnet.

I assume youre being sarcastic, but ive heard serious thinkers, like sam Harris, sincerely make this argument.

America is truly lost when people wish their politicians were lying to them more.


Its probably true of most animals. I raised a couple of pigs and we intentionally never fed them any meat, even though they'd probably eat it, because we didnt want them to get a taste for it

For sure they'd eat it - pigs have a taste for everything.

You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty.


> You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty.

This is the real reason for the panic when Dorothy falls into the pig sty at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz. The pigs would crush her and eat her. (But in the movie, her dress doesn't even get dirty!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r6cF5lyqEo


Finally a time when this obscure Wikipedia article is relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_toilet


Apparently it's still a thing in places like rural India for people to squat to poop out in the fields, and then risk being bowled over by a pig rushing over to eat it.

They truly will eat anything.

As far as meat goes, they are not just scavengers - I've seen videos of wild pigs chasing after rabbits, actively hunting them down.

I'd never head of those Chinese "pig toilets", but it reminds me of a Chinese friend who said that growing up (maybe still?) it was common practice in the villages to feed infant poop to the pet/village dogs.


Yup. Lots of stories of old timers dying of a heart attack in the pen and only finding glasses and watches left.

Been here 8 years, always wondered how comments died. I assumed it was algorithmic. TIL

“[dead]” usually means algorithmic (could be as simple as an account registered via Tor that hasn’t been vouched for enough times). “[flagged][dead]” usually means it was flag-killed by users, except I’ve been noticing some AI written comments that are flagged instead of just dead, but they’re minutes old so unlikely to be user flagged.

There's been an "AI comment detect" algo trialed and running for a month or so now.

If you see any probably human comments tagged as Mr Roboto either vouch (weak indication, needs a few others to boost) or email hn@<this site> for dang / tom to cast a meat based eyeball over it.


Man I wish I understood anything you said, or anything in tfa. Math has to have my personal gold medal for highest desire to learn coupled with total unwillingness to.


in a sense it's about a game. or... maybe it's better to call it a "challenge"

Tarski said "hey, what if we limit ourself only to positive integers? subtraction/division doesn't always work, so let's get rid of it. What can we say about +^? there are some obvious properties, like x+y=y+x for whatever x and y. Is that enough to describe all the equalities?".

Wilkie answered No, and a whole different hunt began - trying to find a set of pseudo "numbers" with pseudo "+^", that would have the same obvious properties, but not the non-obvious one

and SAT-solving is essentially asking computer to find things by describing what they are not - "1+2 is not invalid and can't be 2 different values", "1+(1+1) must not differ from (1+1)+1". A lot of such properties are easily expressible as "not the opposite" - but devil's in the details and some choices of opposites are faster for computer than others. Also symmetries are evil :)


>generally a non event

depends on what your priors are. Is a dropped rod a fukashima or chernoble international emergency? No.

However, depending on the design characteristics of the core, dropping rods lowers the heat distribution proximal to the dropped rod(s), but may result in higher peaks distal to the rods as physics characteristics attempt to maintain the average, which may exceed design limits.

Furthermore, rods aren't supposed to drop. How that came to pass is a matter that requires honest investigation - manufacturing/quality control, maintenance practices, personnel error? Much to learn to ensure safety.

Saying "we just had to rely on a critical reactor safety feature and scrammed, this is a nonevent" doesnt quite hit the mark.


Of course, but that's not what happened here. For a pressurized water reactor, there are maintenance and procedural questions about why the rod was dropped. People will likely get fired over this. But from a standpoint of reactor and radiological safety, this is largely the design operating correctly and prioritizing radiological containment.


and for the curious who didn't what Chernobyl on HBO, other types of reactors have brief criticality increases on rod insertion, which is somewhere between bad, BAD, and OMFGWTFBBQVERYBAD. In the Chernobyl's case, they entered a criticality region known as "prompt criticality" which is where power doubling can happen at prompt neutron rates (e.g. milliseconds or faster). Very very bad. In the case of pressurized water reactors, this isn't what happens. Every moment of control rod descent is reducing criticality.


People will be fired because a safety feature triggered?

Does the American nuclear power industry not do the equivalent of blameless postmortems? That seems... suboptimal.


> Of course, but that's not what happened here

They dropped rods and had to scram, unclear what part of that you think is not relying on a safety feature. Why do you think they scrammed?

>this is largely the design operating correctly and prioritizing radiological containment.

Is that largely what is was, or entirely what it was? Im not sure what your point is.

> there are maintenance and procedural questions about why the rod was dropped.

I agree, that's why I said it.

> People will likely get fired over this.

I dont know why youre telling me this, you're the one that called this a nonevent


The entire point of critical safety features is to turn events into non events.


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Except no bot would write "chernoble", unless it's manually edited after the fact


Or "fukashima", which I think also rules out an AI editing pass at the end. That said, the smell of Claude specifically is pervasive in that comment. Perhaps someone who's ingested a bit too much Anthropic output?


"I was in the US nuclear navy, now I work in IT."


Rabbits are a good input calorie to output meat ratio, and their excrement makes good cold compost. They breed and litter relatively easily. Theyre also easy to house.


> Fun fact: a pallet of books is called a "gaylord,"

A Gaylord is a type of box that fits on a pallet. There are multiple ways to palletize products, like shrink wrapping or metal banding


epsteins case tells you how much the US political class cares about SA and CSA happening in the US.


Yea, until at least one non-ringleader Epstein party participant goes to jail, I'm not going to believe the US actually gives a shit about protecting children.


Every president since Clinton protected epstein too, it's not a partisan thing.


always with the "both sides" stuff, meanwhile trump literally provided girls to Epstein through Mar-A-Lago


I always love his defenders who will cite "But he banned him from MAL"

Yes, as in the documents, he kicked him out for "stealing his girls".

Fucking hell


There’s no concrete evidence that anyone besides Epstein (and by extension Maxwell, who assisted Epstein) actually abused children. Besides the testimony of Virginia Giuffre, nobody else has claimed they were sexually assaulted as minors (Sjoberg was groped by Prince Andrew at Epstein’s home when she was in her early 20s). And neither the FBI nor the Palm Beach PD found physical evidence of such or communications between Epstein or others indicating this was going on.

Why would you expect anyone else to go to jail under those circumstances? Proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt seems very unlikely


Just in case someone might mistake this comment to imply there wasn't actually a large-scale CSA-as-a-service business happening on his island - FBI has officially declared the number of minor victims to be over a thousand: https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl

It was an industrial-scale racket. It is impossible for that kind of number of victims to be just for one person or group's recreation.


I think you linked to the wrong document, unless you're taking "Epstein had over ten thousand pornographic videos and images" as "there were over one thousand minor victims" which doesn't follow as a logical conclusion.


Two quotes from the link they posted:

> The files relating to Epstein include a large volume of images of Epstein, images and videos of victims who are either minors or appear to be minors

> Consistent with prior disclosures, this review confirmed that Epstein harmed over one thousand victims. Each suffered unique trauma. Sensitive information relating to these victims is intertwined throughout the materials.

The second quote doesn’t explicitly say “minor victims”, but the whole document is focused on that, mentioning that “One of our highest priorities is combatting child exploitation and bringing justice to victims.”


I read the whole thing twice because I was fairly sure I missed something the first go around and still missed that second quote. My reading comprehension is atrocious. Thanks and sorry dartharva.


I'd at least expect there to be an investigation, based on the huge volume of information that already exists. Unless we believe that the files are just 3 million pages of casserole recipes and that the people who visited just went to play Settlers of Catan.


To be utterly fair, most of the "emails" are just inane conversations he had with people.

People love to throw around the statistics about the number of documents, but most are entirely blah


> Why would you expect anyone else to go to jail under those circumstances? Proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt seems very unlikely

It's actually pretty easy to prove guilt in the US. But it becomes a lot harder the longer the distance from the crime. In particular, witnesses die or leave. Heck, investigators die or leave which makes discovery for the perpetrator even harder on the FBI.

Further, the bar for civil litigation is lower than criminal. The FBI refusing to prosecute means that victims have a very hard time pursuing civil cases even if the FBI were to lose their case. The FBI has way more evidence that a victim can have.

The most non-nefarious but still shitty reason I can think of for why the FBI hasn't gone to trial is because they know each of these cases will be long and expensive because of the perpetrators. That's caused them to collect way more evidence than they would have if this were just a normal person.

Funny how the FBI is only careful and pensive when perpetrators are rich.


There is if someone would follow the money trail. Plenty of hard facts to reach a guilty outcome. And over half of the papers haven't been released. If someone motivated comes to power there is a good chance.


Where are the hard facts about this? If you know them why haven’t you shared them?


There's plenty of concrete evidence. But - for some reason - Trump's government has refused to release it, defying multiple legal judgements.


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