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Time wouldn't be on their side though. China would need to effectively complete the invasion before the US navy had time to react. Even if it was considered unlikely the US would react, I doubt China would commit to an invasion they weren't certain they could win.

If the US stops support would the war end? I don't really think so, but maybe. If it did, though, I would guess lives would be saved. That doesn't seem like a delusion.

It's not something I've ever seen, but I certainly believe it given their incredible noses. And of course pigs are often used for truffle hunting. If you are gathering mushrooms to eat, it's not too hard to learn which are toxic anyway.

Once you know where patches are (at least for mycorrhizal fungi which are some of the best) it is easy to go back and get them each year. But, it still takes time to find all the locations and there is competition from other foragers, humans as well as other animals.

You get way more than 2.50/day on food stamps!

Foraging enough mushrooms to provide any real sustenance sounds like a real challenge (except for fall in the northwest).

Rice and beans - been my staple for most of my life - isn't too much more than this. Two cup dried rice + two can beans is around $4 and that is generally enough for me. Although it is much better with a few eggs and some hot sauce or salsa as well.

There are better options than airbnb if money is the concern, though - it just seems really dumb. Airbnb is like eating out at restaurants instead of buying from the grocery store and preparing your own food. There's subletting, crashing at friend/relative, sleeping in the car, etc. Personally, I'd choose van life over blowing all my money on over priced accommodation.

Isn't that a lot more expensive?

Anectdotally, I've also been getting in a bad habit of staying up 2-3 days and agree there are similarities to being drunk - certainly in terms of cognitive ability and reflexes - but I even experience similar loss of inhibition (although not in nearly as fun a way).

The first serious cognitive effect I've encountered is struggling to find a word I'm searching for (or recalling a person's name) in conversation. On the third day, I also start having significant vision impairment, reminiscent of hallucinogenic effects, where objects seem to be swaying slightly when I focus on them.

It also quite apparent to me that it is much harder to retain information learned after being up for a day or two.

I mean, it's both right? It's easier to work on fixing policy if you're not a drug addict reading poisoned info.

you can't say the solution is simply "just don't do drugs, duh"

But that is obviously the solution at the individual level, and it is always productive to put the burden of solving your own problems on yourself like OP suggests.

I imagine it is more of an exponential decay mixed with poisson since strikes were far more common back in the day. Also, I'd guess an exponential decay in the expected size of impactors over time as they've been smashing themselves into pieces.

society would be very well served

A society that encourages people to off themselves because they are a burden doesn't sound nice to me. I think anyone should have the choice (legally) to end their life, but it would be gross if people actually started talking about how that would be good for everyone else.

a person who kills somebody else definitely has mental issues that come from their childhood

People that kill other people often function well in their society. It doesn't make sense to me to classify that as mental issues. People are inherently territorial, aggressive animals - at least to the extent being so doesn't make them much of an outlier.

But if the underlying causal factor is obesity, then it is meaningless to say various races were impacted more heavily - in fact, it is worse than meaningless cause it implies they are causal factors.

It's variable. I worked at a place where back of the house didn't get any of the tips.

Because who else but an idiot would buy a used car for more than they can buy it retail?

Isn't the wait time to get one pretty significant? I doubt the people buying trucks at these prices are overly concerned with deal-hunting.

It just seems kind of wrong to expend so much thought inventing new languages for the movie when it had so much context and culture already there to use.

It did all work great in the books, and would certainly have worked in the movies as well. But, the effort and care they've put into this additionally world-building seems totally in the spirit of the original Dune to me. There were a number of things that I had imagined differently when reading the books, but this was a rare case where I think they've done an excellent job bringing their version to the screen.

Apples and oranges. The US had done plenty of atrocities since the CIA branched off after WW2, sabotaging foreign governments, temporary invasions, etc. But, if the US was Russia, all the Americas would be Russia by now.

They have a section on "thirteenth stepping" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholics_Anonymous#Criticism

He was like the original historian, though. Everyone's a critic.

Neovim's tree-sitter integration is so clean. I'd like to see Emacs develop a better api for injecting multiple parsers, like neovim's `#set!` queries. Currently, I've found multi-parser support to be pretty much unusable in Emacs.

Yea, I think that's probably fair [[although I don't really know enough about those situations to judge them]]

No, I think it's pretty clear what a terrorist does - target civilians on purpose. But, terrorists can certainly be freedom fighters as well or vice versa.

It would be cool if it was checker aware

Yea, definitely, people have wasted a lot time searching for the proper disables in all the different tools.

I wrote a shellcheck wrapper that outputs results in compilation mode a few years ago - https://gist.github.com/nverno/d73be9534abae26b1794298f608bf....

I still prefer it over flycheck personally cause from the compilation buffer you can quickly run through the errors and press "d" to add the disable meta comments to the source.

It keeps growing, sending all the bytes again for each eval.

The Wire and Sopranos are my two favorite shows along with Deadwood - amazing writing. Ill check out those others, ty!

yea, the justice system is quite the misnomer way too often

I agree, but the world just isn't this simple. It's not about murdering with you family- it's about protecting your family. Kids I knew that went to Iraq were the protective types, not murderous. People can enlist in the military with the intention of protecting their country only to be ordered overseas caught up in some bullshit war. Historically, drafts were the main reason. And no man is an island, so whatever situation pulls one person in, is bound to ripple through other people's lives and pull others in as well.

I consider any armed person outside their home country should be considered as a terrorist and a militia

I mean, there are situations like hostage crises where foreign countries send in soldiers that I think are completely justified. But, I agree, in general. Our foreign policy has been fucked since the CIA started after WWII. I'm just grateful I never had to fight a war- chances are I would've being born in the last couple hundred years