Holy crap. Ken Block died????
Snowmobile accident, rolled over on a hill and it squished him.
Readit Newsopwieurposiu commented on Emoji evidence errors don’t undo a murder conviction blog.ericgoldman.org/arch... · Posted by u/hn_acker
I have noticed that men and women tend to use different emoji and ascribe different meaning to them. Ex. I see the skull emoji used to indicate laughter more often used by women and crying face used more by men.
There are some tribes where men and women have completely different languages, I wonder if we will end up that way with emojis.
opwieurposiu commented on My stages of learning to be a socially normal person sashachapin.substack.com/... · Posted by u/eatitraw
One hazard of being a programmer is that sitting alone in a room alone with a computer for 10 years can turn you into a weird dude.
Lately I have taken steps to re-learn how to be social. I am doing a lot of social dances, like Salsa, Swing, Bachata. I think partner dance is good training for body language. Also good training for presence, as when you really start dancing, you stop thinking; conversely when are thinking too much you will stiffen up and choke. There are a surprising number of PHDs and other very cerebral people in my local dance scene.
One thing I have learned is that being good at dancing and being fun to dance with are orthogonal. You can be technically quite bad and people will still want to dance with you if you have good eye contact, smile, laugh at your mistakes, tell little jokes, complements, etc.
Conversely there are some people that are really technically good but not that much fun to dance with because they grimace and look away and don't match your energy.
Of course the best is when you find a partner that is both fun and technically good, and this is what I ascribe to become.
The downside of dances is that I don't get a lot of practice at talking, I guess this is something you could learn to do at bars but I don't drink and so have not found really good place to practice a lot of talking.
I try to get the guys from my jujitsu gym to come dance, these are big bad dudes who could really mess you up in fight, but they are all scared to dance with the girls. You will be scared your first few times for sure. Personally, I tend to be nervous in direct proportion to the beauty of my partner, which can be a problem because women that dance tend to be above average in that respect.
Most dances have a 1 hour lesson at the beginning and then social dance after. The lesson part is easy, you just follow the instructions and the teacher will have you rotate partners so you get to meet most of the girls. I tell my guy friends, just come for the lesson part and then if you get too nervous you can sneak out early.
opwieurposiu commented on US Army to buy 1 million drones, in major acquisition ramp-up reuters.com/business/aero... · Posted by u/breve
Ukraine's current drone consumption has been quoted at 9,000/day, or 270k/month.
A million drones won't last long in a peer conflict. Most of the drone parts come from china. What we really need is to build our own drone supply chain that does not rely on china.
opwieurposiu commented on Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore? church.substack.com/p/is-... · Posted by u/brandonb
When I was child, our dog got hit by a car. The dog had two broken legs and was bleeding from the nose. My dad said, "Come with me son, I will show you what to do." So we went into the woods behind the house and dug a hole. I put the dog in the hole and my dad shot the dog in the head. After we filled in the hole my dad said. "Now you know what to do with me when I get old."
So my health insurance is healthy living, CrossFit, rapamycin etc. When that fails, I have a 9mm pistol I keep in the safe. I do worry about if I am somehow too incapacitated to use the pistol but not enough to die naturally. Infirmity scares me a lot more then death does.
It used to be cool to be deviant and not to be accepted by society at large. Ravers, skaters, punk rockers, cross-dressers, all subcultures that did not care if they were accepted by the normies. Transgression of social norms was considered the cool thing to do.
Now everyone wants social norms to be changed so they feel included no matter what crazy ass thing they are into.
Feels lame to me but I am old so what do I know.
opwieurposiu commented on Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations su.se/english/news/unexpe... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
My unsupported hypothesis: Gamma radiation from the blast was reaching the film that was being used to take the astronomical observations.
For this to work, though, a few things would have to be true:
1. The film would have to be stored in bulk in a place that would be (mostly) protected from gamma rays from the tests.
2. The film for that night's observations would have to already be not with the rest of the film at the time of the test.
3. The observatory would have to be close enough to the location of the test that the gamma rays would have a chance to reach it.
But maybe it doesn't have to be direct. Maybe it could be gamma rays produced by the fallout, which drifts from the location of the test to at or near the observatory.
Then you have to wonder why no more were observed after March 17, 1956. A change in the character of the film? (Either a change in manufacturing process, or a change in what kind of film was used?)
https://www.orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclea...
Kodak had this issue for sure.
Wasps in a high traffic area are definitely bad, but if the nest is somewhere not too in the way I'd encourage folks to leave it be. Wasps are predators, and they eat a lot of the bugs that damage gardens. Yes, they are also assholes, do you have to strike a balance, but they can be really beneficial.
Obviously, if you've got young kids around or the wasps are being aggressive, take care of the humans first, but understanding them a bit can really reduce the conflict with them.
When we were kids we used to catch wasps in a plastic cup, put them in the freezer until they were anesthetized, and then tie a little leash on them with sewing thread.
Then you chase your friends around the neighborhood with your personal attack wasp. Good times.
opwieurposiu commented on NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon mission cnn.com/2025/10/20/scienc... · Posted by u/voxleone
This is a political deadline with no grounding in reality.
Hey, it worked when JFK did it!
I can't think of a better gift for a child then an extra standard deviation of height, IQ, strength.