lapsed_pacifist

Please demonstrate, then.

bean used to post long and in depth posts into the SlateStarCodex Open Threads, then someone helped him set up his own site, and here we are. He organizes meetups at Naval History sites too.

There are accounts which do not allow you to change the email the account is registered to.

These safety groups seem to be mostly concerned with making sure LLMs don't say bad words, not with preventing FOOM!.

The 5 rules of dry stone:

https://thestonetrust.org/5rules/

Look at the Dry Stone Wall Association of Great Britain, or The Stone Trust in the United States. These organizations still teach traditional methods of dry stone walling which cover a lot of these techniques.

This isn't really a proper wall though, it's a single thickness stack. I don't think it could handle any lateral force at all without toppling. If this machine could build a double skin wall with batter, wall heads, and hearting throughout the center, I'd be really impressed!

Not true. A well built fieldstone wall is massive, we estimate around .5T per linear yard when we build one to 4ft. with cope stones. Sheep will not knock it over, but cattle can. For that reason, through-stones are allowed to protrude a few inches on normal pasture wall for sheep, but you should make them flush on walls for cattle because the cows will try to use the protrusions to scratch themselves and could knock the wall over.

A well built wall doesn't appear unstable. One of the tests is whether or not you can see any daylight through the wall, and the wall should easily support the weight of several people leaning against it.

That city has a tiny fraction of the population density, commercial activity, and industrial transport of Chicago, they're really not comparable. Transporting people and goods over large distances by bicycle doesn't scale very well.

Without for profit, for export, weapons, smaller entities that cannot support the industrial base to produce the means for their own defense would be at the mercy of any power who could. Self defense is a right, and the means of self defense should be widely available. Ensuring the vulnerability of the weak is morally reprehensible.

Much of this has to do with Russian tank doctrine and the lack of sufficient infantry to provide mutual support to armor.

A soldier is tens of thousands of dollars of training and gear. A bullet costs pennies. Thus soldiers have no place on the battlefield?

I think you should watch Chieftains video and read some military theory. Simply being vulnerable to less expensive weapon systems does not make a unit/vehicle/soldier useless or obsolete.

It's been a few years since I did any framing, so I could be wrong about the current state of the industry.

As someone in the trades, I really disagree. Most applications that require a hammer could not be accomplished with a nail gun. Nail guns are great for attaching thin materials over thicker materials, like putting MDX onto a frame or attaching roofing materials. You don't generally frame with a nail gun because you want to use larger and heavier nails driven a lot deeper. For very light or precision work on finished surfaces you go back to the hammer because it reduces the chance of scuffing or marking on the surface.

"Binding wood" is much more nuanced than you make it seem.

Baumels' Cost Disease.

It looks pretty bad when the husband of a union boss was paying workers off the books, which denies worker protections to employees.

And they may not have reported the income because it didn't come from legitimate sources.

It's a real hazard that is well known in the trades, but might not be appreciated by people who are attracted to the idea of an exotic metal ring but are not in situations where they will be warned about it. The warnings here seem reasonable to me.

The difference is the consent of the governed.

I cannot refuse to consent to being governed by the State. Plenty of democratically elected governments have oppressed and abused their citizens.

I can refuse to exchange goods and services with a private entity, or refuse to work for them. I consent to the authority of my employer.

I'm interested in reading more of your writing. I worked with TANF recipients, many of whom were homeless (although few of them were unsheltered) and would like to hear more of your perspective because I have some exposure personally, and also because there is a serious problem with providing services to a large number of homeless people in my local area.

Print a house out of what material? Will that material stand up to sub freezing and very high temperatures? Can it withstand a temperature variable between indoor and outdoor temps? Does it have lateral strength against wind and snow? Does it deteriorate in sunlight? Will it last more than 10 years? Is it flammable?

I can walk down my street in Northern New England and see brick buildings that are over 100 years old in a harsh climate, and that were reasonably affordable when they were built. The shapes and contours are usable and attractive to most people. They are able to be remodeled and repaired using very basic technology.

There are reasons that Dymaxion Homes weren't popular.

"Why are workers unhappy? We asked three university professors, a senior policy analyst, an executive director... and one worker."

I don't know how your can say that an LVT avoids all economic and ethical issues with land ownership, that seems like a personal moral opinion. Especially since there's very few instances of an LVT on the wild. I'm sympathetic to Georgism, but you're making a very powerful and unsubstantiated claim.

Zoning which prohibits or heavily restricts multi-unit housing in cities, and material shortages and high prices for steel and lumber which impacts new single family homes.

>Tyranids giant biological hive mind that rapidly adapts to new environments consuming or infecting existing species to plunder their genetic advantages.

Sounds like GW copied that from Heinlein's Starship Troopers, or maybe Enders Game.

Ditto the Space Marines.

Culture is just copying/remixing, all the way down.

It's quite the other way around: threats must be very specific in order to not be protected speech in the United States. Saying 'let's burn this mother down' during a protest is protected speech, for instance. In general, the threat must be specific and imminent, such as 'let's go to that building right there and do $violence right now!'

They have been mentioned several times in this thread, but you should consult Popehat's writings for in depth breakdowns of what is and is not protected speech.

An excellent example of overzealous prosecution over internet blog/article comments is the Reason magazine 'woodchipper' debacle. This WSJ article is a good place to begin reading, although Popehat did a lot of great work, and Reason covered the story a little bit after the gag orders and subpoenas had died down.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/reason-magazine-subpoenaed-...

The Eurozone (NATO) is protected from Russia and other aggressors by US military spending, and trades along sea routes which are kept open by US military spending, to list only two ways in which the EU benefits massively from our tax dollars here in the US.

If the EU decided to allocate a proportional share to their common defense, maybe the US would have less reason to be intervening overseas and could spend some of our money here instead.

"whales" is the free-to-p(l)ay/ freemium games industry term for this sort of power user, who will spend vastly more than the average user and carries the lions share of the profit for the developer.