Sly Tea Jar

Christian, author, tinker, coder, conservative. Also sometimes called 'Fishbreath'. Long story. Ask me about tafl games, or the R&P10:

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Two days after @eigenrobot planted the seed, I present the R&P10, an ammunition market index.

https://t.co/nCMLTfpOcm

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@tacticalwurst @japan_nobunaga The last time I shot film was as an impatient teenager, so the emotional valence is a bit different for me.

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@tacticalwurst @japan_nobunaga Inspiring me, perhaps, to set drive mode to 'single' on more of my presets.

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@japan_nobunaga I only follow 2^8 or fewer accounts to keep my timeline manageable. With this and the grill master post, you've earned a spot.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.

I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.

Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.

In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.

This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.

The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.

So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.

The owner asked if everything was okay.

"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."

He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"

I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.

I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.

So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.

And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.

Reborn.

A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

Covid is very obviously not the worst conceivable relatively small package of proteins.

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@joshualoganhale @JoeConchaTV Lol, 60 Minutes has not had a shred of journalistic ethics for at least 20 years.

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@eigenrobot I've seen Mission Impossible. I know the avatar of an evil AGI when I see one.

[Sergiy Galyonkin @galyonkin]

A conversation I had earlier today.

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@selentelechia @alt1na1 My wife had the idea to use cloth diapers as burp cloths, and that hit a really nice balance between portability/convenience and shoulder protection.

[Carlos That Notices Things @QuetzalPhoenix]

Reminder:
A nation IS its people. If you replaced every Austrian with a Turk, Austria would cease to exist

A nation isn't an idea or a plot of land.

How people confuse a government and "the food" with the actual building blocks of society and culture is astounding to me!

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@jon_stokes I'm pretty sure I captured and destroyed Ai with a stratagem in one of those Shadowrun computer games.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

This is wild... Russia seems to be threatening a *commercial* satellite that provides imaging services to Ukraine:

▸ starting about two weeks ago, Russia started maneuvering five (!) of their classified satellites to the same orbital inclination as the ICEYE satellite

▸ these burns were big, on the order of 100 m/s, clearly using chemical propulsion given the speed of the burns — very expensive and deliberate maneuvers

▸ as of last Friday, all five Russian satellites are now co-planar, at ~97.8° inclination, with three of ICEYE's satellites, and aligned in other orbital elements (e.g. RAAN) that make it clear they're specifically targeting this set

▸ I am a little skeptical that Russia is specifically targeting -X36 — there are two other satellites at the same inclination/RAAN (-X37 and -X38) — but the Russian sats are now all within striking distance of -X36, which is why people are concerned about it specifically; the closest cross-track distance is an estimated 500 meters (!!), all while the satellites are orbit 550 kilometers above Earth

▸ Russia has unleashed a cyberattack on a commercial satellite before (Viasat), and it is official Russian policy that commercially-owned infrastructure that aids in military efforts "may be legitimate target[s] for a retaliatory strike.”

▸ there's speculation that this could be a precursor to an RPO mission (meaning: physically grabbing the satellite or some other kind of non-kinetic attack like blinding/jamming)

Worth tracking closely. And unfortunately more evidence that space is militarizing, fast.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

I respond in the thread but since this is common, here’s the math: one year to get you past next tax filing deadline, six years for retention requirement after filing for most taxpayers in absence of fraud. After that bank wants to shred it because ancient records are timebombs.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

PICARD: Data, shields up

DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.

[camera shakes]

WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS

DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't

[Pancake lady @MommyOneeChan]

Flag of Japan if its traveling towards you really fast

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@Aneka15amyth @eigenrobot @AskYatharth The broader game of fallacy bingo presupposes that the only way to argue is on the field of formal logic

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@castlerobber_B @OhEllinas @jamesawhiite @ramzpaul I would like that very much and adjust my schedule in the winter to the extent that I'm able to produce the same effect.

On standard time, there's a month or so where I go to the office in the dark and come home in the dark. On daylight-ish time I at least get light on one leg.

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

it's because we filled the internet with demons and people still remember who most credibly claimed to be able to protect them from demons

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@DeepDishEnjoyer @Duderichy I once chanced to share an elevator in the parking garage with a Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra cellist on the way to a concert, and every now and again I regret not asking her about this exact topic.

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@ShamashAran Needed a "skip dialogue" button and a few more hull types, but still a good time.