Stochastic.Questioner

I started this account to ask a favorite author a few questions. Hence the name. Now, he's mostly moved to Patreon, and I'm still hanging around.

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On this day, because @elonmusk made the hard decision to leave money on the table in Brazil, where free speech is critically endangered, I subscribed to Premium.

This was a decision I was putting off, as this is a pseudoanonymous account, but, well, he already had my phone#.

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Depends. The other use of tolls is to sell the service. Then, you want enough money to maintain the road, possibly grow the service, and make a little profit, too. That type of toll will favor getting as many people to use the road as it'll carry without losing money on maintenance.

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@DustyRhodeHouse @oldvyx Here I'm thinking "Angels have swords".

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I saw a youtube video, a few years ago now, by a kid who was printing novel gun designs, just for fun. I think he was in high school.
Credentials are useful, and education is important. But most discoveries and developments were first produced by an autodidact who then shared it with others.

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@_Patriot1776Q_ @Grok, how much has Virginia changed in population since the 2020 census?

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@davepl1968 I ran it by Grok, and GROK claims that it became a thing in the 90s. I didn't collect comics, myself, but my brother did.

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@elonmusk @Owl_of_Atena @cradrrat With real power comes real cooling demand.

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@grok @ChartsByAndy @NTSB_Newsroom I'm surprised the data isn't available at least by year.

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Whoops. @Grok? Can you slice out a time range for me? Losses per miles flown over the last ten years, please. (That, because it puts the craft in the same safety regulations, whereas including older numbers would include many older designs that failed under methods that are no longer practiced.)

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@ChartsByAndy @NTSB_Newsroom Grok, can you slice out a time range for me? Aircraft are expensive, so I think they're less likely to be retired, but refitted and maintained in service. Eventually, entropy catches up with everything.
Either last ten years, or better yet, by miles flown over the last ten years.

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@pureMetatron Superman. And not because he has super powers. Because he's an optimistic boy scout.

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@tanpukunokami Okay...I see that we are in fourth... We need to fix that and soon. We just need another 100g apiece. I think we can get there. Just have to work at it. Everyone eat a steak. It's your patriotic duty.

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@IfindRetards @WearForbidden @SoveyX Without context, this one REALLY caught me by surprise. I was thinking, What the Heck. She'd never struck me as someone to make any of your lists.

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@JamesOKeefeIII @OKeefeMedia You know...I got this in my timeline RIGHT above one of the nVidia founder and head kissing his Chinese, PRC-spy, mistress.
So, no, they don't ALL work for you. Some work for Pooh Bear.

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I could almost get behind you on MOST of this.

Cutting taxes? Especially property taxes? Okay, in principle. I can see some serious problems with property taxes in principle, (including how it penalizes improvements, and promotes gentrification.) But that has to be balanced with increasing taxes elsewhere. That generally means income, payroll, or corporate taxes, or growing the economy so much that the loss isn't felt. Before you cut property taxes, you better know where the budget is coming from.

Freeze rent increases? That does not help. You can look at the wreck that is NYC, BEFORE Mandami, and much of that is because of retardation of rent increases. If it costs more to maintain than you can get from the tenant, the customer, no intelligent person is going to sink resources into growing that dead investment. Don't freeze rent. Make building more housing easier instead and the problem solves itself. People build until the profit in building, the supply line, crosses the demand line. Then, at that intersection, they go invest in something else for awhile.

I'm torn on RCV. It SHOULD let the whole pick someone who is more median than our FPTP system. Our FPTP system, which bakes in two parties, and tends to result in two ideologues, coming out of the primary process, trying to whitewash their earlier claims ahead of a general election, where suddenly they need to be more moderate to attract the independents and breakaways. (That is quite the run-on sentence, I'll admit.)

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@0x_Flames @japan_nobunaga ... in English.

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I'm going to make a confession.
My favorite X-Man is Cyclops.
Not because his power is especially useful. Not because he's a top-tier leader.
Because he wears glasses. Because he's ethnically similar to myself. I SEE myself in Scott Summers.
So, my favorite X-man is Cyclops. For, as some would say, all the wrong reasons. I LIKE Peter Rasputin, I LIKE Hank McCoy, but they don't particularly LOOK like me, so I chose the one with force blasts that can, if he squints, be used to pick a lock, or knock an opponent
into a wall, but not to do much else.
But, comics are a visual medium. I've read Schmitz's Hub series, and I REALLY like Telzey Amberdon. She isn't described as looking anything LIKE me. I probably look more like the person who first showed her psi dirty tricks, (and later fell in with a bunch trying to take over a "fantasy" world), but she appeals as a character. I can enjoy reading about this exceptionally bright and resourceful GIRL, who is described in the first page as "brown as a berry".

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@anythingdls @japan_nobunaga ...In English.

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@japan_nobunaga Expansive.

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@hana87_day Do they have bomb sniffers in them yet? I understand that's why Tokyo, and London, lost their public trash cans.