Louis Patterson

Non-specific nerd and "competitive" sailor. Retweets are endorsements, quote tweets check the tweet. Him. Also @[email protected]

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

The world is made from people, not from stuff.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@maximumwelfare Only "headspace" I know of is the one that's about making your bullet cartridges the proper length to... do bullet things, I guess.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@dougfregin Happy birthday Jay's Mom. Hope it's a lovely day.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

Look, last night my rather-offline 70yo mother told me I needed to get off this website, that it was a horrible cesspit.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@maximumwelfare I mean sure but we could save a lot of time and money by just giving the ombudsman investigator the authority to issue orders instead of recommendations, and the sole downside would be a small number of senior bureaucrats wouldn't be able to postpone embarassment as long.

[Chomba Bupe @ChombaBupe]

The fact that something that has ingested the entirety of human literature can't figure out how to generalize multiplication past 13 digits is actually a sign of the fact that it has no understanding of what a multiplication algorithm is.

[The Chaser @chaser]

Sam Kerr found not guilty of abusing stupid white bastard

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@AsFarce @jonkudelka Remember it was the lnp who introduced the independent vs dependent youth allowance rates: they got votes for "forcing" many of their voters to support their children "Abusive parents" are a significant factor in the LNP vote

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@_Levi_3 @notkavi Wars are bad (like, massively destructive).

I'm mostly just pointing out the dynamics; it doesn't take that many votes to empower a rule-or-ruin strategy, so you get much less warning than people realise before strict constitutional compliance ceases to be effective.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@NewtonMark (in the US, the parties basically work as the two halves of an ethnically-split electoral roll, and "bipartisanship" means "the Maronites and Malays need to work together or we'll descend back to pogroms".

It's just another example of using inapplicable foreign frameworks)

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

A French trade-unionist (whose name I have unfortunately forgotten) said the most difficult part of a strike is to know how to end it.

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@dsquareddigest @TACJ I once figured you could do softer-edged regulation by a sort of biodiversity tontine [kill bats, pay money to people with living bats, -> $infinity as number of bats fell], but I was never able to convince me it'd work, and the paperwork [the point!] looked worse, not better.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

Japanese railway company logos, an irregular series: the Akou railway 赤穂鉄道, formerly in Hyougo. The logo represents the 赤 of 赤穂 in a circle. For [very slightly] more information see other places.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

So the easy way to tell if you're on bsky or Twitter is, if the responses to the post you're looking at look like they're written by morons, you're on twitter. It is *staggering* how much stupider the top responses are here.

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@BuckyMcChubbins @leankitjon @stevefriend @instapundit @FBI "lowering the average IQ of both groups", to paraphrase NZ prime minister piggy moldoon.

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@sam_d_1995 @alexisxrivas Stopping distance [=vehicle separation] varies with the square of speed, so faster vehicles means less capacity. With that level of knowledge and understanding he needs to be told that the only useful input he can offer is his silence.

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@htGOIW Kurorekishi!

[That's not how I would have described it, but it doesn't strike me as *wrong* and it's more than half my life ago.]

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@Robotmurloc5 @AussieWirraway Yes, but they ran out of money before they could finish squaring off the Spencer and st Vincent gulfs.

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@jimbosteen1 @hamhammer27 Yes, because the economics of airport rail for a city like Melbourne only work if you can do them on the cheap say by bundling them with other projects.

[Louis Patterson @theboatend]

@hymmerinc @hamhammer27 It's the benefit side that's low: the marginal improvement from shifting to skybus to rail isn't *gigantic*, and the number of passengers is also lower than. Airport rail really needs to be done as a small part of bigger projects, which was possible in Bris and Syd but...