If your brain had always used two independent eyes, you’d have a Brian that uses them just fine.

Anyway, not the parent commenter, but I do lazily let my eyes separate on my phone in bed when it’s close. My understanding is my experience matches those with lazy eyes. You end up picking a dominant view and the other kinda fades away.

I used to, then I grew up. However, what I’ve found is that being able to do accents can occasionally help communicate a word. If you’re talking to someone that has a different accent and you just can’t get them to understand some particular word, pronouncing it how you think they’d pronounce it might help. It changes how certain letters and combinations are pronounced, helping the other person visualize the letters and therefore the word.

There’s times between English and Spanish where the spelling is functionally the same, but pronunciation is incredibly foreign in the other language. Words ending in -tion are “shin” in english but -cion is “see own” in Spanish. Many such words have latin roots, so the base word is similar like “communication” on “construction”.

But, first and foremost, enunciate clearly. Speaking slower doesn’t help if you’re still dragging your consonants the same way.

Space is hot, but space is empty. Of the very small number of particles you’ll collide with in deep space, they’re very hot on average, but so few and far between that you’ll lose heat faster to radiative cooling than you’ll gain from those particles, provided you’re a good distance from a star. Radiative cooling is pretty slow, though. And even though you’ll kind of freeze if you jump out of a space ship mid-flight, it’s not because of the temperature. It’s because you’re made of water, mostly. The sudden depressurization will let you the surface water boil off and drop your temperature very quickly.

-273.15C is absolute zero. Nothing in space is absolute zero. Most material is far above absolute zero. However, with so few particles to interact with, bodies will eventually radiate heat until absolute zero. It’s a long way away though, and will happen about as fast as most other things flying through space, including planets and stars. That’ll be known as the heat death of the universe. Won’t be anything living to see it.

Sounds good to me! I’m certainly full of ambition while lacking execution for various resource deficiencies. Pretty good for a quasi horoscope

But also, that afternoon, I was traversing some hilly terrain, using the topo layer to crossreference curvy roads with steep terrain to try to find sections most likely to be in deep the forest. Regrettably, dark mode tends to clash with a dim screen, ironically.

Yep, same method. May as well mention I only have one primary sock type, so it all gets thrown loose into a smaller drawer. No matching required. That made a sizable dent in the executive disfunction of putting away laundry. But apparently not everyone can commit to that lifestyle of one sock style

They did. Given light of recent events showing how deep and far back the ties go, I’m not going to be convinced it’s a clean break. It’s a subsidiary, and seems to still be based in Israel.

That’s soliciting. I didn’t get any mortgage solicitation until I started applying. I will now be getting unsolicited refinance offers until the end of time.

They hope you’ll pay interest on credit. They do not require you to pay interest and do not have any way to see if you’ve paid interest with other creditors. They know people only have to slip once before it becomes a profitable spiral for them.

Credit offers target lower scores too, just with more predatory things like higher interest rates or requiring secured deposits. Everyone will have different credit limits, too. While the credit card companies enjoy when you overspend and have to pay interest, they do want you to actually pay it back, so there’s a limit to how much they’ll extend to you. Plus, limits change over time. All but one of my cards has increased over time as they “trust” me (read: they wish I’d use their card more than the others by not worrying about utilization). One card went down due to underutilization, which I found odd, but I guess they were more worried about controlling their own lending promises than enticing their customer.

I roll mine. Three rows wide, two courses high, five layers back.

You do not need to pay interest. You need to let statements close out monthly with a balance. Interest on that balance will not accrue until the next cycle closes.

Say your statement closes on the 1st of the month. Buy something on Jan 15th. Let the statement close Feb 1st. Pay it off any time before Mar 1st. You get a benefit to your score by showing utilization without accruing any interest.

Paying off a loan hurts your score because of other things like reducing borrowing power, messing with utilization, and usually lowering the average age of all accounts. Nothing to do with paying interest.

If you can’t jump straight to a car or home loan, collect credit cards if you have the willpower to avoid debt. That’s how I built it up. I got a new card annually for several years. I’d take advantage of intro promos, but once those were up, I’d just assign some small monthly subscription to a card. Gotta spend and close with a balance to look good on paper, but also need to occasionally spend to keep them from canceling the card, too. At peak, my combined credit limit was more than my income, spread across 8 cards. That was double an average car msrp. It worked perfectly fine for a mortgage application despite driving older cars bought with cash.

Looking for an alternative to Google, this reminded me to look into Waze. And, wtf, I was not aware of the history of waze. I feel like I’ve caught an unregulated Wikipedia edit, too.

Waze started as FreeMap Israel. Of 3 founders, one has a wiki page, and is self-identifying as atheist and zionist. Meanwhile, Uri Levine’s page’s description of waze is “a traffic and navigation app that is meant to steal personal data from users”. Is this something confirmed or is it just describing crowd-sourced data collection in a demonizing way? All 3 founders were in Israeli Unit 8200 cyber warfare, so certainly sounds concerning. I get that crowd sourcing has mixed opinions and keeps proving to be surveillance mashed with convenience, like tracking links or Pokémon go.

Google recently messed with the UI around the same time it changed the lake name, so I’m actively looking for alternates now. I tried mapquest knowing it’s not the original mapquest group, but found it lacked a bit of functionality. Biggest issue is not being able to search along route. Is there anything else decent?

I was trying to see if the road up a small mountain connected to the other side while using the topographical map layer. I struggled to see the roads because dark mode doesn’t provide enough contrast between land and road. It was night time and some facility near the top had sodium lamps giving it a yellow glow.

Real heart wrenching moment realizing women fearing being murdered on their walk home is a euphemism for being raped. They’d rather describe being stabbed and mugged.

I haven’t been to that many and I won’t say I’ve been to the other end of the spectrum. But, having been to other corners of the square, I’ve found that people are the same. There are wildly different cultural norms that can certainly be misconstrued as rude or invasive, but damn, the baseline human experience is so common.

We all think we need more money. We all know lots of people worse off. We all know several better off. We all celebrate births, marriages, and deaths. We all feed our guests to excess (not you, whichever Scandinavian country it is that makes guests wait in the other room while you have dinner). We all make liquor from anise.

I’m not convinced they’ll crash and burn. Fortnite still prints money. Limited-time skins and the continued existence of children still works. Plus, fortnite has hundreds of “games” within it at this point just from Epic, plus all kinds of user-created modes. It’s pubg, it’s roblox, it’s Lego, it’s hot wheels. Honestly more shocked that it sounds like this Disney venture is making separate titles and not just more fortnite modes.

“Guys make me the cyberpunk 2077 car, put paint it silver because I have such a hardon for the BTTF DeLorean”

The car company told us why subways simply don’t work well. Totally legit. The contract was also won in a competition called “who can make a good public transportation system”, so pay no attention to the car company taking the winnings away from the train and bus companies.

There’s lots of delay causes. The trains have to be organized in a certain way for safety and stability, so it’s rare to be able to have a perfect first in, last out arrangement. Heavy cars at the back and light cars at the front can cause a strongline derailment on curves. Heavy cars with little coupler dampening at the back and light cars with excessive damping at the front can cause a column buckling derailment on hard braking. Then there’s weird slinky physics if dealing with slopes. And then from there, even after all that, it’s not just an A to B trip. They stop, add cars, leave cars, send groups on other routes, etc. There’s 30 cars going A to B, 40 cars going A to C, cars going B to D, C to A, F to J…

I don’t really see much new concern with crossings. Trains already cross roads frequently at high speeds with no effective means of braking in time to avoid a collision. Urban/suburban crossings should already have gates. Rural crossings are hilariously unguarded. I’m not even sure if they all have lights, let alone gates. I’d actually see a benefit to the increased crossing frequency coupled with decreased crossing times. Many collisions are the result of people fearing having to wait at the gate for 5+ minutes as a huge train crosses, so they race across to beat the train. Obviously, people will still try to beat the drone in the same way they accelerate through yellow lights, but maybe they’d be a little less inclined to do so. So, regrettably, the network already gets disrupted frequently. Railroads are very efficient at clearing incidents to reopen the track once all evidence is collected. Trains drive by while wrecked cars and spills are still there.

For one of my local crossings, there’s a weekly 10 minute crossing event. The train pulls through a road crossing, stops, reverses down a siding to pick up/drop off 2 cars, then forwards away, all while blocking the crossing of a major road. Seems like a good cooperative way to still service one of those few remaining sidings without making car drivers irate at trains.

I’m not saying this is a valid business plan, but I’m failing to see how this is an “obvious” failure. They of course want to advertise as completely independent drones, but it’d be neat to be able to join a regular consist and get released to only drive itself the last mile.

Then I don’t know what point you’re making since I replied to points you brought up.

Only the major yards are gravity-“powered” hump yards (the gravity does the sorting part, but a locomotive still has to push the consist up from the other side as they’re decoupled). Most yards, the smaller yards trying to serve the last mile, are flat and require manual sorting with a locomotive, and often while blocking the rail line to all other traffic. Plus, they often can’t sort the cars into the ideal shipping order because of dynamics in the train. One of the worst ways to order the cars is with autoracks (automobile carriers) up front and tank or steel coil cars at the back. Autoracks are very light in comparison and have long-stroke draft gear (coupler cushioning). Just slamming the brakes can cause a derailment with that arrangement with column buckling of the train. Or worse, lots of cars only ever get loaded in one direction, such as autoracks and tanks, so they’re empty and even lighter on their return trip. They have to sort heavier cars towards the front or else they risk stringline derailment on curves while pulling.

Yes, we’re aware they need to do the first 99 miles to get to the last mile problem. The problem with rail, as defined by the market, is that trucks do the whole 100. And while yes, the majority of consumer goods rail traffic spent 2 months on the water, the majority of containers were not ordered for the end user or final sales point. They’re warehoused at distribution centers, waiting to refill other DC’s needs. Even Amazon is running full intermodal container trains across the country. It also completely ignores the vast amount of domestic/continental raw goods such as oil, lumber, vehicles, metals, trash, scrap, grain, plastic pellets, lethal chemicals, coal, and, apparently, orange juice.

And I say this as someone that votes for trains. PSR does not solve much. It’s a buzzword for hostile takeovers by investment companies that have no intent on improving infrastructure. It brought some improved shipping status decades later than every other mode of carrier.