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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @aussie.zone

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Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

  • Innuendo Studios — The Alt-Right Playbook: Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?

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  • The problem with that approach is that when they ask that question, they're performing for an audience. An audience that is as-yet undecided. If you're outwardly rude to them, that audience is more likely to think "oh wow, this person's fans are arseholes, maybe the accusations [though the specifics of the accusations haven't been made clear] are correct". So IMO it's better to just prod them into revealing that they, in fact, are the arseholes, and just let that sit. Keep focused and don't allow yourself to get distracted by unrelated points that they will inevitably try to bait you with.

  • Innuendo Studios — The Alt-Right Playbook: Why Don't You Respond to Criticism?

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  • Honestly based on the video, I think the best response of the creator themselves is just to ignore these comments.

    The best response for other people is to be very pointed: ask them precisely what criticism they mean and why they think it's a problem. Make them say the quiet part out loud.

  • Who Owns Nebula?

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  • If you haven't already, take a look at Dave Wiskus's response to it on Reddit, posted elsewhere in the comments.

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  • I don't speak Spanish, but just looking at the alternative options Google Translate provides when you only input a single word, it's possible that "tóxico" might be a clearer translation of "poisonous".

  • Libertarian candidates for Congress will be left off Iowa ballots after final court decision

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  • While I still maintain my stance that anyone who votes 3rd party in a FPTP election is a moron, this does seem unfair.

    The challenge was brought by Republicans, but it's a challenge based on Libertarian Party rules of how they choose who to nominate. The only people who should have standing are Libertarian Party members.

    If they had put in their nomination forms late or made some other error with the process of doing the nomination, then it would be fair for Republicans or Democrats or independent voters to challenge to get them removed. But an internal matter that the article says was completely uncontroversial internally should not be brought by outsiders.

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  • It's a bizarre and (afaik) unfounded conspiracy theory, but I don't think this reasoning works as a refutation. It's still very possible that the experiment got out, and even if not they still needed policies to protect all the people they didn't want to be affected because the targeting isn't perfect.

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  • Oh neat. I should get around to watching it.

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  • I'll admit I've never watched Stargate, but I thought it was scifi? I didn't realise it engaged with Egyptian mythology.

  • Seriously.

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  • See that Celsius graph is precisely the nonsense I'm trying to point out. 0 ℃ isn't "fairly cold outside". It's literally the definition of freezing cold. 0 ℉ is "dead" if you're not wearing quite heavy clothing. 0 ℃ is "really cold outside" and still understating things.

  • Seriously.

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  • I mean, I deliberately avoided using terms like "hot summer days" and "usual winter day" because that's far more dependent on where you are. Where I am it's:

    • Really hot summer days (35 ℃)
    • Usual summer days (30 ℃)
    • Room temperature (24 ℃)
    • Spring / autumn days (25 ℃)
    • Chilly outside (18 ℃)
    • Cold outside / usual winter days (15 ℃)
    • Winter nights (10 ℃)

    So I used words that are about the experience of a person in those temperatures in comfortable light clothing, rather than times of year. And obviously there's some subjectivity there, with some people being more comfortable in cold temperatures than others. But still, we're talking about the comfortable mid point varying from mid 20s to high 10s. There's no reasonable world in which 50 ℉ (10 ℃) is the midpoint.

  • Seriously.

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  • It’s just the zero that’s absolute

    Right, that's what makes Rankine and Kelvin absolute scales, while Fahrenheit and Celsius are relative.

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  • x_0 - delta and x_0

    Lemmy actually supports proper subscript (though not not clients do). Surround with tildes (single tildes, rather than the double tildes of strike-through).

    x0 - δ is x~0~ - δ

    Edit: and now, at least on Jerboa, the code block version is displaying incorrectly, although it now does support the actual subscript…

  • Seriously.

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  • I've always hated this justification of Fahrenheit. For it to be a good argument, 50 °F would need to be the ideal comfortable temperature. But instead 50 is really fucking cold. 100 just isn't as hot as 0 is cold.

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  • Also Rankine, being an absolute scale, theoretically shouldn't be in ° anything, and it's only some weird historical quirk that is the reason it usually is called degrees.

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  • Pricing Updates — Nebula Blog

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  • That's a good question. I honestly don't know. When they first came out they said lifetime subscriptions were a temporary thing, but they've been available for a long time now.

  • Jet Lag: The Game — Ep 2 — Tag Across Europe 3

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  • Yeah, that was a shockingly abstruse solution to the puzzle box. I understand that puzzle boxes often are that way, and it reminds me of old-school point and click adventure games where you just have to be ok with making wild leaps of logic and pressing on everything, rather than the solution being something that with careful analysis you can come across.

    But that doesn't mean it made for a good puzzle on a travel game show.

    Apparently Amy showed it to a few friends who all solved it in a few minutes, which is why it was (a) included, and (b) not worth all that many coins.

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  • There's another great example of a language based on a small island with a hill/mountain in the middle where their words for direction are polar. Essentially, clockwise/anticlockwise and shoreward/inland, instead of left/right and forward/back.

    edit: it's the island of Manam. Wikipedia has a great picture of the island showing its central volcano.

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  • I would have offered to send a pdf

    I would have never considered doing anything but sending a PDF. Even if they do know LaTeX. Unless they're offering to help edit the code for me, what good is it? It's objectively harder to read than the formatted PDF.

    That said, marking up a PDF is much more difficult and does require more specialised software and know-how than editing plain text or even editing a Word document. So there are some advantages to it.