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  • He has never given any indication that he did it for moral reasons

    Yes, hence why I referred to it as a stopped-clock moment, as in “a stopped clock is right twice a day”.

    I am not accusing Donald Trump of having any moral integrity.

    it bothers me less when the draft dodgers don’t openly mock service members and POWs.

    Nah, John “I hate the [slur for asians], I will hate them as long as I live.” Mccaine was a ghoul who is rotting in hell, everyone should be mocking him.

    On one hand, getting shot down stopped him from murdering more Vietnamese people, on the other hand, if Jane Fonda hadn’t shot him down, he’d have probably kept crashing planes.




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    Dry bulb is the temperature independent of humidity. Wet bulb is has a wet cloth on the thermometer bulb. This simulates how much sweat cools you in the current humidity and wind.

    Measuring humidity instead and cross-referencing to get heat index is more common these days, but IMO it’s worse. 120 in the desert vs 120 heat index due to humidity is the difference between someone using a hair dryer on your face and getting cooked in a steam room, and it doesn’t consider wind and cloud cover.





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    100F was defined as the human body temperature (The guy they used had a cold or something so it’s off by a degree and a half.)

    That’s useful for perception of heat. When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.

    This is more intuitive than 36.5C.


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    But really it is much better for human temperatures.

    It’s just intuitive, 0F is 100% cold, and 100F is 100% hot.

    When the dry bulb gets above 100F, wind only cools you down by sweat evaporation, and when the wet bulb gets above 100F, even that can’t cool you down, and you will die if you don’t get to a cooler or drier environment.



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    Imperialism is about resource and labor extraction, unless they’re using those outreach centers to destroy local markets so the people have to work on the plantations for pennies to scrape by, so Wakanda can buy bananas for cheap, I don’t see how it’s imperialism.

    Or is Wakanda gonna go back to Plan A and use those outreach centers to influence elections/organize a coup and put in a comprador government?


  • It was never clear whether he wanted a race war or how he planned to carry one out, he simply wanted to arm oppressed minorities all over the world.

    But in any case, making the Bad Guy™ murder kittens doesn’t change whether he’s right.

    See The Dark Knight Rises, where the Bad Guy™ neutralizes the police, and the people immediately band together to lynch the bankers and landlords (this is portrayed as a bad thing). Naturally, the Bad Guy™ then decides to nuke the city, for reasons.