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@mitch fun! I'd been recruited to play by a friend a couple years ago and I was excited to try it out, but the pandemic broke it up before we really got going.

@freemo At a quick guess, you're close, but it's energy, not moment. The nuclear decay processes are very short range and all the electrons know about it is via electromagnetism (since they don't participate in the strong interaction, the weak interaction is too short-range, and the electron's mass is too small for gravity to be important). If you want the electrons to leave their orbitals, you need to pump some energy into them. The less-negative electromagnetic potential energy from the reduced nuclear charge isn't necessarily enough for that to happen quickly - the atom just exists as a -2 ion for long enough that the alpha particle has time to escape.

I'm not a particle physicist; just trying piece together what I remember from undergrad physics.

@graand I think Dave's been a reasonable head coach over his tenure; a team unused to losing is just a bit on tilt. I'm less sold on Dave as the GM - time hasn't proved moving on from Bo to Maier to be a wonderful decision.

@graand yep. Cheering for the Stamps - I'd hoped for a Hamilton win so that Calgary's last two games would be meaningless for their opponents, but no such luck.

@mitch that's not unreasonable, I guess, for someone attempting to transcribe the name by ear.

@mitch I have not seen that one; do you know how they arrived at that spelling? There was a Canadian satirist who based a fictional Eastern cult called Boohooism on Abdu'l-Baha's visit to Montreal - that's the closest I've seen.

@mitch It's always fun to read stuff published in Abdu'l-Baha's time, before Shoghi Effendi standardised the transliterations. You get weird spellings like Baha O'llah, as if He were Irish.

@LouisIngenthron It might actually be pipes (well, the hydraulic hoses) making the noise. Low-cost carriers like Spirit tend to have fleets of very uniform composition, so if that model normally has loud landing gear you'd expect to hear that on nearly all their aircraft and a smaller proportion of mainline carriers'.

@freepeoplesfreepress I'd guess it's a [gopher snake](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_gopher_snake). It's hard to tell scale from that photo, though; if it's much less than two feet I'm probably wrong.

@peterdrake add a fourth R: reduce, repair, reuse, recycle. When you buy, evaluate it not only on recyclability and reusability but also reparability. If you can find a video of someone performing maintenance or repairs on the device you're considering buying, then you've learned not only how to do whatever he's teaching you, but also that someone with his technical chops thought it worth putting in the effort.

@freemo well I looked it up - this is a barn on the main road connecting Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland (our three biggest cities). Seems the guy is a Klan leader; there's apparently also a burned cross, but I've never noticed it.

I too have never *met* someone who flies it, to my knowledge, but they're pretty visible anyway.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cincinnati/comments/1melwc

@freemo any reason you restricted your sample to southerners? I see people around here (OH, which is *very* proud of its contribution to the Union war effort) paint it on their barns and I'm not really sure what message it's intended to send, if not support for the Confederate worldview.

@peterdrake the one between my ears ;)

@mitch Sure, I'm just gonna pop down to the arena and roll the cannon down to the fortifications on I-70. Should keep the PA crowd at bay

@mitch I beg your pardon?

@Wuzzy

> people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules

WDYM? I use Firefox and I've never had a problem accessing Google Maps through it. Google controls the backend, sure, but I don't think they own any part of the "channel" I'm using to reach it.

Don't get me wrong, I like Osmand~ too; it's the only map app I have on my (gApps-free) phone. It's just not usable as a standalone navigation tool, so I typically have to rely on Google for at least part of the workflow.

@mitch yeah. Dumping heat directly into the outdoors isn't going to be climate-friendly any way you slice it though, even if you're generating that heat from a green source of energy.