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Wow, gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/221009 was a Gamma Ray Burst that caused noticeable disturbance of ionosphere.

@a1ba Shouldn't their posts be still visible in thread view? (I'm not sure what's the expected behaviour.)

pol annoyance 

@AgathaSorceress

Sometimes you can protest in a way that has an impact on some entity, but doesn't make _public's_ life harder (e.g. bus drivers that strike by refusing to collect fares), but that's rather an exception than a rule. I expect (but might be wrong) that most people espousing that view would not consider such protests bad. Do you think otherwise?

Also, let me steelman that view: There are some implicit rules that we expect people to adhere to, and we adhere to, so that life in the society is more bearable. If those rules start being broken all the time, the loss caused by that is larger than the directly observable costs, because it also:
a) destroys trust that those rules will be adhered to,
b) makes others think that they also have a good reason to flaunt those rules.
So, one should break them only if one thinks that it'd be fine if everyone with at least as good a reason to break them would do so. Reason to break rules is evaluated on two axes: how important is the thing one wishes to affect and how affected it will be by this act that breaks them. Often protesting in a way that simply causes cost for a random set of people is low on the second criterion.

Do you think this is a reasonable steelman of their position? Is there something obviously illogical in it?

@trinsec My head :) For some reason it didn't get threaded correctly; it's a continuation of mastodon.social/@MicroSFF/1091

angry perfectionist shouting at humanity 

@wolf480pl And sometimes we do plan for the failure to deliver (random examples: datacentres have redundant power supply usually). Do you want to say that we do that too rarely, or that we should do that always, or something else?

mh, ph, anxiety, --, applying curiosity to sadness 

@moonbolt Yeah, it's so weird that people have so many positive feedback loops. I would naively expect that they would be penalized by evolution significantly, and yet they are here.

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"Both. You learn that it's not about recipes at all."
"So, you do anything you want with magic?"
"Well, not just by wishing it. When you learn how to think about magic, you learn how to predict its effects."
"...and then I can try to figure out what to do so that I would have the effect I want?"
"Yes. Just like when you deal with any other part of the world."

Pratchett's are to all dragons just like gnomes are to people in standard fantasy settings. (They all are tinkerers, though out of necessity~.)

@moonbolt That seems like a good comparison, because in both cases the distinction is pretty unclear (is Green Revolution wheat genetically modified? is every HDR image AI-processed?).

@trash_cat Private keys are sort-of co-toothbrushes.

hypothetical injury 

@timorl @moonbolt

I specifically listed lower-leg bones, because they require immobilization of the ankle (or, iiuc in later phases of healing, footwear with weird angles). I don't think that's compatible with sandals.

@moonbolt

I'm not sure. I'd rather expect that a large(?) fraction wouldn't care, but would fear unknown unknowns (e.g. if that feels terrible, would I be able to go back? would there be no lasting changes?).

@timorl @moonbolt So, if you ever break tibia (br~~), fibula, or one of the bones of the foot, it will be winter?

2685. 2045 

"I have another appointment that would be really hard to move, in terms of the kinetic energy requirements" is my favourite phrase of the week

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2685. 2045 

@timorl With types defined at which level? E.g. in each document style?

@timorl @moonbolt

It's useful to note that there is a "return to mean" effect that's sometimes conflated with placebo: if you have some sort of ongoing issue that's stable, its intensity probably varies over time. You are more likely to try to do something about it when the intensity's higher, so it's more likely that things will improve after that point (regardless of whether you've actually done anything).

@Vierkantor IIUC in some countries all houses are source-available after a fashion.

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