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  • Yeah, I'm curious too - I've largely ignored her, so I have no idea if her language changed after Kirk.

  • Vanilla flavoring used to be made from castoreum, which is harvested from beaver anal glands

  • One is lateral movement, the other is aiming. My deck's offline at the moment, so I'm going from memory... but now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure I have the right stick set to aim. Then I have the gyro set to only activate when my thumb is on the right stick. Big rapid changes in direction I use the stick and the fine adjustments don't much matter; then for fine control I hold the stick still, with thumb on top, and physically shift the deck to aim. Sometimes bracing my wrists on my knees or whatever's handy.

    Then when I end up angled weird, I lift my thumb and settle back in. My play style tends to end up with me twisting around while I play anyway, this just lets me harness it a bit!

  • I have mine set so if I want it to stay still, I lift my thumb off the movement joystick, turning off the gyro control. If I still need to move, I nudge from the side where the sensor isn't

  • The bard might also be the one expected to catch puns

  • Eh, maybe she's been through this a few times!

    Really though, this sort of behavior isn't unusual for most kids. I always assumed the point of the story was to tell kids not to do this (or you might get eaten!)

  • If you're starving and just eat everything at once, you'll just throw it right back up.

    Better to eat a small portion that'll settle well, go rest for a while, maybe lay down, then come back when it's had some time to digest.

  • Ah, thanks for the correction!

  • As well as it did in the Revolutionary War, I'm sure!

  • Didn't have that until a decade or so back? Thought I remembered we switched to this system so Republicans could reevaluate each time/hold everything hostage...

  • Video game shotguns have a lot more spread than actual shotguns

  • science

    Jump
  • As I understand it, publishing lets others validate the science. You're not just declaring what you've discovered, you're showing your work - your sources, your data, your references, your processes.

    After you've done all that, even if it's crap, someone else expressing an interest in going through all that can be quite a compliment. Or, if you didn't bother dotting all the i's and crossing all the t's, it can make you a mite defensive...

    But yes, a lot of trash can be published. And since it is published, it can be shown to be trash, if someone goes to the trouble.

  • Right, but in the daytime, the portion of sunlight that is scattered on the way through the atmosphere to a given spot is partially made up for by sunlight that was scattered to that spot away from other areas, which wouldn't happen under this scheme.

    I'm curious how much scattering occurs - I have no idea how to find or model that.

  • Thanks for the write up!

    I'm curious how strong an effect atmospheric scattering would have, even after all that

  • We make him real

  • As I recall it, the original Superman concept was a kind of inversion of the Nazi Ubermensch ideal. Pretty sure that's where the name came from.

  • This is the sort of thing that needs copy-pasta'd!

  • ...first this century?

  • Sure, but who decides what's on the citizenship exam? Who updates it? Who's in charge of making sure it's administered fairly?

    Right now there's not really any power to be gained by subverting it, so it's handled by people who are interested in keeping it working well. Make it the gateway to electoral control, and interest groups will worm their way into control of it - and then you have a variant on poll testing.