Kristopher Purens

@ProtonInspector 3 baby Daleks

Wait what the hell is the right?

@JohnZavinski @smokeyrgreens I’m an unsweetened tea guy, but that McDonald’s liquid was especially foul Nothing’s worse than asking for unsweetened and getting sweet

@PurensPhD @smokeyrgreens I bought some McDonald's sweet tea when they introduced it a few years ago. A few miles later i opened the car door and dumped it on the street. I still have that awful taste in my mouth. The bugs can keep it.

these are the requirements for me to grow non-commercial cotton in Louisiana ☁️

@binarybits @chr1sa Honestly this is surprisingly close, Tesla FSD will get mad if you try to sleep, but is mostly technically capable of the feat

@chr1sa Exact language: "I bet you $500 that on your daughter’s 16th birthday, it won’t be possible and legal for someone with no driver’s license to hop into a self-driving car in DC, give it an address in Philly, take a nap, and wake up at her destination 3-4 hours later."

In 2010, I made a bet with Ryan Avent, then at the Economist, about the future of self-driving. He thought his then-infant daughter would never need a driver's license because AVs would be ready by 2026. I thought that was too optimistic. It's now 2026, and I won the bet.

@Nexuist @seconds_0 Just like shooting mallards

There is a propaganda element here where it is more useful to show the solo kills since it looks creepy and may make incoming soldiers decide to surrender or desert earlier. I notice in the UKR footage where squads are using shotguns to defend against FPVs, the replies are filled with ppl saying they’d love to go drone hunting with the boys etc, it looks way more fun when you do it with friends despite being in mortal danger the whole time

I know we are inured to the Ukranian drone war footage now, but one of the things that strikes me as incredulous is how many of these strikes are just... individual Russian soldiers walking alone on a path? It really feels like theres just guys sent to wander into Ukraine.

@Jesse_Livermore Can they actually re-open it? How are they going to convince everyone that it’s safe within the next… 45 hours? Taking a W seems good, but, I also suspect any actions they take won’t have much change on Trump’s next actions.

The market will probably be proven right for expecting an incoming TACO. Trump doesn't have the pain tolerance to take this further. Question is, how will Iran respond? Good chance they take the W & re-open the Strait, with the whole world now fearful of the leverage they have.

@DeepDishEnjoyer Covid, on the whole, saw so much international cooperation that the supply shocks were minimized. Now, we find out when the first defection happens in the Prisoner’s dilemma…

same actually! thailand-based plastics production is unbelievably fucked

@teal_andrew @OCpatriot_ Eh, there’s no real A2A peer and the ground attack mission makes sense and played out well in the teaching//training scenes They made a great movie

@OCpatriot_ Shower thought 2: why was the movie all about ground attack when the point of Top Gun is dogfighting skills? The air to air at the end was a sloppy tack on to the movie.

Shower thought. In Top Gun: Maverick, if they knew where all the SAM emplacements were, why didn't they Tomahawk or HARM missile all of them along the teams' ingress and egress corridors?

@OCpatriot_ @eastdakota The hint that the director wanted us to understand the movie this way is that none of it makes sense (But seriously, great movie, way over performed)

@eastdakota I can't argue with that.

@The4thEstate @Watchman_motto Laundry is close to the bedrooms and the area you’ll be spending most of your day off in so you can check on it Bedroom size is what people wanted, that’s just a trade off for sq. ft elsewhere, not a criticism of the floor plan

I think the mid-century aesthetic is trying to fool us into thinking this is a good floor plan. Laundry right next to kitchen? Barely any windows. Bedrooms smooshed together in back. Family room facing street. Picture the brick swapped with today’s popular white vinyl siding. I appreciate what you’re getting at, and this plan is better than the modern low income home, but this is far from ideal.

The thing about these old homes is that the floor plan is always genius. You may think that you can come up with a better floor plan, but even modern architects have a hard time doing it right. It’s also not intuitive why this is so nice, and many people have a hard time seeing it in their mind’s eye when looking at a print.

@smokeyrgreens @JohnZavinski you’ll never find them north of the mason-Dixon, boll weevils prefer sweet tea

@JohnZavinski nah the cotton restrictions mostly exist in the south, Pennsylvania has none. not to mention your climate isn't as hospitable for growing cotton.

@smokeyrgreens The herald of prosperity! Free pest management, seems fine.

@TonyFelonius @dioscuri But so you have to recuse in that case? ‘Dear editor, I seem to have written a lot of this…’

@dioscuri I was once asked to peer review a paper that contained chunks of text plagiarised verbatim from one of my own papers.

just got invited to peer review a paper I'm one of the authors on

@USN_Submariner @Edover45 @SenorDroolcup When you saw the video what did you think? Trident was having a real party after it finally got off your ship😂

@Edover45 @SenorDroolcup I launched two Trident Is, and felt the boat flex when they left the tube but didn't feel when they engaged

OTD in 1989: USS Tennessee (SSBN-734) conducted the first submerged test launch of a Trident II (D5) missile, which failed about 4 seconds into flight. After modifications, Tennessee conducted the first successful submerged test launch on August 2, 1989 & there have been 197 successful Trident II launches since.

@h8y7j48vsta @ArielZuk1 @bigseb31213 Who was the first to deploy it?

@PurensPhD @ArielZuk1 @bigseb31213 Sort of, both sides independently invented it in the late 30s; there is record of both sides being reluctant to use it initially due to copying concerns, despite them having independently invented it anyway, but Windon / Düppel was used extensively after 1943.

the Chinese are going to get absolutely incredible amounts of sensor data from Iran stupidest, worst planned, most incompetent war in american history

@sham_da_wowNMS @rappadapa @christernyberg They did lots of tricks, Doohan used his left hand for the communicator, and his right was often just hidden behind something casually. Definitely a must have for any ST drinking game, ‘Scotty hides his hand’ -> take a shot

@rappadapa @PurensPhD @christernyberg James Doohan lost one of his in World War II. Throughout TOS there’s a lot of up-close shots in the transporter room of another person’s hand with all 5 fingers.

it's always "shatner was overacting" and never whatever this is

@ArielZuk1 @bigseb31213 Apparently in WW2 both the allies and Germany invented chaff but didn’t use it because it was so easy to copy

@bigseb31213 "Let's not use any weapons because adversaries could study them"

@christernyberg @rappadapa You can tell because Jay had all his fingers

@rappadapa Both of these stunts were performed by Jay Jones, he injured himself severely in the "Adonias" one. He also does a great fall off the transporter pad in "Catspaw".

@JoshiBruceL @as_a_worker It’s not like they designed and built a salt cavern. I’d guess that the geos and engineers told them they had no idea how long it would last but 5 times over 25 years was defensible.

@as_a_worker Thanks for clarifying, I guess I misunderstood.

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve is stored in huge salt caverns. It was only designed to be topped off and emptied 5 times with an operational lifespan of 25 years. It’s been topped off and emptied 9 times since 1977. The faltering empire relies on what were once redundancies

@NeilRingdahl @SpaceX Plants are just phytominers Come at me bro

Without mining, there are no @SpaceX rockets. You'd probably be living in a cave, because EVERYTHING you live in & use HAS BEEN MINED.

@kemindolo @bbuckets_eth @BrickCenter_ That’s for when you need time for Calvary to scout the enemy position Duh

@bbuckets_eth @BrickCenter_ It’s honestly shocking how many people took this serious! Reconnoiter step….?

There's no such thing as traveling in the NBA anymore. Jalen Green took SIX steps in a 1-point game with 25 seconds left... no call 😭