SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 8 months ago (8 children)

I think what he wants is the front turn signal to wrap around the front, so I can see the left signal from the right quarter.

I'm not aware that this is not the case, but I don't know that I would have noticed if it was not.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 2 points 8 months ago

almost certainly.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Such things have to be wire guided, or autonomous. Subs have really good wire deployment systems, so it's not something out of the question, but water blocks radio signals quite effectively.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I mean, that's like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That seems incredibly unlikely.

Once again, I long for precidented times.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The cultural relationship with time is more important than its absolute measurement.

This was the statement at the top of this discussion. It values the local concept of what time should be over an objective measurement of what time is.

The proposed change wouldn't cause much of a problem. But the idea under the statement I quoted would.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

that is such a small edge case that it’s not necessary to talk about them

Did you manage to overlook this point?

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In general, stay out of the ducking way.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

kind of my point. Trains need accurately measured time in order to run properly.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Tell that to the trains.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 3 points 8 months ago

Your last point is wrong, at least as you have stated it. Evaporation time is based on surface area, and the required power is based on volume, but you expressed the amount of water as a length.

Still, metric is way better.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 12 points 8 months ago

The leftist version of such people wouldn't be a propagandist, but a whip. Someone to help herd the cats, as it were. Someone to help keep the important things in mind in the midst of the "flood the zone" technique that disperses our efforts.

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