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I mod a worryingly growing list of communities. Ask away if you have any questions or issues with any of the communities.

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  • I think every study like this should be looked at and considered as a work in progress and as information that doesn't exist in a vacuum. Also, quotes like "This matches some anthropological estimates for early modern humans." might be ones to consider, as other sources do agree that a lifespan in the 30s was at one point to be expected, but it began extending past that 30, 000 years ago. So when the original study talks about 30 as the upper end, is it looking at an age where an early hunter-gatherer type human would be unable to keep sustaining themselves with that lifestyle? Is it because they are no longer fit enough to keep hunting or is it because even if somebody else fed them that all the other circumstances would just pile on? Is the idea of DNA estimating lifespan also looking at the idea that once an organism ages to a certain point and slows down it statistically dies from predation as well? Since that is something humans as a whole have been able to get past with intelligence. I don't know exactly how that all interacts, which is why looking at a lot of data is important before declaring something.

    Which also brings up the idea of an average in relation to an expected lifespan. It is a commonly known tidbit that while the average lifespan in ancient and medieval times would usually be estimated somewhere in the 30s (depending on the exact era, location, and methodology), that's an average dragged way down by infant mortality, and that people who made it out of childhood would have higher expected lifespans. I bring this up because looking at the OP linked study and then skimming a look at average lifespans might make the idea of DNA-destined-dead-by-30 a lock, when it really isn't.

    Obvious advancing medicine increases the population average lifespan. A human 30,000 years ago born with diabetes probably wouldn't make it very long while one born these days with proper medication lives much longer. Does seeing the population average lifespan number go up have any relation to another individual, specific human who doesn't have any sort of chronic illness? No, so again just looking at raw population averages as just one way of looking at expected lifespan is something to keep in mind.

    The conclusion is that it's an interesting study to keep as a link, and use as one piece of data if you're really interested in gathering more information.

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  • What’s your favorite movie that uses lots of practical effects?

    The Thing has to be up there if the criteria is just an overall great movie heavy on practical effects.

    Do you have a favorite practical effect of all time?

    The "digital" wireframe view of the city from Snake's glider in 'Escape From New York'.

    It was accomplished with miniature buildings which is rad.

  • The special provisions that exist or have been proposed are for first responders because they breathed in dust and were exposed to various health hazards during the response.

    What above and beyond taking care of do people who weren't exposed to any of that in the backend need?

  • In your own question you are identifying something that isn't a first responder. First responders arrive on scene. By being on scene the first responders were exposed to health hazards. Those hazards are what existing or proposed programs deal with.

  • I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.

    It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.

  • Something that is popular (or sells well) despite having no apparent appeal to anyone the commenter can think of.

    I don't enjoy Bloodborne. I think I can figure out why there is a lot of hype for it.

  • It seems like all of the answers are "I personally didn't enjoy this game therefore I can not conceive of anyone else enjoying it."

    I find that interesting.

  • Spock in the original series goes into his mating season, which is a time where Vulcan emotions become too uncontrollable to repress. Vulcans are ashamed of this loss of control and try to hide it away.

    Spock had to fight Kirk because Spock's arranged marriage wife-to-be was allowed to chose anyone as her champion against Spock when she decided she didn't want to him. Spock was out of control in full ragemode and only regained his senses when he thought he'd killed Kirk.

    Vulcan society has, to my eye, always been one that acts like it has everything figured out but its repression has created just as many bizarre rituals as any other culture.

  • I've long seen Vulcans as something of a cautionary example of going to an extreme. Rather than living alongside their emotions and learning their appropriate uses, Vulcans just repress them until it all occasionally explodes in an uncontrolled outburst. In their day to day, Vulcans have valuable logical insights but their lack of connection to emotion in a healthy way is a detriment.

    Trek has from the beginning framed the strict adherence to cold logic as a flaw. That's why Spock got a bunch of people killed on the Galileo 7.

  • The first one has slightly different foreign languages dubbed. It is also listed as a Sony manufactured box set, I really don't know the rights history there, but that's what the product page says.

    The second one is listed as a Disney made box. It contains one disc with everything on it.

    The third product looks the same as the second but containing three discs instead of one.

  • The closest that ever happened to me was an interview that ended up turning into a two hour plus long tour of the facility with my interviewer pointing out a lot of little details in more of a first day orientation than interview kind of vibe.

    The job seemed like a lock until I got a generic rejection email. I didn't reach out, but the same day that I got the email I also got a text from my interviewer apologizing to me because he had recommended me for the job and thought I was a good fit, but management above him had an internal person that they'd already planned to give the job to.

    Normally I'd be skeptical of a story like that, but given that he'd really gone above and beyond the scheduled amount of time for the interview and that he sent the text unprompted, I really do believe there were shenanigans afoot above him.

  • Questions like this are why I don't like "drone" as a catchall description. Drones are everything from single use first person view suicide devices, to off the shelf quad copters for recon, to essentially unmanned aircraft, to essentially just more controllable long range missiles.

    Ukraine has adopted Vykhors as the "standard" for their first person view suicide drones. These are often seen in footage with PG warheads attached and modified so the drone can fly straight at an armored target.

    Ukraine has also been using Bayraktar TB2, which are essentially unmanned aircraft which fire air to ground munitions and then return to base.

    The Russians use for example the Orlan-10 for recon. They are recovered after using a parachute to help land in one piece.

    Russia purchased from Iran, and now makes its own version of the Shahed 136, a long range drone (about 1500 mile range) that is essentially just a highly controllable missile. The payload is built into the drone.

    These are just a few examples and not an exhaustive list. The examples should illustrate the wide range of sizes, costs, and uses of drones though.

  • Do those detectors even work against LIDAR? A lot of police use that now anyway.

  • I travel a lot throughout the US, and sometimes the changes are obvious while other times I can be driving and not entirely sure which state I'm in just from looking around on the highway. As others have said while driving on a major highway a clue can be a huge store full of items like fireworks just across the border from a state they aren't legal in.

    The geography and environment can certainly be a big clue. Driving through West Virginia there are tunnels through large mountains, Pennsylvania around the Pittsburgh area has steel bridges, Louisiana has highways raised up from the muck, there are mountains that the highways wind around in North Carolina that give way to pretty flat highways as you go south. Kentucky has long depressing stretches of straight boring road. I've noticed even traffic patterns can say things as Georgia highways always have a higher number of semitrucks than anywhere else for example. Nevada is flat and open but as you go into Utah it gets windy and rocky, and cell signal usually goes out for a bit.

    Staying in different states I notice alcohol sales rules are different. In some states you basically don't see any alcohol outside of designated stores for it including no beer at gas stations, in other states you see beer for sale widely but hard liquor only at designated stores, and in other states hard liquor at WalMart is perfectly normal.

    I've found on the whole that people are actually nicer than average in Utah. While coffee shops exist I have noticed in offices there is often a lack of a central coffee machine.

    Louisiana everyone I deal with from there has a tendency to be much more relaxed than average about showing up exactly on time for things. Louisiana itself also has a cultural divide between the northern part which is more generic US south, and the southern part which has the more creole and tourist heavy atmosphere.

    I honestly don't mind Ohio. I know it's an internet meme to hate it, but aside from their obsession with dumping chili on unrelated foods it's decent. Has a strong blue collar streak kind of like Pennsylvania culture.

    Texas has a big cowboy influence and they don't let you not know it. The roads tend to big big and wide which is great, except the freeways especially in Dallas can become confusing multilevel nightmares.

    California has lots of Spanish signs, lots of first generation Mexicans who bring culture with them. Lots of for example Mexican super markets. Californians have a culture of going FAST on freeways if there isn't gridlock traffic, in some cases going 100mph just barely keeps you up with traffic.

  • The red dots used on almost all of the Delta Force guns.

    That style of red dot didn't exist until a few years later. At the time it should have been the equally distinct looking "long tube" Aimpoints.

    Again, I know it is super nitpicky, but they are so prominent and visible especially with those red lenses throughout the movie. They are only a few years wrong, but it's like if a WW1 movie was full of Thompson submachineguns.

    The BDH movie otherwise does a lot of great prop and costume details. Not flawless, but the other inaccuracies are much less noticeable.

  • I mildly enjoyed that the message of Jurassic World was "This park (movie) is a soulless project that shouldn't exist and only props itself up on increasingly mindless spectacle."

  • My thoughts exactly before I gave up on it. It felt like all the good writers on the team had shuffled over to write the dynasty stuff, and the difference in quality when the show bounced between the dynasty and foundation stories was something of a whiplash.

  • This is going to sound super nitpicky but even the first time I saw it, the modern body, ahistorical Aimpoints seen throughout the entire movie bothered me. It's only because they are so unavoidably prominent and because the rest of the movie's props are so well done that they stick out.

  • I would prime usually with a black undercoat and then do my base colors, then I’d do detail work and finish with washes, dry brushing, and mixed color highlights.

    This is the traditional way for sure. I also usually prime with black as well even. What you think of as normal though is surprisingly lost on a large number of newer hobbiests who only started recently. They know some bits and pieces but a lot of the painting flow has changed, especially for people more interested in finishing huge armies fast rather than actually having interest in the painting for its own sake.

    didn’t want to get crap for fielding unpainted sets

    So nowadays part of it in official tournaments people have to have minis painted to a minimum standard to enter. Which means a lot of people painting minis to just reach that minimum and no further.

    I didn’t realize there was another way to go lol.

    It's been a major shift in the last I'd say ten years. Airbrushes for painters became really common, helped along by YouTubers making tutorials. Then the contrast paints came out from GW with a heavy marketing push; all of the new GW official painting tutorials on YouTube make heavy use of contrast paints. They were successful and soon after the other paint brands all started selling their own versions.

    you’re MUCH faster than I was

    Thanks, and yes it depends how fast I want to go, there is certainly a quality/speed sliding scale but I try to work efficiently with batch painting and assembly line painting for the basics to get things done as fast as I can.

    I think I have some (really) old 40k minis I saved somewhere, if I run into them in my garage I’ll snap some pictures and reply in another post.

    Yes and I run the [email protected] cimmunity which always needs new posts.

    If you want to get back into the scene with limited minis, skirmish games are popular these days. GW offers Kill Team, and other rules like OnePageRules have put out their own free skirmish rules meant to use 40k minis.

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