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My guess is if you can tell you’re about to wake up, that means your imagination had a great idea for a premise, but didn’t know how to write a satisfying ending for it, and you noticed things were starting to unravel. You could try, as soon as you wake up, start workshopping what a compelling conclusion to the dream could have been. With some practice, your dreams might start to incorporate those ideas. Or just enjoy the sex, and don’t worry about your dreams needing to be complete works.

China has achieved remarkable progress in controlling nuclear fusion by fusioning their nuclears better than ever before!

Never!

The heat is all being dumped into the living space either way, so you aren’t losing anything from the metal. It takes away from how much heat will be available in the earthen part after the stove is turned off, but it still warms the room. Plus I imagine it’s nice to have some heat immediately instead of having to start the fire hours before you actually want it.

You could adjust the design if you wanted to change the ratio of fast heat and slow heat, but you would always need to have some part with a high thermal conductivity.

The goal is to have the fire drive a high airflow, both to give itself oxygen, and to pass the exhaust through a long path of heat absorbing dirt. The metal drum does this by passing the hot exhaust up through its center, then rapidly cooling it as it falls back down along the metal surface. The difference in density drives the airflow. The drum needs a high thermal conductivity to be able to maintain this temperature and density difference, and this is also the primary way the heat is transferred to the living area. The earthen part gathers up the remaining heat to increase efficiency and retain heat for when the stove is off, but most of the heating is done immediately through the metal.

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That’s optimistic. I think one of the more employable/profitable skills is going to be learning how ai works so you can get it to be full of shit in a way that’s useful to your boss.

There was one where the rock even came with a note telling them to write something nice on the rock and give it to another nurse.

“I’m supposed to appreciate the nurses? Ugh, that sounds awful, just make the nurses appreciate each other”

Exploring and understanding yourself is an important part of transitioning. It’s frustrating and can feel like nothing when you want to be making externally visible changes, but it is real progress, and it matters.

Good luck finding ways to make what changes you can. There’s no schedule you have to keep except what you set for yourself.

You’re talking about opposing racist pieces of shit. For that, absolutely, use bullying, punches, bullets, whatever works. But there you’re not trying to make them better people, the goal is to stop them from saying and doing racist shit.

My issue is when this gets applied to trying to get an okay to change their beliefs. It’s not going to work, and you can talk yourself into doing some fucked up stuff that way.

Not bullying someone doesn’t mean being nice and holding their hand, it means not trying to make their life hell. You can still be harsh, blunt, and forceful when calling things out. That’s different from bullying.

I think we should be aware of when it’s an appropriate tool to use, and not treat any criticism of bullying like it’s a call to give a klansman a hug.

I think this is where the problem is. You can’t bully someone into having better beliefs. You can bully them into shutting up and being scared to say their shitty opinions out loud. There’s a lot of people where achieving that would be great, and for them “bullying works”. But believing that “bullying works” to actually change people for the better leads to some awful behavior, and it’s an issue that a lot of people on this site accept it.

Remember when people called mike bloomberg an oligarch, and others were defending him by citing webster’s dictionary or whatever to say that an oligarch can only be from russia by definition.

An american billionaire has to be a sparkling entrepreneur.

Friends have been using my pronouns. My family stopped using any pronouns for me. I’ll take that as a win.

Either keep your compound words to a reasonable length, or get rid of spaces entirely and have one word per paragraph.

It’s crazy how variable pronoun usage of any kind is once you start paying attention to it. Like, you’d think a fairly consistent percentage of the words of any conversation would be pronouns, but a lot of the time it’s either a drought or a downpour.

Anyway for like a month my friends have just naturally not used my pronouns, and my family has been misgendering me like crazy, and I am gritting my teeth waiting for it to start swinging the other way.

People criticized Obama for performatively pretending to drink water, and now here’s Biden actually drinking water. Sometimes we just need to maturely accept incremental progress and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The tip of the lunar umbra just barely reaches the Earth, and Webb is at L2, about five times farther away. It’s not seeing it at all,

Is Webb even positioned where it can observe an eclipse?

Pretty sure it’s not

Yes