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By the way if you're trying to use MSFS to recreate the Darkstar flight from the movie:

You can't really, but if you go into the weight settings and take out the superfluous stuff (the bomb and the pilot) now you can exceed mach 10.0

Which is funny because the whole thing in the movie is pilots are the past and Maverick is like "not yet!" and this MSFS implementation flips the script like "wanna bet"

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Top Gun: Maverick is a bad movie for anyone except aviation geeks who want to geek out over aviation, for whom it is an extremely generous lil treat

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The practical jets have negative value on an already mediocre story: you just want to escape the plot as soon as possible and get to the next jet scene

The mission is hilariously video-gamey which also drives interest in the flying: the whys and hows are too stupid to focus on

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@pkw In general, liking planes sucks because all of the cool planes are exclusively for blowing things up or practicing to blow things up

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@pkw Oh yeah STOL is great. Bush planes are still essential to civilian operations in much of the world: delivery vans, ambulances, and taxis

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This Black Panther Lego set features a Wakandan shooting range and a tactical skateboard, neither of which were in the movies

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If you find yourself trying to define genocide more precisely,

that should be a big "oh oops duh, I am deploying semantics in active support of a genocide, my bad" moment for you

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About the Qur'an's prohibition on usury:

“One of the last verses to be revealed was the verse
on ribā, and when the Messenger of Allah died, he had not explained it. So avoid ribā and any
dubious manner.” (Musnad Ahmad 350, Book 2, Hadith 255)

Musnad Ahmad advises that you avoid "any dubious manner" of financial transaction, just in case it might be usurious

This is sound advice and it's how you would behave if you genuinely wanted to avoid the sin

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So it seems like, if you genuinely wanted to avoid sin while committing yourself to a military campaign, you'd probably try really, really hard to avoid doing anything that might resemble or in the aggregate approach genocide, just in case it is actually genocidal, and you'd probably care more about the spirit of your actions than the legal definitions that do or do not apply to them

Which sends the semantic squirming up a level: arguing over "intentions"

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Which is, ya know, public

Rhetoric

Privately, if you're honest with yourself, you know if you're engaging in the exercise of defending the intentions behind your sin, this activity is happening because you are fully aware of the fact of your having sinned

To argue about the relative spiritual criminality is to acknowledge the criminality

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Comparing the price of gold for casting to the price of cast gold rings and Skyrim is feeling a lot more realistic suddenly

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After a year as a marketing manager I've started imagining mental debates in video meme skit format

At this rate I will definitely be completely insane by next year

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He longed for the confidence of a carpeted screened-in porch

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RED ALERT:

minecraft has bamboo and pandas now

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Example in this 100-level finance course:

"In order to buy a car, you saved 3,000 for 17 years in a savings account at 12% interest and now have 6,000"

I'm in hell

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My last two semesters:

Spring - two ivy league profs teaching quranic exegesis and feminist theory

Summer - intro to personal finance and intro to public speaking

Spring was heaven and now I'm in hell

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If you read "79% of Republicans believe that racism is still a problem in America today" and think that means Americans broadly agree that racism is still a problem: consider that many of those Republicans are convinced there's racism against white people

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Others think the problem is we won't stop talking about it

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The Telegraph headline on Palestinian refugees is in essence identical to how rightwing British tabloids wrote about Jewish refugees when Britain denied them safe refuge during the Holocaust.

These institutions are dedicated to White supremacy at all costs. They view us as disposable nonhumans.

Any PoC and/or Jew who thinks these people are on their side is wrong. They may temporarily pretend to not hate Jews or Ukrainians or whoever but that’s all it is: temporary.

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@ayoub General reminder that the characterization of hamas as rapists is sourced in a news story that has long been discredited: it was fabricated and is used as propaganda to dehumanize Palestinians and justify genocide

The subtext of this subtitle is "they all look the same to me"

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Reasons being a designer for a university is maddening #3942:

Everyone thinks an "info sheet" is an engaging piece of content that will drive participation in their program

So during orientation the plan is to hand freshmen folders full of "info sheets" so they're "aware" of your programs and the benefits and they can "make an informed decision", and in theory this is supposed to boost program attendance

Do my fellow sales and marketing professionals see what's wrong with this concept?

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You've just handed them optional homework

They're aware only that this is something they should do

Which is what haunts them as they proceed to not do it, because your program is now just one of a hundred "info sheets" they were told would be really valuable on their first day, and in their desperation to figure out what's really important they concluded none of it was important

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Most of you went to school here and have worked here a long time, you already know what they're going to do with your "info sheet"

yes, disrespecting the experienced marketer and micromanaging your content to your own demise is not really all that crazy: it's normal levels of crazy

What's over the top is watching shit not work and deciding it should stay that way: that you would like to contribute more broken shit and call it a day

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My take on AI is similar to my take on blockchain:

the best possible outcome is that it fucks up everything

Anything less than that is very shitty

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I know it's become acceptable in current usage, but it still grates on me when I see "invite" used as a noun in place of "invitation."

But that's just my problem.

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@WolfIsMe @MartyCormack Pretty much

"The team worked tirelessly to solution the technical glitch."

is a correct use that is basically (but not exactly) equal to: "The team worked tirelessly to remedy the technical glitch."

It's popular jargon in the software space (because if we're being pedantic a solution is not always a remedy)

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@WolfIsMe @MartyCormack That said I agree with Marty: your average jargonista isn't motivated by semantic precision

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