I somehow initially interpreted this as meaning:
'Here is a depiction of a primitive computer wiring bundle at Hanford, which was used to rout porn.'
Had to blink a few times.
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May the spirit of St. Mangione soon visit Mr. Vance and impart upon him his Saintly honesty.
As is written:
Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.
Luigi 1:7
Its pronounced 'About four thirds megabytes.'
... Even assuming the self driving tech was actually capable of doing this, which is won't be...
How would this even make any sense?
Ok, if you live within about 200 to 300 miles of a Tesla factory, ... you have this option?
Fremont, California; Sparks, Nevada; Austin, Texas; Buffalo, New York; Lathrop, California.
Outside of 250 miles ish of one of those places? No self driving delivery for you.
... And I am pretty surr not all models are made at all those locations.
Despite long ago claiming his EVs and charger network would be capable of automatically recharging or battery swapping themselves... to make a long distance journey... that ... doesn't exist, he abandoned all of that.
Even funnier: Imagine a tesla self driving from the as of yet to be completed gigafactory in Monterrey Mexico... through the border checkpoint.
The auto charger network doesn't exist, the car would murder people, cause an accident or fucking explode in the border queue... and even if none of that happened... how in the fuck is a self driving car gonna get through a militarized border crossing?
If he just gives himself a waiver via DOGE for his cars... congrats Elon, you are now a drug trafficker / arms smuggler, whether you know it or not.
... fucking lunacy.
I absolutely despise the patronizing and bellittling nature of that phrase, and the tone it is usually delivered in...
... But at the same time... cleaning as you cook a complex meal with multiple steps and lots of involved cookware... really really does cut down on overall time spent in the kitchen, and makes for an actually usable and sanitary kitchen.
Worst case scenario, you've got everything but the final used cookware soapily soaking in the sink when you serve and eat... and then right after you eat, you rinse and dry those off, and then clean the final stage cookware and serving plates/utensils.
If you don't have the time or energy to handle cooking and cleaning a complex meal... you don't have the time and energy to just cook it, and then be overwhelmed later by the accumulation of 'dish cleaning debt'.
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It can be somewhat challenging to learn how to cook and clean at the same time, and avoid getting soap into your food or visa versa... but it is by no means impossible, and is a huge time saver... and you can feel proud of yourself for legitimately learning an extremely useful life skill.
If you just set a rule for yourself or your apartment or house that ... there should basically never be any dishes left in the sink for over an hour... you avoid the massive pile up of dishes and always being overwhelmed and avoiding them... because your rule basically enforces breaking things down into cleaning smaller amounts of dishes at a time, and it also forces the generally positive experience of cooking and eating to be integrated with the generally negative experience of cleaning dishes.
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I have, waaaay too many times, lived with people who just pile up dishes somehow in the sink and dishwasher, such that it becomes an actual biohazard (I mean it, rotting food and mold, swarms of flies in a sink that hasn't been cleaned in two weeks or more, nobody can even remember if the dishes in the dishwasher are all clean, all dirty, or a mix of both)...
...and that means if you wanna cook anything with a commonly used piece of cookware, ok, now you gotta pull it out of the ratsnest in the sink, hope nobody threw any knives in there to cut your hands on, and get an infection from the festering biohazard... and then also you must now somehow clean this cookware while the sink is completely full.
Which means you have to just clean the entire sink to begin to be able to clean the major cookware you need to begin to cook the food.
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Hell, the solution that ended up working best for me was to just also throw on a 'no dishwasher' rule.
Force yourself to associate the actual cleaning cost with whatever you are cooking... and the result was that I ended up with a mental health affirming regular structured rule/habit, that I actually ended up genuienly enjoying, as another source of 'i actually accomplished something today'... as well as basically ingraining a better subconscious ability to understand what level of cooking complexity I actually had the energy to prepare.
If you find yourself being often overwhelmed by what you want to make... learn to make simpler recipes, get a rice cooker or crockpot and just have basically a constant supply of something approximating a stew, get an airfryer or toaster oven for rapidly heating up smaller portions, salads are great for you and often have a pretty low prep time.
Save the dishwasher for actual schedule emergencies and hosting an occasional get together or party.
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Basically, treat dishes as credit card debt.
Pay that shit off ASAP, otherwise, it'll snowball into disaster.
Remove the 'i can handle the dishes/pay this off later' from your mental approach to it, directly associate all the costs together in a very near time frame.
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tldr; that saying needs a makeover or rebrand.
Maybe:
Clean as you go, dish pile don't grow.
something like that? I am not really a ... sloganeer.
A nearly 50% drop in booked global TEUs?
TEU means Twenty Foot Equivalent Units, your basic standard shipping container.
Yes, yes, this is astoundingly, apocalyptically bad.
America will be more fucked than others, but this is Great Depression 2.0.
If this persists, and you end up with a the rest of the year of roughly half the TEU... well you'd go from about 900m TEU to about 550m TEU.
The last time global sea trade clocked in at about 550m TEU was 2010.
So... yeah, just wipe out the last 15 years worth of volume of world trade, and economic activity/growth enabled by that, and oh also you have about 1 billion more mouths to feed than in 2010.
Or... if you look at it in terms of % change.... its hard to find detailed, historical, week by week figures without paying for the data, but the entirety of the GFC hitting the global economy in 2009 resulted in an 8.5% decrease in global TEU from 2008.
So... it remains to be seen how long and strong the current downturn in TEU will persist...
But, if you say 2025 TEU drops by 30% in aggregate for the rest of this year... that is a 2025 that has a -22.5% 'growth' in total world trade volume, almost 3x as bad as the 07 08 09 GFC, the impact of which was seen in the -8.5% of 2009.
These are spitball guess numbers, I can't predict the future... but I do have a degree in Econ and I used to work as an executive level data analyst for a large mulinational, US based import export firm... so its moderately informed spitball guess.
This is Great Depression 2.0, this will make the GFC look like childs play. This is tens or hundreds of millions of people (globally) going broke, becoming homeless, starving to death levels of bad.
The only way to prevent that at this point is ... well basically step one is America needs to impeach and imprison every Trump administration member... but that is uh... not guaranteed, to say the least.
They're climbing up from B6 to B2 or B1 lol.
Every 'goal' my family gave me and then forced me into pursuing?
Sure, they praised me when I accomplished those things.
Every goal I actually chose for myself, and achieved?
At best, absolutely no help of any kind when I'd ask them for help, general constant dissuasion and negging, and then after I achieve those goals, massive, massive passive aggressive jealously and constant belittling.
I now live several states away, don't communicate with them, and have finally been able to establish a sense of self, and self-esteem, based around my own assesment of what are good traits and goals, instead of basing them on trying to please incompetent bullies.
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If your goals are, as you say in another post, learning how to make a vidro game, learning to draw, learning basic programming/web design...
These are literally all goals that pretty much most people with sufficient spare time and diligence could figure out the basics of and even become decently competent at with a few years of time... not even in a formal education setting, though that could likely help.
Your goals are extremely reasonable, your family is being ridiculous.
Are you guaranteed to become wealthy via pursuit of these goals? No, of course not.
But you aren't guaranteed that in most other careers or lines of work either.
If you don't already have gobs of money and/or influential connections... chances are, you never will.
Unless you are like abadoning a fairly solid career path that you're already significantly time/money invested in, and just completely abandoning all means of keeping yourself able to eat and sleep indoors for the full time pursuit of hobbies...
Then no, there's nothing wrong with wanting to learn more skills.
The shock factor played into the logic of choosing whether or not to use the atomic bombs ... but that would have been roughly the same if they had been detonated in nearly any city, or hell, on a relatively uninhabited area the Japanese could easily have seen, purely as a demonstration.
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Indeed, the initial list of proposed targets included Tokyo Bay, which would have caused far less destruction and death than say, the center of Hiroshima, but would arguably have functioned far, far more effectively as a pure terror inducing demonstration.
(Tokyo itself had already been substantially destroyed by many other bombing raids)
They ended up picking Hiroshima as a first target because the size and surrounding terrain of the city would basically be the maximally efficient use of the destructive power of the bomb...
...and the city was a center of industrial production, and also had an army depot and port... and Hiroshima would be less effectively damaged by the ongoing firebombing strategy the US was using on other Japanese cities...
...and because Hiroshima was deemed a 'good radar target', meaning that the primitive radar tech of the time could reliably actually get the bomber to the target, which was not the case withbmany other Japanese cities...
...and finally: Hiroshima had yet to be touched by any US bombing actions up to that point.
A later target assesment and rationale document
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Nagasaki was not actually the primary intended target of the second bomb.
The primary intended target was Kokura, which housed a huge arsenal of ammunition dumps, and was also a major industrial center.
The bomber aircraft with the second bomb was having some difficulty with its auxilliary fuel supply... and made 3 attempts at targetting Kokura, but these all failed due in large part to the Yamaha Steel Works burning massive amounts of coal tar to create as much thick black obscuring smoke/clouds as possible.
After then 3rd run on Kokura failed to postively identify the drop location in the city, the bomber diverted to Nagasaki, which had much clearer weather and less anti aircraft defenses.
Nagasaki also had an arsenal of ammo and weapons, and a Mitsubishi Arms Plant and Steel Factory, and the Nagasaki drop site was specified to do maximum damage to those... which the bomb did.
The bomber then barely made it back to a US controlled airfield in Okinawa, having only enough fuel for a single landing approach pass.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki ...
tl;dr: Shock and terror were absolutely very important considerations in the rationale of deciding where to drop the bombs, but maximizing damage to military and industrial targets, and other more practical operational factors played significant roles as well.
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Additionally... if Japan did not surrender... the actual plan was to basically re cycle all of the troops from the European theatre into the Japanese theatre... into a total ground invasion of Japan, which was projected to last into 1947...
... and cost more than a quarter million dead Allied soldiers, more than half a million wounded Allied soldiers...
... and estimates ranging from 3 to 10 million dead or wounded Japanese civillians and military.
Those numbers come from the increasing conscription of essentially all abled bodied Japanese either formally or informally into some kind of armed resistsnce against the invasion, as well as projected losses of remaining noncombatants.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall
It is also worth noting that after the second Atomic bomb was dropped, the Emperor was almost couped after he decided to surrender.
A group of very high ranking Japanese officers attempted a coup with the goal of continuing the war, never surrendering.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
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EDIT: A perhaps more interesting counterfactual... or idea for a HOI4 mod... would imo be something like...
What if all or some of the original US nukes... failed to detonate? Were duds? Their bombers got shot down or crashed? Accidentally got released wildly off target?
What if the US ... decided against using them?
What if the Emperor did not decide to surrender, or the coup was successful...
And Operation Downfall actually went into motion?
The US only had a few atomic bombs, and could not churn them out rapidly, there were no stockpiles of hundreds or thousands as we are used to in the modern day or basically from the mid 50s ish onward.
How many people would have died then?
... Does maybe Stalin backstab the Allies as Hitler backstabbed him years before, and attack Western Europe after the bulk of US and Commonwealth forces moved over to Japan, with the Soviets just making a show of doing very minor attacks on Manchuko?
WTF happens to China in that scenario, with the Cold War basically having been skipped, and Kai Shek and Mao still yet to decisively win or lose?
Same 'wtf would happen' to Korea, in this scenario.
You could make a decent alt hist out of some timeline where Operation Downfall ends up happening and/or the US nukes either not being used, failing to work, being sabotaged, etc.
I try to keep between 68 F and 72 F, but uh, the thermostat's method of measuring the actual temperature in the apartment is completely, laughably busted, so... hot days it goes on 62, cold days it goes on 84.
No. Autism is not a reason to be a bigot.
Autist here, completely agree.
Many subtle, more context dependent social cues took me a lot longer than NTs, Allistic people, to figure out... though I excelled at school and have gone on to hold highly technical data analysis/reporting, db admin type jobs.
Blatant bigotry is... not a very subtle or context dependent thing to understand.
This fairly young 19F girl comes from a bigotted family that has completely or mostly normalized this kind of behavior, and has also infantalized her into believing Autism and ADHD are excuses for her poor behavior, as opposed to explanations.
Right wing bigots tend to treat Autism (and really any mental disorder) as basically 'they're retards, just expect them to be shitty, and also I am a hero for raising a retard baby', as opposed to actually taking time to learn the ins and outs of how their minds operate differently, and learn together how to bridge that gap, with a bit of accomodation coming from both sides.
This often results in infantilization of the kid, of just taking away their agency, instead of actually putting in the extra work to help them build up their agency and tweak or tune their worldview to be a bit more aligned with, or at least aware of, how much of the world doesn't operate by the rules that an Autistic person would default to.
(Just go look at how RFK Jr apparently think we are literally pants shittingly stupid and will never pay taxes or go on a date... given the Kennedy family history of literally lobotomizing his own aunt I think it was, for her mental disorder... yeah not looking great for us NDs with this frat boy fail son with a brain worm where his brain should be as fucking Health Secretary.)
Right wing idiot bigots are not very good at critical thinking, so... yeah, it makes sense that they also suck at teaching critical thinking.
I have often seen this produce many additional behavioral problems in other younger Autistic people... because their idiot familes basically Munchausen-by-proxy their Autistic kids into beleiving they are far, far less capable generally than they actually are.
In a sense, her family was probably bigoted toward her by treating her as a caricature of what Autism actually is during her most fundamental developmental years... needlessly stifling her mental development... so now she is doing the same and broadly being bigoted toward other people with other 'labels' that fit into other 'boxes'.
This girl needs to learn to stop excusing her bigotrd shittiness by pointing at her mental conditions.
There are plenty of people with Autism and/or ADHD who ... yes their minds work differently, but they aren't all raging bigots, thats on her.
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If that doesn't work, get John Constantine.