SwampYankee

“In 2016, the Green Party played an outsized role in tipping the election to Donald Trump,”

They'll blame anything other than the facts of Hillary being unlikable and Wasserman-Schulz being incompetent. Johnson took 3x as many votes from the Republicans as Stein took from the Democrats. In the end, Hillary was an electoral dud and Wasserman-Schulz' mishandling of the primaries led to faithless electors.

As a fellow Jew, I agree, but it's worth noting. I wouldn't ever call someone an antisemite for referring to someone as a lizard-person, because at this point no one intends it that way. I have a friend who's pretty receptive to social justice issues and mentioned it to her recently just as an interesting point of conversation.

The reptilian conspiracy theory can be considered at least antisemitism-adjacent, which makes its popularity with respect to Zuckerberg... interesting.

Colony is a bit of a misnomer. Zionist settlers did what they did largely independently, facilitated first by Ottoman bureaucracy, and then British. The British attempted to assuage both sides over the course of their retreat from the region during the interwar & WWII period, but failed and ended up angering both. They imprisoned and executed Zionist fighters during their mandate in the region; Irgun bombed Britain's mandatory headquarters in the King David Hotel in 1946. The Zionists were left behind not as a European colony, but as an independent nation that wholeheartedly believes in Israel as its homeland. Indeed, Zionists were supplied with weapons by the Soviets during the 1948 war; it was only later that Israel was embraced as a Western ally. Apartheid is more accurate, but still not perfect, because the Dutch didn't have a 3000 year old holy site in South Africa. This is far deeper and more intractable than any typical colonial conflict, dystopian in many ways for many years now.

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You cannot just make it Smart iTraffic 3D without removing the major challenge from the game. Fixing some bugs and not having traffic that dumb like in the 1st game would be appreciated though.

AFAIK the way it worked in the first game, the pathfinding was a simple A* algorithm that used only the length & speed limit of each link in the network to determine the shortest path. The way this video makes it sound, travel time will be the most significant factor, which means traffic will make a difference in the pathfinding. Then they're also introducing factors related to the individual cim's need for parking, comfort, and risk-taking. It should be a lot more realistic and just as challenging, without the ridiculous situations where traffic would come to a complete standstill because everyone is taking the same route even though there are hundreds of alternative side streets to take.

As someone who's done some advanced coursework in traffic engineering, I'm pumped.

So cims choose a route based on multiple criteria, now. That's how transportation network analysis is done IRL. AND they can turn around and reroute in the middle of a trip. Super cool.

He claims environmental regulations are going to decimate (he must have just learned the word because he used it about 10 times) Michigan's auto industry, but Rivian manufactures in Michigan, among other places, and all the big US auto makers have electric vehicles.

He says Michigan doesn't make electric vehicles, but China does. So instead of encouraging development of products that will keep our auto industry globally competitive, he wants to eliminate regulations so auto makers can lazily continue making ICE vehicles and stagnate technologically. Real big brain stuff.

I guess if we find a compound that is made of 15+ molecules, even if those are molecules we typically wouldn't associate with life, it's a clue that it may likely be produced by a living system. It's the complexity that's the deciding factor, not whether it's "organic" or not.

TL;DR, they broke apart compounds produced by different processes and performed spectroscopy to determine the constituent molecules. They counted the constituent molecules to determine an "assembly index" and found that compounds produced by biological and technological processes had a characteristically larger number of constituents. The implication is that a certain level of molecular complexity is only produced by living systems.

Also, they had one of two songs in Crazy Taxi for PS2.

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Last.fm says my top 5 artists are, in order, Vampire Weekend, Billy Strings, The Beatles, Sufjan Stevens, and Green Day. There's a lot of context missing there, though, lol. If you go down the list, you'll find a lot of punk & punk-adjacent stuff with some folk, pop and alt/indie rock interspersed. There's one metal band in my top 50, two if you count Porcupine Tree.