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I don't think there's likely to be any shit show here. None of the people involved in the shooting even claimed to have witnessed a felony in progress, so no citizen arrest law applies, and what we have is a false arrest followed by manslaughter in the process of committing a felony (the aforementio...

So do you think Captain Picard can write his favorite Shakespearean actors a check for 10,000 Reputations to have them come perform for him? If he wants to make his vineyard bigger, can he go to the Reputation bank and get a Reputation loan?

Assuming maps are semi-accurate I'd ballpark it at 5000 LY plus or minus 3000 and roughly spherical. So at 15000LY distance, low end estimate Ω ≈ 0.06 st, high end estimate Ω ≈ 1 st.

I don't have any evidence that it's an effective action, but more because it might be insufficient than because it wouldn't be on the right track. 40k (when it's not too poorly written) is a place in which symbols and ideas have intelligence and agency, and will twist, unmake, and subsume human mind...

In Warhammer 40000, humanity has colonized most of the galaxy, and there's a "warp rift" called the Eye of Terror, the size of a decent-sized dwarf galaxy, parked on one of the Milky Way's spiral arms. It glows, it's evil, and it's been there for about fifteen thousand years. Suppose I'm t...

Sadly, most of the Batman toys in 5e suffer from low fixed DCs, high prices, and/or weak effects, unless your DM cares to houserule them more generously for you. Rogue specific things: If you pack a bunch of 30-ft ropes with grappling hooks at one end, you can combine them with your fast climbing to...

It would be super cool to have martial arts equipment that lets you spar with full intensity just like you were fighting and not get maimed as a result. Although if you take away all risk of injury, you might risk losing some of the martial virtues you'd want to inculcate. Having pain is good. Not i...

IIRC that only becomes a problem in phenomena that are simultaneously very dense (relativity) and very small (QM), like black holes or the universe before inflation occurred. As far as we know. But... QM is the study of stuff we can manipulate in labs, and relativity is the study of stuff that's ea...

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I grant everything you said about the wealth of knowledge generated by non-Europeans and its instrumentality to the emergence of scientific thought. Europeans developed less than their fair share of the world's body of knowledge and philosophy over most of recorded history, and it was largely non-Eu...

God save us from famine, war, pestilence, death, and the Liberal Arts. 1 Whiteness = a class aspiration with roots in an imperial past 2 Whiteness = institutional effects of a said class aspiration on the discipline of anthropology 3 Whiteness = the absence of acknowledgement of an elite, masculine,...

One quick clarification / aside: Just because Relativity and classical QM are axiomatically incompatible doesn't mean we can't use them both on the same phenomena, combine their predictions, and get good results, under many / most circumstances. For instance, consider nuclear physics, the sub-field ...

That's a good analogy, but drawing macroscoping analogies to the behavior of subatomic particles will always get you into trouble eventually. The basketball really is somewhere specific before we bounced something off of it, and it really does go somewhere after we bounce something off of it. We may...

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2019-06-12 04:02am Though Anakin doing it by the Force probably has more thematic resonance.

A frequent ability to inadvertently drain the life force of one's significant-other would also make the "no romance for Jedi" fatwa suddenly go from self-defeating nonsense to making a lot of sense.

Undoubtably talented filmmaker Ron Howard should probably learn that if you're going to release a movie with a lot of dark scenes in the era of the unmanned digital projector with non-standardized luminosity, you need to turn the contrast way up or 30% of cinema audiences are going to get unwatchab...

Mild hypothermia is often used therapeutically too. Apparently inducing a body temp of 33-36 Celsius suppresses cell death from free radical production and inflammation during re-perfusion after resuscitation.

Little correction - classical QM is indeed incompatible with relativity, but it works fine in high speed regimes in which its axioms (specifically, that spacetime is euclidean) are met. Conversely, it doesn't work in low speed regimes where spacetime has a significant curvature over the scale of the...

I don't know why the article doesn't mention it, but overdose is way more common than choking, drowning, or asthma (as a cause of needing CPR), and a pulseless OD patient definitely needs rescue breaths.

There's precious little data to indicate that rescue breaths in single-rescuer CPR improve outcomes for CPR patients who need CPR because of a cardiac event (as opposed to respiratory compromise). Let me explain why this is the case: If you have two rescuers, whether bystanders or professionals, one...

People under stress in unfamiliar circumstances don't have enough subtlety of thought to realize that "don't disobey the clean cut guy in the white coat" doesn't apply to applying (what they think are) agonizing electrical shocks to adorable puppies . We humans are just bad at some things,...

On consideration, given the existing stereotypes and taboos, I think that replacing the awful blue vaguely masculine dummy with an awful blue vaguely feminine dummy would probably be a good idea if the budgets don't exist for a variety of more accurate dummies in bystander CPR courses. It might help...

Performing CPR means touching boobs. Get over it. Performing CPR most effectively means exposing the patient's bare chest (and boobs). Get over it. Applying an AED means exposing the patient's bare chest (and boobs). It ABSOLUTELY means removing the patient's bra, which may have a conductive wire th...

Is there any chance your talk was being video recorded?

Way I see it: You can have war between space groups; belligerent groups at least two of whose power comes mostly from somewhere on Earth; and/or nobody who can control whose space ships get to be in orbit around Earth. But you only get to have two of those at a time. Want Space Comcast to go to war ...

Minor point, the article specifies the price of the necessary 3D printer as a "few thousand dollars," and that it would require a "machinist of average skill." Down a bit from where it was the last time OMG DOWNLOADABLE GUNS did their rounds of the internet a few years ago (since...