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#someone on the LW organizers Discord recently

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Some aggregations of studies analyzing rent control, by Konstantin Kholodilin

#rent control

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"I believe you find life such a problem because you think there are good people and bad people. You're wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides."

it's both possible and likely for both sides in a war to do horrific things

#gnu terry pratchett

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#caves and things

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✨ Please reblog the polls to make them reach out to as many people as possible, but KEEP IT SPOILER-FREE to make people listen to the music with an open mind 💖 Artists and titles will be revealed after the poll's conclusion, check the original post for an update! ✨

#underrated guitarist #and he's not exactly poorly rated #on one of the few CD albums I ever bought

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Josh Mack, random blues-rock-country singer-songwriter I found looking for a good recording of 'Have you seen the ghost of John'. (He has a different track inspired by it.)

enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to

#also good and obscure: #nervous_testpilot #yoshida brothers #hanggai

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No. The Moon is a world.

Jupiter is a planet. Europa is a world. Saturn is a planet. Titan is a world.

Mars is both a planet and a world. So is Venus.

Worlds are the bits that are spherical and rock and that one could, in theory, colonize. (Ones in other solar systems are exoworlds.)

Planets are the ones that go around the Sun (or another star for exoplanets) and, depending on who you ask, have cleared their orbits. Moons are the ones that go around planets.

The Moon is a world which orbits another world, which is rare. So is Charon, but it's a very small world and so is its primary.

Ceres is also a world, and neither a planet nor a moon.

Astrogeologers care about worlds. Astrophysicists care about planets and moons, and sometimes asteroids.

Astronomers are a little unsure of the applicability of this index, but NASA's Planetary Protection Officer is all in favor.

Moon Armor Index [Explained]

Transcript

Title: Moon armor index: Caption: How thick the shells around various worlds would be if their moon(s) were converted into protective armor. (Roughly equals): Total moon volume/Planet surface area

[Vertical bars showing "moon armor" thicknesses for the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Salacia, Haumea, Quaoar, Gonggong and Eris.

Earth and Pluto's armor are notably thick, with Eris a far runner up. Earth's is labelled "43 km thick" and the height of Mt. Everest is measured at a little under a quarter of it. Pluto's is labelled "mostly Charon".

Salacia is close but noticeably smaller than Eris, and Jupiter even closer but still noticably smaller than Salacia. Further descending in thickness is Haumea, Saturn, Neptune, Quaoar, Uranus, Gonggong, and then Mars (which has a zoom in to show its 2 inch thick armor under a rover wheel.)]

#I am not the IAU but I think these categories are clearer than theirs anyway #and more useful

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gonna buy this god-forsaken web site and charge all y'all $8 a month to edit reblogs.

#it's true #funnier than the tumblr funnymen #well. #actually that's kind of faint praise #funnier than that and in fact actually funny

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I always thought 'denatured alchohol' was like denatured proteins, chemically modified to be ineffective. But no, anything added to alcohol to make it unpleasant or unsafe to consume for the purpose of drunkenness is 'denatured alcohol'.

Thus we may conclude that the essential nature of alcohol is getting you drunk, and everything else is epiphenomenal.

#ancient greek logic

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The article also notes that the acknowledged trend among all the big publishers is "probably we should give lower advances", though, which means they know their incentives are in the direction of publishing less. Given the huge discrepancies, probably much less.

The anecdote about the Ones Who Got Away report, which concluded that they were mostly getting trapped in bidding wars that look a lot like dollar auctions to me, seems particularly significant.

Deeply dispiriting post: testimony from a DOJ antitrust action reveals the entire book publishing industry is celebrity memoirs, established franchise authors like James Patterson, children's books, Bibles, and back catalogues (e.g. Lord of the Rings). Publishing new authors is not even a rounding error; you get the sense it's only done anymore out of a vague sense of obligation, and the moment one of the Big Five decides on the defect strategy, and stops doing that to save a few more bucks, it will end entirely.

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smol hoots

#too smol

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No? Looking at those two graphs demonstrates that the per capita numbers are useless bullshit.

People often react to the phrase "carbon footprint" with something about how it's coined by the fossil fuel industry to direct blame from producers to consumers, but I think there's still something extremely valuable about looking at emissions per capita -

graph one: total CO2 emissions, NOT per capita, by region. By 2020, China, the US, the EU, India, and Russia are the largest players, with the entire rest of the world barely surpassing China's emissions.

Graph two: The same regions but weighted per capita.

The US is unique in being extremely emissions-intense per capita while also being large and wealthy. This graph doesn't count emissions generated in China to produce goods shipped to America - it counts those under China's emissions.

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#this would be slightly better if the review was non-Steam #so that it would be ambiguous whether it meant DOTA LoL or one of the many lasts-two-years-and-fails competitors #it would of course always be correct

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Got to thinking about what it would be like in classic Old World Warhammer if the other seven winds got the Necromancy treatment. So here will be seven in-universe descriptions from historical AUs where those were the big Dark non-Chaos casters.

#warhammer fantasy #WHFB #WHFR #warhammer #up first: what if Malekith decided to burn the disobedience out of everyone who opposed him? #Voices of Nerat vibes

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Common misconception. They can't see the past because they weren't trained by the Conspiracy Nuns, so they can't see the future properly either.

when they said in Dune that they needed spice for space travel i thought it was used as some sort of fuel but no apparently it's just because your pilot needs to be hight out of his mind to be able to safely navigate big ships into space

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Happens to me but only for a couple seconds. Noticeable mostly because 'J' to scroll down doesn't work.

Tumblr on desktop has been extremely slow to load for me, for the past 1-2 weeks maybe.

It's like, a partial version of the page loads, which has most of the content in place but lacks (1) images and videos inside posts and (2) anything related to notes or activity. The notes button is missing from the bottom-left of each post, and the Activity button on the sidebar does nothing.

It sits there like this 10 or 20 seconds, images/videos slowly trickle in, and then suddenly the page "refreshes" in some way (e.g. if I'm on the dash, I am suddenly scrolled all the way to the top) and now contains all the expected stuff.

I've filed a support ticket, just posting out of curiosity if anyone else is experiencing this.

#admittedly I have userscripts and tampermonkey to make several elements vanish

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happy 4/20

#I managed to go through 4/20 with no mention of the date #however this is still a good post