She has so much more sway than The Chicks had at the time, by such a huge amount.
The Chicks were already controversial, and had always been so.
But Dolly is the fucking queen of country, people revere her.
How many Dixie Chicks lookalike competitions were you seeing right before their career nosedived?
No, not really. That’s above and beyond being poly, we both are only really interested in life long partners, thus we fit so well with each other.
We’ve both agreed we doubt we would ever meet someone even one of us clicks with and meets us where we are at, we’ve both just spent so kych time and effort growing together that we’re extremely far along in experience and maturity. We’re getting married next year, as we’ve just accepted it’s gonna just be the two of us.
We’re okay with that, but I wanted to hear how other folks feel about this themselves, we aren’t unhappy with our lives, we’re doing awesome.
But I think it’s definitely an interesting thing to talk about, if people have had a serious commited “expansion” of the relationship “late game” if you will, and if it actually worked out.
For the relationship where everyone is with everyone, and the introduction of a new person requires everyone to be into them (and thus each addition becomes exponentially more and more unlikely, as the group gets bigger), I refer to this as a “Pod”, where its all one unit of people together.
Whereas when its not everyone connected to everyone, and its more open ended and people come and go, I refer to that as a Polycule (from Molecule), as in a “chain” of connections.
Typically the former simply just never gets very big, because it inherently gets very strained as it grows beyond even 4-5 people at most. Humans just cant sustain that many intimate relationships at once.
Polycules can go infinite though, cause any one specific individual in the “chain” of people can simply just be with only 2 or maybe 3 themselves, but that infinite chaining can just go on and on and on, without any individual even knowing how far it even goes.
I personally am not into polycules, Ive never seen one actually sustain and long term, every single polycule Ive witnessed disintegrates and fractures over time into different groups, it can get petty, people can get hurt, I just personally try to steer clear of such stuff cuz Ive yet to actually see someone long term defy the pattern Ive seen.
And by long term I mean 10+ years.
If the polycule is purely transient and people can just float in and out and everyone involved is cool with that, thats fine, but I consider that less of a polycule at that point and more just a bunch of open relationships. To be a Polycule in my eyes it has to have longevity and be non transient, each individual “link” of the chain is people going steady. A whole buncha people just having transient relationships, friends with benefits, one night stands, etc, thats not a polycule, thats just swinging.
Which is cool and I dont hate on it, but it’s just not the same thing and I try to ensure that distinction in lexicon is consistent.
Despite Steam being proprietary, Proton (it’s emulation system) is so profoundly stable I feel like it’s a necessary evil at this time.
I haven’t found a single “windows” game yet in my library that doesn’t work with steam
Why is it that blatantly lying about your political opponent and actively spreading clear disinformation that is easily reputable isn’t penalized?
And I don’t want like “cuz capitalism” zero effort responses, I’m wanting to know from an actual legal complexity standpoint what would go wrong if this was made illegal.
The fact it’s so clearly provably as a false claim by countless directions, it should be an open and shut “you spread obvious disinformation” and at least a notable slap on the wrist should occur each time.
Why can a candidate just go and openly lie and say whatever without penalty, legally? Shouldn’t this be under something like Libel, defamation, etc?
Shouldn’t Kamala’s crew be able to take Trump to court right now for defamation?
I tried the new installer out the other day to see if it made ALVR more stable for doing Steam VR with my Quest 3…
The installer was very user friendly, and ALVR is way more stable now.
I’m pretty happy, the process to install nvidia drivers now can be done in a single one liner command, which is ideal.
Mood, how are like 90% of articles pushing this narrative instead of pointing out Trumps latest new heights of dementia ranting.
We meed to push and down vote this Biden shit and post and share latest info on what new crazy shit trump is brain rotting about now and what implications it has.
Abzan is big butts. Can remember abzan just has fuckin Seige Rhino too.
Bant is Exalted, whichever you can just remember Heirarch’s colors.
Sultai are the snake ppl which is green Rogues (G + UB, BUG)
A crew of people wearing clown makeup as an anti authoritarian crew of antiheros operating under the ultimate of anarchist clown boys in a dystopian cityscape sounds actually pretty familiar… where have I seen that before in popular media… 🤔
My understanding is risk is low on this one as we already have a prepared and tested vaccine, and we have a known medicative treatment.
So it’d suck if it spreads but we at least have the tools to fight it on hand.
It’s pretty likely they’ll understand exactly what you mean, emotional manipulation tactics are timeless so they’ll prolly be like “oh yeah there was this asshole my sister met who was like that, never liked him, pompous arsehole”
It does mean something.
The skibidi toilet “creatures” are considered the antagonists, and the word is associated with their traits.
Its an insult to and pretty much interchangeably with “creepy” with a splash of “cringe”
Often paired with “ohio” which means “bland” / " boring" / “mid”
Example:
“Yo he got that skibidi Ohio rizz”
Translation:
“This dude has zero game, in fact he is creepy and weird and has negative charisma, people find him repulsive and boring”
Wonder if the poster took the moment to consider the millions of folks out there who physically can’t have sex anymore due to circumstances outside their control when they wrote this 🤔
I find it weird how much people give a shit about what consenting adults do for pleasure in the comfort of their own homes, and to their own bodies.
If they are an adult, it’s their body and their choice.
And if their choice is to cosplay as a child and bang an older person because that’s what gets their rocks off, I really don’t care.
It’s honestly not even the most outlandish of fetishes I’ve seen. We got people out there that orgasm from popping balloons, eating shit, and getting kicked in the crotch.
This is already to some degree an existing dilemma. There are already individuals out there who, due to genetic lottery, happen to have an adult body that through some efforts of clothing, makeup, hairstyle, etc, can very much present themselves as substantially younger looking than their actual age.
Lord knows certain popular niches in the porn industry make this apparant… >_>;
And from what I have heard on social media, sometimes these individuals couple up with another person who… doesnt look substantially younger.
And often, these couples face quite a bit of controversy and social stigma, despite everything they are doing and into being 100% legal and, from am objective standpoint, ethically fine (they are two consenting adults after all)
But I agree that future tech with things like gene editing and whatnot this dilemma will certainly become substantially more pronounced and I think it will likely be yet another group being attacked for daring to live their lives.
Others have covered the fact it’s because of air pressure but haven’t fully answered why that is the way it is.
It’s simple really.
The force of gravity is also at play. As you go higher up, gravity gets weaker as you get farther from the earth’s centre.
And it is that gravitational force that increases the air’s density, same reason why if you keep going down in the water, the water gets denser.
For the heat to move around you need to be in a sort of goldilocks zone of density.
It needs to be dense enough that the fluid molecules can move around and spread the convection energy around… but not so dense they can’t move much either.
Furthermore there’s actually a couple different layers of our atmosphere.
First at our level is the troposphere, where heat is absorbed into the ground itself and radiated back out, as well as the perpetual heat from the earth’s core, and reflected off the ground too (visible light).
The troposphere is warm and gets colder as you get farther away from the earth’s surface, naturally. That heat is absorbed by the air itself so, as you get farther away it gets colder as it has more air to travel through.
Up higher is the Stratosphere, where it’s ice cold and the air thins out.
However we get a sudden uptick in temp as we go even higher into what is called the Stratopause, back to briefly warm temperatures between the Stratosphere and the Mesosohere. Why? How?
Simple, this is the little sweet spot Ozone molecules hang out, forming a protective convenient bubble around the earth. Ozone absorbs Ultraviolet light from the sun and turns out that stuff is HOT, so there’s a band of a hot zone right above and below the Ozone layer. Think of it as a toasty little bubble around us.
Above is the mesosphere which cools off again and gets back to being really frosty quickly, for the same reason the Stratosphere did, distance.
Then we hit the mesosphere, which is effectively the point when the atmosphere is so thin it stops protecting and is the “outside” of our protective blanket.
You can imagine this like earth being wrapped in a blanket, and the mesosphere is everything outside the blanket. Without any protection you are subject to the unbridled radiation of the sun which means you go back to being really toasty, as you get a bit higher you are effectively in space now and will soon enough hit temps that just cook you alive in a minute or two. Really bad sunburn zone.
So to answer the question overall:
Hot air rises… but only when there is air to rise.
Top of the mountains just don’t have enough air anymore for it to really rise much more. It still does but the hot air rising effect just gets weaker and weaker as the air gets thinner due to less gravity.
Odd, I’m in Edmonton and never got the emergency broadcast all day and night yesterday.
Never heard anything about brown outs, maybe my specific area didn’t get included in the rollouts?
Alberta still primarily uses gas for heating so unlike our southern friends, brown outs impact us a lot less.
Oh, Jesus, this is from January.
Yeah, we got issued an emergency alert to drop unnecessary power usage in Edmonton and there was a cool graph that epcor I believe posted later showing how edmontons power usage dropped a shit tonne as people got the alert.
I think only a couple specific areas had brown outs, we definitely didn’t get them in my area.
Nowadays it’s less of an issue with docker and whatnot.
Just set the image to refresh every night at midnight and if they tried to make manual changes it’ll just revert back to its original state at midnight.
Customers don’t really get direct access to deployed code now, it’s buried under like 4 layers of abstraction on most CDNs now.
Simply deploying to azure already smears multiple layers of access control and RBAC overtop that it’s hard enough for me, the dev, to answer the question if “what is actually deployed atm?”, let alone for the customer to get in their and meddle.
If you want to win an election, Google might be arguably the worst possible company to directly threaten, not gonna lie.
Pretty sure uf they wanted to, they could wbd your political career with any manner of ways.
I bet trump’s Google search history would be devastating if they threatened him with releasing it to the public, lol.