Right, but in the daytime, the portion of sunlight that is scattered on the way through the atmosphere to a given spot is partially made up for by sunlight that was scattered to that spot away from other areas, which wouldn’t happen under this scheme.

I’m curious how much scattering occurs - I have no idea how to find or model that.

Thanks for the write up!

I’m curious how strong an effect atmospheric scattering would have, even after all that

Sure, but who decides what’s on the citizenship exam? Who updates it? Who’s in charge of making sure it’s administered fairly?

Right now there’s not really any power to be gained by subverting it, so it’s handled by people who are interested in keeping it working well. Make it the gateway to electoral control, and interest groups will worm their way into control of it - and then you have a variant on poll testing.

It really doesn’t. I’m sure that satisfaction exists, but when your pay doesn’t always let you eat, it’s hard to stay put for the satisfaction.

Appealing as the idea is, the problem is who gets to control the exams.

Yeah, I’m just pissed that even with that they’re still head and shoulders above the competition

According to sources familiar with negotiations, Microsoft’s bid suffered as it refused to accept some of Israel’s demands.

…why is Microsoft the upstanding company here?!

It is, yes. It remains to be seen if that matters.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this meme; but what’s it from?

I assumed they asked because in many countries, it would legally trigger an election.

…so do people not expect to upload their own rips anymore? Or is there a different process these days?

While I don’t doubt plenty in his administration would think of that, I have trouble seeing him thinking that far ahead.

Could definitely be getting fed AI videos with the hope of him reposting them for that reason, though.

I was honestly wondering if someone made it in mockery of him, and he doubled down on it…

Escalation of violence tends to go in favor of the despotic regime.

Instead of making ICE disappear, make it impossible for them to disappear. Make their identities public, and keep them that way as long as they’re associated with ICE. Then see what the community around them does.

…yeah, I actually should have left that part off. It was unnecessarily fussy of me, and I apologize for putting that in. I stand by the rest of what I said, but that part was an unnecessary personal attack.

In baseball, you can only score by getting past the opposing team without being tagged with the ball; which usually requires your teammates to keep them busy as you move from one safe base to the next. To start from third (last before scoring) and think you hit a home run is to start out almost done and think you did the whole thing without support.

Again, I apologize for putting that in - we have not had easy kids, and the “skill issue” comment hit a nerve.

Hard disagree. Kids are different, have different needs, and behave differently. Parents also have a wide variety of support structures around them, which also has a huge impact on how difficult raising kids is.

There are people who will struggle to be good parent regardless of other factors, but that is not the only reason raising kids might be hard. I’m glad you haven’t had some of the struggles other people have, but you sound like the guy born on third who thought he got a home run.

Kids’ parents generally benefit from unofficial “aunties” too!

I haven’t had one in almost that long. Shave my head every night instead!

Started going bald in my twenties, eventually decided to just lean into it.

Closest I remember to her being discriminating is things like this

Not exactly something I’d object to.

I feel like MAGA just runs half molten down by design at this point