Stultus Maximus posted:

It's just the dumbest goddamn thing. Hey, instead of shifting regular work and school hours to better fit the dark/light cycle, let's just redefine "noon."

Platystemon posted:

Shifting school and work hours only works if everyone does it and does it on the same date.

hobbesmaster posted:

That sounds too straightforward, is there an exception for Indiana to get on a :30 offset or something?

Handsome Ralph posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1503898892982796296

When this story first came out and they didn't name the country they attempted to sell secrets to, my best guess was either Taiwan or Israel. Was surprised to learn it was Brazil.

Elviscat posted:

That picture of a submarine completely unrelated to the article is the USS North Dakota, if anyone was wondering.

E: or maybe the Colorado, but I doubt it.

IPCRESS posted:

Are submarines like aircraft in that they only stop leaking oil when they're empty, or is there some other function to the floating boom (e.g. anti diving net)?

ded posted:

anti diver net

Elviscat posted:

That picture of a submarine completely unrelated to the article is the USS North Dakota, if anyone was wondering.

E: or maybe the Colorado, but I doubt it.

ded posted:

anti diver net

they do have a big tank of diesel fuel tho. its part of the reactor shielding.

Elviscat posted:

That's just an oil boom.

NLON doesn't have anti-diver nets around the individual boats. Virginia's don't leak much oil but it's still a good idea to have an oil boom in case a hose ruptures when you're pumping non-oilys and there's a bit of a sheen.

W/R/T the NFO tank, when I was up there we had to offload and onload the whole thing because we got contaminated diesel, which the boom is useful for. Normally NFO isn't going to leak though, and the Cats on 774's don't have a bunch of unburnt diesel in the Diesel Juice like previous classes do.

Handsome Ralph posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1503898892982796296

When this story first came out and they didn't name the country they attempted to sell secrets to, my best guess was either Taiwan or Israel. Was surprised to learn it was Brazil.

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Not sure Europe is going to switch this year though. We had a referendum on it a while back, but just delayed the implementation ad infinitum.

Crab Dad posted:

better the net than whatever the sea lions are trained to do to you

FrozenVent posted:

I’ve never heard of a sea lion committing a war crime, but then again they don’t write nearly as many books.

FrozenVent posted:

I’ve never heard of a sea lion committing a war crime, but then again they don’t write nearly as many books.

FrozenVent posted:

I’ve never heard of a sea lion committing a war crime, but then again they don’t write nearly as many books.

Marshal Prolapse posted:

They’re also significantly less assholeish.

Thwomp posted:

NASA released the first focused image from the Webb telescope:



Important to note: they picked this star because it didn’t have much in its background. Those are unknown galaxies in the background.

Handsome Ralph posted:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1503898892982796296

When this story first came out and they didn't name the country they attempted to sell secrets to, my best guess was either Taiwan or Israel. Was surprised to learn it was Brazil.

Thwomp posted:

NASA released the first focused image from the Webb telescope:



Important to note: they picked this star because it didn’t have much in its background. Those are unknown galaxies in the background.

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Thwomp posted:

NASA released the first focused image from the Webb telescope:



Important to note: they picked this star because it didn’t have much in its background. Those are unknown galaxies in the background.

Thwomp posted:

NASA released the first focused image from the Webb telescope:



Important to note: they picked this star because it didn’t have much in its background. Those are unknown galaxies in the background.

Eason the Fifth posted:

Is there a red filter on that image or is everything in that picture extremely old and far away?

quote:

Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema made fun of President Joe Biden and praised Republican Reps. Kevin McCarthy and Andy Biggs at a closed-door fundraiser, a forthcoming book says.

The New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns pull back the curtain on Sinema's frequently tumultuous relationship with the Biden White House in their upcoming book "This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America's Future." Axios reported some of the accounts in their book on Wednesday morning.

The book says Sinema, who has repeatedly opposed corporate-tax increases in Biden's proposed economic and social-spending package, painted herself as "anti-government" and "anti-tax" while speaking to the audience of a closed-door fundraiser primarily attended by Republican lobbyists. Axios also reported that Sinema, according to the book, also mocked Biden, but did not detail what exactly she said.

"I love Andy Biggs," she said of her fellow Arizona lawmaker at the fundraiser, the date of which is not made clear in the book. "I know some people think he's crazy, but that's just because they don't know him."

Biggs, one of the most conservative members of Congress, represents Arizona's 5th Congressional District and chairs the House Freedom Caucus. He previously served as president of the Arizona Senate.

Sinema and Biggs have been friends since their days serving together in the Arizona Legislature and have long found common ground across the aisle. Sinema backed him for Congress in 2016, telling a business group, "I can't wait to sit here and do this with Andy next year," the Phoenix New Times reported at the time.

Biggs has, among other things, spread false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from President Donald Trump in Arizona, called for the election in Pennsylvania to be nullified, said as recently as October that it was not clear whether Biden fairly won Arizona in 2020, and denied the existence of climate change.

Biggs, who objected to Congress ratifying the 2020 election on January 6, 2021, has also pushed baseless conspiracy theories that the Black Lives Matter movement, antifa, and the FBI may have been involved in causing the insurrection.

Two of Biggs' own brothers have publicly condemned his attempts to discredit the 2020 election and called for his removal from Congress in the wake of the Capitol riot.

"By attempting to cause uncertainty in the election's outcome, Andy is at least partially to blame for the riot at the Capital on January 6," the Biggs brothers wrote in a letter obtained by The Arizona Republic. "Political ambition, peer pressure and fealty to [former President Donald] Trump proved to be too strong a drug to resist."

Fellow Democrats' frustration with Sinema has spilled over into the public sphere in recent months, with some progressives openly talking about mounting a campaign to challenge her in the 2024 Democratic primary.

The book also described more previously unreported details about the strained relationship between Sinema and the Biden White House, including that Sinema fought the White House's request for her to wear a mask in a meeting with Biden and told him not to come to Arizona to tout the passage of the American Rescue Plan last year.

Biden staffers have privately said Sinema acts more like GOP Sen. Mitt Romney than a Democrat, according to the book, with one person close to Biden comparing his difficulty understanding her to his confusion about why his grandchildren like using TikTok.

A representative for Sinema did not immediately return Insider's request for comment on the book's reporting.

The book will be released from Simon & Schuster on May 3.

Crab Dad posted:

You’ve never been salmon fishing on the pacific coast.

Eason the Fifth posted:

Is there a red filter on that image or is everything in that picture extremely old and far away?

hobbesmaster posted:

Webb is primarily an IR telescope, I’m not sure what they did with that picture. You can of course apply any color scheme you want to the raw output.

Mr. Nice! posted:

Those galaxies were previously unknown, so definitely very loving far away and, consequently, very old.

Eason the Fifth posted:

Thanks for the replies. I was specifically wondering if everything in that pic was red-shifted due to distance or if the red in the pic is just from the image (seems like the second).

Eason the Fifth posted:

Is there a red filter on that image or is everything in that picture extremely old and far away?

quote:

cool answers

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Hey everyone here remembers the republican nazi Matt Shea right? Aka Verum Bellator (ep. 384 of the Dollop etc)? He's currently being... weird... in Poland with 62 Ukrainian children:

https://twitter.com/davidlgutman/status/1504133554447392780?t=HhGpTizJOmW4PXwrBQcUXA&s=19

Stultus Maximus posted:

I don't actually remember this guy, but "far right Republican with children" is just going nowhere good.

Kesper North posted:

This gentleman posted a manifesto calling for the use of rape as a weapon of war in Eastern Washington's coming war on the godless hordes of Western Washington.

This is not even hyperbole, it's literal truth

Oh Oh OH I FORGOT ABOUT THE CHILD SOLDIERS

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/14/rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-child-soldiers-for/

Kesper North posted:

This gentleman posted a manifesto calling for the use of rape as a weapon of war in Eastern Washington's coming war on the godless hordes of Western Washington.

This is not even hyperbole, it's literal truth

Oh Oh OH I FORGOT ABOUT THE CHILD SOLDIERS

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/aug/14/rep-matt-shea-endorsed-training-child-soldiers-for/