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I'm listening to this Canadian podcast episode about the unlikely but now possible event of a US invasion of Canada. It is, as you'd expect, really grim. The biggest problem to resistance is that they'd get no support from neighbors. The Viet Cong had North Vietnam, and the Taliban had Pakistan and a whole bunch of other sources of support.Comments
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Power’s back! We went out for tacos because we thought it’d still be out at dinner. It was the most cutting wind I’ve experienced in twenty years, I think. The “feels like” temp. is 3°F.Comments
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Welp, power's out. I guess I'll put up that wall liner now.Comments
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After intending to do so about ten years ago, I finally started the Revolutions podcast. It’s, as I expected, really good.Comments
I’m listening to the season about the Haitian revolution. In the second episode, Mike Duncan describes the various factions in Haiti at the time. There’s the slaves, and what historians called the Freed Coloreds, the Small Whites, and the Big Whites.
It’s something of a model of what’s happening in the US now. The Small Whites resented the Freed Coloreds, who were prosperous (and often slave owners). They also resented the Big Whites. The Big Whites were concerned about the growing power of the Freed Coloreds, too, so they liked the resentment between the Small Whites and Freed Coloreds.
The French were concerned about all of these groups unifying and breaking out of their empire. So, they introduced official racism in the law to throw a bone to the Small Whites without actually making their lives better and to stir up resentment between the Freed Coloreds and everyone else.
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The room was also littered with tall championship trophies, and a bespoke checkerboard sat at the ready on a cluttered table. Tinsley never married and had no children. "It is a very rare woman who can be married to a real student of checkers," he once said.
This chapter of Seven Games tries to establish what a serious game checkers can be. And sure, any deterministic game can be. Still, I could not help but laugh at that last line. -
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I stumbled on this judo video and noticed the comments are in at least five different languages.Comments
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I now have 21 `@ts-ignore`s in this project. Maybe I should say if I hit 30 I have to just rip TypeScript out of there. I'm really over jumping through hoops now.Comments
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Our flight tomorrow got cancelled. February break is long, though, so we can fly out on Wednesday, and it'll more or less be the same thing.Comments
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Back workout with extra slow reverse flies and bent over rows, 2x8 deadlifts.Comments
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Back workout, 2x8 deadlifts. I thought maybe I’d be too stiff to work out, but it was OK once I got going.Comments
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Middle schoolers on a US military base in Germany walked out of school to protest Hegseth’s visit. Those are some brave kids.Comments
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So far, I'm finding electron-vite and electron-builder to be really smooth. Zero problems (so far) with configuration or building installer packages.Comments
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Komlock's one-sided ashi guruma. This is weird in that it does challenge conventional thinking about what efficient footwork is. To set up the throw, he steps with his right foot all the way to the left side. Then from there, he pulls the opponent back in the other direction clockwise and blocks their leg with his left foot.Comments
That's a lot of turning! But it does plant his right foot in an optimal position to rotate the opponent. To me, the more obvious thing to do is to leave the right foot where it is at the start of engagement, then just start rotating. But then your foot is at a place that doesn't give you leverage to rotate the opponent clockwise. (It would be an optimal spot for rotating counterclockwise, though. This is all assuming you're right-handed.) - Comments
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Maybe it's not the most helpful practice to post Trump news with the comment "seems bad," but:Comments
The Trump administration is looking to halve the NOAA workforce, say two former officials of the agency, a member of Congress and a congressional staff member.
Seems bad.
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35 minutes on the treadmill. I was watching a YouTube video that I thought was going to be 20 minutes, but it just kept going. I think my knee is OK!Comments
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