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Reference for anybody unfamiliar with the list; please be advised that evil overlords shouldn't be the only people keeping an ordinary five-year-old around to say things like "your super secret house should be hidden way better than this".

Went to see Superman with one of my sisters today. Major takeawayd: the people of Metropolis are too stupid to live and is it just me or did Superman create essentially all of his problems for himself? And upon reflection, has anybody in Metropolis even *heard* of the evil overlord list?

Yes, it was just that initial release that made people call it secret. They wanted it shared in carefully controlled situations - like how when you find out you're totally surrounded by a gazillion people all conditioned not to speak their minds in group settings - and so ended up with that label.

All the secret-ness was front loaded and yeah, it was declassified and widely distributed and unsurprisingly managed to kick off riots and a slight um revolution by the middle of the following month, but first impressions are important when it comes to names.

It got the name right at the beginning because they kicked out all of the outsiders (foreigners, journalists, etc.) before he gave it to a closed session of the Party congress, refused to take questions/comments, and classified it as "secret" for I don't remember how many days (like a week?)

I'm loving the stove exhaust an entire story above the stove, with a floor, bookcase, and mattress between it and said stove, apparently letting the exhaust vent into a... wait, is each floor built on stainless steel ductwork?

Really ought to be a bad physics take, too.

It's not some core moral principle, just the fact that by pushing out a signal at 50,000 Watts or whatever means nobody else in the area can say anything at all on that frequency. We're collectively ceding our own ability to use that frequency in exchange for something of collective value to us.

The public interest requirement relies entirely on the fact that broadcasters have an actual physical monopoly on what goes out a specific transmission frequency: whoever has the strongest transmission always wins. There's no basis for it without that exclusive use of a common space.

My uncle graduated HS in 1964 and misattributes constantly but for them, Reagan being reelected *governor* in an election they viewed as unfair in that specific way seems to have stuck, along with Reagan's actions as governor that especially upset California HS and college students, which they were.

My parents, thankfully, almost never pin early 1970s things that happened in the US as a whole on Reagan, I think because he was on the ballot for the one election where their entire peer group focused on how anybody old enough to be drafted should get to vote and that had just been taken away.

I honestly only remember the PR line as exactly that - my Russian history prof said it was a useful way to frame the issue because you can't exactly say "please feel free to dispose of the corpse however you see fit".

Eisenstein's films were all made while Stalin was in charge and part 2 was seen by some as overtly anti-Stalin (part 1 clearly is not). That's why part 2 is his last film and nobody outside the production or the government got to see it until the Khrushchev thaw.

Pretty sure the second part ends a decade or so before the crap-I-murdered-my-son incident, and I know they never made part 3.

He kills other relatives, though!

Approximation of what my Russian prof said when discussing the word: "OK, so 'terrible' didn't really mean that in English at the time either, but you know what, bad example."

My paternal grandfather's family was Jewish and under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until, you know, Russia swallowed it, then spent the rest of the time either under the Russians' thumb or fleeing it. Things were bad at the end of the Commonwealth; Russia took it as a challenge to do worse.

(The comments there are pretty much always unhinged.)

My baby brother's girlfriend is a utilities engineer and all her project assignments have been data centers or solar farms, and she apparently only goes to the second one when a data center project hits a delay of some sort.

(I keep all variants of this, including "my dad's a bigoted jerk therefore I'm voting Democrat", in one basket. Who your parents support tends to be the first political lesson you learn, and it gets repeated a gazillion times before you even have peers to follow.)

Yeah, though the decision about whichever heuristic they're going to follow is often made early enough that they could just as easily be deciding on the basis of their parents' or pastor or favorite 10th grade teacher's signals. People use that stuff to pick which peers (and media) to listen to.

That's how humans make decisions about all kinds of things, and why we're so fond of categorizing and labeling and color-coding and whatnot. No different from trusting everything branded "General Mills" or refusing to buy anything marked "Monsanto".

I can tell you right now a bunch of people I know personally do something like this; they've adopted a time- and effort-saving heuristic and are sticking to it. At best the kind of attention they're paying is superficial and tends to confirm priors, like only noticing bad headlines about one side.

It's either that or you're out of ammo, and honestly it's probably both at the same time because either one works equally well as an allusion to a male's inadequate reproductive capacity.

(Lots of slang does at least triple duty.)

Engineers often need a lot of water to keep data centers cool Data centers are growing in number and in their environmental footprint because of all the water they use to cool down the servers and other equipment.

It's actually interesting, what happens to the water - not to mention which water they're using - but remember that water has a really high thermal capacity. Once it's hot (from going past the heat-generating machines) it takes a while to cool down, and can't be recirculated until it does.

There are already tumbleweeds; the reasons for not seeing a ton of them rolling down the Strip look like "cars smash them" and "tall casino hotels are highly effective windbreaks", not "the climate is too wet."

D-Day deception Operation Fortitude: The World War Two army that didn't exist The biggest deception operation of World War Two – the invention of an entirely fake Army group in England, with dummy tanks and aircraft that fooled the Nazis.

You do both. Strategic ambiguity, like with the blow-up Army divisions positioned in the wrong places before D-Day.

It's basically just limited by the imagination of the administrators and what the budget allows for. Like, some states have full college programs, and tons of prisons have culinary training with access to meat cleavers, so what's not offered isn't about intellectual limitations or safety.

Near as I can tell anything they teach at a tech/vocational school (most of the programs are geared towards satisfying certification requirements) would work, as would anything certification-oriented offered at community colleges. Auto repair, HVAC tech, construction, culinary arts, etc.

The barriers to entry are the training (which takes forever and is ridiculously expensive) and the ongoing cost of supplies. I think most of them are buying supplies from the salon owner.

(The cosmetology track at the vocational high schools uses the cost savings as a recruiting tool.)

Definitely true in salons in my area - the business model is more like an antique mall than an ordinary employer/employee relationship, because the individual providing the service gets most of the fee, not just the tips. My sense is that the "rent" includes a percentage of each transaction.