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I think the technical term in UK English is "bounder." Andrew has been a bounder in public for a long time, plausibly Chuck was sick of it a long time ago.

I started reading that and when you got to the list of stuff that Gladwell doesn't mention, I thought "why would I keep reading a review of something so inarguably shitty?" and noped out.

But there has to be an ASRAAM launcher within range, for that.

Same as it ever was

That is, they are bullshitters in the technical, philosopher's sense.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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The King's Hessians are abusing the locals and ravishing their daughters.

It's a format that never gets old. Orwell documented it 100 years ago, maybe it was Wigan Pier, or else Down and Out.

You don't need to be an Orwell completist to benefit by reading those.

Damn I am glad I never realized my boyhood ambition of becoming a Famous Scientist.

I like the characterization that hope is the epistemically humble position
Despair is thinking that you know what the future will be
Hope is leaving open the possibility that you're mistaken

You don't want justice, you want revenge.

Republican ends bid for Minnesota governor, citing ‘unconstitutional’ ICE surge Chris Madel drops out of race and in video criticizes the ‘federal retribution on the citizens’ of Minnesota

Somebody looked at the trajectory over the weekend and thought "I am NOT riding this bomb all the way to the ground"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

With hammer- or machine-broken rough, any kind of decent agate or jasper or other microcrystalline silica will want a good two months in stage 1 grinding.

Looks like you succeeded with the fancy jasper. I did a batch of that once, and it was forever getting done with coarse grit.

"Whole leaf" tea was not really an article of commerce when the term "OP" was invented/adopted. Tea was shipped on sailing vessels in chests lined with lead foil to be airtight, and the leaf was broken to bits to pack efficiently.
Even China teas that shipped to the West were processed this way.

The disintermediation of markets has resulted in what used to be a technical term changing to a marketing name.

There are all kinds of teas being sold as "OP" these days, but I'm pretty sure there's no longer any authority to enforce any particular definition of that.
Once upon a time it was a specific mesh size for broken tea leaf, and the auction house middlemen who moved the tea enforced standards.

Yes let's not Letiza James this one please

PS I think "Pekoe" is pronounced with a short "e"

I was with you up to the point where you started talking about aroma
OP is purely a leaf piece size measurement and connotes nothing about aroma
In fact, grocery store "Orange Pekoe" does not really qualify as OP, by the real definition
And don't even get me started on "Orange and Black Pekoe"

An image of a gaiwan, a teacup, and a cockle shell sitting on a towel. The gaiwan is open to display the wet leaf, the teacup contains the rinse. The cockle shell is empty, having done its job as cha he for this session

2001 Au Lao Shan sheng puer by Hai Ling Hao, via Yunnan Sourcing
Still smokey AF after almost 25 years
#tea #teasky

Where does one acquire the rough to make that

A photograph of a red Christmas laser projector, as seen though the mist of sprinkler irrigation at night

Christmas laser + sprinkler

Looking at a search of posts for "faceting" and somehow this is included among the discussions of gemstone cutting and various subfields of computer science

I'm having a hard time picturing scale.

Do you whisk matcha in it or pour brewed tea into it? How big is it?

I spy a Facetron in action.

What are you cutting?

Ruby Laser Rods, Vintage Soviet Laser Crystals These are partial and complete laser rods of ruby.  They were made in the Soviet Union and we got them from an old collection. These laser rods were meant for use in solid state lasers.  They would ha...

I was just recently looking. There seems to be a fair variety of stuff, though I don't know about the price history.

I was thinking it would be cool to cut some something from these old scavenged Soviet military laser rubies.
store.turtleshoard.com/products/rub...

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

thinking about this with regards to the Uvalde cops twiddling their thumbs while kids got killed. all kinds of normies are naturally heroic under fire, you have to be trained to be that much of a chickenshit