The Bridge

@Memor-X you still do. it's just 5 higher now

tfw you really, really want to burn coal

The article fails to do a useful comparison but it's not even clear that their attempted goal is better than burning natural gas even in the ideal case, so like, why? >_>

Q: Is there any reason not to turn on Morrowind's "Always Use Best Attack" option?

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In the preferences for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is a toggle named "Always Use Best Attack", which defauts to "off". Is there any reason not to turn this on? Are there circumstances where I would want to use a worse attack instead of my best one?

morrowind

ToxicFrog

Because burning coal makes liberals mad.

i read in the paper that california has surplus solar and wind but is still building new gas power plants

so much surplus that we pay arizona to take the excess

wtf

that is the opposite of how "going green" is supposed to work

12:16 AM

I think there are still challenges in grid-effective storage

Although there have been some pretty crazy-pants solutions in the works lately

fair, but the solution to that is not to authorize new plants that won't come online in time to make a difference

Ktash

Reminder that tonight is the end of matching for donations. Also note that if you donate to MarioMarathon in the next ~40 minutes you'll be entered in for a chance to win a switch (for every $10 donated)

there is also some misincentivization where it is apparently more profitable to energy companies to build new plants but not to operate them at capacity?

and some bureaucratic thing where 2 different agencies have different visions on what needs to happen and neither one is fully in charge

See: This massive flow battery, the Germans creating a totally-not-ominous UNDERWATER POWER ORB,

and a little less directly these AC units that make ice

Stupid Ars URLs being all long and wrong

i'm sad that the underwater power orb doesn't glow like covfefe

12:24 AM

if it glowed it'd be wasting energy

What's the use of storing all that power if you don't use some of it to do something cool, right?

you silly leftsideright disembodied head

how can you tell it's on without the blinkenlights

it's not going to be on

gg @Avery

Oh, of course. The share links

Stupid hiding of functionality behind THE SOCIAL

12:28 AM

RSS Superiority

@badp no one uses RSS anymore

@GodEmperorDune don't project your inferior news acquisition channels onto others

@TimStone whats the context on this zillow thing popehat is talking about?

lol

STAY A WHILE AND LISTEN MY CHILDREN

Actually the story isn't that long

user15026

pulls up a comfy beanbag chair, drops down and makes themselves comfy

12:34 AM

McMansion Hell is an excellent site critiquing McMansions which are often unsightly and sad

404

And omfgbbq it used pictures sometimes that were found on Zillow

@badp Yes this is part of the story

WELL THEN

So Zillow whipped out its lawyers and got the site taken down on Tumblr and threatened to sue and blah blah

As it relates to Popehat it's an obvious fair use case threatened by corporate muscle so everyone on the entirety of Twitter made sure he was aware of it

aha

12:35 AM

(since the dude needs representation and whatnot)

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Q: weapon_tttbase errors

I've downloaded quite a few SWEP addons meant specifically for Sandbox that require weapon_tttbase. However, even after moving the script, the game won't load it. I do, however, get output to the console when trying to either use a weapon that requires it OR flat-out give myself it: Error creat...

mods garrys-mod

@TimStone I'm very confused

maybe if I knew what a McMAnsion was...

Oh goody we get to tell the story about American excess too

CONTINUE SITTING MY CHILDREN

3 cheers!

Oh, hrm

I'm disappointed because there's a King of the Hill episode relevant to this but I'm not able to find a clip on a non-sketchy source

12:39 AM

If I wind up watching King of the Hill it's 100% your fault @TimStone

@Wipqozn it's a good show, bront

Anyway, McMansions are a product of Americans always wanting more, so they build obnoxiously large houses on moderately sized land plots

also i should probably rewatch it as a missed a lot of seasons

They usually feature pillars and stuff that adds to the ridiculousness

McMansion is also the less offensive term, i have heard them called more colorful things dipped in racism too

12:41 AM

Ohhhh okay

basically race/racial slur + word for big home that rhymes or alliterates

looking into them, and basically @TimStone, it's what the Bluth company builds in Arrested Development

@Wipqozn no those are just model homes

Those look a lot sillier than the pictures in the Wikipedia article

12:44 AM

Here's one by me. They managed to get a decent bit of land there too, but it's like a grouping of a few obnoxious $$$ houses

@murgatroid99 Yeah the Wikipedia article seems to count the bigger builder template homes as McMansions too

(Those aren't what the blog in question is about, though)

We have a whole neighbourhood here of $500k+ homes that are like what's in the Wikipedia article

@murgatroid99 mine is from LA where we like to take things to extremes

lol, i've seen some of these example mcmansions in person

i parked near this one when i went to a talk/book signing by the XKCD guy

Ktash

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team-fortress-2 terminology

1:11 AM

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Q: What is a "Fat Scout"?

While playing Team Fortress 2, I've sometimes head players use the term "Fat Scout". Last I checked, the Scout can't equip the Three Level Chin, so what are people referring to when they say "Fat Scout"?

Oh look, there's now a relevant Ars article

Canada we're sorry please love us again

@TimStone Can confirm

My opinion of the USA has decreased significantly since Trump took over. Many of my Canadian friends agree.

I mean you did elect an actual crazy person to office

not you personally

but the country did

also Trump seems determined to just, like, destroy the world. The man is nuts.

If the midterms result in the GOP losing a lot of seats then my opinion will shoot back up again

@Wipqozn If recent special elections are any indication, that won't happen.

@Fluttershy yeah my opinion got even lower after that

It would be much lower if there wasn't a large portion of the country protesting against Trump

that march for women that happened shortly after he took office helped

Although everyday he doesn't get impeached certainly hurts, because come on now

It's going to be a long 8 years, I tell you what

@Wipqozn He would have to actually be caught doing something illegal. Being a shitty person isn't grounds for impeachment

1:23 AM

"Senate Republican healthcare bill would cause 22 million to lose insurance" - reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-idUSKBN19H1NZ

@murgatroid99 firing the head of the FBI to halt an investigation into himself seems illegal enough for me

@murgatroid99 with that Covfefe act if Trump deleted an old tweet would that be illegal?

@Memor-X I suspect it wouldn't be a serious enough crime to justify impeachment

@murgatroid99 I would've assumed the witness intimidation would've been enough for an obstruction of justice charge, at least.

@Fluttershy I'm not aware of the witness intimidation incident

"I lied about the tapes to influence Comey's testimony." Like... Come on, really? How is that not obstruction?

@murgatroid99 Threatening Comey with "tapes" ahead of Comey's sworn testimony, and then admitting to the reasoning for doing so after the fact.

1:28 AM

@Fluttershy I think what he originally said was "Comey had better hope I don't release any tapes", which isn't a specific claim that he actually has any tapes

@murgatroid99 Right. It was a veiled threat with the sole purpose of influencing a witness ahead of testimony.

And, in theory, such tapes would only be damaging to Comey's testimony if Comey was actually lying

I think that claiming that you have recorded evidence of something that someone is testifying about is not in itself obstruction of justice

@murgatroid99 i think it was "had better hoped that there isn't tapes" rather than threaten to release any said tapes

@Memor-X yeah, that sounds more accurate

though i think that sparked Comey to then leak his own notes

Unionhawk

1:29 AM

I mean meanwhile independent of the president ugh I need to call Rob but I hate phones

@murgatroid99 And it wasn't, up until the point that he openly admitted he only sent the tweet to try and influence Comey's testimony.

RedRiderX

James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

Tweeted by realDonaldTrump on May 12, 2017 at 12:26 PM

Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what qualifies as obstruction of justice. Attempting to influence testimony may not be sufficient

MBraedley

@TimStone The solution is easy: impeach him. We might end up disliking Pence just as much, but at least we'd have confidence in his ability to govern effectively.

> To be charged with witness tampering in the United States, the attempt to alter or prevent testimony is sufficient. There is no requirement that the intended obstruction of justice be completed.

1:32 AM

My understanding is that if anything would be obstruction of justice, it would be his firing of Comey, if it can be demonstrated that he did so in reaction to or in order to influence an investigation of him or someone associated with him

@murgatroid99 wasn't Comey the lead investigator for the Trump Campaign Russian Links thing? if anything isn't firing him obstruction?

@Fluttershy From what I can find, witness tampering has to involve physical force or the threat thereof

@Memor-X As I said, I think it needs to be demonstrated that the firing was actually related to the case

That was the point of Comey's testimony, but it's still his word against Trump's

MBraedley

@murgatroid99 I doubt that. Bribery or blackmail would probably be sufficient

@MBraedley The law is right here, and it is specifically restricted to physical force

@murgatroid99 Check section B.

1:36 AM

@Fluttershy Yeah, I just saw that

> Whoever knowingly uses intimidation, threatens, or corruptly persuades another person, or attempts to do so, or engages in misleading conduct toward another person, with intent to

MBraedley

Just about to quote that

Sounds a whole lot like blackmail to me

McCaskill admits attending reception at Russian official's residence despite saying she never met him… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/879513882569715712

Tweeted by thehill on June 27, 2017 at 1:37 AM

loooooool

Yeah, "engages in misleading conduct... with intent to influence, delay, or prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding" seems to exactly cover what he admitted to

@TimStone DAMMIT MISSOURI

1:37 AM

They've gotten so used to lying it happens reflexively

(politicians in general, that is)

Unionhawk

"the ahca actually expands Medicare, l2r"

@TimStone depends. a political lie would be to twist it and say "while yes i attended however i was there on official state business with someone else and was never actually introduced to the guy". a normal lie would be "no i didn't even went there fake news"

Unionhawk

2:12 AM

I mean but then we elected Donald Trump so now they're trying patent nonsense

SaintWacko

2:27 AM

@murgatroid99 At this point, if asked to choose whether a random person I had never met or Trump was more likely to tell the truth, I'd choose the random person

@SaintWacko or maybe Trump is just honest?

> Jack Sparrow: Me? I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly… stupid.

SaintWacko

@Memor-X Hm... Nah

Q: Can I join my neighbor on Minecraft PE if we have different internet providers?

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If my friend is a few blocks down the road. Would I be able to join her? We are on two different wifi networks, but we share the same provider (Verizon, AT&T, etc.). Would we be able to join each other?

minecraft-pocket-edition

user15026

2:54 AM

4

user15026

So that's a thing you can buy.

3:05 AM

CENTCOM officials told @BuzzFeedNews they have "no idea” what prompted the White House’s Syria statement tonight https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/white-house-says-syria-may-be-preparing-another-chemical?utm_term=.ffYjZZJ8r#.qod2bb0z6

Tweeted by Walldo on June 27, 2017 at 2:21 AM

Oh.

Mazura

@Memor-X - sorry for the confusion. And this (forgot to attribute), just after I had my bi-annual that's-not-what-plagarsism-is debate with our language overlords. ;)