I mean, according to Revelation the faithful spend literally every moment on their knees locked in prayer venerating their god, so…

But I really don’t like the idea of agreeing or disagreeing with someone based on the person saying it.

But that’s not what I was doing? I’m agreeing with him, because the House of Saud being a bunch of fuckers doesn’t make his statement any less true. But the fact remains that they are still fuckers, and asking me to be okay with that is unreasonable.

I hate that I’m agreeing with a member of the House of Saud on anything, and yet here we are.

It figures that the one time Detect Mimic really was a false positive, she got a C textbook out of it.

I could never get through the 2nd ostrich riding sequence in the 2nd level as a kid. The rest of the game was fine, though, once I used the level select to skip ahead. Turns out, it was because my eyesight was shit and I couldn’t even see the correct obstacles on screen (I was trying to avoid the branches, but no it was pink hippos and bird nests the whole time, so my timing on the double jumps was always off). Replaying the game a couple years back when Disney re-released it alongside Aladdin, I found it still tricky, but doable.

It really isn’t. When you know where they started from, and what direction they were supposed to be heading in, then even without knowing how fast they’re supposed to be going, it’s literally as simple as dropping out of FTL at regular intervals behind the sleeper ship and pointing a telescope in the general direction you’re going until you hit the sleeper ship’s light cone. What other posters have suggested about potential technical limitations relating the nature of the FTL drive and/or logistical problems with actually doing a pick up make sense as blocking issues, but finding them to begin with is a solved problem. Like, this is basically “where are Voyager 1 & 2 right now”, and we actually know exactly where they are right now because we’re still picking up their radio signals, powered by a 249W generator (less power than used by a typical modern PC!), from over 136 AU out, and a sleeper ship is going to be way more visible than that.

A sleeper ship isn’t going to be doing any maneuvers other than constantly accelerating before the halfway point and then constantly decelerating after the halfway point. Predicting the position of the ship at any given moment based on that is a textbook physics 101 problem that students are expected to be able to solve by hand. If you’ve got FTL cracked then you’ve got the computational power to account for any real world variables that would throw off such a prediction.

If you have working FTL now, though, and can get there faster why not also intercept the sleeper ships and bring them with you?

Yes, forcing Tyrion to watch his first wife get publicly gang-raped before disappearing her is absolutely what a loving father would do. Sorry, guy, but that whole mess is a pretty big torpedo.

Here’s everything you need to know from the about page:

To this end, the Foundation also trains and cultivates young writers for careers in journalism and serves as an outlet for a host of both young and established conservative writers and thinkers.

So, y’know, nothing more than a fascist whining about Dems recognizing that there are more non-fascists than fascists out there and are making at least an effort to appeal to them.

LessWrong are a bunch of pretentious loons, so you’re not wrong.

Just cross the equator.

San Francisco used bagged milk instead of cartons at least during the late 90s and early 00s. For obvious reasons, I have no idea if that’s still the case.

That was the middle of Mao Zedong’s disastrous Great Leap Forward initiative, which due to mismanagement saw vast numbers of people starve to death.

Upvoting because Earthbound.

I dunno, man. Gravity denial seems like a self-correcting problem, so maybe we’d be better off if there were more of them.

Have you perhaps considered the revolutionary notion that in the grim darkness of the future, there are no good guys?

Hm, don’t remember seeing that with the Switch demo. Yeah, that’s skeevy though.

Flushing isn’t exactly silent, though? The toilet getting clogged should make a very noticeably different sound.

Gonna throw in a shout out to AC’s spritual precursor, Prince of Persia. Also can’t go wrong with Rayman or Rabbids.