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  • so they don’t try to block them from being sworn in

    They’ll do that regardless.

    But, fun fact, it doesn’t matter if the new batch of congresscritters is sworn in or not – the ones who were voted out stop being congressmen on January 3rd, whether they have a replacement sworn in or not. No matter if their replacements get sworn in or not, they have to go. (Although I’m unclear on the subject of successful incumbents. They certainly don’t have to leave, since they won reelection … but do they need to be sworn in again after every election, or do they just keep going on like before?)

    But if they try to play too many games with the ‘swearing in’ nonesense, the incoming congressmen can play hardball right back. There’s no constitutional requirement for being sworn in, not even a rule of Senate/House procedure. It’s just traditional that new congressmen get sworn in before participating. But if they’re playing games with not letting the new ones get sworn in, they could also just show up and start participating/voting anyway. The current batch of Republicans have violated plenty of norms and traditions already, and if they try to use this norm/tradition as a stumbling block, then let’s violate this one too.



  • And I have a hard time believing that there isn’t some solid or liquid (or maybe some other exotic state of matter, due to the heat and pressure) inner core way down in there, even if it’s relatively tiny compared to the size of the planet.

    Even if it was entirely made of gas when it formed, surely some materials would have fallen in over the eons that could stay solid/liquid at the pressure/temperature of a gas giant’s core?



  • 2ndDegreeOWO@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.world•xkcd #3322: Dragonfly
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    Sure. 25% --> 37% … as long as you (for some arbitrary reason) only consider 8 “places” in the solar system.

    7 of those are planets, but Titan is a moon. If we’re going to include moons, then there’s going to be a whole lot more than 8 “places” in the solar system, so the percentage of places where helicopters can work is going to be greatly reduced. If we get really pedantic and consider any orbiting body in the solar system to be a “place”, then there will be hundreds, thousands of them where helicopters can’t possibly work, once you start tallying up asteroids and comets.

    Also, why does the list include 7 planets, not 8? What? Are you not interested in trying to make a helicopter work on Mercury? That’s quitter talk!


  • That’s just because ZFS’s disc cache shows up as application-used memory, instead of disc cache memory. (Disc cache memory is often reported in system monitor tools as ‘free’ memory, because it can be freed up as soon as you need it. ZFS’s disc cache works the same way, but it’s not reported separately to the OS, so that makes it look like ZFS is using a shitload of RAM.) If it bothers you, you can set a maximum amount of RAM for ZFS to use, and that will clear it up. It will mean that your performance is slightly worse, though, because ZFS won’t be able to use disc caching optimally.









  • I just hate always being rushed rushed rushed. Always have to go faster. Click faster, move faster, make decisions faster. Faster faster faster.

    I want to play a strategy game, but at competitive levels, it’s less about strategic thinking and more about just memorizing what the ‘meta’ is, and then being able to execute that meta faster than the other guy. And all this rush and hurry all the time is just too much strain. I want to play games to relax, not to add stress. I get plenty of stress from real life.