[–] 12 points 4 days ago

Best guess, sunset is being defined as a specific time. Sunset isn't necessarily the point at which all sunlight is gone, and even then, the time the sun goes down varies depending on where you are within a given time zone. If they just used an arbitrary time or an almanac listing for twilight for each day, they could easily end up including slivers of daylight in their post sunset data.

Which is really pointless since this is just the same old "BuT sOlAr DoEsN't WoRk At NiGhT" argument that idiots have been making for decades. But I suppose you gotta at least pretend to use real world data to make it look sciencey.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I used longitudinal distance because I wasn't 100% certain if the measurement for Chile is measuring a line between its two furthest points or just the distance between it's northernmost and southernmost latitudes. If it's the latter then it's a fair comparison, and if it's the former then Chile gets an unfair advantage but it doesn't change the result.

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  • [–] [S] 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Modlog cites Rule 5, which is still in place.

    Rule 5: Be excellent to each other. Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, will be removed.

    Which is a bit of a stretch since I haven't posted anything. Apparently a downvote is all it takes.

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    Ban happened on May 22, the post I downvoted was posted on May 21. Had to go to an app to be able to see the downvote, which is why it's rounding the date differently than on desktop.

    Prior to that my only interactions with the community were comments in February of 2025 and November of 2024, neither of which were particularly controversial and which have not been removed.

    So either pelespirit went through and banned anyone who didn't like his post, or he has it automated and doesn't say anything about it in the rules. Given that he is the only one allowed to post in the community, that would be even more petty.

    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    A deal which is basically worthless. The next administration can ignore it and the most Trump can do is sue. And that negates the whole point of the deal which was to avoid needing to defend the scheme in court. Since the deal is legally indefensible, he's very unlikely to win that case.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    In dissent, conservative Justice Samuel Alito said he would have found that no warrant is required, calling the ruling an “irresponsible escapade” that the court should never have agreed to hear.

    He accused the majority of “striking a pose as a great champion of privacy in the digital age.”

    And he says that like it's a bad thing. What an asshole.

    Not really a surprise, but worth pointing out anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    I would love to get vampire survivors. Thanks for being awesome.

    Edit: currently finishing the foundation books. Watching Farscape with my SO who has never seen it, finishing it tonight.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And I had said nothing about voting at all, let alone suggesting that people should vote and do nothing else. Maybe I confused you for the straw man because you were still covered in the stuff from fighting a straw man of your own.

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    My SO and I are always looking for good movies, shows, etc. to fill the month of October. We like things that are atmospheric, cerebral, or just fun. But a lot of the standard recommendations are your typical slasher movies and the like, disgusting body horror, kids movies that we have no interest in, and things that are just plain miserable.


    Here's some things we've liked to one degree or another from previous years.

    Action Horror / Horror That's Actually Enjoyable

    • Aliens
    • Bram Stoker's Dracula
    • Fright Night
    • Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
    • The Mummy (1999)
    • Silence of the Lambs
    • Sleepy Hollow (Great? No. Fun? Yes.)
    • Termors 1 & 2
    • Various Stephen King Mini series (IT, The Stand, Rose Red)

    Funny and Spooky

    • Army of Darkness
    • BeetleJuice
    • Bubba Ho-Tep
    • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
    • The Burbs (didn't love it, but a good fit)
    • Death Becomes Her
    • The Frighteners
    • Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
    • Ghostbusters 1 & 2
    • Gremlins 1 & 2
    • High Anxiety
    • Little Shop of Horrors (not really into musicals, but still a good fit)
    • Shaun of the Dead
    • What We Do in the Shadows (movie)
    • Various MST3K horror movie episodes
    • Young Frankenstein

    Anthology Shows (inherently hit or miss)

    • The Twilight Zone (60s)
    • The Outer Limits (90s)
    • Tales From the Crypt

    Old Timey Classics

    • Dracula
    • Frankenstein (actually underwhelming, but it was a good fit)
    • The Haunting (1963)
    • The Haunting of Hill House (with Rifftrax, but still counts)
    • The Last Man on Earth
    • Psycho
    • The Invisible Man

    Barely Qualifies as spooky but still good:

    • Dark Man
    • The Dead Zone (movie)
    • Men in Black
    • Pacific Rim
    • The Shadow
    • They Live
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