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> So where was he going? I saw two possibilities: either to Tikkakoski to visit his ex-girlfrind he was on the phone with or; just to drive around with a new powerful car, to shake off the heated phone call.

I don't understand how suicide isn't at the top of the list here. He was obviously very upset emotionally. He didn't care for his belongs other than his phone. He didn't care to steal someone's car or answer for it. He never shows up anywhere.


I think very few people commit suicide by driving a car into a river.


People have committed or failed suicide attempts in probably any way we can imagine.


Certainly. But some are much more common than others, and if you're playing the odds, as you must in these kinds of events, we can say that it's much more likely for an inexperienced driver to have an accident on pitch black wet roads, than that they attempted suicide in this unusual way.


Why would he bring his phone though?


Why not? If you're planning a suicide, does it ultimately matter if your phone is in your pocket or at a log cabin?


Mine lives in my pocket. I pretty much bring it everywhere I go.


To send last messages before he kills himself? Call for help if he backs out?


I feel the same a lot of the time. I get so excited when I have something to say.


My Mom recently had brain surgery and was recovering. Her machine would go off all the time and it took forever for a nurse to come buy and fiddle with it. I would joke to my Mom that it probably meant she was dying. Those beeps were so annoying. If anything, they should be beeping in the nurse's control area. It seems ridiculous it has to beep loud enough for a nurse down the hallway to hear it when it never seemed to be anything urgent or dangerous. Certainly, no one came running.


This would be a great companion tutorial to a text book. I loved the animations and the interactive animations. It could use some proofreading, however.


My ex girlfriend's family used to have their cat litters right next to the kitchen table. Any bad behavior or decisions I've made since then I'm going to blame on her and my "taxoplasmosis".


Toxoplasmosis is a debilitating disease which is suffered by those who cannot control a latent infection of toxoplasma gondii.

This is likely not you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis

The behavioral changes are a different matter.


I feel that naming one specific presentation of an infection for the pathogen isn’t so tenable now that we’ve realized there are multiple presentations.

Consider, is subclinical TB not TB?


So Toxo makes you subscribe to too many cat subs and overwhelmingly likely to not harm you?


That’s gross regardless of whether it led to you being mind controlled!


Taxoplasmosis is where you look at how much tax you pay vs what you get, and freak out.


> Because it’s always going to be there, and it does the one thing I actually need it to no matter what: Let me run multiple shells at once, without SSHing in multiple times, regardless of whatever funky terminal emulator I’m actually using to get the job done.

I'm confused. Couldn't you just open a new tab to do this? Or just alias your shhing to a 4 stroke alias like "sshg"?


This is really cool. I would love to have that power of typing my handwriting.


My handwriting is crap, I'd much rather type hers!


Improving your handwriting is pretty simple, it's just mildly time consuming. I journaled for a month and just focused on how I wrote each letter. At first it took me half an hour to fill an A5 page - but my handwriting looked so good! It only took a month for my muscle memory to pick up the adjustments, and now I can write quickly and legibly in cursive.

I tell everyone who mentions bad handwriting the same thing. Buy a cheap journal, grab a pen you like, throw on something to listen to (music, a podcast, the news, a game stream, could be anything) and just write. What you write doesn't matter, just focus on putting down each letter exactly as you want it to look, and take your time.


I did the same thing, and really focused on opening up loops and getting ascenders and descenders straight, and it made a huge difference

I just picked one of those all the letters in one sentence phrases and practiced on that during phone calls

Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow


It is obvious he partied all night after a late shoot. "I took a sleeping pill and it didn't kick in until now" is just a polite way of saying partying was more important to me than this commercial. The man was a known alcoholic.


I once drank a 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew, and then fell asleep about 2-3 hours later.

A few hours later, (about 6 after drinking all of the Mountain Dew,) I pooped. As everything moved in my insides, the caffeine finally hit me all at once.

So it's completely possible for a sleeping pill to sit in Well's stomach for a few hours before he finally absorbed it. I wouldn't attribute any malintent on his part here.


Pretty insane for the writer or even China/Russia to believe the US, with all of its resources, wouldn't be able to make their own accurate maps.


Russia had accurate maps of the UK back in the cold war, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bqzwsM6eoQ


Not just accurate: far and away the most accurate.


It’s nice that USSR dedicated more money to this than UK government did


Are the USSR ones technically copyright-free? Because the UK ones are Crown Copyright IIRC and can't be used by the public without fees.


>> Pretty insane for the writer or even China/Russia to believe the US, with all of its resources, wouldn't be able to make their own accurate maps.

Pretty weird to think the US is the only country they might be worried about. Maybe not right now, but in general.


Do they?


Pretty insane for you to believe that a foreign country from afar could produce mapping data with the same degree of accuracy, detail and realtime freshness as a local provider on the ground. Of course there's military value in protecting mapping data from foreign adversaries, at the very least it adds a a time delay and some uncertainty to the data. It also probably makes it harder for some unsophisticated terrorist to strap a consumer GPS to a stock drone and accurately hit a target.


There's no need to speculate. Even with 1960s tech and no physical access, the US military somehow managed to produce really good maps of the USSR, superior to those that were available to the public. So ironically, the intentional inaccuracy of USSR-made maps affected domestic users the most.

In 2024, with satellites producing imagery in ~10 cm resolution, the most important factor determining the quality of maps is probably the amount of money available for analyzing satellite imagery into maps, and you definitely can't hide militarily important features like roads, railways, bridges and buildings.


The images might have ~10cm resolution, but that doesn't necessarily mean that there can't be larger scale systematic offsets and other distortions for larger tiles.

I recently learned that satellite images are often corrected to match known maps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVemGumEEgo


Sure, but there's a limited amount of information available from a satellite image. It's hard to tell what's going on inside a building, for example.


This is why I believe the policy of obfuscating strategically important sites in map data is counter productive. If you overlay the Chinese provided obfuscated mapping data over mapping data obtained by your own military apparatus, the "obfuscated" portions of the Chinese data suddenly become "highlighted".


The subject is the ability to make accurate up to date maps out of satellite imaginary. I fail to see how this is a counter argument against that.


And a domestic government approved mapping service will tell you what’s going on inside a building? Why are you moving the goal posts?


> Pretty insane for you to believe that a foreign country from afar

US spy satellites can take sharp pictures which look they were taken by a drone is flying close to the ground.


Could something like the SR-71 or hot air balloons be used to make accurate maps? In my head satellites which are expensive only follow one orbital path but a plane or a balloon can cover multiple regions


Consider a Hubble-size lens at a distance of 200-1000 km. If I did my quick math right, turning just 20 degrees moves the focus by up to 350 km on the ground. And typically orbits have a pattern of gradually shifting, so the next orbit will capture a different slice.

Reconnaissance planes were largely obsoleted by satellites when digital cameras were invented (before that, satellites physically dropped film to ground to be developed), and as Russian anti-air missiles got better. The primary use for optical reconnaissance planes these days is for up-to-the-minute coverage of rapidly developing situations, such as in war, where the next satellite flyover might not be until several hours later.

(RF & radar reconnaissance planes are very important to modern warfare.)


Whoa so many mind blowing facts. Does the orbit change or does the lens rotate? If one knos the rotation degree can the total number of satellites it would take to cover the entire earth be calculated?


Here's an example of an non-"changing" orbit goes over different parts of the planet over time: https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/why-do-satellites-orbi...

It's highly unlikely that a satellite-based telescope would rotate/turn the lens. Turn it relative to what? It's in 0g, there's no part that's held in place by friction to the ground. Any rotating joint would make the two sides move in opposite directions. And if you think about that, let one side be much smaller, and allow rotating by multiple turns instead of just 0-360 or such, you might just invent the gyroscope.

They turn the whole satellite with gyroscopes (flywheels) and/or propellant.


define "afar" given the level of resolution of the US spying satellites


Pretty insane of you to not understand how good modern military satellites are.


This article is shameless weak justification for Russian/China purposely breaking their maps.


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