Das Doak
@dasdoak.bsky.social
Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much.
White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
Yup. Young liberals are basically indistinguishable from their elders when it comes to rates of antisemitism. As with almost all bigotry, the outliers are on the far edge of the right wing.
December 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yup. Young liberals are basically indistinguishable from their elders when it comes to rates of antisemitism. As with almost all bigotry, the outliers are on the far edge of the right wing.
To give an example of what I'm talking about, consider the Tern Orox, and the inevitable thought process of "I'm pretty sure I could get a deer on the back of that, and it's small enough to fit down the fast trail to the blind too."
December 16, 2025 at 4:51 AM
To give an example of what I'm talking about, consider the Tern Orox, and the inevitable thought process of "I'm pretty sure I could get a deer on the back of that, and it's small enough to fit down the fast trail to the blind too."
...man, the midcentury really was a time for people high on their own supply.
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
...man, the midcentury really was a time for people high on their own supply.
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
December 6, 2025 at 2:23 AM
If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Many such cases - see also Mauritius and its famous history of being stolen from and resulting in a genocide of the Dodos.
Though, given that the Dutch *immediately* imported slaves to work them to death, we can't exactly give them credit for doing settler colonialism "better."
Though, given that the Dutch *immediately* imported slaves to work them to death, we can't exactly give them credit for doing settler colonialism "better."
December 3, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Many such cases - see also Mauritius and its famous history of being stolen from and resulting in a genocide of the Dodos.
Though, given that the Dutch *immediately* imported slaves to work them to death, we can't exactly give them credit for doing settler colonialism "better."
Though, given that the Dutch *immediately* imported slaves to work them to death, we can't exactly give them credit for doing settler colonialism "better."
"Strong floor, no ceiling"
December 2, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"Strong floor, no ceiling"
I'd be more receptive to that argument if they weren't the size of two football fields, and so rather easy to target with the 'ol Mark I eyeball.
Though, hey, maybe this is how we get back to early 20th century destroyer smoke screens!
Though, hey, maybe this is how we get back to early 20th century destroyer smoke screens!
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I'd be more receptive to that argument if they weren't the size of two football fields, and so rather easy to target with the 'ol Mark I eyeball.
Though, hey, maybe this is how we get back to early 20th century destroyer smoke screens!
Though, hey, maybe this is how we get back to early 20th century destroyer smoke screens!
The floorplans, however, suffer from typical American excessive floor plate depth. Definitely not as bad as some, but that's still a *whole* lot of windowless interior.
November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The floorplans, however, suffer from typical American excessive floor plate depth. Definitely not as bad as some, but that's still a *whole* lot of windowless interior.
I came across this surprising spot of density in, of all places, downtown Pleasant Grove Utah.
By the standards of "you must break up the massing and use a variety of materials" this is positively tasteful.
By the standards of "you must break up the massing and use a variety of materials" this is positively tasteful.
November 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I came across this surprising spot of density in, of all places, downtown Pleasant Grove Utah.
By the standards of "you must break up the massing and use a variety of materials" this is positively tasteful.
By the standards of "you must break up the massing and use a variety of materials" this is positively tasteful.
Hey now, "cone" is one syllable - that's automatically less clunky than a two-syllable words.
But there are other reasons why "pylon" feels very weird to me.
But there are other reasons why "pylon" feels very weird to me.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hey now, "cone" is one syllable - that's automatically less clunky than a two-syllable words.
But there are other reasons why "pylon" feels very weird to me.
But there are other reasons why "pylon" feels very weird to me.
They generally wait to start their cults of veneration until the subjects of it are no longer in office where they might have to make ideologically awkward decisions.
November 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
They generally wait to start their cults of veneration until the subjects of it are no longer in office where they might have to make ideologically awkward decisions.
There are good reasons why most nostalgic art showing an idealized US depicts either the urban center of a small town of *extremely* rural scenes and never shows, for instance, Levittown: people generally don't like suburbs.
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
There are good reasons why most nostalgic art showing an idealized US depicts either the urban center of a small town of *extremely* rural scenes and never shows, for instance, Levittown: people generally don't like suburbs.
There are other options:
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
There are other options:
Nah, liberals are actually quite good at punishing conservatives once the gloves come off.
November 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Nah, liberals are actually quite good at punishing conservatives once the gloves come off.
To be perfectly fair to the French, they gave the Brits enough of a kicking the first go-round for the US to win.
Second time's the charm I suppose.
Second time's the charm I suppose.
November 14, 2025 at 10:00 PM
To be perfectly fair to the French, they gave the Brits enough of a kicking the first go-round for the US to win.
Second time's the charm I suppose.
Second time's the charm I suppose.
It's really worth a read; they found high-temperature heat pumps to be *cheaper* than natural gas heating for low and medium heat industrial generation in many scenarios, particularly if there's a waste-heat source that it can scavenge, as is often the case with industrial heat processes.
November 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
It's really worth a read; they found high-temperature heat pumps to be *cheaper* than natural gas heating for low and medium heat industrial generation in many scenarios, particularly if there's a waste-heat source that it can scavenge, as is often the case with industrial heat processes.
There weren't Garmins, but there were more primitive cycling computers - plus there was also the simple expedient of "timing how long it takes to complete a route."
A cycling enthusiast would know about the Tour de France, and the fact that those guys don't normally go much over 28mph on flats.
A cycling enthusiast would know about the Tour de France, and the fact that those guys don't normally go much over 28mph on flats.
November 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
There weren't Garmins, but there were more primitive cycling computers - plus there was also the simple expedient of "timing how long it takes to complete a route."
A cycling enthusiast would know about the Tour de France, and the fact that those guys don't normally go much over 28mph on flats.
A cycling enthusiast would know about the Tour de France, and the fact that those guys don't normally go much over 28mph on flats.
According to the Wikipedia article on Adipocere, it could be *way* worse:
![Screenshot from the text on the wikipedia article for Adipocere
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipocere
"In 1825, physician and lecturer Augustus Granville is believed to have (somewhat unwittingly) made candles from the adipocere of a mummy and used them to light the public lecture he gave to report on the mummy's dissection. Granville apparently thought that the waxy material from which he made the candles had been used to preserve the mummy, rather than its being a product of the saponification of the mummified body.[5]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3wdm4emc3uq7756djxl7hopp/bafkreiaum5ao3qa7rt6vjnjf6mcpexoqwdzz3f7gp5i4robdijcsbidpdq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 8:49 AM
According to the Wikipedia article on Adipocere, it could be *way* worse:
Even changing consumer preferences still translate into a feeling of increased costs for people further down the ladder, because today's new cars are next year's used cars.
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Even changing consumer preferences still translate into a feeling of increased costs for people further down the ladder, because today's new cars are next year's used cars.