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- Comment on Given the Onion's purchase of Infowars was rejected by a judge a while ago, I think at this point they should just buy the company anyway through a very hostile takeover. Seriously! 2 days ago:
What’s your question?
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
These are good practices for anything that shoots projectiles, not just weapons. I replaced some baseboard trim in the house a few months ago, and was extremely careful regarding where I pointed the air nailer, particularly when it was under pressure.
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 2 weeks ago:
I think you are confusing the legitimacy of their positions and their message. Their positions are legitimate because, unfortunately, they gained their positions legitimately, either through elections or some other documented process. That’s on us, ultimately. That makes what they have to say a matter of public record, and newsworthy.
The message is utter bullshit, and at least in some cases, not what their voters intended when they cast their vote. But how will those voters ever know if the message is never broadcast in the first place?
I believe it is possible to report the Administration’s positions, while also attempting to hold them to account. The alternative is for the media to ignore it altogether. But we all know Conservative media won’t do that. If other media simply refuses to cover the Administration entirely, that doesn’t invalidate their message. Only by letting us know what they are saying as well as how bonkers it all is, do we have any chance of emerging from this.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 2 weeks ago:
The problem is that, as US government officials, their words matter. Their official statements are newsworthy, even if they are lies. The media can’t really ignore what they say. They can, however, illustrate when they are lying, even if this Administration throws a hissy-fit over it.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 2 weeks ago:
Not only that, but they have an app that is supposed to help them figure out your status using facial recognition. They are admitting that they only harass people who their app thinks looks un-American. And they believe their app even if you have valid documents that say otherwise.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 2 weeks ago:
An expat is anyone who lives outside of their native country while intending to return, while an immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently.
One reason why you rarely hear about American “immigrants” to other countries is that it is absurdly hard to relinquish US citizenship. So even if an American were to gain citizenship elsewhere, they still owe US income tax, and are reminded of their status every April.
- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 2 weeks ago:
It’s because the justification that the Administration keeps giving is that they are getting “criminals” off the streets. So it’s worth in these articles when ICE picks up citizens who have no criminal record. It directly illustrates how they lie.
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
No, you have five fingers
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
As long as we are going that far, maybe we should stick to a system that if already in use
- Comment on What do all the subgenres of music mean? How does anyone make sense of them? 2 weeks ago:
Some genres have more commonality than others. Blues songs often have a similar 12-bar structure, for instance. Not all Blues songs, of course, but there are some songs you can listen to and quickly identify it as Blues based on the structure. This structure exists to improvise on top of. Jazz has a lot of improvisation built into it too.
I also think genres in the past were based on which radio stations they were played on, back when radio was the main way to hear new music. “Pop” music simply meant “popular”, was meant to be more broadly acessible, and was played on Top 40 stations. Whatever counts as “pop” changes with the times. Now, while the distinctions still exist, I don’t think most young people get their music from the radio anymore, so the genres ar not to rigidly defined.
What I think it comes down to is that bands identify themselves based on whatever they listened to, and what influenced them. So the best way to know what genre a band plays is to ask them.
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
We can go further, you can rate them from 0x00 to 0x1F
- Comment on You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10 2 weeks ago:
It can be very useful to know how to count to 4 this way, especially as a signal to other drivers regarding your level of displeasure
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who fails the “Peter Griffin in a Fez” test needs to get one. And double up on the card and book.
Because it doesn’t matter where you were born, or what the facts are. ICE is targeting people who they believe don’t belong here, based on how they look and sound. Having the card on your person is no guarantee, but maybe it will work if they are in a good mood.
It’s sad that this is what it has come to in America, of all places, but here we are.
- Comment on YSK a US passport card costs $30 and is definitive proof of citizenship. It fits in your wallet like a credit card. 2 weeks ago:
The main advantage is that it’s a redundant form of citizenship ID. ICE can always say it is fake and confiscate it, but then you have your passport book waiting at home for your lawyer to take to the detention center to get you out (once they find out where they took you).
- Comment on Controversial US-Backed Vaccination Study Begins In Guinea-Bissau - Health Policy Watch 2 weeks ago:
So, they’re treating these kids like Guinea Pigs?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can’t tell me what to do
- Comment on Past Times in Girard OH. 3 weeks ago:
It is very much a children’s museum, so there will be a lot of kids there. They have actual museum displays also with a lot of gaming history and old toys.
If you are a group of adults you might be able to do all the interesting stuff in a few hours. But if there are any kids at all in your group you should spend the whole day. As fun as playing the old video games was, I got a bigger kick out of watching my kids play them
- Comment on Autofocusing Smart Glasses With Eye Tracking Tech Could Make Bifocals Obsolete 3 weeks ago:
This is, at least, trying to solve an actual problem. It remains to be seen whether the solution is more cost effective (and durable) as bifocals. As a human of a certain age myself, I would welcome being able to see without having to tilt my head awkwardly.
But something tells me this tech is not self-contained, and requires an always-on connection to some cloud resource which is guzzling electricity and water. No thanks! Bifocals are cheaper.
- Comment on Archaeologists Found an Entirely New Language Among the Ruins of an Ancient Empire 3 weeks ago:
experts aren’t sure what the specific idiom says,
I’ll bet $2 that it’s a poop joke
- Comment on Past Times in Girard OH. 3 weeks ago:
FYI, if you are taking a pilgrimage there from the Northeast you should stop in Rochester, NY along the way, the children’s museum there has a permanent Pinball exhibit
www.museumofplay.org/exhibit/pinball-playfields/
They also have a smaller video game exhibit, with a functioning TRON machine…
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
For a C64 emulator, sure, but we can do better now.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 3 weeks ago:
Yes, this would be awesome, but for the love of all that is holy can it please not be Basic?
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 3 weeks ago:
I sold all of my Apple stock because they wanted to make a phone and I thought that would end poorly, so I should take my profits while I could.
- Comment on AI Electric Bills 5 weeks ago:
Or is it building the infrastructure to accommodate them the issue?
It’s this, but that’s only part of the story.
Datacenter companies are very efficient at building new ones now, once they have all the proper permits and can start building it can go from an empty lot to fully functional in a year or two. Maybe longer for the huge hyperscalar ones.
Once they are online, their power demand is comparable to a small city, coming online all at once. But the local utility never had this demand in its plan, so they have to build more capacity to service it, and building a new power plant takes much longer. In the meantime, the demand will outstrip their capacity and the utility will have to buy more power on the open market. This drives up costs for all their customers unless the utility is allowed to charge these customers more.
As a side note, they often get advantages and tax breaks because they promise to bring jobs to the area. And the initial construction jobs usually are significant. But once the place is built, it’s ongoing operations only requires a few dozen positions, many of them low-tech and outsourced like site security. The higher-tech jobs (like the network engineering) is often not on-site anyway. A shopping plaza would generate more jobs than a datacenter.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No, that’s not quite how it works.
Calling the newly minted coins a transaction fee “paid from the pool of unmined coins” isn’t really accurate, as those coins didn’t exist until they were mined. The algorithm carefully controls how many new coins are made.
But miners do not set fees at all. Users set their fee when they make their transactions, and miners pick which transactions they want to attempt to validate. We expect miners will pick the transactions with the highest fee per byte, because they want to increase their reward if they manage to find a block. But they don’t have to, and they may have reasons to pick other transactions.
The whole point of it being trustless is that no party needs to coordinate. Users create transactions, miners validate them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Bitcoin was extremely successful at making what it set out to do in the first place: make a fully distributed, peer-to-peer, trustless currency. Anyone who has ever been forced to pay bogus transaction fees ought to be able to appreciate paying for things without needing a bank, or any intermediary at all. It’s like cash you can e-mail.
But, most people into crypto now don’t care about this utility, they just want Number Go Up. So they don’t transact with it anymore, they just hold it (or actively trade with it). Which makes the whole ecosystem not useful for anything except feeding itself.
I still think that, in theory, there are areas where cryptocutrency can be used for real innovative purposes. But these will never actually be done, because the people on a position to do those things would rather make quick money selling shit tokens to unsuspecting people.
Do you want to learn how it all works? Feel free to do so, it’s all Open Source. But if your goal is to invest… Well… Read up on it and understand it first. This will help you differentiate the good ideas from the scams. (And there are a lot of scams!)
- Comment on What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop? 1 month ago:
Nethack
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
Reddit was one of the most human places on the Internet, until King Steven the Turd decided that it’s human interactions were a valuable resource that he could sell.
Now, it’s all just bots talking to bots to learn how to sound human.
- Comment on If the US was partitioned, what new states would you want to appear? 1 month ago:
I didn’t make the graphic, I just stole/hotlinked it. I am very familiar with PA, although it’s main redeeming quality is that it’s not New Jersey.
