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- Comment on He'll try, but Trump can't stop the clean energy revolution 1 week ago:
So no, we are not f****d, but not always saved for noble reasons.
Yeah, this statement here is likely closer to the truth than what I wrote earlier.
- Comment on He'll try, but Trump can't stop the clean energy revolution 1 week ago:
AI boom and Cryptocoin mining will eat up all the spare energy.
We are fucked.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Explores Shorter Anime for Shrinking Attention Spans in TikTok Generation 4 weeks ago:
Like… Ninja Girl and Samurai Master?
Because that was awesome and I’d like more of it
- Comment on When we started burning coal it was called the industrial revolution. Was there a name when we started burning oil? The car revolution? 1 month ago:
At least in the USA, it is known as the Robber Barron period as the extremely wealthy monopolized everything.
- Comment on There is a trove of flash animation that is completely lost to history 3 months ago:
First hit on Google was this list made by some Redditor: reddit.com/…/films_that_only_exist_on_betamax_or_…
- Comment on There is a trove of flash animation that is completely lost to history 3 months ago:
Flash still got it good.
Consider the entire generation of 1970s and 1980s Betamax footage that is basically lost today.
When format wars snap to one side: VHS vs Betamax, HD-DVD vs BluRay, Flash vs HTML5, QuickTime vs DivX… The losing side basically loses a ton of footage.
- Comment on Do you agree with my unpopular opinion about height in fencing? 3 months ago:
that short fencers are usually quicker and dodge easier.
Lulz.
No. It’s that shorter fencers must doge quicker to compete.
In my days in College, as a 5’9" average guy, I wasn’t much faster than anyone else. And without any reach I couldn’t keep up vs the taller people either.
Just being shorter doesn’t make you faster.
- Comment on What is the conservative view on how intersex people should live their lives 3 months ago:
Something that’s turned me off of “modern” conservatism is that “modern” MAGA assholes simply refuse to believe that intersex people exist.
A reasonable Conservative following Jesus’s word should note that Jesus hung out with the leapers, Jesus not just condoned but celebrated heretics like the Samaritans, and Jesus always favored the “outsider’s opinion”. A true Christian should always be accepting of others, including Intersex people. Especially intersex, they are creations of God and if you believe that God is good then the creation of God is good.
The problems occur when the assholes start to think that Intersex is bad, anti-conservative, anti-religion or some shit. Then all of a sudden you trigger the fight-or-flight response and Conservatives lash out. There’s also a degree of historic anti-gay writings in the Bible (ex: Sodom, as well as some writings from Paul), that somehow get wrapped up into intersex issues (somehow gay == intersex in some unstudied people’s brains?!?!? Or something).
In any case, I feel like the religious interpretation is clear. Every person is holy, outsiders are welcome. If you need to denegrate Intersex individuals and call them diseased (like the Leapers of Biblical time), whatever, that’s still a group of people Jesus explicitly called out as holy, as the Leapers were more ready and willing to accept Jesus’s preaching than the Pharisees.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
I mean, when people point out that Joe Biden is a Neocon who supports Israel and USAs rightful dominant place in the world… Erm I agree with that and want to vote for him.
I’m a Neocon. And proud of it and can defend a lot of my positions.
What pisses me off about the new wave of conservatives is that it’s all reactionary. There is no guiding philosophy.
With regards to neoconservatives: I know we get a bad rap since Bush. But events like Ukraine show the importance of us being the stalwart defenders and stepping up to challenges around the world.
But thats the thing. I’ll tell you that while proudly wearing my colors as a Neocon. This ‘Libs of TikTok’ bullshit is just fucking awful politics. We can’t actually work or talk around our issues when people are pretending to be on the wrong sides of debates
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
Unlike you and your ilk, I’m willing to go outside the safe zone (fkn lol) and interact with people who have different opinions. Only cowards stay in their little bubbles chit talking day in and day out. And that’s a knock at both leftists and rightists.
I’m a Republican. This area is outside my safe zone.
But outrage politics affects us all and I judge people who engage in it harshly.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
No.
You, like other conservatives, are hooked on the ravenous red meat of outrage. And instead of trying to move away from outrage politics, you defend it.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
This isn’t the flex you think it is.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
Ah.
So you’re a “Libs of TikTok” guy. Conservatives call themselves Liberal and you believe them.
- Comment on People are having trouble following Harris’s campaign Twitter account 3 months ago:
Jack Dorsey was a progressive?
- Comment on Top 10 Anime of the Week #02 - Summer 2024 (Anime Corner) 4 months ago:
Dungeon People at #36.
I saw the trailer a few days ago, it was quite impressive. I’m likely going to check it out soon when more episodes come out.
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 4 months ago:
If Elon fucks it all to hell they’ll break the company into pieces, sell the various pieces to other auto manufacturers and life will move on
You mean like Delorian? Or Fisker Ocean?
Nah man. When a car company goes under, they’re dead. We know what it looks like. Otherwise, the #1 car recommend should be Fisker Ocean since its like $25k per car right now. But we all know that company is dead and no one will buy it out of bankruptcy, save those cars, or offer services (or parts) on those cars moving forward.
Same thing if Tesla ever collapses. At best maybe some patents get bought out but no one will want to be left paying the bill and supporting the (now screwed) customer base.
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 4 months ago:
Hyundai Ioniq 5 seems to be the dumbest EV (dumb in a good way).
- Comment on Tesla’s Share of U.S. Electric Car Market Falls Below 50% 4 months ago:
The charger network: Superchargers are so much more plentiful than the alternatives, and there’s still not a great central charging app. I have 3 different ones installed on my phone and honestly most of them suck besides Tesla’s. Non-tesla chargers are basically just at apartments, businesses, and malls. Very few of which actually help me
Good thing Elon Musk fired the entire Supercharger team then.
- Comment on Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning | TechSpot 4 months ago:
25GB and 50GB disks written at blistering 10MB/s in the age of 100MB/s Gigabit Internet connected to storage (S3, Backblaze, etc. etc.) means that networks have completely obsoleted Blu Rays.
- Comment on MicroJournal is a distraction-free writing tool with Cherry MX hot-swap keys - Liliputing 4 months ago:
I’ve been trying to figure out what kind of personal computing device would fit in these power envelope.
I dunno if this is what I want, but I like the idea anyway. ESP32 is like 500mW class or so (very rough estimate because I don’t care to look it up right now lol). So you can get more than 24-hours of processing with 4x AA cells or 18650 Li-ion.
I feel like there’s something ‘under’ the classic smartphone that might still be useful as a personal gadget. But alas, smartphones are an always in your pocket device today. Bluetooth keyboard + Phone would be a more practical note taking application.
- Comment on Why mathematics is set to be revolutionized by AI 6 months ago:
No one is talking about automated theorem provers (see 4 coloring theorem) or symbolic solvers (see Mathematica). These tools already revolutionized math decades ago.
The only thing that came out in the past year or two are LLMs. Which is clearly overhyped bullshit.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Its an all-stock deal.
Meaning its down to like $47 Billion, last time I checked. As the stock price drops, the cheaper the pay package gets!!
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 6 months ago:
Only after the Delaware court forced him to.
- Comment on Thomas Edison was the Elon musk of his era 6 months ago:
They didn’t sell it to Elon.
Elon sued them and took Tesla over in court.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 6 months ago:
The layoffs were last week though.
Sure, the news is finally talking about the layoffs, but people were locked out of their badges and complaining last week about this. So now its official today, but it was public knowledge last week when that price declined dramatically.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 6 months ago:
Zoom out about a week.
Its fair to say that last week, TSLA was oversold and is now bouncing back from that. But the -55% profits and -$2.3ish Billion FCF are bad numbers.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 7 months ago:
The 13th month should be called eleven, because it’d come after December (10), our 12th month.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 7 months ago:
I stole this line from someone else, but its great.
Elon Musk has invented fee speech, not free speech.
- Comment on The reason why we never meet time travelers is because our civilization ends before the technology can come to fruition. 7 months ago:
Ex: Primer. A good time-travel idea in a bad movie.
- Comment on What characterizes feminine strength? 7 months ago:
Though there aren’t many female heroes in history, the few that existed made huge marks.
St. Olga of Kyiv famously slaughtered (!!!) her enemies (the Drevlians) to protect Kyiv and avenge her husband. She then converted to Catholicism and spread the message to the Slavs. And her lineage then founded Moscow. She’s considered the reason why Catholicism spread to the East, despite a patriarchy at her time.
But perhaps bloody stories of revenge and the spreading of the good word (a trope of the Middle Ages I know, but she’s known for it), is a bit “Just a man with different bits”. Still, she was smart, she was cunning, she was ruthless, she conquered, she ruled.
Perhaps a more traditional “Feminine Strength” is St. Joan of Arc, who raised an army and marched with them, though she never really won battle accolades or ruthless terror like St. Olga. St. Joan of Arc comes from humble beginnings and rises to become a leader of a movement in the 100 years war. Despite being tried for being a witch, she never gave up on her values and is widely recognized as a key figure in her time.
I think Joan of Arc is closer to what the English-speaking world would consider feminine strength. St. Joan of Arc never betrayed anyone, and largely served as an inspiring figure. (As opposed to the cunning St. Olga who has multiple atrocities in her name).
