Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 5 days ago:
Best I ever managed was two.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 4 weeks ago:
It always has been.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
That’s just it. The laws of physics, at least as far as we understand them, absolutely preclude changing our position in any way that would reveal anything outside our observable universe. Lifespans don’t come into it at all. If you lived forever traveling at the speed of light, you would never achieve that change of position.
The cosmic background is the leftover “noise” of the big bang, and we observe it roughly uniformly in every single direction. So where did the big bang occur? Everywhere. Everything that exists is precisely at the center of the universe, right where the big bang happened.
It’s all about the concept of spacetime. Spacetime isn’t space and time considered together, it’s a singular thing that operates by rules that we are ill equiped to comprehend intuitively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
As I just explained, it’s not really about observation, it’s about causation. If two objects can never possibly interact, then are they really in the same universe?
Looking out in space is also looking back in time. Anything (roughly) that is further than we can observe in the microwave background would be further back in time than the beginning of time, and therefore doesn’t exist at all in our universe. It a bit brain bending.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 5 weeks ago:
Thus the term “observable universe”. Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of “our” universe.
- Comment on why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles? 1 month ago:
Anyone can be a pedophile, regardless of other characteristics. The major champions of actual sexual abuse of minors today are politically right wing. Compare age-of-consent laws in red states to blue, or advocacy/performance of child marriages, and a pattern appears.
The conflation of evidence-based methods of sexual education with “sexualizing children” is a bald faced attempt to make kids more vulnerable. Kids trained in the importance of consent are far less likely to keep quiet when dealing with an abuser.
I would not concede, as you have here, that there was ever any appreciable link between trans advocacy and sexual abuse advocacy. The fact that some people somewhere advocated for both is true of any movement of sufficient size.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
People irl have personal agendas that often make stark truthfulness difficult. They will call a leader fascist, but not acquaintances.
Fascism isn’t all jack booted thugs. It’s actually mundane and boring as fuck. It’s the most common political ideology in history, especially for morons.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 1 month ago:
So you’re smarter than Elon’s clowns?
In all likelihood I am. I’m certainly more experienced. That hardly matters though. They have an agenda that’s not compatible with reality, so they aren’t even trying to get it right.
Why are you here anyway. Lemmy is full of Marxist freaks you can share your ideology with.
How would you even know that if you stay in your lane? I’ll go where I want.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I guess you get that a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Properly documenting a claim is excessive bureaucracy? Empty rhetoric in place of explanation is transparency? That’s some Orwellian bullshit there. Double plusgood fascist.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 1 month ago:
Who gives a shit about the “smell test”? You are just talking out of your ass, that’s the smell. You keep asserting that it needs to be fixed, but there is nothing to support that. If it’s not the system of record, then it’s irrelevant.
A null record is nothing but a lack of data. The front end systems typically handle that by showing no information or N/A. Elon’s clowns were not going through the front end systems. Depending how you query COBOL based systems, which these likely are, an empty record will come back as a 0, which COBOL interprets as the begining of it’s date system, which is in 1875.
With that, I’m done talking to you like you are a genuine human making the best interpretation you can. You are a partisan hack with an agenda who will glom on to any interpretation of realty that can be bent to your purposes.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 1 month ago:
Did I say 140 is proper data? We don’t know what the fuck it is. We don’t know if the field is even subject to audit - or should be. Assuming these people paid taxes (which they must have to get SS) the IRS would have the birthday. Maybe the field was added at some point as a workflow thing, but the IRS or some other database is the system of record for those dates. Again, we have no fucking idea.
I worked information security at a top five bank, and there were thousands of examples of data fields like this that could be distorted into “red flags” but really didn’t matter at all. Knowing what the system of record is for particular information is critical to proper audits, but proper audits take more time than would serve Elon’s political purposes. That’s a recipe for a trash “audit”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The comment was talking about the article. Even so, this list doesn’t contain a single credible claim. A credible claim should include, at a minimum, a full explanation for how the money was actually spent, what congressional authorization was claimed to support that spending, and how that claim was invalid. That’s even assuming these claims are real at all. A partisan hack writing their own summaries next to dollar amounts is bullshit.
- Comment on Over 20M 'people' listed as 100+ years old in the SS database? 1 month ago:
Just because the field exists doesn’t mean it’s critical that it be filled in. We have no idea whether this is even a problem that needs fixing. Maybe a project was underway to fix it until Obama killed it as unnecessary bureaucracy. Bottom line, you don’t have the slightest idea what you’re bitching about.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
If not for the fact that a felon is about to become President again, I would want some form of justice in the law for the assassin.
Maybe we should run him in 2028. I think it would be a landslide.
“Deny, Defend, Depose 2028!”
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 3 months ago:
Making exceptions is never a good idea.
Why not? The whole reason we have judicial discretion is that every crime departs from the platonic ideal in one way or another.
The working class has been losing a class war for decades without ever properly noticing that it was happening. Working Americans have been dying in that war, and now someone struck back.
I’ll be sold on the “no exceptions” ideal when we haul in the corporate murderers alongside the people who fought back.
Jury nullification is the other acceptable option.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 3 months ago:
Where should he have been gunned down then? The footage was pretty good, but better lighting and sound would be nice.
Getting gunned down is exactly what should happen to mass murderers. That is exactly what this guy was. When the system fails as consistently as ours has, people are going to take care of justice themselves. The fact that it hasn’t happened at scale is the result of remarkable restraint on the part of the working class.
This isn’t a Lemmy thing. This response has been nearly universal in every space where public comments can be found.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 4 months ago:
Disinformation coming out of the FDA is a real issue though, it’s just that RFK isn’t exactly the person we should want trying to fix it. His list covers the entire spread from significant real issues to batshit crazy conspiracy theory, leaning heavily towards the latter.
It’s notable that the areas in most need of reform were all broken by conservative politicians.
- Comment on Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt. 5 months ago:
Me too. I’ve had a sinus headache for over 10 years straight. I don’t even remember what it’s like to not be congested. Three surgeries and more drugs than I ever knew existed have done nothing. Good health is definitely underappreciated.
- Comment on Relationship goals 5 months ago:
There are bidet attachments for standard toilets that take up almost no space at all.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 5 months ago:
There definitely are good reasons why Ethernet won out over token ring, but there are scenarios where token ring was better. Before modern bridges, Ethernet could struggle with collisions if a network were too highly utilized - especially if nodes were physically spread out.
As for the diagrams, it can sometimes be confusing when it’s not made clear what is being represented. Physical and logical topologies can be mixed star and bus and matched in different ways, and diagrams don’t always make clear to which they refer.
- Comment on Sending intranet Email on a token ring network still used the same process as creating a Memo 5 months ago:
That’s not how token ring worked. The token controls which node is allowed to transmit over a shared medium. Every node saw every packet and made it’s own determination of relevance.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 5 months ago:
That’s an accurate summation for my understanding as well. Things that the judge should look at when considering a minimum sentence are defendant cooperation, displays of genuine remourse, and indications that the defendant is unlikely to continue breaking the law. If the judge can find any of that, it’s beyond me how.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
None of his current convictions are expected to come with a custodial sentence
Strict adherence to sentencing guidelines actually would see him jailed on his current convictions. If he isn’t given some kind of imprisonment it will be because the judge was afraid of the aftermath.
- Comment on If Trump loses the election and flees to another country to avoid his sentencing in his (multiple) lawsuits, does the Secret Service have to go with him? 6 months ago:
I’m not so sure he’s much of a security risk, unless he is still in possession of sensitive documents. I sincerely doubt he is capable of remembering anything in the way of valuable secrets. Anyways, even if he did, any adversary would be daft to trust he remembered correctly.