Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Get over yourself. All I did was state a fact that was contradictory to the previous comment. I didn’t even say anything about whether it was good or bad. Trump is trying to cut VoA.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
The word “propaganda” is tricky. It has connotations of being lies, but that isn’t always or even usually the case. Objectively true information can literally be propaganda. The mission of the VoA is to spread American propaganda. That’s why it’s funded. That can be truths that foreign governments want to suppress, it can be spin, or it can be lies. VoA is generally pretty truthful, especially compared to the privately run domestic versions like cable news outlets.
Government officials don’t need to dictate content. As you pointed out, content can be controlled by who is appointed to manage the content. They know the mission.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
He literally has control over it though.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
True
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Be that as it may, Trump is trying to dismantle it.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Except that Trump is currently trying to dismantle Voice of America" and other propaganda machines around the globe.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 1 week ago:
What’s Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul’s religion, not Jesus’.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 5 weeks ago:
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is a legitimate implementation of such a system. It will absolutely be intentionally flawed in ways that allow the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans citizens. That’s 100% what always happens with Republican initiatives to “protect” elections. It will be made trivial to “accidentally” remove legitimate voter registrations, and a labyrinthian bureaucratic process to correct them.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
Sounds more like “we got us” to me. It’s our system and our philosophies that made those pennies so precious.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 month ago:
Shit, Oracle was down in the low $400B range in May. Apparently being evil pays well in the current administration.
- Comment on Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction 1 month ago:
A little searching finds only on company that really fits the bill. Costco has a market cap of $433B and had a reported $14.8B cash on hand as of May 11. That’s an interesting possibility that I wouldn’t have guessed. Costco is less evil than most big corporations, so that’s a little hopeful if I got it right.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
That is indeed a problem but, speaking strictly about competitiveness, it does have it’s advantages. For example, the US really needs more strategically important goods to be manufactured at home, but that is really hard to do if market conditions favor offshoring. China can just dictate the sourcing - even in the (so called) private sector.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
Movies, fast food chains, clothing chains, etc. The American brand and lifestyle that goes with it. Not exactly the greatest cultural achievements of all time, but they brought in cash.
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 month ago:
What makes the US the most powerful country in the world? It’s our cultural exports, our educational institutions, and our technology. We spent decades handing all our technology over to China, and undermining education. Now Trump has poisoned the American brand for at least a generation.
China is way ahead on building a science and technology culture, and promoting education. The dividends from those investments are already paying off, and they are going to start compounding.
A lot of Americans still think of China as the place to make cheap goods, but their manufacturing sector has benefited from decades of stolen expertise. It turns out there are benefits from having engineers and factory workers in the same location. Faster feedback means faster development. Now the US is falling behind.
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 1 month ago:
Exactly. There is no such thing as a labor shortage, only activities that people don’t think are worth the cost.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 month ago:
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 1 month ago:
Those are IPv6 addresses that work a bit differently than IPv4. Most customers only get assigned a single IPv4 address, and even a lot of big data centers only have one or two blocks of 256 addresses. The smallest allocation of IPv6 for a single residential customer is typically a contiguous block of the 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses mentioned.
If Google’s security team is even marginally competent, they will recognize those contiguous blocks and treat them as they would a single IPv4 address. Every address in that block has the same prefix, and it’s actually easier to track on those prefixes than on the entire address.
- Comment on Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites 3 months ago:
At least where these satellites go it’s not something that would be a real long term problem. They are low enough that the time for the orbits to clear would be measured in years, not decades or centuries.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
Awe, c’mon please educate me.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
LOL, more ad hominems and zero content. You guys are a hoot.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
I see half a dozen ad hominems there, but nothing saying I’m wrong, nevermind refuting it. Yeah, that’s about right for hexbear.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
Yeah, because an occupation of Ukraine by Russia wouldn’t turn the whole country into an even bloodier warzone. /s
Appeasement just leads to bigger wars. Aggression can’t be rewarded or tolerated away.
- Comment on North Korea confirms troop deployment to Russia for first time 3 months ago:
I guess that means Europe is free to deploy troops to the front lines in Ukraine then. Only seems fair.
- Comment on Wifi networks and home automation systems are expected to last 50+ years. 3 months ago:
Depends on how it is used. If the home automation is on a separate network from everything else with a secure gateway and no direct Internet access, security vulnerabilities are likely irrelevant.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Adding in cost of ownership, EVs are cheaper than ICE vehicles. Electricity is way cheaper than gas, and electrics require almost zero maintenance. Also, even 200km meters the needs of a whole lot of drivers just fine. Our family’s secondary vehicle is a Gen-1 leaf with 140km of range and I think we’ve used a public charger 4 times in over 10 years.
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 4 months 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? 5 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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.