aramis87
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- Comment on My second attempt at bochet 2 days ago:
That looks lovely! I've never heard of bochet before - I'll have to track some down!
- Comment on Researchers Are Hunting America for Hidden Datacenters 4 days ago:
Not sure "hidden" is the right word, but whatever. The link to the map is here.
- Comment on Should I get the Measles and/or Mpox vaccines if I had them as a child? 5 days ago:
MPox: infection numbers in the US are generally low in the US - the weekly average is generally between 3 and 18 cases per week. I haven't tracked transmission vectors in a couple years - I think the last time I checked was around 2022-23. From memory, at that time, the main vector was men who had sex with men, and then people who had sex with infected people. The CDC's recommendation list for who should get vaccinated still seems to focus on those groups, as well as travelers to areas where MPox is endemic.
Measles: in the US, this mostly depends on when you were born/vaccinated. If you were born before 1957, you are presumed to be immune because measles is so contagious and it was so prevalent back then. If you were vaccinated before 1967, you should get a booster shot: the vaccine they used back then was less effective than the later vaccine. If you were vaccinated after 1967 and before 1989, you should consider getting another shot: up until 1989, they believed that a single dose gave lifetime immunity, but then they realized a second dose was needed. People who received two doses of vaccine after 1989 are presumed immune.
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 week ago:
That Blake's 7 fandom was materially better before the show aired in the States. They had gone through the painful sorting out of characters and characteristics and relationships and were developing these really interesting themes of psychological trauma and manipulation that they were beginning to explore - it was really interesting and the themes were fascinating. Them the show aired in the States, they went wild over Avon and all the stories and themes starting revolving around him. I don't mind him as a character; I do mind his character taking over all of fandom. It's sort of like if all the Harry Potter stories suddenly and inexplicably became Ron-centric; it's not necessarily wrong, but it's weird and people who liked other characters got left out in the cold, and some of us still resent that.
As an aside, when Blake's 7 fandom split up, that too was fascinating. As was usual in those days, there was a pro-slash contingent and an anti-slash contingent. When B7 fandom split up, all of the pro-slash fans went into Robin of Sherwood fandom, and all the anti-slash fans went into The Professionals fandom. The problem being that RoS was almost exclusively gen and Pros was almost exclusively slash. It was very weird.
What else? That the second season of War of the Worlds should've been an entirely different series: the people who loved season 1 were never going to like season 2; and people who had tuned in and disliked the series during season 1 weren't going to Even try season 2.
That Krycek became such a big character on The X-Files due to one woman who saw his potential and kept talking about it to her friends, many of whom were popular/prolific fannish authors and artists. She convinced some of them (there was incredulity and resistance at first) but it gathered steam, Chris Carter was flummoxed but rolled with it, and here we are.
That the main follow-on series for Highlander: the Series should've been The Methos Chronicles and that one's not even up for debate.
That the final episode of Miami Vice is a masterpiece, particularly with the echoes and parallels to the first episode - and that the show itself took a major downturn the moment they decided to kill off their comic relief characters. That having God in the final episode of Quantum Leap (the original) being played by an actor who was also in the first episode of the series made it much more interesting. That if you were ever interested in Space: 1999, the "Message from Moonbase Alpha" short has some really interesting implications.
That Space Rangers and Moon Over Miami were cut off entirely too early. That Quark is funny as hell for a science fiction fan of my generation, even if it's extremely dated now. Similarly, The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne was hella fun and should've lasted much longer (though Michael Praed's Shatner-esque line deliveries were exceptionally annoying at times!). That the Sonny Steel grave arc is majorly under-represented in Wiseguy fiction.
Almost certainly others, but those are the ones that came to mind.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 1 week ago:
Whatever you spend it on, may I make a suggestion, if you have a little extra money yourself? Spend the gift card money, yes: buy something you'll enjoy, share that joy with the people who got it for you, let them see how happy they've made you.
Then take the card that the giftcard came in, put in $75 cash, and put it in a special place. Do that every time someone gives you money or a giftcard. As I've gotten older, a lot of the people in my life have died, gotten ill, or moved away. Sometimes, when I'm feeling sad or depressed, I'll go to my little drawer of cards and pull one out at random. I'll re-read the message, and think about the person and the love that we shared at that time, and I'll take the money and do something special for myself, to cheer myself up a bit.
Then sometime in the next few days, I'll get the same amount of cash from the bank, put it in the envelope, and replace it in my stash: the caring we felt for each other at that time was true (regardless of how things eventually turned out), so the cards give me a little emotional boost and the cash lets me do something for myself that I'd normally not spend money on. It helps me feel better, even if only for a little time.
[I'll also be honest and say that sometimes I've run out of money, and something will twinge and I'll remember I have this little stash of cash, and having that has helped me get through some slightly tough times. But I always put the money back in the cards when I can afford it.]
- Comment on 'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title 2 weeks ago:
TIL that there's an Excel World Championship and a World Snowshoeing Championship.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 2 weeks ago:
Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 3 weeks ago:
You can pause Stardew by bringing up the menu.
- Comment on Data centers need electricity, utilities need years to build – who should pay? 3 weeks ago:
Make the data centers build their own power plants. Then they get all the risk and all the reward.
Make them put the power plant right next to the data center, that way they're not stressing out the rest of the grid. And that way the exact same community that gets the benefits of hosting the data center also gets the environmental costs of the power plant.
- Comment on ideas for deadspace behind fridge 3 weeks ago:
Get one of those reacher-grabber things they promot to the elderly; that'll let you access more of the space (you can use the grabber as a pusher as well).
Then store lightweight things that you'd like somewhat accessible and are aggravating to store somewhere else. If this was my mom's space (she loves to travel), she'd store her empty luggage in there. If this was my sister's, she'd put all her holiday stuff into plastic bins with large handles and store that in there.
- Comment on My son asked to watch a Christmas movie today 4 weeks ago:
"Computer, play a British holiday film."
computer plays The Great Escape
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 4 weeks ago:
I beg to differ: spez has ruined reddit for everyone.
- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 4 weeks ago:
You don't have not-have an opinion on the US healthcare system, you just have to claim that your opinion on the healthcare system won't affect your ability to reach an impartial verdict.
- Comment on Trump says he'll release MRI results but doesn't know what part of his body was scanned 5 weeks ago:
I'm still waiting for his healthcare plan. And infrastructure week. And --
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
They voted against support for Sandy too.
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 5 weeks ago:
If anyone has an article with more technical details on what the solar radiation did, and how they're going to patch it, I'd like to read about it :)
Not a direct answer to your question, but: the sun (like the earth) has areas that are more "geologically" active; those areas tend to throw out solar flares. As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.
Currently, we're just slightly past solar maximum. For the past year or so, the "more active" part of the sun has been roughly facing earth and intermittently spitting out solar flares. When these flares hit the earth's atmosphere, they cause auroras (which is why we've had so many auroras these past couple years) and can interfere with electronic and electrical equipment (see: the Carrington event).
I have no details on what l the exact damage that was caused by the interference the plane suffered, nor any knowledge of how they plan to address the issue. But whatever they come up with is going to take some time to develop - and we're moving away from solar maximum so being hit with a massive flare is increasingly less likely - at least for another decade. My suspicion is that they'll come up with a "solution" that actually may not work very well, but it works well enough to give the impression that they're doing something - and it'll look like it's working to some extent, simply because the active side of the sun is rotating away from us.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As I said, OP seems to be a young person trying to figure how they fit in the world, and they're not giving much information (which is fine). But we're not all born with an innate understanding of all the flavors of sexuality, or all the options out there.
They say they'd like a male partner, which could be situational depending on where they live; it could be a definite preference; or it could be that they're demisexual and haven't realized that's an option. And if they do get a partner, in extremely general terms, there tend to be different benefits depending on which sex you partner with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If I may ask, without being rude: are you sure you're asexual and not [demisexual](https://lgbtqia.fandom.com/wiki/Demisexual]? For me, there would be a difference between someone who's really not interested in sex at all vs someone who's really only interested in sex once they've emotionally bonded with a person.
If you are asexual, there are definitely other asexuals out there who would still be interested in having nonsexual partners.
In your original post, you mentioned male partners; I'd also suggest you consider whether you'd be okay with a nonsexual female partner. Again, not trying to be rude, you just seem to be trying to figure out how you can get fit, and I'm not sure what options you've considered.
You should also know that your preferences can change over time, and that's okay as well; it doesn't necessarily mean that you were "wrong" about who you were, it may simply mean something is different about either you or your situation.
- Comment on Google CEO: If an AI bubble pops, no one is getting out clean 1 month ago:
[he] addressed the “immense” energy needs of AI, acknowledging that the intensive energy requirements of expanding AI ventures have caused slippage on Alphabet’s climate targets. However, Pichai insisted that the company still wants to achieve net zero by 2030 through investments in new energy technologies. “The rate at which we were hoping to make progress will be impacted,” Pichai said, warning that constraining an economy based on energy “will have consequences.”
We need "line go up" so badly, we're willing to bake the planet.
“We will have to work through societal disruptions,” he said, adding that the technology would “create new opportunities” and “evolve and transition certain jobs.”
Someone once described AI as "a way for the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth".
- Comment on Baby boomers want to axe property taxes. Millennials and Gen Z would pay for it. 1 month ago:
I didn't have children, but I'm happy to pay property taxes. Property taxes pay for schools and I don't want to live in a society with stupid people. *
* or stupider than they have to be
- Comment on YSK: Your local library card often gives you free access to streaming services, digital magazines, audiobooks, and even online courses. 1 month ago:
Tools to lend, sewing machines, kricut, 3d printers, museum passes, etc.
- Comment on I Wrote Task Manager — 30 Years Later, the Secrets You Never Knew 1 month ago:
He made a post on reddit like five years ago, doing a brain dump on various features and stuff.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 month ago:
USPS has something called a "Mail Imaging program", where they photograph the outside of every piece of mail that goes through their system. They use it to process the mail, but law enforcement does request copies of all stored images related to people and addresses they're investigating.
They also have the "Mail Covers program", where law enforcement will proactively request USPS to monitor and forward information on all mail to and, as far as possible, from a given person or address. That information is limited to the outside of the envelope but, if they see something they deem suspicious, they can get a warrant to open the mail. I'll also note that privacy guardrails on the program are notoriously lax: something like 20% of covers were approved without the necessary paperwork, and 15% weren't adequately justified.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 1 month ago:
You posted this as a "You Should Know" clean your port before getting a new phone. Just because you have a need for constant charging, does not mean that wireless charging is an invalid option for the audience you're taking to.
- Comment on Microsoft: Windows Task Manager won’t quit after KB5067036 update 2 months ago:
But Dave said Task Manager could kill anything, so shouldn't it be able to kill itself?
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 2 months ago:
You could also set up wireless charging and put the phone down for a bit.
- Comment on There's 'overwhelming evidence' tariffs have raised consumer prices, says Bank of America 2 months ago:
And when the tariffs go away, prices will remain high ....
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 months ago:
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And when one of their slaves became too ill or malnourished to work, there was a seemingly unending stream of other slaves to replace them.
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I don't think I made it clear in my previous comment (and it's up against the character limit, so I'm not going to go back and try to edit), that the camps inside Germany itself generally were intended as labor camps, with extermination as an eventual side-effect of the existing and incoming prisoners; and the camps outside Germany - particularly those in Poland - were established as extermination camps, with slave labor as a minor byproduct.
Also, my comment is obviously a vast, vast simplification of a process that developed over years.
And having finished my comment, I realize I went way beyond your original question, but IMO the slow development of oppression and extermination, as well as focusing beyond the Jewish people to the other six million who were murdered in the camps, is also of value. It's why we need to focus on the groups currently being targeted by the government - not only immigrants and the trans community, but the LGBT+ community in general, the homeless, the disabled, etc. And yes, even the Democrats - the anti-Democrat language and propaganda being pumped out by the more extreme "news" channels and influencers is very similar to type of language that tends to precede civilian uprisings and ethnic cleansing against other segments of their population - see the massacres in Kosovo or Rwanda as an example.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 months ago:
When Hitler took power in 1933, he didn't actually start with the Jews, & they weren't kidnapped off the streets. The first concentration camp was at Dachau, & the first prisoners were political enemies - trade unionists (union organizers and members), Socialists & Communists. [Conveniently, not only were these groups Hitler's political enemies, each was a group used to working with it's own large membership to accomplish their goals; by imprisoning these people, Hitler not only neutered the political opposition, but he struck a heavy blow against civilian resistance as well.] Originally, they were simply arrested & disappeared, but yes, eventually the Gestapo became increasingly aggressive & did plain kidnappings.
Dachau was originally intended as a prison camp, but it needed to be expanded very quickly to accommodate all the newly arriving prisoners, & the ever-efficient Nazis (remember, they came to power because of the onerous penalties inflicted by the Treaty of Versailles, - the world was in the Great Depression, so the government really couldn't afford to spend any money) decided the best way to build out the camp was to not-spend much money doing that. Instead of hiring outside workers (who might also bring out word of conditions in the camp, be inclined to transmit messages/contraband in & out of the camp, & potentially hear messages of solidarity from union workers), they decided to have the prisoners build out the camp instead. And why pay the prisoners, when they should be glad to be getting their lodging & food provided for them? The camps were destined to become slave labor camps.
Some companies, still in the throes of the Depression, & with some portion of their workforce now inside the camps & no immediate candidates to replace them, asked the German government if they could hire workers from the camps. The government agreed. The companies got cheap labor & stopped struggling in the Depression, the government got the money to spend on governing, & life improved for those outside the camps - you just had to ignore the camps & slaves themselves. And over time, other industrial-scale companies that didn't have skilled workers in the camps turned to hiring other workers from the camps; if they didn't they couldn't compete in the marketplace.
Meanwhile, having neutered the political opposition, the Nazis started turning to "undesirables". Even here, the immediate targets weren't the Jews; the next targets were gypsies (Roma & Sinti), gay men, & Jehovah's Witnesses, all of whom were thought to be "soiling" German civil society. Lesser targets who didn't always end up in the camps included immigrants & the homeless; & later targets also included people with mental /physical disabilities, & in some cases just abnormalities (ie, dwarves).
Please note that I'm not saying that the Jews weren't being targeted by the government & civilians, just that in the early days of the Hitler regime, those actions were a series of increasingly restrictive laws & increasingly-frequent/severe stochastic attacks encouraged by the government. However, Jews originally weren't interned in the camps to the scale they were imprisoned later on; they were "encouraged" to emigrate. The major turning point against the German Jews is generally accepted as Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass), in 1938, five years after Hitler took power.
Remember that, in the 1930's, the majority of formal political & economic organizing was done by men, so the majority of the original prisoners were also men. The government did imprison women & children, but not originally at the scale later seen, so the imprisoned women & children were a necessary burden to "cleanse" German society. It was only after Germany started World War II by invading Poland (1939), that things turned dire.
In the newly-occupied territories, yes, the occupying forces kidnapped & killed/imprisoned those suspected of being enemies of the Germans, or just against what Germans thought their society approved of. They established camps for those they targeted in occupied territories, & forced occupied Jews into ghettoes, which were eventually "liquidated" either directly (mass killings) or indirectly (the people in the ghettoes sent to camps).
The camps became a problem. Established quickly, there were too many people to properly feed or care for. Medical attention was essentially non-existent. Conditions in the camps meant that diseases periodically ripped through the populations there. Since the Germans determined to imprison everyone in their target groups, that included young children, the very old & infirm, the chronically ill, etc. The camps became crowded, with a noticable percentage of people who simply couldn't work to "earn their keep". In merciless fascist logic, it was more "efficient" to kill those people and direct whatever meagre resources they were willing to allot to the camps to go their slave laborers.
- Comment on All cults go through phases of culling the non-believers. Anytime you justify a cult leaders anti-social behavior solely for the benefits you get by keeping the cult going you've begun this process. 2 months ago:
A lot of them end up culling the believers too in the end.
Robespierre was killed by the Revolution.