chaogomu

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mark Rober already did that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

  No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

  Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

  The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

  There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

  It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

  It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

  It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

  And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're unstoppable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegeta killed Yamcha once, and Buu killed him a second time.

  Technically it wasn’t even Vegeta, it was just the little green men that Vegeta and Nappa had seeds for.

  Krillian was actually alive to see that death.

  As for the death by Buu, that was being turned to chocolate and then being eaten.

  Krillian still has him beat on number of deaths, picking up an extra death on planet Namak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A shapeshifter standing in front of a mirror for hours making subtle adjustments to their disguises like a gamer in the character creator.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.

  First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.

  A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.

  Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.

  Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re completely ignoring the fact that the British followed through on their promises of Zionism.

  Or deflecting from it.

  As soon as the British took over, in the first two years, more Jewish settlers arrived in Palestine than had in the previous two decades. And those two years were instantly eclipsed by the next two.

  This was a deliberate colonization effort, complete with laws that blatantly favored Jewish settlers over the Palestinian natives.

  A Jewish settlers could go to the British and simply say that they wanted Palestinian land, and the British would help evict the natives. (Okay, they had to be slightly more creative than that, usually lying about land deals, but everyone knew there was no deal or real land dispute)

  Is it any wonder that the Palestinians started fighting back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Persecuted people, who instantly started killing the natives. 1929 was 9 years into the Zionist colonization. 12 or 13 if you want to speak about Mr Balfour or Mr Sykes. Which just goes to show that you don’t have to be Jewish to be a Zionist piece of shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yitzhak Shamir was the second leader of Lehi after Stern was killed, he too was prime minister.

  Not a good look when you have multiple terrorist leaders become prime minister.

  As to the 1929 massacre, it was bad, but you can sort of understand the urge to fight against colonizers. Which the Jewish population was already starting to become thanks to the Balfour Declaration and the British betrayal of the Arab fighters who served under T.E. Lawrence.

  As to the 1947/1948 war… Some Palestinians fought back, but they were out gunned thanks to Poland of all places. Hundreds of Palestinian villages were depopulated, either through outright massacres or threats of massacres, and none of those people were ever allowed to go home. Their land seized by foreign occupiers, who gave it to their friends.

  Which has been the story ever since. Zionists, often foreign born, come in, steal some land, kill some people, and face no consequences because they have the backing of foreign military hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fringe” groups don’t have their leaders become Prime Minister.

  Also, I can find no records of the Haganah fighting the Lehi, even though it was Lehi who assassinated Lord Moyne. The Haganah did attack the Irgun, but the Saison only lasted 4 months and was broadly unpopular with Haganah members. That was also the beginning of the end of the Haganah working with the British. (there was some more cooperation, but there were also Haganah backed terrorist attacks against the British as well, it was a messy time.)

  Post 1945, all three militant organizations joined hands to murder Palestinians, and sometimes the British while they still had a presence in Mandatory Palestine. Although there was still some bad blood between the Haganah and Irgun.

  That didn’t stop the Haganah from actively helping Irgun and Lehi carry out the Deir Yassin massacre.

  Fun fact, the Irgun folded directly into the IDF, and formed Herut, which was the main conservative political party before merging with the remnants of Lehi to form Likud, the current conservative political party led by Netanyahu, sure, it took eight elections for them to gain power, but they did in fact gain power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want more reasons to be angry, look up the Lehi service ribbon.

  I often focus on Lehi, but the other two militant organizations were just as bad, and all three were rolled into the IDF when it formed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israeli TV producer calls for 'Gaza holocaust, gas chambers'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Lehi terrorist organization was formed shortly before WW2 with the goal of killing the British (who were in control of Mandatory Palestine), Palestinians, and any Jew who advocated for peace.

  Under the leadership of their founder, they repeatedly tried to join WW2 on the side of the Nazis.

  They also adopted Nazi race science whole cloth, except that “God’s chosen people” had to be on top, with Arabs (Palestinians) being relegated to the bottom.

  Their founder was killed by the British in 1942.

  Under their second leader, Lehi were directly involved in several brutal massacres of Palestine people.

  In 1980, the Second leader of Lehi became the Israeli Prime Minister, and directly mentored a young Benjamin Netanyahu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the leader alive or not? Alive is likely a cult, dead is usually religion.

  The next question is how isolated from friends and family or society at large are the members. More isolated is more likely to be a cult.

  Other than that, there’s not much difference.

  The usual setup is a cult is formed and then the second or third leader opens things up a bit and transitions it into just another religion… But sometimes a cult can be born from a religion as a small group breaks off to follow a charismatic leader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FANTER⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the orange soda that we think of might be Crush, which debuted in 1911.

  Tang would also like a word.

  But really, the most popular orange based drink, is just orange juice. That or Mountain Dew, which is lemon, lime, and orange plus lots of sugar and caffeine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FANTER⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies open subdivisions in other countries. These subdivisions are often responsible for full operations in that country.

  Coca-Cola opened a subsidiary in Germany sometime after the end of the first world war. (My Google fu has failed me)

  The main company stopped sending syrup to Germany after 1939 or so, but didn’t close it’s German subdivision. The German plant manager then created Fanta out of ingredients that were available to Germany during the war.

  And then after WW2 ended, the main Coca-Cola company regained control of their German subdivision, and adopted Fanta as a brand.

  As a note here, Coke was one of a bunch of American companies that were extremely friendly with the Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts final Windows Recall testing before rollout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was one of the reasons I switched. That and my favorite mod manager is working on a Linux native version. It’s not done yet, but it’s good to play other games from time to time.

  Valheim is pretty brutal, but also highly moddable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That was Rush Limbaugh, may he rot in piss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And the second they get it, they reinvent IP law, but in an even more restricted form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, security through obscurity never really did work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another distro that’s easy to get going for gaming is Garuda.

  Also, the easiest way to switch to any distro is to get a USB drive and install a program called Ventoy. Then you throw your install iso onto the Ventoy drive, boot from USB, and you’re good to go.

  As a tip, pick up an external drive large enough for your Steam library. Then in Steam, you right click on each game and select Manage/Back up game files.

  Doing it this way will save you days of downloading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  XP might actually be somewhat safe to connect by now. Most of the viruses and worms have updated past it by now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the panicking should be wild bees. They’re dying at accelerated rates.

  We also know why, commercial bee keeping is part of it, as is hobbies bee keeping.

  And pesticides… and monoculture farming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m counting game installations. Then there’s the fact that NoScript seems to reset every time I swap operating systems, so now I have to figure out what I’ve allowed and blocked before…

  Then there’s the pruning of random shit that was auto installed. Some of that shit can take days to find.

  But most of the pain is when I try to do X, and need to find a program that will do it. This happens in Windows and Linux, and either will have programs that work, but then I have to find the program and learn it, and then let enough time pass where I have to do it all over again.

  The most recent example was a map making program for my Table Top RPG obsession. One program that’s a go-to under Windows (with possible Linux capability?) is called AutoRealm. Which hasn’t updated since 2013… But it’s still one of the most powerful fractal mapping programs I’ve ever lightly used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve swapped back and forth between Linux and Windows a half dozen times now, and I can honestly say, both are a bitch to set up from a clean install.

  Even with guides and autoloading scripts and whatnot, it’s still going to be a few days of pain while you try to figure out what else needs to be installed to use the computer the way you want to use it.

  Or that’s how it works for me.

  I mostly just wish more games were linux native.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Idioms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people in glass houses shit in the woods?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hamas was always a “tame” terrorist force.

  Or put another way, the only reason why Hamas existed in the first place is because Israel picked them specifically to be the face of Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and constantly paid them millions to keep them in power, while at the same time, brutally crushed any other groups who might have pushed for Palestinian rights.

  There were a bunch of news articles shortly after Oct 7th talking about how Netanyahu’s “cash to Hamas” bribery for peace deal had blown up in his face, and no. It did not.

  This has been the plan for decades. All Israel needed was an excuse and a somewhat friendly president who could ignore the US’ previous policy of paying lip service to a two-state solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, every Air Force base had higher than average Reddit usage back in the day. It was one of the few websites not blocked by default. I don’t know when that changed, Because I was out before then.

  But yes, there are also the propaganda teams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's talk...wait... No! Not like that!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  By a worm no less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden warns of ultra-wealthy 'oligarchy' threatening US democracy in farewell address to the nation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eisenhower, like Biden, actually helped create the problem.

  Biden could have, and should have, gone hard against Trump and his fellow insurrectionists.

  Instead he chose to appoint Merrick Garland, a man whose legacy was turning a blind eye to Timothy McVeigh’s accomplices in the wider Militia Movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lower Decks Eulogizing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Engage the core.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give us your best infodump.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. No one cares if you’re rambling in a comment. Just be interesting enough that someone can pause their doom scrolling to read it.

  I personally have about 5 subjects where I can chime in with fun (to me) little facts.

  Or essays on the subject…