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- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 4 days ago:
Well, maybe not a surprise party, he might not react well to surprises.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 1 week ago:
That person has probably been using ChatGPT. Either that or this post is itself LLM-generated. One or the other.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 1 week ago:
Yes, the only thing worse than not being sure if you want to vote for the fascist is being sure you want to vote for the fascist.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 2 weeks ago:
No, the exact opposite.
- Comment on Seems like Trump waited for winter to escalate his ICE agenda but why did he go after Minnesota? People who are completely acclimated to frigid weather. 2 weeks ago:
He’s going after all the blue states for multiple reasons, mainly that his enemies are concentrated in them. Leaving the red state alone because they voted for him. His fondest wish is to use the military against anyone who opposes him.
For now, the goals are: Retribution, Bring chaos and terror to his enemies, Provoke and escalate violence, all leading to justification for the most important objective: invoking the Insurrection Act which allows deploying military forces against the People. Implementing Martial Law to justify canceling the midterm elections, which would go against his minions if allowed to happen.
Anyone who thinks we’re going to have any kind of normal free and fair elections this November is in denial.
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet 2 weeks ago:
I’ve just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.
tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how
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all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and
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Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withholds billions in rent to the US oligarchs.
And that’s just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest.
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- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 1 month ago:
No, I’m not saying anything about what we need, just providing some historical context around what brought feudalism to an end – and replaced it with capitalism.
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 1 month ago:
In Europe, what ended feudalism wasn’t so much a counteracting -ism, but the bubonic plague, which in the first wave wiped out nearly a third of the population, so many people that the remaining peasants’ labor was suddenly worth a lot more, giving them much more bargaining power for better wages and working conditions.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That would have been the case if hadn’t been reelected. But he has already raked in billions since he got in office again. The corruption is much more extensive and blatant than the first term.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 2 months ago:
That sounds logical, but I think there would be an immediate black market for valid codes that would be sold to minors.
- Comment on Is it normal to be able to shut your nose from within? 2 months ago:
My great grandma used to say, “I’d rather smell the smell than taste the smell!”
- Comment on It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language. 2 months ago:
It might be easier to write down stuff you don’t want overheard. Carry a little whiteboard, or they have whiteboard-style paper you can erase.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 3 months ago:
This comes at it from a slightly different angle but explains the difference between us and the government in how money and debt have to be managed: youtu.be/sAKr55O7qaU
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 4 months ago:
Comments all seem to refer to an article and this post doesn’t link to any article. ?
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 5 months ago:
Were perfect. The conditions on earth back when life first appeared were very very different than they are now.
As for how many times it may have happened, there’s no way to know, only that it happened at least once.
- Comment on It's weird how we say "go to sleep" as if sleep is a place 6 months ago:
The word “go” has lots of meanings besides physically moving to a place. It also means to change state (“the milk went bad”, “he’ll go crazy when he finds out”) and to indicate immediate future tense (“I’m going to read this book now”). Not to mention some other less relevant uses.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 6 months ago:
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Stand two arm lengths from the picture, holding you arm out in front of you with one finger up, so that your finger is halfway between you and the picture and lined up with near the bottom of it (or you could use any distance and put your finger halfway there).
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Both the picture and your finger should now be in your field of view. Focus on the tip of your finger. Maintain your eyes in that focus state and shift your attention from your finger to the picture, remembering not to let your eyes change their focus.
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Once you have your eyes stuck into that focus length you should be able to move them around and view all parts of the picture seeing the 3D effect. But if you still have problems you can move your finger to keep it in front of your eyes and in focus while you move your eyes, but you’ll quickly learn how to keep them in the correct state with a little practice.
This also works if you focus on twice the distance of the picture, but most people find the half-distance focus easier.
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- Comment on this 82 year old woman dressing like she was 40 or younger makes me think about how ridiculous I'll look like when and if I reach that age. Am I misguided? 6 months ago:
Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about fire ants.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 7 months ago:
I think it’s ironic that the alternatives to Android (graphene, calyx) only fully work on Google phones.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 7 months ago:
And by gaslighting the kids, they’re teaching them not to trust their own ability to reason, crushing their critical thinking skills. It sets them up to submit to authoritarianism and go along with obvious lies instead of trusting their own senses and questioning authority.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 7 months ago:
I sincerely hope that was a joke…
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 7 months ago:
This is bizarre. The info provided in the question was that Marty ate more than Luis, the question was how would that be possible given that Mario ate 4/6 of his while Luis ate 5/6 of his. The answer the kid wrote (Marty’s pizza was bigger than Luis’) is the only possible correct answer.
The grader is asserting that the information given in the question was wrong and that “actually it was Luis who ate more pizza”–even though it stated as a premise that “Marty ate more”. How are you supposed to give a correct answer on a test if you are expected to accept one premise (proportion of pizzas eaten) while disregarding another premise (Marty ate more than Luis)? How do you decide which part to disregard? Would they have accepted the answer, “Luis actually only ate 3/6 of his pizza, not 5/6)”? Wouldn’t that be just as valid an answer as “Marty actually didn’t eat more than Luis”?
- Comment on Searchable db/Knowledge Management Software 8 months ago:
There are so many options. If you’re looking for a free and open source wiki-style setup, a couple I haven’t seen mentioned in the thread yet are Zim Desktop Wiki and Feather wiki (hmm looks like their web certificate is expired at the moment)
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 8 months ago:
I only know about the existence of villages in NY state because my brother lives in one and had to explain to me what constitutes a village vs. a town–I still don’t really get it! - which is why I said the term may have a more specific definition. So yeah, it may not be a commonly used or understood term even in the NE. In any case, I’m sure it’s used differently here than in the UK, like many things.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 8 months ago:
As a non-American, I’m very confused by this. If it’s a town, it’s not rural by definition. Because, you-know, it’s urban.
A rural town is a very small town or populated area within a large rural area. The US is a huge country, with very large swaths of rural areas throughout, especially west of the Mississippi. In these large rural areas are scattered small towns of various sizes (say, less than a hundred to less than a thousand or so people), with long stretches of unpopulated (or very sparsely populated) areas between them. That’s why they’re called rural towns–no one would call them “urban” by any stretch of the imagination. Some will have the things you mentioned (a post office and bar/pub). But even if you’re technically in a town, you are still effectively rural, since you’re nowhere near a significant population center with anything like hospitals/doctors, shopping, services, etc., and a car is required to reach them (no public transit and much too far to walk or bike). Look at online maps to get the idea.
As for the word “village”, that’s mostly used in the NE part of the country and tends to have a bit more specific definition. Elsewhere, most of us would just say “town”.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
After reading your whiny entitled posts, sounds to me like you’d be doing him a favor if you did.
- Comment on It would be fire if Anonymous hacked ICE 8 months ago:
I read that ICE and CBP are using that signal app fork that Hegseth et al are using, and that has already been hacked, so it should be easy enough for them to take it from there, I guess.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 9 months ago:
How about “Celebration” by Kool & the Gang?
- Comment on There's no such thing as a wrong number any more 9 months ago:
I occasionally get wrong numbers and text messages. Happened a lot on my old number which had a string of 2’s in the middle. Got a lot of calls for numbers with one more or one less 2 than mine. On my new phone I keep getting texts from a bail bondsman reminding a certain person of their next hearing date. I can’t get them to remove my number from their database. Hopefully that person isn’t depending on getting a reminder.
- Comment on What are the best options for computers that explicitly support linux operating systems? 9 months ago:
I got my desktop computer from www.currentbuild.com