Aceticon

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  External 2.5" HDDs connected via USB for longer term bulk storage and using it as a NAS, a smaller internal NVME SSD for the OS and a larger one (but SATA, so slower) for the directory were torrents go to.

  The different drive performances fit my usage pattern just fine whilst optimizing price per GB.

  External 3.5" would be cheaper for bulk storage but the 2.5" are a leftover from when I was more space constrained.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, the N100 does have a lot more breathing space in terms of computing power, so it’s maybe a better bet for something you want to use for a decade or more, and that remote control I linked to above does work fine, except for the power button (which will power your Linux off but won’t power it back on).

  I actually tried an Android TV Box (which is really just and SBC in the same range of processing power as the Pi) for this before going for the Mini PC and it was simply not as smooth operating.

  That Mini-PC has enough computing power room (plus the right processing extensions) that I can be torrenting over OpenVPN on a 1Gb/s connection whilst watching a video from a local file and it’s not at all noticeable on the video playback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the thing from the thing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These psychopaths have called Jewish Holocaust Survivors “anti-semites” for criticizing Israel.

  Besides, there is no such thing as a racial groupmind (“Jewish hive-mind”) through which the actual trauma transmits.

  Many Jews suffered in the Holocaust but many more did not, plus it’s been 80 years, so very few Jews alive today have actual trauma from it.

  The whole idea of racial trauma is just the Racists trying to leverage for their own personal benefit the suffering of others who share with them nothing but ethnicity, which is why Zionists and Israel have been so big on it: as Genocidal supremacists they’re probably the worst, nastiest Racists around in the present day so of course they would claim their entire race is a victim on the backs of the suffering of somebody else to get support for their own actions no matter how malevolent.

  (In fact supremacists always claim racial victimhood even without victims: the Nazis did it for the “Arian Race”, the KKK does it for the " White Race" and so on)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kodi install instructions are here

  I don’t use docker, I use lubuntu with normal packages. So for example Kodi is just installed from the Team Kodi PPA repository (which, granted, is outdated, but it works fine and I don’t need the latest and greatest) and just set it up to be auto-started when X starts so that on the TV it’s as if Kodi is the interface of that machine.

  Qbittorrent is just the server only package (qbittorrent-nox) which I control remotelly via its web interface and the rest is normal stuff like Samba.

  After the inital set up, the actual linux management can be done remotelly via ssh.

  That said, LibreELEC is a Linux distro which comes with Kodi (it’s basically Kodi and just enough of the rest to run it), so assuming it’s possible to install more stuff in it might be better - only found out about it when I had my setup running so never got around to try it. LibreELEC can even work in weaker hardware such as a Raspberry Pi or some of its clones.

  Also you can get Kodi as a Flatpak which works out of the box in various Linux distros so if you need the latest and greatest Kodi plus a full-blown Linux distro for other stuff you might do the choice of distro based on supporting flatpack and being reasonably lightweight (I actually originally went for Lubuntu exactly because it uses a lightweight Window Manager and I expected that N100 mini-pc to need it, though in practice the hardward can probably run a lot more heavy stuff than that, though lighter stuff means the CPU load seldom goes up significativelly hence the fan seldom turns on and so the thing is quiet most of the time and you only hear the fan spinning up and then down again once in a while even in the Summer).

  As for docker, there are a lot of instructions out there on how to install Kodi with Dockers, but I never tried it.

  Also you might want to get a remote like this, which is a wireless remote with a USB adapter, not because of the air-mouse thing (frankly, I never use it) but simply because the buttons are mapped to exactly the shortcuts that Kodi uses, so using it with Kodi in Linux is just like using a dedicated remote for a TV Media Box - in fact all those thinks are keyboard shortcuts (that remote just sends keypresses to the PC when you press a button) and they keyboard shortcuts for media players seem to be a standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy" Or, why older computers may be better for the environment | Hardware Haven⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It really depends on what you’re doing with it and on what old PCs you have available.

  I have an N100 Mini-PC at home in my living room connected to my TV which is both a home server and a TV-Box using Kodi (I even have a remote for it).

  Having modern image and video decoding in hardware is pretty useful when I’m using it as a TV Box (there is zero stutter with it), whilst the rest of the time the thing mostly sits doing some low CPU-intensive server tasks (mainly torrenting and SMB server stuff).

  Also, it’s a small box that fits fine on my TV stand without standing out and runs silent pretty much all of the time.

  Further, I don’t have any low power consuming old PCs around - the best are some chunky old notebooks, the rest are old gaming PCs which eat more power idle than the mini PC does at full load - and even the notebooks aren’t that low power as all that.

  Mind you, for many years I used an old Asus EEE PC as home file server (with external HDs) and had a separated dedicated hardware TV Media Server box playing files from it, but eventually that PC stopped working and I found out I could just use my Router as a file server.

  Last but not least, judging for how long I kept using my TV Media Server boxes (which over almost 2 decades I had 2 different ones and which as dedicated hardware could not easilly be upgraded when new video compression standards came out) 10+ years is definitelly my time-frame for using that Mini-PC.

  All this to say that you should consider using old hardware, especially if you have some around and it’s task appropriate (like I did before using an old Asus EEE mini-pc as a home file server), but also take in account what you’re going to do it and consider if new hardware won’t be better over the timespan you will likely be using it and if the being able to get a more task appropriate form factor (like how having a little box-size Mini PC lets me have it in my living room on a TV stand next to my TV and my fiber router) is worth it.

  In summary, before you get hardware you should ponder a bit about what you intend to do with it before you decide what to get, don’t be afraid of using stuff you already have and also don’t be afraid to get new stuff if it’s actually justified by hardnosed reasons rather than merely some variant of the “new stuff smell” psychological effect when buying new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because shit like that has been called “Pathing AI” for ages.

  Also I’m very familiar with Machine Learning having actually learned it 3 decades ago when it was mainly just Neural Networks (there were other techniques but ultimately NNs became dominant and is most of what we today call Machine Learning) and its most advanced commercial use was to read postal codes in mail envelopes for automated mail sorting.

  The acronym AI has been thrown around for decades, even before Neurap Networks were invented and well before Machine Learning was even called “Machine Learning”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in Game Making.

  There’s a ton of stuff in it which has been called “AI” for literally decades and almost none of it is Machine Learnrning: for example the A* pathing algorithm for characters in a game is called “AI”, as are Steering Behaviours that can be used in things like simulating bird flocks, and both are entirelly algorithmic, not ML.

  In fact ML is seldom useful in games.

  You’re confusing use of “AI” in the Marketing of the present day tech bros trying to make money pumping up a Tech Bubble on top of certain very specific forms of Machine Learning, with the actual general meaning of the acronym.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨billionaires are a cancer on society [literally]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Each billionaire is an individual problem AND allowing billionaires to grab and monopolize so many resources and even looking up to them is a systemic problem.

  Without the systemic problem which is Capitalism and present day society billionaires would be treated the same as other hoarders - though of as mentally derranged and stopped from going too far for their own good and the good of others.

  There will always be nutters, but if the social system we have wasn’t broken, this very specific kind of nutter would never be allowed to cause the damage they do with their mental disease.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But evidently the government believes in a different model of legitimacy: they believe that legitimacy is derived from the mere fact that they hold power.

  *Macht macht Recht"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I require nothing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, low ceilings are horrible and oppressive.

  The rest is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitch shape attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re like an origami figure folded wrongly that causes any properly folded origami figures to become misfolded when it comes in contact with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We really don't want to talk about our problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Theraphy, when it works, only solves internal causes of one’s pain.

  29 days away from present day society, will for a while suspend the external causes of one’s pain.

  (Which is why the former usually doesn’t fully solve everything: the external shit, which often is what created much of the internal shit, is still there and pushing you)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best start having takeaway cups at home next time somebody comes by to install something, just in case they need to take the gift which is my offering of coffee or tea, to their bosses…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s be fair: by that stage you should probably also draw some blood and leave it there.

  Wouldn’t want to be unwittingly keeping from the boss the nutrients from that free meal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you work for a company owned by a A..hole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole story just warms my heart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re purelly seeding (as in starting to seed a torrent from scratch never having downloaded it from the bittorrent client you’re using or having done it a long time ago - days, weeks or longer), without port-forwarding it will simply not work and nobody can connect to your machine and downloade anything for that torrent because all those remote machines that are trying to connect to your client have no association with your machine on the Mullvad Router doing NAT translation.

  If you’re downloading a torrent and then leave it seeding for a while after the download phase is over, then it will usually work fine because the Mullvad Router doing NAT Translation still remembers the various remote machines that your machine connected to in the swarm for that torrent during the download stage, hence when those remote machines connect back trying to themselves download stuff from yours, it will know that’s related your machine and thus accept those remote connection and forward them to your machine.

  In practice this means that it if you leave your torrents seeding AFTER DOWNLOADING is over, usually (but not always as for torrents with very few peers the swarm is either too small or changes too fast) you can upload more than you downloaded, hence you’re not leeching.

  So if you use Mullvad and don’t want to be a leecher, always leave your torrents active and uploading after you’ve downloaded them.

  Personally I have mine set to 1.5 upload to download ratio and only seldom does it fail to reach it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think your explanation of why it seems to work is correct.

  I seems to work (works in a limited way, even), because any remote machines that your bittorrent client connected to during downloading are temporarilly recorded on the Mullvad router on the other side of your VPN doing NAT translation as associated with your machine, so when those remote machines connect to that router to reach your machine, it knows from that recorded association that those connections should be forwarded to your machine.

  This is quite independent of people on the other side using port-forwarding or not.

  Port-forwarding on the other hand is a static association between a port in that router and your machine, so that anything hitting that specific port of the router gets forwarded the port in your machine you specified (hence the name “port” “forwarding”). With port-forwarding there is no need for there having been an earlier connection from your machine to that remote machine.

  This is why at the end of downloading a torrent behind a Mullvad VPN it will keep on uploading but if one restarts a torrent which was stopped hours or days ago (i.e. purelly seeds), it never uploads anything to anybody - in the first case that NAT translation router associated all machines your client connected to during download, so when they connect back to download stuff from you it correctly forwards those connections to your machine, but in the second case it’s just getting connections from unknown remote machines hitting one of its ports and in the absence of a “port-forwarding” static rule or a record of your machine having connected to those remote machines, it doesn’t know which of the machines behind it is the one that should receive those connection so nothing gets forwarded.

  So it’s perfectly possible to share back when behind a Mullvad VPN but you have to leave the torrent client keep on seeding immediatly after downloading and it will only ever upload to machines which were in the swarm when the client was downloading (they need not have been clients it downloaded from, merelly clients it connected to, for example to check their availability of blocks to download)

  It is however not at all possible to just start seeding a torrent previously downloaded unless the download wasn’t that long ago (it depends on how long the NAT Translation Router of Mullvad keeps those recorded associations I mentioned above, since those things are temporary and get automatically cleaned if not used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the point is that they can’t easilly track back to a specific client of a specific ISP instances of unlicensed downloading of copyrighted materials if they’re done behind a VPN.

  Mind you, they can still easilly track it back to the VPN, so make sure you’re using a provider that puts privacy above all an is not based in countries like the US or UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facts and minds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do the same thing and I am not at all comfortable in saying I was wrong if I was, but I generally do it anyway because, well, fair is fair and I was indeed wrong plus I better than I discover it and correct it that keep on spouting bullshit.

  That said, if the other person was an assholein our discussion (for example, using personal attacks and insults) I won’t openly admit to them that I was wrong as I don’t want to give them the satisfaction (though I’ll internally accept I was wrong and correct my take from there oewards).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peace of the grave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we want to be realistic, then if there was a nuclear explosion that big on planet Earth all the nations around it would be nuclear wastelands from the shockwave and fallout and the rest of the planet would probably be covered in ice from the nuclear winter.

  Most nation states on that side of the planet would be gone and the ones on the other side of the planet would at the very least be collapsing from the fall in agricultural production and subsequent wars of desperation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The toddlers were terrifying the poor IDF soldiers, hence they were terrorists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It pisses me off this, for political point scoring, abusive misapplication of this specific philosophical question to a situation which does not at all match the criteria for it.

  This is not a trolley problem because:

  • It’s not a single decision after which there is no walking back on it, rather it’s a cyclical choice which happens every 4 years and a lot of what was done by the candidate elected in once cycle can be undone in the next (as the Republicans frequently demonstrate when one of their gets elected after a Democrat).
  • It’s not a single person making a decision, it’s millions of people all at the same time and it’s not even the average of their choices that gets executed (that would require Proportional Vote) but it’s done using a weird mathematical formula, so there are tons of situations were no matter what one’s choice is (or even not choosing at all) it makes no difference whatsoever.

  Portraying this as a trolley problem is misleading and manipulative.

  The closest philosophical or game theory example to an election is a cyclical “Ultimatum Game” between voters and politicians only it’s in the best interest of politicians that people don’t see it that way (as they would start punishing politicians for not dividing the pie in a way that favors people enough) so instead their propaganda has pushed for decades this falacy that it’s an “trolley problem” (and it’s companion, the idea that people must “chose the lesser evil”).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think I get what you mean.

  My own country, Portugal, has issues and around here there is a big tendency to look to Britain for inspiration, yet Britain in many ways is even more broken than my own country (certainly it’s a far less fair society, more stratified, way more violent amongst the lower classes and more fake amongst the upper classes) and which wealth-wise is mainly is just using the pile (of both money and infrastructure) accumulated during their time not that long ago when it was an Empire, rather than in the present day being a more productive country,

  People look up to Britain, copy what’s done there under the impression that it works, and then end up with similar problems but none of the good things because the “success” of Britain isn’t the product of what they do now, it’s just accumulated wealth and structures from almost a century ago.

  That said, I think the circus that was Brexit has taken the shine out of Britain in most of Europe, including Portugal, maybe more strongly so here because Portugal used to send a lot of emigrants over there and many came back following Brexit and the consequences of Brexit with a far worse opinion of Britain than they went there with, and they certainly shared that opinion with family and friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I don’t at all think that Brits themselves see any of that as ghoulish.

  In fact the local culture has a huge thing with a heavilly classist social hierarchy, “knowing your place” in the social hierarchy and looking up to the upper classes and seing them as more capable.

  (Their Monarchy is the wealthiest and most powerful in Europe and you’ll find plenty fawning coverage of it in the local media and a vast majority of Brits love the Monarchy)

  In my experience people traditionally tend to see it as the natural order of things and there really was only this period between the post-War times and maybe the 80s when amongst the working class there was this idea that the working class was as much entitled to rule things as the upper classes and a lot of that has been crushed along with Labour Unions, Industry and Mining in Britain and as most of the workers became white collar workers (who see themselves as Middle Class and look down on the Working Class even though de facto they’re Working Class) rather than blue collar.

  Most don’t really don’t recognize that stuff as unusual or strange because that’s all that they’ve known, same as for everybody everywhere all over the World - mostly it’s only people who have actually lived and worked abroad and hence seen things done differently, who can spot the quirks and negative aspects of society in their own country works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience as an European who went to live there for over a decade, there are a ton of very subtle elements who can’t really spot from the outside, not knowing the details of how that country works and its culture, especially because they’re culturally extremelly big on image management (which I talk about below), which extends to managing the image that the country projects abroad (both via things like the Media they produce - for example their series and movies about Britain in the Victorian era vastly beautify the reality and almost like clockwork ever couple of years out comes a “Britain won WWII” movie - and their politicians practices both internally and on the international stage of grand symbolic announcements of objectives with in practice either no concrete action ever or even actions which do the very opposite).

  Britain is has long been setup to preserve the power of the old wealth and always had Fascist tendencies (for example, there are pictures of the old queen when she was young being taught by her uncle, the then King, to do a Nazi salute) and British elites always sided with Fascists and White Colonialists, such as Pinochet in Chile, the Afrikaaner Apartheid government in South Africa and the Genocidal Zionists in Israel, plus they themselves commited several Genocides in their Empire and historically even relentlessly exploited the local lower classes (with things like Indentured Servitude - which replaced Chatel Slavery but you’ll only ever hear from the British that they were the first to “end” Slavery and nobody mentions Indentured Servitude - and Workhouses).

  At the same time this is a country with an extreme cultural tendency to put managing appearances above all else (upside: they have the best Theatre in the World) which is worse the higher the social class one is from, so for example the children of the wealthy are taught to tell people what they want to hear and always show a positive image (not positive cheerful, but rather “flawless” and “impeccable”) and are shunned and emotionally attacked by their peers if they display any kind of weakness (can’t let others see that they’re sad or even sick) and even attend private schools (curiously called “Public schools” over there because supposedly “anybody who can afford the [very high] fees can send their children there” though even that is de facto false for many such schools) which amongst other things teach them discourse techniques (basically how to deceive without outright lying), so most of them as adults have only one mode of relating with other human beings - an unemotional, highly managed posh façade were empathy, in both diretions, is suppressed.

  To preserve this Power structure whilst avoiding rebelions by the masses their “Democracy” is more Theatre than a system for the masses to control how the country is run, set up from the very start to be “managed” via multiple “backdoors”, such as the Monarchy having real power (the King can bring down Laws, but traditionally does not use that power directly but rather quietly threatens to use it to get concessions), the voting system is First Past The Post to guaranteed that only two parties can ever govern (hence capturing the top politicians in those parties guarantees control of government), the country has an unelected 2nd chamber of Parliament which has seats which are literally inherited and it has no written constitution so it works entirelly on Laws passed in Parliament by a simple majority (and given their FPTP votting system, a mere 30% of the vote is enought to get a simple parliamentary majority) and legal precedent as established by higher courts (and almost 100% of High Court Judges in Britain are people who attended the previously described, expensive “Public” Schools that only the children of the elites attend).

  In such a system, control of whatever little Power is left in the hands of the “lower” classes is done in two ways:

  • Constant, relentless but subtle Propaganda backed by direct and indirect control of the whole Press by the elites (for example, the board of the supposedly independent BBC is entirelly made up of people who attended “Public” Schools). You can see this in action in how, for example, the BBC will give over 30 times more attention to Israeli deaths than Palestinians deaths or how certain words, such as “brutish” are only ever used for Israeli deaths and various other words are used hundreds of times more often for Israeli deaths than Palestinian deaths - the British Press was Manufacturing Consent long before the American Press started doing it.
  • Surveillance to detect and stop any civil society movement that might become an independent Power based on the power of large numbers, together with incredibly broad laws and biased Judges (who as I pointed out, pretty much all hail from the elites as shown by them having attended exclusive expensive schools as children) that are used to, using State Violence, crack down on and stop those movements under the cover of “Justice”. This is how for example Environmentalists who were planning to do a demonstration which would block the main London ring road were given 10 year prision sentences and how the leadership of the Green Party (a small party which is maybe the only left-of-center party over there) has been under surveillance since at least the 80s.

  There was a period when the UK wasn’t as bad in this sense following WWII, as in the post-War period millions of the “plebes” had military training and managed to claw a lot of power from the elites to the masses (creating things like the National Health Service and Social Security, and even causing a golden age of the Arts in Britain as working class children such as Michael Cain and David Bowie actually had real opportunities to go into things like Music and Theatre) but that has been progressivelly reversed since Thatcher went into power hence why nowadays elements of the Surveilance state have become so extreme that even the highly managed British Media is starting to discretly question it (though they would never, ever, ever treat is a a structural problem in how Power is approportioned in Britain and will always portray it as a single instance of mismanagement in the Police which is mainly a middle and working class institution)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police working with controversial tech giant Palantir on real-time surveillance network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when the Snowden Revelations came out, the UK turned out to have even more pervasive civil society surveillance than the US, and whist in the US the result of the revelations was some walking back of the surveillance, in the UK they just passed a law to retroactivelly make the whole thing legal, quietly kicked out the editor of the newspaper who brought out the story and the press never talked about it ever again.

  So there is zero surprise that they’re doing this and this is probably not even the whole tip of the iceberg, but the tip of the tip of the iceberg given the scale of surveillance over there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somebody tried to build a bridge between both groups but they ran into the conundrum that to get to the other side they would first need to get half way to that side, then get half way of the remaining distance, then half way again the new remaining distance and so on an infinite number of times, and as the bridge was started from the science communicators side rather than the mathematicians side, they gave up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The purpose of Hollywood is entertainment and helping out manufacture consent (not necessarily in that order), not raising awareness on subjects were people’s increased awareness would threaten the power of the elites, so when it comes to the minions of the elites it’s pretty much all either “Heroes of Justice” or, at most, “Most are Good Guys but there’s a few bad apples”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One wonders just how viable the Ukranian strategy would be to take out LAPD choppers (when landed, of course).