Rivalarrival
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- Comment on Don't get mad, get even 12 hours ago:
I’m going to start putting those signs on public microwaves…
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 12 hours ago:
Depends on how exactly it’s implemented, sure. That obviously isn’t the result I’d be looking for.
My point, though, is only that a “downvote” need not mean “hide this kind of post away from the general public”. A downvote can mean something more like “This pissed me off and more people should read it.”
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 14 hours ago:
Communism/socialism requires some mechanism to compel cooperation with the collective’s objectives. The greater the degree of central planning, the greater the authoritarianism required to implement it. When you reach a level of centralization sufficient to justify the “communism” label, you’re well into the “authoritarian” quadrants.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 14 hours ago:
Your position is reasonable if down votes are suppressive, but I wouldn’t develop a content algorithm that treated them as such.
I would use an “engagement” algorithm. Upvoting increases engagement, commenting increases engagement, down voting increases engagement, reporting increases engagement. The viewing time - the time between initially accessing it and viewing a new page - increases engagement.
The most suppressive thing you can do to a piece of content is click away in less than 20 seconds.
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 day ago:
Indeed.
Unfortunately, no matter how well you tune your carburetor, just a change in atmospheric temperature is enough to throw off your mixture.
The only feasible way to adjust it fast enough to keep up with atmospheric changes is with some kind of fuel injection, an ECM, and an O2 sensor to provide the feedback needed for closed-loop mixture control.
Fortunately: speeduino.com
- Comment on Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels? 1 day ago:
Lean burning produces nitrous oxides.
Rich burning produces carbon monoxide, which eventually converts to CO2 in the atmosphere.
Unit for unit, NOx emissions are 265 times as damaging as CO/CO2.
…ucar.edu/…/some-greenhouse-gases-are-stronger-ot…
To successfully convert NOx, catalytic converters need a stoichiometric or slightly rich fuel/air mixture to the engine.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
The sine qua non of censorship is the authoritarian component missing from your definition. A moderator or administrator removing an article from a forum is censorship. A user demonstrating their disapproval of that article within the forum doesn’t qualify as censorship.
The Oxford definition is not wrong, just incomplete.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
That is not at all a reasonable definition of censorship.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
It used to be that the best posts would have hundreds of upvotes and hundreds of down votes. They showed +100/-98 and you did mediately knew this was an interesting comment.
Then they stopped showing both up and down, and only showed the summation. 100 upvotes and 98 down votes is now +2, and this comment is now lurking among all the other +2 comments.
Showing the total instead of the ratio was the end of reddiquette, and the earliest Reddit enshittification that I can point to.
- Comment on It'S tHe SaMe PiCtUrE!!! 2 days ago:
Nor can communism.
- Comment on Don't miss this Lunar event! 5 days ago:
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 5 days ago:
- Comment on Clock logic 6 days ago:
Geometry.
The first clocks were sundials, which worked by putting a line on the ground. As soon as you comparing two different lines on the ground, you are doing geometry to represent time.
When you start messing around with geometry, you need an easy way to describe the angle of an equilateral triangle. 1/6th of a circle, or 1/3rd of a line. Trying to represent 1/3 or 1/6th in base 10 is fugly. Trying to divide a circle into 10 equal sections is just as fugly.
Dividing a circle into 6 equal sections is trivial: after you draw the circle with your compass, walk the compass around the perimeter. You have just inscribed a hexagon.
You’re still missing the angle of 1/4 of a circle: the angles of a square. Those are pretty important in geometry as well. It’s fairly trivial to draw another 6 points between the first 6 on your circle.
We use a 12-hour clock because of basic geometry. The 360-degree circle is the bastard child of basic geometry and a base-10 number system.
- Comment on Aged like milk 1 week ago:
Broken Clock.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
That makes sense from an outside perspective, sure. But your criticism was about Americans turning a blind eye to the “cultural” problem.
Within the US, blaming gun violence on “culture” means pointing out that 13-17% of the population commits (and are the victims of) 55-65% of the murders. Blaming “culture” means pointing out that mass shooters are predominantly white, they also account for less than 1% of all murders.
The Americans broadly adopting your “cultural problem” argument are MAGAts. Normal Americans are turning a blind eye to that viewpoint, rather than being lumped in with those racist pricks.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
We “tend to turn a blind eye to it” because “cultural problem” is primarily used as a racist dog whistle.
If your intention was to point at the underlying cause, you need to be talking about systematic impoverization, lack of generational wealth, devaluation of labor, etc.
- Comment on Good luck! 1 week ago:
Waffle Stomp!
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
The alternative is some variety of private mortgage insurance. The insurer bets that housing prices will rise, so that you won’t default. If you do default, they reimburse the lender on their losses associated with your default.
- Comment on if "you are what you eat", and you only eat vegans, you're both vegan and not at the same time 2 weeks ago:
Antelope eats vegetation, which means antelope is a vegan and a vegetable. Tiger eats vegetable-lope, which means tiger is also a vegetable and a vegan.
Pig eats cheese, which was produced by the milk of a cow, which is a vegetable because the cow eats vegetables. Milk is therefore a product of a vegetable, making it vegan.
It’s vegetables all the way down.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The relevant metric:
99.55% of posts are on a single instance. That is not “federated” in any meaningful sense.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried this repeatedly. I’ve answered “No” to their upsale. I’ve sat there in silence, waiting for it to time out. I’ve asked for a human. Every time the AI takes my order, it adds nacho fries that I didn’t order and specifically rejected.
The problem isn’t that I need a human to fix it. The problem is that the AI is specifically programmed to ignore a rejected upsale. Their AI is smart enough to recognize the rest of my complicated order, but it can’t understand “No”? Horseshit. They are using this fraudulent programming to increase their upsale metrics, expecting us to docilely accept the sale rather than raise a fuss.
Drive-offs are another of the metrics they look at. Since I’ve communicated with nobody but the AI, they have nobody but the AI to blame for the drive-off.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
Or, and hear me out: I can drive off, flip them the bird, and go down to one of the other 15 fast food places within a 5 minute drive, that doesn’t use a speech recognition AI to take my order.
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 2 weeks ago:
The fucking taco bell AI likes to ask if I would like anything else, then ask if I want nacho fries. Then, hearing “No”, go ahead and add them anyway.
Then it likes watching me drive away, giving the store the finger.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 3 weeks ago:
Romeo and Juliet laws are fairly common. 24 states allow a 2 to 5 year age difference. AFAIK, federal law allows up to a 4-year age difference.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’m guessing he owes about $1232 in employment taxes…
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 3 weeks ago:
This fork isn’t stamped out of sheet steel. It appears to have been forged out of a round bar stock. For that alone, it receives high marks, despite the unconventional appearance.
8/10.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 3 weeks ago:
A dead fish can open doors better than Uvalde police officers.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 weeks ago:
Then we respect their personal agency.
- Comment on To install a new outlet with a dedicated circuit do they have to cut the drywall all the way from the electrical panel to the outlet? 3 weeks ago:
yeah they’ll need to open up that drywall to drill holes in all the studs.
Not necessarily. They make 54" long, flexible drills that can go through 3 studs from a single hole. Some have 4’ extensions that you can attach as well, to drill studs 8 or even 12 feet out from a single hole.
- Comment on To install a new outlet with a dedicated circuit do they have to cut the drywall all the way from the electrical panel to the outlet? 3 weeks ago:
They’ll typically use something like this: Image
This flexible bit is about 4’ long. You cut the hole where you want the outlet, then insert that flexible bit to drill through the floor or ceiling, inside the wall. The cable is routed through the basement or attic.
If basement or attic are inaccessible, you can drill horizontally, three studs at a time. You’ll have holes every 4’. If you are creative, you can install new outlet boxes in those holes, and not have to do any drywall work.
