SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
1d ago
Is there a norm of it not being a fireable offence to openly celebrate murder?
Yes, there is. In most of Europe firing someone for anything outside work is explicitly illegal.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
And of course it results in taxes, but governments gonna tax.
Do I remember wrong or aren’t some of the oldest known writings basically tax records?
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Look man, don’t go all reasony to me when I’m just looking for a cheap excuse to shit on furries as is sacred interwebs tradition.
SkoomaDentist
3d ago
Goddamn furries!
SkoomaDentist
10d ago
Are you speaking from your general leftist activist experience?
SkoomaDentist
11d ago
This is the "just build your own international financial system"
And not just "build your own international financial system" but "build an international and national financial systems on every served country down to the street level" as banks tend to be unwilling (usually due to government pressure) to even transfer money between the official and inofficial financial systems.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
An excellent analysis and prototyping environment and absolutely horrible general purpose programming language.
SkoomaDentist
15d ago
Either way, I have libertarian tendencies and I appreciate the opportunity to shoot my head off with a gun.
May I introduce you to the lovely world of C++?
Although Undefined Behavior might better be described as a large caliber chaingun firing explosive rounds…
SkoomaDentist
16d ago
A few days ago, imgur managed to piss off most of the people voting on images.
Given that this is the first time I hear that imgur even has voting, I predict this to be a nothingburger. The tiny portion who use it as social media instead of image host may care but absolutely nobody else.
SkoomaDentist
19d ago
They're in different industries and have been for decades. The last time Motorola had notions of competing with Intel was 30 years ago. By the time Freescale was spun out in 2004, they had no commonalities (ignoring Intel's doomed to fail attempt at pushing into embedded / mobile processor market with Atom & Galileo). Freescale and then NXP have always been purely in "deep" embedded market where computing performance just isn't that important and is behind many other considerations. You use an iMX8 because you need a large set of integrated peripherals in a small form factor and at low cost. It might run Linux because that simplifies the software development and allows better networking and simpler multimedia display (think map or spotify album art) but you really don't care about how it performs in benchmarks (as long as it passes some minimum bar). Using a larger manufacturing process is an outright positive thing as it allows lower idle power consumption.
Intel OTOH has always been about legacy software support and how many GHz you get in a package / per $$$, considerations that simply don't exist in NXP's market. You'd never put an Intel cpu in an embedded device because it'd be a nightmare to integrate, eat too much power and cost too much compared to an MCU that does that job much better.
SkoomaDentist
19d ago
And NXP is definitely not even close to a tier-one fab these days; I think they've capped out in the >50nm range.
That's a bit like saying Volvo isn't even close to being a tier-one supercar manufacturer these days...
NXP has never even aimed for the high end application processor market (not that Motorola was relevant in its historical equivalent since the late 80s either). They merged with Freescale for their microcontroller and automotive IC portfolio, not in an effort to compete with Intel or similar cpu manufacturers.
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
A trivial example is "You should learn to repair your car" while ignoring that we don't live in the 90s anymore and most new cars cannot be repaired without special tools and software (sometimes even by third party professionals).
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
"Work harder" isn't bad advice so to speak but it's not that useful.
This gets into the core problem with much advice: It is rarely actionable and usually of the form "you should be like this" instead of "you should do this specific thing that you both know how to do and are capable of currently doing".
A classic example is "eat less to lose weight" which isn't actionable for most people (they'll just get hungry and fail to eat less) as opposed to for example "log every meal and snack you eat to make it easier to avoid pointless eating and try to eat these sorts of foods that keep you satiated longer".
Okay, so, you've probably heard of rabies. It's an incurable disease (at the very least it used to be, and it still is once symptoms appear) spread by biting that makes people bite others and be violent and semi-mindless in general.
Ahem. Rabies doesn't do that.
It can make people confused or aggressive but even confused or aggressive humans don't go around biting others (at least any more than people who are confused or aggressive because of dementia or drugs do). Human to human spread of rabies basically doesn't happen.
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
That's Motorola Mobility (subsidiary of Lenovo, smartphones and stuff) or Motorola Solutions (safety and security products). Neither have anything to do with IC manufacturing.
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
maybe Motorola if you squint
Motorola hasn't existed for 17 years and spun off their cpu / microcontroller business back in 2004 to Freescale which was since acquired by NXP in 2015.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
They went full retard. Never go full retard.
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
No, but perhaps I should. I tend to be awerse to watching series that have (or at least should have) long term plot but were cancelled before resolving it or, worse, started strong but were derailed / ruined before the end (cough Game of thrones cough).
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
Sometimes jokes can’t be explained without ruining the joke
Is a quote that's very rarely actually true but likes to be paraded by people who simply made a bad joke and they aren't willing to own up to it.
I firmly believe there is a good number of strong female characters that western/American male audiences have been fans of. Even in the action-centric genres, Ahsoka from the the Star Wars Clone Wars tv show, Katara from Avatar, and Vi from Arcane, Gwen Stacey from the newer Spiderman are all examples of very well received female characters.
How can you write such list and omit The two strong women in western action movie canon: Ellen Ripley and Sarah Connor? Zero girlbossing, 100% believable authority, Significant Relationship Stuff, all while exhibiting classic female traits. I’ve never heard a single guy say anything bad about either character.
What made them such great and believably strong characters is that they were strong women instead of being "strong" teenage girl romantic fantasy protagonists. A show vs tell difference. Anyone who's seen a mother on the warpath for their children knows they can be really fucking scary. That's the energy channeled by Ellen Ripley at the end of Aliens and Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. That's what made them both so believable for teenage boys because which teenage boy doesn't know a mother (their own or some friend's) whose wrong side you really don't want to end up on?
It really is a shame both movie franchises ended after only two movies.
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
The terminator.
SkoomaDentist
24d ago
I don't think spamming a page and half long zero effort AI slop counts as "fun".
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
Uh, ackshully, that's approximately where the state-of-the-art on anti-aging is heading.
That just means the currently foreseeable research is that way. There are a whole lot of factors in aging that by definition can't be cured by DNA repair because things in body that intentionally have no major maintenance mechanism after reaching adulthood keep deteriorating from plain physical stress and wear.
SkoomaDentist
27d ago
Img2img has entered the chat
Citation needed.
There is certainly no such clause in Finnish law. Even supporting (ie. material / financial / other direct aid) terrorism is illegal only if the support is for an actual terrorism act or a designated terrorist group.
Don’t assume UK and Germany == most of Europe.
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