dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
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dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2hr ago
Once upon a time the hardware diversity of the PC ecosystem would have been considered its strength. But nowadays it's clear that the absolute zoo of hardware that Windows has to run on its holding it back.
Spend any time in PC BIOS settings to get a glimpse of the horror. MacOS simply does not have to deal with this shit. Apple can dictate whatever it wants from the hardware and it's there in the next year, with drivers all written by Apple.
Microsoft meanwhile takes decades to whip hardware vendors into shape enough to get (e.g.) a Secure Boot infrastructure in place and it's widely considered a joke because of how bad each manufacturer is at implementing it.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4hr ago
Right I'm aware. I'm just excited to report ChatGPT is also afraid of expressing thoughtcrimes that criticize the current US admin.
AI is known to be biased, and we have already seen the tech giants attempt to inject their own bias into them
For example. I was talking to ChatGPT about Jesus the other day. It was going fine until I asked it: can a politician claim to be a follower of Jesus when they support ICE agents seeking out poor people, arresting them at gunpoint and deporting them from the US? Didn't he demand radical compassion? Seems like Jesus would be pretty disappointed with them.
The robot refused to answer, saying it couldn't help me with this. Cucked.
(Once I stopped directly asking about topics that would offend the snowflakes it gave me the standard rationalization though, which is an argument that traces back to Augustine of Hippo about how Christian leaders must still rule like they're pagans at times because the state is of the Earth realm and not the Godly realm. Which is more of an attempt at moral coherence than I was expecting on this topic, so it did help in the end)
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
21hr ago
At the end of season 1 of Picard they have 7 of 9 getting romantic with that alcoholic woman. For example.
Though you draw the line at Voyager, so that's that.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
1d ago
Speaking of Star Trek, I notice that in their future they've also cured humans of religion and homosexuality.
However, in the newer series they've reintroduced homosexuality. I wonder if we're just a few years away from the new first officer [1] of the Enterprise F showing off an ingenuous device that will let him know which way on the starship to face so he can pray towards Mecca.
- who takes orders from a badass girlboss captain of course
Please please please don't let Elon buy it. I don't need yet another thing I own or do to become Chud coded. Not because I think he would fuck it up, but because I'm trying to survive in a blue town here.
They would 100% not put out today the version of D&D that Gygax put out in 1974. No sane business that wanted to make lots of money would. And you know exactly why. It would offend way too many customers for no good reason. Not a good business reason and not a good artistic reason, (unless you squint really hard).
So, I think this means it's not a dead battleground. Though I would go on and say it's different; this isn't the same stuff as making elves black.
Then Trump won, the illusion shattered for about a year. But now the same dead fights are being rehashed.
Just because Trump won an election doesn't mean you can ignore the racial demographcs of your potential customer base (>30% black or hispanic, 50% female) along with half of the white people stressing out about things they see as bigoted.
I'm mostly not up to date on this issue though, and found this discussion on r/KotakuInAction informative albeit a bit circle jerky.
From that link
In the 1970s, historical wargamers in America were predominantly white, middle-class men
Who would have thought that a nerdy (demographic primarily male) tabletop game (demographic primarily male) created in the US (demographic primarily white) and written in English (demographic primarily white) would be predominantly populated by white males
What a fucking mind-blowing concept
and
White men (and later men in general) were the main consumers at the time because they were ruthlessly mocked by women just for playing the game. Women thought it was lame and wanted nothing to do with it. They only became interested after it became trendy to be a nerd and after watching Critical Role.
Whites have slipped demographically but also D&D is mainstream now.
The slipping demography of white America and the not-exclusively-for-hideous-neckbeardedness of D&D anymore explains the behavior a lot better than progressive dead-battlegrounding, IMO. Though of course the woke ideological shit-tests are a part of this too.
But the text confirms that 12.5% go to remedial classes, and a whopping 85% of those (e.g. more than 10% of the freshmen) were unable to expand (1+s)^2.
This is actually not as horrible as I was expecting. 87.5% don't need remedial math is impressive!
EDIT: I guess I can't make the prior conclusion. The kids who were not sent to remedial math may not necessarily know how to do (1+s)^2
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
It's not cost free. There's a lot of anxiety wrapped up in it. They believe Trump is Fascist Dictator and This Time they won't have jobs to come back to, or he'll use one weird trick to deny them their back pay. Either way, they may feel apprehensive about spending their savings so they debt finance a lot of living expenses.
If I were a federal employee my reaction to this would be ayy lmfao but I think this is hell for normies, if /r/fednews is any indicator.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
2d ago
If the Republicans benefited from shutting the government down they don't need the Democrats to do it. It has costs for them too.
dr_analog
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4d ago
Indeed, /r/fednews (the premier subreddit for federal employees) seems pretty outraged. They went through all that suffering and got nothing for it.
Though, I don't think they got nothing. They can shut down the government again after Christmas without SNAP being affected (since it will be funded for the next year). That's a D win, I suppose.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
4d ago
The difference is what happened to Murray was actually unfair.
As Hunter S Thompson once said, if you're about to get your ass kicked and you're outnumbered, don't curl up and become a soccer ball. That just makes kicking your ass fun and will greatly deepen the beating you will take. At least become a soccer ball with teeth, so that there's some small risk to them.
The Democrats, lacking any real power in Congress, need not utterly just take whatever the Republicans want to hand down. They don't have to make it fun for them. At the minimum they can make the process so miserable for everyone that perhaps the Republicans will go easier next time.
It's not a great strategy, but it's all they have.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
As for the academy, it's been so thoroughly disgraced at this point that concerns about its dignity are beneath comment.
In this house we believe in holding intellectuals accountable for both going full retard on wokeness and for bigoted JAQing off.
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth but the rest of the scientific community wasn't obligated to let this guy who fits right in with shitposting Twitter edgelords represent them.
Charles Murray's dignity he does not have.
And in the end Watson was the one crying like a bitch that his reputation was ruined.
Our society should have great men and and if they want to be recognized as great men they should behave more on the Bertrand Russell or Richard Feynman end of the scale than the Andrew Tate or Dan Bilzerian end.
He didn't have an obligation to shut his mouth because his less-talented successors found him embarrassing or something.
Okay what about Crick, the person he won the Nobel with, who had a much more accomplished career? He also found him embarrassing. They're not all scrubs complaining that the big swinging dick brought the truth too hard and it hurt their feelings.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
naughty things my family and I have said in the last week
Do you not see the difference between you and your family engaging in bar talk in relative privacy and The Most Decorated Science Man saying this during interviews with the press?
He is not saying this stuff in the comfort of his home with his friends and being secretly recorded and outed. He has said much of it in interviews with journalists.
It is beneath the dignity of the academy for its members to use that opportunity to crack racist (and sexist) jokes, Especially if one is a world famous geneticist.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
7d ago
I'm not the OP, but I believe as an ubermensch who was a leading authority on genetics he had a moral responsibility to not casually sling such inflammatory shit that would carry the weight of genetic condemnation. He had a right to his shitposting, but the world is correct to complain that this shitposting is undignified.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
17d ago
But was crypto at much risk of being regulated out of existence?
Binance and BitMEX CEO indictments. FinCEN guidance outlawing DeFI unless you do KYC which practically kills it (e.g. Bitcoin Lightning liquidity very limited as a result). Head of SEC refusing to give straight answers on whether things like Ethereum are a security.
They couldn't take these steps when everyone was getting rich but a lot of shit went down during the Biden era crypto winter.
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
18d ago
Two federal judges being murdered is my freak the fuck out line.
dr_analog
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19d ago
It doesn't look the way I want it to so I'm self conscious. Though I think the main idea is to see LEDs in the dark or at a distance and that part works fine. Should try to put together some admiration shots ...
dr_analog
top 1% of underdog fetishists
19d ago
I actually just tried learning CAD software this week. It's a little less obnoxious than I was expecting. Though I'm both watching YouTube videos and asking LLMs for help every 5 minutes.
New York spends over $36,000 per pupil which gets you near that high number, but the average is about $18,000, which is your low number, so this is skewed a bit high.
And? People outside of NY also pay less in taxes.
$18,000/year in spending per student in public school is still an absurdly expensive entitlement compared to what their parents and non-parent neighbors pay in taxes. People with families are not some rare occurrence in society. In the US, 1 in 4 people are under 18 and likely in this system.
Hmmm? I actually wanted my question answered and I don't think I could've gotten a good one aside from talking to, like, a couple of pastors, who are not normally in my social circle.
Jesus says render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, essentially imploring his followers to obey the rules of the state because the state is an earthly concern. But what is supposed to happen when Caesar himself becomes a follower?
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