But God has the challenge of starting with a minuscule room, expand the cabling as it goes without being able to unplug or replace any cables or move servers during the lifetime of the system, and can’t afford any downtime or shutdown for maintenance.
Even when you’re sleeping the system is still operating. So since it’s not 100% active nor completely off it’s a weird area that someone with amazing math skills could come up with a higher percentage.
without being able to unplug or replace any cables
Oh! Oh! Here’s where I get to bring out one of my favorite terms, which I rarely get to do: Foramen ovale.
Short version: It’s a hole in the fetal heart that allows blood to bypass the (non-functioning) lungs. It usually closes up at birth. God found a way to re-route cables upon deploying the system into production.
I remember when “free range” chicken/eggs came around. The definition of that is wild. Opened my eyes to how bullshit all of the US food labeling stuff is. It means something like they have access to 2 square feet of outdoor space access. But theres like no rules on how often they need to be able to use it. So you can just have thousands of chickens you lets cycle through a tiny outdoor area once in their lives and it meets the requirement. It’s a joke.
There is a thing now in Germany called “outdoor climate” for beef etc. It’s supposed to be the second best form of farming and literally means: There needs to be a window somewhere.
Supersize Me 2: Holy Chicken! covers this and is definitely worth a watch. He sets up a fried chicken restaurant and establishes all the minimum criteria to promote your food as free range/organic/healthy etc when it really isn’t.
In most countries, organic mostly just means that the feed they use is organic with maybe a few minor other additions, but regardless I wouldn’t trust any claims of anything actually being antibiotic-free.
Sadly, what it means in practice is that access to outdoors is strictly controlled or forbidden, and the factory will probably kill all the chickens and throw them in the trash if a disease outbreaks. There’s a bunch of talk now in big ag about biosecurity, and how small farms are a risk because they can introduce disease. How about actually have a natural farm instead of a micromanaged industrial operation, and then maybe the animals will be robust to illness.
Go and talk to a politic science professor and they will tell you this.
You can’t escape politics because it’s linked to power.
Power structures affect everything in our society therefore politics affects everything.
When someone doesn’t want to ‘make it political’ all they are really doing is attempting to preserve an existing power structure they are a beneficiary of.
Ever considered that politics is not always the essence of everything? I don’t care that fundamentally everything may be political. I don’t care that we are made up of millions of tiny organisms. I care about the things I care. And that’s not your political agenda.
When I am cranking it to a model on Only Fans, that’s what I want to think about, not about what politicians may have paid to lick their butthole privately.
So yeah, everything is absolutely political, but sometimes you need a few degrees of separation.
Politics is not the essence of everything “To YOU” because you won the genetic/sociopolitical lottery. You sit comfortably atop the suffering of the “other,” who does not have the luxury of playing this apolitical card.
Great but you see when you say 'I don't care about other people' then we loudly don't want to care about you back. That is pretty much it, I don't know why you need to foghorn that you are selfish, is it to rile up others to violence in name of their selfishness? Explain why you have to explain that you don't need something so badly, we dont need anything if we dont wish to live so whats the actual fucking point here to "DONT NEED IT' except to also say "OR ELSE" which is... ALSO A POLITICAL STATEMENT OR ELSE.
They literally are? If they are having a discussion and someone brings politics up, “stop making everything political” would mean what else than I don’t want politics in this discussion…?
Thats literally an attempted refutation of everything is inherently political. Its already political, no one you’re talking to made it political, they just reminded you of something you tried to ignore. So again if you just dont want to talk about politics, just say that instead of trying to refute that pretty much everything is inherently political. Words have meaning, say what you mean, because implying that the person you’re talking to is making thing political is different from saying ‘hey im not trying to talk about politics’ and it doesn’t automatically mean the same thing as “Why do you make everything political”, especially in forms of communication like text only. Hell, one of them is a question and the other is a statement, so why would anyone who doesn’t want to talk about politics prompt someone with a question that in guaranteed to get an answer that’s directly about politics?
People can only respond to the words on the screen, not the ones you wanted to say, if you ask someone a question expect an answer. I can’t make it simpler.
And “stop making everything political” can’t be simpler either…. If you bring up politics and someone says those exacts words, they mean exactly that. Since you can’t comprehend those words as they are, I have had to describe the term in similar scenarios to help you understand, but you apparently can’t comprehend that either.
You clearly aren’t here to have a discussion in good faith, so stop making everything political and kindly fuck off.
Is that simple enough for you….? Here I’ll try again.
Again infering it isn’t already and you wonder why people respond. At least when you said fuck off you actually said what you meant. Try that more often.
Interestingly enough, that doesn’t work, because people just say. Why so hostile. So if politeness doesn’t work, and hostility doesn’t work… maybe the person you’re talking to isn’t actually trying to have a discussion…? Like you here. Or am I not being “simple” enough for you…?
How am I the one not trying to have a discussion? You think simply because I don’t agree with you it means there’s no discussion? Then wouldn’t you also not be trying to have a discussion? If you tell someone they are making things political, expect them to respond, you’re talking about them. If you don’t want to talk about politics just say you don’t want to. You’ve yet to respond to those points but insist they mean the same thing, and then you say I’m the one trying not to have a discussion. Hilarious.
Just because it’s important doesn’t mean we aren’t allowed to have happy conversations that don’t involve politics which is basically what you are saying we should never do.
Go to a physics professor and they’ll tell you everything is physics. Go to a math professor and they’ll tell you everything is math. Go to a philosophy professor and they’ll tell you everything is philosophical.
Not everything is about power inherently. People can and often will make almost anything about power. But it’s not inherent to the thing. But you might disagree.
However the degree to which things are political can vary greatly. Would you agree? Voting at the presidential elections is a more political act than watching birds or playing with my kids.
I think what people mean in your view’s context is that they’d like to keep memes away which directly refer to a topic which is to a high degree politicized. Instead they prefer memes which are at maximum very indirectly related to politics.
I’m sure you know that but this is my one try at a good faith discussion.
I don’t disagree with you about each professor thinking their subject is the most relevant.
That’s interesting in and of it self though, maybe people should consider looking through things using different lenses. When they don’t look at a topic as political, maybe they should, perhaps it’d give a perspective they hadn’t previously considered.
In saying people want to keep memes away from politics, the problem is if you accept my premise that anything can relate to politics it’s functionally not possible to keep memes away from politics.
So instead what’s left is actually control on the discourse of what memes we can make and those we can’t. Or rather ‘which ones are political’ (not acceptable) and ‘which ones aren’t political’ (acceptable).
Now practically I agree the bow gets longer to draw on a meme relating to beef stroganoff but who gets to decide the boundary line? I assert no one gets to decide because the boundary doesn’t ever exist. All memes have a political component so to attempt to stifle discussion based on a memes political content is useless.
This is why people who say ‘let’s not make it political’ are really just saying ‘I don’t want you to talk about that topic because it’s unacceptable to me and not something I want to address’ - cool thanks for expressing your opinion, next time not saying anything would be better.
Now practically I agree the bow gets longer to draw on a meme relating to beef stroganoff but who gets to decide the boundary line?
I think the boundary is set in this case by the community and ultimately by the moderators. Would it be an arbitrary and very fuzzy line? Sure. Will everyone like it? No. But that’s why it is good that one can simply make their own instances and communities. But I am glad we can agree that different degrees of closeness to politics do exist and that it is possible to differentiate them. You don’t think there is value in doing so as I understand it. And I think that’s a perfectly sensible point to take.
This is why people who say ‘let’s not make it political’ are really just saying ‘I don’t want you to talk about that topic because it’s unacceptable to me and not something I want to address’ - cool thanks for expressing your opinion, next time not saying anything would be better.
I think this is why your argument goes a bit into strawman territory. Your interpretation is pure guesswork and putting words in the mouth of others without giving them the benefit of the doubt.
For me personally it is simply that I don’t want to have heavily political discussions all the time. As you can probably see from this post here I don’t mind a good discussion. Political or otherwise. Although you’d probably argue that every discussion is political.
Sometimes I just want to look at funnies and not think about the complex power dynamics of societies and the world. That doesn’t mean I never want to discuss those. But I like to have places where I can go knowing it’s not that. And I think several people here want this memes community to be such a place.
People here don’t realise the boundary line of what constitutes acceptable political meme discourse is far away from their expectations.
This the Marxist-Leninist meme community.
If people ‘don’t want politics’ in their memes I’d suggest they go to a different community.
———
My arguments about power are pretty well understood among social science academics. I didn’t come up with these ideas, I was taught them.
That aside, what do you think someone means when they say ‘let’s not talk about this topic’ do you not accept that’s an attempt to exercise power of what is acceptable discourse?
Who are they to decide?
I’d argue they are exercising covert power.
If you’re interested in the academic underpinnings of this view go read Lukes’ paper on the three faces of power.
Enshittification of music to be mass money making outlets through astroturfing music industries. It’s easier to exploit and parade a Xanax addicted clout goblin named lil xxsixbaby who will pump out 30 recordings to the same backing track than it is to maintain a pop, rock, or rap group that wants their art to be long lasting and well crafted.
But people like them, no? Just to be clear, how people can enjoy autotuned mumbling about money and hookers is beyond me, but they are. Don’t know about other genres, but in metal you still have a lot of bands that make complex and beautiful music (especially in symphonic metal), but not as many people listen to that, and often not because they don’t know about alternatives. My own brother listens to mumble rap and other rappers that write lyrics that can be rearranged and you wouldn’t notice because the only thing they do is rhyme, without building up to anything, and it’s his choice, he likes listening to the same two songs in 50 variants.
It is very easy to find smaller bands that produce music with actual effort, and you can shove crappy music all you want to someone who doesn’t like it, and it won’t magically make them a fan, so the prevalence of autotuned simulations of strokes are due to people actually liking them, no?
I try not to judge these people too much because I myself often listen to extreme trve kvlt black metal which sounds like a vacuum cleaner to the uninitiated, so I tell myself that it’s something like that. I never convince myself of that, but I try.
The same way punk rock got popular after Jimi Hendrix and a bunch of other people pushed the envelope in terms of technical musicianship, people wanted something new and the logical place to go was into making something simpler and more aggressive
what do you mean 300 deaths isn’t in any way comparable to thousands/millions of deaths during the Holocaust, Aremnian genocide, Bengal famine, Operation Condor or Japanese occupation?
Consider the hypothetical, Texas has decided to secede and has had a majority of the population vote on a referendum to do so. Rather than becoming independent they wish to join Mexico, Mexico agrees as there is a large portion of Texas that speaks Spanish and there is a historical precedent of Mexico owning that territory.
The rest of the United States doesn’t want this and considers this illegal, a nationalist division of the U.S military decides to engage in sustained artillery bombardment of the cities: Dallas, Austin, and Houston.
Mexico seeing the devastation of people now considered Mexican organizes two separate talks to try and work out some sort of cease fire and pathway forward that respects the will of the people. The nationalist division pays no mind to any sort of agreement and continues the bombardment, Mexico decides that enough is enough and sends its military in to secure Texas as well as destroy the nationalist division.
In this analogy, the United States is Ukraine, Texas is the Donbass, and Mexico is Russia.
Sadly war is hell, if only the peace talks weren’t sabotaged by Boris Johnson otherwise the Russia-Ukraine war would be over.
Smooth-brained western Chinese apologists is not what I was expecting from the future of the internet even 5 years ago. Our atrocities are totally cool, eh? Nice.
If you try act like a redditor and go “its what i call taiwan” then you’re literally bumbling around like a drunken dipshit who insists calling the United States “Northern Florida”. Although if we’re to make more accurate historical inference, it would be apt to say you’re the equivalent of those “The South Shall Rise Again” cross-burning confederate dipshits that never shut up about the massive L you took
I for one am not apologizing for much of anything really. Mistakes have been made but the party has grown from that and critiques those. None of these are what these anti-chinese people are saying though
Atrocity propaganda is a real phenomenon used by westerners to inflate problems of non-western societies and deflate the genocides done by the west. You’ve fallen for it
yeah buddy, ya got me. the cia’s attempt to overthrow the communist party of China failed, but succeeded in getting a few hundred people killed. not exactly the Holocaust libs love to claim it was
Fun fact! Y2K was going to be an awful nightmare for computers, but engineers and programmers managed to fix most of the potential issues with enough time to spare that most people didn’t even notice, so now it’s a widely held incorrect belief that there was never anything to worry about in the first place. This story likely has no impact on our day to day lives, but thank a programmer for your local hospital’s computer system surviving the turn of the century
fun fact! 32 bit systems were only fixed until 2038 because then, the signed 32 bit integer storage for the unix epoch time will overflow causing it to flip to the lowest negative number
and a lot of public stuff still uses 32 bit systems
Ha ha, well I have absolutely no faith that we will collectively solve that unless 32 bit systems stop working on their own before then. If Y2K happened again today, there’d be a handful of companies handed billions of dollars to fix everything, and it’d wind up half done with demands for more money.
I’d love to be proven wrong, but I have suspicion that it will be solved by the good ol’ planned obsolescence: “Your device will no longer supported after 2038. Buy this shiny new device and receive 10% discount by entering our coupon code: YAY2K38”
I’m sure we’ll come up with a shitty way to work around the issue later. Recent example is how IPv4 was supposed to run out years ago, but thanks to shitty workaround deployed by telcos, no one felt the need to migrate to IPv6 even though the workaround makes the internet more restrictive and shittier.
It actually takes power away from ordinary users and put it in the hand of big corporation. It might sound ridiculous, but you’ll start to notice this if you compare how people use the internet 20 years ago vs now. For example, it’s no longer possible to communicate to other people over internet without going through an intermediary. Sending text, files, voice and video calls, all need to go through an intermediary to make sure your data went though. Even modern p2p protocols requires intermediaries in the form of stun/turn servers or chance are high that the participants can’t see each other.
As an exercise, try to communicate (text, voice, video, file transfer, gaming) with a group of friends over the internet without using any 3rd party service except DNS. It used to be no brainer in the past, but today it’s outright impossible if both party are behind a CGNAT, which is very likely (and almost 100% will happen if you live in a 3rd world country due to disproportionate IP blocks allocation that favor western countries).
Over the years, this trains internet users into thinking that the internet is not useable without getting an account on tech giants’ online services. Imagine if this restriction does not exist. The internet might be less centralized today, the internet giants might not be as giant, and people might use more p2p tech to communicate with each other and might have better privacy because they have less data captured by those 3rd party services.
Over the years, this trains internet users into thinking that the internet is not useable without getting an account on tech giants’ online services. Imagine if this restriction does not exist. The internet might be less centralized today, the internet giants might not be as giant, and people might use more p2p tech to communicate with each other and might have better privacy because they have less data captured by those 3rd party services.
My friend, that’s just laziness. Most people don’t want to know and don’t care to learn how to use technology. I don’t think we’d be in some Free and Open Internet era had NAT not been deployed, you’d still have people like us with tech knowledge splitting off into our own areas based on that ability and desire, while the herd flocked to the “do it for me” solutions provided by big tech.
True, most people don’t out of laziness, but at least people who care would still have an alternative option instead of the mess we have now. Also, in a parallel universe where the internet is not crippled, maybe 20 years of p2p development would be enough to propel it the point of mainstream usability, but I guess we’ll never know.
If we were to update Unix time to be stored in a 64 bit signed integer, we could handle over 584 billion years, or 292 billion years in either direction of the 1970 epoch.
it depends on the CPU architecture. if you have a 32 bit CPU then it will only be able to save up to a 32 bit int. unix epoch time is just how many seconds passed since 1.1.1970 and cant be “updated”
It’s like the ATLA episode with the town that’s about to be destroyed by a volcano. The townspeople claiming that the prophecy was still true even though without Aang they’d be dead.
It’s not that the threat didn’t exist, it’s that people worked night and day on things like energy infrastructure SCADA networks and other critical areas so that we wouldn’t lose a bunch of shit during the rollover.
Some stuff still did go down, but it was mostly government and thankfully small enough that it didn’t really matter.
The USSR didn’t do much good but those apartment buildings are definitely good. I used to live in a soviet apartment building and the funny thing about that was that every wall was a load bearing wall since all of them could hold up everything. They were thick as hell and fully concrete.
I’m living in a soviet-built tenement block, and the only time I’ve heard anything from a neighbour is when the guy living above me dropped a bowling ball.
Not from Eastern Europe, but from India. Most buildings are made from bricks. Good enough to block most of the sound from adjacent apartment.
In fact, some builders started using drywalls and there has been a pushback because drywall is considered poor quality material by people here. Which it absolutely is when the country has 4 months of monsoon every year. Drywall doesn’t play well with moisture, does it?
Okay, I just went from “eh, commie blocks are gross but better than tents” to “fuck all the other apartments, bring on the commie blocks”. Buildings in the US are built so ridiculously cheaply that in a lot of lower-rent buildings you can hear everything.
Commie blocks do have some issues like absolutely awful electrical wiring or lack of insulation but a lot of ex soviet countries renovate those buildings which leaves no downsides.
Commie blocks do have some issues like absolutely awful electrical wiring
Default wiring is not impossible to replace. My building from 70-ies has global PE, only thing left is to replace aluminium wiring without PE inside appartment to 3-wire copper wiring.
that every wall was a load bearing wall since all of them could hold up everything.
It seems you lived in panel building. There are limitations to it like you should not add horisontal chases becaue it reduces load capacity or can’t replan appartment because it will be destruction of load bearong wall. So wiring better be done in factory-made in-wall concrete tubes.
I work in construction so I’ll offer my expert opinion. Generally, when the entire front facade of a building is unsecured and falling down that would be considered unsafe. Of course that varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction
I think it would depend on how confident I am that I’d be able to beat the kidnappers.
If it’s like inept comedy movie kidnappers and I feel like I’m on my way to deliver an ass kicking, then yes I’d play pump-up music.
If it’s scary KGB/ISIS kidnappers and I’m probably on my way to perform a well-intentioned yet ultimately futile gesture where I’ll likely get killed before I even get through the door, then probably no tunes for that one.
memes
Top
This magazine is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.