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OwenEverbinde ,

Alternatively, it’s possible cell companies like T-Mobile will lobby against these anticompetitive agreements, since it does reduce their number of potential customers. I don’t like cell company lobbying any more than ISP lobbying, but in this case, let them fight.

Something tells me T-Mobile’s got a little too much class solidarity to have any interest in reducing the profits of Charter Communications.

ELI5 why is anarchy not "the guy with the bigger stick" making the rules?

I’m politically agnostic and have moved from a slightly conservative stance to a vastly more progressive stance (european). i still dont get the more niche things like tankies and anarchists at this point but I would like to, without spending 10 hours reading endless manifests (which do have merit, no doubt, but still)....

OwenEverbinde ,

Hmm… so an approach that would have gotten Rodeo’s point across better might have been to say,

“so anarchy is just another name for the purest form of democracy.”

Because democracy is such a broad word that it is occasionally applied to the United States, despite the CIA’s history of coups and the FBI’s history of extrajudicial assassinations of citizens.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Who knew a company with an unhealthy obsession with harvesting every screen tap of data from every person using their services… would chicken out from connecting their servers to a bunch of clients they couldn’t monitor.

… That said, I actually didn’t see this coming. It baffles me that I didn’t, but I didn’t.

OwenEverbinde ,

Thanks for the well-written explanation, stranger.

what are the operations of the six main trig functions

sorry for my layman terminology, but to my understanding as a coder a function has a name, parameters, arguments and operations. if sin is the name, and its parameters are side opposite and hypotenuse, and its arguments are context dependent, what is the operation itself? am i making sense?...

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

An algorithm is the meat of a function. It’s the “how.”

And if you’re using someone else’s function, you won’t touch the “how” because you’ll be interacting with the “what.” (You use a function for what it does.)

You will be creating your own algorithm by writing code, however. Because an algorithm is just a sequence of steps that, taken together, constitute an attempt at achieving an objective.

Haus is saying all the little steps that go into approximating sine occur directly on the hardware.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Oddly enough, on a computer, I have not seen secant, cosecant, or cotangent.

I have seen sin, cos, tan, arcsin, arccos, and arctan.

Though the arc functions will only have one parameter, so if this is homework, you’ll probably be avoiding the arcs and using secant and friends

Anyways:

sin ( angle )

Term In this example
Parameter Angle is the parameter. It’s in radians, so in Java you’ll use a conversion like Math.toRadians(a) on whatever number you’re going to use as an argument
Argument If I were to call sin(Math.PI / 4) then I would be passing the argument π / 4 to the function.
In other words, if a parameter is a question, then an argument is an answer. If a parameter is a coin slot, than an argument is the coin you choose to insert.
Operation An operation is practically synonymous with “function”. It is performed on inputs to arrive at an output. However, usually in code, I hear “operation” used to describe things like /, *, and +. Things that have multiple inputs and a single output, all of the same form.

If someone is asking you, "which operation should you use in the body of function sin ( hyponetuse, opposite ) then I imagine the expected answer would be, / because

  1. / is an operation, and because
  2. opposite / hypotenuse will perform the division that yields the sine of whatever triangle those two sides belong to.
OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Oh. Just over the median income in America. So literally half the population of the most powerful country in the world is insulated from the problem.

EDIT: okay, looks like I was looking at median household income and not median personal income. Meaning my math is off.

OwenEverbinde ,

Yeah… It’s a tiny sliver of the species.

OwenEverbinde ,

Are they exploited on farms that grow feed for chickens and cattle? Because if so, I could imagine someone making an argument for “lessening” child labor with their economic choices by simply eating the grains directly.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Excellent response. Thank you.

So the most ethical diet choice is then “buy your meat local and make sure you know your butcher is not 13” ?

OwenEverbinde ,

Even the babies have evil in their hearts.

OwenEverbinde ,

But I do believe GDP includes government spending.

18+ What makes something moral or immoral?

I just came to know of a woman who was raped. i.e., not on TV but in real life, I saw her sobbing face. I didn’t have a clue what to do. I believe the right thing to tell her would have been to say, go to the police right now and give a rape exam, this would at least make sure there is a small chance that the scumbags who...

OwenEverbinde ,

It sounds like you were distressed and left because you didn’t know what to do or how to help.

That’s empathy. Feeling uncomfortable when you see people in pain is empathy. And it’s normal. It’s normal for you to feel distressed around her as you hear her account. It’s normal to want to leave. It’s normal to feel guilty about leaving. It’s normal to wonder if you could have done more to help catch the bastard.

This is awful. What you just saw is awful. What you just experienced is legitimately uncomfortable.

And it’s hard for people to wrap their heads around, because how could your pain be valid when it’s a response to seeing someone in “real” pain? How could your pain be important when it’s nothing more than the faint echo of the pain you’re witnessing someone else go through?

But it hurts. As selfish as it feels to hurt at a time like this, it still hurts.

OwenEverbinde ,

Wow. That’s Linus Torvalds levels of screaming, “ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID?!”

People got really worked up back in 2008.

OwenEverbinde ,

Yeah, but Fain is the first democratically elected UAW leader (prior leadership was chosen by delegations and was fraught with racketeering and embezzlement) and it shows.

OwenEverbinde ,

Oh no, if I think someone’s name is Joe and it turns out being Jeff, I feel atrocious.

OwenEverbinde ,

Have you tried punching “batch recipes kale” into a search engine? (but instead of kale, put whichever vegetable you want to eat more of)

Batch recipes are basically like meal prep. And they often taste amazing.

If you have leftovers in your fridge that are veggie-laden, tasty, and convenient, odds are you’ll be getting your veggies without even trying.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

I didn’t. I was in California, so my vote was irrelevant anyways. I’ve been living with my mom, so I decided to use it to make a point.

I was like, “look Mom! I don’t approve of Biden’s hair sniffing, so I’m voting for Jorgenson! You can do the same! That’s an option!”

It didn’t work. She voted for Trump. (Don’t worry. She was also in California so her vote was also irrelevant). You’d think with her personal history, she’d have been AGAINST serial sexual predators… but I guess his cult of personality was just too strong. She still genuinely believes he “stood up to the globalists.”

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

But now I live in Nevada. I will be voting for Biden because

  • the CHIPS Act is going to put chip manufacturing at the mercy of union labor
    • and with the solidarity whipped up by places like Antiwork? It’s going to be a bloodbath.
  • his bans on slave labor solar panel imports will do the same thing. Union laborers won’t need to compete with slave owners.
  • he halted ICE worksite immigration raids, which were basically used to terrorize migrant workers and keep them complacent (hence lowering their wages, and by extension, lowering the market price of labor)
  • he “played the long game” and helped win rail workers those sick days they were fighting for.
  • he kept student loan payments paused for the first 33 months of his term and tried to get a decent chunk forgiven
  • he appointed trust-busting advocate Lina Kahn to the FTC, where she is now a chairwoman
  • he appointed pro-labor lawyer Jennifer Abruzzo to the NLRB, where she recently set an anti-union-busting precedent that, according to Harold Meyerson at Prospect.org, “makes union organizing possible again”

He’s silently, steadily, baby-stepping us in the right direction. And that’s worth a vote of support, not just a vote for a lesser evil.

OwenEverbinde ,

Do you think it’s possible for a Twitter version of this drowning-out siren to exist? What would it look like?

OwenEverbinde OP ,

Thank you so much for all the information!

Damn. The old leadership – on top of being subservient – sounds like a bunch of crooks. I’m happy the UAW has its new process.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

When I went to community college, I’d arrive early to one theater class, and sitting there already (from a previous class, I believe) were two girls/women who somehow managed to fill 75% of their conversation, every time, with “Eragon was such a bad movie adaptation.”

Which taught me that the movie was so bad they it genuinely hurt fans of the novel.

OwenEverbinde ,

Damn it, it’s now GNL and we have to rewrite all the textbooks!

OwenEverbinde ,

Duly noted. I’ve subscribed to the writing prompts community.

OwenEverbinde ,

I don’t get it.

How is Amazon’s fate tied to the fate of office rental spaces, the transportation industry, or commuter stores?

How does the potential death of Taco Bell hurt an online marketplace?

OwenEverbinde ,

In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith into bargaining.

Woah. That’s exciting. Union busting can automatically create a union. That’s… ironic. And beautiful.

OwenEverbinde ,

Considering it was “a party-line decision,” I think Biden and the Democrats might deserve some credit just for not being Republicans.

OwenEverbinde ,

Got cheap, no-name, unbranded LED bulbs off of eBay. Years later, not one of them had broken.

But Philips LED bulbs? Those things don’t last a year. In fact, none of the high-rated, “high quality,” top-ten-list, LED light bulbs have ever outlasted an incandescent in my experience.

If you want your LEDs to last, buy the no-name bulbs, guys. The Phoebus Cartel is still out there.

OwenEverbinde ,

🤣

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Oh. Huh. Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting to encounter anyone who had good experience with those bulbs.

That… blows a hole in my theory.

I still don’t regret the cheap, foreign light bulbs I got off of eBay (best LEDs I’ve bought thus far)… but maybe my family and I have just been unlucky with name brand LEDs.

OwenEverbinde ,

I don’t think they were hue bulbs. I think they were just regular LED light fixture bulbs.

If 'carbon negative' and 'carbon positive' are terms used interchangeably to mean completely opposite things, what are alternative terms that clarify the difference without confusion?

For example, could alternative terms like “carbon reducing” and “carbon increasing” make it more clear and avoid misinterpreting which means which?

OwenEverbinde ,

Not OP, but I imagine “carbon negative” sounds negative because it has the word “negative” in it.

When it fact “carbon negative” means you’re reducing carbon, which is generally regarded as a positive thing.

OwenEverbinde ,

Don’t worry. The water might be flat, but we’ve been working on carbonating the air for some time now.

OwenEverbinde ,

The entire industry is built on catering to the vast swaths of women who get ignored by doctors and need somewhere to turn.

I highly suspect doctors are taught in medical school, “women are over emotional and prone to exaggeration.”

Hell, “hysteria” was considered a valid diagnosis until the 1950s.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

There’s a lot of trouble with definitions regarding capitalism. (I’d call them intentional since muddying the waters serves the people who benefit from our current system.)

Pick any person who is complaining about “capitalism” right now.

If you proposed a system where everything was structured the same as it is right now, HOWEVER instead of shareholders and owners possessing companies, every, single company was a worker cooperative (owned and controlled by its workers) then I am 95% sure the anti-capitalist you picked would

  1. Not consider that capitalism, and
  2. Vastly prefer that over what we have right now

With some minor variation. (Tankies don’t think it’s possible to maintain such a system without monopolizing violence. Anarcho-communists wouldn’t be too happy about the scope and financial power of state and federal governments, and would seek to pare them down. Democratic socialists would think it was perfect. Little disagreements like that.)

But I think most other people (people who aren’t anti-capitalists) would think “that’s just a form of capitalism” if I described the above.

In fact, if I said,

A free market system, but ownership and control of the means of production is only allowed collectively and democratically. No shareholders allowed, no transferable individual ownership allowed.

Most ordinary people would consider that a form of capitalism. (Even though calling it capitalism is, technically, highly inaccurate). So it’s a difficult conversation to have. Because most “anti-capitalists” disagree with most “pro-capitalists” on the basic definition of what they are fighting or defending.

I’m actually convinced that a lot of “pro-capitalists” are more eager to defend the free market system than they are to defend transferable, stock-marketable, individual ownership of the means of production. I think they would compromise on the latter if they could safeguard the former.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Oh yeah, certainly. And one of the first steps in that direction – the corporate death sentence – is just common sense.

(The corporate death sentence is basically “any company that does more damage than it can reasonably repair gets converted into a co-op controlled by its workers / victims. The investors’ shares get dissolved.”)

I don’t think anyone would have a reasonable objection to allowing the voters of East Palestine, Ohio and the workers for Norfolk Southern to elect all of the company’s board members from here on out. And I don’t think anyone would weep for Norfolk Southern’s shareholders if their shares got dissolved.

OwenEverbinde ,

I am so sorry. That’s devastating. You already have to struggle to fight your illness. But to have to fight that hard AGAINST YOUR DOCTOR when your doctor is supposed to be on your team? It’s a betrayal.

OwenEverbinde ,

I’d build as many zero-equity housing co-ops as I could in areas with high costs of living.

OwenEverbinde ,

Anyone signing up for the new SAVE income driven repayment plan?

Apparently if you’re making anything under $32,800, your payments can still be paused. (The number is higher if you have kids to feed)

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Look: a lot of companies would suffer from an office real estate crash.

  • the businesses that own the office real estate
  • car manufacturers
  • tire manufacturers
  • petroleum companies
  • coffee franchises
  • fast food franchises lining freeways on the way to work

And most importantly, funds invested in all of the above.

People who own businesses also own stocks in other people’s businesses. Meaning they all fall and rise together. Trying to keep the “work commute” and “office rental” industries alive is just an attempt on the part of those who hold capital to keep their portfolios growing.

In secret, they are probably also trying to hedge their bets, diversify and make themselves immune to the coming collapse. They’ll try to position themselves and their capital in such a way so that the working class is the only group hurt when it happens.

But in public? They are not going to devalue their assets by standing by, complacent, as an office apocalypse approaches.

OwenEverbinde ,

Maybe they’re focused on playing for time so they can insure their assets and move to hedge funds that are shorting all of the above industries? I don’t know investing that well.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

I don’t know. The name feels weird. I could see calling your community,

  • “moderates”
  • “moderategop”
  • “RINOs” (just like Trump’s supporters embraced calling themselves “deplorables”, non-Trump conservatives should probably ready themselves for turning enemies’ insults into their own battle standards.)
    • plus RINOs also gives a decent logo idea for the community (the rhinoceros)
OwenEverbinde ,

Oh! You could call yourselves

  • "the slight right" or
  • "right lite"
OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Owen had serialized dream many years ago in childhood times. New dream chapters kept releasing for many nights. Dream parts were spooky. Owen was scared there, but felt like pain and fear was deserved.

However, when Owen was being pulled back to very scary place from earlier season, Owen chose instead to fight. Creature tried to pull Owen down, but Owen planted feet and pulled against creature. Creature fell into last season’s spooky place.

Panting, Owen spoke, “I’ve been down there.”

Weird dream stopped returning. “I’ve been down there” turned out being series finale.

Years passed. Owen decided to make anagram of “I’ve been down there.”

Owen failed: “Owen Ever Bind Thee” was closest Owen could come to good anagram. Owen got bored of scrambling letters. Chose Owen Everbinde and abandoned attempt at making anagram. Owen’s leftover ‘T’ and ‘H’ and ‘E’ will never have home.

OwenEverbinde , (edited )

Owen edited out forbidden word. Not Owen’s fault changes federate slowly.

OwenEverbinde ,

Owen sorry!

OwenEverbinde ,

Eating local meat is also a good option, especially with many cattle farms beginning to capture methane and become greener.

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