Fern

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[–] Fern@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)
  1. “Listen, I plan on having a Republican in my Cabinet,” Harris elaborated. “You ask me what’s the difference between Joe Biden and me, well that will be one of the differences.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/harris-sparks-outrage-admitting-biggest-185725601.html

  2. Both Trump and Harris say they'll build more border wall. In this county, the parts have been waiting, and rusting, since 2021. https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/trump-harris-border-wall-arizona-rusting-2021-rcna173094

  3. Kamala thanks Liz and Dick Cheney, "This endorsement matters a great deal." https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7S-Sk2TbdjE

  4. "Harris said she was “honored” to have the backing of such “respected” people, and touted the Cheneys’ support at last week’s presidential debate." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kamala-harris-dick-cheney-endorsement/

  5. Harris supported the Green New Deal. Now, she’s promoting domestic oil drilling https://apnews.com/article/harris-fracking-energy-climate-trump-election-debate-1b86dfb4297facd0b89c487724a9e5b0

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I mean, her campaign was pretty awful in a lot of ways. It started out strong but since the DNC it was misstep after misstep. I dunno about you, but I love hearing the president say they'll only be different than Biden, because they'll have more Republicans in their cabinet. I love hearing they're going to build the wall. I love hearing them talk all the time about the fact that Cheney endorsed them. I love hearing how profracking they are. And I love their silence on the genocide in Gaza. Certainly, sexism and racism plays a role, but let's not kid ourselves here.

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

The department's statement said the two passwords for each component "are kept in separate places and held by different parties" and that the "passwords can only be used with physical in-person access to a voting system." Additionally, "clerks are required to maintain restricted access to secure ballot areas, and may only share access information with background-checked individuals. No person may be present in a secure area unless they are authorized to do so or are supervised by an authorized and background-checked employee."

The department also cited "strict chain of custody requirements that track when a voting systems component has been accessed and by whom," and it said that each "Colorado voter votes on a paper ballot, which is then audited during the Risk Limiting Audit to verify that ballots were counted according to voter intent."

Goal is to change all passwords by this evening

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Well they have to pay for their crimes, and unlike the rest of us, they can afford to. But it's always worth it to do something to set a precedent and go after them.

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I only read the name of the post and was convinced for too long that they ate stray cats...

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] Fern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wtf is wrong with you?

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Doh! Didn't mean to link to a specific time in the video.

 

Even though I'm on here, I honestly lurk most of the time and don't fully understand the activitypub vs at protocol war. This was a great explainer that will reach a lot of people. Really appreciate a lot of David's takes. I hope David and others at MKBHD become aware of and talk about Lemmy soon too.

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Is this edited? Gowron is so clear looking.

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I think they were joking, but that's a good clarification.

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I had the same thought!

[–] Fern@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, this is a possibility. But under the Biden administration a lot of workers rights were improved, I wouldn't be surprised if this one happens as well.

 

Lemmyversers, I'm looking for some help developing a new mnemonic device.

Inspired by a video by Epic Spaceman, where he explains a handy system for comparing the size of things from a banana to an atom, I’ve come up with a mnemonic device to aid in remembering these scales.

He lists items, each smaller than the previous by a factor of 10:

It goes:

  • Banana
  • Coin
  • Edge of the coin
  • Waterbear/microorganism
  • Red blood cell
  • Bacteria
  • "Good virus"/Bacteriophage
  • Corona Virus/"Bad Virus"
  • DNA
  • Atom

So a coin is roughly 1/10 a banana, and the edge of that coin is roughly 1/10 the size if that coin.

It gives good references for thinking about other things if similar size. A sort of banana for scale at each factor of 10.

And allows you to quickly determine approximations like Covid is roughly 1000 times smaller than a red blood cell. Or an atom is roughly 1 billion times smaller than a banana. (That doesn't sound right. Is that actually right?)

Do you think that's a useful memory tool? And are these best touchstones for scale at each level?

The mnemonic I've come up with for it as you may have guessed, is:

  • Be
  • Cool
  • Even
  • When
  • Really
  • Big
  • Goblins
  • Casually
  • Drop
  • Acid

Do you have any better ideas or tweaks you"d recommend for the mnemonic or the touchstones?

Would this be helpful when trying to wrap your head around the scale of the micro?

Also, what would make for a good macro version of this? Where everything got bigger by a factor of 10?

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