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I think if you want to be pedantic -- and this IS the internet -- native americans definitely have african ancestry just like my white ass does.

That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

...if I didn't already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

I think it's a combination of that and the worry that there will be one winning ubercorp that practically merges with the US Government.

I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It's like they know it's now or never.

I think for some of the scumbags in control the cruelty has gone far beyond a side effect of their hatred, and into a focus of how they validate themselves and one-up their friends. They need so badly to feel superior that they will do horrible things just to show that they can. That would help explain how blatant and comical things have been.

They need to show that they are at the pinnacle of the group the law protects but does not bind.

I think the green specks they mentioned ARE the parts where it didn't work. It was not like an analog issue that might tint the color of all the pixels, it was a digital issue where more than 99% of the pixels were the EXACT correct color and then a handful of spots had corrupted data which manifests as green specks on that monitor.

I don't know what the specifications say should happen when data loss happens, but I'd much rather my screen show a random spot rather than refuse to display anything that's corrupted.

you can think of the units of measure as multiplying and dividing sort of like the numbers themselves.

So if the nuclear battery continuously delivers 1 watt...

In one hour it would have delivered 1 Wh or watt-hour, because 1W * 1h = 1Wh.

And it works in reverse. If it takes 2 hours to deliver that 1 Wh? That's 1Wh per 2 hours or 1Wh/2h=0.5W!

ahkshuallly, don't you mean a capacitor?

Well maybe this time the new battery tech can be real and gay!

And he’s not the only one: During Trump’s second term, 19 Democrats have voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s nominees.

I am not familiar with the nominees in this case. Are they the typical Trump unqualified pieces of shit?

I read the sentence quoted and thought "that sounds a little bit too much like team sports." But then I also thought about how ridiculous the real world has become, so maybe zero support was the correct amount.

I have two optimism-filled counterpoints to this.

1. Happy childhood memories are often much nicer than actually existing as a child. Much more concentrated. You already have the good stuff.

2. The only person stopping you from walking through the woods and finding cool rocks is you!

(insert caveats here about how adult life sucks for so many people right now and they don't have free time to wander in the woods. I know. It sucks. I can only encourage you to consider it a metaphor and find something realistic and rewarding that fits your life)

This is where the information economy starts to eat itself. If every message arrives pre-saturated with irony, critique, and self-awareness, then no signal can rise above the din. Warnings, reassurances, satire, and sales pitches collapse into the same register. The audience isn’t persuaded or misled so much as numbed.

It sounds like you are describing an unfolding future where all communication us ultra-processed.

I have posted about this a couple times, but ever since I saw Jon Stewart a while back describe modern propaganda as ultra-processed speech. It's engineered for reaction and engagement. It's like you said, everything collapses into the same register when there's a BOMBSHELL headline every day.

But the ultra-processed thing has been reaching much further into our media and culture than political speech for a while now. Like I dunno, everything that has half the people's faces buried in their phone in public.

People genuinely admire the rich. I think some cultural norms/lessons with good intentions may have backfired and made it even worse. I remember being taught not to be jealous of others, not to compare myself to them, not to keep up with the Joneses, and that a person can do whatever they want if they put their mind to it and work hard.

Those might individually be good things for one to practice, and I am going to keep doing so.

But at the same time... those lessons are not supposed to be taken as bidirectional rules of nature! A good person doing those things does not imply that a billionaire is the rare individual that is 1000x visionary and hard working, 1000x not to be envied or judged, and 1000x deserving. Oh yeah, 1000x noble and not at all 1000x sociopathic or obsessed.