CylustheVirus

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CylustheVirus ,

I hear the Titanic is a must visit. Some very reasonable tours.

CylustheVirus ,

I like my Pixel phones, so I dunno what about it is supposed to be a joke?

My 3a still works. Wish they wouldn't have removed the headphone jack from later models but the 7a has been fine.

CylustheVirus ,

Take a look at Port87. They have an interesting system. https://port87.com/

Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA ( arstechnica.com )

Alejandro Otero, owner of the Naples, Florida, home struck by the debris, was not home when part of a battery pack from the International Space Station crashed through his home on March 8. His son Daniel, 19, was home but escaped injury. NASA has confirmed the 1.6-pound object, made of the metal alloy Inconel, was part of a...

CylustheVirus ,

I imagine it'll be pretty ballpark after they bargain it down. You start higher than you need to in these negotiations.

CylustheVirus ,

What argument? The article appears to claim that the reason there's more bad CGI now is studio leadership changing stuff in post and failing to plan.

CylustheVirus ,

Nope, they really don't. You may have to engineer a cooling station.

CylustheVirus ,

Wew lad but can you ever tell this is .ml.

So, thought experiment for you. What do you need to overthrow a government and oust a bunch of rich assholes from power? Well, you need power of your own, right? You need loyal comrades.

And say you actually manage it. Chances are it was tough. Some didn't make it. But now you're sitting on all this wealth and power. Are you just going to give it back? To who? What if someone abuses it?

You're the one who did the work. You're the one with a vision for the future. And now you have these loyal comrades and surely they deserve something for their sacrifices and hard work?

And so it goes.

Anyway, it's less about Communism as a set of ideas and more about what power does to revolutionaries and how that mixes with the local culture.

Or the CIA made it all up because Mao and Stalin et al did nothing wrong. 🙄

CylustheVirus ,

And nothing of value was lost.

Florida approved rules that prohibit diversity, equity and inclusion spending and remove sociology from general education at community and state colleges ( eu.gainesville.com )

The established rules follow Gov. Ron DeSantis’s conservative target on education in the state, where he signed a DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) law last year that dismantles such programs in public colleges and universities while making changes to the post-tenure review process for faculty....

CylustheVirus ,

Oooh, I think I can explain this. Conservatism demands adherence to a an extremely homogeneous model of living. They've constructed this giant house of cards that relies on it. Accepting deviations from these norms calls into question a variety of foundational conservative beliefs. They effectively can't question the status quo else everything falls apart.

The only option for them is to make LGBTQ people an unacceptable, dangerous other. Because if queer folk are normal people who just want to be allowed to exist, if there is no sweeping gay agenda, if maybe they read their holy book wrong ... they've been behaving like assholes, for decades, for no good reason.

Their core identities would take an unacceptably heavy blow, so they have no choice but to double down. Well, that's the case for the ones that care about internal consistency.

Some of them just want an excuse to be cruel to a group too small to fight back.

CylustheVirus ,

I have a psych undergrad degree and I never heard anything like this. It's one theory, not the zeitgeist of an entire discipline.

CylustheVirus ,

How the fuck is Marx being taught to our children? Is sharing Marxist now? God the winger paranoia is exhausting.

CylustheVirus ,

Large Language Models and other affiliated algorithms are not AI and no amount of marketing will convince me otherwise. As a result I refuse to call them AI when talking to people about them.

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