TimeSquirrel

TimeSquirrel , 12 hours ago to politics in Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiring

McDonald's and Walmart are still open and PlayStation Network is still running.

TimeSquirrel , 23 hours ago (edited 23 hours ago) to Technology in As mind-reading technology improves, Colorado passes first-in-nation law to protect privacy of our thoughts

Next up in the dystopian cyberpunk pipeline: in-brain data encryption technology with a programmed tamper killswitch. Like that shit in the movie "Elysium".

Aren't you guys loving this ride so far?

TimeSquirrel , 2 days ago to politics in Candace Owens describes science as "pagan faith"

I don't know if this is conservatism anymore. My Grandfather was conservative, and he was an engineer. He would have loathed the amount of misinformation and straight up lies being flung around these days. As much as his views were disagreeable, he never tried to manipulate or lie to anybody and always wanted to get to the truth of things. This is something else.

TimeSquirrel , 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to Technology in T-Mobile In Trouble After It Decides To Build Cell Tower That Is 'Not Safe' For Residents

Jesus, an entire town falling for unscientific bullshit.

It's also not like they're going to point the antennas straight down at the school. They have directionality. I bet not one RF engineer was consulted.

I'd like to walk these people through the school with an inductive amplifier probe and let them hear the 60hz hum and its harmonics permeating every hallway and classroom.

TimeSquirrel , 5 days ago to politics in Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate: 'It's a mess'

Why do you keep pointing out these Marxist countries and ignoring the perfectly functioning western liberal democracies with policies like these? There's literally one on our northern border.

TimeSquirrel , 5 days ago to politics in Biden turns to family on his path forward after his disastrous debate: 'It's a mess'

Why do you keep pointing out these Marxist countries and keep ignoring the western liberal democracies which are functioning fine with it?

TimeSquirrel , 6 days ago to politics in Ohio Republicans force through anti-trans bathroom ban at last minute

mathematical part of my brain

There's no such thing. It's just a gooey mass of billions of randomly firing neurons that can coalesce into patterns of signals and "brute force" answers to math problems. We are not logic machines with well defined mechanisms of functionality like a computer. We just fake it very well. That's why we can make mistakes. A well built computer does not make mistakes.

TimeSquirrel , 6 days ago to politics in Oklahoma superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible

Old testament, or ANSI C?

TimeSquirrel , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

What's your distro?

TimeSquirrel , 7 days ago to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

And make paperclips.

TimeSquirrel , 7 days ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I'm on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven't had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.

TimeSquirrel , 7 days ago to politics in "You are just proving that gender is socially constructed": Drag queen slams Marjorie Taylor Greene

BINGO! I got troll buzzword Bingo! Are we playing with the free space rule?

TimeSquirrel , 7 days ago to politics in "You are just proving that gender is socially constructed": Drag queen slams Marjorie Taylor Greene

It's just a general quality of the political far right the world over. They don't like people that don't act, look, or think like them. Anything that challenges their beliefs about what a person is supposed to do is something to fight against for them.

When it goes to the extreme, you get Nazis.

TimeSquirrel , 8 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

I knew it was gonna be Adam Something, lol. That dude has the best Elon roasts.

TimeSquirrel , 8 days ago to Technology in Elon Musk Openly Advocates for Overthrowing the Government of Bolivia, The Country with the Largest Lithium Reserves in the World

Or a train. He realllly hates trains. If they're not in stupid-ass evacuated tubes and separated into pods, that is.