geekwithsoul

geekwithsoul , 1 month ago to Facepalm in Posting this guy's ramblings here feels like cheating

Did you mean parody?

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to Political Memes in Happy 420?

It definitely needs to be decriminalized but that’ll actually take an act of Congress. Public pressure needs to be applied but let’s not pretend Biden can do this on his own

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in New Biden administration Title IX rule protects transgender students’ bathroom & pronoun use at school

Wow, you’re just a sociopath it seems. My condolences to anyone who has to deal with you on the regular

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in New Biden administration Title IX rule protects transgender students’ bathroom & pronoun use at school

“…would 100% identify as female just to walk into the girls bathroom”

That’s not “boys being boys” thinking, that’s the thinking of a future sexual assailant.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to The Onion in Obsidian Announces a Much Better Fallout Show

It would be excellent except on the premiere date it wouldn’t be viewable and repeatedly crash your browser to desktop. Even when you could watch it and enjoy the brilliant narrative, it would repeatedly just start buffering for no reason and weird visual glitches would be constant.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to Asklemmy in What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared.

Much like one of the ways stained glass was colored in the medieval period involved adding materials to the glass that acted as nano materials. For example this one particular shade of red needed gold.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in This one problem is why Democrats must replace Biden at the convention

“Blue MAGA” - what does that even mean? MAGA isn’t even a cogent ideology, it’s a fawning cult of personality acting in lockstep and built up around a single man – in what way is there any equivalent on the left? Ask twelve liberals for an opinion on something and you’ll get fifteen different answers.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in The right-wing scammers who paved the way for Trump

Good article but I think the thing it misses is those that currently make up “the base” on the right seem to share the commonality of wanting to be conned. The Christian nationalists, the conspiracy theorists, the buyers of whatever snake oil are currently on offer all want easy, unnuanced answers that continue to validate whatever they’re used to. They ignore systemic issues in favor of the fear du jour because solving the real problems strike at their sense of identity and they’re willing to believe literally anything rather than face the issues that really matter. A feedback loop has taken hold of the GOP which just keeps cranking them further and further away from any sort of reasonable ideology and instead replaced it with spurious and unfounded anxieties and fears. The media has constantly exacerbated this because it increases their metrics and ad dollars to sell the side show.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to Fediverse in c/politics@lemmy.world mods censoring critiques of politicians

I think I remember this post - wasn’t this like an eight year old article that you posted to the News channel?

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in “They don’t have the courage to say the N-word’: Baltimore mayor rips right-wing “DEI mayor” attacks

“The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) records the first printed use of the word initialism as occurring in 1899, but it did not come into general use until 1965, well after acronym had become common”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in “They don’t have the courage to say the N-word’: Baltimore mayor rips right-wing “DEI mayor” attacks

You know the whole acronym vs initialism thing is a somewhat new idea? And there’s no hard and fast agreement on it. To correct people on whether something is an acronym or not (especially when they are using it within the term’s original meaning) is simply pedantic.

geekwithsoul , 2 months ago to politics in “They don’t have the courage to say the N-word’: Baltimore mayor rips right-wing “DEI mayor” attacks

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

geekwithsoul , 3 months ago to News in House GOP launch new probe of Jan. 6 and try shifting blame for the Capitol attack away from Trump

I’m looking forward to this not going as planned - which seems to be the norm for the GOP these days. How wild would it be for one of their witnesses to just add “…as was directed by President Trump” after something particularly heinous? Hell, this will just keep reminding Americans of how crazy the Republicans are and it’s a presidential election year, so even without a bombshell I think this is probably going to backfire.

geekwithsoul , 3 months ago to politics in 538 drops Rasmussen Reports from its analysis

About time - their polls have been divorced from reality for some time. While previously “leaning right” would be a fair description of a moderate bias, in the last few years they completely went off the deep end.

geekwithsoul , 3 months ago to Technology in NVIDIA GeForce Now gets pre-roll ads for free users

I agree that as a free product, the ads are less loathsome. But from a company that just posted a 265% increase in revenue, it’s not like they’re worried about keeping the lights on https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/21/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-q4-2024.html