BANNED USER: Persistent culture warring and petty antagonism
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
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Banned by: @Amadan
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
They did? I still have CFLs from when they first got popular. They just keep going.
I was wearing an N95 working in a crawlspace all day today, and remembered that only last year there were people on the motte loudly exclaiming that they didn't even notice wearing two masks, and people who didn't want to jog masked were grandma-murdering moral defectives.
Of course, there were also people saying that wearing one for five minutes literally killed them (they got better), but after spending a miserable day in one I'm more sympathetic to them.
It's crazy how stuff like that just vanishes and everyone pretends their extreme opinions on it never happened. Or just honestly but conveniently forget all about it.
Interesting that the Root and other publications by people of color hear slurs when watching the video but Caucasians do not.
It suggests that BYU, and whites in generally, may not even be aware of their casual use of terms considered offensive to minorities.
I wouldn't say the arguments are poorly made, because that's some quality gaslighting. I've never seen "don't believe your racist eyes and ears" done so blatantly and literally.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
We had a pair of mismatched male twins in different grades in high school. They literally just put the smaller boy a grade behind to separate them, which worked ok for him. But the taller twin was definitely behind everyone else in our grade.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Pointing out Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize doesn't get much of a reaction these days, is that the kind of thing you're talking about?
I expect you'd get similar disinterest in any future ideological position that had been quietly dropped and historically revised in the same way support for Stalin was.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
One of the dirty secrets of Germany's "energy revolution" that most of their used energy isn't electric. Everything from their heavy industry to heating is still mostly fossil-based, and quadrupling(+) electricity prices has dissuaded any changeover.
In fairness they have very few decent options.
the amps required to start a heat pump can be a challenge for most generator or battery systems. You basically need to invest in special, low start versions of that equipment
This seems to have changed recently. All the new models use inverters with variable speed motors rather than kicking on and off like a normal compressor. Intended to smoothly regulate output, it also dramatically reduces startup surge.
There are lots of people putting 9-12kBTU units on RVs now, hooked into surprisingly small solar or genny systems.
I'll take some measurements and report how well that works in practice this winter, if people are interested.
I'd strongly argue against typical paid ads, on the theory that anyone seeing ads on the internet these days is too much of an [uncurious technologically uninformed casual user] to have heard of adblockers.
If we were selling Gorilla Male Vitality Organic Vaginal Douches With Nonessential Oils to credulous [gentlepersons], ads would be the way to go.
But we're trying to sell Optimeme performance-enhancing "cognition supplements" to twitchy med students who find mainlining Adderall doesn't do it for them any more, which takes more sophisticated online marketing.
Getting the motte on people's blogrolls and (may Allah forgive me) quoted in Twitter threads seems like the way to go for attracting active participants.
it's hard to come up with grade-B-horror plots that center around trans people.
It's not difficult to come up with them, but it's hard for any to beat the landmark "or else it gets the hose again."
TBF you could do so much with that. Vampire that identifies as human, everyone's sympathetic until the skin peelers come out, etc.
Is there a name for the genre of "man wakes up heavily medicated in hospital and is told he had an accident/breakdown, but clues he sees in the mirror and his alphabet soup tell him he's being held prisoner and needs to stop taking his meds and escape"? (And is it totally overused?)
Obviously there were like 20+ star trek episodes with that concept, but have there been any stories that leave the protagonist's sanity ambiguous because the audience doesn't know who he really is?
Seems like it would make a great point and click adventure game/walking simulator; let the scenery change subtly as you go off your meds, revealing further clues. Your doctors' and family's skinsuits start looking more and more frayed and insectoid as you get closer to the truth...
Not British anymore, but last time I was there the "kitchen knife ban" proposal had escalated from "lone judges and academics" to "respectable position of the church/quango blob" in the same way that "banning assault rifles" is the proper and correct opinion of anyone who matters in the US.
So I expect it'll happen soon. Banning meat and fish is on the same list of Proper Opinions, and you don't need pointy knives to eat bugs out of microwaved ration packets.
Hang on, let me find a "top 10 times the voyager crew were kidnapped and given amnesia by aliens on the holodeck" listicle lol. IIRC TNG did it a few times too, but VGR was the main offender I remember. "Workforce" and "The Killing Game" are the two that come to mind first.
Edit: Future Imperfect and Frame of Mind from TNG. Possibly the first TV sci-fi instances of "we're still in the goddamn burp simulation Morty! I can tell from some of the pixels and from having been trapped in burp quite a few simulations in my day!"
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I'd completely forgotten about that whole arc except for the moment Nicole de Boer first walked in and introduced herself :sob-emoji:
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Man, TV tropes is hell for Simpsons Did It syndrome... They have a page for that too, don't they.
But somehow they don't have anything specific for "guy wakes up and everyone tries to convince him he was crazy"
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
I bounced after the first few chapters, should I go back and finish it this winter? Seems like mandatory reading.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
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When you look around at everything with a weld on it, 428,000 seems like such a tiny number, doesn't it?
Was just thinking that about the 200k HVAC techs who would collapse civilization if they all went on summer holiday at once.
LNG seems to be competitive with pipelines over long distances, so while local gas is always better LNG imports at least have lower per-mile costs and higher flexibility.
But have you seen graphs of German solar production? It doesn't matter how much power you produce in July to push your annual average up, you're not running heat pumps off it in January. And you're not running it off a battery for six months either!
"Net Zero" is the biggest con of renewable advertising. The net is full of fucking holes in important places.
Yeah, I was gonna ask for an equivalent to old.plebbit's permalink. Is that what you're thinking too?
Edit: notifications should also not show the entire thread, just the parent comment.
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Did Rose is Rose make the cut? Because I'm convinced that one was a long term study of how bland you could make a comic strip without people complaining.
These are points of tension within the modern left, so the only winning move is not to play.
Traditionally the only winning move is to side with the most radical and potentially vengeful faction based on a more realistic version of the Basilisk/Pascal's wager theory.
I think that's one of the reasons people and institutions radicalize so quickly; there are punishments for anyone who doesn't stay ahead of the curve, but none for those who get ahead of it.
In this case there are clear incentives to start "sanitizing" Problematic output even in silly and arbitrary ways, because the value is showing that you're an accomplice. The details don't matter, as long as you throw out some shibboleths like "female-presenting nipples".
Bernd
Fighting algorithmic racism like John Henry
1yr ago
Hey now, navalgazing is a great blog, and one of the best offshoots from the old slatestarcodex open thread
The 20% number wasn't heat pumps, but overall improvements from insulation. Looking at the EPA pdf, they make some pretty major assumptions that homes have no underfloor or rim joist insulation, 23% duct leakage, dreadful windows, and an arbitrary 4% HVAC mischarging figure.
I've been around a lot of homes, and haven't seen many that would make me consider that an average sample to base improvement estimates on.
Hell, my piece of shit house was cobbled together in the sample era and has none of those issues left to fix as low hanging fruit. Other than half the west wall currently being a plastic sheet... I should probably get back to that.
Could use some advice about fiber and networking
I'm taking an opportunity to finally wire my house with Ethernet while there's some opportune holes punched in the drywall (can even reuse most of the floor plate holes from the old phone line, and apparently a coax I have no memory of installing).
It's mostly simple, with just a patch plate on the wall in my networking corner, but I'm considering fiber for a 600' run to an outbuilding. Upcoming changes to that circuit will make the powerline I've been very satisfied with no longer work, and I can't make the ritual sacrifices needed for PtP wifi to function (my neighbor is already suspicious about his chickens, and the local orphanage built a fence. Also there are trees).
What's the best option here? Outdoor-rated 2 or 4 strand single-mode fiber shoved in the electrical conduit? Media converter with a basic bitch $7 gigabit SFP at one end, and something like a Mikrotik hAP ac as the router on the far end?
Fiber cable prices seem all over the place. Are there any good options for a discount? Was thinking about asking my ISP to sell & terminate me some of their offcuts, since they buy the stuff in huge reels.
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