DradisPing
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DradisPing
1yr ago
The article is misstating the original claim. It was always about bleed through. Republicans had seen bleed through issues in the past, that's why they were so concerned.
They were offset, but some ballots weren't properly aligned. It wasn't a significant number, but my recollection is that they found some.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Sorry had some stuff to do earlier.
So from the time I remember seeing articles like this focussed on bleed through https://itnshow.com/2020/11/07/arizona-election-official-seems-to-confirm-that-bleed-through-from-sharpie-markers-do-impact-votes/
It was a well known issue, Sharpies had been banned in previous elections for that reason. That's why the woman was freaking out.
The response was there was no need to worry because of a combination of offset printing and VoteSecure paper to avoid bleed through issues. It turns out the paper wasn't used in all cases.
So the paper thing irked me because it was a specific broken promise. If a printout was misaligned then it would register as an invalid over vote.
Someone fairly prominent on Twitter was claiming they found a handful of instances of bleed through invalidating Trump votes, but I can't for the life of me remember who.
DradisPing
1yr ago
This isn't my idea and I'm not entirely endorsing it...
I've heard it discussed as "the morality of Eve" or "snakes and babies morality". The idea is that women tend to classify things as snakes -- which are always dangerous and never to be trusted, or babies -- which are innocent and mean well, their transgressions should be forgiven.
Modern leftism encourages them to see "marginalized people" as babies that are innocent and need protection from the snakes, which are white men. The patriarchy is cast as the evil oppressor instead of the well intentioned protector.
One of the ways women protect their safety is higher levels of conformity with groups of women. Instinctively being excluded is very dangerous.
So women see defending criminals as a key part of being a good college educated liberal woman, and won't give that up.
edit: Not sure how to work this in, but I remember a study on the death penalty. When asked how they felt about an execution, the first question men had was usually "was he guilty"? Women didn't ask that.
DradisPing
1yr ago
There's a whole subreddit: /r/overemployed/
Working two jobs is probably easier than you think. John Carmack talks about how the secret of getting more done is to have multiple tasks going. That way you can switch up when you're bored / blocked / frustrated. But managers love to put people on specific tasks and micromanage.
DradisPing
1yr ago
"Ancient Apocalypse" on Netflix has been a break out hit. Some of the reactions have been... interesting.
The Guardian declared it the most dangerous show on Netflix.
Boingboing says Archaeologists reveal the white supremacist nonsense behind Netflix's "Ancient Apocalypse"
So what's behind this?
Hitler famously cherry picked some ideas from archeology / anthropology to push his agenda. Post WW2 academics found that it was easy to push out rivals by claiming their ideas could result in a new Hitler.
As a result anthropology is filled with people who think that they have a vital role as guardians of society.
This mostly results in making historical narratives more dishonest and less cool. The Bell Beaker culture is often referred to as the Corded Ware culture. They claim it was spread as a peaceful diffusion of culture. Genetic testing that showed that as the culture expanded neighbouring Y-DNA haplogroups disappeared. This is dismissed as one of those great mysteries.
When a body is found carrying a spear and multiple hand axes, they are ceremonial trade goods instead of weapons. The arrows in the back of the body were presumably his change from the trading. That joke was stolen from an academic I can't track down.
Ancient Apocalypse is really just fun and harmless, but the reactions point to a deeper problem.
DradisPing
1yr ago
From what I gather the issue is that the show notes that a lot of cultures have stories about wise men from the sea coming and bringing them things like agricultures and laws. eg Quetzalcoatl, Osiris. Graham theorizes that these may be memories of real events.
They are calling the implication that these societies didn't learn these things on their own racist.
The "white supremacist" charge seems like a real stretch because there's not even a hint that anyone involved was white.
I'm heard about the bias towards pacifism in "Before the Dawn" by Nicholas Wade. It's a great book, but it came out in 2007 so it might be dated about the state of the field. Also his 2014 book "A Troublesome Inheritance".
Articles like this made me think there's still some of it around: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/14/science/iberia-prehistory-dna.html
But skeletal DNA from that period is striking and puzzling. Over all, Bronze Age Iberians traced 40 percent of their ancestry to the newcomers.
DNA from the men, however, all traced back to the steppes. The Y chromosomes from the male farmers disappeared from the gene pool.
To archaeologists, the shift is a puzzle.
“I cannot say what it is,” said Roberto Risch, an archaeologist at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, who was not involved in the new studies. But he ruled out wars or massacres as the cause. “It’s not a particularly violent time,” he said.
Instead, Dr. Risch suspects “a political process” is the explanation. In their archaeological digs, Dr. Risch and his colleagues have found that Iberian farmers originally lived in egalitarian societies, storing their wealth together and burying their dead in group graves.
Oh and I got the names mixed up. The claim I read was that "Battle-Axe Culture" name used to be more common than "Corded Ware culture". Looks like it's still used in some cases.
DradisPing
1yr ago
allowing people to 'tip' or give a 'super like'
One of the few new features in the last 10 years was when they tried to introduce a tip button. It used PayPal and a few other payment systems. Due to the default settings on PayPal, if someone sent a PayPal tip they got an invoice with the recipient's home address.
Needless to say, the "tip button that doxxes you" wasn't a big hit.
https://www.themarysue.com/twitter-tip-jar/
Really they should have just straight up charged $200 a tweet to reply to Trump. People would have paid.
DradisPing
1yr ago
No, earlier. His thesis is that the younger dryas sea rise wiped out an early agricultural society along the coasts.
DradisPing
1yr ago
The theory I've heard is that the Biden admin was making some demands of him backed by threats of prosecution over some of his statements about Tesla self driving and such.
So the Twitter purchase and subsequent shitposting are efforts to build friends on the Republican side and make any prosecution look political.
It seems more likely that the secret service did something to them that accidentally caused them to burst into flames later.
It's hard to say what, but the secret service does have the budget and military connections to get something weird. High performance fuel? Special coolant that they overheated by racing around to test it out?
Maybe they installed bullet proofing in front of the engine block, but it made the engine overheat and the rubber tubes were smouldering when they brought them back.
The damage looks like it started in the front. Like somehow the aluminum radiators were smouldering when they were brought in. Some kind of scan for electric bugs that caused extreme induction heating? Temporarily installed high power radio transmitters?
Perhaps a lot of rust got into the air intake and the radiators got turned into low grade thermite.
DradisPing
1yr ago
They were all in the same place. I was thinking that the secret service left them running in an airport storage / maintenance area and they somehow got sprayed with powdered rust.
DradisPing
1yr ago
It's interesting how conservative men's ware has been. Men's suits from the 1920s don't look much different from modern suits.
DradisPing
1yr ago
It's probably a mix of two things. First marketing, like you said.
But also I'd bet 2FA allows them to negotiate lower fees with the payment processor. Lower risk of fraud and chargebacks.
DradisPing
1yr ago
What's concerning for me is his excuse.
Taking him at his word, he accidentally picked up the wrong back. Instead of owning up to an honest mistake and fixing the situation, he disposed of all the clothing by leaving it in hotel room drawers.
This tells me that he probably shouldn't be in charge of disposing nuclear waste. Defaulting to "dump it somewhere to avoid any blame" is just the wrong personality type.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I'm fond of electric universe theory based explanations. Electric spikes could cause plasma events in the atmosphere.
It certainly would explain things like the "Nuremberg Sky Battle", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
DradisPing
1yr ago
I can see the recommendation system sharing code with the ad system. So it's a possibility.
DradisPing
1yr ago
Rings of Power doesn't inspire much passion in people who dislike it.
Personally I watched a few episodes, decided it wasn't for me, and ignored it. If I had a job reviewing shows then I would have given it a negative review.
Assuming my reaction it typical, you'd expect mostly positive reviews on Reddit. People who like it, like it a lot. People who don't like it don't feel like writing a long post about it.
Now "best" sorts by a combination of total votes and upvote ratio. Top is just net positive votes.
So for some reason those 2k comment votes were attracting a lot of downvotes.
Perhaps Amazon PR people posted a bunch of fawning reviews, mass upvoted them, then people in the subreddit voted those comments down. The "best" comments were just some fans opinion and they didn't attract detractors.
As for Google, a few years ago they bent to pressure to promote "reliable sources". In practice that means established corporate press. I'm guessing that no one bothered to exclude tv show reviews from that.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I was a fairly early reddit user and I remember the day they announced "now we've got search working pretty much the way we want it to".
Everyone's reaction was like "Wait, really? Are you sure?"
DradisPing
1yr ago
A Cabin in the Woods is fun because it puts all horror movies with their standard tropes into a shared universe with an explanation for horror cliches.
The next time you're watching a horror movie with a friend, and they say "Why would he do that? It's a stupid move." You can respond with "The Organization drugged them, remember?"
It's more of a love letter to horror movies than a subversion.
DradisPing
1yr ago
John Derbyshire wrote up a list of possible causes back in 2005, I’m not aware of a better write up since.
https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/metaphysicssciencehomosex.html
DradisPing
1yr ago
Canada's a big place. I'd say it's something people use in some regions if they want to swear less but don't want to alter their speech patterns to sound more formal.
I can picture a rural guy talking to the police and saying something like "and then I told them to get their bloody asses off of my property, only I didn't say bloody".
Peterson definitely says it more than usual. He grew up in a cold isolated farming town in norther Alberta, so they might have some unique speech patterns.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I would expect most debates to be a draw. There's a problem with the debate format, where it's easy to present a plausible sounding factoid that's incorrect. It's more difficult for the opponent to explain why it's incorrect if they haven't heard it before.
Destiny is actually pretty bad for that. I've only seen him in one debate years ago, but he was very good at making confident assertions without any research behind them.
A big idea debate I recall was the Steve Bannon - David Frum Munk Debate on populism. Frum spent most of his time trying to bait Bannon into side arguments instead of engaging in real discussion.
I do think there's some value. They won't immediately change sides, but supporters of one side can be made to realize that their sides arguments have holes they need to look into.
Political candidates debates have another justification. Remember that votes are selecting a representative, not a policy. If a candidate is and idiot or a pushover then he won't be able to do his job.
DradisPing
1yr ago
I think the real money making feature for Twitter would be that for $200/comment you can reply to any blue check with comments disabled or limited.
DradisPing
1yr ago
The historian Timothy Snyder says names are part of an overreaching colonial process. But how much can it matter? What's in a name? Do Slavs think worse of the Germans who they call mute (Nemcy, Lenard Nemoy's last name means mute)? Do we think worse of the Slavs whose name gives us slave?
I would say the desire to control the language of the other side comes from feelings of inferiority and new found power. Mexicans use the phrase "fucking gringos" all the time without Americans getting particularly upset about it. I'm sure the Poles have some names for the Germans that aren't particularly nice. I bet in India there are a few nasty nicknames for the English.
The more interesting case is the Falkland Islands where it's the leftish side refusing to let the locals name something and pushing "Islas Malvinas" for the past 250 years.
Maricopa County has been reporting a lot of trouble with tabulators. Maricopa County is famous for being the location of "Sharpiegate" in the 2020 election.
Sharpiegate was ultimately confirmed. Not all of the ballots were printed on bleed resistant paper, some Trump votes were found to have been lost to bleed through. Not a large number, but it was a real thing.
Problems are being reported at 26+ polling locations. Voters are being told to leave their votes in a locked box to be tabulated at a different location later. There are worries about chain of custody.
Arizona currently has tight races for both the Governor and Senator, so this is going to be a major source of contention going forward.
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