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Pongalh
3m ago
Of all the people to understand the weird indeterminacy of 21st century ideologies interacting with the "firehose of bullshit" of new media, I'd think it was the smart "grey tribe" people who frequent this site
Pongalh
6m ago
"Frankly I'd respect a simple 'fuck you' more."
I'm sure you would, because it provides a greater sense of righteous indignance due to being up against an uncivilized beast
birb_cromble
15m ago
There's motorcycle clubs and then there's motorcycle clubs.
One of the most interesting gigs I ever played was at a hell's Angels clubhouse.
One of my bandmates took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and ended in a non-public area. A biker that must have been at least 6'5" picked him up by the jacket and held him against the wall while another guy searched him to make sure he wasn't a cop or a thief. Once they cleared him, they frog-marched him to the John and told him that PRIVATE means PRIVATE.
I have absolutely no doubt that those guys would have killed the guy if anything had looked out of place.
Other than that they were great clients. The guy tending bar kept us two hours past our booked time by handing each of us a $50 bill at the top of each hour. Some of them even helped us load out.
striker
16m ago
I’m fairly clueless, but I think it only has one fan, and it seems to be spinning fine (including at different angles).
We’ve had it at multiple different angles, stand and flat. In the shop the guy had it on its side for five minutes.
It seems to happen in the house with almost nothing running (we disabled all boot apps) and with RAM and CPU under no pressure.
Shop guy said extremely unlikely but possible is some sort of speaker interference in the house, but I just can’t believe that’s a possibility. Will keep investigating and observing here.
gattsuru
16m ago
Weird possibility is EMI on the speakers turning the cables into wire antenna. Can eliminate it as an option by playing something normal at a very low volume; if the problem persists even when other things are driving the speakers, it's either not EMI or you're in the path of an active radar system.
Software-wise, I'd also spin up a Linux Mint LiveUSB, make sure the same issue happens from a completely different environment. There are non-malware Weird Driver Problems that can happen, including sporadically.
But the most likely problem's just the mainboard fan bearing. They're supposed to be good for five years MTBF, but especially in dirty environments they can get pretty bad pretty quick, and you'll hear a very characteristic buzzing sound. You can replace the bearing itself for about five bucks, but it's really annoying to do, so I'd just grab a spare fan module off amazon. Should have options under 20 USD. It's a pretty straightforward replacement once you pop the bottom shell off, though would recommend picking up a couple guitar picks to more cleanly pry the shell. Do be careful when unplugging or plugging anything in -- these tiny cable connectors will break off hilariously easy.
If you want to completely be sure that it's the fan module that's the problem, pry the bottom shell off, power up the laptop (on a clean, non-conductive surface), and then gently press down on the top of the fan's middle. A small amount of pressure will usually cause the noise to go away temporarily, and pressing down hard enough to make the fan stop entirely should definitely cause the noise to stop. Obviously not a fix, but great way to be sure before putting in an amazon order.
DradisPing
17m ago
Why would the GHF choose to employ radicals?
One of Hamas' things is control over aid distribution in Gaza. They infiltrate and intimidate the normal aid workers.
Normal aid workers and security services aren't thrilled about the idea of getting kinetic with Hamas to distribute aid. Hiring radicals makes more sense than hiring people in denial about the situation.
HonoriaWinchester
21m ago
Yeah, it's now to such an extreme that (unless you interpret it as intended to deceive) it's incoherent. It's not plausibly sincerely mistaken; it's not open to interpretation; it's straight-up constructed to deceive.
It's like, there's such a thing as implicature, folks--and it's part of speech. (IOW: Using implicature to deceive is lying; implicature is speech, you are speaking an untruth.)
Soteriologian
22m ago
I do enjoy attempting challenges myself, as well as watching them.
One other thing I like about challenge runs is that they often have some sort of amusing meaning internal to the game's universe. For example, when you beat Starcraft 2, in the final cinematic there's a line to the effect of "Just think on all the men we've lost", which, when you beat it without losing a unit, has the hilarious implied answer of "Actually, sir, it seems we didn't lose anybody." Similarly, Persona solo hero runs are basically beating a game about the power of friendship without the power of friendship -- great man theory confirmed. Challenge runs are often designed around some deference to the game's aesthetic, and even when they're not, e.g., hardcore, the difficulty at least lends more weight to the dialog. When the characters talk about how difficult getting to this point was, it actually feels true, rather than the "ya I barely paid attention to the mechanics and I just waltzed through" you get with a normal playthrough.
In contrast, speed runs often break the aesthetic of the game, rather than complement it. What does it mean in Elden Ring when you run off the edge of a cliff, heal yourself, and final boss whom you've never even seen just dies? That's just lame.
HonoriaWinchester
25m ago
See also Aesop's fable about the kid on the roof.
Pongalh
29m ago
I think this it, the motivation for taking Kimmel down wasn't misinformation but the seeming concern trolling. He made Trump look insensitive and petty, and that stings.
HonoriaWinchester
29m ago
I disagree. Smart people are especially good at making inferences, so they get into the habit. Being selective with which facts you share and arranging them deliberately to mislead--to encourage people to infer an untruth--is actually especially likely to succeed with smart people. They're especially used to their inferences being correct.
Pongalh
30m ago
If you want to use a "comedy" defense, then you have to actually do comedy. That was just an isolated insult slotted into position.
We're at the point in the culture wars where we're parsing exactly which part of a comedian's routine counts as comedy and which doesn't. Line-by-line style.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
38m ago
It’s a world populated almost entirely by bots and scammers, sadly. “dark net pen!s pills d3fw^kg]5” or “Life Hacks for the Mindful Manager.”
On the rare occasion that someone does try to submit their abstract cosmic energy hypothesis, we tend to allow it. This happens less often than I expected.
fmac
Ask me about bike lanes
39m ago
Are you placing it on a different surface/angle when it's at home vs at the shop?
Buzzing a few mins after boot sounds like the fans (or a fan) kicking up as the laptop heats up, and then starts smacking into something in the case.
If your daughter has an angled laptop stand or something that may be causing the case to deform slightly in such a way that nudges something into the fan area and then pings off the fan as it spins.
Does the buzzing sound only happen with Minecraft? I had a laptop back in the day with a CPU fan and a GPU fan. So maybe the shop running the laptop at idle to see if the noise showed up never triggered the GPU fan.
I think this is wrong too. The "Reds want killings" conclusion at any rate. Reds accept killings as a trade-off, because they care about other things more
...And yet, we are willing to take other actions, even costly ones, certainly effective ones, to deter people from becoming spree killers, and to stop spree killers from achieving their objectives. We are not willing to handle the problem the way Blues want it handled, but we are in fact willing to handle the problem.
I repeat: You tell me what Blues were willing to do, not say, but do, to stop the riots. Tell me what the analogous action to shooting would-be spree killers dead is for Blue Tribe with regard to riots.
Uniformed gangs on men with rifles took over a chunk of a city, declared it a no-go zone for the police, and began threatening and shooting at people. Blue Tribe not only stood back and let them do this for over a month, but when they actually murdered someone, they allowed them to retreat anonymously, made no effort to apprehend or even identify them, and did their best to memory-hole the whole incident. They did this collectively, as a tribe. I have no reason to believe they will not do it again.
Nor is this some principled stand. They did not mind aggressively prosecuting Rittenhouse or Baca or the boomer couple who didn't even fire a shot or any of the other reds who attempted to defend themselves, all the way back to Based Stick Man. No blue objected to Babbit, an unarmed woman, being shot dead on Jan 6th; suddenly rioting was very, very dangerous, actually. Antifa in Portland continue to routinely assault peaceful Reds, and the police continue to turn a blind eye. This is not a one-shot process, we have a decade's worth of data-points at minimum, and they all go the same way: our speech is violence, blue violence is speech.
striker
48m ago
Ludicrous little laptop malfunction question. It’s my daughter’s, for schoolwork, Minecraft and Discord, not much else.
- Dell Inspiron 16 5635
- Windows 11 Home (x64)
- 2.00 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 5 Processor
- 850GB storage, 4GB integrated RAM
- Less than two year old, malware clean, no other issues.
Few months ago started making swarm-of-bees buzzing sound, making it effectively unusable. Brought to repair shop for some expertise. They said fan was dusty, cleaned it, nothing else required. Got it home - buzzing started within few minutes again. Back to repair shop, they’re mystified. THE BUZZING NEVER HAPPENS IN THE SHOP. I recorded a video of the sound, so they believe me, but they can’t find anything wrong. Took the back off in the shop, powered it up, left for 20 minutes - fan running no issues, no abnormal sounds.
Took it home, and a few minutes after booting, swarm-of-bees buzzing starts again.
Software is fine, hardware seems fine, everything seems fine, and technicians have no clue.
Any motherboard nerds have any ideas?
Dean
Flairless
51m ago
The Chinese Robbers fallacy strikes again.
I regularly use it as a teaching point for availability bias, and really need to remake the powerpoint animation for trying to scale the original metaphor in a presentation format.
Dean
Flairless
53m ago
You can be like the Washington Post and omit that part of the quote to imply it never happened.
WandererintheWilderness
54m ago
Blues make accusations against Reds like this all the time, re: spree killings. We're unwilling to do what's needed to stop the killings, ie banning guns, so we want killings, or at minimum bear full responsibility for them
I think this is wrong too. The "Reds want killings" conclusion at any rate. Reds accept killings as a trade-off, because they care about other things more; just as the Blues accepted rioting as a trade-off, because they cared about their ability to protest more. Neither side actually "wants" the bad side-effects of the policies they pursue, not as ends unto themselves. Flattening cases of "wanted a policy which entailed negative side effects XYZ" into the much-worse-sounding "wanted XYZ" pollutes political discourse on both sides, and I hate it.
Dean
Flairless
55m ago
And yet, gun use isn't a Blue tribe anathema. Guns have an extremely long history with the left, ranging from highly-American contexts of racial-progressive awareness of the American South's Jim Crow efforts to disarm african americans in order for KKK terrorism, to gender-considerations of God making man and woman but Sam Colt making them equal, to the John Brown gun club varients of various Antifa and other bluer-than-you groups. Outside of the American context, this includes the revolutionary aphorisms up to and including 'all political power derives from the barrel of a gun,' countless cold war era revolutionary chic, and more.
Gun control in general may be a blue tribe coded program, but using guns is in no way a monopoly of red tribe.
Primaprimaprima
Aliquid stat pro aliquo
57m ago
The dialogue I quoted from was written by Plato...
Grant_us_eyes
58m ago
Maybe you could have said this ten, fifteen years ago. And maybe you can still say it today - 'temporarygunowners' as a stand in for the liberalgunowners on reddit is a joke for a reason - but I'm not so sure.
Maybe it's my odd bubble, maybe it's selection bias, but I can't help but feel that over the past 5 years or so we've seen a rise in gun owners that aren't necessarily red tribe in origin. A sort of twisted inverse of the entire Boomer-ish take of 'I'm a gun owner, but-' that's hard to define in a short, concise way. The kind of people that'll come into firearm forums(atleast on reddit) and start claiming how much they hate Trump and how bad he was for firearms(muh bumpstocks!) while ignoring all the bad behavior from Clinton, Obama, and Biden.
Then, you also have the John Brown Gun Club-type deals, and there's atleast one video floating around on twitter of a blooper reel involving transtifa types larping on the flat range via tactical drills.
Mind - and perhaps I'm reading into this too much - the attitude of those two groups heavily imply that the reason they have said firearms is so they can use it against fascists.
In that light, Robinson doing what he did and how he did it makes perfect sense, imo.
No chum, we've been there for a while. Remember Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Chappelle and Roseanne Barr and Norm Macdonald and Daniel Tosh and... You get my point. We're at the point in the culture wars where there is now symmetry in the parsing.
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