RobotToaster

@RobotToaster@mander.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would there be any merit in the idea of NATO waging a "benevolent war" (for lack of a better term) against Ukraine?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At best you’d end up with the Cuban missile crisis in reverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The lower level firmware, your pc is probably doing the same eff.org/…/intels-management-engine-security-hazar…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Linus is kinda infamous for being a dick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  St Peter gets laid off, and unionises the other saints to go on strike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the word "expat" a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed it was simply a matter of perspective. E.g. someone leaving the USA for the UK is an expat to the USA but an immigrant to the UK.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The term isn’t quite as specific as you want, but it sounds like a positive feedback loop?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, phrase, or trope for an idea that gets more popular the more it fails?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sunk cost fallacy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The article I linked says they’re unrelated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lab toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See also, the Pauli effect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

  Since the 20th century, the work in some subfields of physics research has been divided between theorists and experimentalists. Those theorists who lack an aptitude or interest in experimental work have on occasion earned a reputation for accidentally breaking experimental equipment. Pauli was exceptional in this regard: it was postulated that he was such a good theorist that any experiments would be compromised by virtue of his presence in the vicinity. For fear of the Pauli effect, experimental physicist Otto Stern banned Pauli from his laboratory located in Hamburg despite their friendship.

  An incident occurred in the physics laboratory at the University of Göttingen. An expensive measuring device, for no apparent reason, suddenly stopped working, although Pauli was in fact absent. James Franck, the director of the institute, reported the incident to his colleague Pauli in Zürich with the humorous remark that at least this time Pauli was innocent. However, it turned out that Pauli had been on a railway journey to Zürich and had switched trains in the Göttingen rail station at about the time of the failure.

  R. Peierls describes a case when at one reception this effect was to be parodied by deliberately crashing a chandelier upon Pauli’s entrance. The chandelier was suspended on a rope to be released, but it stuck instead, thus becoming a real example of the Pauli effect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This election was crazier than the last election. On the other hand it will be less crazy than the next election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's eligibility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eugene Debs ran for president while in federal prison for sedition, so it’s not really unprecedented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you didn’t vote for anyone for president?

  I’m not American.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not voting for someone currently providing material support for genocide is morally correct, it’s not complicated.

  If genocide isn’t a red line for you, what is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a ruff job, but someone has to do it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lab lab

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists dismayed as UK ministers clear way for gene editing of crops - but not animals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the only thing that concerns me about GM crops is allowing companies like monsanto patent monopolies on seeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the SC should never decide the president in a Democracy

  That already happened in Bush v. Gore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To give you an actual answer

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_threat

  The true threat doctrine was established in the 1969 Supreme Court case Watts v. United States.[3] In that case, an eighteen-year-old male was convicted in a Washington, D.C. District Court for violating a statute prohibiting persons from knowingly and willfully making threats to harm or kill the President of the United States.[3]

  The conviction was based on a statement made by Watts, in which he said, “[i]f they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L.B.J.”[3] Watts appealed, leading to the Supreme Court finding the statute constitutional on its face, but reversing the conviction of Watts.

  In reviewing the lower court’s analysis of the case, the Court noted that “a threat must be distinguished from what is constitutionally protected speech.”[3] The Court recognized that “uninhibited, robust, and wide open” political debate can at times be characterized by “vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.” In light of the context of Watts’ statement - and the laughter that it received from the crowd - the Court found that it was more “a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the President” than a “true threat.”[3]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time has come for reparations conversation, say Commonwealth leaders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be a short conversation I imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pressure vs Temp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where is gender plasma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CMA launches court action against Emma to protect UK consumers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is Emma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why stop at short term?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we building homes when so many are standing empty?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And a tax on second, third, etc homes. Outside of summer some places are starting to look like a ghost town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a stepladder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the vision correction in VR headsets only an afterthought?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • Not everyone has the same prescription for both eyes.
  • This doesn’t help with astigmatism.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨risky abbreviations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows update was originally called “critical update notification tool”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I wanted to die in a viking funeral, like getting put on a boat and set ablaze while I am in the middle of the see can this be done? Or is it even legal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on if you own a boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How modern is it to have "sympathetic" portrayals of Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you count Hel (one L) from Norse religion, older than the bible.

  the idea of the snake in the Garden of Eden as having given free will and wisdom to humanity can’t be that modern of a thought, even if it would have been heretical.

  In Gnosticism, the snake is sometimes identified with Jesus, while the god of the old testament is the demiurge. You’re correct in that the catholic church really didn’t like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come the US does not put a bounty on Putin like they did Bin Laden?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you somehow killed him he would be replaced by someone who would be in a position of having to prove they were strong enough for the position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably about the same, you still have stuff like the intel management engine backdoor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider making a sandwich to be "cooking?"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d define cooking as something that creates an irreversible physical or chemical change using heat.