Tinidril
@Tinidril@midwest.social
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 days ago:
I have a theory that a lot of things are going to get more violent after the election. A Democratic Congress will greatly restrain the President, greatly reducing the disincentive to dispense street justice on ICE. On the off chance that Republicans manage to hold Congress by stealing the election, waiting on democracy will no longer be tenable, which means it’s game on.
- Comment on [Video] Australian attorney-general Michelle Rowland confirms it is now illegal in Australia to say Israel is committing genocide. 1 week ago:
Who is holding against an individual? I think it’s obvious that when someone blames Israelis they don’t literally mean every single Israeli. That’s why I used the word “pedantic”. Sure, in absolute terms what he said is correct but, at the same time, expecting that level of guarded language practically makes conversation impossible.
- Comment on Real Struggle 😔 1 week ago:
Ben Carson comes to mind. Right wing anti-vax freak who was formerly the director of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins.
- Comment on [Video] Australian attorney-general Michelle Rowland confirms it is now illegal in Australia to say Israel is committing genocide. 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of Israelis support the genocide - far more than support their government. It’s a fair generalization of Israeli society. The “not all Israelis” point is both obvious and pedantic.
- Comment on Anon finds enlightenment 5 weeks ago:
You sound like you’ve never had the shit beaten out of you by breast implants.
- Comment on I hacked mars! 1 month ago:
Earth is pretty much just a big one. Jury is still out on our ability to maintain it.
- Comment on Anon lives on a budget 2 months ago:
It’s because of greedy capitalist fucks who are squeezing you
A healthcare system that makes everyone dependent on employers really makes it easy for them.
Medicare For All is about a lot more than just healthcare.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
But there are an estimated 100-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, some of which are hundreds of solar masses, not to mention the Accretion disks of black holes all kicking out radiation. That’s gotta add up to something, even with the inverse-square law fall off. The galactic core has unfathomable levels of radiation and puts out its own galactic wind, and some stars have observable bow shocks with it.
- Comment on A rogue object so strange, scientists aren’t sure what to call it. 2 months ago:
Every planet is a star which wasn’t big enough. Some are just more challenged than others.
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 2 months ago:
I completely agree that LLMs aren’t intelligent. On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.
We are certainly capable of a class of intelligence that LLMs can’t even approach, but most of us aren’t using it most of the time. Even much (not all) of our boundary pushing science is just iterating algorithms that made the last discoveries.
- Comment on TRUMP 4 months ago:
So, getting groped by a Republican is meth and getting groped by a Democrat is weed is this analogy? Please.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 4 months ago:
I’ll sit out the part where we run like lemmings into machine gun fire.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 4 months ago:
The issue is coordination
Not exactly the left’s strong point.
- Comment on TRUMP 4 months ago:
Absolutely true. However, it hardly looks any better for Democrats. Bill Clinton is barely any better than Trump, and yet he is still revered in party circles.
Also, Democratic party elites have yet to back Mamdani in NY which is defacto support for Cuomo who has the same kind of track record.
This isn’t a Republican problem, it’s a wealthy elites problem.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 4 months ago:
Bad idea strategically, though I agree it’s what they deserve. The whole reason Trump sent them to Chicago is to get violence to justify further intervention to get more violence to justify more intervention to have armed MAGAts oversee the 2026 election.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 4 months ago:
Let’s not forget that prior to Jesus any punishments were over when you died. Permanent Hell was a new testament thing.
- Comment on Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash 4 months ago:
Mr. Homan’s encounter with the undercover agents, recorded on audiotape, led him to be investigated for potential bribery and other crimes, after he apparently took the money and agreed to help the agents — who were posing as businessmen — secure future government contracts related to border security,
I hope that House Democrats are going to subpoena that tape. It sure would be a shame if it leaked to the press though.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 months ago:
“Charlie Kirk proven wrong.”
- Comment on Age check 5 months ago:
Consensual means we have no basis for demanding he stand trial for rape. Squeaking past that bar doesn’t say anything good about his moral character. He should not have been impeached, but he should have been run out of the Democratic party on a rail.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 5 months ago:
I may let him.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 5 months ago:
Newton had massive social adjustment issues and deep religious convictions. I’m not so sure he would react well to the modern world.
- Comment on How would one exit a black hole? 5 months ago:
Anything as complex as an atom will be disintegrated too.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 7 months ago:
Way back in 2001 when Adobe flash was the exciting new thing on the web, I was the network/firewall admin for the data-center hosting the company website. I didn’t get to argue about the site itself, since they had Microsoft in to do that. I did win the argument against the Microsoft engineers wanting to put the site outside the firewall for “performance”. Needless to say my ass was on the line if performance were impacted.
Sure enough, the big launch day arrives, the Superbowl adds run, and the complaints all start coming in about how terribly the site was performing. They beat the hell out of it in the lab, so they knew with absolute certainty that the firewall was to blame. Lots of higher-ups were suddenly aware that I existed, which is never a good thing for a network admin.
I dove into troubleshooting and had my answer in less than ten minutes. The front page was a monstrosity made entirely of flash that displayed nothing until the entire page loaded - graphics and all. That worked well enough on a high speed network but, back in 2001, most people at home were on dialup. A little quick math on the size of the download has it taking over 40 seconds to just see the front page.
The site got a really rapid rewrite, and I was off the hook.
- Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 8 months ago:
It took a long time for nature to figure out how to process wood, but it eventually happened. My wooden furniture is still standing though.
- Comment on What's the community for stuff like this? 10 months ago:
Best I ever managed was two.
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 11 months ago:
Those aren’t mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that most of Zendaya's haters are right-wing or is it just a coincidence? 11 months ago:
It always has been.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 11 months ago:
That’s just it. The laws of physics, at least as far as we understand them, absolutely preclude changing our position in any way that would reveal anything outside our observable universe. Lifespans don’t come into it at all. If you lived forever traveling at the speed of light, you would never achieve that change of position.
The cosmic background is the leftover “noise” of the big bang, and we observe it roughly uniformly in every single direction. So where did the big bang occur? Everywhere. Everything that exists is precisely at the center of the universe, right where the big bang happened.
It’s all about the concept of spacetime. Spacetime isn’t space and time considered together, it’s a singular thing that operates by rules that we are ill equiped to comprehend intuitively.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 11 months ago:
As I just explained, it’s not really about observation, it’s about causation. If two objects can never possibly interact, then are they really in the same universe?
Looking out in space is also looking back in time. Anything (roughly) that is further than we can observe in the microwave background would be further back in time than the beginning of time, and therefore doesn’t exist at all in our universe. It a bit brain bending.
- Comment on I hate this image because idiots will see it, not understand what its showing, and make up some crazy shit based on it. 11 months ago:
Thus the term “observable universe”. Everything beyond our observable universe is being expanded away from us at faster than the speed of light, so nothing outside will ever reach us. Causality is completely and irrevocably severed at those distances so, arguably, anything outside the observable universe is not part of “our” universe.