koper
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- Comment on Anon notices 5 days ago:
I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.
Just so you’re aware, the phrase “noticing things” or “being a noticer” is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That’s why I asked OP to clarify.
- Comment on Anon notices 6 days ago:
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?
- Comment on Pens in Space 6 days ago:
NASA still foots the bill either way. In this arrangement, the cost of development is simply included in the price of the product plus a fixed profit margin. Such ‘cost-plus’ contracts are [criticized] (arstechnica.com/…/nasa-chief-says-cost-plus-contr…) because it eliminates competing for efficiency and incentivises contractors to make their solutions as complicated and expensive as possible.
- Comment on It's the law! 2 weeks ago:
if we take it as true that light speed is the same in every direction
This is the crucial assumption, that to my knowledge hasn’t been proven or disproven. Because the alternative, light goes faster in one particular direction, is also perfectly consistent with everything. And if you’re moving atomic clocks, correcting for time dilations requires you to make assumptions about the one-way speed of light (which we only know from measuring roundtrip times)
- Comment on It's the law! 2 weeks ago:
That’s just shifting the problem. There is no known way to reliably sync remote clocks except by sending packets and assuming the round-trip time is symmetrical. This is a known problem in physics: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-way_speed_of_light
- Comment on SPIRIT WEAPON 2 weeks ago:
That would be a great follow-up joke.
Now if she chooses the dirty pickup line, you respond with “girl, are you a viking steel crucible? 'Cause I’d put a bone in you.”
- Comment on beetle battles 1 month ago:
As someone who knows nothing about entomology, it reminded me of this one beetle with a comically large pointy bit. I think it’s called a hercules beetle.
- Comment on HEEEEEEEEELP 2 months ago:
Are you free tonight? Because I don’t have any money.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 2 months ago:
Turns out when Zuckerbot was talking about “allowing more speech on the platform”, he just meant more slurs.
- Comment on App stores unconvinced by Trump's pause of TikTok ban, which may be on shaky legal ground 2 months ago:
“May be on shaky legal ground”
The law clearly states that Tiktok is banned and should be made inaccessible. The president cannot unilaterally change the law. They even got a lawyer to explain this to them.
Regardless of what you think of the ban, there can be no doubt about the fact that this is what the law says. No matter what Trump claims. If journalists show this level of misregard for truth and the rule of law, things are going to become much worse.
- Comment on Elon Musk says X’s algorithm pushes “too much negativity" while reports suggest the platform will suppress "criticism of the government" and "attacks against powerful people and institutions" 3 months ago:
The revolution will not be televised.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 5 months ago:
Putin couldn’t care less about the support from some random programmers. Be realistic, what do you expect them to do? Take up arms? Protest and get imprisoned? Vote in the sham elections?
Targeting random civilians in hopes of political change is the strategy of terrorists.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 5 months ago:
So then you agree that there is no reason to be “glad” about this?
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 5 months ago:
And how exactly is banning these contributors supposed to stop the invasion?
- Comment on The burning of the Library of Alexandria for fandoms 7 months ago:
Such is the fate of hypercentralized spaces. The fediverse fixes this.
- Comment on Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter 7 months ago:
I don’t see how this is so difficult. Given the choice between a narcissistic billionaire or an independent, accountable government commission that’s bound by the rule of law, I’ll choose the latter every time.