baltakatei
@baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
/ˈbɑːltəkʊteɪ/. Knows some chemistry and piping stuff. TeXmacs user.
Website: reboil.com
Mastodon: baltakatei@twit.social
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 8 hours ago:
The advertising industry.
- Comment on The New York Times is now requiring about 1 in 10 gift link recipients to register in order to read gifted articles 1 day ago:
Pinning this until I update the sidebar.
- Comment on Captain's log, Stardate 44614.6. We have encountered a large space dumpling. 2 days ago:
a large … dumpling
So… a dumple?
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 days ago:
1/3 of US renters not paying their rent in a coördinated strike for one month would unwind a lot of landlord loans and collapse Wall Street which is where Trump stores his wealth.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 days ago:
“You are reading at college level.”
Translation: “You are baseline literate.”
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 1 week ago:
That sounds like a very expensive chronic issue.
- Comment on US foreign policy circa ???? 1 week ago:
Given Studio Sunrise’s logo on the bottom right, it’s probably Gundam-related. That, or Daily Lives of High School Boys.
- Comment on bold words 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Life advice from the pedophile in chief himself. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the summary. I’d’ve only watched it if he died mid-speech.
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- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 4 weeks ago:
The Corn must grow.
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- Comment on All the cartoon companies be like... 2 months ago:
Most dogs have servile idiot personalities. This makes me suspicious of anyone who says they are a “dog person”. It’s not a great accomplishment to be loved by a creature literally bred to love their master unconditionally.
- Comment on Without getting into current politics can someone describe to me what an authoritarian regime looks like? 2 months ago:
“Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.” — Mort (1987) by Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Anon is Dimitri 2 months ago:
56kbps modem noises
- Comment on Hamster life 2 months ago:
Like a watermelon but nutty?
- Comment on Come to the Dark Side 2 months ago:
This is why you keep the same person assigned to perform the same test for the duration of a study. If there’s going to be deviations from protocol, they should at least be consistent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The Secret of NIMH lore.
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 3 months ago:
Book title and author?
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 3 months ago:
Actual hot take.
- Comment on "enjoy the show" 3 months ago:
“It is February 27th 1933 and I am Marinus van der Lubbe, a somewhat slow young man who was just asked by some very brave good protestors to help set a small fire in a strangely unguarded nice building they doused with flammable liquids. What should I do?”
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- Comment on Scientific Exposure 3 months ago:
- Neils Bohr, from a Jewish/Danish banking family.
- James Clark Maxwell inherited land and wealth in Scotland.
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz… look at the size of the wig on the man!
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 3 months ago:
“Clearly something you want me to do because you keep on paying, lol.”
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 3 months ago:
What’s to stop any malicious merchant from pruning unfavorable reviews? I trust moderated gossip channels with no financial stake in review sentiment over curated marketing advertisements masquerading as “customer reviews”.
- Comment on 2 Texas Men Plotted Coup of Haitian Island to Enslave Women and Children, U.S. Says 3 months ago:
Also, Shield Hero and, like, 10% of every isekai anime.
- Comment on We'll just ignore that 3 months ago:
Neonatal genital herpes isn’t going to spread itself.
- Comment on Just how? 3 months ago:
He had a lot of money and free time and chose to document his hyperfixation rabbit holes.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 4 months ago:
The trick is to lock in a sustainable situation where power is spread out more than it is centralized. Democratic republics achieve this but, if your goal is simple “efficiency” (e.g. your personal political faction not restrained by rule of law) and you ignore the benefits of freedom of expression and movement that democracy gives you, then centralized autocratic control is tempting.
