[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 3 weeks ago

The lack of logic is astounding.

These are the same people who think abstinence only education works. Safe to say they're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 5 months ago

English isn't even the official language of the United States


we don't have an official language.

Various states have official languages (19 states + DC don't have any official language); of these states, English is indeed official, with a few states also recognizing native languages as official alongside English.

Of course that's beside the point, as even calling this sort of racism "thinly veiled" would be far too charitable.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 6 months ago

Maybe don't use body shaming terms though? That's just lazy, and it's mean to other people, not just the target of the insult.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 6 months ago

Duh, just read it back from /dev/random

You will recover the data, you just need to wait long enough.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 7 months ago

...but was it the "Windows Uninstall" button...or the "format /dev/sda1 as ext4" button?

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 8 months ago

But the goal isn't just to convince people that you're better than the other candidate


it's to convince sympathetic people to get out and vote for you, and if not that, then at least not vote for the other.

I think people are largely decided on who they are not voting for, but who they are voting for is a bit different.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 27 points 10 months ago

I'm not a big fan

...

thousands of windmills

I see what you did there.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 27 points 10 months ago

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

"First they game for gay marriage, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn't speak up because I didn't need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and...fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won't vote for these asshats."


some people, hopefully...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 10 months ago

In before the .tar.gz/.tar.bz2 gang...

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 11 months ago

Wild turkeys can fly, too. It's impressive. I once came around a blind corner on my bike, there was a turkey in the road, and it took off in a manner I can only describe as 747esque


it did not look like it should be able to fly, yet there it was, clearly flying.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We tried personally evaluating people for loans on their individual merits, and shocker, there was rampant racism and sexism. Having strict metrics, instead of relying on the whims of a dickwad loan agent, is a good thing.

The new system isn't perfect, and yeah, it completely favors people who have parents who know how the system works. But at least it's not explicitly racist or sexist (again, there are of course systemic issues that feed into it).

I get that it's frustrating to, for example, need to have debt in order to qualify for more debt. But in other contexts this is pretty standard


it's essentially "financial experience."

But yeah. It sucks that you should pay expenses with a credit card rather than debit in the USA. Personally it doesn't matter to me (I pay them off every month), but it sucks for merchants who get stuck with the credit card transaction fees.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 1 year ago

No, you can't.

The ground in a circuit doesn't dissipate energy


the energy gets dissipated elsewhere. That's what ground is: it's what we call the electrical part of a circuit where the energy has already been dissipated (I'm being a little casual with my electricity, but I think it's a valid statement nonetheless


ground is defined as the zero potential).

You can try this out by plugging a wire from hot to ground in your house (please don't do this). The energy gets dissipated in the wires. This is bad, because it is a lot of energy dissipated very quickly. Best case you throw the breaker. Worst case you burn down your house.

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