So he was buying votes specifically for Conservatives. That’s what I’m hearing.

Can we go back to a time where half of us don’t play along with and encourage the delusions of mental illness? Pretty please?

Uh, that’s been America forever. Ever notice that most of these people believe that there’s a magical man in the sky telling them what to do? They’re talking about getting physically attacked by literal demons in their sleep today, but they’ve been saying that for decades.

Just look at this shit: https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-PaganInvasion1

Yeah, that’s what they said.

When I lived in a war-on-drugs city 15 years ago, we always used “pizza” as a code word for weed. A pie was an ounce, and a slice was an eighth. We’d call each other and ask if we wanted to eat some pizza tonight, and how much they wanted to eat. We always knew if it was actual pizza or weed based on tone of voice.

That’s also the behavior of profoundly unhappy people. I think the real issue is that these are the Republicans answering 10/10 on happiness in the polls:

Well, a dog is a lower risk animal than wildlife. This was a poorly socialized squirrel that bit someone, and had potentially been in contact with hundreds of other animals at an animal sanctuary. The squirrel and the raccoon aren’t legally pets in NY, and no effort was made to make them legal educational animals. From the standpoint of public health policy, what went down was pretty much by-the-books. The only way to test for rabies is to run tests on brain tissue. There isn’t a “famous TikTok Animal” exception to the rules that protect us from rabies outbreaks.

If rabies ever “manifests” itself in a human being (a person experiences symptoms), there is a 99% fatality rate. In fact, only 15 people worldwide have ever recovered following the onset of symptoms, albeit with extensive brain damage.

Rabies really is a “magical” disease. Once it makes it to your brain, the blood-brain barrier protects it from any medicinal treatment possible. Your only chance is for your own immune system to defeat the infection, and again, that has only happened 15 times ever.

Woman

Who?

There is no CPU that is ever going to be supported for 10 years for a consumer application. ARM CPUs today are 20x faster than they were 10 years ago, and the ARM/RISC-V chips a decade from now will likely be 10-20x faster than today.

Regardless, the Kryo 670 CPU in the Fairphone 5 is already 3.5 years old, and it’s not super special, it’s just a semi-custom Snapdragon SoC. Consider that 4G LTE launched 13 years ago in the USA, and in 10 years that Kryo chip in the FP5 will be older than that. Could you handle the performance of your last 3G phone today?

Ignorance is Bliss. I too would be happier if I thought all the people destroying the planet were the good guys.

Look, fuck the Iranian morality police, but there is a video of the arrest and there is nothing in it that suggests that they “smashed her head into the concrete” during the arrest. From what I saw, she’s pretty much just restrained and forced into the back of a police car. Amnesty International is suggesting that violence was a part of the arrest, but they aren’t providing specific details on what that entails. I don’t doubt that this woman’s human rights are being violated right now, given how Iran usually operates, but it’s incredibly suspicious to find an anonymous Internet rando who claims to know the specifics on that alleged violence that other reputable sources apparently don’t.

If you have a trustworthy source on this detail, I’d like to see it, otherwise it kinda sounds like you’re sprinkling fake details into a very real story about the oppression of women, which isn’t helpful.

I actually read the article, and if you get all the way to the first sentence, you’ll learn that he will be eligible for release starting at 28.

A 15-year-old boy who followed a teenager he did not know through Birmingham city centre and stabbed him to death after a four-minute conversation has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years.

Android APK shipping this weekend

Source first. I ain’t touching an APK without seeing code.

Nothing related to Loops on the Pixelfed GitHub yet.

What did I say?

You said:

People just keep trying to imply there’s some bullshit xenophobic message behind me expressing I don’t want people praying around me.

Those people are right. You are xenophobic against certain religions and cultures, and demand that people conceal their identities around you. By making this point in defense of a woman who pepper sprayed a man for praying, you’re making it abundantly clear that you think violence is an acceptable response to seeing another person pray. You’ve also suggested that praying is somehow a warning sign of violence, which given the fact that the victim in this story was Muslim, clearly reflects what you think of Muslims and their faith.

God, this could have been a funny joke if you hadn’t presented it as a humorless blowhard.

Like debating how the “ean” in “Sean Bean” is pronounced, and insisting he can’t have it both ways. It’s one or the other, Sean…

The article does link to that URL behind the line “the first test flight”, but that seems erroneous. This story actually seems to be based on this Chinese press release: https://www.spacetransportation.com.cn/news/info/22.html

But it also seems like there’s some confusion between an “aircraft test” and a “test flight”. I’m not convinced this thing has ever flown.

Well, the good news is since this kind of hypersonic flight is not efficient or affordable, while there are 150k daily commercial flights, these aircraft will probably fly more like 2-6 times daily for their specific wealthy passengers that would pay obscene amounts of cash to save a few hours.

The Concord only flew 4 times daily at its peak.

To put this in perspective, you could have breakfast in London and make it to New York in time for a mid-morning coffee, with the journey taking just 1.5 hours.

Uh, let me do the math on that one…

If I eat breakfast in London at 8am, and then immediately board a Hypersonic jet to New York at 8:30am, I’ll arrive in NYC at 3pm, having missed mid-morning coffee by about 4 hours before I ate breakfast…

Their votes will be counted.

First they will count the Trump and Harris votes that actually matter. Then they will quickly tally the rest of the ballots and easily conclude that no other candidate stands a chance, and then they will declare either Trump or Harris the winner.

Splitting the “other” category up into different third party candidates is a waste of effort since all of them will lose, and that outcome can easily be determined by tallying all the ballots not going to Trump or Harris. There are no 2nd or 3rd place winners.

Lemmy.ml is such a weird situation. Personally, I worry about the future of Lemmy when I consider who runs the circus.

It started off as the first and only Lemmy instance run by the maintainers. It was classified as general purpose, but leaned hard to the left. The maintainers are mostly Tankies, but the users are not, and Lemmygrad is created for the purpose of being focused on far-left politics. Lemmy.ml was my first instance, and I was an early user. Early on it was nice there.

As Lemmy grows, new instances appear, and eventually ML is not the largest, just the oldest. As that happens, the original intent of the ML TLD choice starts to become visible, as the instance shifts from general purpose to an instance for “Marxist Leninists” just like Lemmygrad. Early users have now mostly migrated elsewhere because it is no longer the “flagship” instance.

Now we’re in a position where the majority of Lemmy users exist on non-ML instances, and think that the ML instances are run by morons, yet those morons maintain the codebase that runs every Lemmy instance.

It’s a ticking timebomb. I expect we’ll all be on Kbin by 2030 after something boils over and the Lemmy maintainers start fucking around with the code to get their way.