as a kid, i built one of dave mao's presses. it's deceptively simple for what it does.
it's basically a stack of belleville washers leveraging a pair of tongs.
you can create different pressures depending on the way you stack the washers, which are essentially springs.
i didn't have the cash for the diamonds, but it worked. if i kept it, i could probably buy diamonds for it.
Tell that to Humon of SATW.
I read the summary of this article and read the previous summary and...
The US and the rest of the "free world" (such as it is) is bitching and moaning about APT10, a so-called hacking collective. Whilst the "free world" goes on hacking sprees against their own citizens (five-eyes, etc).
It's not about catching criminals (the ACLU is falling into the semantics trap). It's about "instant dossiers" on people who might upset "the system" - i.e., the incumbent powers that be. Everyone has skeletons, and without "second chances" (the US since its founding had been the land of second chances - ability to re-invent oneself, until recently, with this data collecting bullshit tied to Real ID), there is not a politician in the US that can effect change.
The future is a mishmash of Big Brother, Little Brothers (private companies collecting data to sell you things, for example) Brave New World, and GATTACA, in the worst possible way. Because every time I think something has gotten as worse as it can get, it gets worser by orders of magnitude, so my ruminations here and in my head can't possibly imagine the tyrannical dystopia coming down the road.
NUMBER: 1593
AUTHOR: Benjamin Franklin (1706â"90)
QUOTATION: âoeWell, Doctor, what have we gotâ"a Republic or a Monarchy?â
âoeA Republic, if you can keep it.â
ATTRIBUTION: The response is attributed to BENJAMIN FRANKLINâ"at the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, when queried as he left Independence Hall on the final day of deliberationâ"in the notes of Dr. James McHenry, one of Marylandâ(TM)s delegates to the Convention.
https://www.bartleby.com/73/15...
"This tribble is dead, Jim" -- Dr. McCoy
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I saw a meme go by in my feed and it had a picture of a star, a tree ornament, a candy-cane, and Benito Mussolini.
"Which of these don't belong?"
"Right, you don't hang a star"
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...I'm back in the 80s
Excuse me while I cue up some XTC and Cure.
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Google has been doing censorship "fuck you" pages for *forever*
How is this different? Oh, I see, Google has money.
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>silly talk
Actually, no. The Democratic Party has been running away from the failed campaign of McGovern learning all the wrong lessons and tying themselves to concepts like "electablity" and doing everything they can to not appear "too leftist" whatever that is at the time. They abandoned the unions, losing all those votes and set the stage or the deundustrialisation of America through lopsided trade agreements. Shit like this has let the Republicans drive every argument all the way down to the vocabulary used. So as the Republicans have drifted into insanity, Dems have become "Republican Lite"
Trump didn't spring fully formed from the head of Zeus.
They have been pulling this shit for 50 years. Why stop now?
>trump's crimes
The American public doesn't give a shit. The American public, by and large, assumes all politicians are on the take..
The American public wants someone to at least pretend to care about their bread and butter issues. As stated above, the par\\Democratic Party has been running away from that sort of stuff since McGovern. Trump won the clown car because out of all the other candidates on the R side he at least mouthed the concepts even though he was lying.and when the DNC riggged it so that someone who had awful negatives, it was only inevitable that trump won the presidency.
Now w are stuck with him and fucking morons like you think that impeachment is going to fix things. It will ifx nothing and if successful, we will wind up with pence.While Trump is a little kid pretending to be dictator, pence will be the real deal and will use things embedded in the ndaa and such, that Obama and his predecessors signed off on, to silence critics.
We are so fucked.
I do see it as a viable political football, like schools, health-care and other civilization building issues.
BUT...
The dems have failed at every turn over the past 50 years, running away from McGovern.
Even the ACA is a failure and capitulation to "republican values"
I am almost all out of fucks to give.
I had high idealistic hopes for the Internet last century.
And I look at a president that uses the most important vehicle for the spread of knowledge for his own personal alt.flame.
Burn. It. All. Down.
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"we see you are using an ad blocker"
click on back arrow,
Regards to the article and especially Chuckles Schumer: I guess tackling utterly trivial issues such as this and chasing after purely apocryphal russians is better than actual real issues.
*spit*
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no.
longer answer: the dnc is tied to incrementalism, which means giving lip service to the rabble at the EFF and then doing nothing. because they are just as bought as the republicans, except they are paid to lose.
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"So I guess they really did find the cock for Dolly"
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"I mean the Egyptians, in their hieroglyphs, didn't have this problem with darker skin, go figure."
This is fucking late, but...
They had to come up with makeup for Lena Horne, and they called it "light Egyptian." They couldn't call it "makeup for dark skin" or "Lena's Makeup" or some such because it was that "exotic."
I remember the interview she had on 60 Minutes and she chuckled about the absurdity.
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What's the difference between porn and erotica?
Lighting.
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I read the title and the answer is "no."
There are so many other causes of childhood depression (wrong school system, etc.) and the fact that childhood depression existed long before desktop computers of any kind existed that no, social media, as such, is such a small part. Indeed, social media is sometimes the only connection left a depressed person has with the world at large (and if this is you, seek help *right now*^`1) that removing access to it (because parents are going to only read the title) would be harmful.
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1. That was me back in 2012. The only things I did were food shopping and going to the pharmacy. If that. But not enough. I lost a bunch of weight due to anorexia (anorexia is not just teenage kids with body image problems, it's also adults or anyone else that just doesn't feel the need to eat). While losing weight this way was effective, it's not recommended by me. My world shrunk to my apartment and the only connection with the outside world was my computer and my property manager who insisted that I come over and sit around the barbecue roughly every Saturday and he wouldn't take no for an answer. (he had a key, of course)
About that. I was pretty good at putting on the mask, so nobody would know that anything was wrong, just that I wasn't around much.
By the time December rolled around and my brother rescued me, I was an almost-suicidal mess and didn't care what happened to me because I didn't think anyone would miss me. Steve probably kept me alive long enough for that to happen. Without the two Steves (my brother is also named Steve), I'd probably be dead from the heart attack in Feb 2013.
Which leads me to today. I am still alive, and I have an actual life again. It took a lot of work and a lot of visits to the head shrinker, but I am mostly functional and
The tl;dr of this footnote is that life changes and if your only connection to the outside world is social media, you are in a depressive episode and you need help immediately. You cannot drag yourself out of it alone. But if you get help, you will get the time for life to change for the better (because it can't get much worse). Help doesn't have to be professional help, but it can be a friend or your local DBSA. Google that organization and find a group close to you and go.
It's already been happening.
Political channels because they're political, and things like AvE (Arduino versus Evil) because of language.
Because machinists, engineers, toolmakers, technicians of any type ranging from your corner store tech to the guy you call because you can't get your cruise ship out of port because X bearing is busted, don't ever swear.
The political channels and (especially) the above want you to actively block the ads and just use Patreon to throw a coupla bucks their way.
And if you're not watching This Old Tony, you're doing it wrong.
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Trying to be happy is like trying to build a machine for which the only specification is that it should run noiselessly.
