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Comment Re:Cord-cutting cord-cutter (Score 1) 43

In which case I open a support case with the manufacturer and say that the device isn't doing it's primary function, for reasons not made clear up front when I bought it to be a fucking dishwasher instead of a browser.

And if they can't make it be a dishwasher, then they get to pay for someone to come out and uninstall it for a very expensive return. And if they don't want to play ball, then I chargeback on my AMEX.

Fuck them.

Comment Re:Cord-cutting cord-cutter (Score 1) 43

Which is why I gave the one LG TV I have a connection to the internet, and then black-hole routed anything it tries to do with it other than talk to my local network.

Fuck their updates - I don't use their software anyway, other than to enable control of the TV over HDMI-CEC so the set top box I actually want to use can adjust volume / power on/off. Same thing I do with Samsung since they started enshittifying their TVs too.

But mostly I just don't buy from either company any more.

Comment Why not both? (Score 1) 46

It could be an epigenetic effect which means it's a combination of both genetics and environmental exposure. This is to say some are predisposed to developing Parkinson but it must also be triggered by environmental factors.

Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.

There is also the possibility that TCE doesn't cause Parkinson's but rather simply something that mimics the symptoms of Parkinson's.

Occam's razor breaks down when you try to apply it to populations due to biological variation.

Comment Re:For me it's what we learned about Twitter (Score 1) 8

Because there weren't very many of them and most of them were out in the open. Also none of them were directly interfering with my country's politics.

There's a huge difference between somebody trying to support a political cause in their country and someone trying to encourage right-wing extremism in another country because they know right wing extremism leads to bad outcomes

Also Trump fucks kids. I mean you're not seriously asking that question in good faith so I thought I'd bring up the fact that Trump is a pedophile since what you're really looking for is to cause trouble. And while it is absolutely true that Trump fucks kids like we have tons of evidence of it and guys like you are still happy to make him president, that doesn't mean that Trump doesn't fuck kids it means Trump is a kiddy fucker and a pedophile

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 1) 46

Nobody and I mean NOBODY is opposed to "fixing" these health concerns. That's a bad faith distracting argument RFK apologists continue to use to cover for the fact you chose liars and obvious hucksters to do it and for some reason expected them to suddenly become effective public advocates while everyone was screaming at you to realize they have no intention of doing that.

But let's not pretend RFK Jr is uniquely bad because he isnt doing what no one has done for 70 years.

RFK is uniquely bad because he helped kill 83 kids in Samoa, he rejects 70 years of immunology research and breakthroughs, he has created conditions to where we now have like 2000 measles cases versus like 25 in 2025

It was your choice to believe the man in that video over the doctors and any amount of actual research and critical thinking, the fact hes popular is just further evidence that you are purposefully ignorant. You got huckstered by slick presentation and persuasive words from a guy who sounds like a literal cartoon monster.

You own this, stop trying to blame the rest of us for your purposeful lack of critical thinking.

Comment Re:Once again, no. (Score 1) 59

Just FYI, I'm unaware of a fully static recompiller due to:
1) address calculation issues with indirection
2) data modification requirements

I've seen one static recompiler but it was naive at best and failed entirely when it came to dynamically generated instructions. There are also other issues regarding assembly language tricks like using the operand of an instruction as an instruction by directly jumping too it. This is a neat trick that occurs in Super Mario Bros. for NES.

Static recompilation is an are of interest of mine because I would like to see old games (which have many assembly tricks) be able to run natively on newer systems. I could talk about this in depth but it requires a bit of understanding of the issues that remain, like identifying code versus data. That said, I'm confident a general static recompiler can be produced but it will require plenty of symbolic algebra to translate the old data to the new target.

Comment Re:Great...let's pile on.... (Score 1) 55

It would've taken less words to prove my assumptions about conservatives, their media diet and their generally selfish and myopic outlook on society so just say "you are 100% correct"

Exemplary stuff, you couldn't have made my case better and confirmed my position.

If I didn't know better I'd think this was satire it's so on the nose.

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 1) 46

I don't trust RFK for many reasons, the turkey photo op is just exemplary of the fact that hes a fucking liar and nothing more than an overprivileged and spoiled waste of human potential who if he didn't have the Kennedy name attached to him he would have zero notoriety. My disrespect is the very least of what he should get.

One example:

A stark example of the devastating impact of vaccine misinformation is Samoa's 2019 measles outbreak. In this island nation of 200000, more than 5700 people were infected and 83 people died, most of whom were young children. Samoa's Ministry of Health cited Kennedy's visit and his rhetoric as exacerbating vaccine hesitancy at a crucial moment. Kennedy's non-profit, Children's Health Defense, contributed to this atmosphere of mistrust just months before the outbreak.

https://www.thelancet.com/jour...

Comment Re:Story checks out. (Score 2) 46

Sorry but no you were purposefully ignorant, people were screaming from the rooftops about RFK for months and months about his flawed reasoning, obvious conflicts of interest and questionable grasp of science. Thousands of doctors and scientists wrote and made clear how dangerous he would be.

That you didn't want to listen to them and lump it altogether as "they all do it" is blinding nihilism and ulterior motives.

https://civilrights.org/resour...

https://www.apha.org/getconten...

https://www.citizen.org/articl...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d...

Comment For me it's what we learned about Twitter (Score 2, Insightful) 8

For a brief period of time Twitter was revealing the IP address locations of users and virtually every right wing influencer was located in Russia or Pakistan with a smattering of them in India.

Surprisingly I don't think they were very many out of China.

These were accounts pretending to be Americans to incite Americans into right-wing politics.

And there were a *lot* of them.

I don't think I would give up internet anonymity for the sake of shutting down those accounts. And besides it would only be a matter of time before they fired up vpns. And I don't think I would give up free access to vpns for the same reason.

But I understand why countries outside of America are looking at doing just that. They see what's happening over here and they don't know what to do about it.

I would rather see more education and teaching critical thinking but especially in America we can't have that. If you start teaching kids how to think critically they are going to point the skills at whatever sacred cows their parents have and that gets really unpopular really fast especially with religious texts.

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