…just this guy, you know.
as a followup to how useful your visualization is, I have started spreading comments across a wider selection of instance communities.
this is something I have considered before, but your visulazation made the possible utility and usefulness of doing so much more “real”.
someone genuinely interested for intellectual reasons would likely not fall for it. I would imagine that a non-trivial percentage of “antiquity enjoyers” are very light on history substance and heavy on history feelz.
once the appropriate brain tickles have been pushed into their heads their “history substance” feed content becomes decidedly propagandized.
this is really, really interesting. thank you for this.
instance reach and relationships are pretty wild and I can see this helping people to mix up their communities between instances.
the tight groupings of some instance communities might be source of pride or distress, depending.
would be nice to select a community and query its n closest overlap neighbors or all neighbors within a certain distance.
very cool project.
the past 8 years has realigned my view of the american electorate. policy and leadership are now inseparable from politics and politicians. public exposure to anything non-culture war related is pretty carefully managed and curated.
so I say “scaramucchi is an asshole but for 30 seconds he’s our asshole” and, as a known quantity, can be jettisoned pretty painlesslely.
and my reasoning… apparently there is limited downside and some upside to this stupid, juvenile “owning” your opponent bs. it sucks the oxygen out of any gathering where the IQ is sub-room temperature - and the irony of a little political asphyxiation for trump is quite delicious.
we need to continue skating to where the puck will be and I don’t see the current electorate changing trajectory until after the 2026 mid-terms at the earliest.
edit: ok, I enjoy a good juvenile roast as well, but would like some policy with my persnickety, please.
its only Tuesday… let me be all hand wavey, damnit! but here goes…
tl;dr - a few specifics. lots of nebulous warm and fuzzies. leaves everyone to fill in blanks. we went through this recently with obama - and I don’t like it.
Cut Taxes for Middle Class Families
Make Rent More Affordable and Home Ownership More Attainable
Grow Small Businesses and Invest in Entrepreneurs
Take on Bad Actors and Bring Down Costs
Strengthen and Bring Down the Cost of Health Care
Protect and Strengthen Social Security and Medicare
Support American Innovation and Workers
Provide a Pathway to the Middle Class Through Quality, Affordable Education
Invest in Affordable Child Care and Long Term Care
Lower Energy Costs and Tackle the Climate Crisis
running out of time and space, but hopefully that gives you the gist of what I thought while reading.
edit: typos. formatting.
yeah - agreed. thats why I am not the target audience. I want a little more wonkery in there (even if as just links in the text body) so I am probably an outlier.
as long as people agree that my initial read is a reasnable one (slick, with attractive shapes and edges) then its all good.
I have to say, it seems like the kamala-walz campaign has been near flawless on messaging so far and it feels like a facsimile of the Obama energy, not the same, but damn if it is not familiar.
I think the timing of this also also near perfect - close enough to the election for a sustained honeymoon and far enough away to effectively build brand and messaging. if kamala does.well in the debate, I really think the visible vote (polling data) continues to move to kamala.
couple of points.
lovely that the site is likely to work for the lowest common denominator modern browser - I mean seriouly that could scare up a few hundred distracted voter ballots in a tight race.
I am not the target audience for this platform presentation, but it was clean, with tight easily digestible copy and smooth delivery. if I were an “undecided” but turned off by “those two wierd dudes”, I could possibly see myself clicking with this.
so policy sparse, likable generic democrat it is - reasonable angle for her to take because I think she can actually ride the feelz into the whitehouse.
however, everyone disgusted by the last 44 years* of world history better have their hopium / copium handy.
* time began when ronnie squelched his way into the WH
appropriately biting article.
nice test. I mean, I can use this info tomorrow - hows that for real world impact? :-)
wish he had rated ease/damage of non-failure removal.
thanks for the update!
yeah, the abiogenesis idea has been around since the 1950s-ish, I think. it comes and goes, but never seems to get fully debunked. current tepid consensus seems to be that its a plausible earth geo-process, but likely only a very, very minor contributor on this world.
really apprreciate the interaction. :-)
so, quite literally there were non trivial stores of energy dense hydrocarbons available almost immediately after the permian? thats pretty wild.
any real evidence for large amounts of abiogenic oil, or is this still on the weird end of strange?
as is traditional, one of our corporate innovators seeks to protect citizens (never simply consumers, no, no!) with a defensive patent - sure to now be locked away in a safe until natural corporate patent expiration 1000 years hence.
now and forevermore we shalll sing in praise of this beneficent corporate citizen and their efficacious lawyerly thrust deep into the heart of our once inevitable (but now vanquished) future boring dystopia of ads beamed directly into our brains 24/7.
ever get the feeling that devil’s blood really is the final “fuck you, mammals!” from the dinosaurs?
the Rust kernel could be many years away from being finished.
the number I saw floating around was 3 years to production useful. regardless, C’s end days as the go-to, large systems level language are drawing nigh.
edit: tear
asm? ha! back in my day we were hammering ones and zeros into clay tablets.
…that wireless mac is looking suspiciously shopped and non-existent.
I would say yes. I have never used a pure sinewave UPS outside of a data center situation and all of those are on-line units as opposed to line-interactive anyway. I have personally never seen an issue with stepped sine UPS units on typical pro/consumer workloads.
lots of small and mid sized shoestring budget deployments make use of “economical” (but name brand) UPS units on legit sensitive equipment without fuss.
edit to add: of course, if your mains supply is absolute garbage, then a better quality can make a difference. if utility is clean and the UPS will just be doing ocassional brown/black out duty, then I would not spend more on a sinewave UPS.
performance metrics for power supplies (a PSU as opposed to a UPS) are calculated using the regional AC sine. anything other than a pure sine is going to make the connected PSU work harder and, eventually, marginal components may fail.
having said that, stepped square, modified square, simulated sine are generally going to be perfectly fine for virtually any consumer equipment you connect to it.
cyberpower make cheap (but halfway decent) UPS units. I have used both APC and cyberpower for years without issue.
just when you are sure this article is going to fluff out on you, it doesn’t.
I was oddly surprised at how I connected with this article. a useful read in a defining epoch.