Cephalotrocity

joined 2 months ago

I think @jordanlund@lemmy.world is right. The Monk has many beliefs that I either agree with or at least understand where they're coming from. If there had been full duration Democratic primary, or any of the 3rd parties been even remotely competent/had a chance, or the voting system been a universal Ranked-Choice Voting system or better I'd probably support them. But he refused to see reality to the point I think it is fair to argue a dishonest agenda at best.

Regardless of the cognitive dissonance saying that gives me, I think it was a good thing for the community, and perhaps Monk too, that a break was mandated.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21617913

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Look at that, it works!

Does it?

You're mistaking what he means for what I do.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

People say he is the "master of the weaze".

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Article doesn't rule out lag effects. As in "is the performance change a result of the previous administration taking a few years to take effect?".

I'd love to see stretch terms of one platform or the other and how they did 2nd term vs 1st for example. Does the article's pattern hold for those situations?

Edit: for example Obama's 2 terms (2009-2017)

I want to know what the name of the music playing in the background while Syr and Bell are on the bridge and she's talking about wanting an Odr (20:27 it starts).

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hate to say it, but he's right. We should be calling them racist weirdos.

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 18 points 3 days ago (10 children)

How fat is she?

[–] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win -2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm sorry, but you're wrong. Relying on edge cases in either generation is pointless. Millenials had zero tech support to help them for everything you need to do on computers.

How to load a program: Nowadays - touch the icon on the screen. Millenials - Load"$",8 LIST LOAD"LEISURESUIT*",8,1 (wait 10 min.) RUN

How to install a game: Nowadays - Click BUY on game store and choose INSTALL. Millenials - Learn MSDOS basics, Type a series of 5 commands without typos

How to configure game settings: Nowadays - Play with volume sliders, Graphics preferences, and game difficulty. Millenials - Edit config.sys or autoexec.bat to ensure device drivers are loaded, load game, assign proper IRQ, DMA variables to get your SOUNDBLASTER card to play sound, select game difficulty

How to setup a printer: Nowadays - go to manufacturers website and download drivers, run setup.exe, plug in printer to USB port. Millenials - Check Device manager in Windows to determine COM port and other relevant variables. Set values in word processing software. Employ Minor in mechanical engineering to align or correct bad ink ribbon with perforated track runners. Repeat fixes every 5 pages ad nauseum.

All that BS and more required hours of research to learn how to do in an era where guidance was buried in some sketchy newsgroup where 'Rick Rolling' was seeing if you'd notice "Deltree c:" in the instructions, and not just a simple 20 second video on TikTok.

I work with children using Ipads and that one kid who doesn't get lost if the relevant icon is missing in the UI is the one I know is going to be trouble. They say average IQ increases by 3 every generation and this is the first one I don't think that trend will hold for because they aren't required to think at all ever.

 
 

Making up arguments to justify their BS.

 

Content Warning: shows real meat or products. Describes harvesting animals in detail.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3660166

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3660106

Viktoria Roshchyna, who turned 28 this month, wrote vivid accounts of life in Crimea after Russia annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014 and areas of eastern Ukraine seized by Russian-funded separatists.

She also documented the nearly three-month defence of the port of Mariupol after Moscow launched its February 2022 full-scale invasion. At least 17 journalists have been killed while reporting on the war, according to international organisations.

Roshchyna was initially held for 10 days in southern Ukraine after the invasion and had embarked on a new trip into occupied regions when she disappeared in August 2023. Russian officials acknowledged last May that she was being held.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20711779

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has accused Russian lawmakers from neighboring regions of attempting to commission his assassination, and threatened them with a “blood feud” unless they prove otherwise, state news agency TASS reported.

TASS cited Chechen-language comments by Kadyrov, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, to a meeting of Chechen security officials. Video of the meeting was published on Kadyrov’s personal Telegram channel on Wednesday.

The news agency translated Kadyrov’s comments as: “There are witnesses, there are people from whom they tried to commission, whom they asked how much they would take for the order.”

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30658439

Russia has sustained over 600,000 casualties since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Defense News reported on Oct. 9, citing senior Pentagon officials.

. . .

The accelerating losses are disproportionate with Moscow's territorial gains, a senior U.S. defense official said on Oct. 9.

"Russian losses, again both killed and wounded in action, in just the first year of the war exceeded the total of all Soviet losses in any conflict since World War II combined," the official said.

The mounting casualties at the front may hinder the Russian military's recruitment efforts, the official said, putting pressure on the Kremlin to initiate a new wave of mobilization.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20620106

48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

The companies behind the streaming industry, including smart TV and streaming stick manufacturers and streaming service providers, have developed a "surveillance system" that has "long undermined privacy and consumer protection," according to a report from the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) published today and sent to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Unprecedented tracking techniques aimed at pleasing advertisers have resulted in connected TVs (CTVs) being a "privacy nightmare," according to Jeffrey Chester, report co-author and CDD executive director, resulting in calls for stronger regulation.

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