I agree. So why are we stagnating between fascism and neoliberalism? Neither of those are stewards of either human rights, nor environmentalism. One of the two works very hard to convince you otherwise while stuffing their pockets full of petroldollars.

Yes, and they surround themselves with enough menial nothing-problems to convince you they’re too busy to focus on frivolous things like “human rights” and “the fascist problem.”

My headcanon is that she saw the warhead falling, not the explosion. The last second was the blast.

Caching is like accruing debt for CPU time between network connected devices. Let’s suppose the following:

Computer X is talking to computer Y with a 32mb cache on each side. They both need to be involved in the following math that’s about to take place. Computer X is doing the math, and Y is supplying the data, but also manipulating the return data for some data it will send in the future.

This is all well and good if this a 2-endpoint network. Computer Y will be ready for X’s data at any time. However, the internet is not 2 endpoints, and both X and Y are talking to a bunch more computers about totally unrelated computationally networked tasks. So now Computer X can’t send data to Y or vice versa because they’re busy. X doesn’t have anything to do so it works on the next problem it has lined up for Y and critically, adds this data to a cache marked “for Y, do not delete.”

And now you might see how “caching” a varitable niagara falls of data (cloud compute requirements) to the wider world would get rather bloated, literally running up computational debt until storage is exceeded.

EDIT: To nail home the debt analogy, this debt also accrues interest in the form of the CPU cycles needed to manipulate data within the cache, including both retrieving and storing that data, although this often happens with any networking whatsoever so it’s only measurable in a case where the cache is so bloated.

I þink you have inspired me to do þis from now on. þank you!

Dude’s a troll. Ignore him. Weird people doing weird things make life better, not worse.

Wow you all are expending way too much mental energy on all of this. Let people be weird. The thorns aren’t pricking you.

Physical buttons

Yes, actually! But we don’t have enough trip-sitters.

Every bannor ad on a webpage is one ad. A news article can have 12 or more.

My fingers. My. Goddamned. Fingers. Fuck you. I’d rather go through the sensory hell of shoveling chicken noodle in my gullet than use any of these textural monstrocities.

Hey, this isn’t what you’re looking for, like, at all, but I just built the coziest movie set up by buying a $50 15in CRT, a $20 VCR player, and 50 VHS’ for $10. Put it all next to my bed with retro consoles to boot, and the best part is not only are all the ads nostalgic and crammed into the beginning of the movie, but no live service is going to make my tapes move to a new subscription service.

Just… Curl up in bed and put in a movie that you own. Oops, forgot to rewind. Lemme play a round of starfox while I wait.

You’re right. And if you feel threatened, you could just shoot them. “Had no idea they were cops. They hid their faces like gang members.”

You make the fatal flaw of thinking there’s reasoning behind their beliefs. They make up reasons to justify their beliefs. These reasons are always narrow-in-scope and context-dependant, but are often presented as generalized statements. They will change their argument to suit their aims.

Hindu lore hosts many characters, but in actuality they believe in only one god, the godhead that you are i.e. the universe, man, life, existence is all one thing and you’re it.

This. There is no authority above the authoritarian. His word is law now. Whatever Our Glorious Cheeto wishes is now US doctrine.

Get back on the transporter terminal, O’Brian.

Fascism through ✨ V I B E S ✨

This, except that the foundations that lead to change are laid on election night. Yes the cement was mixed and the scaffolding raised, but today sets the tools we have to work with to enact that change for the next 4 (or rarely 2) years.

Oh my god I looked more closely. I think that’s acrylic resin. Ew.