Boredom breeds innovation. It’s okay to be bored. In fact, I really wish our society would get “legitimately” bored more often.

From the article, it sounds like he knew they were a minor and still leaned into the conversations. Why? Why TF would you even be curious about it?

I think the point is to ragebait people into reading about it.

An educational campaign doesn’t work.

People get angry when the protests disrupt their day.

Peaceful protests happen literally everyday in the US in nearly every city and hear nothing about them.

The only way it gets visibility is it has to be disruptive, and the only way to get them to read/learn about it is to hook them in. And if Faux News has taught anyone anything, it’s that ragebaiting is fucking effective.

ThOsE iDiOtS!1!

Says the moron while not even taking 3 seconds to understand what they did and why they did it. Lol

Look how angry everyone gets about art and architecture whilst not even remotely having the same reaction about climate change and what it’s doing to our planet.

I’ll see if I can boot it up and send you the output later. It’s been awhile. If I can get it working, I’ll ask you to give me a bunch of inputs (speed, trajectory, altitude, etc) and I’ll send you the output. I had the speed and trajectory calculated every 0.1s so it was relatively accurate. I was planning to add in boosters and parachutes, but I never got that far. The best I can. Give you os how long it takes to plummit into the ground and at what speed lol…

It was pretty cool as it would correctly show orbits and the effect of atmospheric drag if you didn’t fully descend in the first orbit around the planet, so you’d just see it loop around several times until it bled off enough speed to eventually descend into the atmosphere. I think I managed to get coreliolis effects added before I stopped messing with it.

We’ll that’s huge. NumPy is fantastic. Had to use it for a bunch of linear algebra calculations for a Mars Atmospheric Descent Calculator. Fully mapped the trajectory and flight path as it entered the Martian Atmosphere. Was a cool little program…

Steam is a prime example of how long a product/service can actually last when you’re not constantly changing the product/service. Funny how when you don’t change a product and keep service great, it doesn’t seem to go through enshitiffication. What are the odds…?

If people start planting more trees and adopting greener streets, and therefore start actually trying to fix shit inadvertently, I would be so happy.

It’s interesting then how much the MAGA movement has absolutely hijacked the Republican party due to complacency. The fact that Trump’s DIL was able to take the Chair of the RNC is insane to me.

Then again, with how insane Fox News has gotten, I kinda feel like they are low-key trying to getting these ‘moderate’ conservatives in line with the rest of the MAGA movement.

They are still catching and charging people years later.

It’s a “debate” because unfortunately around 40% our population is unable to comprehend and discuss complex issues, and instead refuse to accept that what happened on J6 was illegal and have instead co-opted to support and treat them like heroes. I mean, fuck, did you see their last CPAC? They paraded these people around and there was a quote saying that they were going to end democracy.

It’s all insane.

“some” hacker.

Totally not involved with the government at all.

Totally not tipped off about how to access it and where to put it.

Totally just some random hacker that managed to make off with all of that government money. Oh well, we tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.

Apologies citizens, your money is truly gone.

It’s also incredibly dangerous. Funny concept, but the second you brake while turning, it tips forward and diagonally. And instead of sliding, the whole thing will roll.

You know…I always though how culture war victories in 4X games were a little unreasonable…and then you see this shit.

It’s so frustrating that people are so ridiculously gullible as long as you make them feel good about themselves first. Tell them how intelligent they are for not believing the evil liberal agenda. You want to know what the liberal agenda actually is conservatives? We just want to live our lives however we want, and not have to be harassed, to not have to feel unsafe, to cultivate a world that is healthy, a population that is well-educated and happy, and not have to worry about tomorrow. To leave behind a world that is better than the one we were brought up in. Yeah. We’re evil AF.

Apparently that is so counterproductive to capitalism that they’ve managed to persuade meatheads that it’s evil liberal propaganda. The irony of the poorest class in America literally siding with the richest class in America - they wouldn’t know it, but hey…how often are people going to take the time to chase down the money?

…and they make SOOO much money because of it. Companies are buying into it to push their results higher using SEO words and phrases to help.

100%. This actually works. Most boomers are not technologically late enough to track subscriptions and such.

There was a YouTube video not a documentary (similar to The Brainwashing of My Dad) where their father went down the rabbithole, but they started subscribing them to better news sources, and eventually to left-leaning news sources, and he did a whole 180°.

Fear is like a drug. It’s addictive, and rightwing media sources have cracked the formula on how to get people addicted to it, and it can happen to ANYONE. The uneducated to the well-educated. The only thing that makes you immune to it is critical thinking and empathy - which is why I feel that their next war is on education and masculinity. They are literally trying to perfect the addiction so you can never leave it.

This is part of the reason why education is so insanely important.

White rook in top right, takes black rook in top left. No checkmate.

How embarrassing for Republicans, that their party is being gutted from the inside by a poor, orange, dementia-ridden blow-hard. He’s stealing from their coffers to pay his debts and killing off the RNC to make room for the Trump Party.

Really wonder how centrist Republicans feel about it. Abject horror? Or do you guys support it?

Are you me?

Seriously. It felt like every single game I bought wound up on Gamepass eventually. It caused me to stop buying games unless I knew for certain they would never end up there (Looking at YOUR ENTIRE CATALOG Fromsoft!).

I put off buying Control exactly because I was about 90% certain it would end up on Gamepass eventually. Really really glad to see that I was right about it.

Okay, well disregard the lobbyists in Washington part, however the rest of it still applies.

Politicians understand that they can change ANYTHING as long as it’s changed slowly enough. As innocent as this seems, I promise you that it is anything but. It’s just the first step of many in the wrong direction.

We should all want and hope for better for our kids.

Giving them the ability to go to work at younger and younger ages is not making life better for kids. You can argue that it allows them to make good money and enable them to become good consumers, and sure, you’re not wrong. But you have to realize that you’re willingly siding with the capitalist machine here. When you start justifying things like child labor because labor shortages, you can easily start justifying things like 6 day work weeks, relaxed safety laws, longer working hours, etc. In 5-10 years, odds are they will push kids to work in other jobs than just “hospitality…or washing dishes” due to the “success” of it using the same argument of “labor shortage”.

You have to understand that there are very good reasons why there are labor shortage at these places, and almost every single one of them is because companies do not want to pay their employees a living wage or offer any sort of benefits. It’s the same reason there are lobbyists in Washington pushing to not increase the minimum wage.

Don’t support laws like this