You think people use downvoting to change a person’s mind? I always felt it was mostly to express disapproval or disagreement.

In this case, I think it’s shallow/selfish thinking that leads people to not vote or throw their vote away with a third party vote just so they can smugly say "don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Harris/Trump 😏" like it’s the most clever thing ever.

As a POC, I can’t help but shake at folks like this because it’s like they’d rather play these little games when shit gets real rather than ya know, getting real.

I don’t. As I get older, I find myself far less inclined to spend energy talking to people like this. I’m tired, and I’m not even in my 40s yet.

And this is why any POC with a jury (or judge alone) trial in a red state is pretty much fucked.

Exist? That alone is enough for weirdos like Musk to want POC dead.

The reason why he hasn’t sued her for libel is because he knows her lawyers would mop the floor with him with the disclosure.

Why are you treating pro Palestinian people as a monolith? Learn to think critically and realize no protest can somehow rid itself of all shitty people. You’re being unreasonable and weirdly condescending because you’re older and somehow think it’s cool to talk down to folks based on age.

Have I insisted there’s no anti-Semitism among the pro-Palestinian movement? No? Then why are you claiming I’ve insisted there’s no anti-Semitism? If I see or hear an anti-Semite in the pro-Palestinian, I would call that person/those people out, as I have in the past. Is that so hard to understand?

Also very weird that you’re all “I can picture what you look like”. You’re being way too presumptuous and that’s why you feel so confidently incorrect.

I can’t help but think you’re being wilfully ignorant in a contrived attempt at making a nonsense point.

BS. They’re claiming the AC broke AND the internal temp sensor which is independent of the AC, also broke? Give me a break, this is like listening to a child lie their face off to avoid accountability. The cop left his car off, happens all the time. Notice how the PD’s evidence is "just trust me bro" and there’s no actual investigation? Yeah, they’re full of shit.

Thanks for the recommendation 😃 This looks really good.

I’m not sure, but I can say with certainty that increasing temps to 80C with 85% RH isn’t any kind of demonstrable way of accurately predicting longevity under realistic conditions.

If I wanted to safety test a car, it would make sense to run a series of conventional car crashes. It wouldn’t make sense to drive the car off a cliff and then claim that during testing, the car was proven to be unsafe.

I agree with a lot of other points. Personally, I just find it works better in my brain to have all media (TV shows, eBooks, movies, and music) organized on discs. Same goes with personal photos and videos. For certain things, I keep copies on my PC like photos and music, but for other things that I don’t access frequently, I prefer to have them on discs. That said, I do have a HDD backup of everything. I’d love to get another large HDD but just can’t justify the $$$.

Your form of entitlement involves everyone working around your preferences, and you try to justify it with this weird paternalistic "I know what’s best for you" attitude. The higher you go with privacy, the lower the convenience, and at a certain point it goes past the point of what people are realistically prepared to sacrifice.

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She’s not white though, so we better question her gender.

This is just Reddit falling for misinformation. That thread has been debunked so many times. There’s a bunch of good YouTube videos covering it but long story short, redditors noticed something odd and immediately assumed it was some huge conspiracy when it wasn’t.

And again, that 2018 paper… I encourage people to read it and see just how silly the methodology was.

Big waste of time. Spent too much time troubleshooting to get it working on my laptop before I just said "fuck it" and installed Windows. There was way too much software compatibility issues and I was spending more time troubleshooting than I was studying. I’m sure Linux can work for some students but for me and the field I majored in, Linux is no bueno.

I find CDs fun, and vinyl overpriced. I can afford to have a pretty sizable CDA collection. I can’t afford shit when it come to vinyl, the prices are nuts.

Compartmentalized optical media is a really nice way of storing things, though. I’m way more likely to listen to an album from start to finish if it’s from a CD than a folder of files on my PC. Plus CDs are dirt cheap now more than ever. I get used CDs for like $2-5 each.

Can I ask how they were stored? I’ve got 30+ year old CDs that run great. Only ones that I have issues with are those that are scratched.

He doesn’t know, that’s how fucked up he is.

You’re not wrong. Red states and their supporters have and continue to fuck themselves and then blame the feds because they have no idea how to distinguish state and federal politics.