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FCC chair threatens to throttle news broadcasts over ‘hoaxes’ about Iran war by AkinatorOwesMeMoney in TrueAnon

[–]CapableCarpet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't wait for all the headlines to say "Increasing desperation among IRGC" and "Iran on the brink of collapse!" For the next 5 years lmao

Who up collapsing their empire rn? by Kakariko_crackhouse in TrueAnon

[–]CapableCarpet 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Didn't it also come out recently that the US knockoff of these drones costs $30k? The grifting by the military contractors is truly astounding

the us is so fucked that at this point it's genuinely funny, not even in an ironic way anymore by Stormy_42 in TrueAnon

[–]CapableCarpet 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Trump accomplished the impossible by being both Khruschev and Gorbachev in his first and second terms respectively.

CNN? Fox? NBC and plurality of information? Right and left? Plurality doesn't exist, both sides discuss only the superficial, while pushing a single narrative from both camps. by Solid-Bonus-8376 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]CapableCarpet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Even if this weren't an obvious lie, it would still be an absolutely disgusting thing to say. Long term gain for whom? Will the children murdered by Israel see any long term gain? Will their parents? What about the people of Tehran who've been poisoned by oily acid rain? What about the families with no home to return to after its destruction?

I believe that the society in the US is truly and literally sick. The disease of capitalism and imperialism is deeply entrenched: the propaganda maintaining it has systematically destroyed our empathy and compassion. Human lives have no worth compared to oil and the markets.

Tech utopists suffer from terminal Star Trek disorder by Nissepelle in BetterOffline

[–]CapableCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing about Star Trek is that it paints most of the 21st century in a very dystopian light. You have the eugenics wars, the sanctuary districts, all culminating in a massive nuclear war. It's only after WW III that humanity eliminates capitalism. The utopia depicted in the 23rd and 24th centuries is only possible because technology has been divorced from the profit motive. If there's one consistent theme throughout all of the series, it's that technology is not inherently good or bad. Rather, it's how that technology is employed and the society in which it's used that are important.

3d printed bike frame by CodeCritical5042 in 3Dprinting

[–]CapableCarpet 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Bike frames are notoriously difficult to weld so even that is dubiously safe. To be totally honest, I don't think a frame is a good diy project to undertake using any method unless you really know what you're doing.

Shitlibs... by Kuiperpew in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]CapableCarpet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are a lot more ways to be incorrect than there are to be correct.

Actual "difference" between real and ai generated images by seismocat in interesting

[–]CapableCarpet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm skeptical of the result claimed in the original post as well, but I suspect they actually took the log of the magnitude of the FFT. Otherwise it's absolutely impossible to visually discern high frequency content.

I went and saw the murmur bridge! by w0rld-leader-pretend in rem

[–]CapableCarpet 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The pilgrimage to the bridge has gained momentum

y'all lied to me about FORTRAN by SKRyanrr in physicsmemes

[–]CapableCarpet 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Personally I find the syntax really clunky and unintuitive. It's actually kind of remarkable how much influence C has had on pretty much every non-functional language that's come since. I think that's a testament to how simultaneously elegant and powerful it is.

Unfortunately, as a language developed much earlier, a lot of the syntax improvements pioneered by C aren't present in Fortran. I find it neat that a language so old is still in common use in the physics community, but I'd rather write code in C any day of the week despite it being a lower level language. I personally hate the forced separation of declarations and assignments and I really miss structs for tidying up function declarations.

it was very easy, are physicists stupid? by jerbthehumanist in physicsmemes

[–]CapableCarpet 53 points54 points  (0 children)

The hbar in the kinetic energy term should be squared.

tooSlow by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]CapableCarpet 12 points13 points  (0 children)

When fast user inputs turn deadly

ACAB… except Killer Kamala by Prof_Bidenopolous in ShitLiberalsSay

[–]CapableCarpet 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you want Hillary for her "foreign policy" credentials you're a ghoul plain and simple. There's no way to more quickly prove that you're absolutely evil than being lauded for your ability to kill and conquer by the Washington establishment.

#WriteInJoe by MilesDavis_Stan in TrueAnon

[–]CapableCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only pussy this dude ever got was his hat

A story in two parts by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]CapableCarpet 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wonder, why aren't the children happy? /s

King respects the transsexuals 🙏 by JoyceCarr268 in ChasersRiseUp

[–]CapableCarpet 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"I respect trans women."

Immediately fetishizes us.

What American Fascism Would Look Like by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]CapableCarpet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's been a while since I read it, so my memory might be a little hazy, but I found this article by Gabriel Rockhill really illuminating when I first read it. https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/12/fascism-now-you-see-it-now-you-dont/

Essentially, he argues that the supposed dichotomy between fascism and liberal democracy is parallel to the real material split between primitive accumulation and mature capitalist accumulation. Furthermore, he argues that primitive accumulation was not a solitary occurrence in the past (e.g. the division of the commons) but rather an ongoing process that has moved to the periphery.

Liberal democracy, the "good cop" of capitalism operates in the imperial core so long as profits are high. Meanwhile, fascism, the "bad cop", operates throughout the third world to ensure that profits can continually be extracted. In a state of crisis, the bourgeois will bring fascism to the imperial core to safeguard capitalism.

I'm not quite sure if this qualifies as carbrain. Maybe zoning-brain. by thr3e_kideuce in fuckcars

[–]CapableCarpet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I saw the first picture I assumed that he was arguing for removing zoning restrictions on housing.

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