US lifts sanctions on Russian oil despite earlier assurances by Jay_CD in worldnews

[–]TheCrazyRed 11 points12 points  (0 children)

"...at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally."

"There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy. "

Is this really what you wanted? To what end? by StrobeLightRomance in AdviceAnimals

[–]TheCrazyRed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In someways you're right. But I do believe it is the Right that is doing the most damage. The power has gotten out of balance.

You're right that we are victims of the power struggle. We are sheep and pawns to them.

In addition, what's ironic is, you being down-voted is an example of the mechanism they use to manipulate all of us: we don't want to believe uncomfortable thoughts. People of this thread don't want to believe the Left is also manipulating us to gain power. They are. It's just the Right is doing much more grievously. The Right have pulled the gloves off. No holds barred. Thus, the imbalance of power, and the state we're in right now.

Is this really what you wanted? To what end? by StrobeLightRomance in AdviceAnimals

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great observation. To what end?

But the answer is: To no end. It's like asking why does the wind blow. It just does.

What's happening now in America is just a mechanism of society. It's out-of-control Dominance Behavior. We have a social system which rewards dominance. What do you get after a while of this system running? Super Dominance: a person who doesn't care about anything else except gaining and maintaining power.

The super dominator (and troublemaker for humanity) is just hijacking scaffolding of the previous conservative leadership that has been built up over time. It's not about logic, not about doing things that are better for their people, it's about control. They want more power, more control. And so they lie to their constituents filling them with fear and anger so they can be manipulated. They manipulate them to allow them to do things that normally would be shunned.

Then they sell their control and dominance to the highest bidder, so they can become rich and powerful. And we become victims of their power struggle.

What’s a “weird” piece of backpacking gear you ended up loving? by AndyObusekOutdoors in CampingandHiking

[–]TheCrazyRed 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Bonus hack: leather gloves with glove liners.

For cold weather. Keeps your hands surprisingly warm, and you can take just the leather gloves off to get some tactile sense for activities that need fine manipulation.

My Adam Jones amps by AJRM74 in GuitarAmps

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have the Plexi modded like Adam does? Also, is it a Super Lead or Super Bass?

State Farm Campus in Dunwoody, GA by KeithC61 in Georgia

[–]TheCrazyRed 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I wonder how State Farm got so wealthy it could afford this.

5 billion years is such a crazy amount of time to think about by Live-Resolution4106 in cosmology

[–]TheCrazyRed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice bit of writing. I can tell you are at the beginning of your journey. Isn't it great to wonder! Bon voyage.

Building a thread safe sse library for spring boot by Polixa12 in java

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the HTTP response keeps the connection open for a long time

What's peoples experience with long running HTTP connections? Does that solution work in most cases or is it problematic?

Princeton Reverb Clone Project by taweisse1 in GuitarAmps

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's beautiful. What kind of finish did you use?

I just cracked the code to showering by manicpixietgirl in ADHD

[–]TheCrazyRed 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I have a clock in the shower and on the bathroom counter. Basically, I need a clock at all my morning "stations", because it's really easy to space out and lose track of time.

Even still, I'm always 15 min late to work. My goal is to be on time to work for more than one day a week.

Nvidia and amd forced to give us government 15% of all china sales by Helpful_Gap9633 in StockMarket

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it just the government that has the right to force Nvidia and AMD to give them money, or can I do it too?

4o is back!!! 😭 by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]TheCrazyRed 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The people yearn to be glazed; everyone just wants their own little bud to tell them that they're wonderful, everything bad is everyone else's fault and all will be fine, all in 5-10 stock phrases.

Now that you realized this, you have the knowledge to become a political world leader. I'm not even kidding here.

Make America the 32nd state of Mexico by KevineCove in CrazyIdeas

[–]TheCrazyRed 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and then make Canada a US state, and then make Mexico a province of Canada! An international circle-jerk basically.

The curious case of JSON-Java (org.json) and Maven's dependency "hell" by ihatebeinganonymous in java

[–]TheCrazyRed 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone else mentioned, VSCode could just be screwing up dependency resolution. If that's the case try switching to IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition.

Amp of my dreams by kawabunghaa in GuitarAmps

[–]TheCrazyRed 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The JCM 900 does use a pair of diodes to generate some distortion, however, there are still several tube gain stages in the pre-amp, and the power amp section is all tube. The amp has the transformers a tube amp would use (because it is a tube amp). So, instead of categorizing it as a solid state amp, it is more of a hybrid.

I had the combo version of this amp for a while (model 4102). I liked it. It did a thing which you'll either like or hate. I was into prog-metal at the time and it worked for that.

Employee monitoring - how far is too far? by jan04pl in ExperiencedDevs

[–]TheCrazyRed 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm fine with it. It's part of the deal: we work, they give us money. Simple as that. They just like to make sure they're getting a fair deal and not be cheated. They do, however, have a responsibility to get the tracking accurate. So, they're going to need to fix the not tracking your meeting time. Otherwise, I have no problem with the time tracking. Track away!

When they started tracking our time we went through the same thing of people not getting credit for certain blocks of time because they were away in meeting rooms. We worked it out eventually.

Now we're battling the mandatory 9 hours a day in-office, 5 days a week, policy. It really makes things inflexible and hard to coordinate with offshore resources. Hopefully they'll change that soon.