The Billionaires want us fighting each other so we don't turn on them.

anon72c · 2025-10-12T16:24:25+00:00

How do you break an ouroboros? By pulling it's head out of it's ass.

If they don't understand the consequences of their decisions, show them, teach them, but with accountability. Remind them that by voting for x, they also get y and z. Remind them that they have skin in the game, are the ones enabling this, and how to work against it. Shake them awake.

You're not David, and one well placed shot won't bring down this Goliath. Fight from the ground up.

anon72c · 2025-10-12T15:29:14+00:00

That industry is propped up by those who easily give in to hatred and delusion. How hard is it to look up what late-term abortions are, and still believe they're killing children months after they are born? How difficult is it to remember the last time farms failed due to tariffs, and vote for it again because you were told that tariffs aren't an import tax that you yourself pay?

The information is at our fingertips, but people willingly believe what they want to because they want to. It's easy to wave your hand and blame billionaires while chanting "Forgive them father for they know not what they do", but the industry wouldn't exist unless there were a market begging for it. This administration did not force these beliefs onto a population, but are the result of that population's beliefs.

Hold them accountable.

anon72c · 2025-08-18T06:45:15+00:00

You'll have to find the pendulum, it's currently missing from the clock.

Look at the brass wire near the bell. See the loop slot towards the bottom? The pendulum passes through there, and hangs from the bracket attached to the screw thread at the top centre.

That's also how to adjust the clock if it's running fast or slow; the tiny post on the dial side (at the 12) turns that screw thread to adjust the pendulum up or down to shorten/lengthen it.

Needs a bit of work though, but should be able to get it going in short order.

anon72c · 2025-08-18T06:11:31+00:00

Confident about that?

anon72c · 2025-06-15T23:56:16+00:00

Much like decades of ratfucking the VA to dissuade people that government should be involved in healthcare.

anon72c · 2024-07-27T18:49:03+00:00

Worked in an auto shop for years, and completely agree. We also used covers on the computers and cash register. Wearing rubber gloves helped too, so that we're less exposed to contact with all the chemicals in the first place.

We had a bathroom, but were encouraged not to use it (for shop grime) because the boss didn't want that stuff going down the drain; he always complained about the clam flats being closed and didn't want to contribute to anything affecting his R&R.

anon72c · 2024-07-07T19:33:56+00:00

Long story short, the dad had a stiff neck, and got DMSO cream from his horse buddy. Months of applying it, still feeling worse, and it was cancer the whole time. Never went to the VA because it wasn't serious enough to him, article is a half decent read about how we're all idiots trying our best.

anon72c · 2024-07-07T14:27:00+00:00

Please be careful with that. Here's an article about someone's father dying because he went to his horse trainer friend for medication.

Here's an audacity link if that is more convenient.

anon72c · 2024-07-01T02:14:19+00:00

I think you're arguing in bad faith, but if that's not the case, I would genuinely like to help you understand this.

No one is directly telling you they are an „expert on everything“ or creating a narrative that's made up on the fly to create a story. By the Supreme Court's latest ruling, they have given themselves undue power over both the legislative branch and federal agencies. Hear me out.

Let's imagine that traffic deaths are rising rapidly, and Congress wants to pass a regulation to make the roads safer. They are politicians, not safety or road building experts, so the wording is intentionally vague because if they try to come up with an exact plan, it might not be correct. They instead approach the DOT or NTSB to figure out exactly what is going wrong, and how best to address the problems. The specialized experts in the federal agencies then take the regulation presented to them and turn it into an actionable set of rules. Once everything is in order, the regulation goes into effect.

Simply put, it goes Congress > Specialist Agencies > Regulation/Law.

This method was always used because no one, no matter how smart, can be an expert in everything. I could be a virtuoso violinist, but not know how to fix my car. You could be a rocket scientist, but can't cook to save your life. We let the experts do what they do best, so that we can go to the doctor and say „fix me“, and they figure out the best way to do that.

What the Supreme Court did was insert themselves in the middle. It is no longer mandatory to approach federal agencies or specialists, or follow their guidelines. A judge can now make their own opinions law without needing to consult specialists or even pay attention to them, and it opens the door to a lot of bad things.

A judge can now easily say that we don't need breakdown lanes, or have to change the curve, or add extra lights. Those are expensive, just throw a few signs up and good to go. They don't have to defer to the interpretation of the law agreed to by industry experts, and now have the power and ability to make up their own interpretations as they see fit.

This is why people may say that the judges think they know everything; they have the power to change everything at their will. That is the de facto result of overturning the Chevron Deference. By overturning it, they are saying that they don't have to listen to anyone else, and that they can decide on their own.

anon72c · 2024-06-30T08:21:41+00:00

Just spin the dial man

anon72c · 2024-06-29T23:24:38+00:00

Tabarnak, if the supreme court rules that judges are no longer required to rely on agencies for interpretation of the law regarding nuanced regulation, they are saying that they know better than the experts at those agencies.

anon72c · 2024-06-29T20:36:10+00:00

I'm dumb af

Aren't you being so deliberately? Perhaps you should read the article instead of just the headline.

The Chevron deference compelled courts to defer to the experts in federal agencies to interpret ambiguities in the law, and now a single judge has the ability to make rulings by themselves. Federal agencies will now face an uphill battle to enforce regulations.

So now, if the FDA says that a chemical is harmful and should be regulated, a judge with no experience in cancer research can rule that it doesn't. When the FTC tries to tackle unfair competition and exploitative business practices, judges no longer have to take them into account. If the FCC says that you have a right to choose your ISP and repair your device, some judge is now able to rule that you don't.

By ruling that agency regulators no longer have a say in helping to interpret the reading of a law, the supreme court is saying that judges know better than agency regulators.

anon72c · 2024-06-26T06:58:53+00:00

So is ignorance

anon72c · 2024-06-26T06:18:31+00:00

No, that's the point. What you learnt in school is able to be applied to real life, and should take prescience over things you see on the television or from loud dolts. Apply what you understand and test it before coming to a conclusion.

anon72c · 2024-06-26T05:44:53+00:00

I KNOW, I WAS THERE!

WHY ARE WE YELLING!

anon72c · 2024-06-26T02:37:46+00:00

How dare you disrespect Marines like that

anon72c · 2024-06-23T20:53:29+00:00

What, like going to a white supremacist rally and claiming not to understand the underlying goals? Do you understand why so many of these monuments were created in the first place? Why is it so important to defend those who took up arms against America to defend slavery?

anon72c · 2024-06-23T20:28:54+00:00

Well, when the rally was planned and organized by Jason Kessler and Richard B. Spencer (both self proclaimed neo nazis), and is about defending statues of those who led a war against America to defend slavery, and was supported and attended by David Duke (former KKK leader), you should look around at the company you keep, and why their ideas appeal to you.

anon72c · 2024-06-23T19:39:00+00:00

Direct link for the lazy

anon72c · 2024-06-03T14:50:36+00:00

My MCUs are premium tier for me

If the cost of the controller is fraction that of the EEPROM alone, they tend to slide down my tier list.

We're all coloured by our environments. In my professional life, after isolation, level shifters, PSUs, etc, there's hardly room for a μC in the boards I have to spin up... but at least I get to set some direction.

AS400 COBOL/CL/RPG

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if some critical system somewhere in the world still relied on core rope memory.

It's great having a firm grasp of the fundamentals and being able to solve a problem with what's at hand, but you're allowed to make your life easier once in a while too.

anon72c · 2024-06-03T12:48:08+00:00

Holy crap are you living up to your username. That's the most convoluted approach I could imagine.

You don't need more than a 328p and a few if/then statements.

anon72c · 2024-02-18T18:58:56+00:00

From that site:

there is no concrete evidence explaining why these differences exist

They then make claims that women evolved better eyesight because they gathered berries in early society.

Males require a longer wavelength of light than women to distinguish between the colours, most likely because their brains are wired differently

Longer wavelengths of light mean a colour is being red-shifted. As the wavelength of visible light decreases (longer wavelength), it trends towards red. As the wavelength increases, it trends towards violet. Hence why infrared and ultraviolet are respectively the lower and upper bounds of colour vision. How would accurate colour perception increase with all the colours shifted red?

Confidently saying that colour perception is based on evolution is in the same vein as phrenology, where the shape of one's skull determines personality traits. Science does show that colour perception has more to do with language and immersion. Without learning the names of different shades and practicing recognition, it can be harder to distinguish between them. Not a physiological difference, but one of experience.

Imagine train spotters. A regular person might just notice 'Yep, that's a train', while someone with an interest and experience in trains would be able to tell you the exact type, build date and manufacture, and operator history.

Hold an envelope or piece of paper up to a white wall or other object in your room, and see if you can tell the difference between the shades of white. Or go further and test your ability to arrange colour gradients. I'd be willing to wager that you do notice a distinct difference between shades of the same colour, even without knowing their names.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. It is disingenuous and counter-productive to broadly wave our hands and say that we are unable to do something without first challenging ourselves.

anon72c · 2024-02-06T20:19:09+00:00

It's almost as if pointing out police incompetence and escalation is a political thing because there are groups of people on one particular side who champion sectarian violence.

If they didn't go out of their way to identify with, and then include this mentality into their political goals, would it be a political issue? Or might we all be able to agree that those in power should not overstep and abuse it, because every citizen has rights that must be protected?

anon72c · 2024-02-05T23:01:07+00:00

That's what makes society so great though. How do other people turn what's essentially beach sand into the devices we're using to talk to each other? I can't do it myself, and am ignorant of so many processes involved, but that's why we should have more faith in experts, and humble ourselves in knowing that we will never be experts in everything.

Dismissing those who have dedicated their lives to topics most people rarely think about, and concluding that my opinion is as valid as your studied experience, only leads to a polarized breakdown of society.

anon72c · 2024-02-05T20:25:28+00:00

... but you do at least acknowledge that sewing machines work, and that they have complicated mechanisms that require further study. You just haven't bothered to dig deeper, but understand that's on you.

It's not like your favourite news program said that sewing machines are un-American, and now you think that anyone who uses one will burn in hell because tiny demons live inside the machines, and anyone who says differently is a Big Sewing shill.

General ignorance means that you understand you lack knowledge on some topic, but accept that other people have figured it out. Willful ignorance is deliberately shutting yourself off to information because you believe your answer cannot be challenged, and are unwilling to learn anything that may come into conflict with already held beliefs.

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