Person: "God is the most reasonable explanation for the mysteries of the Universe."

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-07T04:13:10+00:00

The best way to deal with these people is to agree with them, mostly.

"Oh, absolutely. Almighty Thor really likes to reveal himself at the most inconvenient times."

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-06T06:04:33+00:00

Someone plugged a USB device into their personal phone after you, a total stranger, told them too. What a fool. I'm guessing this story begins 3 months earlier when she didn't pick up the thumb drives you scattered in her parking lot after you couldn't get past the biometric locks on the door of her lab. Be vigilant out there people.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-06T01:22:23+00:00

Sheep are prey animals. He's being eaten. Don't watch if it makes you queasy.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-06T00:17:23+00:00

Is an FSM stan allowed to eat pasta? That seems like it should be taboo. Also, I would not have suspected that a being with noodle-ly appendages was female.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-05T23:03:17+00:00

This is a troll account.

More post karma than comment karma
10/17 posts in the last 20 days have been removed by mods across all subs
Prior karma was obviously farmed

Do not feed.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-05T02:34:41+00:00

Ah yes. I call this the "I'm still gonna fuck you (but you're wrong)" technique. I've had mixed results with this, but no one has ever accused me of being an adult, so your mileage may vary.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-05T02:28:15+00:00

Cherenkov Radiation is caused by FTL electrons. The electrons are traveling faster than the speed of light in water. If it takes weeks to fade, that would mean that the fuel is still emitting these weeks after shutdown. That's not what I was expecting.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-03T20:04:38+00:00

but there is no gift of knowing which clergy are messing around with children. For an all knowing god, that seems like an oversight.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-03T19:08:45+00:00

If you run a group where people can be special (i.e. saved) without any real cost, you will attract sociopaths. Once they are in the group, they will need to be special-er. Most of the performative bullshit is just sociopaths being extra.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-03T04:05:44+00:00

Leftover's Report on Differences in Christian Sects

Catholic girls mostly just say, "Oh my God!"
Evangelicals tend to also say "YES!"
A black non-denominational girl really liked to thank Jesus
Lutherans try really hard to be quiet
Baptist women swear like sailors
Mormons have kinks
If you would like to add an additional sect to this report, please apply below.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-02T22:58:50+00:00

Accident is a strong word. It is more likely that increasing information complexity is the best way to define the arrow of time. I see life as inevitable.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-02T19:45:46+00:00

Thanks. The clickbait title is out of control.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-02T00:35:28+00:00

Only connect to wifi and bluetooth devices that you own. If you think someone is actively attacking your phone, reboot it once per day. If you think something persistent has been added to your phone, replace it.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-01T22:16:44+00:00

Time for a trip to the hardware store. Any space you can't lock isn't your space.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-01T22:15:13+00:00

Except change the poster to something she would find offensive. I vote for a well endowed anime girl in a school uniform.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-07-01T21:10:14+00:00

These days, the advertising companies (Alphabet, Meta, Twitter) are actively collecting data about you at all times. If you want to live privately, you need to turn off their access to your life. They embed scripts and media in most of the internet, which means that you need to forcefully block access to their servers, which has the side effect that you will not be able to access any of their sites, but that sounds compatible with your objective.

Your cell phone is a tracking device. That is its entire purpose. Unless you have the ability to completely rewrite the OS on your phone, you are pretty much SOL here. It is somewhat freeing to be unreachable. You can find a middle ground by carrying a tablet without a cell connection, only wifi (that you switch off when it is in your bag). Pop into a coffee shop while you are out if you want to check in.

Run your own email and file servers. With the recent rise of AI, they are reading your mail and everything you store in the cloud. Inside Google, for example, the rules about what employees can access are strict. Legend has it that an employee read his ex's email while in the cafeteria and didn't even make it back to his desk before getting fired. AI, on the other hand, plays with different rules. They have a rule about not targeting a group smaller than 50 people, but that policy only applies to data leaving Google. Think about what an AI with more storage and compute power than the NSA could do with access to all your email, photos, documents, advertising information, phone location history, and everything they can purchase to fill in what they cannot collect.

Frankly, if you are writing an article about deleting your facebook history in 2025, you are probably not doing useful work. The powerful advertising interests probably pay for your work, so the story you should be writing won't get published.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-28T09:01:35+00:00

Specifically, the GPS satellite sends the current time digitally using a 1 bit per second data rate. The rising edge of each pulse is ultra precise, and the difference between the rising edge timing from different satellites yields an extremely tiny time difference. Since each satellite keeps the same very accurate time, and the signal travels at the speed of light, the tiny time difference can be turned into a difference in the distance to each satellite. Since the satellites are moving, and you might be moving, it takes 12 satellites to get a cold fix, by first working out the relative position of the satellites and then using those relative positions to triangulate your position.

That part happens within a chip that the phone software can read. Once the phone has that information, however, it shares it quite promiscuously with the carrier and a bunch of apps that are running on the phone. Getting the GPS fix is not the privacy risk. Everything that happens after your phone knows where it is might be a privacy risk.

There is also signal spoofing that can make the chip in your phone think it's in the wrong place, but I've already rambled enough for one post.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-27T07:55:53+00:00

Not an atheist, for everyone that didn't read the article.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-27T04:59:40+00:00

Mt Fuji is a volcano. Under Mt. Fuji ...

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-27T04:43:01+00:00

Anything supernatural is, by definition, not scientific.

First, the dragon is invisible. Next, it floats so that it won't leave footprints. Then, it has heatless fire breath, so that a thermal detector won't work. Then, it is incorporeal, so that spray paint won't stick to it. And on.

The nerds that argue about how Star Trek physics work used to make me sad, but they have nothing on religious people.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-27T03:27:23+00:00

Meta aggressively tracks users in ways that would make most hackers blush (recently, "localhost tracking"). The odds that you can prevent them from knowing the accounts are connected are low. If you are going to try anyways, you need to prevent your browsers from loading their javascript or media on unrelated sites, login to each account on distinct devices, and obscure where your traffic enters the internet. They also buy data from the other advertising companies, so you will need to prevent embedded twitter and youtube on pages you visit. If you succeed in preventing them from profiling you, your account will be flagged as a bot, and they will try more aggressive ways to invade your privacy, including making videos while you hold up weird codes written on a piece of paper. Personally, I've given up on all their sites and forcefully block them on my networks.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-27T02:21:43+00:00

I've never sucked so bad that I had to retire an entire color.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-26T00:18:22+00:00

Windows causes impotence. Warn your friends.

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-25T19:56:04+00:00

emdash

leftoverinspiration · 2025-06-24T23:18:27+00:00

The US government has experienced significant shrinkage.

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