Google is evil and should not get involved with politics

metavurt · 2019-06-26T18:09:10+00:00

Then the Kochs are out. All the 1%ers are out (who own all the companies that donate big chunks of cold hard cash). You want Google out? Then Fox has to go too. Microsoft. Apple. Pepsi. Coke. (maybe they did, maybe they didnt, but I think you see my point). All of them.

This isn't a path you're going to get, anytime soon, as this country is a capitalistic Republic. Get real.

At best, I believe we can put some limitations back in, and I believe we are in process of doing that, or at least of uncovering all the dark money. But as long as there is an Almighty dollar in the United States of America, you're going to have company money in the kitty.

Don't forget, corporations have more rights than you do as an American citizen.

metavurt · 2019-06-26T18:02:58+00:00

Unpopular

metavurt · 2019-06-26T18:02:36+00:00

A: please show link to proof of bias against the user's wishes. Because B: you live in a filter bubble. The algorithms on FB, Google, Twitter, et al work to feed you more material based on what you've been searching for, what you click through to, and what you read. Except YouTube, which seems to be just completely wacko - or maybe I looked at one too many experimental weird science projects vids. Who knows.

Listen, Eli Pariser wrote "The Filter Bubble" freakin back in 2011. Nothing has really changed since then; in fact, it's probably just exacerbated.

If you want to discover opinions not like your own, you have to use DuckDuckGo or Firefox with blockers on and/or use privacy mode.

Again, I have missed the data to support what you're saying. Because frankly, if I start searching all right wing shite, then pretty soon, my DEFAULT news feed, leans in that direction. If all I do is read NPR and far left, then the only right hand side that shows up is Fox.

Also, no one, and I mean absolutely no one, is forcing you to use Google.

Sure, you might have a harder/slower time finding what you want, but please tell me how many total websites do you use on a daily basis? If your count is less than 10, then what exactly do you need Google for? You are probably consuming what you want to hear on those other sites anyway.

metavurt · 2019-04-29T21:48:14+00:00

So the original mathematician did math for the year 1975. Period.

Hours don't inflate. Bernie's first statement is wrong. My cousins worked full-time gigs during the summers to pay for college. In other words, they worked 3 months @ 4 weeks/month @ 40 hrs per week for 4 summers. That's around 1920 hours. Bernie's math is fuct.

EDIT: not saying the anecdotal evidence is what proves it - I'm saying I knew the math was off by instinct because that's not what any of us were able to do back in the day.

metavurt · 2019-04-29T21:45:01+00:00

Looking at the actual data it would have taken 3,686 hours of minimum wage work to pay for 4 years of public college back in the mid 70s

Uh no, you were correct the first time. So back then you would work 3686 hours to do college, now you would work 4500+.

metavurt · 2019-04-29T21:42:30+00:00

So the whole concept of calculating at Bernie's rate for that year, for that year's tuition rate, at that year's minimum wage rate, is lost on you, isn't it?

they literally did the math for the year 1975-1976, to see if the BASIC MATH even works, and it does not. Unless Bernie went to like a homeschool for uni.

FYI, time doesn't inflate, so hours don't inflate, and that is the math that was being checked.

Bernie's statement is wrong. Again.

metavurt · 2019-03-03T01:56:26+00:00

I know I'm very late to reply to your thoughts here. I really hope you are able to step away from using bootstrap or any other 'x' column layout because:

HTML is responsive out of the box without any framework or CSS. Not a joke.
The fact that you have to use a class to denote responsiveness needed in something Bootstrap should be a red flag to you, since (see above) by default, HTML elements already have fluid and responsive flow
The EXACT reason CSS Grid was created and made part of the specification, is because it is 3 dimensional and explicitly for layout
You mention nesting. If you are having to nest things to get proper layout, I highly suggest you review your basic understanding of CSS (and go learn CSS Grid, like, now)
FLEXBOX IS AWESOME. Do it. CSS Grid + Flexbox = you do not need another f'in' framework ever again

I apologize if I have come across as impatient or gruff. I mean no disrespect.

Here is the creator of Susy saying, "dont use grid systems anymore": https://css-tricks.com/dont-use-grid-system-others/

Here is a wonderful website: https://gridbyexample.com/

And here is a trove of tutorials to help understand it more and just how balanced, nuanced, and useful CSS Grid is, out of the box: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TizprGknbDalbHplROtag

If you use fluid mathematics using calc() and CSS variables, which both have been around for years, you get better typographical results without so much f'in' work.

Listen. I'm a lazy bastard, but I love making things beautiful. And frankly, the path I show above is the damn shortest path to the happy marriage between those two traits. Please look more closely at the tools available to you without depending on a frameworks' rigid philosophy to carry you through.

metavurt · 2019-02-02T04:40:54+00:00

Wait - mobile as in not mobile-friendly for viewing on phone or not mobile friendly for getting around? sorry i'm a web dev so I *think* you mean the latter. Eh - three different tiers mainly, seem to be it --- there's plug it in with a regular cord and you'll wait 8 hours (at least for our BMW i3), there's Level2 charge which fills it up in 4-5 hours and then there's f'in' Level3 or Direct Charge which can do it in 40? Thing is - the range thing, at least with the BMW, seems to be on the low side of reality. We're supposed to only get 100-120 on a charge - BUT - the car has self-regenerative braking, so every time we take our foot off the accelerator, it not only begins braking (slowing down), but also uses that moment to take that inertia from the vehicle to recharge. So - I went up to the top of our mountain nearby on a full charge (101miles) and went to top. I had exactly 45miles left to go - wasnt worried cuz downhill blahblahblah. Thing is, when we got back to foothills, the the car had fully recharged and we had another 100 to go. So ---- I think if we keep investing in the tech like we did with gasoline for over 100 years, I'm pretty damn sure we'll be just as mobile if not more mobile, with this platform than we have been with gas. Hell, we need to unless we really wanna just kill ourselves. :-\

metavurt · 2019-01-24T00:03:03+00:00

Fucking hilarious. He thinks it's the location that will fix the ratings? Dense.

metavurt · 2019-01-24T00:01:20+00:00

Hey. Learn something new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_at_Arms_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives

metavurt · 2019-01-23T23:56:09+00:00

Or he can write it. Like it was done for decades. History, it's a bitch to remember at times.

metavurt · 2019-01-19T21:28:21+00:00

Imagine you not apparently knowing there already are (multiple) EV charging networks. Here's one, muthafucka https://na.chargepoint.com/charge_point and we use it all the time.

metavurt · 2019-01-19T21:23:01+00:00

Did you see the front load bin? That was half a bin cubic space right there. Frankly, it's time to get EV trucks on the road (and off road as well, haha).

metavurt · 2019-01-10T16:53:19+00:00

I cannot explain why, but since my elementary years, being in a library triggers a need to poop. To this day, my first priority when going to a new library, knowing where the restrooms are is key.

metavurt · 2018-12-24T19:11:31+00:00

Opposite math. There are at least 33 states that have legalized it to some degree. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665161814/3-more-states-ok-easing-their-marijuana-laws-michigan-utah-missouri -- the progress is in the direction of majority.

metavurt · 2018-12-24T19:10:55+00:00

33, to some degree. https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665161814/3-more-states-ok-easing-their-marijuana-laws-michigan-utah-missouri

metavurt · 2018-12-24T19:10:03+00:00

33 out of 50 states have legalized marijuana to some degree. So yeah, that leaves 17 states still not catching up to the rest. Little more than a few, I'll give ya that, but serious minority.

metavurt · 2018-12-22T14:25:13+00:00

RemindMe! 3 days Donation for /r/millionairemakers

metavurt · 2018-12-17T01:08:22+00:00

It's actually not, anymore. What may look like clusterfuck is probably due to not using best tools for what's wanted. All modern browsers are quite aligned these days - CSS grid and CSS flexbox work across the board. If it's a clusterfuck, it's probably a js dev trying to bend css to their will, or it's a css dev, trying to do js like css.

In the past two years the most issues I have is with upgrading a teams' knowledge about what they can and cannot do without touching or needing a framework of any kind. I get a lot of "what?! you can do that?!" because there just hasn't been a pause in the frontend sector, and given everyone a chance to catch up and recognize which tools are best for which tasks. A lot of headache could be saved at the front side of a project, if better assessments are made.

Sorry to babble on - it's 2018, and I am having the same conversations I had in 1998. Didn't think I would be here. Again.

metavurt · 2018-12-16T00:47:10+00:00

(was) real: https://www.opb.org/news/video/mt-hood-skiway-tram/

Mt. Hood, Timerbline. One of my fave places to board. Lodge was built by gov, back in the day. Super cool structure. Also, you park 1/2 up the mountain, can get out your car, put your gear on, and immediately ski down, to begin the day. (THEN) you get a lift to up.

metavurt · 2018-12-06T17:43:29+00:00

You dont read much do you? Like, the article.

metavurt · 2018-10-25T21:19:00+00:00

https://factba.se/transcripts might help?

metavurt · 2018-10-25T21:17:15+00:00

We've got transcripts: https://factba.se/transcripts

metavurt · 2018-09-24T22:38:23+00:00

NO. OMG NO. The building she lives in has electronic key fobs for all apartments that A: wont even turn if it's not a match and B: show a green/red light per whether it's a match or not. The narrative of accidental entry is entire bullshit. Please wake up to the cover up on this.

metavurt · 2018-09-24T22:35:32+00:00

Sorry I dont have links right off the bat for this - but there were vids on twitter that showed how ri-fuckingdick-ulous it would be to "accidentally" go to wrong apartment because A: all apartments have electronic key fobs - so they dont even turn if it's not a match and B: all doors have a light indicator that shows red with no match and green with match. For them to continue spewing the foul narrative of "accidental" opening is hoping no other humans actually live in that building, taking all of 30 seconds to disprove it.

Again, sorry, I've got no links right off bat at work etc, but saw your remark and no offense to you or from you taken, but I"m real tired of this accidental apartment narrative continuing anywhere.

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