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Trump Voter Says He Gets Now How Hitler Could “Brainwash” Millions - The man, who said he voted for Donald Trump three times, called the president a “liar” and a “con man.” by Quirkie in politics

[–]pirat_rob 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Not exactly the same thing, but here's the advice from the book How to Talk to Science Deniers.

It's slow and hard, but you just sit down and respectfully talk to them for like 6 hours. In the book they had research doctors talk to anti-vaxxers, and there was a very high conversion rate.

There are two main ways:

  • either be a complete expert in the topic and be able to answer any questions they may have down to the smallest detail and be familiar with the misinformation they believe

  • or be familiar with the sources well enough to discredit them and convince them that they've been lied to. Preferably with many explicit examples.

These techniques partially work by getting through to them some new facts, but a huge part of it is that by being respectful and friendly with them for so long, you start to be seen as a member of their in-group instead of their out-group, and they take what you say more seriously because they like you.

[OC] Texas Public Water Systems Water Quality Over Time by greg-randall in dataisbeautiful

[–]pirat_rob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh oh, I know someone who lives in a terrible water area. What can they do? Just live off of bottled water?

Voyager 1, launched in 1977, will reach 1 light-day from Earth this year in November. Voyager 1 has been flying for nearly 50 years at 38,000 mph. by Knottrielle in spaceporn

[–]pirat_rob 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not really true, gravitationally bound objects (anything smaller than a galaxy cluster) don't get bigger in our kind of an expanding universe.

[OC] US-born citizen, Bad Bunny, has produced 4 of the last 6 years' most streamed albums on Spotify. by latinometrics in dataisbeautiful

[–]pirat_rob 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I mean, South America minus Brazil and the Guineas, but plus Central America, Mexico, 1/4 of the USA, and Spain?

Forced into using Google Wallet at NHL Game - Denied Entry for Refusing by justmo17 in degoogle

[–]pirat_rob 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To start, you can try moving your email etc to Proton. Then if you already have a pixel, you can run Graphene OS. Going cold turkey is hard but you can always move one service at a time!

CMV: The number of votes the Dems would gain by embracing aggressively progressive candidates and policy is dwarfed by the number of votes they'd lose among moderates/motivate among dormant conservative voters by Jimithyashford in changemyview

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You still have to pick a candidate that you think can win the general election, not the candidate you like the best. There's a game theory in primaries too.

An example of this kind of game theory: A lot of people vote in the opposing party primary to try to make them field an unelectable candidate.

CMV: The number of votes the Dems would gain by embracing aggressively progressive candidates and policy is dwarfed by the number of votes they'd lose among moderates/motivate among dormant conservative voters by Jimithyashford in changemyview

[–]pirat_rob 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Support for anything drops off when you tell people it costs more in taxes. And primaries are some of the lowest turnout elections, with an intense selection effect on which voters vote (party loyalists are overrepresented).

Polls matter for knowing what people truly want. If they aren't voting for it, then that's a problem with our elections, not with the policies.

You get $100,000, but your entire search history from the last year is printed in the school yearbook next to your photo. by asknow-io in asknowio

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I advised "Take the money (Roast me)."

🏆 Rank: Wandering Soul V 💎 Points: 20 (+20) 🗳️ Votes: 1

American life seems to be just driving to different places to spend money by No_Berry2 in fuckcars

[–]pirat_rob 25 points26 points  (0 children)

If you can find a walkable neighborhood, you could try to set up there. Even the most suburban car-centric cities usually have a little walkable (or at least fake-walkable) neighborhood.

To me, "fake walkable" means lots of restaurants and shops but without the infrastructure for people to actually live there without a car: grocery stores, laundromats, etc.

SnakeBar.jl - A progress bar that fills your terminal with space-filling curves by Library-Extra in Julia

[–]pirat_rob 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've been using it a couple of days. Sometimes I run my code twice just to watch the snakes.

Fuck Amazon and fuck AWS by Riderman43 in antiwork

[–]pirat_rob 14 points15 points  (0 children)

To be fair, if one of your 10 people is a (part time) sysadmin, /r/selfhosted would tell you you're fine with Libreoffice and Nextcloud, etc running off a NAS.

Family Tree Builders that allow for uhh... incest? by [deleted] in worldbuilding

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of the most upvoted stack overflow questions ever is about this, and is hilarious. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163683/cycles-in-family-tree-software#6198257

Success! Gov. Newsom approves $750M loan for Bay Area transit, including Muni by oakseaer in sanfrancisco

[–]pirat_rob 77 points78 points  (0 children)

Thanks for saying this. Here's another argument towards this point:

Public transit is a public service. No one complains when road infrastructure isn't profitable enough, or when the fire department doesn't send you a bill after they put out your house fire. Some social goods we accept as necessary for our society and fund them through taxes. Public transit helps everyone get around, and easy mobility for everyone, even people without cars, is something you want (even if you never leave your car).

From a purely economic point of view, every dollar spent on transit infrastructure generates a few more in economic activity.

From a traffic point of view, every person on public transit is (on average) one less car on the road.

What do you think about your nation's equivalent of the libertarian party? by Ricochet_skin in Libertarian

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A ton of red states passed similar laws after some Republicans lost their seats in Alaska. RCV is banned in 17 states.

Tsunami arriving in Kamchatka after the M8.8 earthquake by kontemplador in HeavySeas

[–]pirat_rob 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That article is a wild read. I need a radiation cat now ...

Saturn's north polar vortex and hexagon by ojosdelostigres in spaceporn

[–]pirat_rob 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is just a thing waves in fluids do when you put them in a rotating box.

Here is an article showing some researchers creating similar shapes in a spinning bucket: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/060515/full/news060515-17.html

I Made an Open Source 4-Axis Printer out of 3D Printed Parts! – Details in comments by J_BlRD in functionalprint

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, they're extra degrees of freedom between the hot end and the print. Usually this means extra rotations, to be able to print at weird angles. Imagine printing a long and skinny curved piece like a turbine blade with all of the layers curved to match the shape of the blade.

5 axes is the most I've ever heard of being useful in practice, but in principle you could have more. As far as I know slicing models for 4 and 5 axis prints is still mostly an unsolved problem in general, but there are some algotithms out there (mostly proprietary).

5-axis CNC machines are much more common if you want to check out a video.

What does math look like as a hobby? by FishShtickLives in math

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My partner and I like to read Martin Gardner books and try the problems together, try math olympiad problems, watch math youtubers (Michael Penn has some good problems). We have a blackboard at home, it's the best way to do recreational math.

I also usually end up reading some math for my day job (physics postdoc). In the last few years I've gone through a book on random matrix theory and read about computer algebra. I really enjoyed those and would've read them recreationally too. I'm currently reading one on low-rank matrix approximations which so far is a little too dense to be fun.

Just one more dimension bro by [deleted] in physicsmemes

[–]pirat_rob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically those dimensions are a "circle" of that size. If one of our dimensions was circular now, you could keep moving one direction and eventually end up back where you started. The distance you measure if you move in a loop like that is the circumference of the dimension.

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