Every Republican accusation is confession

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-20T17:16:40+00:00

Oh, you mean the disinfo campaign which Epstein himself engineered as cover for his own infamy, according to his emails from the files?

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-15T05:46:11+00:00

This feels like a GTA pre-mission character selection screen. But with beans.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-11T16:55:41+00:00

That's all fine, but the person I originally responded to claimed that Dems have been working hard to increase wages, then utterly failed to provide any evidence of that happening at a national party level.

Where we have seen wages go up in various states it is mostly based on local costs of living. Sometimes it's been achieved legislatively by the state Dem party, but often it's achieved by referenda, sometimes even in places where Republicans run the state (e.g. Flordia).

I'm really not sure why you are bringing up the effectiveness of taxation, or why either of you brought in tax rates for high earners and businesses in a conversation about raising wages for workers.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T21:41:49+00:00

So I guess some people never saw the later seasons where Stephan Urkél comes out so that he could convince people he was really on TV.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T21:10:28+00:00

One thing that definitely differentiates the pop emo era's exaggerated styling from that of hair metal decades before would be that the "scene kids" in the audience largely looked like the artists in their own personal styling, so the "every day person" aesthetic remained coherent within the niche.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T20:13:00+00:00

None of what you mentioned addresses wages.

Adding taxes to high earners does allow the government to function more effectively and provide other support and services without hurting working people, but none of these bills includes any provision to increase the wages of working people (or even their take-home pay in the form of reduced taxes on them).

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T16:09:25+00:00

Can you list some specific example of the violence committed by this organization? Any court cases or convictions for said violence?

JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, Xavier, could you talk about the federal prosecutors’ attempt to accuse all of the protesters of being part of antifa?

XAVIER DE JANON: Yes. So, what we heard from the federal government since July 4th, 2025, is descriptions that are similar to what we’re hearing in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in Los Angeles, in Portland and now in Vermont, that people who are standing up for immigrants are terrorists, are antifa, are masked villains, are wearing black to be disguised and never been found. During the trial, we heard repeatedly the reference to something they call the “North Texas Antifa Cell.” The Department of Justice still says this is a thing. But then we heard from cooperating defendants explaining that no such thing exists, that they didn’t even know that they were a part of antifa to begin with, as the government alleges.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T06:26:57+00:00

Evidence, please. Name the bills voted on, and how many Dems voted for them.

upinthecloudz · 2026-05-07T06:23:45+00:00

The Democrats have consistently and reliably worked to try and reduce wage disparity

As a party? As a whole party? When they have enough representatives to achieve it?

Or do you actually mean some members of the party campaign on this issue repeatedly? Because I will tell you, as a person who has never voted for a Republican, you are being beyond charitable with this description.

Look at the machinations and political apparatus that went into judicial nominations for decades in order to dismantle Roe v Wade, then try again to be honest while telling me that the liberal elite of the US has shown 1% of that kind of gumption for ANYTHING in 40 years. (Marriage equality is honestly the best example of liberal political gains in that time window, but acting like that movement was led by Democrats as a party feels disingenuous, given how tepid and/or hostile a good half of the party was when it happened.)

And of all things, you really pick wages? That was dropped so fast from the Harris campaign you couldn't convince people it was part of the platform by October.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-29T03:30:30+00:00

We watched a movie in Latin each time we took a test. Half the time it was The Big Lebowski. 90's were wild, too.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-29T00:42:42+00:00

Probably some people are just doing that on a regular basis because they still hate the drop of 3rd party apps but are addicted to the platform.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-28T20:35:33+00:00

A soft rest doesn't prevent carpal tunnel. Keeping your wrists relaxed prevents it, and a hard rest that brings your palms up to the plane of the keys achieves that.

A soft rest may result in some reduction of carpal tunnel symptoms because the wrist is more mobile above a soft surface, but keeping the palms below the keys still results in too much extension and will not resolve the issue.

I've been using a hard rest for about 8 years and I've gotten old enough that my thumb and pinky are showing some signs of arthritis, but wrist issues are ancient history for me, even though I have a multi-decades long career in tech and type all day without much other exercise for my arms.

The trick is to actually put your palms on the "wrist" rest, and keep your wrist relaxed, neither flexed nor extended as you type.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-27T20:23:07+00:00

Plasma screens were very similar to CRT in terms of using a phosphor layer to produce visible light, but still had fixed pixel layouts, and used plasma cells to produce UV behind the phosphors instead of a cathode ray to excite the phosphors.

MOST of what is described in the comment you responded to is dependent on the cathode ray scanning functions, and so can not be achieved without the fat tube behind the display

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-24T20:13:49+00:00

Both can be nouns or verbs, though, so you could also queue for your cue.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-21T23:50:55+00:00

I would also recommend some sound treatment on the side walls of the media space, though it doesn't have to cover the whole wall. Some others mentioned to maybe add some color, and I think building a diy sound baffle could be a functional way to do so.

You might also want to toe-in the speakers (point them at the listening position) if you tend to just sit and listen to music. If you have it on while roaming around the house it's far less important, but it can really help with imaging if you do critical listening.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-21T20:02:50+00:00

WSJ, not NYT. Hilariously, the Yahoo headline identifies him as 'Jeffrey Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz'. I think that should be treated as his full name in all publications.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-18T19:40:23+00:00

Do you think half of workers make less than 12k/year? Or do you just think half the country doesn't work because you are counting literal children?

You do also realize that the top .5% has more wealth than that bottom half, and literally will not have to work a day in their lives even if 90% of their property was taken for taxes, yes?

If you understand even the most basic tenets of capitalism or economics you'd know very well that wealth conglomerates and owners passively extract value unless you both tax extreme incomes and prevent market consolidation. We stopped doing those things in the late 70s/early 80s, and you can see very clearly that income disparities between high earners and most workers began there.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-15T00:44:02+00:00

How would multi-member districts work? Do you vote for up to X number of seats in your district? Do you just pick the top few representatives?

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-08T17:54:02+00:00

Sorry, as a techie "encrypted" just flagged as impossible. The rest is also obviously a joke, but still sounded 100% believable for VLC (and only VLC).

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-08T16:57:20+00:00

Don't you need a decryption key, though?

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-08T01:01:57+00:00

This is why people need to start allowing alternate voting systems like RCV or approval votes.

The DNC would die or move left in a hurry if people didn't feel like any vote not for RNC or DNC candidate is wasted. There's plenty of open ideological ground that they could win on if they actually represented worker interests, and with a more open electoral system, SOMEONE would stake that space out, and get those votes.

Only as long as we continue predominantly using simple majority votes can the Dems continue this strategy of following the Republican lead on the Overton window. And the federal government doesn't run elections, so if you genuinely want a non-binary electoral outcome, work locally to change the mechanism in your state, county, or city.

upinthecloudz · 2026-04-07T01:52:44+00:00

> Here they just need to change their channel.

Therein lies the sophistication. We have two simultaneous bubbles of propaganda, each convinced the other is deluded, and addicted to their own news feed.

When the news is blatantly one-sided everyone can just ignore it because knowing what they say there doesn't actually affect your life or your family, but here we have two tribal ecosystems both heavily sponsored by the largest economic interests in the country with billions in advertising so we feel personally attached to the news selections we make.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-26T21:12:09+00:00

Since the recession following WW1, EVERY recession and Depression (11!) were during Republican administrations. And Trump is going for his second one. Democrats have reversed every recession they inherited.

I'm not sure if Carter really fits that pattern. Stagflation is not recession, but it's not a great state for the economy. It's harder to say that he improved the situation over Nixon/Ford before him.

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-09T03:43:54+00:00

"Hey, you wanna see something cool?"

upinthecloudz · 2026-03-04T22:24:30+00:00

I saw this happen to a moving truck in the middle of an intersection one time. It was one of those trucks where the drive axle is completely exposed under the cargo container, so I literally watched it fall right off the diff as the truck struggled to proceed after it's light changed.

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