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Aceticon

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  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • His VP can come out and voice her disagreement with his actions, distancing herself from him and those actions.

    It's the simplest solution by far.

    Not doing so and instead having the party loyalists go around raging at any who criticize Biden's complicity in Genocide, is not the simplest solution.

    And yet here we are, with the tribalists piling up on any criticism online instead of Kamala Harris simply voicing her disagreement with Biden's policies.

    One wonders why exactly the chosen option is not the simplest and most likely to lead to a Trump defeat.

  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • You assume too much.

    I simply have principles and won't just stand quiet in the face of evildoing, no matter what the excuse.

    As I pointed out multiple times before, the simplest thing is for one man, Joe Biden, to change the way he acts, not for millions to close their eyes and swallow their principles (or for thousands of useful idiots to come out and defend his indefensible actions, making themselves accomplices along with him in the mass murder of children).

    In 10 or 20 years' time, when the full form of this Holocaust is known, I will know I was always on the right side and you and those like you will be trying to forget how you tainted your hands with the blood of children, protecting Biden from being forced to not help murder them anymore.

    I'll leave you with a thought: do you think the bombing of residential neighborhoods in Beirut with 2000lb bombs sent from the US (which the US Military refuses to use because the collateral damage is too great) which has killed countless civilians including children, would have happened without the useful idiots and tribalists having spend the last year doggedly defending of Biden allowing him to send ever more and more dangerous weapons to Israel? To you really think the chain of events that has resulted in Israel extending the war to Lebanon would've still happened if there was a massive outcry against Joe Biden and the Democrats 6 months ago, well before the election?

  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • There is no real different between two kind of shameless liars covering up mass murder of children.

    One might even say Netanyahu is at times less dishonest (if one could measure "honesty" at such infinitesimal levels) because he's more open about his murderous intentions.

    Biden on the other hand is a full blown hypocrite who claims to want to stop Netanyahu whilst knowingly sending him the very 2000lb bombs used in residential areas in Gaza and Lebanon, a kind which the US Military itself does not use because its collateral damage is too massive.

    They're both sociopaths, it's just that while Netanyahu is playing a "strong man" character whilst Biden plays the "powerless to act gentleman", and many in more modern nations don't recognized the shameless lying under the latter style as easily as they do under the former.

  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • I was going to write that I don't think you're a Nazi, just giving yourself excuses to act in ways that taint you with their stink.

    Then I saw this beauty:

    actively helping the modern Nazis mass-murder children in, not one but TWO countries, lest the electoral chances of that person’s party are weakened.

    Low quality analysis and very biased take on what’s going on.

    Already after the Genocide was well underway Biden sent Israel 2000lb bombs, which the US itself does not use because their collateral damage is too large (they flatten entire housing blocks), which have been used by Israel in both Gaza and in residential areas in Lebanon resulting in horrible numbers of civilian casualties, including many children.

    You Sir, have the morals of a Zionist, a modern Nazi.

  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • You must have been living under a rock for months now if you still think Biden is the one running against Trump.

    Further, I wonder what kind of Morals, Ethics and Principles a person must have to think others should stay mute about two-faced hypocrites actively helping the modern Nazis mass-murder children in, not one but TWO countries, lest the electoral chances of that person's party are weakened.

    One wonders just how many Nazi-support layers away from the actually Nazis does it take to stop being a Nazi? Is the Nazi-supporter still a Nazi? How about those who support and defend Nazi-supporters - are they Nazis?

  • Netanyahu warns people in Lebanon could face destruction 'like Gaza'

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  • It's the complete performance, though maybe the added wink and nod spoil it a bit.

  • Netanyahu warns people in Lebanon could face destruction 'like Gaza'

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  • It's the exact same playbook as in Palestine.

    No doubt there will soon be Israeli "settlers" in Lebanese territory surrounded by enormous areas stolen from the locals "for security".

  • Biden said to call Netanyahu 'a f**king liar' after Israeli troops entered Rafah | The Times of Israel

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  • The logical conclusion in the face of Biden's other actions such as keeping on sending weapons to Netanyahu and protecting him in the UN, is that this "leak" is a purposeful and carefully crafted bit of PR from Biden's team.

    By their own track record, Biden and his minions are about as trustworthy as Netanyahu.

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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  • There's a button there to enable/disable air-mouse functionality (basically the tilting of the remote moves the mouse pointer), though it's awkward to use compared to a normal mouse.

    The keyboard on the back is also awkward to use, not just because the keys are small and not quite in standard positions but also because Shift and Alt are both "press to enable, press to disable", with no notification lights (so, say, your keyboard might be in "Alt mode" and you're trying to used it and it's just doing weird stuff).

    The thing does work as a combo of media player remote + mouse + keyboard, but it's not very practical for the last 2. Also that specific model seems to have problems with the remote buttons not working if the remote is tilted (which shouldn't be at all a problem given that's a wireless remote).

    The idea is good, the implementation could be better. There are other models like that around. Just avoid the "Google" remotes as that's Android-locked and for voice recognition (plus it comes pre-enshittified with only a handful of buttons which only start apps such as Netflix).

    Even with the quirks of the remote, whilst using that setup I often find myself altogether forgetting that what I'm using there is a PC with Linux.

  • I feel bad for Schrödinger's Republican, but at the same time I don't

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  • Well, I felt it wasn't clear from your post that seeding clouds to get them to drop their water is literally the most weather "control" we are capable of doing with current technology.

  • Marjorie Taylor Greene is now adding lasers to her Hurricane Helene conspiracy

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  • This is a step forward.

    You see, for millenia people have most been swindled en masse using Fantasy stories - you know, Demons, Gods, flying demigods with wings, that kind of thing - and now we're starting to see more and more Sci-Fi stories used to swindle people (honorable mention to Ron Hubbard, a true trailblazer in this) - so chemtrails, mind-control satellites, weather lasers.

    PS: Curiously this pretty much aligns with the increase in Fraud in Tech and phenomenons like Tech Bros.

  • I feel bad for Schrödinger's Republican, but at the same time I don't

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  • And if you seed open air with silver iodine nothing happens, which is why you can't use that to, for example, make rain in the Sahara.

    You need clouds already up there for it to work, which means water vapour getting up there in a high enough quantity that it has liquidified again (that's what clouds are: lots and lots of tiny water dropplets).

    So what exactly is the geoengineering process that's put all that water up there in such quantity that there are clouds all the way to the horizon on all side, so thick that the sky becomes dark?

    Our capabilities are about the equivalent of taking a bucket of water from a "creek" passing by in the sky whilst this hurricane would require us to be capable of putting an ocean of water up there, which is nowhere near our capabilities.

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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  • LibreELEC is basically a Linux distro with Kodi and installing it in one of those (or quite a number of supported similar boards, such as Orange Pis) should be the easiest way to "join the darkside".

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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  • I'm using a N100 mini-PC with Kodi as a Media/TV Box and it works pretty much as a dedicated device would with one of these remotes.

    I seldom have to actually access it with a keyboard and mouse, though that machine also works as my home server so I do regularly access it remotelly for stuff that has nothing to do with using it as a media box.

  • Smart TVs are like “a digital Trojan Horse” in people’s homes | 48-page report urges FTC, FCC to investigate connected TV industry data harvesting.

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  • My TV has always been run without the "smarts" ever since I bought it.

    That said, recently I've replaced my TV Box and Media Box with a N100 Mini PC running Linux and Kodi plus a wireless remote and in addition to that the thing even works as my home server with additional functionality than just that of the devices it replaced.

    For a cheaper/easier option try LibreELEC on top one of the devices they support (check the downloads page or the Wiki for the list). It's basically a Linux distro with Kodi, so open and with none of the privacy intrusion risks of Android. The same kind of wireless remote (example - note that you don't actually need to use the keyboard on the back or the air mouse) also works here since it just relies on standard shortcut keys of media programs like Kodi so works everywhere (even Android).

    However what all these privacy-protecting non-enshittified options have in common is that they're not fully configured solutions that you just buy and use - as you've noticed, if you just buy a streaming stick or device it will likely be at the least "spammy" - and you do have to do some of the work to get them working.

    Something like LibreELEC on a mini PC should be the simplest to put together as the hardware comes preconfigured in an actual box and all that's needed is to install the LibreELEC image from a bootable USB stick, but if you have a bit more technical know-how (not really that much needed, mind you) you can get something like one of the supported Orange Pi boards along with a box for it and it will cost you less than half as much as even a basic Mini PC - those boards are basically using the same chips as Android TV media boxes so you get the same performance without the "spammyness".

  • though still less than a browser with 3 tabs open

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  • Actually all of the game mechanics should be stopped when the game is paused.

    The most likely culprit is the graphics pipeline still being busy assembling and sending data to render to the GPU every frame, since even though the 3D world is paused, the thing has to keep on operating because of the UI.

    It should be possible to make it less of a problem if the UI you're interacting in during pause is on-screen 2D and all the 3D stuff is fully static (i.e. no autonomous movements such as simulated wind on leaves or running water) but depending on the graphics pipeline implementation being used, it might be too much trouble because you need to somehow have it stop rendering the 3D stuff and only do 2D.

    Also, EA being as they are, I doubt the programmers had the time to go after a "cosmetic" (lowest priority) issue that probably has system design implications.

  • 'Shame on them': Netanyahu slams French call to cut off Israel's arms supply.

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  • It's tradition for Nazis to criticize France.

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    TIL the average American is dumber than the average human

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  • Yeah, the 1 in 4 billion seemed exaggerated on the low end when I read it. I went ahead with it anyway since, even if there are 1000 people with an IQ at or above 200, that by itself would not pull the curve upwards much (because it's 1000 out of 8 billion people) and hence your original claim that the mean is not the same as the median "because the distribution is skewed as IQs can be higher than 200 but not negative" was bollocks.

    My point stands untouched that the justification you originally gave backing your claim that the IQ mean not being the same as the median was mathematically unsupported or, as you so colourfully put it: "opinion dressed as fact".

    As for this paper you linked, it curiously doesn't back your claim either. From the abstract, we get that whilst the mean is 100 and the mode is indeed 105, the statistical distribution of IQs is NOT a Normal Distribution but rather the sum of TWO Normal Distributions. This means that you can't in fact make claims about the median from the mode (as you would be able to for a normal distribution, were mean = median = mode) because a sum of two normal distributions has TWO peaks so you can perfectly have one at 105 and another one below that which can yield a median which is equal to or even below the mean.

    Again from the abstract those two distributions are "one reflecting normal variation in general intelligence and one refecting normal variation in effects of genetic and environmental conditions involving mental retardation", which seems to imply that the second has a peak at an IQ value below the first.

    That said, I don't even disagree that your claim that the median is above the mean might be right. What I have yet to see from you so far is something other than "opinion dressed as fact" or quoting of papers which don't mathematically back your point.

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  • Technically, yes.

    In practice there are but a handful of people with an IQ at or above 200 (the rarity of that is less that 1 in 4 billion - source ).

    Even if we do take in account that the bottom of the IQ in live humans is in fact a bit higher than zero, because the extremes are so incredibly rare, the deviation of the mean from the median is in practice minuscule.