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deranger

@ deranger @sh.itjust.works

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  • Breaking - Trump Resigns!

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  • Flightradar24 had a notification that the Concorde was flying again, first thing I saw this morning and I completely fell for it.

  • What are some of your worst purchasing regrets?

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  • Buying computer parts is one of those areas when buying high end is usually cheaper in the long run. My 5800X3D / 3090 build is still extremely relevant despite being two generations behind the latest hardware. I have no desire to upgrade and I’ll probably be able to push it for another 2-4 years easily.

    Never bought a Windows license though, and I’ve been building PCs since 1998.

  • UBC Engineers Develop Stir Stick to Detect GHB & Spiked Drinks in Seconds

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  • As someone who’s recreationally used GHB and its relative GBL, it can fuck you up way beyond severe intoxication in 15-30 minutes. I’ve seen people have a blast on 1.5 mL of GBL, but be comatose on 2 or 2.5 mL. GBL is one of the recreational drugs with the lowest therapeutic ratios I’ve ever experienced. The window from “I’m not feeling anything” to “feeling great” to completely passed out, unable to be awoken by any means is maybe 1.5 mL.

  • How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze

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  • I just think this is a stretch from an article that says they may deploy the military at once place on the southern border. I don't think this article discusses something that is going to give the US a taste of their own medicine; nor do I think the military will start violating habeas corpus willy nilly across the country. Nor do I think they're going to be conducting airstrikes and launching tomahawks at peoples houses. That's military havoc.

    Maybe an unfortunate lost hiker who happens to stumble into that specific area on the border gets detained, but this potential deployment will not even be seen by an overwhelming majority of people in the US.

    The police and ICE are much more relevant threats to any random person in the US, but they're not military. The military isn't going to start doing those things in your last paragraph, they've got other agencies for that, and they're already doing what you're talking about.

  • How Trump Is Leaning on the Military to Fulfill His Hopes of Mass Deportations and an Immigration Freeze

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  • How is this going to affect US citizens, are they illegally crossing the border?

  • Why aren't computer monitors more commonly square, specifically in the workplace?

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  • That just isn’t true. Viewing 16:9 on 4:3 doesn’t mean half your screen is black bars.

  • DEATH STRANDING has surpassed 20 million players worldwide

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  • I didn’t hate it, but nothing hooked me after I put in about 10 hours and I just ended up forgetting about it. It wasn’t particularly challenging but it was a huge time sink for the amount of progress I made. The social features detracted from the immersion.

    I like the idea of meticulously planning for a trek in a highly atmospheric, apocalyptic, and dangerous wilderness, and having to make difficult decisions about gear/loot that weight limits impose, but I feel the STALKER games do this much better.

  • Why Elon Musk and Tesla Have a Legal Bone to Pick With Wisconsin

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  • When the worst person you know makes a good point. There’s no reason to prohibit direct car sales to consumers except lobbying by car dealerships. Still, fuck Elon, he’s much worse than a car salesman.

  • Virgin Physicists

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  • Not knocking people's choices, it just wasn't for me. If math in reality isn't math in education, it's even better that I left.

    I'll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There's no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.

  • Virgin Physicists

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  • Respect. Physics is way up there in terms of hard science nerd cred.

  • Virgin Physicists

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  • Eh, it's just fundamentally ugly to me and that really turned me off. Rounding doesn't help, that's like turning the lights off for sex to make it better. I still know the ugliness exists, even if I don't see it.

    Engineering is still very cool to me, and I have huge respect for those who do it, but I'd never have made it. It's physics but even further perverted by reality. Math was beautiful to me because of how "pure" it was. Just straight logic, divorced from the messy world we live in. Tidy coefficients and elegant derivations.

  • Virgin Physicists

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  • Numbers like that are why I quit majoring in mechanical engineering. Physics took the beauty of math and made it ugly.

    You knew something was wrong in calculus when you got a fucked up coefficient that wasn’t a nice number.

  • Big Marijuana don't want you to know...

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  • Spun is also fucked up on hallucinogens, like at a festival when you take too much acid.

  • Big Marijuana don't want you to know...

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  • You didn’t discover this as a child? Shit, spinning around was the first high I ever had, followed a few years later by hyperventilation.

  • Chat, is this accurate?

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  • They’re different species.

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  • Imagine if George Soros was the head of said organization. They would be absolutely losing their minds.

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  • I’m aware. I’m also a medical lab scientist and the entire thing screamed bullshit from the start, not necessarily due to the feasibility of testing on small volumes, but things like calibration and quality control.

  • Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying Demanded In Wisconsin

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  • Prosecute for what, exactly?

  • DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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  • Why is there a need to rewrite it at all? Is it because COBOL is basically ancient hieroglyphics to modern programmers thus making it hard to maintain or update?