I am a time-traveling dolphin. An entity made of giant balls gave me the ability to breathe underwater, but this ability was recently stolen from me by aliens.
Sometimes I turn into a bird.
I know someone who is 100% disabled and works a full time job. That job sucks, frankly. People look down on him for working in customer service, but his body is too broken to enter the trades, and his mental health is too poor to attend college (even though it would be free through the GI bill). I don't even think he needs the money, he just wants to be "normal" and he doesn't mind the work. He and his wife do not live lives of luxury and their kids seem happy.
He would not be able to support his family on this low-paid job he has. His wife also works.
Perhaps the problem isn't disabled vets getting paid, maybe the problem is that we keep sending them out to die for oil. Maybe the problem is that life in America is hard for anyone who isn't in the top 10%.
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Right? These laptops dont even have floppy drives.
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Friend, the magazine this article is from is named Jacobin, after that political movement.
It is a US-based magazine, and it's not very popular, so it's understandable that you haven't heard of it. But it does pay to read the article before commenting.
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Errr... am I mistaken? This is the first time I'm hearing about nationalizing SpaceX and it's from Jacobin....
Does Jacobin make a habit of calling people communists? Pretty sure they advocate for socialist positions usually....
big spiderman pointing at spiderman vibes if true
I'm not coming to argue you on your main point. As a Communist, I think communism would be great in Japan, and a lot of other places.
However, you are completely wrong about the USA not defending Japan. Unlike taiwain there are several large american military bases in Japan, and actually Japan is not allowed to have a large military of its own through its constitution (I edited this, corrected)
article 9 of Japanese constitution involving its military
Okinawa is one base a lot of people have heard of, but there's like 20 american military bases there. Japan depends on the USA for its foreign defense.
Since Japan is the largest foreign holder of american government debt (bonds) it might be appropriate to call them a vassal state.
It's rather technical but if you were considering getting smart home devices, you can use home assistant to replace the app on your phone. I followed this guide to make a very lazy Roku card for HA. Then, you can keep the TV on your LAN but ban it from the internet.
I have a pihole on the network to keep the ads off the TV but honestly I wish we hadn't bought the thing. It sounds like you can't use a different DNS? That's a real shame. I'm more or less in your situation, seems like a waste to toss a working device just because it's a rebellious piece of shit.
On my Asus router, the relevent SSH screen is under Administration -> System and looks like this:
My router wasn't compromised. If it was, ssh would be set to yes, and the sus key/port would be visible here. Please forgive the ultra paranoid purple boxes.
As far as IP blocking, I'm not sure it's necessary, but I followed this link. It's pretty easy to get new IPs, so if the attacker wanted to, they would do that. It's more important to update your router.
I mean.... Ramanujan was the GOAT, but he was still able to do his proofs. That's more or less my point. He didn't suddenly convert a bunch of Oxford mathematicians to Hinduism because he was able to do incredible math proofs (i think they would have been similarly unconvinced he was a time traveller). The proof was in the pudding.... in the proofs.
In order to do Wile's proof of Fermat's last theorem, you have to invent 100 years of math from memory, something Wiles himself would (almost certainly) struggle to do, but maybe he could pull it off. I remember reading an article about Wile's proof, and he was incredibly humble about it, and described it as a collaborative effort between himself and his peers IIRC. The proof itself wasn't complete without a correction from another math academic IIRC. This thread is like, kind of a misunderstanding of math academics.
In 1875 you don't have ZFC set theory and Cantor's works are bleeding edge (I think Cantor's work is controversial and incomplete in this time... fuck it, maybe you should just work with Cantor himself if you can find him. Maybe he'd believe you. I didn't take math history IDK)
I cannot find a source to link to it now but I remember reading through Godel's incompleteness theorem, a proof of Fermat's theorem isn't possible without the extensions of classical mathematics that were developed in the 20th century.
You'll have to take my word for it on that last bit. I'm a time traveling dolphin, after all.
Anyway, that's more or less my point, you'd have to basically be an incredibly talented math professor (in theoretical mathematics, not applied) to demonstrate this proof to satisfaction to a bunch of professors in 1875. You'd also probably have to be white and male. It's just not something a casual lemmy poster can like, do, you know? There's a reason that Fermat's theorem wasn't proven for 350 years despite being accepted as true.
(edit: I am tired so this is rambley)
You get into any university, ask to get the math/physics teachers together and present it to them, this certainly will start a chain reaction.
The demonstration of the proof is actually incredibility complicated. You'd need to develop many new concepts of mathematics (all requiring proper proofs and getting your new contemporaries to agree with you) before you can preform it.
All without the use of a electronic calculator and modern computer graphing and visualization techniques.
I'm not convinced its actually feasible... You'd be recognized as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time from all the new concepts you've introduced, not just the proof for Fermat's last theorem. I'd pick something else. Like predicting an earthquake or something.
OK?
Of course there's splatter when you're sending your waste through the air like that. Just sit down when you pee. No researchers or additional bathroom fixtures needed.
Really tired of men demanding special privileges for their irrational (and unhygienic!) habits. They can just sit down when they relieve themselves like the rest of us.
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Germans have a word for this emotion: Schadenfreude (it's difficult to pronounce you should click the video for pronunciation advice).
German engineering is amazing, they're even incredible wordsmiths.
In the bottom right hand corner, you can see the words "tribute to a comic by BORS". The comic artist's website has this to say about this comic: "Tribute to that famous and cool comic by BORS".
Its fine I guess? I think he should have linked to Matt Bors's website (which is easily found on google) but whatever. It is a low effort MS paint comic, after all.
You should be concerned with debt/GDP ratio, not the overall number. We've had no problem paying our bills which is why in the past we have had an excellent rating. Historically our debt/GDP ratio has been in line with other nations with developed economies. Nothing unusual.
Moody's is lowering our rating because our GDP is projected to go down (due to tarrifs and destruction of the public sector) and we are going to be operating with a budget deficit. Decrease in GDP means less tax money coming in, and we will be adding to the deficit anyway (and thus our debt) due to Republican policies.
Trump has also said he didn't feel like paying the interest on the debt, which no one took seriously and he didn't follow through with. Thank god. Since most tbills are owned by US holders, not paying out bonds is a direct self-own.
Focusing on the actual debt total doesn't paint a full picture. Moody's is only concerned whether tbills purchased will actually pay.
I guess I will over-explain my snarky comment.
I'm making an analogy with robbing a bank, something that everyone would agree is a criminal activity because:
- Bill Gates is a billionaire. Billionaires hoard wealth that they cannot possibly spend in their lifetimes and use that excess wealth to influence our political processes to get what they want. The existence of billionaires is violence, just not the sort of direct violence we all recognize.
If you don't find that point convincing:
- The only reason Bill Gates is as wealthy as he is is due to Microsoft being so profitable. I think it's funny how quickly everyone has forgotten how anti-competitive and scummy Microsoft was during the 1990-2010s (and even today), and they definitely wouldn't be where they are today without those practices. If you believe in free markets, this should make you angry, because competition is good for the consumer. Anti-competitive practices could be seen as a type of theft here.
A great deal of his wealth is unearned and comes at a cost to society in the form of an unfair technology market. He is the benefactor of a system who rewards those who have the most already, a system that allows your neighbors be homeless, sick and/or without basic necessities.
Kind of like a bank robber has unearned wealth. A bank robber (who got away with it!) giving away their unearned wealth to their favored charities doesn't really belong in Uplifting News.
It is a joke. TrueAnon is a podcaster. He's shitposting here 100%
Fucking lol. I can't believe that shit's real and from Reuters of all places.
I couldn't find the graph on an original Reuters article (they must have gotten embarrassed and pulled it down lmao), but Business Insider still has it on their version of the article
(edit: and this is just time vs murders, not time vs gun deaths, a better statistic for this)
Bank Robber vows to give away his stolen funds by 20 years from now to charities of his choosing. He's one of the good ones! So uplifting!
I totally love the energy of the poster in OPs image, it's so warm and wholesome.
That said, it's probably true that cats (and dogs for that matter) have a variety of coat patterns because of domestication. Not only do humans choose to breed pets for their coat variations, selecting for tamer, friendlier animals actually also just introduces a variety of differences from their wild counterparts. Coat color is one of them.
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/197/3/795/5935921?login=false
But the [related traits from domestication] as a whole, with its diverse array of affected morphological traits, clearly cannot be caused simply by alterations of adrenal function. What, therefore, might be the common factor? What all of these diverse traits, including the adrenals, share is that their development is closely linked to neural crest cells (NCCs). NCCs are the vertebrate-specific class of stem cells that first appear during early embryogenesis at the dorsal edge (“crest”) of the neural tube and then migrate ventrally throughout the body in both the cranium and the trunk, giving rise to the cellular precursors of many cell and tissue types and indirectly promoting the development of others (Carlson 1999; Hall 1999; Gilbert 2003; Trainor 2014).
Edit: the adrenal gland is mentioned here because lessening the function of the "flight or flight" response appears to makes friendlier animals with better temperament for domestication. The idea is that domestic animals were selected for temperament first, and everything else is less important (why would you keep an animal that won't stop biting you?).
pressured speech?