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frezik

@ frezik @midwest.social

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  • A friendly reminder, the USA took 4 Presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollar and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban.

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  • As of 2022, there were about 195k Afghan immigrants in the US. The vast majority of them coming in after 2010. Did they all help torture people?

  • smart bed

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  • Even if you use plain construction pine with a simple design, it'll probably last longer than you do. That's what we did.

    We had a bed frame from a "nice" furniture store, and when I saw it going in, I knew immediately it wasn't going to last. Lots of parts with screws that were really shallow and would back out easily. They had to be shallow because the wood was so thin. Hard to tell when it's at the store, but watching the delivery people put it together, it was obvious.

    Did a few things to keep it together, but once it broke beyond reasonable repair, I made a simple platform bed frame and called it good. Has lots more underbed storage space and you could probably build a tank on top of it.

  • What's your useless skill?

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  • Why anyone would even start a YouTube channel right now is beyond me. Unless you're planning to go full Louis Rossman and DGAF.

  • A friendly reminder, the USA took 4 Presidents, thousands of lives, trillions of dollar and 20 years to replace Taliban with Taliban.

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  • Are people who leave the US now in the wake of the Trump Administration also traitors to their country?

  • Sony Believes Concord Failed Because of an Overly Competitive Market

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  • Who could have guessed that ahead of time? The industry is famous for seeing a successful new strategy and then driving it into the ground with a list of copycats. The strategy has made so much money before; why would it ever have failed this time?

    /s

    (Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee)

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  • Pascal's Wager, as well as other "logical proofs" for God like the Kalam Cosmological Argument, never get Christians or other religious people anywhere they want to go. Even if we accept their conclusions as given, it tells us nothing about the nature of that god. They want their god to be the one, and that doesn't follow from any of these. Which is what the comic in OP is getting at.

    As far as the conclusions go, worshiping the Flying Spaghetti Monster is as good as any.

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’

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  • Tactical nukes can stop just about any invasion.

  • ‘No Kings’ was biggest protest in U.S. history: data analyst

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  • It's tricky to estimate things. If you take footage from drones or helicopters, how many people will be hidden behind trees? There are ways to guess, but those come with assumptions that can give you very different numbers. Local organizers, police, and the media can all come to different numbers with perfectly reasonable differences in assumptions or techniques.

    This should be kept in mind for any big outdoor event where there's no specific entry points to count people going by. Affects Trump's parade, too.

  • ‘No Kings’ was biggest protest in U.S. history: data analyst

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  • Correct stat, but it's not like you get to 3.5% and then the regime magically falls. There's context around that. It requires keeping up the pressure.

    We can't fizzle out the way the George Floyd protests did.

  • ‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers

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  • That $25 estimate included a 30% profit margin already.

  • JavaScript programming

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  • Yeah, those are mostly showing off. They're not really what I'm getting at, either. I more want to challenge people to make useful things simply.

    And yes, there are ways that JavaScript can be used to give users a faster and more streamlined experience. The web as it stands is so far past that justification. I swear there's lots of "full stack" devs that haven't a clue how to make a site without React.

  • G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’

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  • Ukraine had nukes and gave them up. They were invaded.

    Iraq gave up their WMD program after the first Gulf War. They were invaded again.

    Iran definitely had a nuclear program, but doesn't appear to be pursuing it anymore. They're getting attacked and quite possibly will get invaded.

    South Africa had a nuclear program and gave it up. Left alone.

    The Great Powers, particularly the United States but also Russia, have shown that your country should just keep going once you start. Chances are, you'll get invaded, anyway.

    This is not the way towards anti-proliferation.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • They're destroying humanity both physically and mentally, so I certainly hope so.

  • Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering

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  • I'm unimpressed by the people who use it.

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  • Aerosmith isn't classic . . . goddammit.

  • Being an Anarchist is being the corpse on the Road that gets run over by both

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  • Nothing in particular, but I'm happy to answer questions. Getting to know other community makerspaces in the region is a good idea. Everyone was winging it, but figured it out.

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  • Momma has a squeezebox daddy don't sleep at night

  • JavaScript programming

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  • I'd like full stack developers to try something. Next time you have an itch for a personal project, see if you can make it with no frontend JavaScript. Just some CSS and HTML forms. All templating handled on the backend. Just try it and see how far you get. Don't worry if it looks like a GeoCities page.

    Then try finding places where JavaScript would make it more responsive or better UX in some way. Does the back button still work? Is it actually faster? Does it provide any benefit at all?

    Maybe it does, but just try.

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  • "They did it for COVID, therefore we get to do a for everything else" - MAGA, probably