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mekka okereke :verified: (mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 09:48:14 JST 
mekka okereke :verified:
That is a very Mastodon response.
The only math I need to show, is right here:
1) During the height of a pandemic that was decimating Black communities, following the George Floyd protests where Black people begged for help avoiding the criminal justice hell that Biden himself had helped create with his crime bill and pushing for harsher local enforcement... Biden gave $52 billion to local governments, and even used the State of the Union address and other forums to compel cities and states to spend that relief money on cops and jails.
2) There is no part 2. Read 1) again. Do math on those numbers.
It's 2025, and people are really still wondering why fewer Black people were going to vote for Biden than any Dem candidate in modern history. People are talking about "The economy," because it's less painful than confronting this. People love to talk *about* Black men Dem voters, but no one likes to talk *to* Black men Dem voters. It's easier to pretend that millions of Black men turned to Trump (they didn't), than to confront the reality that millions of Black men said "I'm not going to stand in line for hours to vote for Biden, if he's just going to do this to me, while white Dem voters aren't even going to pretend to care."
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Yet another Josh :donor: (crankylinuxuser@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 19-Dec-2024 07:46:41 JST 
Yet another Josh :donor:
Unfortunately, in a capitalist society, it's easy to sell your ethics away so that YOU and your family have: housing, food, water, electricity, medical, internet, basic communications tech.
And if those ethics you sell are devising plans to save money by harming completely random unknown people via generalistic policies that kill them, well, yeah. They're faceless numbers.
It's like that meme where there's a button. If you press it, you get $1M . But some random person dies. In our society, if you have access to that button, spamming the button gets you piles of money. And THOSE types spam it as hard as they can.
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clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 19-Feb-2024 21:58:24 JST 
clacke
@xela That's a very cool question and I got curious too. As it has been a year since the original article and the toroidal propeller has received some attention during the year, I was hoping someone would have looked into the reverse case, and they have!
A couple of proper papers out there, but I settled for this chatty fellow who just took a propeller, put it in some wind and wrote down the numbers.
It doesn't actually fare that well, and the comments speculate that this is because the toroidal propeller primarily addresses cavitation, which occurs when it's (1) in a liquid (2) propelling.
I would still be interested to know if this or another wind turbine design could reduce noise compared to current designs!
Robert Murray Smith #1846: "Further Testing Of The Toroidal Propeller For Wind Turbine Use"
farside.link/invidious/watch?v…
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Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag: (ryanc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 22-Jan-2024 14:24:46 JST 
Ryan Castellucci :nonbinary_flag:
I was working on writing a big integer math implementation in C for doing elliptic curve math in Web Assembly.
There is no arithmetic with carry in wasm, and I'm trying to decide whether it would be more efficient to use 30 bit limbs for more efficient carry when squaring or tripling numbers.
It looks like it'll require an extra limb for multiply/square operations for 256/384 bit curves, and for all operations on 521 bit curves.
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