Notices by profdc9 (profdc9@mastodon.social)

@vkc @hellomiakoda @Blueteamsherpa Do it now... this conversation has become pointless already.

@hellomiakoda @Blueteamsherpa @vkc Enlighten me then.

@Blueteamsherpa @vkc You can care about abuse all you want. I don't condone that behavior either. However, caring alone does not stop catcalling or any kind of abusive behavior. If you want to stand up to bullies or abusers, you have to outlast them. Staying in a bubble doesn't do a thing for it.

@vkc I don't understand why you are on social media then. I understand you promote your Youtube channel here. I can not understand why those who promote themselves and become very public figures then complain when all of the responses to them are not positive. Some of the responses are certainly objectionable, but it's not reasonable to expect everyone to be reasonable. Mastodon is one of the more benign social media platforms but has its share of trolls, myself probably included now.

@0xabad1dea My hovercraft is full of eels.

@luckytran And for all these services you're not getting, they're going to increase your taxes and squander your Social Security.

@tk Is this a 4:1 Guanella balun (50 ohm side parallel windings, 200 ohm side in series)? Winding the two sets of turns couples their flux together, and the balun action is adversely affected. Each of turns should be on a separate toroid. Also, a 43 or 61 mix is generally used for transformers to get the maximum impedance.

@kottke I think Studio Ghibli is trying ensure that people can distinguish the real thing from the AI frauds.

@benroyce Trump has no plan and is not making any kind of offer. He does not have a coherent enough foreign policy to engage in diplomacy. At best everything is for optics and the next news cycle, so even if Trump actually offered Zelensky some concessions his words are practically meaningless. The world regards him as a dangerous buffoon now and holds him at arm's length. He's not even useful to his Russian handlers because he's too stupid and unpredictable.

@WarnerCrocker Concentration camps had a section for visitors to see to demonstrate that the "occupants" were being treated well. God knows what happens to Abrego Garcia when he goes back to the real prison.

@petergleick This puts us closer than ever to a coup, probably a military coup, as many people will likely accept unconstitutional despotic authority over superficially constitutional but despotic rule. Trump's rule is weak because he has been a buffoon and a cunning leader might seize control of government from all of these cowardly sycophants and opportunists. The regime consists of a small group of idiots and a demented man and could be easily rounded up.

@br00t4c In other news, the Canadian government has to educate Americans as to what tariffs are.

@brianmerchant Everything is just going to become a Xerox copy of a copy of a copy of a copy until everything is an unrecognizable gray blob. And because we will have lost the ability to distinguish any features, the gray blob will be the product.

@cindyweinstein Scottish billionaire author of book series about magical children intolerant of transgender people helps get vagina museum funded is not something I filled out on my Madlibs cards.

@tante I think "confabulation" is a more accurate word than "hallucination." Confabulation is the stitching together of facts and memories into what seems like a sensible whole when the connections are not there.

@jeffowski How could Christianity be the religion of the meek and oppressed after it became the state religion of the Roman Empire? In order for it to be accepted by the rich and powerful of Rome, the literal interpretation of the "camel passing through the eye of a needle" would have had to be rejected. So like so many other aspects of Christianity, compromises were made.

@WarnerCrocker The Dems will cave because they don't want to be the face of the shutdown and don't want to be the face of the opposition either.

@WarnerCrocker The worst part of that joke is that AI is favored because we prefer mechanical slaves to live humans.

@WarnerCrocker From now on, if anyone's going to be scamming seniors, it's the government.

@bruces I beg to differ. Many more people have seen the future optimism of Star Trek over any of the classic cyberpunk dystopia stories or series. I don't think science fiction has overall promoted a dismal future; it is the media that has propagated pessimism it to sell ads. In a lot of ways science has made life better but we believe it is worse and succumb to learned helplessness.