Notices by Barry Schwartz 🫖 (chemoelectric@masto.ai)

@AnOldGuy @VedaDalsette The United States is on the cusp of becoming majority non-white. California, by far the most populous state, already has done so.

There is a desperation afoot to prevent the change happening, and at least to establish a Jim Crow-like, white supremacist social order ahead of it happening. That is what Trump is a figurehead for.

People think it is a cult of Trump. I doubt it. Trump is just a face on a label. The Hate will survive Trump's dementia decline.

@br00t4c Too obscure.

I see Trump responded to Joe's "garbage gaffe" by associating himself with a garbage truck!

Trump is nothing if not a genius. And he is not a genius.

@br00t4c Experts shmexperts

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-vance-criminal-charges/

Trump, supposedly, is threatening a 100 percent tariff on countries blah blah blah.

In other words, he is promising to raise taxes!

He consistently does this. Trump went to the University of Pennsylvania and yet thinks tariffs are paid by somebody other than the purchaser.

During Trump's quasi-presidency, when he imposed a tariff on imported electronics, I DIRECTLY PAID A FIFTEEN DOLLAR TARIFF on a technical electronic device. The tariff was added to my bill, not to the price of my item.

@nihilvt I don't have the time to worry about your mental health, sorry.

@readbeanicecream One could have used colored vapor and seen the vortex directly. A vortex is the most intuitive potential answer, anyway, once mentioned.

(I live in tornado country.)

If the Supreme Court were about to declare the Democratic Party cannot choose a nominee, it might as well declare the Republican Party the only legal party and its nominee automatically president.

That is how silly this conversation is:

https://masto.ai/@chemoelectric/112832274928714005

@gwynnion @happymilk Republicans depend very much on keeping those parts of the Constitution that are there for historical reasons and are not suited to modern conditions.

Notice also how their law pundits preach against paying heed to modern conditions. They do it slyly, by calling it "originalism" rather than by a more proper name such as "retro-calendarism".

@DivineKestrel @lisamelton @fahrni @kdawson

"A human life would be better devoted to the perfection of painting by numbers than to such a project" is how I would have put it, but then I tend not to get my point across. :) (This is me saying I agree with you.)

@rodhilton He was called out for bullshitting on Twitter’s software, so I do know one thing: he’s a skilled bullshitter.

There are principles of psychology that say he almost surely uses the same method in all fields.

(I’m not a psychologist, but I am a skilled psychiatric client.)

@gnutelephony @baldur Brains also "reprogram" themselves by patch wiring!

@gnutelephony @baldur The key mistake made here is thinking that a person is a digital program. It is a widespread error. It is not so. Brains do not work that way. They are analog devices, if you will.

This should be obvious from the fact neurons often send chains of pulses, but never serial codes.

@gnutelephony @baldur If it were merely a computer program, presumably so. If flesh, then probably it would be considered a new person, legally.

@gnutelephony @baldur I wouldn't worry, because the necessary computer is the original brain in its original body. And it is on life support. And, anyway, why would anyone bother to replicate some dead person from a Dark Age?

@inthehands In English, yes, but not generally. It is a problem with people doing UI design in other languages.

@inthehands In particular, English speakers tend to translate to Esperanto imperatives when they should be translating to infinitives.

@inthehands Buttons should be labeled with infinitives (without "to" in Germanic languages).

@clmerle @tinydoctor I think it was a dinner request.