whotookkarl

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

Anyone who feels the freedom to fuck with our elections or disenfranchise voters should have the book thrown at them, maximum penalties under the statutes.

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

No need to guess, just look at how Trump’s confederates treat BLM protestors and their executioners: texastribune.org/…/daniel-perry-racist-comments-t…

Abbott made good on his promise and pardoned Perry last week for the murder a jury found him guilty of committing.

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

My assumption is economic in that they will continue to spend as oil and hydrocarbon fuels dependency drops worldwide as it’s replaced with renewables. It seems dogmatic organizations like religions, theocracies, etc tend to do poorly with incremental change, but we’ll see over the next couple decades. 30% of their trade is with China so it largely depends on Chinese markets and how/if they decide to change as the markets change.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

If you’re actually asking how to reach people about a delusional belief they hold it seems often if you try to show them evidence that directly contradicts their belief, argue reasonably, etc they will often become more entrenched in a defiant ‘you can’t teach me anything’ stance to protect their perceived self identity from unwarranted attacks. You have to demonstrate the warrant first.

A possibly more effective method seems to be temporarily accepting their proposed perspective, and asking skeptical questions to reduce their confidence in the delusion. Providing the questions to work it out themselves instead of forcing the conclusion. I haven’t read it yet but I’ve seen en.wikipedia.org/…/Combating_Cult_Mind_Control recommended as a study on cults and breaking their indoctrination & control tactics but I’m open to more contemporary recommendations if anyone has them.

whotookkarl, 2 days ago

If anarchists are often misunderstood I’d imagine libertarians even more so. Both philosophies advocate for the lack of a state, splitting between preference towards the community/collective vs individual, and are often misinterpreted to mean every thing the state does or should provide today can’t exist without it.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

The Princess Bride, silent movie comedies like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplain, or nature docs are my go to sick watches

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

The sex obsessed wet blankets in the clergy morality police probably shut down a concert or dance hall they weren’t invited to where people were actually having fun.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

People infected with conservatism tend to turn into Mr. Magoo when looking at the majority of evidence, it’s easier to accept and spread FUD that way.

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

The person holding the camera

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

Best we can do is cold and half spilled into a paper bag

whotookkarl, 3 days ago

Huckleberry but apparently they are really difficult to farm.

whotookkarl, 4 days ago

It is a “door bell” literally, I think we just associate doorbells with electricity because the mechanical ones created in the late 1800s weren’t around long historically before electricity was widely available. They had pull strings, buttons with springs to strike the bell, etc

whotookkarl, 5 days ago

Published by Elsevier their parent company 2023 financials: www.relx.com/~/…/relx-2023-financial-review.pdf nothing noted as funding research or science that I can see, it would probably eat into their 33% profit margins or 800m stock buybacks.

whotookkarl, 5 days ago

Yes, if you consider more than one issue (X, Y, Z) when deciding who or who not to vote for you are a multi issue voter, if you only consider a single issue (X) when deciding who or who not to vote for, you are a single issue voter. It’s not per candidate, it’s per vote.

whotookkarl, 6 days ago

Easy, it’s 1715894564 after Jan 1 1970 00:00:00.

whotookkarl, 10 days ago

Didn’t read the article, did Nintendo pay to develop this to be able to preserve the games history and release them for free so they can get some new fans for these retro games and IPs to maybe encourage them to buy some newer released games in the same series?

whotookkarl, 10 days ago

Maybe it was written that way to make you read faster as you get toward the end to convey a sense of facetiousness because I didn’t need to read the article to know none of that’s true, who knows. I’m probably just spending too much time online lately.

whotookkarl, 10 days ago

BOM U+FEFF is another fun one, most editors won’t show it but it can cause errors like when I found one in a SQL script that was combined from existing utf-8 files together with cat. You’ll see it in a hex editor or in notepad I think it just made the rest of the line italic.

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

Dang it Bobby, all morality is subjective

whotookkarl, 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

He extended it on another late night talk show a couple days ago, still has the contract ready

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

I think there’s also a general age demographic shift down as the mods and people who care about moderation, third party apps, bots, etc left. Something similar happened during the digg exodus where social norms and consensus around some topics changed, just not at much with the bots at the time. People who remain may not care, or they just may be unaware. There was always some propaganda blindness too in the ‘i don’t use social media just reddit’ crowd.

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

Hey thanks for completely missing the point

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

If you find yourself in a hole, first step is to stop digging.

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

I’m a 30 foot tall lumberjack from Antarctica

whotookkarl, 11 days ago

St. God’s Memorial Hosp i tal