"oh sorry teams mobile didn't send the push notification" I don't think I've ever gotten one that I needed to get when I needed to get it.
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"oh sorry teams mobile didn't send the push notification" I don't think I've ever gotten one that I needed to get when I needed to get it.
I'm kinda in the middle. I strongly believe that he will definitely try, but I also think the speed they're doing this shows that even they know it's probably not going to work
It's definitely possible! I don't *think* she tested me and it wasn't ever anything severe, just like a couple days of feeling sick. I was 5 at the time so I have no memory of it at all. A few months later I was in the hospital with a blood sugar of 500+
Like sure there's a falloff and you can only feasibly limit the failures so far, but you can also eliminate a lot of idiocy by designing things well! There's no stopping a human who is bound and determined to be an idiot but that's not most users!
Yeah I don't remember it but my mom is pretty sure that I had a very bad cold that triggered my type 1, the timeline matches and I've heard similar.
I get that.. I'm "lucky" enough that I only really have to deal with one thing to balance (blood sugar/insulin ratio) but even that gets really complicated really fast, and we mostly kinda understand it!
Well, that's.... A pretty big jump. Congrats on the hyperglycemia!
Wait how many A1C points are we talking here?
*rolls 4d20 psychic*
But have you considered that instead of "existential threat", more Americans would understand the term "big scary".
The political temperature of the average normie dem is somewhere between "Union Civil War soldiers in Georgia" and "Dauchau Liberation", roughly speaking.
No? Just.. don't fight them on a front you can't win on? Focus efforts on eroding support and the future, not on direct action with a significantly more powerful force
I.. I mean. Again, this is.. not an escalation that the civilians will win. Like.. there *aren't* really options, and the funding and production differences really don't make it very possible - if civilian "deterrents" become a threat, there will be more research done to defeat them.
"I want to annoy the cops, so I'm going to go get absolutely hammered and drive around the whole city and get on their nerves!" Similar energy. Devote your life to doing something about this, not to self-destructive technology battles you're not going to win.
Well, if you want to play *that* game, they already have the technological advantage, and it puts the user at far more risk than it protects. But sure, whatever, go do what you want. Don't be surprised when they find you. Because that's the other part about them - they're very, very easy to find.
Lol, yeah I do because otherwise they'd be exposing themselves to risk, which as we all know, they're not fans of.
For the sake of argument I'll accept the "Cops are THE ENEMY" part of that. Is making their jobs harder worth other people's lives? Is it worth the political fallout when someone inevitably dies from it?
(and way less risk of accidentally impeding themselves or someone else)
Or they just called the ISP and had them shut it off for 15 minutes and called when they left? That's... Way easier than using a jammer or unplugging things.
Uh, no. And keep in mind that while you're playing with that jammer to annoy the cops, you're also risking random people's lives. The firefighters across town? They're affected. A neighbor calling 911 because they're involved in a domestic? Affected That's what I mean by *emergency communications*
The cops don't need a signal jammer to shut down your WiFi. There's a couple things to unpack, but there's probably a confusion of terms here. They could: 1. Shut down your Internet which would have the desired effect. 2. Get the ISP to shut off the modem/WiFi router on their end. Or 3, yes, jam it
(I mean, the practical reason they don't have broad spectrum "knock everything over" type jammers is because, frankly, the cops use cell phones and emergency communications too and don't like being without them!)
That's just not true though? The cops.. really do not have jammers. Hell, the military doesn't even really use jammers in a non-wartime sense. And when the cops *do* use them it's a very specific type of jammer for a very specific reason, which generally means it was.. not the stuff you can find
All I'm saying is following orders to march in a park and put on a big show are a big difference from "stop the elections", and the second carries much more risk of the troops just flat ignoring it
There's a certain choice you have to make when you are in that position. "Do I jeopardize my life, freedom, and livelihood to disobey this order?" The things the military has done are performative statements with very little actual risk. But if that changes, the calculation for that changes too.
Hi, emergency communications guy here, jammers suck and when I find you using one I'm going to be upset, and that's before the bigger, scarier, very upset people get there
I think I'd place that firmly in the "if you do not know how the tool you are using works, you should not be using it" category. Showing the full name won't help if the application never requests admin permissions, and there's plenty of bad things you can do without popping UAC
I am. The "New Budget 2026(1).docx.exe" attack path has existed for at least.. 20 years now? I can think of no good reason to hide them, given how easy it is to convince someone to run your "document"
From the hallowed halls of Versailles (pronounced ver-sails) to the antiquities of Russia (rusea), to the city of Lima (as in beans), Ohio has much to offer everyone!
I'm going to do you a favor and not tell you how much one costs, otherwise you'll be like me and planning to buy one when the opportunity presents itself.
I might end up on the wrong side of history here but I'm still fundamentally unsure about combining bikes and cars (versus the other options). As someone who doesn't bike much nowadays but used to fairly regularly, the last thing I want is to be anywhere near a car, for a whole bunch of reasons
The average swing voter opposes Imperial oppression (specifically the one time a Stormtrooper looked at him funny) but is in favor of PORD. They also kinda think the Ghor had it coming.
I appreciate your optimism even if it's hard for me to believe all of it right now.
It is endlessly infuriating to me that this is what has happened. We could have stopped this, so many times. But instead.. here we are.
And while yes, "codifying" our rights into law would be a nice moral victory, it provides no protection at *all* from the Roberts Court deciding to play Calvinball with it (or, more likely, declining to enforce the law when it is broken)
(which isn't to try to doom and gloom this - we *do* have ways to fight back, and we had ways to stop it, but unfortunately those ways are more along the lines of "kick them out and make sure they can't touch power again, ever")
That's what I referenced with Trump v Anderson, yeah. In theory, an amendment would be harder. In actual practice, they'll find that a historical reading of the Constitution shows that most of the signers were not gay, therefore they never intended rights to apply, or similar BS
And the Supreme Court can choose to overturn it, even if they can't muster the legislative power. I'd say the way to fix this was an amendment, but.. well. Trump v Anderson.
Having experienced at least one driving-related hellthread, I can absolutely confirm that Driving Discourse is the true Worst Discourse. It is the true friendship-render, annihilator of peace, subsumer of alliance.
I legitimately don't actually know how accurate that data is, given the pervasiveness of speeding, and the fact that generally, when that's recorded, speeding is listed as a contributing factor (because that's how law enforcement works) regardless of if it was directly a cause
Related: my pet peeve of putting a stop sign at the end of the ramp onto an Interstate, making merging in any amount of traffic inordinately unsafe
Why is Obama Tom Hanks?
I mean the stupid is not limited to teachers... futurism.com/judge-accuse...
Hold on I think I need to fire up my copy of Visio to make a flowchart here, ok so if it's made by an animal it's ok and if it's made by a bacteria it's maybe ok if it looks like the original substance?
Since apparently 2 of those things are Good Things but one is a Bad Thing because.. Vibes?
Wait hold on yeah what exactly is the difference between an egg (the result of an animal using a metabolic process to create a food), yogurt (ditto), and alcohol (ditto, again)?
Now I could see this being a front/back type of thing, which sorta seems like what you linked above - the phone has 2 relatively wide-angle antennas for the front and back and selects the stronger of the two, and that would work reasonably well.
Right but like.. ok you're walking in a hallway and you turn 90 degrees, with your phone facing forward. At that point, if you're using a directional array, your connection is just *gone*. And it's probably quick enough that it's going to take a bit to recover.
This isn't an issue on the tower because the subscriber's angle changes much less often relative to the antenna array (and you can easily compensate for this by widening the beam slightly and adjusting as you move)
Well, I mean, the issue isn't really knowing which way the subscriber is facing compared to the base radio, or even building the hardware, it's "is it worth dropping the connection for long enough to adjust the beam-forming array when the phone's angle is changed", which happens very often
(mostly because combining "highly directional" with "often moves rapidly and changes the direction it's facing" is not an easy problem to solve!)
Unless I'm *far* behind on 5g tech (which, admittedly, isn't exactly my field of expertise), my understanding is that the phased/directional "beam forming" is done at the tower, not at the phone. I can't actually think of a way to reasonably do that and maintain a directional beam on a phone
Beam.. through... AAAAAAA Beam forming tech is base radio side not subscriber side you absolute goobers!
Oh I didn't even think about him pulling down-ballots.... Could... Is it.. maybe we can be purple again???
I've been intentionally disconnected to keep myself from losing it the past few months so I don't have a good gauge on local sentiment but I can definitely say sentiment does not *feel* anywhere close to as far right as it was in November
Honestly, arguably the only reason he lost it to begin with was anti-incumbent sentiment and running on the same ballot as Trump
Honestly, my theory? We have a moderate governor and a hard-right legislature, moderated by statewide referendums. There's no stove-touching because we've already referendumed out the worst of it, and DeWine slows it down and we're slowly increasing the dial that says "far-right" until people yell.
Depends on which Tony Stark we're talking. The early Elon-inspired billionaire spoiled child or.. literally any point in his life after, lol
"oops"
Don't forget -- Screwdriver (high-risk)
(your second sticking point is probably, more likely, "class/racial based school system designs working as designed" more than the tests, but that's hard to solve for other reasons)
Yeah you'd have to thread a very careful needle of "hard enough test to ensure they know the basics" combined with "not so hard that kids stress over it", plus a few other pressures.
Free so zero burden on the students and yearly/automatic so they don't get lost after failing the first time, and it can account for kids being slower/faster to learn
The way I'd envision it would be maybe as a set of tests given for free at school (or similar for kids in weird situations). Probably yearly, as a refresher, maybe integrated into their social studies/gov curriculum. Yearly to give everyone a chance to requalify and to reinforce the concepts?
And not to get too spoiler heavy but the way they tie things in to events you've seen in the movies towards the end, rather than all throughout the show, makes it feel like these are just.. people that were in the right place at the right time to make the impossible happen. It's frankly amazing
I can't say I agree 100% with your ranking, but I absolutely agree on this. I also agree with @mirasair.bsky.social's caveat that one of the things that makes Andor work so well is the tenuous (present, but only because they're in the same universe and tangentially related) connection to the movies
New Phyrexia/Mirrodin 2 was a game breaking set for a whole bunch of fun reasons, that being a major one of them...
"I would simply not end up in a concentration camp where I had to kill guards to escape"
Here, here's a little tweak to what you said. "Every single person looked at Trump's plan and said it was a terrible idea. Trump then proceeded to enact his crazy plan. When Biden took over, he pulled out, since the plan was already in motion, and it, predicably, went badly". See what changed?
Hell they nerfed the Prayer skill so hard that almost nobody thinks it does anything at all now aside from an ingame effect!
Power creep and don't even mention all the infinite glitches and stuff. But instead of patching that and fixing it they just cut the loot tables back hard.
Freaking Trump Steaks™-ass administration
"God this whole thing is so stupid just make it go away" "Ok boss" *Makes it go away in the most incompetent manner possible*
Like I absolutely think some in the inner circle will try. I don't know if they'll win over the big guy, and even if they do, it's far from guaranteed that they'll be successful. I hate that I live in a world where I have to game this out in my head but that's where it's been since Nov 2024
I do that on my work phone (where I need to answer inbound calls when I'm on call) "[Workplace] this is [name]" Tends to throw the spammers off and it's professional enough to sound good when I get a real call.
I'm well aware - I'm also very worried about how many of those volunteers are no longer with the FAA, and how much the overall stress will impact the already extremely high-intensity operation...
I'm beginning to be very, very worried about Oshkosh. Which is less than a week away.
As a type 1 diabetic I am so sad when I have to go to a Pepsi place and the only diet option is diet Pepsi. Diet mountain dew is.. acceptable. Diet coke is best.
Not that it's stopped them before, of course, but in theory, yeah this is the "right" way
Wait *transporter machine*??? Ok yeah that's a stupid thing to get caught on but you didn't even get the name of the futuristic utopia space tech right lmao
Yeah the most impactful ones are the "wait what does the up and down arrow means" questions too, because then I get to laugh and say "well uh it can make it go up OR down, it depends!" "Wait how do you figure it out?" "... Lots of trial and hopefully not much error. And being very very careful"
At this point I usually just send interested people to diatribe.org/diabetes-man... Because even though *that* is an oversimplification too, it at least gives a decent idea of how complicated it actually is
Anyways, I'll probably end my late night rambling here with that, but it's one of those things that just irks my conscience about how things work, if for no other reason than because I don't remotely have the knowledge or power to do anything about it...
And I guess a lot of my experience is with kids and young adults who have "fallen through the cracks" and it's very worrying to me that some of these kids are at risk for not graduating (which is obviously a huge impact on their life) just because they don't do well at school
I think the best I've reasonably experienced is getting pushback from a (well-respected) school. As an example, my (fairly decent) private high school doesn't do class rank as a matter of principle
I guess I'm saying (based on personal and second-hand experience) that you can absolutely learn at school without making good grades (and the opposite is true as well), and if the objective of the system is for people to *learn*.. grades don't necessarily measure that?
Because often grades are used as some kind of indicator of more than that, as are test scores. If you're a straight D student you're "just too stupid/lazy/etc to get good grades". Which again I'm.. not sure what, if any, the "fix" is for this?
I just.. don't know of a way to make it better.....
I have believed for a very long time that schools, and this kind of test in particular, are optimized for the kind of person who excels at taking tests and going to school and doing the associated work, which is not necessarily the same thing as "smartest" or even "understands the material"
Brain Dead I think was the name? It was a weird comedy-politics-horror mix that was.. very memorable
Diabetes is about staying in balance, sugar makes blood sugar go up, insulin makes it go down. (So many more things than that but that's the basic mechanics). And low blood sugar can kill fast (minutes) while high is much slower (hours/days).
For those who aren't in the know, the safe bet is almost always, like, 99% of the time, sugar, even if you don't know what's wrong. A little sugar isn't gonna make a difference if you're high blood sugar/DKA'd, but it absolutely will save your life if you're low. And the opposite applies too.
Every time I hear that stupid song
The number of hypoglycemic death stares I have given people when they ask 'but isn't sugar bad for your diabetes?" ***MAYBE BUT NOT RIGHT NOW***
I don't love what it's doing to copyright law because as a bystander who's been affected by a bit of it.. I don't really see the copyright system getting better after adding a whole additional complication like this. There's positives to the tech, sure, but man are there a lot of downsides...
Yeah I guess to me it's a wide range of opinions, many of them negative. It's good at some things, some of which are worrying both from a moral but also legal perspective, it's bad at others, which is worrying because many promoters of it encourage these, leading to worse experiences.
This is why I left the caveat of "unless there's a very good reason". I can think of a few, but also, in general, planning for this kind of thing should have kept it from ever happening.
yeah, a lot of that use is location-specific. Here in Ohio we don't generally get a lot of tsunamis...
I came here to post exactly this. Even an every-few-seconds ding would be better than the EAS alarm noise for an amber alert 5 hours away from me in the middle of the night