SeikoAlpinist

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[–] SeikoAlpinist 70 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I guess the world burning was worth sticking it to Kamala for Gaza.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 19 points 2 weeks ago

The media normalized him. Just like they did to Hitler.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 10 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know about overvaluation of individual companies, but i do know that DJIA is overrated legacy crap from the 1870's that only exists because human computational power was limited.

The S&P is going to be much more reliable a metric than, "Here's 30 companies to buy stock in chaps" targeted at conservative WSJ readers.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

SiS 6326 with 8MB.

It was 1999 but I had a very limited budget, around $400, for the entire system. This was my first AGP card.

The Wikipedia article says that this was not supported well by Linux but that's just not the case. It was the first card for Linux and FreeBSD that I had which let me view more than 256 colors. I ran KDE 1.x and then XFce.

Something happened between then and 2001 where I got a GeForce 2 MX 400 which ran fine with FreeBSD for many years.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This has been the story of Linux since the 1990s.

BSD does the same thing. They famously stuck at the gcc 4.2 series about a decade too long because of licenses.

Nothing new under the sun.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's an incredibly fun and popular sport and the World Series just ended.

Articles like this are good at highlighting that nothing sacred is safe from climate change.

If a couple dozen people read the article from a baseball fan's perspective and suddenly it clicks for them, it's a win.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

No. Space Force chief wants more money, of course there's another disaster coming.

If they were serious about space tech, the first step would be to end all contracts with compromised Elon Musk.

Also, ArsTechnica is kind of a dumpster fire on reporting anything PRC and allowing ethnic slurs in the comment section so take it with a grain of salt.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun interview, I didn't realize he was educated as an actual medical doctor.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 6 points 2 weeks ago

In my state, getting at least 2% of the vote for either Governor or President in a general election keeps the Party on the ballot for the next election.

Without hitting that 2% threshold, the party loses its official status and has to go back to petitioning status, which means resources are tied up both canvassing for tens of thousands of signatures and fighting in courts to get reinstated. So it's a perpetual ground game and prevents the party from taking off.

The Libertarian Party has remained above that threshold for about a decade now, the only third party to do so consistently, and that's pretty scary.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 14 points 2 weeks ago

JC Penney decided to show the actual price on clothing instead of what clothing retailers usually do, which is a grossly inflated price and then a slash through it and another sticker that reads like 30% off and bullshit events like "store credit" and discount sales every weekend. It was called "Fair and Square Pricing" and was quite competitive price wise with other retailers.

It nearly bankrupted them because nobody wanted to shop at a place where they weren't getting a deal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/fair-square-pricing-thatll-never-work-jc-penney-we-being-794530

[–] SeikoAlpinist 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I remember almost 20 years ago, an older dude telling me that jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and giving me a copy of a movie called Zeitgeist on CD-R. That dude would be in his 60's or late 50's now.

Before that, people like Art Bell made a living on AM radio late at night with things like the Taos Hum and UFO's and paranormal stuff.

Like, a lot of early US settlers got sent there because they were batshit crazy and a danger to society. The Puritans were kicked out of England, and then they were kicked out of the Netherlands of all places, how does that even happen, before they ran off to America and did a bunch of crazy shit. We think of the "Salem Witch Trials" with horror and then sing "Land of the Pilgrims' Pride" without batting an eye, who do you even think the Pilgrims were?

So a bunch of criminals and wackos settled the United States, and when they got too crazy for their village, they just moved west, killed the native men, fucked a bunch of children, and made another crazy village. Pocahantas was like 12. And then if someone got kicked out of that village for being crazy, rinse and repeat until you get shit like Mormonism in Utah and Branch Davidians in Waco Texas and bombing the Olympics and speaking in tongues and sponsoring genocide through Biblical Tourism of the Holy Land.

America is a land of crazy people who have been rewarded for generations for being batshit crazy, and have an ability to not see things clearly in front of their face. This is really nothing new.

[–] SeikoAlpinist 1 points 3 weeks ago

Zen browser does that.

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