Tattorack

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[–] Tattorack 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, I remember when my step dad has a period he believed this. He would find ways to tune music back to how it's "supposed" to sound. Everything sounded horribly out of tune, but he'd just say it's because we've all become so used to listening to music the "bad" way.

[–] Tattorack 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Jesus christ, where do I even begin? I have parents who are conspiracy nuts, so this'll be quite a list. There's a difference between my mom, step dad, and oldest little brother, though, as two of them believe in more occult crap.

Well, here we go...

  • Chemtrails. Also HAARP. For some reason "they" are constantly trying to control the weather. Somehow it involves better controlling the population. There was also the idea that Chemtrails seeded clouds to then rain chemicals onto people that'll keep them complacent and controlled.
  • During the Syrian mass immigration crisis; "they" are trying to replace us with a more complacent population to control us better.
  • Vaccines are a scam to create a more complacent population, or is a means of population control, or is transhumanism and transhumanism is bad.
  • By extention, COVID-19 exists only as a scare tactic. A frightened, scared population is a complacent population more easily controlled.
  • Global warming is a scare tactic, and same as COVID-19, exists only keep the population scared and complacent.
  • Most wars, especially the "war on terrorism" by George W. Bush, is a scare tactic.... Yadda yadda complacent, controlled, etc...
  • NATO is an expansionist, imperialist organisation to consolidate all power in one place for better control. It forces members to join it either through coercion or passive aggressive pressure. Russia only defending itself.
  • The military (which military?) has far more advanced technology than what's available to the public. Such as anti-gravity drones and thought suppression antennas.
  • Every action, event, political decision, election, or organisation is always caused by a shadowy group of people who are the ones really in control of everything. A shadow government. They control truly everything, and their actions are done in order... To... Control........ Everything... Yeah, not a really thought out one, this one is. But the basis for all the other conspiracies, and the "they" or "them" always refers to this.
  • The Rothschild family is part of "them", the most powerful family in all of history! (probably forgot about the Hapsburgs).
  • They will never give true medicine to the world, as a means of keeping the population controlled. All medicine exists to keep you reliant on them.
  • Homeopathy is the medicine "they" don't want you to use.
  • "They" are hoarding ancient, advanced technology.
  • "They" are suppressing archeology, in case any "true" history comes to light, such as those involving highly advanced precursor races.
  • The Smithsonian museum is hiding skeletons and archaeological findings that don't fit with "established, mainstream archeology", such as skeletons of a giant, highly advanced precursor race. Yes, they like David Icke. How could you tell?
  • There are ways of generating free energy that "they" don't want you to know, but ancient civilisations did. Such as the Egyptians who built pyramids as huge power plants. They're either plasma fusion plants, pizo-electric generators producing energy from Earth's vibrations, or some kind of funny triangular rock that in its exact configuration can generate power from the Earth's lay-lines.

There's probably a lot more, but I'm tired of typing all this out.

[–] Tattorack 1 points 1 hour ago

Only if you want to regard one of the worse NuTrek series as canon.

In TNG Data is known about in both the Klingon and Romulan empire, and throughout TNG the impression that Dr. Soong was a genius who's work is nearly impossible to replicate was really high. So the Romulan just couldn't make someone like Data.

[–] Tattorack 39 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

If only that currency wasn't rife with techbros, scammers, and techbro scammers.

[–] Tattorack 37 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Maybe on the keyboards. But as much as everyone is talking about sending CEOs to the guillotines, nobody is actually doing it. It's just angry posting and venting on social media in between regular dull life moments.

[–] Tattorack 3 points 2 days ago

The Helldiver in me is getting restless...

[–] Tattorack 1 points 2 days ago

Yes... Obviously... Not what I meant.

[–] Tattorack 4 points 4 days ago

That's the most punk looking animal I've ever seen.

[–] Tattorack 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's the source of the video on the left?

[–] Tattorack 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean... I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who knew this was going to be a cringe edgelord action trope movie when it was announced for the very first time. Then when the trailer dropped it only helped reinforce that idea.

It's not even worth pirating.

[–] Tattorack 3 points 4 days ago

Holy crap! No way!

Oh sorry, I just found some loose change someone dropped. The headline... Isn't surprising.

[–] Tattorack 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

What's the point of heaven? Does heaven even have a point? Say I believe in heaven, what happens if I die and go there? Will I just... Wake up and it'd just be Life 2.0?

As far as reality goes, there are only two points to living: the standard biological point of all life as we know it, and the one you create for yourself using your human intelligence.

 

First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:

A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or "disrupts", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).

Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.

Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?

How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?

 

So, I have a Steelseries M800 keyboard and a Corsair mouse. Unfortunately neither of them are supported by Open RGB, and so I'm stuck with my RGB making rainbows.

Well, sort of. My keyboard still has the configuration it had from when I still used Windows over 2 years ago. But my mouse does not.

I use an XP Pen tablet for making art, and the official driver from XP Pen doesn't come with any options to adjust and calibrate the screen's colours, but I managed to figure out how to access these hardware settings through command line. Now this has me wondering if it's possible to do the same for my keyboard and mouse.

 

I have a 2nd generation XP Pen Artist 13. It's a great tablet and I've managed to make it work with my Steam Deck too.

But...

It's basically an external monitor with pressure sensitive surface, so still less portable than an actual stand alone table. So I'm wondering if there is a tablet with a pressure sensitive screen and battery free pen that either comes with Linux or can install Linux on.

The programs I use for making art are Krita, Gimp, and Blender 3D.

 

There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it's stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die.

Why? What is the evolutionary advantage to that?

 

Recently discovered The Art of Noise by looking up Max Headroom. Found a bunch of tracks I like that fit well with my already existing Spotify playlists.

However, I want to find more music like three of the dance tracks on the album Dreaming. specifically like the tracks "Colour Red", "Colour Maroon", and "Colour White".

Any recommended tracks/albums/artists?

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