mindbleach

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[–] mindbleach 12 points 1 year ago

White noise is literally random numbers. Your machine can do it using approximately zero percent of its available resources.

In a very real sense, any single transistor can do it, and computer engineering is an effort to keep them from doing it.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

Well, fuck. It's still standard in Linux Mint.

Guess that explains why you still can't change the settings outside of a console or conf file.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago (19 children)
[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Yes, I think the traitors who started a war to maintain slavery are evil.

Why is that a question.

What the fuck.

These people screamed at the top of their lungs that low-key 1850s racism wasn't nearly racist enough. That any black man being a citizen was a betrayal of the entire national experiment. And for some reason you're searching for excuses to say it was rational economic incentives.

Bigotry is bad... mmkay? Bigots themselves don't have to think they're evil, and twirl their moustaches, to be really fucking evil. Obvious example, Nazis. Tell me the holocaust was really about land rights and I'll tell you where to shove it.

[–] mindbleach 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Redshift on Linux, f.lux on Windows, and Twilight on Android lower color temperature and total brightness by time-of-day. No glasses required. And if nothing else, it's a nice continuous hint that you should go to bed.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

Rio is a pinwheel!

[–] mindbleach 87 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Famously compressible white noise.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago
[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Our new government['s]...foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

The Cornerstone Speech is crystal fucking clear.

Take your own advice, tertiary bait.

[–] mindbleach 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could finger-gun this guy in the back of the head and he'd still go nuh-uh, you didn't get me, I teleported.

Dude is just fully incapable of imagining a situation where he's fucked. He's the protagonist of reality. Legitimately thinks he could fall off a skyscraper and land on his feet. Which is a million times less ridiculous than this submarine, where incomprehensible pressures forced the interior contents to the size of a gumball in a matter of microseconds.

Every human being in that tin can briefly occupied the same cubic inch. You can't shrug that off. Not even a blue whale is "built different" enough to survive those pressures, let alone the force of having those pressures applied all-at-once. Especially when pV=nRT, meaning the air temperature inside the cabin - and inside its former occupants - was raised several thousand degrees. Not for long, though. That glowing-hot paste of organic matter was immediately slapped against a wall of ice-cold seawater, sluicing it through cracks in the opposite end of the wreckage, leaving a small cloudy region surrounded by pitch darkness.

To which that guy would say, "I'd have dodged."

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Okay, so: risk-vee, or risk-five?

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago

Idiot on Facebook: "The sun goes around the Earth!"

You: "Well he's not entirely wrong, because bodies orbit the centroid between blah blah blah--"

One hundred people of varying politeness: "That's not what he meant and you fucking know it."

You: "Well here's a really smart guy talking about centroids--"

Ten exasperated follow-ons: "That's not what he meant, and you fucking know it."

You: "Point to where I agreed with anything he said."

A few diehard troll-hunters: "Where you said 'he's not entirely wrong.'"

You: "... yeah but what do words really mean, anyway?"

Stop talking.

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