socialmedia

I realized a while back that social media is trying to radicalize everyone and it might not even be entirely the oligarchs that control its fault.

The algorithm was written with one thing in mind: maximizing engagement time. The longer you stay on the page, the more ads you watch, the more money they make.

This is pervasive and even if educated adults tune it out, there is always children, who get Mr. Beast and thousands of others trying to trick them into like, subscribe and follow.

This is something governments should be looking at how to control. Propaganda created for the sole purpose of making money is still propaganda. I think at this point that sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.

Besides all the other arguments, fingerprints aren't like the movies. You need a reasonably flat surface to get a fingerprint from.

Getting a fingerprint from a house or a car to prove that someone was there at some point, any time in the past, is possible. Getting a fingerprint from a plastic baggy to prove someone held it would be much harder.

The distortions would make it extremely hard to match against a database. If they compare it to you then it might show a match, so if you're a suspect they might make a direct comparison. If they compare it to the cop? Remember the cop is innocent until proven guilty, so they can't compel them to give fingerprints for comparison. Yes, they could be in a database, but remember the distortion makes it hard to automatically find this.

Any lab work has a cost, and police are lazy. They aren't going to spend time or money trying to solve a case. They go with best effort.

Is the list if 40k apps public? Can someone write an app that checks to see if any of them are installed on a phone?

Of course they do. Just in time for Trump to be able to say he had a hand in making it happen.

Just think about the fact that this man dodged the draft and everyone knows it.

He has never served a day in his life. It used to be pretty much a requirement that a realistic presidential candidate was ex-military.

This shit is bonkers. None of this guys children are at any risk if he goes to war with Denmark, Mexico, and Canada.

Not that he really wants Greenland, or Canada. Its a distraction once again to steer the talking points away from whatever Russia and China are doing, or whatever climate catastrophe they're working on.

Finally, this is only news to people reading left leaning sites. Fox news would gloss over this shit or give it 30 seconds of praise. By the time we get properly agitated about something, his fans have forgotten it ever happened.

People keep saying "How is this not the last straw for people".. He was reelected by people who don't know about these things or don't care.

There are some problems with it that make it not as simple as it would appear.

1. If it was 100% perfect and not cheatable then the economy would a just around it as the new norm. In a few years people would say "you can get by on 99 million" and they'd be right. There would be calls to lower it again and the economy would shift around it. Imagine an MMO with a max coin cap and you can visualize the economy of it. The price of everything might eventually come down, but we would still be unable to afford any of.

2. It's cheatable. Elon can't make 70 billion in one year? That's why he has 70 kids and they're all employees of Eloncorp and they each make 1 billion. Or, if you don't trust your kids (which he probably wouldn't since ...) You could just form 70 corporations to hold the money.

Rich peoples money is tied up by accountants and lawyers so tight there isn't a magic fix for it. Elon could litigate through an entire presidency until his paid for politician was elected and could undo the tax laws.

What if the shotgun makes a noise you don't recognize? Hit it with the toaster?

Emacs is a part time job!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

My theory is that they aren't near done. They will be finished by a publisher after he's dead using AI. They will be awful but everyone will buy them anyway.

Then there will be a new miniseries based on the books after around 10 years that they'll call a reboot and definitive edition. This miniseries will probably be directed by AI. And it will be SHIT. And they'll make tons of money.

Sorry.

If they wired it backwards the hot side might be joined to the "ground" which is connected to the chassis (I don't know washer and dryer terms). So you would have a hot side on the washer and a ground side on the dryer.

A safe way to check this would be to use a multimeter to check the voltage between the washer and dryer. I'm only mentioning this because its fun to speculate. I would still wait for a professional electrician to diagnose things. They can also document what they find which helps you if you need a case.

The shock might have been bad because of the amount of contact or duration. Normal 110v shocks are really small. You brush against something, it hurts, you pull away.

In this case you might put your whole hand on it and then if you touch the dryer with any part of your body you get a big shock.

For what its worth, you won't know until the electrician confirms things. The dryer could be wired backwords and Lowes could have done things 100% right with the washer. Or there could be another problem (lose wire somewhere, possibly a defect inside the washer)

I think its dell. Not much to go on, but Texas, global manufacturing and 20yrs seem like good clues.