the people you claim to oppose

This is exactly what I’m talking about in another reply. Its what I was trying to make fun of in the original comment.

“The people I oppose.” Us vs them, the enemy. This thread immediately going to a bunch of shit the US did (which, to be clear, they absolutely did) is “How to think like a tankie 101.”

Putin is an open murderer, and I’m not veering off into whataboutism to paint him as some kind of unfairly treated victim.

Because the focus is on the enemy.

Whoever’s pointing the finger is idealized. They’re the protector, the rebel, or whatever you want them to be. The focus is on “them.” That’s why every other breath of a tankie (or Trumpster, or liberal extremist or whatever) is whataboutism.

That’s how authoritarian nationalism works. Same thing’s happening in the US, and Europe. The US Army depicted it quite well:

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Unfortunately, with current social media, that trick works very, very, very well. Algorithms are literally built to tell you what you want to hear (including Lemmy to an lesser extent), so it’s easy to fall into these spirals.

All western propaganda and coincidence, I’m sure, as our tankie friends will point out. And he was a corrupt western plant anyway.

Just like how Prigozhin‘s private jet inexplicably exploded mid air, not far from Putin’s Estate, after Wagner’s definitely-not-coup-attempt. Happens all the time. And the Wagner boss was definitely a plant too, oh yeah.

One might think it’s odd that Putin critics die exotic deaths with such… regularity. Could there be some reason for that?

Nah, that’s just the US hegemony talking.

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.

That’s amazing. It’s almost hard to believe, yet it sounds about right.

That makes sense.

Heh. Spotify used to stream 384K Vorbis, which should be sufficient. But now the web app is apparently AAC. And the app-apps are conspicuously listed with “equivalent to” bitrates, whatever that means:

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s

Behold:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electrical-conductivity-of-banana-at-different-ripening-stages-with-the-help-of_fig5_317486785

5.4 Electrical Conductivity Measurement This method includes electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and dielectric analysis (DEA). The physical state of a material is measured as a function of frequency in EIS and the frequency ranges from 100 Hz - 10 MHz. It is simple and easier technique used to estimate the physiological status of various biological tissues49-52. Experimental frequency response of impedance is characterised by electrical equivalent circuits of materials. The physical properties of materials can be quantified by monitoring the changes in parameters at the equivalent circuit, among various equivalent models proposed53-54. DEA measurement is used in high frequency areas, generally 100 MHz - 10 GHz. DEA is used in moisture estimation and bulk density determination

So a overripe banana is an interesting high-pass filter, kinda like a capacitor, though the big takeaway is the conductance vs ripeness.

So if you want to test if a banana is ready to eat, hook it up… preferably with several other bananas in series. If the music is too loud, they are ready. Too quiet, and it’s not time yet.

I did a blind test, and found it depends on the genre.

Slow, chill music is completely transparent when compressed, no matter how hard I “audio peep.” It’s not even a question.

But something “dense” like System of a Down has audible distortion. It loosely (not always) coincided with the bitrate of the flac files, which kind of makes sense, though even the extreme end is hard to notice unless you know the particular song very well.

Also… a lot of recordings kind of suck. It’s crazy to worry about tiny bits of distortion when a bit perfect master is already noisy and distorted.

It’s been like this for decades, according to my dad. Well before the internet.

No one cares. I’ve even had a poster declare they didn’t care a source was false clickbait because it was the “right” politics and they agreed with the message.

You can still buy the Framework Strix Halo board (with 128GB RAM) for $2k. For now.

I have a 3090, yet I’m still seriously considering it. The CPU itself is an engineering marvel, not to speak of the ridiculously fast RAM and IGP.

Only caveat is you better be a Python/Linux person. As you will be building forks and beating your head against the screen to get the setup working right.

Friend, this is 2026.

Clickbait is mandatory. Get your reason out of here.

It’s not! Use SonoBus; it’s dead simple, and superior to Discord. It’s far lower latency, with customizable filters, peer-to-peer; and totally free.

Now if you want emojis and video and rambling channels and stuff, you will have to go elsewhere.

Per Wikipedia’s sourcing standards:

There is consensus that Raw Story is generally unreliable for factual reporting, based upon a pattern of publishing false and sensationalized stories. Editors almost unanimously agree that the source is biased and that in-text attribution should accompany each use of the source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

I brought this up so much in /c/politics, I got sick of it and blocked the sub.

But tabloids work. As long as the headline is stimulating, upvoters and moderators don’t seem to care.

I’m sure many did, sadly.

I used to write these kinds of articles on the side, and time pressure is intense. They probably Googled “Paragon logo” real quick and used the dominant result as the header.

It’s…not ideal, but maybe they’ll correct it if you mail them. I always did.

This seems like a good overview, thanks.

Why are the Japanese leaning ultra-nationalist conservative?

I kind of get it in the States. The US has always leaned fundamentalist religious and more conservo-libertarian, more skeptical of federal government.

I kind of get it elsewhere, like the UK or Brazil.

But Japan? I thought they were… more urban? I thought work burnout + a population age cliff was their existential crisis, so why would they vote for less immigration and less control over that, unless I’m misunderstanding the platform?

I mean, I saw the community, yet I had to think of it.

It’s “nottheonion” adjacent.

Yep.

Internet is “good enough” for P2P these days. I get not everyone is in a great living situation, but less than 500K down/up is an outlier at this point.