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- 08 Nov 2020, 21:42
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
One thing I wonder about is the exit polling showing that Trump did better with Black and Hispanic voters this time. My first thought was that people who voted in person this year wouldn't be representative, but some claim that the studies also talked to people who voted early or by mail. But eithe...
- 08 Nov 2020, 21:38
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
Jeebus, nothing can come easy this year can it? I know some of the drama had more to do with the way the vote count happened but the polls were still way off. I'm curious if the polling industry can figure out what the deal was. This was worse than in 2016, and IIRC that was at least in the margin ...
- 08 Nov 2020, 17:07
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
Jeebus, nothing can come easy this year can it? I know some of the drama had more to do with the way the vote count happened but the polls were still way off. I'm curious if the polling industry can figure out what the deal was. This was worse than in 2016, and IIRC that was at least in the margin o...
- 03 Nov 2020, 15:06
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: It’s time to make your call
- Replies: 103
- Views: 4724
Re: It’s time to make your call
That's basically why my dad switched his vote for Biden.Eric the .5b wrote: ↑03 Nov 2020, 13:58 Here's another reason:
I think people want to be able to ignore the president.
- 03 Nov 2020, 14:57
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
I just see both sides as being too cowardly to do anything significant. Sure there will be the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth on social media. With very bullshit posts like the one that made the rounds after Trump got elected about the "wave" of racist incidents that all turned out to be old o...
- 02 Nov 2020, 17:21
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
I just see both sides as being too cowardly to do anything significant. Sure there will be the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth on social media. With very bullshit posts like the one that made the rounds after Trump got elected about the "wave" of racist incidents that all turned out to be old or...
- 02 Nov 2020, 17:09
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12499
- Views: 1022341
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
Interesting and readable paper that addresses the question "how did Britain make sure their naval captains engage the enemy when they are far from control of the Admiralty" The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail Thanks for posting this, I'm going ...
- 31 Oct 2020, 16:23
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
“goading his followers into starting a civil war” Remind me again how this is the narrative when it’s a bunch of Democratic areas that are now hardening neighborhoods, expecting violence from...not the right? Probably because Trumpers are already exercising violence. So they caused a traffic jam? T...
- 28 Oct 2020, 16:53
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Orange is the new President
- Replies: 8346
- Views: 617698
Re: Orange is the new President
Unless the polling is completely out of whack, Biden is going to win. Possibly in a walk.
- 25 Oct 2020, 21:20
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Orange is the new President
- Replies: 8346
- Views: 617698
Re: Orange is the new President
My sister definitely had a hand in motivating my dad to change his vote. First time he will be voting for a Dem POTUS in like 50 years.
- 24 Oct 2020, 22:03
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Calling 2020 for Entropy
- Replies: 1810
- Views: 162056
Re: Calling 2020 for Entropy
Trump is currently behind in 8 of the 10 battleground states he won last time. Several of them he won handily last time. Barring some miraculous event, he's toast.
- 24 Oct 2020, 12:02
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Star Trek Wankery
- Replies: 1387
- Views: 154538
Re: Star Trek Wankery
In season 3 O'Brien died and was replaced by his future self, and no one gave a shit. Keiko probably yelled at him for being late, and no one from Star Fleet gave a second thought to his sacrifice. The fact that O'Brien wasn't a raving lunatic by the end of the series is a miracle in of itself. Rem...
- 23 Oct 2020, 17:48
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: I just don't get it
- Replies: 3067
- Views: 191170
Re: I just don't get it
There is much Slack discussion today about the area wildfires. I get mourning the of life, and the mourning of poor decisionmaking to build woodframe homes in fireprone areas, but what I don't get is people sharing pics of fire-ravaged woodlands and reacting as if it were something to be sad about....
- 20 Oct 2020, 20:56
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Observations of the Random sort
- Replies: 9306
- Views: 513478
Re: Observations of the Random sort
I think I'm more stunned that they talk to each other in that same goofy broadcaster voice even off camera.Hugh Akston wrote: ↑20 Oct 2020, 17:04
Remember when those nauseating displays of paid patriotism abruptly ceased from 2008-2016? Good times.
- 19 Oct 2020, 23:58
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: When journalism goes bad
- Replies: 4528
- Views: 313209
- 19 Oct 2020, 14:20
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12499
- Views: 1022341
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
The NY Times Magazine pretty explicitly sneers at the idea that free speech is good: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html Aside from the obvious violations of liberty, there's never any evidence provided that free speech is the problem or that any proposed restrictions have ...
- 17 Oct 2020, 01:30
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Video Games!
- Replies: 2839
- Views: 265394
Re: Video Games!
Well I was able to get an all "green" planet after a few tries although the means may have been questionable. I ran into a Dyson Sphere and contacted the inhabitants. They agreed to construct a world for the colonists. I agreed and they surrounded the ship and disassembled it down to atoms and then...
- 16 Oct 2020, 17:52
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Video Games!
- Replies: 2839
- Views: 265394
Re: Video Games!
One of my favorite low-pressure games to spend a few minutes on is Seedship . Capsule version: you play as the AI controlling a colony ship full of humans in suspended animation, and you have to try and find a suitable new homeworld for them; you visit a lot of unacceptable or marginally acceptable...
- 16 Oct 2020, 12:59
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Techno-Bleg Thread
- Replies: 3105
- Views: 215223
Re: The Techno-Bleg Thread
For CPUs price to performance ratio is very much in AMDs camp right now. Look at something in their 3000 line. The 3600 hit the sweet spot a few months ago but that may have changed a bit. If you upgrade your CPU you will need to upgrade your motherboard and RAM as well. Newegg is okay but I know a ...
- 15 Oct 2020, 16:06
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: Twitter!
- Replies: 3756
- Views: 364359
Re: Twitter!
https://twitter.com/celestelabedz/status/1316799718807150592?s=19 If she thinks men are bad when we argue with women, she should watch us argue with each other. Nobody, men included, wants a world where men treat women with the same respect they show to other men. It's like the whole mansplaining t...
- 13 Oct 2020, 22:21
- Forum: The Joys of Life
- Topic: The son of "What the hell are YOU staring at?"
- Replies: 8218
- Views: 464461
Re: The son of "What the hell are YOU staring at?"
Recently watched Nightcrawler which I thought was quite good. It's about a sociopath, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, who finds his calling chasing down grisly accidents and crime scenes with a video camera to sell the footage to the local news. Gyllenhaal has a mesmerizing kind of performance in it. He ...
- 09 Oct 2020, 22:17
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile intertubez finds
- Replies: 12499
- Views: 1022341
Re: Worthwhile intertubez finds
An interesting article on America's change from a high-trust to a low-trust society, what this bodes for us, what history suggests, and how we might turn things around. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing-levels-trust-are-devastating-america/616581/ I don't agree with it al...
- 06 Oct 2020, 15:26
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: Worthwhile YouTubez Finds
- Replies: 602
- Views: 101793
Re: Worthwhile YouTubez Finds
Youtube channel of various space and moon landing footage up rezed with increased framerates using AI to interpolate the frames to 24fps, along with some frame stabilization. A lot of the old footage often having framerates as low as 6 fps. Changes what was once a grainy slideshow into something mu...
- 03 Oct 2020, 02:31
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Techno-Bleg Thread
- Replies: 3105
- Views: 215223
Re: The Techno-Bleg Thread
Does anyone here have a Plex setup? Kind of sort of. I have it setup so my Xbox can stream stuff from my PC. Haven't really used it for much else. How do you like it? In general it works really well. Streaming looks good. It's a little finicky to setup but once going I had few problems. Getting you...
- 02 Oct 2020, 22:07
- Forum: General Chatter
- Topic: The Techno-Bleg Thread
- Replies: 3105
- Views: 215223
Re: The Techno-Bleg Thread
Kind of sort of. I have it setup so my Xbox can stream stuff from my PC. Haven't really used it for much else.