Still waiting, BTW.
From what you’ve posted so far, you would have failed my 9th grade English class’s section on writing arguments. Subject, Example, eXplanation, and why this matters to You. I guess this is what happens when a generation is raised by iPads and then school is canceled for 2 years hahahaha…
There are 4 pairs of 2 wires, for 8 overall. They are all used, but the pairs are redundant. From what I understand, when you send a positive pulse on, say, the solid blue wire, you also send a negative pulse on the stripy blue and white wire. The twisted pairs should counteract any interference, but if it doesn’t, the arrival of the bumps with opposite polarity should foolproof things a little.
Oh yeah it’s called differential signalling.
OK so I just learned, like, last week that there are two standards. Why are there two standards? WTF?
(The context is I was turning an Ethernet cable into an EtherCAT cable, which is a stupid industrial standard where you only wire up pins 1, 2, 3, and 6, and then charge the end user 200 times more for the cable.)
It feels like we’re losing ground. Why does 8GB of RAM feel totally insufficient to browse the same websites I used 12 years ago with 4? I’m so happy I maxed out my motherboard’s RAM (32) when I built a PC in 2021.
PROTIP:
Ebooks are trivially easy to find online, or you can check them out from your local library.
There’s a free and open source program called Calibre that can manage your ebook library, change file formats, edit visual formatting, and even remove proprietary DRM.
Don’t let Amazon being a bad company prevent you from using your old Kindle.
The Senate made more sense when the US was less centralized and different states were like different countries and there weren’t a bunch of states populated by 100 cows for every person.
In the modern era, it’s a simple tyranny of the minority. Wyoming has like 500,000 people, but those 500,000 have the exact same power in the more important chamber of Congress than do the 40,000,000 of California or the 30,000,000 of Texas.
If we take it to an extreme, imagine if there were only two states in the Union. Hawaii and the entire Continental US. Would we share equal power with Hawaii? Of course not.
If we’re really married to the idea, there should be a requirement for roughly equal population by state, and let’s be honest, we have that with House districts and they gerrymander it. (We should also move to proportional representation to fix that.)
I’ve only used the subways/metros around Boston, NYC, and DC, and not a long distance train like Amtrak, but those were all fine. Buy ticket board train. No security theater BS.
You’re evasive and intellectually dishonest. I’m guessing your goal is to dissuade naive leftists from voting for the best candidates so you can continue to elect AIPAC, Russian, and MAGA Republicans. It’s not working. Everyone knows this strategy is old hat.
I don’t make it often, but if you marinate it in something like half soy, one quarter rice wine vinegar, and one quarter mirin, then bread with corn starch, egg wash, and panko, you can make awesome deep fried tofu bites. This works well with the less dense stuff most stores carry.
Yeah mostly joking. I actually do like some of the veggie substitutes. I also like tofu. My grocer carries a brand of ultra dense stuff that’s great breaded and fried.
Yep. And be careful which ebike or motorcycle.
I know I can completely disable–deenergize from the fuse box–my car’s “SOS” modem, but that isn’t possible on all cars. Mine is also like 10 years old and I imagine it’s getting harder and harder. (It being 10 years old also means there aren’t many 3G towers left around for it to talk to, but I’m not taking any chances.)
Hmmm which specific quotations of Mussolini would you like me to read? LOL…
Unlike you, I cited specific criteria for fascism.
You’re like one of those preachers who says something is “against the bible” without citing a verse. It’s like you either haven’t read it or hope I haven’t read it. You’re afraid.
Maybe you’re not qualified to be in this discussion.
It’s not. There’s no bad faith. Your argument is simply humorously bad. Have a nice day.
Yeah 'cause we know all the fresh veggie product from such brands as Taylor Farms is perfectly safe…
(jk going vegetarian or vegan is an admirable choice even if you do it noncommittally by reducing your animal protein consumption. Every 1 gram of animal protein required ~9g of feed depending on the animal.)
This is closer to a bumper sticker
That might actually be more appropriate considering Americans’ obsession with both cars and bumper stickers.
A strawman is where you invent a different argument, then defeat it. Rephrasing the exact argument you made in funnier language isn’t a strawman. It’s just what you said, but more plainly. “Voting doesn’t work because I don’t always get what I want.” That’s what you said in literal English.
Democrats aren’t fascists. Words have meanings.
You didn’t provide a definition. You’re afraid to do so because it would open you to refutation, and you know you’ve made a preposterous argument.
Coming from reddit, it’s interesting to see a world news forum that isn’t entirely and totally captured by Israeli Hasbara mods. I got banned from reddit’s /worldnews for pointing out that “invade Iran” vs “let Iran have nukes” is an asinine false dichotomy. (And I didn’t even use the word “asinine.”)