kalkulat @ kalkulat @lemmy.world

Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.

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I'd say that it has been baked into the culture since the US was formed. Remember: Thomas Jefferson was in with the gang that signed the 'all men are created equal... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' crowd. And yet he owned over 100 slaves.

And Americans are far from being alone at that stereotyping. Take a close look at Britain, for example. In fact, where can you go in the world where you won't have to prove the stereotypes are wrong about you?

School teaching of history has changed a lot since I was in K-12 ... but at that time, I never had a history class that got so far as WW1. Yep. We spent months on the history of Europe from the Holy Roman Empire up to (barely) von Bismarck. That was it.

I suspect that was because teachers were staying away from any history that might be known to anyone who was actually alive. My daughter, on the other hand, had a teacher who spent months on the Vietnam War. I was glad to hear that.

OTOH, when TV was black and white, there was a whole series on WW2 created by the US army called The Big Picture, broadcast on hundreds of stations. Each of over 800 half-hour episodes were available to any TV station that would air them. So there was a time when ADULTS -could- learn that stuff ... and no doubt many of those who lived through that era were curious what their relatives and friends died for.

I'm fairly sure that a lot of today's elected politicians would have paid no attention to that stuff. Many of them move in a different mental culture than people who've lost relatives to the whims of dictators. And of course they're sure they're smarter than people were back then. Like the Prime Example.

After shutting down anything in use, I use suspend set for a 35-minute delay. Most evenings I listen to bed-time audio. Ubuntu hasn't been terribly reliable, works about 2/3 of the time.

Better a store you can go check stuff out in before you buy ... than looking at pictures on a screen and hoping it's what it pretends to be.

I can go to Starbucks and pay $5 for a coffee, or I can make better & get higher on at home for 25 cents.

I mean, if I went around sayin' it was a pinko site just because some trippin coder had lobbed federation at it, they'd put me away!

The platform that best supports my concerns is that of the US Green Party.

Unfortunately, it has far to go to represent that platform in any effective way. No possibly effective leader that I know of has ever emerged for it. (The current, so-called leader has zero presence anytime, anywhere.) If it could become at least -somewhat- sizeable, it could outreach its size in two-party deadlocks by trading deciding votes for concessions.

Hawking proposed in 2010 that BH can't collapse beyond the event horizon, that there isn't one. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/hawking-meant-black-holes

In 2014 Vaz said the boundary is outside the Schwarzschild radius. http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3823

If they're right, then there's no inside to be trapped in.

If there's a 'Good Place', then there's one rule of ten that ALMOST EVERYONE ignores. Kings, popes, game hunters and every 'Christian soldier' pretends it's complicated. It's a very simple rule, with 4 words using only 16 letters. A 5-year-old can understand it. There's no escape clause. Ignore it and you'll not get there.

I'll admit to mostly checking into Bluesky for a month in January. The user count is much higher but the quality-post count lower ... unless you're into phographs of cats and mushrooms, product-promoters, and political opinions. Forget any quality posts - a 300-character limit (but unlimited photo sizes) and 60-second audio/video limit encourage superficial sheepiality.

Not a desert, but next to one, and the water prices are higher. Probably 1000 lurkers for every liker, let alone comments ... unless you're an 'name' into self-promotion. Some names deliver inside info you'll not see here.

Lemme delivers as much quality as bsky does. But you have to scroll thru more crap there.

Newton's classical observations have stood up well.

If anything, it's quantum that has been poorly treated by generations of explaining-away. The world of the tiny must be predicted with probabilities because there is no way for us to observe it directly. It's not rolling dice ... we -have- to.

While trying out models of what it's doing boggles our minds, our limitations mean we cannot decide whether it's really deterministic. Reality isn't limited that way. (Einstein was right.)

Some astronomers recently took a clever look for whether space is quantized into a 'froth'. They studied monochrome light from stars 18 billion light years away, at redshift z=2.34. They found evidence of quantization into froth in all that time. https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.06016

EDIT: That should have read 'NO evidence of quantization' in 18 billion years of travel.

I'd learn to speak zombie. Doesn't take long, it's mostly throat noises. And walk like a zombie, just pretend a horse kicked you in the ass yesterday.

She puts on a good show ... does her promos ... then lambastes Californians because they didn't put out the fire with ocean water. Anyone who said 'Well, duh' to that belongs in her club ... the 'if I can talk really fast I must be smart' club.

For me, any office apps. Never worked in an office, never wanted to. None of that stuff. Even if it's free, if it gets installed with the distro, it's the first thing that gets tossed.

Lucky me, I go to sleep when I'm tired, wake up when I'm not.

Imperialism is different than taking the land outright.

Agreed. But a threat can be the beginning of a negotiation. Historically, the US wants the appearance of sovereignty to remain - even democracy if possible - just keep the right people in power.

Community.

That didn't save South America.

Seems like we -may- have had it worked out already. The major problem is: how do we rein in the people who want to do it their way and become kings?

I'm going to enjoy that multi-app FX stack.