https://qoto.org/@Pat/107122564291693893
@Pat: again, we agree about a lot 👏
Commenting on a few points of yours:
> _“I know that most actors self-identify as ‘progressive’, whatever that means, but the above-the-line producers, directors, editors who decide what the final product looks like – those guys are putting out racist content.”_
I meant those people, yes: actors, directors, producers and scriptwriters. Especially the celebrity types.
> _“I watch a lot films, and 8 out of 10 Hollywood films have racist content.”_
Since you watch a lot of films, I'll assume you've watched at least ten Hollywood films released in 2020. Among those, there should be (at least) eight films with “racist content”, according to you. **Would you care listing eight 2020 Hollywood films plus a succint description of the racist content in each?**
> _“As I said, college is supposed to teach those critical reasoning skills, so kids can learn to put those things into context themselves. But they come into college from a wide range of experiences.”_
OK, I _could_ concede that **seventeen-year-olds** _might_ need those warnings and explanations. Let's assume some of them may be that immature or simply inexperienced.
Would you then concede that, in principle, _nobody_ **above twenty** should need trigger warnings, advisories about “graphic” or “explicit” content, edited or softened versions of books/films/photographs/paintings, etc?
> _“People of color are still portrayed stereotypically in a lot of Hollywood films.”_
I'd generalise with this variant of your own sentence, to summarise my position: _“people ~~of color~~ are still portrayed stereotypically in a lot of ~~Hollywood films~~ places.”_
#Stereotypes, as useful heuristics and for humour, are everywhere, and that is not always a bad thing. People like me (software engineers, Spaniards, forty-somethings, introverts) are portrayed stereotypically _all the time_ — as are native Americans, poets, paraplegics, lesbians, counterfeiters, libertarians, participants in eating contests, CEO's, Mormons, British pensioners, and chemistry students.
This fixation with (against) stereotypes about very narrow subsets of the population, simply because those subsets endured very specific miserable situations at particular places and at particular times, is inconsistent, distracting, and exhausting. The majority of the population today does not discriminate against blacks any more than they unconsciously discriminate against British pensioners, Mormons, or introverts. But this atmosphere of denunciation, extreme sensitivity, and _guilty-unless-proven-innocent_ makes us all fearful, suspicious, less creative and free, and much less fun.
Let's combat #racism, and all other forms of meaningful discrimination, where they occur. But only there.
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Yup, price level, MZM, wealth, and the velocity of money are very closely related, as such so is inflation (which is the derivative of this relationship with respect to price level).
Trade volumes on a stock exchange are only a small part of the overall economy. So they can fluctuate quite a bit. Even the overall economy can fluctuate when MZM is fixed.
But more generally things will still fluctuate because remember the equation I defined earlier also has wealth as a factor. As wealth is generated (which it does so often) then the other factors need to change to compensate.
@phoenix Same here, and sadly that means I have had to mute people in the past on the fedi. There are no shortage of those.
@phoenix Well that would explain it then.. Technically you still had to mute/block just as many people, its just your allowing someone else to maintain your blocklist for you.
Such a thing exists in twitter too, shared block lists where others can collectively maintain a block list you subscribe to and use. Its very similar to the idea here though organized in a way where there is no single central point of authority for any one user.
food ment
@conatus You should eat the fast food first, that way your walk through nature will negate the saturated fat and scrub it from your system (jk btw).
@phoenix I am actually rather surprised you havent had to use it here. Is that because you block instead? Or perhaps your instance is one that heavily blocks others?
@Berra I picked math because it is fundamental to all other subjects and would help you be better at any of them. I'd also make sure you do chemistry before biology for the same reason.
Just tested her charging off a 100W capable USB-C generic Anker power brick.
At 82% charge she pulls in 88W (according to the Storm2) / 90W (according to my charging cable that displays the wattage on the charging cable itself). The USB-C charging it is operating at 19V.
So it certainly gets very close to the full capacity of USB-C's power delivery limits when charging too!
Just tested her charging off a 100W capable USB-C generic Anker power brick.
At 82% charge she pulls in 88W (according to the Storm2) / 90W (according to my charging cable that displays the wattage on the charging cable itself). The USB-C charging it is operating at 19V.
So it certainly gets very close to the full capacity of USB-C's power delivery limits when charging too!
Here is the review of the Storm2 Liquid as requested (after owning for an hour or so). Not much to review really other than to make the following points.
This is a 93.5Wh portable emergency battle I just received one of the first copies of as an early kickstarter backer. It uses 8x 18650 internal Li-ion batteries.
The screen is loaded with tons of information in a very sexy high resolution display with an impressive color range. The info reported on the main screen and info screen are: Internal battery voltage and current, time running, input/output/combined current/voltage/wattage (so for example it shows what voltage the USB-c I/O are negotiated at), battery and CPU temp separately, it even tells you the internal battery voltage of each of the 4 parallel cells separately in addition to the combined battery voltage.
Not just the screen is sexy but the whole case really and you can see the 8 li-ion cells inside.
Comes with USB-C and DC-jack input ports that can also be switched to output ports. Has an additional USB-C output port and USB-A output port as well.
The DC jack acting as an output port means you can use it to charge non-USB devices and even comes with some alligator clip outputs for the DC-jack and you can easily buy standard output jack adapters to connect to any format dc jack imaginable.
Obviously the output DC jack setting lets you configure the voltage in 0.1V increments up to 25.2V, I think it handles either 3A or 5A output, need to check spec. However irf the DC-jack output is on as you adjust the voltage it updates the current out of that port in real-time which is useful.
Overall so far I cant find a single thing to complain about, this thing has all the data and features id expect and want and done as stylish as they could have hoped to do. IT is also about as small as you can get since 90% of the space is the batteries.
@zpartacoos #kickstarter #electronics #Storm2Liquid #storm2 #storm @Electronics
@zpartacoos Su re, here ya go:
Wooootttt after a 4 month wait since backing it on kickstarter my Storm2 Liquid finally arrived (2 of those months was shipping time). Cant wait to plat
Y with this sexy beast.
I found my first attempt at doing a caroligian script from years ago. The words at the time were just random unrelated practice words, i wasnt even trying to form a sentence. Funnily enough it turns out to be rather relevant and true anyway these many years later.
#appleevent so
Nice
Fatter Mac (making products as thin as possible should not be at the expo of performance)
More ports.
MagSafe
Meh :
Notch
Not cool :
The price
A half hour video of some guy slicing a wire with 100s of lines... dont mind if I do.
@Pat To be fair with big corperations buying elections and the system rigged to prevent third parties competing with the main to party's one could argue we are no longer a democracy either, just a pale imitation of one. So we arent all that different in some regards to other countries that are on the surface democratic but in reality corrupt and not very democratic at all.
If I am being particularly cynical I'd say the only main difference between the democratic aspect of north korea vs america is that Korea effectively has a system that is rigged to only have one party where the USA is rigged to only have two. I mean they do have elections afterall, even if it is a mockery.
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