[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

And if one person doesn't salute them with tears in their eyes for how patriotic their fetish is they'll cry on camera about how their free speech is being taken away for weeks. Conservatives' have always been quick to say that but it's scary how often they get away with it now.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

If you wanted to take a second crack at it, it is easier than ever to learn how to use Linux. The one thing I have found ChatGPT useful for is guiding me through setting up a new program or daemon or to explain to me what that super cryptic error message means. ChatGPT is not perfect and requires whoever is using it to sanity check the result it gives, but more often than not I find I walk away with a better understanding of what I was doing.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Just a bit of history, in WWII the Allies didn't know for certain that the Holocaust had occurred. Remember that it was the 1940s, information could travel quickly but only so much. It wasn't as easy for them back then to pickup the metaphorical 'signal' of the Holocaust happening to the 'noise' the rest of the war was making. So while there were rumors of mass executions of Jewish people as early as the summer of 1941, it's often said that the Allies didn't know about the Holocaust until winter 1945. Now when the Allies went from ignorant, to suspicious, to all but certain but with doubts and finally to certain without a doubt has been debated for decades and will probably be debated until the sun expands and swallows the earth whole. There was definitely a lot of hateful rhetoric being spouted about Jewish people in the 1930s that maybe should have been stopped before it nearly took over Europe, but looking back at history we have the advantage of hindsight.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Today I learned that magnetic components of the electric system use a different type of resistance. It's not the same as inductance though?

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

This reminds me of Overwatch so much. I usually played healer and it was all too common to watch the tanks and DPS being great at doing their own jobs, but terrible at doing them together. Then it's just a feed machine until the game is over.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

That sucks bro. Losing a pet is always painful. I hope you can let another dog into your life someday. I know that it's hard, I've lost many pets, and my puppy hasn't been a puppy in a very long time. Sounds like you gave your girls the amazing life they deserve.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately there's a bit of pressure to osbficate the core idea of a publication in academia. While the ideal academics try to hold themselves to is to freely exchange information, for researchers who are paid to study very neiche topics there's an insensitive to put some resistance into others entering their field. There is only so much funding and one more team means more competition. So some researchers who find themselves in that position will intentionally complicate their published work as a way to create a disincentive to others from crowding their field. It sucks but the reality is that funding and money come before the faithful pursuit of knowledge.

Also, some people just suck at writing.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Asbestos definitely causes inflammation when tissues are exposed to it, I wouldn't recommend that anyone lick asbestos. One exposure wouldn't do much. That said I'm pretty sure the act of picking asbestos up and bringing it to your face and breathing it in would be the most dangerous part of that.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah I'm going to agree with you on this one. It blows my mind that as a species we have changed the night sky. When I was a child seeing a satellite dart across the sky was exciting because it was as rare as a shooting star. Now I look up and see a satellite every few minutes. That said, there have been a few times recently that Star Link was the only method of communication I've had in remote areas. It has been very helpful. I think as poorly of Musk as much as the next person but I can at least recognize the ingenuity SpaceX and Star Link.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Well that was a wild ride of a comment.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Technically 1 out of 1 people who undergo that procedure die, eventually. Same is true for people who elect not to have the procedure done, eventually.

[-] InputZero@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

You are technically correct, e-mails aren't judicially approved. They are hearsay, a statement made outside of court. They absolutely can be used as evidence. Lionel Hutz was on the money when he said that 'hearsay is a kind of evidence'. Depending on the hearsay it can be quite strong evidence. That evidence can be used to make a testimony and that is judicially approved. There is strong hearsay, such as a series of emails which details the crime, and there is weak hearsay, like 'everyone knows Joe did it'. One of those examples of hearsay you can take to court, the other, well you can take what everyone is saying to court but it won't get you very far.

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