ultranaut

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[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 21 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

People are mostly dumb. Justice is largely a myth. Chaos reigns.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 21 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe it has to do with its effects on GABA receptors? Have you ever tried something like gabapentin or pregabalin?

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I would eat insects right now if they were cooked by a chef who knew what they were doing.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Based off the title I would assume it's what should you do with $348b. That's about how much cash they are sitting on currently.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

There's different strategies and tactics to protesting. It creates a different vibe that can come across with a more unified and singular message if people only show up carrying the American flag instead of a bunch of different signs. It also avoids certain tactics that can be used to discredit the protest.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Sacramento police and the district attorney’s office both refused to provide CalMatters with copies of the warrant, which would include investigators’ affidavits showing the judge they had probable cause to draw Cervantes’ blood. They also would not provide a warrant number that would allow CalMatters to obtain the document from Sacramento County Superior Court.

Sounds like they lied on the warrant too. 100% this looks law enforcement engaging in corruption to further Republican political interests.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Its amazing the 9800x3d can outperform by so much even though its on a bigger node and uses significantly less power.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Long ago I attended a lecture by a researcher who studied exactly this phenomena. As I recall it, they found that context is very important. If you are in a setting you associate with drinking and you drink something that replicates important elements of the experience, the chances of you subjectively feeling intoxicated increase substantially. People would be shocked to find out that they had been drinking cocktails that only had alcohol on the rim or non-alcoholic beer at the end of the experiment because they had felt it so strongly. Almost everyone they tested with replication of a real drinking experience maximized felt like they had drank alcohol to some extent and you could see their behavior change in very obvious ways as if they had consumed alcohol. The less they replicated the experience the less people felt it, so a nonalcoholic cocktail with alcohol around the rim you smell as you drink was more impactful than the same drink without the smell of alcohol on the rim, and whether the experiment was done in a bar like environment or a lab like environment made a significant difference.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

You can see though that its not split 50/50 and that higher income people went for Harris, i.e. "wealthier people were less likely to vote for Trump". As I said in my previous comment, you can argue it's not a significant difference given how small it is but it is very obviously there. I personally think it is significant given how tight elections are and that its been a sustained trend for a number of years now.

I do have another Lemmy account on Beehaw but I never use it, otherwise this is my only Lemmy account. Why do you ask?

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The graph proved their point though didn't it? You can argue it's not a significant difference but clearly there is a difference. I've seen a variety of different sources demonstrating this phenomena, it seems clear to me that lower income people have been increasingly identifying as Republicans in recent years, and wealthy people increasingly vote Democratic. From what I've seen it is only in the most wealthy and well educated parts of the country where Democrats have consistently increased their support over the past three election cycles. The rest of the country it is mostly the opposite. Trumpism and the MAGA cult have really transformed the Republican party, they have grown this whole new constituency of working class people that used to not vote much and tended to vote Democratic when they did. Now those people are mostly reliable Republicans who live in a fantasy world of propaganda and hate Democrats.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I've had cops come around to check out what they could when I was living with roommates and we had all kinds of equipment that used lots of electricity. We actually got a letter from the power company telling us we were in the 99th percentile of residential power use and to consider how much money we could save if we lowered our electricity useage. I'm sure if the cops saw anything they could construe as evidence when they were snooping around they would then easily get a warrant and do a raid.

[–] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think once you have been awake past a certain point your brain becomes sort of desensitized to sleepiness and it gets easier to keep staying awake. Or at least that is how my brain is, things get weird but I will feel like I can keep going when I really shouldn't.

 

In case anyone is interested, the Shiftall FlipVR controllers are in fact a real product. I decided to take the risk and order a set, they arrived today. Since they are such a new product and it's hard to find any real world info on them I figured I would share my initial impressions here in case anyone else is interested in them.

Getting the controllers paired went smoothly and only took a minute (just make sure you install the driver). Figuring out how to actually put them on took a bit longer, adjusting the wrist strap especially was a little tricky because you need to push part of the material up to get it to feed through. Or maybe there's a trick to it I haven't figured out yet. Regardless, after a bit of struggle I got them dialed in and they are very comfortable. The weight of the controller is noticeable but its balanced well enough that I'm typing this review with them on and it's not been an impediment.

Flipping the controllers in and out of your hands is as fun as it looks. You can adjust how far the controller part extends and adjust its angle so getting it into the exact right spot for my hand was easy and it feels surprisingly natural. It really is a very clever design that feels right when you have your fingers on the controller.

Quality wise I would say they are good but not quite great. They feel well made but the trigger buttons are a little more soft and wiggly than I would like and detract from the the overall impression. If the controller part is at the wrong angle I find the lower trigger can sometimes pinch the skin of my middle finger a little. If there's a future revision, improving the feel of the triggers would be my top priority. There's also a seam on the bottom part that doesn't feel great if you run your finger over it but there's no reason to ever touch that part of the controller so its really just me nitpicking. Other than that I can't find anything else to complain about.

Overall, I'm impressed with the controllers. Despite looking ridiculous, or like the prop from a 1990s cyberpunk movie, a whole lot of thought clearly went into these things and they feel much better than I expected them to.

 

Kayak and Alyx at the Shiftall HQ with a pre-production MeganeX.

 

Never give the cops your phone.

 

For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

 

In November, Ohio residents will have an opportunity to vote on Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would finally abolish the state’s extreme partisan gerrymandering. Voters will not, however, be informed of this fact on the ballot. Instead, the Ohio Supreme Court’s Republican majority ruled Monday that the amendment will be described in egregiously misleading terms on the ballot itself, with ultra-biased language designed to turn citizens against it. Incredibly, a proposal that would end gerrymandering will be framed as a proposal to require gerrymandering, a patently false representation of its intent and effect. The court’s 4–3 decision marks yet another effort to subvert democracy in Ohio by Republicans who fear that the citizenry—when given a voice on the matter—might dare to loosen their stranglehold on power.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html

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