SreudianFlip

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[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago

I always took it to mean that people are fed shit information by design and we should fix that.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago

Or, maybe it has something to do with who owns print and broadcast media, social media and other algorithmic psyop structures, and is leaning hard on educational curricula.

The social narrative. The information water most people swim in. It's owned by the adversaries of universal suffrage.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Billionaires own the legacy media and most social media.

In other words, they control the means of social reproduction.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

Buckminster Fuller, who was smart enough to predict the geometry of the most common object in space, the 'Bucky Ball' and designed geodesic domes, thought that eating steak was more efficient than plants because the cow focused the nutrients.

Stay in your lane, experts.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 18 points 20 hours ago

It's not just too small. It's a torture chamber for echolocation and intelligent beings that can swim vast distances.

Think of gitmo with stress positions and metallica blaring nonstop and the lights are always on.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Eating a tiger liver would probably kill you with Vitamin A poisoning, a particularly painful affliction.

Easy to just avoid eating entirely, even if the rest of it is safe enough.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Well that's piqued my interest so I glanced over your comments. I have to point out that yes, people respond badly to you sometimes, reminding me of reddit.

You should know that you seem unaware that your comments occasionally have a pugnacious or even bellicose tone, not necessarily intentionally mind you, but noticeable. Sometimes dismissive or contemptuous attitudes leak out and hostile replies state they are responding to that. It's not simple bullying, it's buttons being pushed.

Apple doesn't want people using the mouse with the cable attached because it would cost them a fortune due to failed charging ports within the warranty period. It's a wireless mouse. Using it plugged in will fuck it up.

I fix computers and an apple mouse with a bad charge port is just a throwaway.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mac Mini M1 when it was released was a good deal compared to same form factor machines at similar prices. Same for the M1 MacBook Air, despite the base RAM.

That advantage lasted a while, too, considering battery life and build quality.

As a hardware repair person I am pretty sure that the engineers compromised with this design to prevent the inevitable problem of idiots leaving the charge cable plugged in while using it and breaking the charge port before warranty is done.

I can corroborate that it gets crazy even in courses expecting high literacy. I had the painful experience of teaching a 3rd year course in communication studies that was part of the media production stream. It required writing preproduction documentation and a script. There were a lot of questionable attempts but there's always a range of interest and skill, right? One student, and let me remind you this is third year at a university, I called into office hours. I'm a fan of poetry, so I just had to be sure that she wasn't cleverly lampooning Gertrude Stein in some ironic way. Sadly, no, she just had no fucking clue how to write ANYTHING coherent. Amazing.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

iMac G4.

The iMac G5 started the fat monitor on a leg design.

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