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Here's a starter. Note that what gets mentioned is just a selection, and by no means an exhaustive review of all their shenanigans.

Also note that a) "faster" isn't necessarily equal to "better", and b) Nvidia is paying a lot of money to make sure that their cards are the "fastest". Speed isn't all about hardware and drivers, software is a significant part of it too, one faaaar too often neglected by armchair "experts".

I flushed DeeDee MegaDooDoo down the drain.

that's a bit off topic, but I'm fed up with seeing politicians gutting public institutions.

No less than Joe Biden is going around telling folks we should means test Social Security to keep it solvent (instead of just raising the limit on how much can be taxed due to inflation). He's being clever about it too, saying the "rich don't need SSI". Next it'll be the "Well to do" and then the "working class" and finally the program gets shut down and they pocket the money I paid in.

I don't know what's worse, the fact that they think they can sneak this past us or the fact that Joe Biden just did...

I flushed DeeDee MegaDooDoo down the drain.

I flushed DeeDee MegaDooDoo down the drain.

VP Pence gave a 43 minute talk on China.

Still not tired of winning.

If it takes more than 5 minutes, it isn't a talk - it's indoctrination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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To be honest, it would have been Bush and Co. who deregulated the gas companies and made it cheap, as as San Bruno unfortunately found out in 2010.. I notice you didn't list Russia among heavy polluters - I wonder why.

VP Pence gave a 43 minute talk on China.

Still not tired of winning.

Oh good Lord!

You're talking for sure about creimy the mountain! LOL!

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A few points for the TL;DR; crowd:

1. The claim soy turns you into a girl is based on a 1940s era study into sheep eating clover.
2. Estrogens are a _class_ of chemicals and plant estrogens behave very differently than the female sex hormone.
3. Alex Jones' supplements are chock full of soy (it's a cheap filler).

Feel free to watch the rest of the video above.

I'm not necessarily interested in defending soy, but I'm since and tired of junk science.

Forget the rabbit food, Eat Steak .

Tofu can never beat cow.

Soy can never beat cow.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had to prove your claims when calling people racist. Lets see what top elected DNC officials have to say on this.

Cortez (D-NY) called Trump a racist without evidence.
Former president Carter called me a racist without evidence.
Both supported by the DNC leadership.

So fuck off. If you don't want people you agree with to be called racist, tell them to not be racist/misogynist/homophobic. After all the ONLY reason he wouldn't admit to these things is because he considers those people sub-human and censorship of them should be allowed. (Thanks Carter)

New name for him:
Gameboy(R)acist(M)isogynis(H)omophobe

Don't like being called these names, stop acting to prove they apply to you, and you seem to think Rice being censored is no big deal so you are only a racist. Going to keep calling you names like this until the left stops first. I'm pretty much fed up with people who support murders and saying killings of US citizens being shot by illegals is not "violence" and is "acceptable".

You all are so out of whack, its about time people start setting you straight.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had to prove your claims when calling people racist. Lets see what top elected DNC officials have to say on this.

Cortez (D-NY) called Trump a racist without evidence.
Former president Carter called me a racist without evidence.
Both supported by the DNC leadership.

So fuck off. If you don't want people you agree with to be called racist, tell them to not be racist/misogynist/homophobic. After all the ONLY reason he wouldn't admit to these things is because he considers those people sub-human and censorship of them should be allowed. (Thanks Carter)

New name for him:
Gameboy(R)acist(M)isogynis(H)omophobe

Don't like being called these names, stop acting to prove they apply to you, and you seem to think Rice being censored is no big deal so you are only a racist. Going to keep calling you names like this until the left stops first. I'm pretty much fed up with people who support murders and saying killings of US citizens being shot by illegals is not "violence" and is "acceptable".

You all are so out of whack, its about time people start setting you straight.

i think it was ces a few years back... let me gulag it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you want to understand just how messed up Grievance Studies is, this is Joe Rogan interviewing two of the "hoaxers", including Boghossian, the guy who PSU has started proceedings against. It's long but a good listen. The first 6 minutes are enough to give you the idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZZNvT1vaJg

I used to have cable. I was spending something like $300/month. The set-top boxes, the premium channels (because the regular channels were all "reality tv"), all the fees...

Internet alone, on FIOS, is $40/month + fees. Netflix is $8.55/month. Something like an OBi202 2-Line Voice-over-IP Phone Adapter was just on sale for $44. (Now $70.) That's a one time fee, with free (no monthly fee) incoming & outgoing phone calls via Google Voice. (Setup video.)

I mean we're talking about a price difference that lets me buy a brand new top of the line MacBook every year, with change left over.

All I can figure is that must be one hell of an expensive antenna you're talking about! Does it come with land & a 1000 foot tower?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Banksy's Girl with Red Balloon

For all practical purposes, standard flat screen TVs take up no living space when wall-mounted. From the looks of it, this thing takes up a bit of floor space, and you can't even put anything on top of it, unless you wanted the stuff knocked on the floor every time you turn on your "boner TV". It truly is a missed opportunity if LG doesn't have it play this sound effect when it finishes extending.

Furthermore, the whole rollable/disappearing TV concept already exists in a products that have been available for years: A ceiling-mounted projector, and a motorized projection screen.

The first time there is an insignificant hardware problem the Apple "Geniuses" will want you to get a new Macbook after claiming that everything is broken beyond repair (even some things that are not even installed in the Macbook).
Don't believe me, just check out Louis Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
and Jessa Jones: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
It's shameful what they see from Apple.

The first time there is an insignificant hardware problem the Apple "Geniuses" will want you to get a new Macbook after claiming that everything is broken beyond repair (even some things that are not even installed in the Macbook).
Don't believe me, just check out Louis Rossmann: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
and Jessa Jones: https://www.youtube.com/channe...
It's shameful what they see from Apple.

I don't think these things need real/strong AI. Then we might have to feel bad for them. A real sentient being whose purpose is to sit around in my cell phone in case I want to ask it to play me some music? It reminds me of Rick's "Pass the butter" robot.

Honestly I think we'll run into some big problems before we get to real AI. For example, the weak AIs could probably be a lot more helpful even without AI if they snooped on you, tracked your movements, and watched your reactions. To some extent, that's how real assistants learn how to service their bosses. Even a real/strong AI wouldn't be able to learn your preferences without measuring a lot of information about you. So do you want that?

And if you're willing to entertain the idea, what kind of safeguards do you want to protect your privacy? To what degree are you willing to let advertising sneak into that interaction.

Just to give an example, let's say you set the AI to remind you to pick up milk. It's going to work better if you can say, "Keep track of my location all day long, and when I'm close to a grocery store, remind me to get some milk." Are you ok with Apple and Amazon knowing your location all day long? And what are you going to do when Alexa steers you toward a Whole Foods, and mentions that a particular brand of milk is on sale?

RIP: Deedee Megadoodoo

What?

Wasn't talking to you. I said drink as in take a drink. You know like a drinking game.

What broad generalizations? It's a well-demonstrated and self-avowed tendency of many conservatives that they like to troll liberals.

That one. It's a broad generalization that many conservatives like to troll liberals. Almost every word in there is vague and poorly defined, leaving the listen to decide what each of those words mean (how many is "many"? Who counts as a conservative? Liberal? What counts as trolling?)

It's a vapid and devoid of meaning as "many liberals are SJWs"

It's a generalization that doesn't say anything

Except it's not California's land. The National Parks belong to all Americans.

Well, ish. It's a bit more complicated than that, and the political split probably depends on if you live in the Eastern or Western US, and whether you're a "traditional" Western resident (ie, fiercely protective of land rights and local control) or a progressive one (ie, "yay centralization and control!")

For a nice overview, take a look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LruaD7XhQ50

Don't forget about me. A little sign in here, a touch of WiFi there, and I can spy on you while don't absolutely nothing of value.

If you install lots of me, I still won't be of any use, but at least it'll be mildly amusing.

so the cd itself isnt the problem - it's how the audio was processed prior to being put onto cd.

Yes, the way analog sound from the artist/instruments is mangled and compressed before being stored in CDs is likely the culprit. I wonder how a 96kHz sample rate, 24-bit sampled CD without any processing would sound. Probably better than vinyl.

But, as it is, music from CDs is muddy and distorted compared to vinyl. Until someone investigates this with an open mind, we won't know the exact cause of the differences.

Here's an example of high quality vinyl recording on youtube. Bet it sounds better than any CD version if you have good headphones or hifi speakers:

https://www.youtube.com/user/M...

People started to value convenience over quality. MP3s on shitty earbuds became the standard

Sorry but by the time this started happening music was compress, manufactured and generally devoid of any quality or dynamic range. People moved to convenience because they found it didn't make shit sound any worse than it already did.

But let's face it, we all know the only real way to get good sound it to play Guitar Hero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cool, but the test is not that clear.

Conditions are icy in this video, and while you can claim that both the truck and the car are subject to the same conditions, the most important factor in those conditions are the condition and type of tires.

We have no data on that.

Here are a few tug-o-war matches between a Model X and a Hummer & a Land Cruiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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Cool, but the test is not that clear.

Conditions are icy in this video, and while you can claim that both the truck and the car are subject to the same conditions, the most important factor in those conditions are the condition and type of tires.

We have no data on that.

Here are a few tug-o-war matches between a Model X and a Hummer & a Land Cruiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Cool, but the test is not that clear.

Conditions are icy in this video, and while you can claim that both the truck and the car are subject to the same conditions, the most important factor in those conditions are the condition and type of tires.

We have no data on that.

Here are a few tug-o-war matches between a Model X and a Hummer & a Land Cruiser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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The problem is that people think digital results in a different waveform than the original analog waveform. They can't understand how you can go from a stairstep digital signal to a smooth analog signal, and incorrectly conclude that something must be lost when you store music digitally. Yes something is lost, but it's only frequencies higher than Nyquist - half the sampling frequency, which is carefully chosen so the only frequencies lost are those beyond your hearing range (and weren't captured in the original analog recording anyway).

Monty Montgomery demonstrated this in a video using an analog wave generator, an analog spectrum analyzer, an analog oscilliscope, and A/D and D/A converters. At 20 kHz, the stairstep digital waveform is an awful mess, but after conversion back to analog it's still a perfectly smooth sine wave.

The mistake people make is thinking that the digital signal is a series of stairsteps. It's not stairsteps, it's just the corners of each stairstep. The sound's value is only defined at each corner. In between the corners, it's undefined. And it turns out that there is only one analog waveform which can be drawn through every one of those corners, yet contain no frequencies higher than Nyquist. So the digital sample of the waveform can perfectly recreate the original analog waveform (within the chose frequency limit).

Vinyl is the music equivalent of homeopathy.

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Hmmm...

Monty Python's Flying Circus might bring clarification.

This guy actually did a proof of the concept, though with a relative's truck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Fixed link.

The Jay Leno episode with that car was very entertaining! It's a great thing he saves those old cars and lets people learn about them...

Gear it down, and anything CAN tow a 787. The GP was correct... If a man can pull a 777, then bragging about how a vehicle can tow a lighter plane really isn't all that smart, is it?

Done in 1972 with a Chevy pickup. Except it wasn't a 787-9, it was a 747 that weighs 170 tons. It's really not that impressive; in fact, here's a man pulling a 142 ton 777. I guess the model X comes up short here...

Done in 1972 with a Chevy pickup. Except it wasn't a 787-9, it was a 747 that weighs 170 tons. It's really not that impressive; in fact, here's a man pulling a 142 ton 777. I guess the model X comes up short here...

Really-- call a tow company in there, block them in, and hook up towing gear, and charge them a stiff fee.

If it isn't a tow away zone then somebody screwed up.

They don't need a tow truck. Teslas have a lot of low-end torque and a Model S or X could easily drag those pickups out of the parking spots.

Forget a damn pick-up truck, a Tesla Model X P100D can, and has towed an actual Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. That's a 130 tonne aircraft being pulled 300 meters.

See one of these many, many articles. Or this one.

For a Model X, a pick up truck isn't going to be a problem.

Cdreimer left /. after 20 years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt that he left them alone with APK.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

My bet is that it is simply a replica of the IT janitor from San Jose brain. The probe caught some transmission from the structure, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

"It was GM's ... poor designs for 15 years that killed it." -- from the parent comment.

The poor designs were at least partially deliberate, apparently. Most car buyers weren't knowledgeable about cars. The bad designs made more money for GM car dealers. The dealers wanted more work, so they wanted more failures. The dealers would make huge amounts of money and would pay for expensive local advertising.

A friend of mine who was also 14 years old then, and who had a father who was an excellent mechanic, suggested we ride our bikes to the places where GM and Ford stored their cars when they arrived in the local area. My friend demonstrated sloppy GM design. Then we went and looked at Ford cars. They were much better designed and built.

Back when car buying became very popular in the U.S., and many years later, it was See the USA, in your Chevrolet".

My understanding is that now the best car manufacturer is Toyota. My understanding is that cars designed in the U.S. are far more likely to fail.

10 Least Reliable Cars -- Consumer Reports' annual survey exposes the models with the greatest risks of problems. (Oct. 24, 2018 )

The U.S. has laws that prevent car manufacturers from selling directly!!! One story: Tesla US dealership disputes. Amazing!!! Laws that help car dealers make more money. Quoting that Wikipedia article:

"48 states have laws that limit or ban manufacturers from selling vehicles directly to consumers, and although Tesla has no independent dealerships, dealership associations in multiple states have filed numerous lawsuits against Tesla, to prevent the company from selling cars."

Cdreimer left /. after 20 years and posted 100+ videos in 2018. His trolls are still butthurt that he left them alone with APK.

The thing to do for him: post more videos :)

It is not astronomers, but media that do that. Even amateur astronomers like myself only use the term with some sort of quotes as it feels a bit cringy... For example check my (not bad if I may say so) "Supermoon" HD timelapse, where I have added the search terms "supermoon" and "blood moon" since that is what people use due to media, although a big chunk of eclipses are "supermoons" and it doesn't really make a big difference, while "blood moon" is also a cringy term as far as astronomers are concerned, but it describes a nice eclipse where the moon stays a deep red.

That said, if you get a deep red eclipsed moon, the best way to appreciate it is through binoculars.