I would have applauded!

well, it worked out for him but it didn’t really work out for him.

they look a lot like old Soviet children’s dolls/characters to me. like Cheburashka and Nevalyashka.

right you are, I confused my Times columnists!

I ran across the Good Work skit about it first and thought it was taken out of context. nope… dude was dead serious.

remember when he struggled to say that he supported the survival of the human race? it was during that Ezra Klein interview.

thank you for writing this up. ❤ I’m also trans and spent time in that particular community because I have very intense dysphoria/bdd and found other spaces to be toxically positive. it wasn’t a healthy place, and I picked up more brainworms, but I felt like I could vent and not feel so alone.

it’s really easy for people without crippling dysphoria to sit back and judge you for going to /tttt/. it’s unhealthy, I know it’s unhealthy, but sometimes unhealthy outlets are the only way I can make the hurt get better for a while. I can’t just be all uwu skirt go spinny when my body feels like sewage.

most fascists don’t call themselves fascists. so YouTube censoring the word “fascist” tends to muzzle people calling out fascists, not the fascists themselves. it vexes me.

lemmy.ml (used to?) automatically replace “bitch” with *removed*. I’d see people call themselves a “basic removed” or say “removed please” and it was very confusing. it applied to every message.

“cunt” wasn’t censored, though? or maybe they removed the filter at some point.

I’m not a tankie so I left and never looked back.

specifically this is how QUANTUMINSERT worked (from the Snowden leaks.) also China used the same technique, injecting malicious JS through the GFW to get bystanders to DDoS github, in a much more obvious and indiscriminate way.

nobody here is remotely likely to be targeted by NSA, of course, but you can actually do such attacks on a budget if you compromise any router in the chain. combined with a BGP hijack it’s not far out of reach for even a ransomware gang to pull something like that these days.

yuck. he apparently groomed a 14yo he was tutoring and eventually got her pregnant, and later preyed on a 12yo (per Wikipedia.)

never meet your heroes.

Unnatty Light

with the landing gear there’s mechanical backups. the pilot can (destructively) manually drop the gear if there’s a failure. same with other backups: on a non-fly by wire aircraft, the pilot can physically move the control surfaces with enough force. even Airbus has a limited mechanical backup (which has been used a couple times! like when all three avionics controllers disagreed and tripped offline.) likewise, even when there’s a total loss of power, the pilot can windmill the engines to start. and since any loss of communication dooms the aircraft, it needs to be extraordinarily reliable - and I’m not sure that level of reliability is physically possible, because the underlying communications links (even ACARS) aren’t rated for it, nor are the backbone routers of the internet.

finally, I think it is human nature that remote pilots will become complacent if their own lives are not at stake, like their passengers’.

I’m sure it’s fascinating research, and may have a place for cargo/repositioning flights, but I can’t see that such a scheme could be made reliable enough to risk human lives.

and if there’s an emergency? like the pitot tubes go out, or there’s an engine fire, or a loss of cabin pressure, or landing gear malfunction, or stab trim runaway, or loss of communication, or GPS jamming over a hostile area, or TCAS alerts, or fuel contamination, or power failure, or the ground equipment for autoland goes out, or fire in the cargo hold, or slat deployment failure, or a bird strike on takeoff, or loss of hydraulic pressure, or a bad storm cell, or wind shear, or wake turbulence, or tower radio goes out, or a tail strike, or a badly contaminated runway, or a radio problem, or a software bug?

i did not!! thanks for link!

I loved that show so fucking much.

and yes. yes it was.

Zalgo captchas would go so hard.

if Progressives are supposed to vote blue no matter who, then Centrists can too. If someone like Mamdani beats Newsom in the 2028 primary they can suck it up and vote for him.

I’ve swallowed loads the past three elections, it’s their turn to take one for the team.

oh hey that’s the jerk that called me a Trump supporter for refusing to back Newsom after all the anti-trans shit he agreed with Charlie Kirk about on his podcast.

computer engineer refers to someone who engineers computer hardware. more like being a (digital) electrical engineer.