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wolframhydroxide

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  • Hypothetically, if governments wordwide just suddenly became authoritarian and deleted all records of history, how much history can you recall from memory to re-teach to the next generation?

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  • Yeah, I have curated my library to be focused on the history of science, with special focus on the sorts of books which include information necessary to bring society to the technological equivalent of the age of reason (with extra chemistry and medicine). At that point, it's mostly practical, and the practicality of the source speaks to the likely authenticity of other texts within the collection.

  • Hypothetically, if governments wordwide just suddenly became authoritarian and deleted all records of history, how much history can you recall from memory to re-teach to the next generation?

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  • Congratulations, you've just written a quarter of the plot of the Book of Eli with Denzel Washington

  • RFK Jr. spreads vaccine misinformation during congressional testimony

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  • Meanwhile, in other breaking news:

    • Recent archeological studies suggest that Abraham Lincoln is, in fact, dead;
    • Physicists have determined that the sky is sometimes blue;
    • Neuroscientists are making the bold claim that most humans are more intelligent than rats. They have found that the reverse correlation exists for all those who report surprise at reading our top headline on RFK Jr's testimony!
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  • If you don't want people to eat your genitals, have you considered filling them with deadly alkaloids and neurotoxins? Alternatively, just make your genitals look deeply diseased and likely to kill anyone who breathes near them? These methods seem to work pretty well for most mushrooms.

    If you're absolutely determined to make sure that no one eats your genitals, and you don't want to learn from the mushrooms, I would recommend registering as a Republican (or your local fascist party, as the case may be)

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • The problem is that one stupid tends to take many "unlucky" down with it when it kills itself.

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    TIL american public support for requiring vaccines against infectious diseases dropped from 81% in 1991 to 51% last year

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  • The problem is that the vaccine regimen is very expensive, and the government is run by people who use every single failure of the regimen to push for a less-strict regimen, which causes more failures. They do this because they actively profit from a populace infected with stupidity.

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  • Yeah, and there was no explicit text that said "separate, but equal" was about racial purity and whites being the best race. But here, "separate, but equal sciences" is totally normal, right?

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  • I agree that there is not a difference, but this meme is claiming that there is. That is what I am complaining about. I agree with literally everything you have said. The meme is trying to paint a qualitative difference, because that is literally the implicit context of this meme template. I am disapproving of that implication

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  • Given that the very definition of something that makes a meme is that it allows transmission of a specific idea in an encapsulated manner, there are inherent implications of using a meme, whether you explicitly say them or not. This meme is implicitly about a miscommunication between two interpretations of the same term:

    I Love Video Games / Me Too is a parody meme format based on an exploitable image macro in which a woman misinterprets a man saying "I love video games" as him expressing love for Lana Del Ray's song of that name.

    This meme, since its earliest usage, has been used as a statement of purity, which you can clearly see if you look into the history of it. That connotation is preserved in the use of this meme, whether you yourself are ignorant of its origins, or simply pretending that it isn't some sort of purity statement. I don't disagree with your sentiment, but you are definitively wrong about the implications of the original post.

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  • Though im told that Philosophy's just math, sans rigor, sense and practicality.

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  • Except that the meme is very specifically used to highlight a distinct qualitative difference between the two "interpretations" of a term which leads to friction or miscommunication between the characters. This meme is doing precisely what you claim it is not.

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  • Wow, "Tell me you never took more than high school level chemistry without telling me you never took more than high school level chemistry".

    E: also, the fuck is "space"?

  • Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

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  • Ah, see, there's your problem: you're using a slight mistranslation. A common mistake. They were never the party of "Family Values". They're the party of "Family Valuations". They exist to find a way to put a number on every family, either "amount of money we can squeeze out of them" or "amount of money we can make by destroying them", and they get bonuses from their corpocratic upstream if they can manage both at the same time.

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  • Ah, yeah, for that, just factory reset it, don't connect it to the internet on setup and use HDMI.

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  • Excellent points! And yes, that's why I said he proposed that he solved the problem of induction.

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  • OK, so whenever any device (e.g. your computer) wants to connect to a website (say, "wikipedia.org"), it tells your router that it wants to go to that website. Your router then sends what is called a "DNS Query" to some server, such as Google or Cloudflare, which takes the string of characters "wikipedia.org" and looks it up in their own dictionary of websites. In that listing, "wikipedia.org" will be linked to a specific IP address, which Google or Cloudflare then pass back to the router. Your router then connects the original device to that IP address, allowing your computer to get data from wikipedia.

    Now, modern devices make up to hundreds of these requests every second, so it's not like it's going to ask your permission for every single _one of them, right? Of course not. The problem, however, is that virtually every single proprietary app and piece of networked hardware nowadays is actively spying on you, by sending constant "telemetry", marketing, and ad-servicing requests to hundreds, or even thousands of different services every day.

    Pihole is a program that runs on a device (traditionally a raspberry pi, but could also be as simple as an old always-on tower computer or as complex as a self-hosted server). This device is connected to your internet, and what you do is you tell your router that the only place it's allowed to ask for DNS queries is your pihole device, rather than google or Cloudflare. Then you add blocklists, en masse, to your pihole, which takes every single DNS Query and checks it against the blocklists. If a DNS request isn't on the blocklists, it passes the request on to an actual DNS server, like Cloudflare, then gives the response back to the router, and the router is none-the-wiser. You get to see wikipedia. HOWEVER, if your device has the temerity, the absolute gall, to connect to any server on your blocklists? The pihole just... Doesn't pass on the message, and you get to choose whether the pihole actually sends your device a refusal, like "no, we won't be connecting to google ad services today, thank you" or if it just stays silent, not letting the blacklisted requests through, and just shredding the request every time it gets one for that unwanted site. Also, the pihole can keep a log of every single request made, both blocked and allowed, and keep tallies of the most-requested servers. It does this by default, but can easily be told to stop whenever you want.

    TooComplex;Didn'tUnderstand: imagine your local network is a medieval walled city. Whenever someone inside wants to communicate out, they send their letter to the post office, which sends a runner out of the city and returns with the response. A pihole acts as a guard at the city gate, taking every letter, checking the addressee to see if the city's magistrate is okay with sending information there. The guard has a long list of places letters aren't allowed to go, and they are very fast at their job. If the addressee isn't on their list, they send out their own soldier to take the letter themselves, rather than letting the post office runner go. If the addressee is on the blocklists, they either rip up the letter and send the runner back with their own, or they just rip up the letter and beat up the runner so they don't go crying back to the sender and narc. Its the magistrate's call how the guard handles it. Also, the guard keeps a list of every single letter that arrives at the gate, unless the magistrate tells them not to. The magistrate can peruse the list and tell the guard to allow or block any addressee on that list (or off of it) at any time.

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  • Karl Popper, "The Logic of Scientific Discovery" is a seminal work in the modern philosophy of science. It proposes to solve the problem of induction, and his proposal of falsifiability is, to my knowledge, the most popular philosophical framework for modern scientific practice. I'd be interested in what the above commenter has to say about Popper, though, as I am not well-read outside of his work, as my focus is on the history of science.

  • Hacking through the Jungle of Ignorance

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  • Haha, fair enough, Moloch

  • 🇬🇧UK

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  • I am confused... Are you suggesting that the sort of people who wrote this song are seriously the ones who are being silenced? That its not the whole Free Palestine crowd being controlled, but you're suggesting that the government is censoring the xenophobic Nazis?