No, it was too respectful towards women.

Welp, I played myself. I was really intending to talk about the AMOC shutting down, but wrote “Gulf Stream” as shorthand instead because I didn’t want to spell out the whole acronym and it’s more famous/less necessary to explain (I was tapping the comment on a phone at the time).

Then, just my luck, you come in citing a source talking (among other things) about how the Gulf Stream specifically won’t shut down totally, because of the component of it that isn’t AMOC. 🤦

FAQ 9.3 | Will the Gulf Stream Shut Down?

…Based on models and theory, scientific studies indicate that, while the AMOC is expected to slow in a warming climate, the Gulf Stream will not change much and would not shut down totally, even if the AMOC did…

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…The Gulf Stream is part of two major circulation patterns, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre…

Anyway, that gaffe aside:

I didn’t read through that report to see what it says about the timeline for the AMOC collapse in particular, but I’ve been paying a little bit of attention to the topic for a while now and it seems to me that, as new studies come out, they tend to revise the bounds of the estimate sooner and sooner. I feel like it’s gone from “maybe by the end of the century” in the older studies to “maybe a decade or so from now” in some of the most recent ones. Personally, I think it’s alarmingly possibly imminent. That’s just my impression, though; it’s not as if I did a legitimate literature review.

I’ll be honest, I can’t even really be mad at them. I can’t think of anything they should have done differently.

You’re kidding, right?

Thing #1, in giant flashing marquee letters, would’ve been “pick an AG who would’ve actually gone after the traitorous coup leader instead of sitting on his ass for two years.” Remember, Merrick Garland’s original qualification for his SCOTUS nomination was being so conservative that even Mitch McConnell had no excuse to reject him. It should’ve been blatantly obvious to everyone that that made him the absolute wrong choice for AG.

Things #2 - infinity can basically be summarized as “all the stuff that would actually help the working class, which the Democrats’ major corporate donors would never actually allow them to do.”

If they’re legitimate users, I expected them to continue to exist, occasionally commenting on memes and cat pictures and whatnot like the rest of us.

But they’re entirely gone instead, almost as if they stopped working once they stopped getting paid.

I’ve said many times I would love to see third parties running for these offices that Democrats aren’t concerned about. But they don’t seem to be concerned about those in all but one or two states. And even those are kind of iffy.

Part of why that happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKgNrshVdMw

I don’t know about the Trump promoters, but a lot of the people vocally supporting Harris are very much still here, commenting about other topics. A few (but only a few) of the third-party supporters are still here too, for that matter (notable example: @givesomefucks).

That’s how you can tell they’re real users, rather than shills being paid to push an agenda: they didn’t go away when the job ended.

This thread is not about people’s appetite for political discussion, or whether they’re misguided enough to only pay attention to the Presidential election instead of building their party from local offices on up. It’s about whether they were ever legitimate at all to begin with.

Okay look, there’s a plan B that’s had one big success already.

And two big failures.

After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.

They don’t think of it that way in public, you mean. I’m sure they’re laughing their asses off behind closed doors, though.

That’s just a fucking cartel with extra steps.

All this shit is the main reason I’ve never bought a drone. One of these days I’m going to figure out what parts to buy to build my own open source one, but I haven’t had the time yet.

Multiply that by every other category of electronic product, and avoiding spyware and other enshittification is a fucking full-time job.

I have a Costco membership. I don’t buy things like this or frozen vegetables there because they cost more per unit than they do at Kroger (let alone Lidl or Aldi).

No, that comment was just the last straw.

Perhaps you should define “blue maga”

Weird, dishonest fanboyism for liberal politicians.

It’s putting so much fresh water into the ocean that it’s destabilizing the Gulf Stream, which will plunge northwestern Europe into an ice age in a few years.

Digital music really hasn’t caught on much.

I just found out that modular synths are a thing and it looks pretty fun to me! It’s like half music and half electrical engineering, LOL.

(Don’t get me wrong, I knew about keyboard synthesizers and whatnot, but the concept of making music with a bunch of oscillators and random voltage generators patched together is 🤯.)

(Also, shout out to !obscureinstruments@sh.itjust.works for putting me on the Youtube random walk that lead to that video.)

seaboard

This? That is… holy shit, really cool! I didn’t think there was anything beyond velocity and polyphony in terms of expanding the capabilities of what a keyboard controller could do. I kinda want one myself, now.

Also, LOL at the the other thing they sell that looks like a Theremin but actually uses computer vision to turn your hand gestures into MIDI commands. I don’t know what drugs that company’s product designers are on, but it’s the good shit.

or if it even works under linux

No, CEO pay is a kickback/grift. CEO pay is decided by the Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors is made of CEOs of other companies. What they’re doing is all colluding to inflate each other’s wages and then using that as a justification after the fact to demand higher pay for themselves, lying that it’s due to “the market.”

The only shortage is a wage shortage.

The only MAGAs in this thread are the “Blue MAGAs” trying to gaslight us into thinking that merely administering the existing law is some heroic act and not a goddamn baseline expectation.

And that’s saying a lot, because I fucking hate the “Blue MAGA” accusations. I’ve always considered it dishonest ‘both-sides’-ism, not a real thing.

But nope! This thread, right now, has finally proven to me that it is indeed real. You have managed to sink to that level. So congratulations, I guess, for extinguishing the last shred of faith I had in liberals. That’s what your bad faith bullshit has accomplished. I hope you’re happy.

The fact that you’re not refuting me makes me know you know I’m correct.