happybadger

happybadger, 10 hours ago

Every AI article is completely flat in terms of quality. If I ask the horny minotaur AI what’s going on in Iran, I trust the gibberish it hallucinates as much as I would the gibberish the Washington Post bot would hallucinate. Even with human editorial oversight it would only be as good as any of the other shit they publish, but the whole content is indistinguishable from an autogenerated spam blog.

happybadger, 10 hours ago

07 critical support to Comrade Tesla for trying to kill all of its customers.

happybadger, 10 hours ago

I’m so curious as to how reactionaries will deal with bird flu. They could always be screeching toddlers about COVID because it meant being hygienic and polite to avoid a 1% FaTaLiTy RaTe, even if that didn’t reflect how severe it actually is without killing you outright. I have no clue what bird flu looks like in the long-term, but there’s that immediate 50% fatality rate. In theory that should make them take it seriously. BUT, in addition to all that 1984 COVID precautions which also suppressed other respiratory viruses, the only way to avoid this one is to not. eat. burger. That is their entire identity and they’ve spent the past four years hyped up on COVID denialism.

happybadger, 3 days ago

i-spil-my-jice

saddam-hussein

happybadger, 3 days ago

I like the idea of Ukraine somehow winning the war and then their ultranationalists turning on Poland and the Baltic states to reestablish the Kievan Rus’ borders.

happybadger, 6 days ago

The new law offers parole to convicts who sign a contract to join the army, a move that some officials have said could generate a maximum of 20,000 soldiers for the Ukrainian war effort.

I wonder if the net results of this, TCC kidnappings, and forced deportations will be enough to even patch the casualties of the summer offensive. Even if they conscript some wildly optimistic number of people- 50k, 100k, whatever- it’s giving the most demoralised citizens a few days of training before permanently disabling whoever survives. There are videos of genuine WW1 shell shock just from being near a FAB and Russia is still flying like 100 sorties a day delivering those.

happybadger, 7 days ago

Finally living up that nickname of most moral army in the world.

happybadger, 8 days ago

youtu.be/3k4QzXVsmZE The ones on youtube are so neat to watch. It’s a project I’d love to try once I have permanent housing, like the only ecosystem you can keep as a pet.

happybadger, 8 days ago

What’s a biodegradable alternative to this? I like the principle but wouldn’t want to hurt wildlife with broken glass.

happybadger, 8 days ago

Take one raw egg. With a needle drill a hole in the top of the egg, gently breaking away about 1/2 sq. cm of shell (Illust. C, No. 1). Insert the needle and stir up the yolk and white. Poke another hole in the same end of the egg, about 3 cm from the first hole (Illust. C). Blow through the second hole so that the yolk and white come out the first hole (Illust. D). Have an omelette! Make up a mixture of 50% black, red, yellow, blue or fluorescent green oil-based paint and 50% thinner (eg. turps, petrol, kerosene). Alternatively, make up a solution of colour-fast dye, mixing it with a thickener such as cornflour over heat until you get a gravy-type consistency. Pour this mixture into a~thin-nozzled, screw-top bottle. Seal the second hole of the egg with a pasty mixture of flour and water or candle wax (Illust. E). Pour in the paint/ dye solution through the first hole (Illust. F) and seal it also. You now have a perfect-sized, semi-biodegradable missile. We’ve found these little beauties very effective.

happybadger, 8 days ago

A candidate has to be a vocal anti-Zionist for me to even consider voting for them now. Zionists are feral and I don’t trust such genocidal freaks with any amount of power.

happybadger, 9 days ago

Four stories from the COVID supply crunch stood out to me:

1. Factories building and garages maintaining 18-wheelers had to shut down because they couldn’t source some small metal part that came from China domestically. It was just like a particular kind of ball-bearing.
2. A factory that made doors had to shut down because it couldn’t source its inputs domestically
3. Municipal utility companies warned that they had no supplies to respond to infrastructure damage because they couldn’t source them domestically
4. Nurses were wearing trash bags while people paid $100 for homemade ineffective hand sanitiser on ebay because the basic supplies required to respond to the pandemic at any level couldn’t be sourced domestically.

Big fuck around energy.

happybadger, 9 days ago

It’d be a shame if this trade war escalated to make consumer goods unavailable/more expensive during what will probably be the hottest summer in human history and an election year where the majority of Americans hate their unhinged genocidal president who’s gaslighting them about the ersatz economy.

happybadger, 9 days ago

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Orca JDPON stay winning.

happybadger, 9 days ago

twitter.com/akoz33/status/1232052025514496002

“Literacy” was always the most basic tool of totalitarian propaganda. If you are not literate you can’t be fed communist propaganda. The most steadfast anti-communist I knew in my childhood was my maternal grandfather who was illiterate. Communist propaganda did not reach him

happybadger, 9 days ago

It always seemed weird to me that it would be formally developed so late. Like I’ve taken multiple trigonometry courses and can’t even define trigonometry let alone make sense of most of it, but the Pythagorean theorem is a purely intuitive thing everyone does regularly. The first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it. It should have been the first thing mathematics codified after basic arithmetic.

happybadger, 9 days ago

I really like esperanto as a project: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

It had a lot of support with early 20th century anarchists who saw it as a way to make people less nationalistic and prone to their domestic propaganda.

happybadger, 9 days ago

Interlingua: Da nos hodie nostre pan quotidian,

Esperanto: Nian panon ĉiutagan donu al ni hodiaŭ

English: Give us this day our daily bread;

We have our choice between Spanish Latin, Romanian Latin, or super complicated Latin that contradicts itself and absorbed things from everywhere at random.

happybadger, 10 days ago

rat-salute-2

important sentence:

“We have no indication that it was the result of his recent transplant.”

happybadger, 12 days ago

Why are you posting Nazi shit? Go back to reddit.