Ok, so let's say you're a performer and from time to time people yell something at you while you're on stage. Given the context, let's divide all comments into two categories.

1. Commentary on your performance. These could be statements like "wwooooooo!", "you suck!", "I love you!", "get off the stage!" or "play free bird".

2. Other bullshit. This includes any comments not about your music or the performance currently in progress. Basically anything off topic or not covered by category 1.

If someone yelled "do you support genocide?", what category would you put that in?

Now once you've answered that question, I want you to remember that your answer doesn't actually matter at all either way. Because in the end, a performer on stage is never obligated to respond to anything yelled at them from the floor.

But you're right I guess, "political issue" was the wrong way to frame it. I should have said "other bullshit" (as laid out above).

No actually, I don't like Thom Yorke. My problem was with a dumb comment trying to sound logical by throwing fancy words around.

If you want to use Occam's razor in this situation, (a pretty inappropriate situation, because who can truly know what others are thinking or feeling) then I'll show you how that works...

Occam's razor: He walked off because he was in a bad mood and didn't really feel like playing that show in the first place. The crowd comment seemed like a good enough excuse to walk off. That is probably the simplest solution.

It was both. It was a rhetorical question, which are technically questions while being functionally statements.

It's worth noting though, arguing this semantic point doesn't change anything or win any argument, it's just pedantic.

Occam's razor doesn't really apply here... You can't use that to just assert that he supports Israel. Besides, he later did say that he doesn't support Israel.

Honestly, I can understand the response. He's in the middle of a set and someone starts yelling about some political issue... Fuck that, he's here to play a concert. And you know what, I wouldn't want to be backed into making any political statement out of the blue, while on stage.

Well he's not Tony Stark...

I shower in the morning, just after I take my ADHD meds. My shower thoughts are... meandering. Occasionally insightful, but usually just weird rabbit holes where I ponder links between distantly removed topics.

Can someone explain what this headline was supposed to say? The grammar is... Confusing.

Oh good, that's better.

That is hilarious.

I spent a while trying to figure out how a cat could possibly long press a power button, even pressing it at all should be a challenge...

Then I remembered that most people use laptops.

I would be impressed if a cat could hold the power button in for several seconds on my tower, you have to depress the button about a 1/4 inch.

Lol, Tim Apple. Who was it that said that? Was it Biden?

When I check out a device in the store I definitely pick it up, hold it, turn it over, and generally look at every part of it. Things like a charging port on the bottom would probably stick out...

Or like in this case, with the power button on the bottom, I'd definitely notice that as annoying.

What software do they let you load?

Basically anything you want, they don't tend to watch you at the apple store, unless you seem like you actually want to buy something. They want you to mess around with the machines, so I've never seen them password protected in any way, you have admin access.

The headline should read:

Despite best efforts and all odds, ISPs find themselves on the right side of history.

Well, I used to have an area of expertise... Then we adopted a kid.

Kids are hard. Kids who had years of neglect and trauma... can be a lot harder. I love him very much, but he takes up so much of my time and energy, I just don't have any time for my own stuff any more.

Also, my field (IT) has gotten weird as computers have gotten weird. Nobody uses computers any more, they use "devices". And these devices all suck. They're hard (or impossible) to actually back up, you can't deploy software to them in an organized way, they're a security nightmare, and the interface just isn't as easy to use as a freaking mouse and keyboard.

And if you want to talk about actual computers, those suck more every year too. Oh the hardware is improving by the day, but the software hasn't been cooperative in years. Always online operating systems, fake settings menus to keep the user away from the real settings menus... Actually, nevermind, I don't even want to talk about OSs, they make me too angry.

And then there's all the software packages that would rather be services than what they actually are, a product. Poor Adobe, just not filthy rich enough yet...

Anyway, it gets harder to do IT as computers get shittier, and I am falling behind, because I hate it.

Congrats! Now you guys can use collective bargaining to ensure you're paid for every single bug you code. This is huge!

Seriously though, unions are good for the industry, I'm happy to see this is continuing at ever more software companies.

That's a bonkers take. It's the largest and most powerful rocket in history and it's already made orbit. The raptor engines are the first full flow staged combustion engines to ever be put into a production rocket (This is a holy grail of rocketry). All estimates suggest that it's also probably much cheaper to build than any of the other heavy lift rockets. And that was accomplished while also building full reusability into the design...

The work they've done is nothing short of astounding. Which makes your take come off as either insane, blind, or biased.

Yeah, I've got one of those too. Plex is great.

Yeah, apparently we do...

The problem with Sonic booms isn't that you notice them, it's fine to notice the sound of a vehicle traveling overhead. The problem is that the sound from previous supersonic jets has shattered windows all along the flight path, ruptured eardrums and caused moderate hearing loss.That is a problem...

If this instead sounds like a car door closing, I'd call that significantly quieter.

Haha, I'll give you 100 CocoCoins if you can define what makes a cryptocurrency "fake" rather than real.

This headline should probably say "FBI create a cryptocurrency to expose..."

That said there are only a few cryptocurrencies I would call worthy of note or respect.

This doesn't matter because everyone should be using signal.

No, it's making fun of him. The trick that always worked on him and nobody has been using lately is simply making fun of him. Do you remember how defensive he got about all the talk about him having "small hands"? That shit drove him nuts. This bruises his ego, and the man is all ego...

It turns out that the schoolyard name-calling tactics are very effective on him, but Democrats mostly feel they're above that.

"Buying" media with drm is a mistake.

I buy books from audible sometimes, but I immediately rip the drm out. Use Plex to store your movies and TV shows, it does music ok too now.

I use the headphone jack every single day, both with my headphones and with an audio-in cable for my car.

I'd be lost without it.

Also, I've tried Bluetooth headsets and they've all died on me for various reasons. I want relatively high quality headphones, and whether they're wired or wireless, good sound tends to cost more. But I don't want to spend more on something that will die quickly, so it's wired headphones for me.

Just from the summary,

Climate scientists...

...they had been told they were not qualified to take part in this broad discussion of the climate crisis

So if climate scientists aren't qualified to take part in this discussion, just who the fuck is?! That's a pretty stupid position for anyone.

but maybe what we truly need is a universal software level architecture that can be used on various different CPU architectures providing maximum flexibility.

I think that's called Java.

Israel might be the baddies...

To that we say... Go fuck yourself?

Oh hi China.

I mean, the speaker part makes sense. The vacuum has a speaker so it can make an alert sound of something's wrong. The most common ones I hear are "please charge Roomba" and "error, please move Roomba" (that'll happen if it rolls over a grate or something and the wheel gets stuck).

But a cheap speaker is a pretty sensible feature.

PS: Let me make this clear: I don't give a shit about what China does unless it involves actual ethnic cleansing and mass rape. If we don't give a shit about the latter, we shouldn't "get involved" in the former.

Funny you should bring that up... You should ask the Uyghurs in China about that.

Also, the world watched them impose their rule over Hong Kong, we watched their military murder their way through protesting civilians. We know what to expect from China, we've seen their playbook.

But Taiwan is an ally of the USA, Japan is an ally of the USA, and we will stand by them. There are many other sovereign nations in the waters of the South China Sea, China does not own all that territory.

It would be in China's best interest to back the fuck off.

Cops are among the easiest people to spook. They're like bunny rabbits, but with guns.

Other triggers include

• removing something from a pocket especially when asked
• being brown
• running, for any reason
• Owning a dog
• not being white

The thumbnail image isn't even a satellite...

The dragon capsule isn't going to suddenly fall out of orbit somewhere unexpected...

I'll tell you a secret, it has always felt like the end of the world is coming. It's been a constant throughout history. People will always look around and say "well this whole thing is all going to hell". This will never change and it has more to do with individual human psychology than the state of society.

It can't happen though. Community service is an act that requires cooperation. He would need to buy in, which he won't. He'd wear the orange jumpsuit and continue to campaign from the side of the highway. He'd never pick up a single bit of trash, he'd smile for cameras.

Biden should pick her up as a running mate. So she'll just automatically be president if Biden dies. You'll see conservatives doing their level best to ensure Biden is in the best of health.

Why would you think that?

When I fire up the grill, I don't do calculations on how much weight in CO2 I'm putting into the air and then extrapolate that to find the total mass of CO2 that grills generate globally. I usually just make burgers.

That space engineer made sure that they were on the right side of the rocket equation and they made it to orbit (which is hard on its own).

I agree that thorough environmental studies really ought to be happening, but I'm not surprised that aspects got missed.

I had no idea what a "doomsday fish" was, making it a pretty confusing headline, I nearly skipped the story. If on the other hand it had just said "oarfish" I would have known exactly what they were talking about and found the headline more interesting.

Well, photovoltaic panels are already only good at converting a specific range of wavelengths of light into energy. If you want to build more efficient panels (for normal uses), you often need to layer them, with different layers able to use different ranges of the spectrum.

Lasers (and LEDs for that matter) only produce a single wavelength of light, so there is some potential for using it to transmit energy. You just need to tune your laser and your panel to be on the same wavelength. So there's some tuning that needs to happen, but it's basically traditional photovoltaics we're talking about.

Although even then, I'm not sure what the theoretical maximum efficiency of these panels would be, there would probably still be a lot of energy loss. AND ALSO, I have some serious concerns with giving the military giant space based lasers strong enough to power a military base, that's generally called a death ray.

Somehow, I'm actually more comfortable with the military having small nuclear reactors...

No, it was a test stand at the McGregor rocket testing facility, it wasn't even at Boca chica (the place where all the finished rockets are launched from). This is not a big deal and won't affect their schedule at all.

I have a triangular file I use for sharpening all my saws, super useful. I have some old saws.

Humans are great computers, we're just not digital. Our brains are definitely analogue computers, where closer neurons or stronger synapse connections can mean higher voltage signals from one cell to another. This is a very powerful and nuanced form of computing. It's not great for exact calculation of numbers, but it is great for interpreting data, even extremely large data sets. Human brains (many animal brains really) are also really fantastic at image processing in particular.

If it's worthwhile to have a dedicated video card in your pc, then likewise, it would probably be worthwhile to have human brains in your evil robot hivemind. It would make some kids of processing much more efficient.