We’re talking about drones, not pole-mounted…

That was the case, but they got a new grant and now the simulation goes to quadrillion

I knew I’ve seen it somewhere.

It’s at the bottom of the doc:

echo "Checking for infected AUR packages (${#INFECTED_PKGS[@]} total)..."
echo

found=()
for pkg in "${INFECTED_PKGS[@]}"; do
    if pacman -Qi "$pkg" &>/dev/null; then
        found+=("$pkg")
    fi
done

if [[ ${#found[@]} -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Clean: none of the known infected packages are installed."
else
    echo "WARNING: ${#found[@]} infected package(s) found:"
    for pkg in "${found[@]}"; do
        echo "  - $pkg"
    done
fi

Not sure why it uses -Qi instead of -Qm since there’s no point in scanning pacman packages, but I’m no expert

Don’t feed the trolls

For whatever reason, I have such a hard time following that advice…

Why do I feel like that’s a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

Get one of those cannons that launches a net tied with weights. They’ve proven very effective against drones in Ukraine.

I’ve said this to people so many times, and they get all up in arms making strawman arguments about how I’m supposedly in favor of the thing they’re against.

Like, no, if I thought you were flat out wrong and I had a differing opinion then I would tell you that. If I critique your argument on the grounds that it weakens itself by relying on misinformation, then chances are I probably agree on the bigger picture.

Some people, man…

And emotional stability…

That makes sense. Thanks for sharing!

I remember one of the big talking points in all his speeches was how he was bringing high-speed internet to rural areas, so I’m guessing that means he made some sort of directive to prioritize that

Damn, why is the world like this? Or at least this country?

I mean, I know the answer is corruption, corporatism, neoliberalism, and capitalism. But, like, why are those things the way the world is? It didn’t have to be this way…

That sucks…

I mean, it’s a huge logistical feat. But it’s not like nothing’s been done on the same scale before. The people have roads, they have landline, I don’t see why they can’t have fiberoptics.

Well waddaya know…

No, sapphires are any color corundum besides red. Red corundum is called ruby. The molecular formula of corundum is Al₂O₃

If it’s not corundum, it’s not a sapphire. Topaz isn’t a sapphire. Emerald isn’t a sapphire. There are yellow sapphires and green sapphires, but not every yellow or green gemstone is a sapphire.

That’s a practice that should be outlawed anyway. Stocks are inherently volatile, so using them to back loans is a really bad idea. I’m surprised lenders allow them to do it, because you’d think they’d want to be sure their investments are secure.

That being said, raising tax brackets on capital gains is only a partial solution. We’d also need to close loopholes that allow them to defer taxation indefinitely, such as eliminating exemptions for reinvesting dividends. The interest they accrue in a year should all be subject to that year’s taxation.

Write-offs need to be fixed as well. So many of them use shell companies to buy a bunch of luxury items as “business expenses” just to lower their tax liability. That needs to change.

The whole tax code needs to be reworked, but assuming we can manage to do that, then a one-time wealth tax (along the lines of 99% after the first billion) followed by higher, fully-graduated capital gains tax brackets (up to say 99% after the first 100 million) would be enough.

As long as it’s combined with more comprehensive reforms such as repealing Citizens United, and reinstating Net Neutrality and the Fairness Doctrine, among other things.

Oh, and moving beyond FPTP to proportional representation and/or ranked-choice voting. Maybe adding a few political parties to break up the duopoly (at a minimum I say five: centrists, moderate left, moderate right, hardline left, and hardline right; this would effectively force parties to build coalitions and govern by consensus, rather than endless campism and mudslinging).

Panopticon.

I’ve been calling it out for years, but people thought that made me sus…

I think we’re in agreement. I basically said there’d be no point unless for some reason you wanted to describe radians as whole numbers.

Otherwise, base_π doesn’t make any sense, especially since there’s no unambiguous way to define a constant interval between irrational integers (a contraction of terms, I know).

My main point was that there’s no way to have a base_π numeral system, and even if you could it would have next to no practical value.

What about ibogaine and benzos?