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13·1 month agoIt’s always the ones you most suspect.
6·1 month agoThe article doesn’t really explain why except “maybe someone would like it” but I think the real answer was CGA. CGA was a predecessor color technology to VGA with a different 8 bit color space. So if you took a color scheme for CGA and rendered it on VGA you’d end up with a really garish scene.
When I was a kid I had a DOS game that I played the hell out of. I ended up ruining the disk, and stupidly didn’t have a backup, but the box included a CGA version of the game. It played just fine on my computer except that the colors were trippy on my VGA monitor.
FWIW this isn’t any more absurd than the original weapons of mass destruction.
For the young ones: Bush wanted us to believe that Saddam was trying to get nuclear weapons. The only problem is: he wasn’t. But Saddam had used chemical weapons during the Iran/Iraq war. So Bush decided to equate chemical and nuclear weapons. And thus the “weapons of mass destruction” were born. What is a weapon of mass destruction? Anything Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld wants it to be!
6·1 month agoCarney seems incredibly driven to implement the Starmer plan, which has gone just great in the UK. WTF is wrong with the commonwealth left?
Came here to make the same comment.
There’s been a big push by a group called American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators to ban Kei trucks in the USA. Many states DMVs, who are lobbied by this organization, have been choosing administratively to retroactively revoke people’s registrations for these vehicles.
I got downvoted to hell every time I pointed out he’s a globalist banker. I even had someone condescendly “explain” that he’s a central banker which is somehow better
for some reason
The linguistics research that Chomsky and Marvin Minsky were doing was the AI craze of their day. The place they were working was called the “MIT AI Lab”. It was funded by the department of defense. Not hard to wonder why an Israeli agent would be interested in their work.
I remember being really excited about Bill Foster winning originally. I thought having a scientist in government would be a big win. Turns out scientists can also be tools.
4·2 months agoreally starts normalizing nazism
As we speak Dick Cheny is lying in state in front of all the “good liberals”
Imagine paying being so insecure that you spend billions of dollars for a robotic sycophant
But I was informed that Democrats were the good guys!
Cornell West put it perfectly: Trump is a neofascist gangster and Summers is a neoliberal gangster
“Somehow we have to course-correct on this ‘murdering helpless people is wrong’ message now that we’re doing the murdering.”
He should be buried in a grave with a tombstone reading “this is not a place of honor.”
It makes sense that the most overinflated markets will come back to earth the fastest. San Francisco is also in a deep recession with huge numbers of tech jobs lost. Florida is uninsurable.
I’m surprised that the midwest and northeast aren’t declining at least a little. They didn’t see as big of a pandemic bubble but prices are still up significantly and buyers are paying the same rate as everywhere else.
5·2 months agoSam did too that’s where he got the idea.
Something’s seriously wrong with the air system then, and it will contaminate all their work and compromise the welds. Water is a particularly pernicious contaminant in welding because it causes hydrogen in the weld that will make it brittle and crack.
Welding shops have to be CLEAN. There are some welding processes that can work ok with dirty metal (SMAW with some electrode types) but these only work on mild steel, and these processes really aren’t used in a shop or production setup, more for field work.