Is this the same lexisnexis that does like book and research paper databases for university libraries?

I hold myself to slightly higher standards. I’m not above insulting and throwing toxicity back, but I am honest about it to stop it from undercutting my argumentation.

I start off with the logic, and when they double down on bullshit and toxicity I just keep spotlighting the terrible rhetoric with no substance. In a “like damn dude, your 3rd grade teacher would be disappointed in your writing” way.

Its not about converting the crackpots, its about pushing back on insane bullshit so others are less likely to become crackpots.

Just to put into perspective the sun is considered a class 1 carcinogen.

Gonna need a research paper cite on that one.

Removing dyes from overly sugary cereals is rearranging deckchairs on the titanic. Its completely missing the point of what makes these foods bad for you.

I’d say Quaternions are necessary purely because they avoid gimbal locking common with 3 axis Euler rotations.

I know in Blender all other rotation options are really just quaterinions under the hood. But an advantage Euler rotations have over quaternions is continuous rotation. I can set 2 key frames with linear extrapolation and have them just continue along each axis forever. Everything quaternion ideally should be bounded to the 4d unit circle.

Gen Z slang.

Its been hitting me. Can’t use old.reddit without logging in and new reddit is an abomination.

Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.

UMIN?

Do everything you can to help the people affected by the policies that isn’t direct violent confrontation. Direct confrontation will be used as an excuse to crack down harder. Warn others of ICE presence, help people get out of an area quickly and safely, defend people being attacked, record the interactions, never be the aggressor against ICE. Its tragic but Alex Pretti and Nicole Goode have become rallying symbols and examples of the awful behavior of ICE. Yes there is a dedicated online effort to smear them, and there are still people countering the messaging. If you find that you’re in a position where simple sabotage is possible, do it.

Make peace with the fact that helping others is a dangerous proposition, and only you can decide what you are capable of doing and how much you’re willing to risk.

It doesnt take a brilliant tactician to use abuse baiting to provoke a retaliation from the abused to justify ramping up violence against the abused. Even the most pudding brained inbred moron can do that.

That’s not what a false flag operation is.

What Trump is doing is narcissistic abuse baiting. Keep abusing and harassing until the abused cant take it any more and snaps, reacting violently, and then claiming that the abuser is actually the victim. They’re baiting for the manufactured consent to crack down and take hostile control.

There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?

Edit: did some more reading, have more to say

So after checking out the Wikipedia page apparently Cartman from South Park was heavily inspired by Archie. So do with that what you will.

Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.

So I’ve been on the inside of a small crisis while at work and can easily see how the mixture of hubris and mistakes and events out of our control and rushing to present the most positive picture in the aftermath and take advantage of the events.

I’m working on an internal project, a recognition platform, with a few others at work that hasn’t been put out there yet. We just finished setting it up on the technical side, set up a bunch of programs on the platform, got user data uploads and single sign on set up. We figured since nobody really knows about it yet or can find it anywhere, we didnt have to worry about people signing in and using it before the launch. Well, there was an automated email that went out to all the managers from a platform we haven’t announced yet and a few people start signing in and using it before we’re fully ready for launch. We scramble to shut everything down, and send out a message out to everyone who got the automated email basically doing our best to save face and after the dust settled, we discussed what went wrong, where our mistakes were, and what we learned, we did come out of the other side knowing the new platform did work and was very easy to use.

On the inside it was basically a comedy of errors that we gained some nice insights from. From the outside I can easily see a conspiracy minded person being like “they purposefully leaked the whole thing to test if they could get away with it and preplant the ideas in our heads.”

I really think my minor crisis experience is closer to what happened on 9/11 than some mustache twirling villainous conspiracy with secret cabals micromanaging the entire thing. I think not taking the initial reports seriously enough by 2 separate presidents, led to a major crisis unfolding, and the aftermath being a lot of useful consent manufacturing to pass a ton of draconian legislation.

Cards also need to take quite a bit of damage before they stop working too.

No. You need to freeze in in an insulated container with only one side exposed so it all freezes in 1 direction. Impurities get pushed to the opposite side and you are left with clear ice.