archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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If I knew someone had shoved their wife violently I'd have a hard time seeing them in any other way.

A little further down on that page:

But sure, I guess you can insist on a specific definition from that particular definition if you feel the need to make that distinction to the exclusion of certain types of violence you personally don't think are as severe. I'll say it again: that distinction is without a meaningful difference. Might be meaningful to you, but not to victims of abuse.

Nah man, I don't think that matters.

In the context of domestic abuse, it doesn't matter if your spouse leaves a mark or physically injures you, it still creates an environment of fear for your physical safety. Displaying any willingness to cross that boundary with your spouse creates fear that they could cross it again, or go further. That's what makes 'beat your spouse' such an evocative description to begin with. It isn't supposed to be a precise classification of the type of violence you committed against them, just that you violated that physical barrier that shouldn't be crossed. You can play semantic games and try finding a less objectionable term for it if you want, the truth is that even a slap or a shove is a severe betrayal of marital trust, and undermines the feeling of security that every person has a right to in their domestic environment. I think "beat" is a perfectly fine word to describe someone who willing to do that to their spouse.

A distinction without a meaningful difference. Throwing a punch at your spouse but missing is still you throwing a punch at your spouse.

Just because you didn't make contact doesn't mean you aren't a danger

Fuck that, Israel should be carved out of Texas, not Palestine.

It will be much more cost effective to deliver our lethal aid within our own borders rather than across the Atlantic.

physical violence.

actually inflicting physical harm

What am I missing here? You don't think 'physical violence' implies 'physical harm'?

yup. I haven't done it yet, but apparently ceiling fan controllers are a pretty standard thing, so usually all you really have to do is replace the whole controller box (they're like $30 apiece from what I remember), or replace the controller board itself like you mentioned.

I've stopped buying appliances from places like Home Depot for this reason, seems like they simply do not stock items that aren't their brand-name cloud-hosted services, or larger brands like hue.

I'm pretty sure Minnesota imports something like 60% of our energy - i'm at least glad we're past the worst of the winter weather but holy fuck is it going to suck

Every new episode this season has made me feel like i've missed all of the others.

This felt like a fever dream and I loved it.

“I’ve come to view home ownership and healthcare as destabilizing forces in my life,” said Bernie, a 45-year-old network engineer from Minneapolis. To finance owning his and his wife’s $300,000 home and saving for the future, the couple was foregoing medical and dental treatment of any kind and cutting back on expenses everywhere, he said, despite a pre-tax household income of more than $250,000.

I have no idea where in Minneapolis this person is but this is nothing like my own experience in the metro area.

My wife and I bought our home in 2021, for about the same price as he's describing and with an income far less than theirs, and we're expending less than 30% on our mortgage payment (including our insurance premiums and taxes). Maybe they bought theirs at the interest rate peak in 2020, whereas we bought ours when the interest rates bottomed out, but I can quite confidently say that our home is not the main burden on our finances.

What is killing us is raising food and healthcare costs, as well as our student loans. Our energy utility announced last year that they would be implementing surge pricing that could almost double our energy costs, and since the utility administers the state solar incentive program themselves, they quoted us a PV system cost almost twice what you can find on the open market (they use your average monthly energy bill to determine how much you can afford to pay for the system, which ought to be criminal). We're getting fucked up down and sideways, but our mortgage payment is probably the most stable expense we have.

There are a lot of reasons things are shit and financially precarious, but owning my home has been a rare bright spot in our otherwise gloomy financial picture. If we were still renting, not only would we be in the same strained situation as we are now, but we'd be constantly anxious about our rent skyrocketing, too.

Home ownership isn't all sunshine and rainbows, but the alternative of renting is often just as expensive - on top of being at the whims of landlords. They've been publishing articles for a decade now trying to convince people that home ownership is overrated and renting is the way of the future, and I really wish I could trust them to report on it transparently.

Huh, it works great on my android os Nvidia shield

It might be because it is the center of US imperialism but I'm just guessing

I don't think trump is the only reason someone might want an asteroid to fall on DC

Lmao, yea I think they're kind of playing a game with language here.

After doing some reading of various explanations, what they mean when they say they aren't using electrons for computation is basically that the 'thing' they're measuring that dictates the 'state' of the transistor is a quasi-particle..... but that particle is only observed through the altered behavior of electrons (i guess in the case of the majorana particle, it appears as two electrons gathered together in synchrony?)

So the chip is still using electrons in its computation in the same say as a traditional transistor - you are still sending electrons into a circuit, and the 'state' of the bit is determined by the output signal. It's just that, in this case, they're looking for specific behavior of the electrons that indicate the presence and state of this 'qbit'

That is just my layman's understanding of it

Microsoft isn’t using electrons for the compute in this new chip; it’s using the Majorana particle that theoretical physicist Ettore Majorana described in 1937.

Ok now i'm gonna need an explain-like-i'm-not-a-quantum-scientist on what a 'topological transistor' is, and what it uses instead of electrons for its compute (and, like, what is the significance?)

My parents and school administrators' attempts at blocking unsanctioned activities is what taught me computer literacy

There was nothing quite as satisfying as getting caught opening addictinggames on a web browser through a proxy when the teacher was convinced they had blocked it completely.

Fair, but Marx wasn't a technocrat. He was primarily concerned with how the working class could overthrow capital, and the working class was primarily illiterate - transatlantic telegraphs wouldn't have been a relevant tool to them in their ceasing of capital from the bourgeoisie.

Marx specifically wrote the Communist Manifesto in easily-understood language so that the few literate members of the working class could organize and recruit those who wouldn't have been able to read it themselves. Even if he understood the telegraph to be a revolutionary technological innovation, it wouldn't have been relevant to an impoverished working class that did not have the luxury of basic education.

Not that it would have been impossible for anyone to see the potential significance of the telegraph back then, but that was never going to be a Karl Marx who optimistically thought the revolution could happen within his lifetime (and here we are almost 160 years later not even a step closer to that reality)

If Marx had predicted our current internet communication hellscape all the way back in 1870, he would be more than just an anti-capitalist boogeyman but a bonafide prophet

20% of Americans were illiterate in 1870

I honestly think social media and internet subculture would be fine if it weren't soured by moneyed interests

If work wasn't so alienating and all-encompassing and we weren't so stressed and insecure in our material conditions, then we wouldnt run to social media as an escape. If wasn't also so rife with consumerist culture and advertisements it wouldnt be so corrosive. Maybe then we could use it to create communities that mirror and bridge into irl spaces and create meaningful relationships.

Instead, the entire network has been constructed around a capitalist organization and it only serves to make us more miserable.

An excellent game that was undercut by their exclusivity deal with Epic