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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Yes yes, all true. You guys are missing the HUGE picture move here. Pete fucked up HARD. The entire military is undermining the DoW in subtle ways that are exactly the type of coup we need to halt this freefall. The generals are not with the Fuher. They never will be and know exactly what it means to show division now more than ever. They are standing a wall of every flag and brass officer in the US Armed Forces, and daring this administration to fucking blink.

    Edit: To clarify, this is proving that the military is truly agnostic to civil politics, and means that ultimately, if things continue, they’re on our side, not theirs.






  • Scare them like we scared the last power-mad authoritarians. Publically and painfully parade the suffering of the oppressor, condemn them to death, and then pointedly scan the crowd for any more that want to express their undying loyalty to the fuher.

    Worked for 80yrs last time. Bet if we record a few select billionaires getting drawn and quartered by their own delivery vans and electric vehicles might push it to a century.




  • Caching is like accruing debt for CPU time between network connected devices. Let’s suppose the following:

    Computer X is talking to computer Y with a 32mb cache on each side. They both need to be involved in the following math that’s about to take place. Computer X is doing the math, and Y is supplying the data, but also manipulating the return data for some data it will send in the future.

    This is all well and good if this a 2-endpoint network. Computer Y will be ready for X’s data at any time. However, the internet is not 2 endpoints, and both X and Y are talking to a bunch more computers about totally unrelated computationally networked tasks. So now Computer X can’t send data to Y or vice versa because they’re busy. X doesn’t have anything to do so it works on the next problem it has lined up for Y and critically, adds this data to a cache marked “for Y, do not delete.”

    And now you might see how “caching” a varitable niagara falls of data (cloud compute requirements) to the wider world would get rather bloated, literally running up computational debt until storage is exceeded.

    EDIT: To nail home the debt analogy, this debt also accrues interest in the form of the CPU cycles needed to manipulate data within the cache, including both retrieving and storing that data, although this often happens with any networking whatsoever so it’s only measurable in a case where the cache is so bloated.


  • I 100% agree. However, and I hate that I’m saying this… She is correct. Cost of living is, beyond all doubt, the #1 issue for the American working class at this present time. We are feeling personally hurt in our pocketbooks, regardless of the subjective level of empathetic psychological harm we are experiencing, which obviously only applies to the ones who care for their fellow man.

    Truly, if we want them out, it needs to be made very clear that the GOP is not financially in their personal best interests. Selfishness is a far greater motivator to empathy. I may see a starving child, but if I’m starving too? Shit man, I’ve never starved before. Who knows?





  • EDIT: I think I found it: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763423004360

    I personally have experienced it in very strange ways. Very minor things. I’ll hear a hitch in playback on some video and go “huh, that’s strange” as the feeling comes over me, and then something unrelated happens right after like I see someone enter the room and have this overwhelming sense that I knew that exact person would round that exact corner 5 seconds before they did. Usually the whole room comes alive in that moment as the unexpected feeling activates all my senses and I take it all in at once. It’s a very bizzarre feeling, but it always seems to have that “I knew that was going to happen. I was thinking about it happening before it did.” I also have insane issues with experiential memories, so those moments in particular stand out strongly.


  • This happens in retrospect actually. There is a not-well-understood “temporal code” that orients memories into certain chronologies. It is theorized that this temporal code is linked to the orientation of a neural pathway that encodes the memory. Think of a literal path from neuron X to neuron Y. When that particular path lights up a second time, the memory is reconstructed in the prefrontal cortex, and the temporal entry is added to the context (i.e. this happened shortly after my 12th birthday party). The pathway is thought to not be perfectly the same every time it’s hit, allowing tangential memories to get tied to the same pathway, and explaining falsified facts in memory as those pathways touch unrelated ones.

    DeJa Vu in particular is thought to be a pseudo random new pathway being formed that just so happens to nearly entirely overlap another memory’s pathway with an earlier chronological “entry” in the brain that’s fresh enough for you to know something doesn’t add up. Instantly, the new memory is written as both “now” and “back then,” causing DeJa Vu retroactively. It is unclear whether this erases the old memory, muddles it, or associates it with the new memory in ways that don’t necessarily correlate, which might be what a “eureka” moment amounts to.

    Now is the part where I admit my source is a long ago article who’s title and author have themselves been overwritten in my mind. I am also not a neuroscientist. Just got the tism.