I was just talking to a friend a couple of days ago, that Indian Americans are playing a weird role in US politics. They seem to be some of the worst folks in existence e.g. Kash Patel, Vivek Ramaswami etc.; and also some of the best e.g. Zohran Mamdani, Ro Khanna, Shri Thanedar, Pramila Jayapal etc. There doesn’t seem to be any centrist Indian American politician lol.

This happens to me pretty regularly while watching YouTube. I forget that I shouldn’t be able to hear a siren that loudly over noice cancellation even if it was right outside my door.

The error is ~1/log(x), for anyone interested.

I have opened some before, but every single time, I’m just kind of awestruck that this thing actually works. It’s such a delicate dance of these rapidly moving components, it’s hard to even comprehend. SSDs are much much simpler in comparison.

Thanks, I’ll see if I can find anything.

Btw, shiny platter lol.

I guess I can try facebook marketplace. But then I’ll have to reactivate my account. The local food pantry does keep some hardware. (I once found a VGA cable there lol.) I’ll talk to them to see if they’ll accept it in this condition.

Thanks. Yeah, I would take the HDD of course. I don’t know if I’ll take it apart, but definitely not giving it away lol.

Also, in case someone wants the rest of the machine for any reason, I’m happy to send it over if they just pay for shipping.

That reminds me, there’s this anti-capitalist, anti-war children’s film by Satyajit Ray called Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne. In it, there’s a song that says that the king is sad and afraid since he has so much money. He tries to cope by punishing others, but it never makes him happy. The only solution offered was to let go of all his riches, and that finally made him happy.

It was for children, so I understand why sadness was used instead of fear. But they do need to be afraid.

As an aside, I think that movie had a decent impact in the communist revolution that happened in my state in the 70-80s. Ray has made some of the greatest movies in the history of cinema, but his children’s films still hold a dear place in the hearts of many generations of Bengalis.

Then a large percentage of tall men would have to stay single, since women are shorter on average. I’ve personally met very few women who are my height, and I’m not even that tall.

Thank you for your service.

It’s DoW now, baby. And apparently, it’s over 50,000!

A low level, somewhat sincere, cop.
(Just finished Kohrra S2. It was pretty good.)

Also, this is the only kind of thing that seems to get to them. Call them corrupt, they’ll revel in it. Call them ugly, that gets under their skin.

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To bastardize a very popular quote, everything in this world is political, except for politics. Politics is about money.

I just did uv tool install yt-dlp[default] --with mutagen. Updates are handled automatically.

Yep. Whenever I learn that someone went to business school, and doesn’t feel any shame admitting it, I simply stop talking to them. Fucking ghouls, man. Literally destroying the earth for profit. As a society, we need to drown them in ridicule. That’s what they deserve.

Can confirm. It’s not just the US either. We have similar things happening in India. The leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi wanted to talk about Modi’s connection to Epstein, and about a recent (unpublished, due to lack of approval) memoir of a retired General about the Indo-China situation. But he was stopped for bogus reasons, and the parliament was prematurely adjourned.

But no one even saw the footage from the parliament session, and no one seems to care that it happened. What people do seem to care about is that Rahul interrupted some union ministers’ press briefing, and they basically bolted as they didn’t have any answers for him. So now everyone is calling them cowards. Not because of what happened in the parliament, but because of this memeable interaction. We are truly living in an idiocracy, just worse. At least the President Camacho seemed to genuinely care.

Video of the outside interaction: https://youtu.be/MGM7YHho2_0
Video of the parliament proceedings: https://youtu.be/BHgZDSi9QiM