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  • We have a lot more than five senses…

    Close your eyes and clap your hands, now how did you just do that?

    Proprioception is a sense of where our body parts are in relation to each other, and how we can walk without staring at our feet the whole time.

    What you’re looking for is a “gut feeling” which is often your subconscious, but your gut has a shitton of neural cells too. And can function like a “minibrain”.

    https://www.science.org/content/article/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

    Most likely it’s an actual “proto-brain” hold over from before organisms even had heads.

    But anyways, most likely it’s coming from your subconscious, there are things it puts together and recognizes, and especially if danger is around then it’s just gonna flash a warning light and not walk your conscious mind thru the logic that tells you why there’s a warning light. Because it’s better to respond fast and later work out why the warning light was flashing.

    So, an example would be before I learned about the correlations between prenatal testosterone, in group bonding, and facial width; it was a joke among a specific friend group that “don’t trust guys with skinny faces”.

    Not that low prenatal testorone makes someone untrustworthy, just that in situations where you need to 100% count on people to have your back, the people most likely to not are the ones that are not biologically wired to blindly defend what they recognize as “us”, their in group.

    But this is a thing on a wider social scale, guys with “rat face” are often cast as villains and betrayers in media, because on some level even tho we consciously don’t recognize why, we all just instantly distrust to some extent. Not from conscious logic, but individual lifetimes of experience and us just automatically picking up the pattern.

    Prenatal androgen exposure, approximated via 2D:4D, was associated with prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous research in older children, higher exposure was related to stronger prosocial tendencies, which corresponds to earlier findings on fairness in adults. Our findings point towards a potential role of sex steroids in the early development of children’s social behavior, but they have to be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size of the current study. Nevertheless, they underscore the importance of integrating biological and psychological perspectives, while also highlighting the significance of studying the development of prosocial behavior within peer groups.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001245


  • Well, not too sure how to fix this.

    Just have two fans on top…

    It’ll be fine with the gap, if you’re super serious about airflow (you don’t need to be, but this is a hobby) then you’d want to “blank out” that gap with something. Maybe 3d print a cover if you want it to look nice. That way it’s airtight.

    The exhaust fan in the back is the most important tho. If you got intake in front, you’d be much better off having an exhaust in back and nothing on top. But it sounds like you’re saying there isn’t enough fan plugins on the motherboard? Most fans have daisy chain adapters built in, if not by a super cheap fan cable that can plug multiple fans into one motherboard slot.

    But again, airflow doesn’t need to be absolutely perfect. Unless you’re doing crazy over clocks and living in a place that’s always hot ambient temp, you’ll essentially never know the difference.

    It’s just an easy part of the process for hobbyists to geek out over. Like trying to squeeze an extra 0.5 HP out of a drag racing car, the only reason to mess with it, is because you enjoy messing with it. The results will never be “worth” your time from a performance aspect.


  • does it not then have the potential to water down enough districts to make them swing districts,

    That’s how gerrymandering always works…

    You want to get every district to where you’d barely win, and jam all the extra people who would vote against you into as few districts as possible that they will definitely win.

    The obvious danger is if you gerrymander too much, and a wave shows up, you could potentially lose everything because you no longer have any “safe” districts.

    I’ve been saying since the beginning that we’re better off letting them do all this redistricting ASAP, that way we can start the groundwork to win enough of those close districts to take the whole state government


  • You’re acting like that’s a common scenario…

    There’s a few small slices of area in a minority of states where you might be legally allowed to pick, but that is not a guarantee there’s more than one option.

    To my knowledge most of them are artificial monopolies anyways.

    Like, in Perfectville your choice between any available provider is legally protected. However company A and company B made a handshake deal to draw a line down the area and not provide service on one side of the line.

    https://competitiveenergy.org/consumer-tools/state-by-state-links/

    Very few of those green states are for electricity

    And if you just meant:

    Non profit = good

    Then I’m going to have to explain an entirely different thing…

    And I’m not optimistic about our chances to be honest




  • Meanwhile, vehicles for model year 2031 will apparently be $925 cheaper than otherwise.

    That would be if prices were set on what it costs to produce, and not set to maximize profits…

    We see it with EV discounts too, if people will pay 60k for an EV and the government knocks 5k off with a tax credit, they price the EV at 65k and corporations are essentially given tax payer money as a bonus because when the EV rebates go away, they drop the price.




  • Good luck…

    Even when the bubble bursts, they’re going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.

    There’s a very real chance that we’re witnessing the slow death of home computing.

    The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that’s the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.

    Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we’ll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.





  • Americans don’t recognize the ICC when US military are the defandents…

    The United States signed the 1999 Rome Statute but it never ratified the treaty, taking the position that the International Criminal Court (ICC) lacks fundamental checks and balances.[1] The American Service-Members’ Protection Act of 2002 further limited US involvement with the ICC. The ICC reserves the right of states to prosecute war crimes, and the ICC can only proceed with prosecution of crimes when states do not have willingness or effective and reliable processes to investigate for themselves.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes

    It’s like with Netenyahu, someone has to comply and arrest them and take them to court, even then it’s debatable if the court would hold them for trial.



  • In normal times, the GOP nominee, Matt Van Epps, would be considered a shoo-in. But after Democrats stormed to victory in Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere earlier this month – bringing with it evidence that voters who had backed the president were changing their minds – the party and its allies have poured money into the campaign of state representative Aftyn Behn, hoping to pull off what would amount to a coup.

    A big reason we’re making these gains, is the DNC spent a decade stealing donations from state parties via the “victory fund” and as soon as Martin took DNC chair, he started the biggest redistribution of funds from the DNC to state parties.

    Neoliberals were just not fighting in a lot of places, which is the only reason Republicans have the House.

    Not trying to downplay the gains we’ve made, just saying there’s a fundamental reason why, and it’s logical to keep expecting it to pay off not just here but in midterms too. Pretty much every state has been operating at campaign levels for 9 months now. We’re putting in a shit ton of groundwork already, while Republicans are gonna keep doing the 3-5 month mad dash before elections.