Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.

Are you me? Because that’s exactly what I’ve been doing. I set my default browse experience to Top 6 hour and then scroll All.

I do miss the community aspect of Reddit. There were other users who I ran into regularly in the comments. And usually not in a hostile way.

Hell, there was one sub where I was invited to the mod team because of those interactions. I did that for a couple years and continued to be active in the sub until Reddit start pissing off mods. That and my main “friend” on the mod team had his account nuked by Reddit after he fell for a troll.

Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.

So yeah, I logged out of that reddit account and have never logged back in, instead I use a burner account and try not comment on anything.

Cough convict labor cough cough.

No, they will literally shock you into submission. The cops all have Tasers.

I’ve found that the more you know of the actual history of Israel, the more fucked up it all seems.

It was a machine, it was not an engine. At no scale could it be used to power anything. And it would actually be dangerous to scale things too much. We know because people tried.

The aeolipile was a toy. And yes, toys can showcase interesting physics. I owned several of them as a child, and own a few today as, arguably, an adult.

Still, the thing about invention is that it isn’t a flash of inspiration and a new thing appears, it’s more of a slog of learning new things and applying old things in new ways.

Most often in history the most striking inventions were new ways of getting the raw resources, or improving the quality of those resources.

You can’t have a steam engine without a way to consistently produce steel.

The aeolipile wasn’t really a stream engine. I’ve played with modern versions, and you can stop the spin with your hand. Not a bare hand mind, because it’s rather hot. But a cloth or a glove is fine.

These toys have zero power to do any useful work.

This is why an actual steam engine uses a reciprocating piston. Because doing it that way builds pressure and thus power.

Jefferson was a massive hypocrite. A slave owner who often spoke of freedom. People of the time called him out for the hypocrisy.

But specifically, it’s been proven through genetic testing that he impregnated one of his slaves, who was the much younger half sister of his wife, because Jefferson got his slaves from his slave dealing father in law, who also raped his slaves.

More hypocrisy, Jefferson wrote about how Americans should live idyllic lives on small farms in touch with nature, and ran a slave powered nail factory.

Specifically, young teen boys, because their hands were smaller, and could more easily operate the dangerous equipment.

There’s so much more, and all of it bad.

The point is that design patents are fucking stupid and should not exist in the first place.

Apple has sued other phone manufacturers over them making a rectangle with rounded corners.

And it’s fucked.

As a note, the supreme court has recently gutted section 1983, so it’s now basically impossible to sue over violated rights.

Or time with Trump

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

I understand why people think Epstein was somehow in charge and Trump was just a client or maybe a supplier.

The truth is found different. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/6/1578544/-The-Untold-Story-of-Trump-Model-Management-A-Daily-Kos-Exclusive-Part-1

Eh, massive correlation is still not causation. No matter how massive.

Here’s a horrible fact, almost every dictatorship in history has been a pedo dictatorship.

Authoritarianism and pedophillia seem to go hand in hand, but because the pedo dictator almost always focuses on teenagers, this aspect of authoritarianism tends to go under reported.

If he was a coward he would never have hired Joel Kaplan.

Joel Kaplan was a Bush toady who participated in the Brooks Brothers riot.

That’s a fairly new development. And it might not last, depending on how the cheating goes next year.

So a more risk averse company might not test the waters just yet.

Nitrogen only atmospheres actually kill fairly quickly, and without any warning.

That’s what makes industrial nitrogen accidents so terrifying.

The pain of suffocating is mostly your body fighting to get rid of CO2.

Now, there was a prison that recently used “nitrogen” to execute someone. But they were dumbasses with it and didn’t let the excess nitrogen and CO2 vent. It was exactly the same as just tying a bag over the guys head.

He specifically fired the group whose job it was to search for and report that shit.

So yeah, “negligence”.

I so want a sequel to the sing along blog.

Dr Horrible has become obsessed with reviving Penny by turning back time. He doesn’t care how many people need to die, because he believes he can “fix” things. But the risk of time travel is the destruction of the universe…

Captain Hammer, now knowing what pain is, has two choices, grow and overcome the pain, or continue to hide away…

And Penny. The multiple zombies, and clones, and computer simulations of Penny that were never “right”. Well, she too has her parts to play.

I think you’re confusing Smallville and Lois & Clark.

Two different shows. Smallville was the one with Clark as a “teen” and never showed the costume. It launched the career of Alison Mack, of NXIVM sex cult fame.

Dean Cain was in Lois & Clark, and wore the costume throughout the show. But he also took a hard right turn afterward while trying to stay relevant.