YuccaMan

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I've never seen anybody else talking or complaining about yet. Very peculiar, and I haven't got a clue what could be up with my phone specifically that could be causing that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Android, and as far as I know, everything's up to date. It's really bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Does the site just straight up not work on mobile for anyone else? I can only sign in when using an adblock browser, I can't filter posts or communities, search doesn't work, and hitting next keeps me on the same page.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

(if I recall correctly, wikipedia even has a page just for Tibetan torture methods)

Would you happen to have a link handy? A cursory google search yields nothing but the expected anti-Maoist trash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's always a head trip being reminded that the engines from Thomas the Tank Engine are all real

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I might be going to see Santa Fe 3751 next month, and I'm so jazzed about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jesus Christ, how embarrassing. This kind of behavior is so baffling to me. I've been verging on poor for a good bit of my life, and I've earned money by working with my hands more often than not (and thank fucking god I'm not doing that anymore for the foreseeable future.) If I had Tim Pool's money, nobody would ever see my happy ass again.

At any rate, yeah, I never could get a grip on it. Never got a handle on roller blades either. Got pretty good with four-wheelers though lol

I've always been crap at sports in general, even things that I should've logically been good at, like wrestling (I'm a large lad.) I don't know if it's the ADHD or what, but not being able to get good at something right away often leads me to quit from sheer embarrassment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

That all sounds utterly fascinating, and also cause for me to once again bemoan my utter lack of coordination and balance

I never could get a grip on skateboarding as a kid. Alas

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Exactly, no accountability, no citation, no critical analysis, not even basic questions like "How in shit's name would the MOD be able to derive anything like an accurate casualty projection in this situation."

Like I get that articles like these aren't meant for people who tend to actually think about what they're reading, but goddamn, it's just gossamer thin.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Adding to Ukraine’s woes are Russia’s huge advantage in manpower and its willingness to accept staggering losses in return for capturing small objectives

Do we even have reliable casualty numbers for the Russians (i.e. that don't come from Ukrainian reports) or is this just the usual 'Russians have no regard for human life and rely on human wave tactics' trope

Edit:

The offensive has also come at a huge cost to Moscow, with an estimated 70,000 troops lost in two months, according to the U.K. Defense Ministry which posted the projection last month on X

That explains that I guess

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Makes sense. Kinda wish I'd had a pair at my last job. Digging boric acid out of a hole in the ground in the middle of the desert. Doesn't compare to coal mining, but I'd come out of there absolutely covered in the shit. Dries your skin out something awful as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

How'd you know that side-eye-1

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Hey all. I don't know if it's a faux pas to put help requests here, but I've got an issue with a basically brand new AIO cooler in the PC I just put together, and since I'd rather die than ask this on reddit, I figured I'd take a shot and ask my favorite people before throwing up my hands and sending it in for warranty service (again).

So long story short, it was briefly functional when I got it, then crapped out, so I sent it in to be "fixed". I got it back the other day, and reinstalled it and booted up the system today. Pump came on after a minute or so, CPU was running at a good temp, and I was all ready to install my OS. But, I dicked up the BIOS settings and had to reset CMOS to fix it. After that, the pump and the radiator fans wouldn't come on and weren't detected by the motherboard (I should note that this is exactly what happened the first time). Tried it on every fan header on the board, nothing. No amount of fiddling with the fan settings in BIOS could get it working.

Would anybody who's inclined to help my silly ass have any advice, or should I just insist that the clowns who sold it to me just replace it this time?

Edit: Forgot to note, the pump appears to be functioning, but none of the three fans are spinning

 

So I'm taking the last of my undergrad history courses right now, and one of the books that my professor assigned us is Adam Hochschild's Bury the Chains. We're six chapters in, and so far, Hochschild has centered British abolitionists (primarily Thomas Clarkson) in his accounting of the outlawing of the slave trade in England (I phrase it that way because we all, I assume, know that slavery itself didn't go anywhere after 1833).

Now, I might not be the best read Marxist, but I know enough to be skeptical of any claims of significant historical events being driven by the energy and moral force of "great" individuals rather than the ebb and flow of material reality, a claim Hochschild is definitely making here. He even quotes Emerson in saying "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man."

Well! I couldn't let that nonsense go unargued, and since lambasting my professor would do no good, I'm here to ask if anybody happens to know the actual reasons the slave trade was outlawed, beyond vagaries about the industrial revolution and wage slavery. Gimme the real nuts and bolts.

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