I say ye, Ursula K Le Guin.
"But the name of our beautiful reward is not profit. It's name is freedom." Thank you, Professor Le Guin.
If you've been following me for a while you know that I hold the belief that what you think is "vision" and reality is in fact a holographic projection built in your head. Your vision isn't an "upside down corrected" live feed of your eyes. And here's an interesting example of this. "A video from YouTube channel The Slow Mo Guys (originally reported on by Motherboard) vividly illustrates how CRT, LCD, and OLED displays work by either zooming in very close or by recording in insane frame rates at ultra slow motion." And you may think that this is a part of scan/sampling resolution issues, and there's some truth to that. This is called Persistence of Memory. Basically you're eyes are trying to process images being displayed faster than your brain can make sense of the information it's receiving. This is why most pets never watched TV, until we had LCD screens. Our pets' brains work faster than ours (at least their visual centers do). (this is not demonstrated in the video) But, without using glasses to get stereoscopic vision from your screen, you still have the perception of depth to videos (and photos). But the screen is (virtually) a 2D surface where you're not getting distance perception from the stereoscopic effect of your eyes being a few inches apart seeing objects with different parallax. So where does the impression of depth come from? It's all in your head (this is why Forced Perspective tricks work). (Grokked from John)
"Research teams spent a decade trying to reach the moon and win the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize. But organizers are declaring an end to this leg of the space race, saying none of the teams are able to launch a lunar rover project by the March 31, 2018, deadline."
Why so many contract workers? "'Traditional workers are covered by the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination based on race, sex and other factors. Independent contractors are not covered by the Civil Rights Act,' (Alan Krueger, an economist at Princeton) says." That could be why the contractor work force is mostly male (and I would also bet it's mostly white).
"Sunday shows barely mentioned the 2018 Women’s March… The longest mention was a meager 20 seconds on NBC's Meet The Press. Other shows were worse." So much for the "liberal media."
"'We kind of gave him—"All right, you get a mulligan. You get a do-over here,"' Perkins told me in an interview for the latest episode of POLITICO’s Off Message podcast… Weigh a paid-off porn star against being the first president to address the March for Life, and a lot of evangelical leaders insist they can still walk away happy." As long as he appoints pro-life judges and allows evangelicals to be biggots, Trump could fuck Stormy Daniels on the Truman Balcony in broad daylight on the Fourth of July and these apostates would still lick his shoes. "For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36. (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
"Authorities arrested a Michigan man last week after he allegedly called CNN several times, threatening to kill employees at the network's Atlanta, Georgia, headquarters, according to a federal affidavit." Let's see, "Fake new", check, racist statements, check, anti-muslim, check. Gee, I wonder where he was radicalized?
"North Carolina’s Republican-led legislature has repeatedly passed controversial laws in recent years only to have them thrown out in court. Now the legislature is striking back with an effort to radically transform the makeup of the state’s courts." Conservatives realize they can't win with a fair system, so while they can they're attempting to make it unfair. (Grokked from Lizz Winstead)
"A 15-year-old student opened fire Tuesday at a high school in rural Kentucky, killing two people and wounding a dozen more, authorities said." This is an early report, the stats and event descriptions may change. And again with the thoughts and prayers from elected officials.
Payday lenders charge fees and rates that make loan sharks blush. "Mick Mulvaney’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) quietly closed an investigation into a payday lender headquartered in Mulvaney’s home state Monday. The company previously donated to the former congressman’s political campaigns." I'm sure it's all above board. I mean, payday lenders only make about 400% APR while lending to the working classes. Nothing to see here, citizen, move along.
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