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Jill Stein Is Killing the Green Party
  • Certainly if she has been trying to effect real change in a realistic way, rather than an egocentric impossible run at the presidency.....

    Things would have been different. She was one of many straws, which if subtracted, would have prevented trump

    So for that and that alone, she and the rest of the greens can fuck right off.

    See the No Labels folks for a more common sense way to be activist on national level politics.

    Greens would be great if they would focus on good, winnable races from the bottom up....

    What that called again?? Uhh 'grass roots'

  • Fact-Checking Is Killing Us
  • I actually read your article, and I wholly disagree.

    Facts matter, truth matters and without the A students we would be even further down the road to Idiocracy, which ofc looks more like a future-documentary every day.

    Your brand of "it's all stupid, so join the stupid train" seems designed to appeal to people who want to be stupid. Or you could call yourself ignorant, if you prefer.

    In any case, the anti-intellect position that you promote may have a basis in reality (headline hippos) but it is far from a positive contribution.

    You can do better.

  • Ex-Porn Shop Staff Say Mark Robinson [Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina] Was A Regular. He Denies It.
  • Not exactly ------ no one really buys enough sex toys to become a 'known regular ' in a sexshop

    For-sure he was known to so many staff because he was regularly visiting the 'video booths' area, which generally have gloryholes or other forms of public, anonymous sex.

    Chances are very high this guy was giving and/or getting blowjobs to/from strangers every weekend

  • Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise
  • I'm not a huge trek nerd, but recently watched the whole series, and the two main irritations were the blatant/unnecessary/annoying/offensive sexualization, and the theme song.

    It's easy to skip the opening sequence but the gratuitous fetishizing was pretty awful. The whole series would have been better without.

  • Strike On Russian Strategic Early Warning Radar Site Is A Big Deal
  • All this tells us is that Russia has literally zero anti-aircraft/intercept capability --- even for national-level strategic sites.

    They keep getting their turds pushed in by radio-controlled light civil aircraft pottering in thousands of km at highway-traffic speeds.

    Pitiful.

  • In reversal, Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
  • As an army veteran, I have always found the naming of military facilities for shitty racist losers to be blatant pandering and a poor consolation prize to the wounded sensibilities of 'the lost cause' etc

    There was nothing noble about any of that shit, it was 100% about slavery and to be fair, more or less the entire country had been implicitly or explicitly involved in the practice from colonial times.

    So perhaps the consolation prizes and TYFYS-ism of it all was warranted for a period. But that period is well over by now.

  • Here’s How The Russians Are Taking Out Ukraine’s M-1 Abrams Tanks
  • And this is related to the relative capabilities of USA vs Russian in terms of logistics.

    The Americans can generally afford the fuel, and the logistics tail to keep it flowing.

    Russia cannot.

    How well the M1A1 serves Ukraine remains to be seen, but so far they've gotten pretty fantastic performance out of every weapon system they've been given, from Javelins to Patriots.

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    What actually happens if Biden wins?
  • One of the two men you mentioned will win -- barring a death before the election, either Biden or Trump will be elected.

    All the wanking in the world isn't going to result in a third option with even the remotest chance.

  • CassetteFuturism @lemm.ee Scirocco @lemm.ee
    Zenith Space Command --- fully mechanical and wireless

    "By pressing a button on the remote, you set off a spring-loaded hammer that strikes a solid aluminum rod in the device, which then rings out at an ultrasonic frequency. "

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    1979 Electronic House of the Future

    featuring videotelephone

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    Sony DAT Walkman TCD-D3
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    Sony Watchman FD-210BE: pocket-sized flatscreen black & white CRT TV (1982)
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    Lasonic TRC-975
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    Commodore HX-64 concept - handheld retro PC
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    JVC Video Capsule Model 3100D
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    Soviet Sci-Fi cover --1977
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    '84 iPhone
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    Raleigh Vektar -- 1985

    from: http://www.thebikecomesfirst.com/the-raleigh-vektar/

    The Vektar, the worlds first computer bike, was launched in 1985 long before we had health and safety laws. Equipped with ‘micro chip technology’ the rider could see how fast they were going, how far they had gone and how long they had been riding for at the touch of a button. The head’s down display ensured that you would ride into the back of your mate or a kerb as you fiddled with the control panel.

    If that wasn’t enough you could listen to the radio on one of the three AM preset stations either while riding the bike or parked up hanging out with their pals. Later models came with a MW tuner giving even less crappy sound quality.

    The main feature though was the advanced warning and alarm system. Once you had chosen one of the eight sounds from the ‘revolutionary sound generator’ on the top tube mounted control panel, you could use the handlebar mounted controller to terrorise old ladies as you rallied around the housing estate

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    Heathkit H89 -- dual processor computer from the late 70s
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    K.I.T.T Startup Sequence

    80's AI in a self-driving car

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

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    '84 Camaro Berlinetta
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    1988 Toyota Camry -- Automotive UI of the Future
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    HAL 9000
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    Kakapo's Nest
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    ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminal 600

    #Source: ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminals - Hardware - Retro Computing#

    Here’s an early 1970s portable terminal with fantastic looks, which might be rightfully called the “Polaroid SX-70” of terminals. Sadly, I wasn’t able to put a date to this. The artifact in question (sadly not mine) is the ADDS Envoy Traveling Terminal 600. The Envoy 620, which is also pretty stunning (see below) was introduced in June 1972. (Since this is looking a bit early, it may be 1970/71.)

    ADDS-Envoy-travelling-computer-terminal-1970s-1

    ADDS-Envoy-travelling-computer-terminal-1970s-2

    The ADDS Envoy 600, a sales brochure (PDF) can be found at archive.org 19.

    And here’s the ADDS Envoy 620:

    ADDS-Envoy-620-1972

    For more info and images see https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/ADDS_Envoy_620 38 and http://jimsoldtoys.blogspot.com/2016/05/adds-envoy-portable-terminal.html 16 on the similar ADDS Envoy 580.

    terminals-wiki.org 2 writes on the company history:

    “Applied Digital Data Systems, or simply ADDS, was a manufacturer of high-quality video terminals. In March, 1979, ADDS had delivered 100,000 CRT terminals. In 1980, ADDS became a wholly owned subsidiary of NCR. In 1991, ADDS become part of AT&T when AT&T purchased NCR. In 1994, AT&T sold ADDS to SunRiver Data Systems. In 1996, the company was renamed to Boundless Technology.”

    P.S.: A nice source found in one of these pages, providing a comprehensive overview of 1970s terminals, is the “Handbook of interactive computer terminals” by Duane E. Sharp, 1977, available as a PDF at https://archive.org/details/handbookofintera00duan 19.

    PPS: this is a repost from here

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    Cassette Futurism in lemmy
    martin-fieber.de Cassette Futurism

    Some appreciation for cassette futurism in movies, series, and games, as well amazing artists incorporating the style.

    as a recently-minted fan of the cassette futurism concept, i wanted to see some here on lemm.ee

    the blog link and probably most of the content for a while will be 'flattery' of the reddit sub, and mods/community/everyone are welcome.

    mods especially

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