Tlaloc_Temporal

It’s like a pressure wave! The boat is gone, but the wake is still causing you problems.

Eh, it’s pretty trans-adjacent, same wheelhouse.

Keep the seal clear of toppings and sauce, and use water to stick the crust to the base. Wet flour is a great glue, tomato sauce and cheese are not.

True, a fully transparent system would require every voter to understand the machine and how the systems prevent tampering.

At the same time, I don’t think even a majority of voters know how the voting process works in the U.S. and Canada today, simply trusting that such a process exists. I’d argue that many of the processes aren’t even fair, with gerrymandering and spoiler effects being common. Large numbers of people even believe that mail-in votes are simply a tool for fraud.

So yes, ideally everyone would fully understand every step of every system of the voting process, but a working system is possible without that. If a more opaque system could increase verifiability and/or allow faster easier voting, it might be worth it. Of course currently existing voting machines do neither, and massively increase opacity at every level, so they’re quite terrible, but I don’t think they need to be perfect to be useful.

Theoretically, a voting machine could be open source, tracable, verifiable, and well regulated.

In practice, all your currently existing industries can only make black boxes that even the makers can’t guarantee the workings of.

I’m a little disappointed that it was a medical term at all. It’s a very functional word, like in flame retardant, or an engine retarder.

I think it would have been much more applicable to methods of thinking and epistemology, like thought stopping techniques and special pleading, as these also severly restrict one’s critical thought yet can be overcome socially. There’s no sense having a social label for a medical condition, so don’t use such a punchy easy to use word for it if it’s not a choice.

The picture post was relatively innocuous, as full uppercase is very common in memes.

The text posts is very suspects, verging on bot trash, because text posts basically never use full caps for anything but emphasis within a paragraph or emphasizing a whole paragraph.

You don’t have two of the same meme in different formats, you have one meme and one drunk text. Reducing variables should have content representative of the format.

Ugh, as a young child I thought train was spelled “Chrain” for the same reason. People getting lazy and softening a T sound to a CH sound is fine, but can’t we update the spelling too?

And they’re named that because they make devices that move smoothly from one place to another, just like the literary device.

I’m kinda the same here, except worse. I’m stuck saying Hyper-Bowl, and the “proper” pronunciation breakes down as hyperbally in my head. Sounding like an adverb trips me up so much, I just refuse to use the word now.

It’s not bad for hyper local news via groups.

That being said, anyone that trusts a social media platform as a source of media probably doesn’t use it as a source, but instead just assumes that it’s fully representative. Like when some people dismiss tik-tok because they only see people twerking, they assume it’s representitive of the whole platform.

So much this! After Harper I was hopeful about doing something about this mess before it got worse. Then nothing. I think a bill was presented at one point? Maybe? •sigh•