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The Musky Settling
Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit
The SEC’s “Punishment” of Elon Musk Is Exactly What Tesla Needed
Tesla Is 2 Years Ahead Of Schedule On Gigafactory 1
Tesla will screen 'Cars 3' at Gigafactory as thank you to employees
The Future We Need — From The Tesla Gigafactory To A Chain Of Terafactories
Thrown in here to avoid Tesla fatigue.
Moderation improvement
I've been thinking about moderation a bit, and I have a suggestion.
First, in addition to the disagree=0 moderation, I suggest a new agree=0 moderation.
Second, that these moderations do not take away from the 10 mod points each Solyentel is provided with per day.
Third, that the comments display both a green agree count and a red disagree count in the format A/D as well as the current point count and most common moderation.
Fourth, that logged in users could moderate exactly one agree or disagree per comment. Tying these to an account should keep them somewhat in check, and motivation for spoofing might be lower with a 0-point mod anyway.
Fifth (and perhaps this is obvious by this point) that the agree/disagree ratings be completely separate from the point-up/point-down moderations. They don't provide points anyway, so they don't need to be part of the actual moderation path, and moving them off would avoid having to triage which moderations were unlimited (agree/disagree) and which were limited (give/take points.) This means that a DB table could serve with just the uid, the comment number and a +1 or a -1, so it could be a relatively lightweight and code-simple implementation.
Sixth, as these are 0-point and strictly opinion, that there be no mechanism using them to hide/show comments. This falls naturally out of them not being part of the mod point count anyway, I just thought I'd be specific about it. This also reduces the code and display triage load.
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What this would do is encourage the creation of a visible consensus on comments; we could rate every comment that called for it with an agree or disagree, and that would neither damage the comment, or anyone's ability to moderate comments that really need a point up or a point down.
There have been many comments where I wished I had a quick way of saying I agree that didn't just appear as a one-line comment, which almost always feels like spamming to me.
People Saying "It Can't Happen Here" Is Why It Happens Here
There was a massive ICE raid a couple of days ago on the east side of Madison, one which I apparently missed by mere moments. The Madison law enforcement were NOT notified of this, as stated by both Mayor Soglin and Police Chief Koval...though, of course, their primary concern (at least on the air) was "breakdown in communications" rather than "Jesus fuck, WHY are these people conducting damn near paramilitary raids without warning?!"
There is a way to fight illegal immigration. This is not how. Instead of enforcing the laws we have and going after the causes of the problem--this being large businesses like meatpacking plants who bring illegals in as essentially slave labor--they go after the individuals themselves. Not only is this about as useful as locking the barn door after the horse bolts, not only is it a tacit wink and nod to said virtual slavers, but it ends up being open season on these people. Because they're illegal (presumably; we do NOT know everyone targeted in these raids is!), they are not truly human in the eyes of many, and I guaran-fucking-tee you the kind of person who signs up for ICE is even less likely to see them as human beings than the average Joe or Jane on the street.
It's Happening Here.
"Oh, it's JUST the spics," people will say. "They ought not to come here illegally," they say. Well, that last one is true, but they ARE here, and how we deal with them speaks to who and what we are as a nation. There are better ways to handle this. What is being done is possibly the worst way aside from simply rounding up any suspected illegal immigrant and summarily executing him or her...and, frankly, not that far off. What is being done is, again, tacit approval to the big businesses profiting off these peoples' vulnerability in the first place.
One of the reasons I am not a fan of Franklin D. Roosevelt for any reason aside from his economic policy is because he ran internment camps. Or as they are better and more properly called, *concentration camps.* And I don't know how else to describe what ICE is doing in these so-called "detention centers." If you ask me, "detention center" is to concentration camp as "enhanced interrogation methods" is to *torture.* Call it what you want, but if it concentrates "undesireables" it's a concentration camp.
It's Happening Here.
Because people say it can't happen here, when it *is* happening here, they refuse to understand that it is. It's not in their worldview. This is why the euphemism treadmill that, among others, George Carlin called out for its dishonesty and evil is so sinisterly effective: because It Can't Happen Here, when it *does* happen here, people will latch onto anything to believe that it's not happening here.
It's Happening Here.
What's next? Where is this going? Once the infrastructure for concentration camps is in place, once warrant standards are lax and paramilitary action against citizens is legalized, once we have secret courts, once We The People "have a reason" to suspend the Constitution--whose basic clauses apply to EVERYONE, NOT just citizens!--a turnkey fascist state is in place, just waiting for the right crisis to come along, or indeed, to be manufactured.
It's Happening Here. First they came for the illegal immigrants...
#SecondFrontDoor: Brett Kavanaugh hearing
Posting this in anticipation of a trending hashtag. See also: #KavanaughHearings.
https://twitter.com/mihow/status/1045325066857263104
A Second Front Door.
Consider this for a second.
A SECOND FRONT DOOR.
This is what sexual assault does to a person. This is heartbreaking. Deeply heartbreaking.
Get Mark Judge into one of these hearings.
Ooh, Dr. Ford used the encrypted Washington Post tip line (generates a "utm_term" in the URL, which doesn't sound so secure...). Good advertisement for the existence of that service, I think. The ratings for this event are probably high.
Ford mentions the death threats. We don't care!
That coffee break moment.
Dianne Feinstein enters into record 140 letters from friends and neighbors, and "1,000" from female physicians. Also she is actually asking the witness questions, whereas Grassley has deferred to his female proxy.
Turns out she has that #SecondFrontDoor. And her home is a place to host Google interns...?
She brings up epinephrine and norepinephrine to explain how her basic memory functions work and that she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.
She brings up her hippocampus again in a response to Senator Leahy.
Party or gathering?
Uncomfortable encounter at the Potomac Village Safeway! She said "Hi" to Mark Judge, who was arranging shopping carts.
Did she say something about reporters trying to talk to her dog?
Answer about other PTSD risk factors sounds about as evasive as it does scientific.
Mitchell is attacking Ford's fear of flying!
Ford got her polygraph within 24 hours or so of her grandma's funeral.
Booker: "speaking YOUR truth".
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Kavanaugh (BK) is pissed off.
He won't be intimidated into withdrawing from the process. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone... ever."
BK has a friend who was sexually abused! BK's voice wavered as he was talking about his mother. And a lot more as he talks about his 10-year-old daughter praying for Dr. Ford.
Choked up as he talks about his father keeping detailed calendar-diaries, a practice he adopted. BK is listing actual dates he was in D.C. on weekends. June 4, August 7, August 20-22.
"I liked beer. I still like beer."
Lol: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1045396951846539265
Brett Kavanaugh notes that the summer that the sexual assault allegedly took place, when Christine Ford says he pinned her down on a bed, he had spent a lot of time lifting weights and doing strength training.
^ Tweeter is a WaPost reporter.
Good thing there is a recess, because while BK was emphatic and pretty clear in his opening statement, he seemed a bit flustered during questioning.
Chris Garrett is "Squee"!
Durbin tries to get BK to turn his head to Don McGahn. Doesn't work. But he is getting BK flustered on the subject of an FBI investigation.
Senator Lindsey Graham mounts the defense.
BK defends his use of "Ralph Club" in his yearbook. Because he has a weak stomach. And "Renate Alumnius" has nothing to do with sex.
Dem overplaying his hand: "Do you believe Anita Hill?"
Beauty and the Beholder
Why you don’t really have a ‘type’
“Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder, but our on-going work suggests that the beholder may be changing constantly,” says Haiyang Yang, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and author of a study that found that our sense of beauty can change based on other people’s opinions. “It can be argued that the advent of the internet age may be causing people to change their beauty standards faster than ever before in human history.”
Sexy "Handmaid's Tale" Halloween Costume, Outrage Ensues
Kavanaugh, His Wife, and His Accuser Receive Death Threats
Brett Kavanaugh, wife and Christine Blasey Ford all receiving death threats: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
It's 2018. Why is a public figure receiving death threats "news"? There must be individuals out there making death threats to several people every day (hundreds per year), and the chance of them getting caught and brought to trial is minimal.
Pointing out that you receive death threats or mere angry emails does not mean you should get any sympathy. It was news a decade or two ago, but no longer. The Internet is a whirlwind of hate, and as long as (relative) anonymity exists, it will stay that way. And that anonymity is more valuable than the chance to get rid of (a % of) routine death threats.
I have no son
Kavanaugh's #MeToo Moment: Approved by Jesus?
Potential Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having his Anita Hill moment. The White House expects that Christine Blasey Ford will testify in some capacity at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored."
Obviously, Kavanaugh could still make it onto the Supreme Court. But perhaps the President will have to look to the bench instead. How about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman, and the dogma lives loudly in her.
Remember, for every member of the Administration you defeat, there is an evangelical waiting in the wings. ✞👼
Trump picked the wrong judge (July 9)
The long silences of Christine Blasey Ford and Dianne Feinstein
AMD 64-Core Epyc to More Than Double Performance?
If the "leak" is true, then it looks like AMD will double cores on the "7nm" node as well as increase IPC compared to "14nm" and "12nm". Leading to a more-than-double performance increase in some cases. Assuming your OS, software, or benchmark can use all 64 cores/128 threads.
That also means that the consumer desktop Ryzen chips could be boosted to a maximum of 16 cores, from 8. Which makes sense given that Threadripper 2 was raised from 16 to 32 max cores, probably to make room for the new Ryzens.
16 cores at $500? $350? Could happen.
