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In my opinion, the term TDS has exactly one meaning: "I have no actual rebuttal to what was said."

It is (IMO falsely) claimed that TDS is used when someone trivially overreacts to any tiny thing that Trump says or does. However in my experience, I've never seen it used this way.

The way TDS is typically used, at least on SN, is when someone makes a point, in many cases supported at least minimally with facts and/or references, critical of the president, and the TDS-dropper has no actual rebuttal.

The correct reaction to seeing a TDS-bomb? Stop. You've lost me right there. I'm done reading. If you had an actual point to make you would have already made it.

Labeling valid criticism as deranged is itself, IMO, deranged.

Edit, additional thought:

Furthermore, throwing out TDS is not intended to contribute or rebut in any meaningful way, it is intended to be hurtful. It serves NO OTHER purpose. Like throwing a grenade, it has no cost to the thrower.

Jim Al-Khalili has written in the Guardian an article entitled Doubt is essential for science - but for politicians, it's a sign of weakness.

In the article he addresses the phenomenon of social media echo chambers, politics, news reporting, cognitive dissonance and the way scientific progress is made. Doubt is essential to science and the Scientific Method. Scientists ask questions, form theories, perform experiments and refine the theories in the light of new evidence.

When the public hears that new scientific evidence has informed a sudden change in government policy, the tendency is to conclude that the scientists don’t know what they’re doing, and therefore can’t be trusted. It doesn’t help that politicians are remarkably bad at communicating scientific information clearly and transparently, while journalists are often more adept at asking questions of politicians than they are of scientists.

And of conspiracy theorists:

Often, in the case of such ideological beliefs, we hear the term “cognitive dissonance”, whereby someone feels genuine mental discomfort when confronted with evidence that contradicts a view they hold. This can work to reinforce pre-existing beliefs. Ask a conspiracy theorist this: what would it take for them to change their minds? Their answer, because they are so utterly committed to their view, is likely to be that nothing would. In science, however, we learn to admit our mistakes and to change our minds to account for new evidence about the world.

In another Guardian article BBC's Covid-19 reporters: 'I wanted to show the reality but was deeply troubled by what I saw’, BBC reporters Fergus Walsh and Hugh Pym were interviewed about their reporting on the COVID-19 crisis from the NHS front line hospitals treating critically ill patients.

They are trying to report the facts so that good questions can be asked of the government. Walsh says, "I feel a huge sense of responsibility to get the tone right, the messaging right, and to show people the reality of what’s going on in our hospitals.”

“Given the technology [thanks to social distancing, journalists now attend remotely] the press conferences have been tricky,” says Pym. “People say: why didn’t you follow up? But until they started allowing follow-up questions, that was difficult. The government side has offered us the chance to do filming on testing or drug trials, but it’s so fast-moving: the communications team, civil servants and ministers are under huge pressure.”

From the BBC:
Coronavirus: Outcry after Trump suggests injecting disinfectant as treatment
(article includes direct video quotation -- despite any efforts to retroactively change the transcript)

US President Donald Trump has been lambasted by the medical community after suggesting research into whether coronavirus might be treated by injecting disinfectant into the body.

He also appeared to propose irradiating patients' bodies with UV light, an idea dismissed by a doctor at the briefing.

Another of his officials had moments earlier said sunlight and disinfectant were known to kill the infection.

Disinfectants are hazardous substances and can be poisonous if ingested.

Even external exposure can be dangerous to the skin, eyes and respiratory system.

True leaders lead by example. Lead by being the first one into the battle with others following. Be the first one to demonstrate the powerful efficacy of your newfound treatment. Show those silly doctors and scientists how much of a stable genius you truly are. Demonstrate your truly dizzying intellect for all to see. It is well known that verifiable personal testimony of the effectiveness of your treatment is a powerful sales pitch. Consider how such courage will inspire your followers come election time.

True followers follow their glorious leader's example. As a heartening and inspiring example of selfless devotion I would point no further than Jonestown or your local Apple store. The VP should be the first in line to demonstrate the loyalty of a true follower. Inspire all the acolytes. (leaving Pelosi in charge, I think)

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Listening to doctors and scientists and ignoring idiotic orange clowns, their daily three ring circus, and their cheerleading lap dogs at FauxNews, is really the best advice.
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Update:
Lysol maker warns against internal use of disinfectants after Trump comments
I don't think there is any way to spin this that Trump did not mean what we all saw and heard him say. Everyone independently understood him to mean the same thing. Then they came out defending Trump saying he was being sarcastic -- which confirms that we correctly understood his message about disinfectants.

"we have to make sure [North Korea] does not become a military dictatorship" -- some crazy baldhead on FOX

Bad enough that Soylent Eds would continue their standard procedure of censoring aristarchus submissions, but when it is a matter of life and death? The stories on the complete Snake Oil salesmanship of the Impeached President and his Really Stupid controllers on Faux News, promoting a totally ineffective and actually contra-indicated drug, the Hydroxychloroquine fake, needs to be reported immediately, lest more unnecessarily die. Journalistic integrity, over rightwing wacko TMB "I smoke" crap, PLEASE. Or, nothing will be left of SoylentNews, but the TMB, the Runaway, and the APK. Sickness, contagion, alt-right bullshit, janrinok's complacency. You know what cures Covid-19? Lockdowns and testing. That is the only thing. If you think different, you are a threat to public safety, and if you are protesting carrying a weapon, you should be shot on sight. With bullets dipped in corona virus, you stupid patsy of right-wing corporate astroturfing bastardly farks!

Rejected submission on French study
Not accepted submission on VA study

BreadBee: A tiny alternative to the Raspberry Pi Zero that supports Linux and costs just US$10

The BreadBee is an ultra-compact board for developers. Measuring in at just 32 x 30 mm, the BreadBee is considerably smaller than other SBCs like the Raspberry Pi Zero. The BreadBee is rather tall though as developer Daniel Palmer has included an Ethernet port. The RJ45 port can transmit data at up to 100 MBit/s. The BreadBee does not support Wi-Fi, but a future model may have an Ampak Wi-Fi module in place of the Ethernet port.

The BreadBee is based on an MStar MSC313E processor, which integrates an ARM Cortex-A7 core with NEON and FPU that runs at 1.0 GHz. There is also 64 MB of DDR2 RAM and 16 MP of SPI NOR flash memory.

Additionally, Palmer has included two multi-pin headers. Specifically, there is a 24-pin dual-row header with a 2.54 mm pitch on one side, which support SPI, I2C, UART and GPIO. On the reverse, Palmer has included a 21-pin header with a 1.27 mm pitch that supports SD/SDIO, USB 2.0 and GPIO.

Also at CNX Software.

BreadBee board will soon be launched on Crowd Supply, and the cost to make the board is said to be around $10 in small quantities. I think Daniel is a regular reader and commenter on CNX Software and may be able to answer any questions here.

All the same everywhere you go

Although long suspected, it is still breathtaking to see that senior Labour figures essentially conspired to prevent a Corbyn-led government, and that they would have actually preferred the re-election of an extreme-right Tory government.

The great words of Patrick Henry which he spoke in 1775, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" perhaps posits one idea, that freedom and liberty are worth more than life. There is however, one particular freedom that may soon be under attack: The ability to keep your phone clean of non-free and proprietary spyware. We now find that some advocates of the digital surveillance state suggest that the United States force all citizens to install a proprietary non-free app on their cell phones. [1] To which I say: "Over my dead body!". Today looms the insidious threat of an all out assault upon our digital liberty. Personally, I would far rather take my chances with the coronavirus than give up my liberty. There may soon be a time when we must choose between risking our lives and losing our digital freedoms.

As Benjamin Franklin once said Benjamin Franklin is often said to have said without supporting historical records, "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.". I fear that those of us who believe in free software may soon find ourselves a lamb voting against two wolves. Let us hope we are a well-armed lamb, it's time to prepare for the worst or else we may be unprepared for this assault. Prepare yourself; go buy a gun. Let us take a stand here, we shall not tolerate a mandatory surveillance app forced upon our devices! Give me digital liberty, or give me death!

[1] https://www.vox.com/2020/4/10/21215494/coronavirus-plans-social-distancing-economy-recession-depression-unemployment

AnandTech editor reports that Intel may be incentivizing mini PC makers to delay or not build AMD-based models

AMD was introducing its Ryzen-based mini PCs in late 2019 as alternatives for Intel’s NUC models, but most of these came powered with embedded solutions like the V1000 and R1000 CPUs, or at most Ryzen 2000 APUs. Only Zotac announced a few Ryzen 3 3200U models earlier this year and the company hinted that we could eventually see some mini PCs powered by the freshly launched Ryzen 4000 Renoir APUs later this year. Anandtech's respected reviewer Ian Cutress suggests that this might not be the case and it may take mini PC OEMs up to a year to introduce Renoir-based models, as Intel is actually incentivizing most prominent vendors to delay or not build any AMD-based mini PCs at all.

Some of the OEMs that already joined AMD’s “anti-NUC alliance” include OnLogic, EEPD, Simply NUC, Tranquil PC and ASRock. While the first four are smaller companies that do not have a highly-diversified portfolio, ASRock is already a well-established mini PC maker, and we would expect more powerful mini PC solutions, yet, as it stands, ASRock just began offering mini PC builds sporting the Ryzen 3000 Picasso APUs along with the older Raven Ridge and Bristol Bridge solutions, and that is exactly one year after the launch of the Picasso APUs, as pointed out by Ian Cutress. We are seeing either a 1-year delay for AMD-based small form-factor models, or absolutely no AMD-based mini PCs in the case of big brands like Dell, Asus or MSI, so Cutress may be onto something here.

AMD best-buds, TSMC, designed an 'enhanced' 5nm node for its future Ryzen chips

In a news story from Chainnews (via @chiakokhua), ostensibly about the cut in 5nm and 7nm production orders from Huawei, the piece also notes that TSMC isn't worried about this drop because Apple has taken up the slack. It's asking for a whole bunch of extra chip wafers, potentially competing with AMD for 5nm demand at the end of this year.

But the piece also goes on to say that: "TSMC is said to have developed a 5nm enhanced version of its process specifically for AMD, which has a capacity requirement of no less than 20,000 12-inch wafers per month."

TSMC Delays The Production Of 3nm By 6 Months Amidst Equipment Shortages In The Wake Of The Pandemic – 5nm Is Still On Schedule With Production At Full Capacity

Gaming laptops will never be the same, and it's all thanks to AMD

AMD Zen 3 Based Ryzen 4000 ‘Vermeer’ Desktop CPUs Will Be Compatible With Existing AM4 (X570, X470, B550, B450) Motherboards, Confirmed By XMG