Posts by dstech@www.minds.com
(DIR) Post #AbCJoqSulSBMroSSf2 by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-10-25T01:17:16+00:00
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Even if it wasn't ratified the US hasn't done a nuclear test since 1992, and Russia in 1990. It's been something the entire world viewed favorably that testing had ceased.The timing makes it seem like posturing, and Israel has also made threats of using their "non-existent" nukes against Iran.Since 2001 it's been on the agenda to topple Iran's influence, and they were the final country outlined in the PNAC document. So it's like unfinished business.
(DIR) Post #AbR5nW6qubE6frN6Wm by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-11-03T02:15:34+00:00
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What are you talking about? Most child sex offenders are repeat offenders. Their sentences are typically short unless they cross the boundary into murder.What do you mean by "equating"?Sex crimes used to be looked at similarly to violent crimes, and today both of them are shown too much leniency.Catching prominent people engaging in sex with minors has long-been a way of extorting them.I've personally known people who extorted them, both inside and out of prison.
(DIR) Post #AbT9FvLxL3QjFjaqXY by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-11-04T06:22:32+00:00
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@allyouhad In the case of your cousin it sounds like the parents were the driving factor for the prosecution.With things like mooning, pissing in public, etc. the person is either going to accept the conditions of a plea or very rarely go to trial.I can't see accepting a plea with the condition of registering as a sex offender though. I feel like you'd go to trial on that if you're innocent.Either way, I doubt that the sex offender list is full of people who don't belong there. The numbers of actual sexual offenders is staggering, and I don't understand pushing back against the legal system for over-reach in this specific subject.Very often some of the most disgusting people charged are free in no time because of "good behvavior".This is an area I'd like to see harsher prosecution/sentencing. Particularly when the victims are minors.
(DIR) Post #AbWCOjvk3nZZli6gpE by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-11-05T01:28:14+00:00
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@allyouhad At the end of the day, the Somalian doesn't belong here in the USA at all . Unless he's a doctor or someone of value, he shouldn't be in the USA. They've used a fear of racism to con people into losing their country. They want foreigners here to atomize the population, and disenfranchise any sort of majority used to exist.
(DIR) Post #AbX9jgzG5pRY170kKW by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-11-03T02:08:28+00:00
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I think maybe you mean polycule?It's 3 or more people in a sexual/romantic relationship lol.
(DIR) Post #Abbw7TxLlWRgz7MrCa by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-11-08T14:23:57+00:00
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The word science has lost it's meaning. Like many other words.A lot of science is simply theory, but despite it being theory it's taught and applied in many fields.In order for something to be "science" you have to have a theory, a test of that theory, and the entire thing must be independently repeatable.Technically the goal of science is to disprove currently held assumptions because that's what it is to think critically. Always poking holes.Like virtually everything in our current society though, there is controlling interest via finance.If you publish a paper contrary to currently held assumptions it can hurt your standing among your peers.But also, you will not receive grants if your research affects bottom lines of primary or tertiary financial contributors.It's essentially like lobbying and congress.
(DIR) Post #Ac1leJMpMhH3wx9KcK by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-09-07T05:13:55+00:00
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The cut on the headstock is beautiful.What kinds of woods are used?I had an ex who immigrated here from Russia, and her father was a pretty good musician. He had a type of guitar that was like a tiny acoustic but it was also shaped like a triangle. I can't recall how many strings it was, but maybe 4?At first i thought maybe this & that were the same instrument.Is a triangular cut done to reduce or tamper the resonance/sustain?
(DIR) Post #AcN9rytsjdkvkLouBs by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-01T04:40:18+00:00
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What is most surprising is how light an owl that large is. I found a Barred Owl with a broken wing, and I had to pick him up to take him to a sanctuary. He was so light, and almost same size as this owl.
(DIR) Post #AcT3GRKx7ttGA0xQPY by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-01T04:42:12+00:00
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NO ZYCLON-B RESIDUE ON THE CHAMBER WALLS?!?! MATERNITY WARDS?SOCCER FIELDS?FERRIS WHEELS?
(DIR) Post #Acas2HM6mzkxWBSnmC by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-08T07:43:15+00:00
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Just got over being sick.I'm waaaay behind on my PlayStation documentary project.Doing this project has been a real learning experience because I've looked deeply into the history of video-games as a whole.Studied a lot of the consoles that came before the PlayStation such as the Genesis, NES, SNES, Saturn, jaguar, and N64.As well as the Amiga, Atari ST computer, and DOS/PC.Discovered a few early games that were unbelievably innovative and distinctive well ahead of their time.One of those is 1984's Dragon's Lair which was released originally as an arcade machine game, but later ported to many consoles. It used rotoscoping of video to create the fluid animations.French artist and programmer Eric Chahi used a Commodore Amiga to rotoscope and develop a very influential game called:Another World OROut Of This WorldIn the USA it was released as Out Of This World in 1991 initially for the Commodore Amiga & the Atari ST computers.He designed and programmed the entire game himself.He only had assistance from a friend of his in composing the music.He painstakingly drew and animated the cinematics and levels with DPaint on the Amiga.He recorded the car scene with his model Ferrari, and a scene where he opened a can of Coke. He then imported the videos onto the Amiga, and rotoscoped/animated them. The result is truly awesome.I had never played this game until a week or so ago, and it's a very awesome platformer-style game.It's available on just about everything. I downloaded it from Steam for Linux.HIGHLY recommend it. It's quite challenging.In the special edition I got you can switch between the original design/artwork or the remake simply by pressing P.You can also switch between original or classic audio/music.I'm not sure how long until I'm done the PlayStation video.I've done a ton of work already, but there's still a lot to do.I'm considering banging out another video like I did last month.I plan to do a video about Another World, and I think it could be done quickly.I also have plans to do a video about doing all the basics for people new to Linux.And I have plans to do a video about Remix OS & the Jide Ultra-Tablet.
(DIR) Post #AcoyP3AR1iCy71gRmK by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-15T02:22:16+00:00
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So this is separate from Quadoo?I'm not familiar with WinMoM.
(DIR) Post #AcvQbYvdqD6rFPaxY8 by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-15T02:29:35+00:00
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The state of the USA leading into 2024 is concerning.Journalist Steve Baker has just tweeted that he's to surrender himself to the feds for entering the Capital on Jan 6th.Owen Shroyer of InfoWars fame served over a month in prison for his PERMITTED event at the Capital on Jan 6th.Enrique Tario, leader of the Proud Boys, sentenced to 20 years despite being in Baltimore during Jan 6th.The Obama's put out a Netflix film called Leave The World Behind where the USA is experiencing cyber-attacks and there is some sort of domestic war happening that's never seen.A young black woman in the film tells her father: "You can't trust people, especially white people, mom would agree."He responds "I got it".The same week this film is released we see another film's trailer released with the title CIVIL WAR. Very original, btw.Not predictive programming at all.Oh also, the leading candidate for the republican party is facing charges in multiple states, and I believe federal charges as well.I think Alex Jones is probably the next to be charged, but I know of at least one other journalist who has fled the USA.Buckle your seat belts everyone. 2024 just told you to hold it's beer.
(DIR) Post #Acxn9rdjMn5YQstmr2 by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-19T02:47:06+00:00
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One of my favorite birds.But, Black-Caped Chicadee takes the cake for "winter" birds.
(DIR) Post #Ad1Ws4Tv1Hu62SBaaG by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-21T02:08:18+00:00
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When(more like if) I finish this Playstation documentary I think I'm going to do a LIVE stream event where I'll design the thumbnail and hopefully talk to people.Maybe get input on the thumbnail, and even preview some of the video itself?I don't know if people would want to tune in for something like that, but it's something I've always wanted to try.I think I currently have over an hour of visual narration work done, and 40 minutes of recorded dialogue.I could never imagine having over 2 hours of timeline with 4 video 3 audio tracks in a single Kdenlive project back when I started doing these videos. Back then I had a machine with only 8GB of RAM, and I was crashing Kdenlive regularly with 20 minutes of timeline a maybe 3 video 1 audio tracks. Kdenlive has improved significantly since then, but also I expanded to 16 and then 32 gigs of memory, and thank God I rarely have crashes.The amount of edits & effects I've used in this video is insane.Once the project gets this big I spend most of my time editing with the real-time preview resolution set to 360p or even 270p because playback crawls when you start stacking compositing/effects.I currently have 40 gigs of audio, video, and image data in the project folder. So I've downloaded, recorded, and pre-rendered or design 40 gigabytes worth of files.I hope it's as good as I envision.
(DIR) Post #Ad3goADb8W5OWwFOnQ by dstech@www.minds.com
2023-12-22T05:29:34+00:00
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A Time To... Race-Swap?We all know there's lots of race-swapping that goes on with classic properties in Hollywood and streaming today.But how about the early 90's?A Time To Kill was a major film starring Samuel L. Jackson & Matthew McConahey where a black man(Jackson) is on trial for murdering two white men who had raped and murdered his daughter.The film's powerful line was McConahey who plays Jackson's lawyer says "Now imagine that little girl was a white girl."And everyone's heart sinks with the realization that if Jackson was a white man and his daughter was white he'd not even be on trial for murdering the two monsters who had done this to his daughter.However, the book written by John Grishom was based on a real-life crime where a black man had murdered two little white girls. Grishom then wondered what if the father had killed the man.However, for some reason it was felt better to make it a black girl who was murdered. In the movie the Ku Klux Klan intimidates the town, and the two murderous white men were even KKK members.To realize that the races were reversed, and the KKK was added to the story infuriates me.Imagine a scenario where the father is a member of the KKK, and then kills the man who raped and killed his daughters.Would we be able to feel warm and fuzzy about the KKK member avenging his daughters death?It's just as dramatic and thought-provoking, and I would say it's a realistic possibility.This film is an early example of anti-white racism propaganda that so many people internalized and carry to this day.When I was younger I can recall the news showing murders and rapes and they would accurately describe the people doing those crimes.Today they'll say "He was wearing a black hoodie and Nike shorts" with no mention of his race.UNLESS, he's a white man: "the suspect is a white male, wearing x,y, & z.Every issue is made about race. But if the perpetrators are black we have to consider their economic status, or that the officer was white.If you don't want mass illegal immigration into the USA you're a racist bigot.The same people who say that will also say "White people will be a minority in Europe and America by 2050", and they'll call that positive progress. I watched Bill Mahr and Sharon Osborne rejoice that London is no longer majority white, and called it progress.Why is progress? How is it progress? If there are less white people it's progress? Well then the inverse can be true.If I want the USA to become MORE white and I consider that progress this certainly must be valid by that logic.But I have data and statistics that I would say support this logic.A black woman in an all white neighborhood: Is she in danger?Now a white man in an all black neighborhood: Is he in danger?Now ask yourself, what makes those things true or untrue.
(DIR) Post #Ad5mod0rrQ5JDsB9oO by dstech@www.minds.com
2020-01-12T07:36:45+00:00
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https://youtu.be/11eObhH8MKAWith the Pinephone for $150 you can have a working phone that has FOUR Linux OSes that are already in working images.With the Purism Librem 5?Like $600, with a more refined system that's still about the same usefulness in my opinion. And that's AFTER they raised 1.7 MILLION dollars over a year ago!Remember the RaspberryPi? Think of all the progress and motivation it's generated because of it's low-price and availability. I think the Pinephone is the way forward honestly.
(DIR) Post #AdSrzm5Byr5P4neN2O by dstech@www.minds.com
2024-01-03T05:18:09+00:00
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Who are they?Does this have anything to do with #calendargate that I've been hearing about?
(DIR) Post #AyaI1xUv0AvFghOKeG by dstech@www.minds.com
2025-09-26T00:30:03+00:00
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The girl I dated when I was 16 moved back from across the country this past year, and we started talking.We talked politics, and were on opposite sides.But then we talked about children, and she said "I get so tired of people asking me when I'm going to have kids. Like I have to have kids, or I'm supposed to do it."I asked her if she wanted kids, and she admitted that she does. I asked why she doesn't have kids then since she's an attractive woman who has had long-term relationships.She literally said "I don't want to have to rely on a man, and be stuck with a man". Oh she's 37, btw.She's a proud feminist.In her defense, she was raped(her words) by her father as a toddler, and I was the first person she ever told. I got her to tell her mother back when she was 17.When I talk to women stories like this aren't uncommon, but it's cousins, uncles, etc.There's a lot of sexual abuse of young girls happening, and a lot of it never reported.
(DIR) Post #B0RSz3VOX45Rv4iIFM by dstech@www.minds.com
2025-11-20T13:46:21+00:00
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People have started to move away from the dating apps. I've never had a dating app on my phone, ever.There's way too much men-hate and women-hate online, and it's causing serious problems.Half of the guys preaching about men going their own way would literally disappear as soon as an attractive(probably even mid) woman touches their dick.A lot of it is just pure fear and insecurity.I do not think it's healthy to swear off women as it is a biological imperative.In the end, it's easier to not try.
(DIR) Post #B1xvqchwzwA6a4me2a by dstech@www.minds.com
2026-01-02T05:38:52+00:00
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Full name Hank Azaria.