Vladimir Lukyanov’s Water Computer

Analog computers are cool, especially the non-electric ones.

Parametron - Wikipedia

Everything else in a computer can just be magnetic cores, wires, and capacitors, if you don't need it to be that fast.

Parametron - Wikipedia

the manga Dr. Stone is a post-apocalyptic story that has actually gotten to "our main characters start making computers" although they start with a kinda obscure alternative to semiconductors or vacuum tubes, the "parametron"

Turns out you can make logic gates out of just inductors and capacitors

They also needed to explain why the Tok'ra aren't using them when they're an offshoot of the Goa'uld's culture and should totally know how to build or get one.

"We avoid using those, because they're why the non-Tok'ra Goa'uld are so nuts and self-absorbed" is actually a pretty elegant solution.

I mean, explains why most Goa'uld are so full of themselves they actually think they're real Gods.

You guys call leftists purity testers and all this other shit. You call us pinkos and denigrate us and extremists and all this.

We want your fucking kids to go to school and eat healthy meals and grow up and be safe and have jobs and not be institutionally murdered by the state.

Humble yourselves.

Let's call this policy what this is.

It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.

It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.

It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.

Like... guys, your polling question literally has the word "bemoaned" in it.

They're saying it's the most unbiased poll question ever. echeloninsights.com/insights/apr...

Just out there slapping Howard Zinn out of the hands of 14 year olds

It really feels like the Democratic establishment is telling us with their actions that their biggest fear is having a softball election in 2028 where they could conceivably waltz right back into business as usual, UNLESS the idea that AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IS BAD goes mainstream, or worse, "viral."

Social media and group chats have microwaved the brains of the ruling and media class. They set that shit to POPCORN and let it go until it smelled like burning.

Ah yes, its not like there was blatant corruption or an economic crisis caused by pre-Trump republicans, no, it all started with him.

When Donald dies the entire republican party will blink a few times and come to their senses, and magically become decent 'again'.

"The Graphs say suffering cannot actually exist; shut the fuck up and let me drink"

Why think democrats want either of those things, when their 2024 immigration pitch was "Trump doesn't really care about stopping people crossing the border: vote Harris to have border patrol violate human rights PROPERLY!", and they pretend Obamacare is the best we could ever possibly do?

I notice you are posting in English, the language of the British Empire.

Remind me again what you're taking issue with 😏😏😏

Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.

If you think it's limited to "the left" then you're not reading the polls sorry.

A lot of people are still in the denial about how much the median Democratic voter, the median Democratic volunteer, and the median Democratic activist has shifted on a variety of issues. Well here's the handpicked candidate of Chuck Schumer being booed, about Gaza, at the Dem convention.

"she'd be SMART about being led into a war by Netanyahu, it'll still happen but the murders would be COMPETENT" isn't very comforting.

DNC attendees mock and cover their ears as they pass protesters naming Palestinians killed by Israel. #fyp #DNC #TikTok TikTok video by Mondoweiss | Palestine News

people DID try and the DNC's response was "literally plug their ears and ignore it" or "cackle at the mention of dead children like a banshee"

If I said "your ideas are stupid and so are you, I don't need to listen to you to win you're a tiny minority with no power"

And then when I lose went "THIS IS YOUR FAULT YOU HELD ALL THE POWER BUT I WASN'T OBLIGATED TO LISTEN TO YOU AT ALL"

Would you find those convincing arguments?

So despite calling Iran "america's greatest enemy", promising "the most lethal fighting force in the world" and refusing to condition any aid to Israel for any reason whatsoever, she would magically not be 'pulled in' to this war that many U.S. politicians have been fantasizing about for years?

Ask your relatives to burn some hell heroin next time instead of hell dollars?

"Because Jerry Lewis said no."

I mean, it makes some sense when you find out his parents were anti-apartheid Quakers.

People sometimes seem to forget he and his parents were anti-apartheid white South Africans before it was cool, and that he moved to the U.S. partly to dodge their draft.

if trump ii has taught us anything it is a this: you can haul all of these embittered celibates and layabouts out of their sinecures kicking and screaming. you can toss them right in history's dustbin on a whim or even a caprice

1/9 of 1/3 of the government has the expressly stated understanding that his job is to literally make the lives of 5/8 of the country miserable. you don't have to tolerate this