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If Biden loses in November, don’t blame voters who are angry over Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (8 children)

If you are eligible to vote, and don't, that is the same as a vote for the winner - whoever that is.

ADHD parents: how do you help your ADHD kid with homework? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

As someone with 7-year old, ADHD-I and AuDHD-C twins, I just have this to say: If you figure it out, please let me know!

GM should just bring back the Chevy Volt in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely. I have a 2016 Volt and I love it. I've gone 4200 miles between fill-ups; I charge at home and only fill up when I go on a long trip or the car decides the gas is too old. I get all the benefits of an EV, all the benefits of a hybrid, and all the benefits of a gas-car. Plug-in hybrids are a better way forward than full EV's.

Any good, easy books you can recommend? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Armor by John Steakley is one of my favorites; it starts off quickly and keeps a steady pace through the book.

Tattoo Magic - Rifts in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a great setting, but the mechanics need a lot of refinement. A video game would be awesome.

Tattoo Magic - Rifts in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's very cool.

What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yup, my wife and kids use it with their Gmail accounts, I use it with my MS account on my Android phone. You can also use the same accounts on desktop clients and Apple devices, so it's not tied to a phone number. However, I'm not sure I would recommend setting it up for twin boys with ADHD (again). 😆

B-1 bomber crashes at South Dakota Air Force base, crew ejects safely in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

First, the beginning of your post sounds like the opening line to Jimmy Buffett's "The Devil I Know": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9WBXNW8Kj4

Second, my favorite experience with the B-1 was at the Edwards AFB air show. They were at max power, full afterburner, but near stall - the nose was pointed way up and they were just crawling across the sky. The ground shook; the cars were parked on the flightline (pre-9/11), and every car alarm went off at the same time. It was awesome.

Stretching the definition of an antique "meme", but here's an image from 2016 about a message board gag in 2006. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Back in the early 2000's I was working tech support, which gave me admin access to users' computers over the network. I could pop open their CD drives from my desk; drove one particular user absolutely batty for a day.

What non-SMS non-Apple app can I use to "text" my younger kid on their iPad in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm a big fan of Microsoft Teams; full featured chat with easy voice and video calls, and you can sign up with any e-mail address (even non-Microsoft accounts).

Possible Meissner effect near room temperature in copper-substituted lead apatite in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

And how is this different than LK-99, which was pretty conclusively proven to not be superconductive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99

The weather is here, wish you were beautiful [OC] in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The skies are too clear, life's so easy today.

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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man (slate.com)

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“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” This seems increasingly true.

Who’s Frank Wilhoit? Many people who cite the quote assume it comes from Francis “Frank” Wilhoit, an American political scientist whose 1973 book The Politics of Massive Resistance chronicled Southern segregationists’ efforts to resist Civil Rights–era court rulings.

That would make a whole lot of sense. But in fact it’s the work of another Frank Wilhoit, this one not a professional scholar of American politics but a 63-year-old classical music composer in Ohio, who wrote the adage as part of a longer point in the comments section of the political science blog Crooked Timber. Since then, it has taken on a life of its own, recirculating on Twitter or Reddit every few months, most recently in reference to certain Free Speech Defenders’ aggressive posture on libel and defamation laws. A handful of sleuths have cracked the case before—Francis Wilhoit died in 2010; Frank Wilhoit posted his remark in 2018—but the confusion lingers, for obvious reasons.