Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

@DemocracyMattersALot This makes sense when you consider that his intention is the crash the government and economy of the USA so he can be the ruler over the ashes. So full of hate is he.

@Runyan50 @Free_Press Ukraine used to have nukes but generously gave them up in the interest of world peace. We can see how that worked out.

You can't do this when dealing with Russians. Unfortunately, most people are not educated on Russian history. Nor can decent people imagine how corrupt Russia has always been, for hundreds of years. Corruption is built into the culture. This cannot ever be fixed without a reset of some kind. Perhaps that reset is coming and the world will be better off for it.

@HopelessDemigod Hahaha. I remember around 1971, reading the specs of a 1,200 volt 100 amp thyristor, which I thought was mind-boggling.

Spectrum Internet service in West Virginia sucks. They sucked 18 years ago when it was Time-Warner and they still suck.

During the 2010s I was on Frontier DSL. It was fine but I needed more speed and I knew more would never come because I was at the maximum distance from the CO. They were even nice enough to hook up two line cards in parallel and four wires to give me good service. No complaints given the technology of the time.

In 2019 I decided to switch to Spectrum and got their fastest service, 40 Mbps. For a couple of years it was okay. Then they switched me up to 80 Mbps at no increase in cost. Great. It actually delivered 65 to 75. No complaints.

Then, about 18 months ago, the service started to degrade. It got slower, but more importantly it began to have service interruptions. It would just stop for 1 to 2 minutes with no throughput. Then start up again until the next interruption. I thought maybe it was my setup here. Rebooting the router didn't seem to have any effect on the interruptions.

Recently I was speaking with a friend here who lives about ten blocks away, also on Spectrum, and she said "Spectrum service is terrible. I have security cameras and there are 1 to 2 minute long gaps where there's nothing. Terrible." Then I knew it wasn't just me.

So now I'm looking at Frontier again. In the meantime, Frontier has been going full speed installing fiber. They installed fiber in my neighborhood about six months ago. My workplace, which is 3 blocks away, has been looking for a better solution. Their DSL is getting worse and worse and when it's out, the credit card machine doesn't work. Not okay. It's a huge headache. So they decided to try Frontier fiber. I thought okay, this is a good test of whether I'll get fiber at my home.

So far it's been solid at work. Not only that, I finally gave it a test tonight. Oh, my goodness, it's quick. They went for the cheapest, slowest service. Yet I did a 265 megabyte download in 5.3 seconds tonight. That's scary fast. I like it. I think I'm going to do it.

@futurebird @whknott Agreed. Statistics is very important for understanding the world.

What made math hard for me when I was young was the preconception that "math is hard". So I expected it to be hard, and it was, until I realized it wasn't.

The other roadblock for me may be limited to a few people such as myself. I have a hard / impossible time learning things for which I see no purpose. Algebra was hard because uses for it were not discussed. "Just memorize this algorithm for factoring." Why? "So you pass the class." That doesn't work for me.

When I reached calculus it was clear how extremely useful it is. Now I needed algebra. The algebra came to me quick, easy, obvious, because I saw a use for it. I was endlessly puzzled over why two years of algebra in Junior High was so damned hard. And I didn't learn anything in that time.

@HopelessDemigod Would love to participate if I had time to do so.

@joshuag So, Sephardic Jews are exempt?

Given how viruses work, that would be a really remarkable trick to pull off. Imagine a virus much smaller than a DNA molecule, somehow getting access to and analyzing a DNA molecule and figuring out which ethnic group to target... Most impressive. Also, bullshit.

@HopelessDemigod @vk2tty @vk6flab I should add that soldering copper wire to REAL silverware would be extremely easy. ;-) Stainless steel, not so easy, but still very do-able if you know how.

@EugeneMcParland Yep, Russians doing what Russians do.

@EugeneMcParland Excellent. At least the EU recognizes that a criminal organization is going to defy laws and do criminal things.

@lauren Yes, throw the smart ones in prison. They know what we're up to.

Now where have I heard this before...? Hmm. Oh yeah, Joseph Goebbels.

@HopelessDemigod Ohhh, saw this 4 hours too late.