skells @skells@qoto.org

> a psychological operation years in the making
> manchurian candidates across the world
> waiting blissfully ignorant of the trigger that will turn them into a terrifying, and trained, force of military leaders.
> One day, Sean Bean will be on television across the world, and he will say:
> "From the first stirrings of life beneath water, to the great beasts of the stone age, to man, taking his first upright steps: you have come far."

Do you really expect me to believe that a vriska fried this rice

if u're a doomer reading enough history is great way to transition to better state of mind

Fedi Shitposting Bureau

Electronics is full of "It's not a bug, it's a feature"-type inventions.

* Inductors stop functioning at high current due to core saturation? Add a control winding to the core, now you can make a magnetic switch or amplifier by driving the core in and out of saturation.

* Diodes burn out and become a short circuit after taking too much power? Put them in a chip as factory one-time programmable fuses.

* Diodes create a large current spike before it turns off due to reverse recovery? Use that spike to make a pulse generator, special Step Recovery Diode can generate picosecond pulses.

* Noise from Zener voltage references is just too strong? Make a standard noise source to test radio receivers.

* Your electrolytic capacitors are really crappy and have high resistance? Use them as free resistive dampers to suppress LC resonance and parasitic oscillations in power supplies. (Yes, replacing crappy capacitors with good low-ESR ones can actually destabilize some power supplies)... #electronics

> If you invite one European to a war, it's only polite that you invite them all.

"....just a reminder that the good guys don't always win...they sometimes prevail, but it often takes centuries...until then...party on"

Sincerely, buddies for life,
Genghis Khan

the average person overseas knows more about the dollar than the average american

"Pornography and sex work seems to just make monsters of physical pleasure. The connection is gone. I remember hearing studies done on those who use pornography regularly. When they were shown a picture of a woman (men viewing pornographic images of women regularly, that is) they found the area of their brain that activated was the same that would activate when viewing objects, like a hammer or tool. Those who did not view pornography had another part of their brain activate when shown a picture of a woman, one associated with relationships and empathy. I think it has a major negative affect, but our society won't even entertain the thought that it might."