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I do stuff and things, and am unique like everyone else. So unique. Very normal. I write, play games, draw, play more games, work, play all the games to distract my brain from the demons that lurk in the darkness waiting for me to drop my guard- um. Games are fun! I do crochet, play games, work on programs, play games, craft, play games, dream of alternate universes, play games.

If I'm not playing games, I'm asleep or at work. I have an adhd brain that can be distracted by games, but can hyperfocus on an activity that is fully engaging. I have a depressive brain that will, for weeks or months at a time, be completely fine one day, then doom spiral the next. I have some other dysfunctions that feel like wild mood swings to me. I've always thought of them as BPD, but my last therapist said I was missing just one major ingredient to get that diagnosis. I can't remember what it is atm. I also got the 'vid and have some memory loss which will include words I know, names of people I know, locations of things I know. I also have some other brain function that used to bring me visions of a future event. Not like regularly or with any effort. Just random bs. I also have a brain thingy where I can't manage relationships well. Something complex trauma something. I'm working on it though.

I've been trying to find my place in the world, and I'm butting up against my own traumas that inhibit/grant excuses so I can't make progress. I've tried since the 90's to find a place online, and Tumblr has been the most engaging.

I think this company deserves a lot of attention. Just like Nikola Tesla deserves.

No you're not getting a story from me. If you haven't read 'Man Out Of Time', do so. It will tell you everything Wikipedia skipped over or briefly stated. Partially because wiki didn't use it as a source (what?!). Whatever. Don't care enough.

What I mean is, wind farms with giant bladed turbines require a large footprint per unit and x amount of air space to produce kilowatts of power output. A similarly scaled bladeless wind turbine would require less airspace and have a smaller footprint (supposedly, because I've yet to read how much square footage the linear magnetic generator uses).

The point being the above linked article talks about how cool and simple this device is. What the interviewer (or article writer) failed to consider (plus all of the comments) is the limit to the vortex-shedding rod's arrangement.

This paper attempts to do some research on it. What I have not yet read (and what may take some time to find, thanks covid) is anyone imagining a wind farm of bwt. A field of rods, all vibrating and energizing the power grid. Take a second to visualize it and compare it to a bladed turbine. Can you see how many more rods are there than props? I see at least four rods per prop and, most crucially, closer together. In the space required for four props, I can imagine four times as many rods.

They can be packed closer together for two reasons: no moving parts to worry with, colliding into things, smacking birds, flying apart with too much wind; the vorteses won't be all turbulated because a giant blade has ripped through them.

Hey, Donald Trump! My grandpa was Anti-Fa. But when he did it, the u.s. army gave him a gun and told him to "Kill them Nazis, boy." Then they sent him to Normandy Beach (the day after) and he joined the clean up crew, picking nazis off from a distance (how do you id a nazi? One way is to listen to them ask "What are you, some kind of Communist!?"). Is my grandpa a War Criminal, Mr President? Oh he lived, by the way. Another 70 years in rural Oklahoma. Healthy old man. Went quietly in his sleep. What a way to go, huh? Real quiet. Just sudden heart failure around 86 years of age. No one knew until the next morning.

My dad is Anti-Fa, Mr "President". NCO, petty officer, navy. Served proudly on the USS Coral Sea, one of three beautiful Midway-class carriers. He worked on deck with F4s and A6-Bs. He was handed a gun and told to protect the ship from Vietcong. You know. "Fascists", as you call them. (Pro-tip: learn what the fuck a fascist is you fat fuck¹) They were actually Communist, which is anti-thetical to the other group.

Hey, Mr "Trump". I'm Anti-Fa. I may not have served in the military, but I sure do hate me some fascists. It was bred into me. I'm third second generation antifa, kinda like how you are third second generation immigrant (I know how to count!).

Oh, haha! You thought we didn't know? Yeah, ol' grandpa Freddie was a German (Bavarian) immigrant. How American is that? EXTREMELY! We are a nation of immigrants, you unhealthy pompous pig. Your dad was an anchor baby! Haha! Brilliant how that works. I wonder if you get rid of the 14th amendment if we can get rid of you? Send you back to Bavaria. Oh. It doesn't exist. Guess it'll have to be a torture prison.

Donny, nobody wants you here. I never watched the Apprentice, btw. I don't watch trash tv shows. I'm a Treky, and stand against everything you stand for. Capitalism? Check. Greed? Check. Private ownership? Check. Libertarianism? Check. Accumulation of wealth? Mostly Check. (Due to the economy we live in, I find having a little extra money has made day to day life less stressful.) Breaking every law possible? Check. If I could live without a car, I would. Anyway. Go away now.

I would borrow a misquote from Hassan Piker and say "We deserved two terms of Trump." We did this to ourselves, we did. We and noone else. We let National Christians (nachos? natcese?) change certain rulings during Reagan's administration, which can be directly attributed to someone like Trump taking office and literally shitting all over our Constitution and Country. I don't think NatC's should be allowed to be in government positions anymore. We should take Germany's lead on this and feel national embarrassment. We should teach it in schools, the shame of what the NatC's brought to our country and the world stage. The damage that was done.

Hey, hey, remember when a million people died in one year because some chuckle fuck said it wasn't a problem, don't mask up, take a horse dewormer, maybe we could shoot uv rays into the blood, inject bleach it'll really clear out the lungs? Yeah. Trump threw away the pandemic plan book because it had Obama's name associated with it. None of our presidents have been authorized to suggest medical treatments. That's why we have specialist to speak on the subject.

In case you missed that, DONALD TRUMP DIRECTLY CAUSED THE DEATH OF A MILLION+ AMERICAN CITIZENS THROUGH NEGLIGENCE AND PIG-HEADEDNESS. Negligence is definitely a criminal offense.

Come and get me, piggy. Oink oink, "Mr" "President" you capitalist pig.

Trump got rid of the Iran nuclear deal in his first term and promised to get a better deal in his second term. But we saw how badly he handled CoViD. We saw how he treated everyone around him, the other world leaders, the news casters, the economy. We saw him treat billionaires with care, giving them deals and tax breaks.

We saw all that and chose Harris. She said she was a capitalist (imperialist). She said she would continue what Biden started. She stayed away from the Trans Issue. She was careful when talking about Women's Rights. And we fell for it. She took us straight in to a war with Iran, fussing up oil and goods shipping, ruining the whole world's economy for years to come.

"friends, Citizens, countrymen, lend me your patches. I came here to play KotOR, not fuss over it." ~ me

e: fixed??? I reloaded the files, rebuilt the shaders, added the community kit, and started a save from outside the Lower Shadowlands. It blacked out again, but when I encountered Ggrrroowwwrwrewerwer, and "helped" defeat the mandos, the intervening fmv restored the visuals! I hate this! Yay!! (finished out the area, whew)

I was just talking with friends about the sudoku puzzle i was working on, in my phone. It has a detailed hint guide which includes advanced techniques like X-Wing and X-Y-Wing processes. I was just saying i can't grok the concept of the x-wing, specifically how to decide which four corners to choose (btw i think it's the outermost four, not just any four; i will test this hypothesis and discover the truth!).

She said, oh I've tried doing sudoku and it's too hard because i can't do math well enough. And i said, full of ignorance and vinegar, oh there's no math in sudoku. My other friend, who is an educator and took all the maths in college, got upset. She says, with force, that it is math. I'm intrigued and push back. I never use math to solve any of these logic puzzles. And in fact any symbol can be used due to the rules of the puzzle.

She gets mad. I ask for, like, some sort of definition. She finds several which confirm her argument that math is abstraction, math is logic, math is patterns, etc. I push back again, because anything can be a symbol, but numbers are concrete (the beginning of my ignorance, I believe), solid factual. Symbols can be used to represent numbers, but not the other way around. Math is equations, solid solutions to problems, non abstractions.

She's a bit more mad and yelly and wants to throw something at me. Now i pull back, mostly because she is being so passionate, but partly because I don't want my friend to actually be mad at me. Now i ask questions, because i want to understand. But she's still mad, still thinks I'm jibing her. So i shut the fuck up.

We're good. We had a nice hug when i had to leave at three o'fuck in the morning. She felt bad for yelling, and i assured her she was justified in her passion, and that it was okay, that i wasn't hurt by anything she said (i just don't like being yelled at; li'l bi' o' trauma innit?). I hope she's having a nice time with her girlfriend <3

But i still have a conundrum. 'Math as abstraction' i get, but 'math IS abstraction'? I think that's above my pay grade. So i gotta look into it.

The Wikipedia entry for sudoku states it is a logical combinitorial. Combinitorics is a subset of mathematics. I can accept that. But the idea that sudoku IS math is causing me pain. (That's what is meant by cognitive dissonance. After the pain subsides and you can exist with two conflicting ideas, you have resolved the cognitive dissonance, even though people say you still suffer from it.) But logic isn't math. And sudoku is primarily a logic puzzle.

Yes math also uses deduction and reason and all sorts of abstract thinking processes. But math is not those things. (to me) math is a Hard Science. You get absolute resolution from solving math problems. There are no vagaries (except for infinite sets, then you kinda have to hand wave the solution. Okay, within a finite set you get absolute answers. All praise to Mandelbrot!)

I read through Douglas Hoffstedder's (sp) Metamagical Themas and love the shit out of it. So many cool games and concepts. Oh. Now I'm meandering. Sorry.

Fuck off!

The title of the opinion piece is what drew my ire. Virginia has a "Technology Corridor", where colleges, scientists, tech companies, and the government work to develop new industries in technology.

Oh, why so bitter? Because she keeps sticking her ignorant nose in other people's business.

Data-Center is not a new industry (it's literally data storage and conveyance). It's not new tech (storing data has been happening since at least Ea-nāṣir's time). And it's not good business. She doesn't actually lay out a good argument, at points just stating untrue or misleading facts.

She needs to quit doing government work and just go away back to Arizona. Virginia is chasing away something that could damage the ecology and economics for years, and detract from what makes Virginia great: actually tech advances.

@afterdarkrva

I guess I'm joining the the gildervault guild