everything's a file

https://theconversation.com/voters-moral-flexibility-helps-them-defend-politicians-misinformation-if-they-believe-the-inaccurate-info-speaks-to-a-larger-truth-236832

Keepass: Am I a joke to you?

The term is actually "electioneering." And, he's getting close to the illegal kind.

Title literally says SMR for one size and CMR for another. Not that I should expect much from a .ml account.

Academic circles have preferred “American Indian” for a couple decades now. You still see “Native American” in lower-level materials (undergraduate and below), though.

Oh we're the nutjobs? I suppose you'd like to have a fireteam of Marines just slamming Rip Its in your kitchen and digging burnpits to dispose of thier shit in your backyard? Yeah, crazy to not want that.

Dems were red for longer on political maps than they have been blue. It was an odd quirk of CNN's maps in the 2000 election that made Democratic Party = Blue and Republican Party = Red in our minds. The fact that the map was everywhere for weeks while Florida was decided meant that it stuck instead of returning to what it had previously been for decades.

Capital punishment is barbaric. Would you please just get out of my country.

18.0.1 seems to have fixed my battery issues on a 16p. My Watch Ultra was losing 75% of its charge over the course of a day until the 11.0.1 update. That seems to have returned it to normal. I don’t understand how this keeps happening with version updates, though. Having complete control of the hardware and a small number of models to test for should completely eliminate this kind of issue through basic testing.

martyred

Go fuck yourself.

The filtration system on an airplane makes it one of the safer places to be for almost any airborne infection. The airport itself is much more dangerous, longer flights notwithstanding.

Reloaded was well liked. Revolutions was widely panned. I also rewatched them both recently (all four plus the Animatrix in order, actually) and I found that I liked them more on rewatch, a couple decades later, than I did initially.

You’re welcome.

This is it. The Pro in this new Mini has a disabled GPU core. They’re offloading low-binned leftover chips.

Make his voice throaty and deep? Hell yeah it did.

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-negative-campaigning-works-and-how-fight-it

Ledgerwood and her colleagues have also found that a negative frame is much more persistent, or “stickier,” than a positive one. If you come at an issue negatively, but are later reminded of the policy's positive aspects, you will still think it's a bust. And if you start out thinking favorably about the policy, but are reminded of its downsides, your positive perception will be swept away and a negative one will take its place.
The beauty of negative attacks — from a campaign standpoint — is that they influence everyone. Even a candidate’s supporters will be affected by negative attacks, Ledgerwood and her collaborators have found. Once a negative idea has been planted, it’s very hard to shake.

https://goizueta.emory.edu/research-spotlight/playing-dirty-2020-does-negative-advertising-actually-work-elections

Looking at correlations between the volume of negative ads and the vote shares achieved by U.S. Senate candidates in 2010 and 2012, the researchers found that “while positive political advertising does not affect two-party vote share, negative political advertising has a significant positive effect on two-party vote shares.”

https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/when-campaign-ads-go-low-it-often-works/

“Negative campaigning has been around as long as campaigning,” Lovett says. “It stays around because it works.”

https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/02/opinion/lariscy-negative-ads/index.html

So if we don’t like negative ads and even perhaps suspect they contribute to political malaise, why are they increasingly dominating candidates’ strategies?
The answer is simple: They work. And they work very well. Gingrich’s drop in polls in Iowa last month was no accident – it was choreographed by negative advertising. . . .
. . . Our brains process information both consciously and non-consciously. When we pay attention to a message we are engaged in active message processing. When we are distracted or not paying attention we may nonetheless passively receive information. There is some evidence that negative messages may be more likely than positive ones to passively register. They “stick” for several reasons.
First, one of the most important contributors to their success may be the negativity bias. Negative information is more memorable than positive – just think how clearly you remember an insult.
Second, negative ads are more complex than positive ones. A positive message that talks about the sponsoring candidate’s voting record, for example, is simple and straightforward. Every negative ad has at least an implied comparison. If Mitt Romney is “not a true conservative,” then by implication the candidate sponsoring the ad is saying he or she is a true conservative. This complexity can cause us to process the information more slowly and with somewhat more attentiveness.

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Stop trying to bully me into voting against fascism

no.

Marble Hornets Slenderman is still spooky af to me. Most of the other shit is absolutely not; even some of the better stuff like EMH and T12 got really terrible after a bit.