A person's instance can be an identity, of sorts. Not everyone going to make assumptions about you, but you are going to be exposed to a ton of unconscious bias, regardless.

If I see someone at a baseball game, it's safe to assume that the person actually likes baseball. It's so safe of a guess that many people wouldn't think twice about making that assumption.

I am simply calling out the conundrum for what it is. Stereotyping isn't the best thing in the world, but it is inevitable.

The Triad? Neat. I am guessing those are the instances that shall not be named?

producing thick plumes of oily smoke.

That's what happens when oil burns. Specifically, when oil storage tanks burn. Burning oil makes big plumes of thick, oily smoke.

In the video below, a shot-down drone can be seen jettisoning its special FX package.

Ukraine managed to get a drone through three (or more) layers of air defense around Moscow, only to drop an FX package? Look... Even I make fun of Russian air defense, but it's not entirely useless and it does work.

It now makes perfect sense how Ukraine was able to fabricate such an eye-catching mise-en-scene

No. It doesn't make any sense at all, per the above reason. If you send a drone to Moscow, make it through the air defense and have the opportunity to bomb a refinery, just bomb the fucking refinery. Burning oil is your FX package, dipshit.

The actual damage to the refinery itself turned out to be disappointing, as only a few oil storage tanks were actually destroyed.

Oil tanks are big, contain a fuck-ton of oil and burning tanks are a pain in the ass to extinguish. Heat damage alone can shut a refinery down if any high pressure tanks or lines were exposed. They would need to be inspected properly and that isn't a small task. So yeah, a couple of destroyed tanks is kind of a bad thing. (Also, he just confirmed that is wasn't an "empty strike", employing "FX packages". Shit got blowed up, dawg.)

In fact, much of Ukraine's recent narratives

.. narratives, propaganda or whatever... Those are likely Russian videos of Russian oil tanks on fire. No narrative is needed. (I stay away from most state news sites and steer clear of most opinion-based news, blogs or videos. Getting actual information about a conflict is hard enough, thanks. My point: I don't know the narratives and reading a blog like this just lets me know that the propaganda engine is having to chooch really fucking hard about this.)

Alas, these propaganda blogs are just made to sow doubt with large groups of idiots. It doesn't matter if they are true or not, what matters is that their future front-line meat waves stay dumb and that .ml posters have another hyperlink to add as a "source": These links are also for idiots to click that don't validate any of those sources. This stuff fuels confirmation bias, consciously or not, and regardless if any of it is true.

The music is much more evolved now and there isn't really one specific genre (ie techno) any more. The four-to-the-floor beat you describe was (and arguably still is) the core of most electronic/dance style music. And yeah, it's usually the start of most of the stuff I write in Fl Studio (aka Fruity Loops), as a simple and driving core beat is what is the best for the largest possible group of people to dance to. (It's universal, regardless of genre.)*

Example from NTO here: https://youtu.be/xF0Qx9XQCNI (This is technically in the electronic/techno genre, but really can't be classified that way anymore. The FttF beat is still driving that song though...)

Probably the pinnacle of where techno and synthesizer music has evolved to is music by Mr. Bill. It's more of a full sound design thing now, and less legacy Fruity Loops'ish now. (https://youtu.be/WCrgI4ne1Kw) TBH, Mr. Bill isn't, and probably will never be "my style", but I respect the hell out of his music though. Fucking genius stuff.

Alas, I could find a million-and-one examples of modern trash-club music and it's never going to go away. Strongbad summaries that genre the best: https://youtu.be/JwZwkk7q25I

You do you, and making fun of what still is the core rhythm of nearly all electronic music ain't exactly a hard thing to do. ;)

I just thought it kinda sucked that you sounded like you might not have been exposed to, or were even aware of, how that type of music has evolved. "Techno", "90s House" or whatever, is actually dead for the most part though. The modern iterations of the scene are still massive and probably 80% of those people don't realize that the core rhythms have been exactly the same for +30 years or more.

And nah, I ain't butthurt about you making fun of "my" music and not at all trying to be argumentative. The music is so much better now, even if you can still cleanly overlay an untz-tsh. :)

• note: The "four to the floor" is the underlying beat, but it usually has the "swing" knob pushed hard in dance or club, hence, the recognizably short pattern of untz-tsh. The disco beats themselves have some super cool history, regardless.

For anyone wondering, that's Sarah Connors dream from Terminator 2 right before the city gets nuked.

It's one of the better EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) tools on the market. For enterprises, they are able to suck down tons of system activities and provide alerting for security teams.

For detection, when I say "tons of data", I mean it. Any background logs related to network activity, filesystem activity, command line info, service info, service actions and much more for every endpoint in an organization.

The response component can block execution of apps or completely isolate an endpoint if it is compromised, only allowing access by security staff.

Because Crowdstrike can (kind of) handle that much data and still be able to run rule checks while also providing SOC services makes them a common choice for enterprises.

The problem is that EDR tools need to run at the kernel level (or at a very high permission level) to be able to read that type data and also block it. This increases the risk of catastrophic problems if specific drivers are blocked by another kind of anti-malware service.

When you look at how EDR tools function, there is little difference between them and well written malware.

Crowdstrike became a choice recently for many companies that got fucked over by Broadcom buying VMWare. VMWare owned another tool, Carbon Black, which became subject to the fuckery of Broadcom so more companies scrambled to Crowdstrike recently.

I hope that was enough of a summary.

Spores are everywhere like you say and you only really see a tiny percentage of mycelium. Fungi kinda is everywhere already, but where it can grow well is much more limited.

Fungi can be remarkably picky about its growing conditions to thrive, otherwise, it's growth will be remarkably slow. However, if you put a tablespoon of dirt under the microscope, there could be dozens of mycelial strands in it trying to survive. They can all survive, to a degree, but there are a couple of issues preventing dominance.

If it can find a place to settle in and grow, chances are that many other spores may be trying to take hold as well. Fungi is insanely competitive and is constantly fighting for space. Fast growing fungi is what we normally see take over food sources and it's usually a type of trichoderma. Trichoderma will literally choke out other fungal growths simply due to its rapid development. If an existing colony is weakened for one reason or another and it gets a trich infection, it's game over.

For commercial mycelium development, (button mushrooms, oysters, etc.) growing conditions are generally perfect and the substrate used is tailored specifically per species. (It's mostly sanitized poo or specific types of wood.) Temperatures need to be adjusted for each growth phase as fungi can be very sensitive to that. Some strains of shiitake are rumored to require a physical shock to fruit. (Like, the substrate bag needs to be physically smacked hard. It's an odd characteristic.)

To sum all of this up, it usually comes down to competition. Where there isn't fungi, there is bacteria. Plants even have chemical defenses to both. Small critters and insects may eat all three of those things.

Next time you look at your garden, just remember you are looking at an actual battleground for millions of critters of all shapes and sizes.

That's fairly bold to ask for ~6% of the total world economy as well as a sizable chunk of the world's energy.

They have kinda always been a thing. Nazi's were just one flavor of nationalist, after all.

Charles de Gaulle defined nationalism best: "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first."

For most people, it's extremely easy to blame others for problems of their own creation. By the same token, people who can't see their own shortcomings will also usually latch on to leaders who are able to amplify that bias. For the Nazis, it was mostly against the jews.

Also, what you are seeing in the news is partially amplified by the news itself but also, politicians are getting more brazen in mustering the support of those groups. This has lead to people being a little more open about something that needs to stay taboo, IMHO.

We could pay down the national debt in about 4 hours.

They can leech all the data they want from my employer. I don't give a fuck. Never use company assets for personal business as an addendum.

Just be a little more careful with your own stuff, s'all.

It's the logo for Aphex Twin, an iconic electronic music producer.

If Broadcom takes over Intel, get ready for a wild ride and don't expect any kind of innovation ever again. If there ever was a backdoor in Intel CPUs, expect it to be opened up and used for licensing extortion. (That seems far fetched until you realize how fucking shady Broadcom is.)

While I shifted to the AMD bandwagon a while ago, I really wanted Intel's GPUs to develop more over the next decade and split the market up a bit more. Sigh.

He is the one who paid to watch her have sex. The logic he is using is really twisted.

Just a random selfie with a Russian propagandist. That doesn't mean anything by itself, however. He also was spotted in another photo with Kushner at the world cup as well and again, that doesn't mean anything more than a picture.

What it does mean, however, is that the world's richest man chooses to be in close proximity to some really shady people. Or not. The world cup managers probably just had a section carved off for the Friends of Putin club.

Wut? Was he talking about the previous Ukrainian government, sponsored by Russia™? I can't make sense of what he is saying, actually.

Is this satire?

Or someone slapped their cock on it.

They should probably find a way to turn humans into mice. It's a shame to leave billions of dollars on the table like that.