Tlaloc_Temporal

Propaganda was short for “congregation for propagating the faith” in 1718, and meant a movement or organization for the propagation of ideology before the end of the 1700s. The modern usage refering to the information disseminated is from after WWI (which wasn’t perjoritive at the time), when German telegraph lines to other countries were cut and they turned to high-power radio communication. The negative connotation comes from WWII after Germany’s very effective use of it.

Nevertheless, propaganda has been used as long as humans have existed, and much like the subcategory “advertisement”, is more effective with as many lies as one can get away with. There’s nothing inherently untruthful about propaganda, but neither is it inherently truthful. It’s manipulation, and can still be effective without lies. It’s much broader than papers to circumvent censure.

Propaganda was originally a branch of the Catholic Church, so the connotation is that it’s as full of crap and dishonesty as apologetics.

It’s more inherent than that in most cases. The job attracts power trippers, the culture and standards in most precincts encourages abusive assholes and corruption, and once the cops can cover for each other it becomes self-selecting for abuse. At least in North America, cops are heavily pre-disposed to being bastards, even before the reality of their purpose.

Why would you want your OS to use you’re memory? My browser already takes too much, and I really push my system trying to run dev-builds of games built for desktops.

In a very technical sense, you can turn any distro into any other distro, in the same way you can turn Windows into OpenBSD.

It’s probably also true in a smaller way, where you could technically reengineer a distro manually by replacing components and reconfiguring things until it works, but why? Someone already did that.

Aren’t water flow, electrical flow, and mechanical flow all strictly analogous? As in mathematically equivalent, not just similar?

Was that Worms and the churning up of the sea floor, or was that earlier than the Ediacaran?

Flying Rhino Junior High is a 90s children’s cartoon that is a bit more niche than I remember. The only time I have ever heard the phrase “Flying Rhino”.

A flying rhino? Such a weird situation! We should name a junior high school after it.

It feels like a persecution complex. “They hate us because we’re better, and they’ll always hate us! So keep doing what they hate! (And give us money)”

I believe you can just see the shadow of the beak on the right side of the crest. The crest splits and lays on both sides of the beak sometimes.

That’s not “litterally” how it works then, just “figuratively”.

In general, I agree, but spin is quite surprising in how much like angular momentum and dynamos it behaves. Either way, we don’t know enough about it yet, and it’s at best a coincidence.

Coral trees are make of rock wood and each leaf is it’s own organism.

Chromodynamics uses colour to represent the three charges of the strong field, like + and - for the one charge of the electromagnetic field. It rarely interacts with actually visible light.

The Feynman diagrams? I think those just represent terms in a statistical integral. It’s a nice way of describing an otherwise horrendously arcane function.

I’m for Canada divesting it’s interests into more than just the states. We should have strong relations with lots of polities around the globe, not just the nearest one that will take us.

A lack of sovereignty is exactly why we shouldn’t be looking to the states for everything. Already we follow them too closely down a dark path, and are too dependant on them for too many goods and services.

I’m here on Lemmy partly to understand how a decentralized system works, and how to build and support that in other places. To see how much freedom each server has, and how well they can operate together. Falling in line with a polity on a different continent doesn’t sound like it would do us much good, as we would be beholden to people in a very different geopolitical position. I’d rather be allies than last among equals.

I think my position might change with evidence that such a united polity doesn’t just become Empire Mk176, but I can’t find it in me to want to integrate ourselves with other nations when our integration with another nation is the cause of so many of our problems.

I also think there is something to be said for having multiple levels of membership in the EU currently. Going from nothing to a full member is a huge change that could take multiple decades before bearing fruit, while much smaller changes could encourage growing closer more easily.

I would very much like to have many EU standards on chemicals, food, technology, and labour, while also supporting those standards globally. Yet I see little point to adopting the Euro, even ignoring the issues with tying different economies together. I don’t even know if that would prevent us from forming other organizations, like CANZUK.

In any case, this would be the work of decades, much more direct interactions, and many more conversations. We still haven’t fully switched to metric after 55 years.

It’s older than genAI by at least a decade.

True, we can optimize the cycles more. Like double expansion piston engines, or that crazy proposal for a hydrid steam-mercury super high pressure power plant.

I’ll believe it when I see it. They have so many material science challenges ahead of them and aren’t very forthcoming with progress.