Dookieman12

Tech companies want more data. Gotta profit off their AI somehow. Probably pivoting to AI-targeted ads or something

The client is packaged and sold with the VPN subscription to "add value". People like you and I understand that VPN clients are pretty simple places of software, but most VPN customers, well... you know

Acknowledging we don't understand the world is scary.

Since my name is Dookieman, I can tell you how a toilet works.

When you press the flush lever, it lifts a flapper in the tank that lets the water in the tank flow into the bowl. The bowl flows into the p-trap underneath. When the p-trap overflows, it creates a siphon effect that sucks the remaining water from the bowl into the waste pipe.

The waste pipe connects to a grid-like sewer system that uses a series of sloped pipes and storm risers to carry the waste water to a treatment plant where it's filtered, disinfected, tested, and pumped back into the water system.

There are many way to deliver water, but the most common is the water tower. Water in the tower creates pressure that pushes water through the pipes. When you want water, you open a valve to relieve the pressure and water takes the path of least resistance.

When you flush a toilet, the valve floats. As the water drains from the tank, the valve lowers with the water level until it opens. As the tank fills, the valve raises with the water level until it closes. Once the valve closes, the flush cycle is complete and the toilet is ready to be flushed again.

Because that had nothing to do with it. If leaded gasoline caused serial killers, there would be a worldwide increase in the number of serial killers, but this isn't the case.

This number of serial killers is unique to the US in this specific time period because, at that place, during that time, it was never easier to be a serial killer. Technology had progressed enough to give us cars, highways, guns, and ammo, but hadn't progressed enough to give us nationwide databases, nationwide news, DNA science, or IDs that couldn't be easily forged.

Only in this place, during this time, could someone kill multiple people, leave behind virtually no evidence, then move hundred of miles away under a fake name and repeat that process as many times as they wanted.

Anywhere else but the US, they would have to cross a national border, which would be tracked and documented and required documents that couldn't be easily forged. Any other time in history, you either can't move hundreds of miles easily, or forensic science has advanced enough to make it much more difficult to leave no evidence behind.

No. Forensic science improved, communications technology improved, and government-issued IDs became more difficult to forge.

Once police agencies started communicating with each other and sharing evidence with each other, it became a lot more difficult to just disappear, move a few states away, and reappear as someone else with another name.

And only in the US. No other country at any other point in history had so many documented serial killers. I think it's because in the 1970s, your ID was a handwritten piece of paper without even a picture on it, there was no internet, no fingerprint database, DNA wasn't a thing, there was no national news, and no nationwide police agency, but there was a massive highway system and a huge, easily traversable landmass. Packing up and moving to a new town with a fake name and a fake ID where no one had ever heard of your crimes was never easier than in 1970s USA.

I agree, you should ignore him. I didn't know who he was until you posted about him. Streisand effect.

1. What is "a mobius strip of light"? I know what a mobius strip is, and I know what a photon is, but I don't understand how they relate to each other.

2. The "event horzon" is, by definition, the boundary line from which nothing can escape. If something could escape from it, it wouldn't be the event horizon.

Who is Mar?

The idea that "only violent regimes overthrow violent regimes" proves OP right.

Whenever someone brings up "believing in science" remind them that science isn’t a matter of belief, it's a matter of understanding. The world is the way it is whether you "believe" in it or not. The world is the way it is whether you understand it or not, and life is a lot easier when you understand the world around you.

Back in my day, you could customize your YouTube profile and PM anyone on the platform