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  • I listened in on a conversation between two young male Kroger union members before the election (the store is unionized so maybe that was an assumption, it’s a right to work state…)

    They both agreed they were voting for Trump. I can’t speak to their unspoken motivations but what I can tell you is they absolutely voted on vibes and didn’t have a goddamn clue what was coming for them.

    I don’t know what brain rotted the Gen Z boys in a way that didn’t work on the Gen Z girls but I can tell you it wasn’t fake, those kids are not alright.

    Maybe this will be Gen Z’s Afghanistan and Iraq, the events that push them left against Republican abuse, but I’m not sure they’ll have a chance when they’re getting a steady diet of algorithmic propaganda.





  • Yes, in this sense.

    Clicking the mechanism converts the manual input to a mechanical or electrical output.

    If you pushed the lead down entirely by hand it wouldn’t be a mechanical pencil, which is exactly why you pushing or flipping a plastic cover into place entirely with your own muscle power makes it a manual shutter.

    When you type on a mechanical keyboard, what, precisely, do you think is happening? Are you literally outputting a letter by pressing your finger down? For that matter, what do you think a mechanical keyboard does?

    Fucking Google it.

    I do love having to explain basic terminology to a relatively well educated yet stupendously deaf audience.

    Really restores my faith in humanity.

    We’re not fucking cooked, and the mental infantilization of the population is not complete.





  • Do you believe a ball is a mechanical system?

    You can have a manual input to a mechanical system. For example, pulling a lever to operate a machine.

    The typical distinction is whether it uses and translates the input through various mechanisms. Moving a shutter with your thumb is not a mechanical shutter.

    Flipping a switch or pushing a button to do same thing could be. The manual input is translated to a separate output instead of the person providing the energy directly.

    Did I explain this middle school vocabulary lesson to your satisfaction?