I voted tuesday

it's still to early to tell, but early/mid Gen Z seem to be millennials but more so

sidenote, Fuck SESTA. it's rare for a bill to be anti-internet and anti-sex worker at once, but they've pulled off

...that's a good point. I mean, I wonder if having dating services built into social media platforms would be useful, but facebook is for boomers and the occasional event organization by younger people (my college's anime club uses it to organise meetings)

I mean, facebook has everything they need to make it happen, but I still don't like facebook so I'm going to stick to other dating sites

nice.

nice to see that the system works

I like the tags idea better too. sometimes I'll have something that's relevant to multiple subreddits and the conversation gets muddled by the division by subreddit.

no. with the rise of electric cars, energy usage will shift from electricity and oil to all electricity. total energy use per capita won't grow too much, but demand for current will rise. also, stuff like heating oil or gas appliances may be replaced with electric too.

at my apartment complex, they have parcel lockers at the mailboxes. it solves that issue

"Yet for some reason people assume that all the heinous shit on Reddit and 4chan are organic." it dates beck farther than we know that Russia cared. if anything, the inorganic effects went as such: Stormfront corrupted 4chan, then 4chan corrupted Reddit

of course, we had video games in both years, so it's independent

Yes! Score one for journalism

I can say from experience that growing Cannabis is quite fun. even though I never made it to the point of having something to smoke due to life circumstances, it was fun watching it grow. every week it was noticeably bigger. despite how many issues I kept having, I never completely killed a plant by accident.

nice. I can't wait for the cost to launch stuff to get real cheap.

there are people who weren't alive when the rickroll became a thing rickrolling people

woah

as a CS major, I'm very worried that it'll all crash by the time that I graduate.

personally, I think that twitter should allow unlimited characters in posts (to whiten technical limits) and only show the first 140 and then you have to click "expand"

it would help with the triviality, and tweetstorms could become actual proper blog posts

"maiming auto workers in Alabama"

Did I miss something? I know they're not union, but I havn't heard anything about safety mishaps

not sure if sarcastic or not, but there are only 4 nationwide carriers, and sprint and T-mobile lease their towers from AT&T and verision

I've been thinking about wireless meshnets for some time now. the only Issue is that I can't seem to figure out how to connect metros across oceans/uninhabited rural areas

alright, now it's time to impeach Trump. this is the only thing we agreed on, and now it's done.

even the internet archive's moving to canada after this election

you could put one on a cubesat and try that, but that's still a lot of money, especially once you factor in the force measurement equipment.

"we can use your own voice as a vocaloid seed."

this has many uses. from making parody videos to restoring old music. the possibility of it making it easier to fake evidence is concerning, but we survived photoshop without too much damage

yeah, a smartwatch is more like a pair of headphones that a smartphone

"There is no longer a singular "American Culture" to put my thoughts into words. We don't watch the same TV, we don't listen to the same music, we don't read the same news sources. Maybe we never did, but the internet is accelerating that pulling apart."

this was a temporary thing created by mass broadcast media. it wasn't like that before the 1920's and it hasn't been like that since the 2000s

with the recent death of google fiber expansion, perhaps microwave can save us from Big Cable?

if you have an idea as to what you'd like to do with your life already, try practicing that. I wish I had the motivation to actually learn to program when I was in high school. I could already be writing production code by now.

"The problem is that this slightly "abrasive" fabric surface, when it comes into contact with another fabric surface (like your shirt), creates noise that transmits into your ears. "

I always thought that this was caused by static electricity. either way, I wonder if there's a way to rubber coat ear bud cables?