Or maybe things in between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz ARE being used, but for different things that would break if WiFi started to use them, and if so, what are those things?

Warning, this is an extremely large image. You will need to open it in it’s own window and zoom in.

Once you have opened it in a new window, I’m sure you will be able to tell that the entire radio frequency spectrum is absolutely fucking packed to the gills. It’s all accounted for, everything from 3kHz to 300 GHz.

Also, 2.4GHz is the frequency put out by microwave ovens, so they actually do interfere with 2.4GHz Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

Finally, this is just how the US allocates the radio spectrum. Every country actually has their own different allocation system. If I recall correctly, Wi-Fi bands in the UK are slightly different.

EDIT: Actually, just noticing that this is actually 22 years out of date, since it’s from 2003 (bottom left of image). Things have been changed around and re-allocated several times since then, but you get the idea. There’s a lot of groups who want access to these frequencies. Government agencies, military communications, space exploration, satellite communications, cellular telephone service, television broadcasting, civilian band radio, wi-fi and so on.

That new Alfie Jukes EP All Dressed Up For Nothing is pretty damn good.

Other than that listening to bunch of old Mountain Goats. Mostly Ghana and All Hail West Texas.

Lacan and Žižek seem to.

At least Žižek mostly just seems to use it to interpret and deconstruct cinema.

The worm one was Noby Noby Boy.

I think it’s interesting to note here that he was the Director of the first two Katamaris, Director/Designer of Noby Noby Boy, but from there on out is just a designer. I think it shows that not only does he want to work with other people but that he doesn’t necessarily want full creative control as much as he values the input from others in creative ideas.

Which also makes it a little frustrating that all the games are still marketed as “From the Creator of Katamari Damacy!” while it seems like he’s just another designer on a team and he’s happy with that. More like the businesses use him as a marketing gimmick, maybe?

Yeah this article is for the terminally out of touch…

The soundtrack alone is still a must-play for me.

This one seems like it’s going to have a similarly great soundtrack.

I want to wad you up into my life

Let’s lump up to make a single star in the sky

*reads Freud’s theories

*reads about Freud

“It’s projection all the way down.”

Never forget when Oracle sued Google to try to push the idea that mere use of APIs are instances of copyright infringement.

someone

Oh you mean Match Group?

It’s AshleyMadison all over again, shocker.

I am so hyped for this weird game!

Centering a service animal is dope!

Yes, non-profits are still a type of “business” and many of them absolutely do not help their supposed causes as much as they portray. Susan G. Komen Foundation went from a darling of the non-profit world to people wondering whether they really helped women at all.

I think they’re using Save the Children as an example because ostensibly 74% of their revenue actually goes directly to aiding people, and 26% is employee compensation, advertising, and so on.

Also Freud: Women actually just want to have a dick of their own.

Ciswomen: What the fuck?

Transmen: Hear me out…

Minefield, you say?

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004SPIE.5441...13R/abstract

The Self Healing Minefield (SHM) is comprised of a networked system of mobile anti-tank landmines. When the mines detect a breach, each calculates an appropriate response, and some fire small rockets to “hop” into the breach path, healing the breach. The purpose of the SHM is to expand the capabilities of traditional obstacles and provide an effective anti-tank obstacle that does not require Anti-Personnel (AP) submunitions. The DARPA/ATO sponsored program started in June 2000 and culminated in a full 100-unit demonstration at Fort Leonard Wood, MO in April 2003. That program went from “a concept” to a prototype system demonstration in approximately 21 months and to a full tactically significant demonstration in approximately 33 months.

Ah yes, not self-healing as in able to be disabled after the war is over, but self-healing as automatically “hops” mines into different locations to cover gaps after a single mine explodes.

(To be fair DARPA eventually dumped money into “smart mines” which can be disabled remotely. Still…)

Also I’m reminded of military contractor KBR and Halliburton:

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jamie-leigh-jones-claims-iraq-rape-employer-held/story?id=13884264

June 21, 2011

A woman who says she was drugged and gang-raped while working for military contractor KBR in Iraq will face down an attorney for KBR in a Texas courtroom today.

Jamie Leigh Jones, now 26, was working her fourth day on the job in Baghdad in 2005 when she says she was assaulted by seven U.S. contractors and held captive by two KBR guards in a shipping container. Jones, whose story was featured in an award-winning ABC News “20/20” investigation, is one of a group of women who claim they were harassed or assaulted while working for KBR and former parent company Halliburton in Iraq. She is suing KBR, former parent company Halliburton and KBR firefighter Charles Bortz, who she claims was one of the rapists.

She never got her day in a real court, the contract to force her to take it through arbitration court stood firm.

I was literally about to come into this thread to say the same.

but doesn’t seem to know what it does

Doesn’t seem to know what it does, doesn’t seem to know how it works, etc.

He’s fucking illiterate and has been rewarded handsomely for being fucking illiterate. It’s why he hates education so much.

It’s part of why he won’t type at a computer and even needs a secretary to type most of his tweets for him. Because he is functionally fucking illiterate. Also the whole misogynistic 1940-80s “typing is women’s work” horseshit.

Rachel Corrie was the first I was ever exposed to it personally, and that’s because she was a local. I began doing my research on the subject after that, and I was in my mid-twenties.

I’m convinced shit like mindfulness is what was once a useful tool that has been hijacked to become a trick to force people who are abused by society to “work on themselves” while the worst people in society aren’t just rewarded for being total assholes, but get to breeze through life never doing a single ounce of actual self-improvement.

I am sooooooooooo tired of being told all I can really do is work on myself when I’m being actively abused by half the people around me. “You can’t change other people,” uhh, actually you can with things like legislation, regulation, laws, and enforcing those laws. We just have zero stuff like that which forces people to actually treat each other respectfully in the USA.

Like I hate to say it, but in a way, a Social Credit system might not be so bad if it was actually based on rehabilitating antisocial behaviors and rewarding prosocial behaviors. The only reason it sounds dystopian is because it would be controlled by antisocial assholes who would abuse it to do social harm.

I’m having trouble finding it but I remember a foreign travel warning ad specifically for Florida in relation to their gun laws and things like open carry and castle doctrine. It even had a graphic with Florida itself done up to look like a gun. It was to warn people “hey you could get shot by some random asshat and it’s legal for them to do in Florida.”

That’s a fair take, but if we’re going back to the 80’s and 90’s, I personally am going to cut them some slack because it was a lot harder to really be up to date about issues like what was going on in Palestine back then. We had more independent media, sure, but it was far more difficult for the average American to get informed about those kind of issues without the modern internet.

The death of Rachel Corrie at the hands of Israelis stealing Palestinian land was in 2003 and hardly was a blip in American media. Just from my own memories from the time far fewer people were aware of it even being an issue. I remember being pissed but most people didn’t know or didn’t seem to care that they murdered a US citizen.

The modern pressure on Ben & Jerry’s is because millions of people are aware of it now thanks to the modern internet and are getting involved in the pressure. Back then? I strongly suspect Ben & Jerry’s probably got a handful of letters about it, and whether the owners actually ever saw such letters or read articles about what was going on in Palestine is up for debate. Not everyone can know anything, and there was truly a dearth of media about it in the US at the time. By the time it was well-known enough for large amounts of people to be actively pressuring them, they were owned by genuinely evil assholes, not just oblivious halfway decent people.

I have found a small amount of Trader Joe’s food labelled under different brand names at WinCo. Same companies producing the food, just boxed and bagged with a different name.

To be clear, WinCo also has it’s own issues.