They measure the speed of pressure waves that our ears/brains then convert into something we would recognise as sounds. There is no sound without that conversion on our end of the eardrum/brain combo. Just pressure waves.
Actually incorrect. The vibration of a medium is still just a vibration of a medium. It's our eardrum that vibrates, which is then converted by the brain into what we recognise as "sound". Ultrasound is exactly the same thing. When they show us a video of "The sound of the planets", that's not what we would hear if we are out in space, we wouldn't hear anything. That "sound" is just computers translating those waves into something that we perceive as a sound, the same way our brain does.
Until a pressure wave hits our eardrum, and gets converted, it's not sound...it's simply modulating pressure.
It always WAS an acronym. That's the entire point of the argument. "G"raphics "I"nterchange "F"ormat.
Nobody turned it into an acryonym, it just IS an acronym. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. The reason it's pronounced with a hard G is because Graphics is a hard G.
There's a reason debt collectors refuse to deal via email.
We've come full circle back to pagers.
I'm sure I've still got mine in a drawer somewhere
How in the fuck does even the stupidest, most un-selfaware person on earth think that that line is somehow a flex.
Donnie...buddy...bubbala...being the same person you were at five is not something to admit to. It's a sign of a deep psychological short-circuit in how your fucking brain works...
I don't disagree. But even the worst candidate (besides Trump) was still a human being. Trump jacked the evil up to a whole new level, because not only does he contain all the worst aspects of ALL of those other people, he doesn't even have the shame or the tact to hide it behind "politicking".
Yes. It's all a charade. Political candidates are humans who are selfish, arrogant and don't always have their constituents best interests at heart; especially conservatives. But there was always an unspoken agreement to hide all of that behind professionalism, proper decorum, debate and policy arguments. We do that because the alternative is chaos. When the evil is laid bare for all to see, then civilization itself is no longer truly relevant. If Trump can get away with all this shit, well fuck it, then so can I. The entire country can YOLO.
We pretend. We and our politicians share a pleasant fiction where they're "just like us" because everything collapses hard once Pandora's box is open.
Trump's danger lays not in what he says or does. But in the shameless, unapologetic way that he does and says it which emboldens every one of his sycophants to start doing the same. Hold him accountable, in any way necessary, and yes...those assholes are still going to exist in the republican party to some degree (They're like cockroaches after all). But we might, just might get back to running the country with at least a faux sense of civility and proper debate.
I think the current economic and political system is failing a vast majority of Americans and like other authoritarian demagogues in the past, Trump misattributes that problem in ways that resonate with the bigotry and racism that exists in American culture.
You just explained in one sentence what I bumbled my way through in four paragraphs. Well written, my friend.
A lot of old-fashioned "good old homegrown" folks who feel that the world is changing and the economy is leaving them behind. Think of coal towns, mid-west mining towns, etc...
Insert a republican who tells them enough times that it's not the fault of big business screwing literally everyone over, it's actually the fault of the immigrants/LGBTQ+/Mulsims/Blacks (insert marginalised group of choice here) coming and taking what should rightfully go to Good Honest Working Folk/Christian Evangelicals (Insert the group you're trying to court here) and then promise to change that.
The low-key greatest quote came from LBJ in an off-hand remark to an aide. Not even from a speech.
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
True then. True now. And true internationally. There is no country where the Conservative Right Wing doesn't play by that exact rulebook.
That's how they stay alive in that place. Literally anything that wants to kill them just stops and goes "awwwwww"
It depends on why they're deaf. If they were born without the ability for the brain to translate those pressure waves into recognizable sounds, than no. If they have that ability, but just need something to amplify those pressure waves (hence a hearing aid) then yes, because biologically they still have the computer necessary to do that translation job.