“The fake electors plot was spearheaded by pro-Trump attorney John Eastman, who laid out a plan whereby then-Vice President Mike Pence would declare all the Biden-won states with “alternate” Trump electors to be disputed, not count their votes during the gaveling of the electoral college, and declare Trump the winner. Legal experts broadly considered this scheme to be illegal, as did Pence himself.”
Will we EVER see this administration in jail???
Thank you for reading today's post. Have an InterStellar Day! ~PrP
PrP,
Your intro to yesterday’s post could have easily been mine. <3 I have been doing the same thing on my walks and as I drove through SF yesterday to work cranking the tunes, and feeling grateful. xox
“Get Paid and Cower” is the new “Serve and Protect”
Unless they are confronting unarmed blacks.
Yeah, maybe the killer should have dropped his gun and turned his back. Then the cops would have felt more comfortable rushing in to shoot him in the back.
On June 27, 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the police have no specific obligation to protect the citizens of a jurisdiction.
Then why are we paying the fucks so much money?
Hey, maybe that’s why they waited 90 minutes and let those kids bleed out. Their only obligation is to stand in line and collect their paychecks.
Well, the the supreme fucks also rule that the municipalities that hired them to protect it citizens are not obligated to pay them.
Did You Know?
Henry Ford’s production line innovations allowed Ford factories to crank out an astounding number of cars. Between 1927 and 1932, for example, Ford produced 4.8 million Model A cars (the successor to the Model T).
Stop Putting Your Phone in Rice
JOE FEDEWA
For nearly as long as smartphones have existed, people have been putting them in rice after dropping them in water. This often-repeated “trick” to save a water-logged phone has gone too far. Allow us to explain.
Where Did It Come From?
The rice trick has been around forever and there’s probably a good chance you’ve done it before—I know I have. Where did this common advice originate from? That’s an interesting question.
One of the first high-profile examples of the rice “trick” being recommended dates back to a Lifehacker post from June 2007. The claim was that dry rice “sucks up the surrounding moisture.” That same line of reasoning has been repeated ever since.
The trick certainly predated smartphones, but it really caught on as more people began carrying around expensive, fragile devices that don’t play nice with water. People want to know what to do when they drop their phone in water and the rice trick filled that need.
Why It Doesn’t Work
Here’s the harsh truth about putting a wet phone in rice—it does absolutely nothing. Rice does not have magical moisture-wicking powers. You might as well just put the phone in a completely empty bowl.
Rice does have some ability to absorb water from wet things, but it’s very weak. Plus, that doesn’t address the main problem. Even a strong desiccant such as silica gel can’t get at the most damaging liquid, which is on the inside of the phone.
Sometimes, if the water didn’t penetrate the phone too much, leaving it powered off and giving it time to dry out will save it. People end up thinking it was the rice that did something when in reality it was simply leaving the phone alone for a while that did the trick.
To make matters worse, rice can actually accentuate the water damage in some cases. The fine rice “dust” can get into the ports and mix with the water to create a paste-like substance that’s harder to remove.
How to Save a Wet Phone
The key to saving a wet phone is not necessarily to just wait for it to dry. That may work if you’re lucky, but it’s much more effective to actually remove as much water as possible as quickly as possible. Simply allowing it to dry will leave behind all the conductive stuff in the water.
If your phone has been submerged in water, the immediate first step is to power it off. Don’t try to power it on if the water turned it off. Then you should remove anything that can be removed. This includes cases, the SIM card tray, microSD card tray, and the battery (if it’s even removable).
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Next, you can go the low-tech route and use a fan or compressed air to blow the water out of the ports. However, that won’t do anything for water that’s gotten inside the phone. To remove that water yourself, you’ll need to open it up. From there, you can scrub it with 90%+ isopropyl alcohol or set it in front of a fan.
We’ll probably never know who the first person to think of putting their wet phone in a bowl of rice was, but the “trick” has stuck around far too long. Thankfully, the majority of smartphones today have some level of water resistance. You’re better off getting one of those and taking other precautions. Save the rice for dinner
Two men were fighting. They posed no threats to the 16 cops watching the fight. Yet, the San Francisco cops shot and killed them both. Why?
https://48hills.org/2022/05/two-unhoused-men-were-fighting-the-cops-killed-them-both-why/
Some of Dumpy’s most ardent fans are also evangullibles, and their beliefs cannot be shaken by facts, evidence or truth.
I bet no matter where you’re reading this right now; you’re surrounded by (perhaps even holding) a tone of gadgets and electronics. And yet hardly a year goes by that some movie, tv-show, or book doesn’t launch with the concept that all of our beloved stuff could be killed by the next big solar flare. What can you do to protect your essential gadgets?
What is a Solar Flare?
Solar flares are explosions on the sun’s surface that throw out heat, light, and massive radiation. They also produce an electromagnetic pulse. More minor flares occur pretty often, and the largest ones, “X Class solar flares,” happen around ten times per year. The disruption caused by X class flares is usually limited to radio blackouts, but a particularly bad flare hitting at the right time could cause far-reaching damage.
The flares happen when parts of the Sun’s magnetic field cross and rapidly reorganize themselves. This reorganization can cause the sun to throw out large amounts of heat, light, and radiation. A coronal mass ejection, which is a huge outburst of solar wind plasma capable of throwing a billion tons of solar material into space at hundreds of kilometers per second, is also possible.
Scientists can predict solar flares before they happen, and when they do occur, it still takes time for the EMP to reach Earth. So if you pay attention to the news, you’ll probably receive some warning that a flare is on the way. Then you have to get your vulnerable, expensive tech somewhere safe.
A solar flare is also powerful enough to interfere with the Earth’s magnetic field. So compass readings may be off by up to 10 degrees, and auroras will be brighter and visible far further south than usual. During the Carrington event, auroras were visible as far south as Colombia and bright enough to read a newspaper under.
How Can Solar Flares Fry Your Tech?
While most EMPs the sun produces are too minor to cause damage, a large flare could have a pulse large enough to destroy electronics on Earth. An EMP contains a bunch of charged particles; when those particles hit something conductive, they impart that charge on that conductive object, creating current in a part of a circuit that should not be active, or overloading a powered line.
Electronics are designed to work in a particular way, and an electrical charge being somewhere it shouldn’t is a major issue. Components can be fried, and wires can melt when they become overloaded.
This Has Happened Before
A major solar flare has knocked out electronics around the world before. In 1859 the Carrington Event, which was the largest solar storm in recorded history, knocked out the world’s telegraph systems. There were widespread reports of wires sparking, telegraph operators receiving shocks, and electrical fires springing up. Due to the amount of power the solar flare put into the lines, some operators were also able to send messages through the telegraph system without hooking up batteries.
So do we have some Clout chasers here?
Clout chasing: is when someone does and says things for the sole purpose of becoming more popular. It is most often used to describe people on social sites that are shallow and desperate to gain followers and become famous.”