His various books explored the pros and cons of various government styles in a fairly honest way. Unfortunately, modern films don't do well with nuances. It's fascism on the surface, but there are echoes of the deep cracks that make it so terrifying and self destructive.
I viewed the movie as a play on the propaganda within the universe of the book (roughly the equivalent of films like "black hawk down").
A movie playing it straight could be interesting. My only concern is how it will resonate with the current political situation. The original book was far more subtle in its view on fascism. It could easily turn into a fascist call to arms.
The complication is the double jump.
In the early days of COVID, there were 2 strains spreading. One of those fizzled out and disappeared after a few weeks. Genetically, they seemed to be independent jumps. A single mistake wouldn't account for this.
It's also worth noting that the first known infected all spent time in Wuhan wildlife market. They got fairly good tracking from mobile phones, even if the direct evidence was destroyed by the containment/cleaning effort.
Basically, the surrounding evidence doesn't fit an accidental leak (2 jumps). It doesn't really fit an intentional release (very geographically focused). It is consistent with it jumping from a sustained infection pool in the market. (Multiple jumps from the same small area at different times).
It's a combo of things, but those are some of the big ones.
At the time, clock speeds were chosen and the chips designed to work that fast. They also gave an overhead for variances in manufacturing.
Modern chips mostly make use of this already. There was a time when over clocking was quite common in the geek community. It's mostly disappeared now. The CPUs we have now don't benefit as much from a boost, and are more likely to go past their limits and burn out.
It's also worth noting it was a change from 32000hz to 32040 Hz. An increase of around 0.125% (or 1.00125x faster). It's fucking tiny, it only really matters when times are extremely close. E.g. 60 minutes pass in 59 minutes, 55 seconds, a saving of 5 seconds maximum.
I'm an engineer that's been in that sort of situation. If it's planned, you have the tools. Unfortunately, sometimes these things happen and it's not planned. At that point it's taken what you can get. A cheap fire stick will still do the job better than no fire stick.
This is textbook toxic masculinity.
A lot of people misuse the term, but this is an excellent example. The men involved lose out on something amazing due to it being 'unmanly'.
That's tempting, and not a hideous price either.
On the global stage, America doesn't have a centralist party. It has a right party and an extreme right party.
For comparison, the UK is relatively right leaning. The democrats are comparable to the UK conservative party. They are the most right leaning 'main' party.
As painful as it is, this is both what the high road actually looks like, and how we win, longer term. We need to bleed off those we can from the echo chamber of insanity. The more 'moderates' we can strip off, the more obvious that insanity becomes.
Mockery feels good, but it drives them back into their group. Kindness and understanding gives us the cracks we need to start deconverting them.
It's also worth noting that he fell on his own sword, politically. He knew that Briton needed a strong leader, with the people unified behind them. Churchill could do this, he couldn't. He took the blame to keep the rest of the party clean.
All hail the lemming of Lemmy!
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The dys effectively means disorder of. Lexic reading and writing ability. It's a disorder of reading.
In the same family you have some others. Dyscalcula is a disorder of maths ability. Dyspraxia is a disorder of motor control.
Science likes Latin based words. Because it's a dead language, the meanings don't change/drift. Most scientific language can be deconstructed this way.