Honestly, that’s all they’re good for: creating paranoia/terror/nervousness in the subject. Go read the ‘how to beat a polygraph’ book. Knowledge is calming.

Also? It’s not anything to do with symptoms showing stronger on baseline questions. The only big giveaway is breathing. I work in the medical field. Blood pressure, heart rate, bla bla bla… they all vary with frequencies and magnitudes that don’t allow them to be filtered from responses that do signify anything. The only vital sign that has a low enough rate for changes to really be detected is how often you take a breath. If you control that, the game is over. A really observant tester watching a testee attempting (poorly) to mask breathing rate may notice something is off, but it’s still a judgement call whether it’s due to nervousness and the attempt to calm down, or actual deception.

The best way to ‘pass’ a polygraph is to be just nice/cute enough to get the tester to like you somewhat, and then control your breathing. The proper test has them talking to you for at least a half hour beforehand so they can ‘get an idea’ about you, so you have plenty of time to be friendly. Take advantage of that. There is some nice research out there about self-disclosures and their effect on being liked. If they see a pattern that could be you being nervous, could be you trying to deceive, being liked will tip them towards the kinder perception.

Meanwhile, I’ve told the absolute truth and failed. Polygraphs are dumb as shit.

Heh, the amerikkkan answer is simple: don’t let them rent next to you. They’ve accomplished it by ridiculous rent prices, charging inmates to be in jail (so they come out with debt), and shackling them to low paying jobs.

sometimes nvidia drivers are in a state that breaks display reinit on wake from sleep

Hmm, got a question for you about that. What did that appear as for you? Just a black screen and nothing else if it went to sleep?

I had a recently installed app fuck something in my settings so my display is going to sleep after 10 minutes, and when I wake it up I get a normal appearing lock screen with a login. If I login, the screen goes black and all I can see is the mouse cursor. I think about 1 time in 10 it will have no issues and I get back to whatever I’m doing.

I didn’t start with manjaro, but it was the only one that seemed to play nice with my system and programs out of the five or so I tried. I’ve never had an issue with it after 2 years, so… eh?

current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what’s good and what’s bad almost from scratch

While that’s horrifying, I wonder if it could offer a glimpse into ways to get rid of allergies.

so instead they bribed lots of game developers to make things Epic exclusive.

Fuck Epic. I just lost the ability to play rocket league because they bought the developers, ripped it off of steam, and now force you to agree to some wickedly invasive TOS to have an epic account.

Plot twist, that’s just the furry and his long-term lover just activated the remote controlled tail buttplug he has in.

I wonder if the media would ever have the balls to call out what, and more importantly why it was happening, or would they all bow and kowtow even further.

I hate you for the title, but I hate AP even more for such a clickbaity bullshit title that you had to copy.

Lol, every other capital gets named, but Minnesota’s. Was this one not in Saint Paul?

Which one? I see three in the last 12 years. I’m guessing it’s the 2024 one?

I’m pulling numbers from the vagaries of books and articles read years ago, so accuracy probably isn’t great on that.

From the wikipedia page, it looks like there’s a fair bit of controversy about what polling really means, what it’s collecting, and whether it’s worth anything at all, but estimates for splits on the political divide definitely and routinely place more people on the liberal side than conservative, at ratios as incredible [in a ‘whoah, really’ way more than me caring, just because it seems like we have a 1:1:1 split of Dem/Rep/don’t-give-a-fuck in voting numbers) as 28:1 in some places (New England, apparently).

There are enough already in those positions. Even heavily biased industries rarely get close to being dominated by one political party. The ‘liberal white towers’ of academia are only something like 1:6 Dem/left:Rep/right, and that’s usually one of the extremes that republicans bitch about. They’d bitch about other industries if they were anywhere close. I would bet there are enough lackeys and people who feel neutral that the oh-so-important people don’t feel much negative blowback.

Who are these people working at “DOGE” anyway? Is it that fresh high school graduate kid? Are they still doing the “80 hour weeks” without pay?

I mean, he loosed war pretty early, so it wasn’t that long according to what you say.

Post passive aggressive notes as often as you can, make big honking stinkin posts screaming about the injustice, and eventually make a new community on a different instance, I guess. Just from observational experience.

In this instance, we have an incompetent fool full of hatred at the top of the little hill of vile snakes. One incompetent fool who removed (or made leave, same difference in the end) the head of the agency that makes sure horror shows like this don’t happen. That just makes it worse. Let him stay in his little nest and rot.

To me, the right person is my neighbors, friends, or maybe family. If any politician more removed than the city council wanted to do or say something, I’d rightly think it’s just them posturing. They can shut the fuck up and vote/pass some aid measures.

It’s depressing how, in order to surpass how things are going now, the things I come up with are basically all from some semblance of dystopian horror stories.