hoplophobia

talk about medicalizing/pathologizing your political enemies

In 1997, Cooper wrote that he coined the term hoplophobia in 1962 “in response to a perceived need for a word to describe a mental aberration consisting of an unreasoning terror of gadgetry, specifically, weapons.”

In 1991, Cooper wrote in Guns & Ammo magazine that “no more than five to ten people in a hundred who die by gunfire in Los Angeles are any loss to society. These people fight small wars amongst themselves. It would seem a valid social service to keep them well-supplied with ammunition.” In 1994, Cooper said “Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City have declared themselves sister cities. It makes sense: they are both Third World metropolises formerly occupied by Americans.”

Going to start accusing capitalists of koinoniophobia, a word I just made up for “fear of sharing.”

They’re right, though? It’s weird to emphasize the “gun” part of “electron gun,” as if a magnet that beams electrons onto a screen were anything like an actual firearm.

HackerNews is basically “we have ArsTechnica at home” (and Ars isn’t really a catch anymore anyway); it doesn’t surprise me that the place is clogged with reddit pedants.

if people weren’t afraid of guns, then limpdicks would not collect them, what is he even talking about

straight to the :gulag: do not pass go do not collect $200.

In their defense, that person is saying the stupidest shit imaginable.

Literally no one cared about going 240+hz before digital display signaling because crts weren’t showing you an image that flickered 30-80 times a second, they were showing you one that flowed between frames at a rate of 30-80 times a second.

Analog raster signaling on a crt (say, yellow wire to your childhood bedroom tv) works by drawing enough lines to fill the screen, doing whatever you need to do after, doing whatever you need to do before, then repeating the process. You don’t draw the lines as fast as you can, wait however many microseconds it takes to get to the next frame then repeat because theres parts of the signal that aren’t drawn and you’re driving an electron gun, the analog raster signal is what would be used (at different voltages) to feed into the electron gun to make the visible image.

There’s no need to hurry up and draw the image then wait till the next frame because the signal to display isn’t there yet and if it were it would mean you’re running the display and source at different speeds (a sync rate mismatch).

Packetized digital signaling on a flat panel display(say, hdmi to your 50”) on the other hand, sends all the data for part of an image to be shown to the display, which then draws it as fast as it can and waits for the next one. It can do this because rather than sweeping an electron beam across the back of the screen to make phosphors emit photons, it either opens or closes tiny shutters in front of a big light source or turns on and off many tiny light sources. That operation can be (and must be, with digital packetized signalling) done independently of the frame rate that’s being transmitted. Because it’s much faster to open or close millions of tiny shutters or switch on and off millions of tiny light sources, whole frames appear relatively instantaneously as opposed to flowing one into another.

The effect (which you can observe by pointing a high speed camera at both types of display/signal combination and “tuning the speed to see it) is one of a smoother transition on the analog raster crt and a strobe light with varying dwell time on the digital flat panel.

Tldr; flat panels use the same technology that is deployed at shows to disorient and distort your perception, CRTs use the same technology that they put in neonatal wards to calm babies.