A brave drone operator’s struggle with guilt and despair as she/they drop the bomb onto an all girls school mislabeled as an airforce base.

Swelling music as she stares at a picture of her own daughter while the burning bodies of the children play on a monitor just slightly out of focus behind her.

Even better.

The only thing cooler than Americans embracing green energy is Americans embracing illegalism.

Greeted as Liberators

assigns them a score if a citizen walks on the sidewalk correctly

Funny story about Jaywalking

The automobile lobby in the US took up the cause of labeling and scorning jaywalkers in the 1910s and early 1920s. In 1912, for instance, Popular Mechanics magazine reported that the term was current in Kansas City: “The city pedestrian who cares not for traffic regulations at street corners, but strays all over the street, crossing in the middle of the block, or attempting to save time by choosing a diagonal route across a street intersection instead of adhering to the regular crossing, is designated as a ‘jay walker,’ in Kansas City.”

In 1915, when New York City’s police commissioner Arthur Woods sought to apply the word “jaywalker” to anyone who crossed the street at mid-block, the New York Times protested, calling it “highly opprobrious” and “a truly shocking name.”

Originally in the US, the legal rule was that “all persons have an equal right in the highway, and that in exercising the right each shall take due care not to injure other users of the way”. In time, however, streets became the province of vehicular traffic, both practically and legally.

Anyway, enjoy your hyper-criminalized car culture hellscape while making spooky fingers about Evil Foreign Country.

Isn’t that just a modern Tesla at this point?

5 minutes to get it to 70% capacity, with a battery that drives several hundred miles on a charge.

But if you’re at the mall and there’s a charging station, you can plug it in and refill it while you do your shopping.

Truth Sparkler

The Mayor Pete of Silicon Valley

Well, you can’t see it, because the US won’t let you buy one

They’re fully in thrall to market forces. Those forces simply dictate that they lobby for protected markets. It’s far cheaper to buy off a lobbyist than to build a cutting edge battery factory

they were within their rights to refuse to do business with the US government, and I don’t agree that the response to them refusing it should be the US government blacklist their company

I mean… you want to refuse business but you don’t want to be refused business?

How does that work?

They’re just trying to get clicks. It’s attention seeking behavior, not real concern for public policy.

FIRE has always been a corporate friendly libertarian-right organization. They post this stuff because they need to appear relevant to their sponsors.

Or it wasn’t. Very possible he was simply gifted the NFT and lied about the price.

A bunch of the early 20s NFT sales were wash sales

Gen Z kids can’t read these days.

Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him without getting a cut of the action?

You claim Trump is dumber than Bush, and yet Trump has made billions while President compared to Bush who only made hundreds of millions.

Hell, I’m beginning to think Cheney was dumber than Trump, at least on these grounds.

Who is going to remove it? Trump’s friend Tim Cook? Trump’s friend Jeff Bezos? Trump’s friend Sundar Pichai? Or Trump’s friend Satya Nadella?

So yes, you can visit your favorite blog, but its still not the same as it was in the 90s or early 00s.

It absolutely is. I might argue podcasts have kinda usurped the old blogging space (or, at least, supplanted it). But I’ve got an RSS feed full of blogs I follow that are barely different that what I was looking at 30 years ago. The 90s is alive on Feedly.

Fucken computers bullshit, its fucken sick

Lolz.

One method was to lower the quality of inputs. Plywood instead of hardwood. Then fiberboard/chipboard instead of plywood.

In fairness, hardwood is in limited supply. It takes a long time to produce, is expensive to harvest correctly, and typically means demolishing old growth forests to obtain. The “lower quality” products definitely have their trade-offs, but a lot of the quality issues are resolved through engineering improvements and materials sciences.

I would argue the real downside of lower quality inputs is the advent of “disposable” furniture (the IKEA brand crap most notably). Stuff that could have been designed to last, but isn’t, and ends up in landfills after moving day as a result. Rather than a savings yield, what you get is a waste surplus.

And later, CNC machines stepped in to produce delicate and complicated designs in a fraction of the time - and frequently even more precisely and more cleanly - than anyone with a carving chisel could do.

And that is the part which is NOT being effectively duplicated in IT.

Lolwhut? We’ve come so far even in the last ten years, in terms of IDEs, deployment pipelines, and automated unit testing.