SlopppyEngineer
@SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 10 months ago:
No need for /s because that’s exactly how it works.
“If you hate the right people and say the right things, you are Good People, and Good People can’t do no wrong. If you’re not one of the Good People, you can do no right. Laws and rationalizations are there to punish those that are not Good People.”
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 10 months ago:
Funny how this is a Twitter post as half of all satellites orbiting earth (5581 out of 11300) are owned by Musk.
- Comment on The Jebus Said So. 10 months ago:
And at worst send death threats if somebody else posts things not to their liking, because freeze peach.
- Comment on Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine 10 months ago:
And some just define “research” as clicking the next video in the recommendation list, a list carefully crafted by an algorithm to keep people engaged by feeding more of the same.
- Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit 10 months ago:
Hydrogen cars and trains.
- Comment on Tesla Lied To Customers, Blaming Them For Shoddy Parts The Company Knew Were Defective 10 months ago:
Musk often operated using the “better forgiveness than permission” policy
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 10 months ago:
Big difference between having a conversation and having a media company distributing propaganda.
- Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times 11 months ago:
The limits are only your imagination.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Except Tesla’s uncle had brain damage and doesn’t really learn from the situation so will go it again, and had clones of him driving thousands of other cars.
- Comment on It's almost impossible to deny being an alcoholic without sounding like an alcoholic 11 months ago:
I need some alcohol at least once pretty month.
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 11 months ago:
Turns out there are after market mods for that. Spoiler, other front, flame paint job
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 11 months ago:
That thing’s front and back are exactly the same. It saves on fabrication costs to use the same part but it gives a weird look.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
not as fun as Reddit used to be
Reddit isn’t as fun as Reddit used to be either
- Comment on Fear of cheap Chinese EVs spurs automaker dash for affordable cars 11 months ago:
Citroën Ami is available. Closer to $8000 and technically a quadricycle. All bare minimum to make it street legal.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
India, China and Nigeria.
So yeah, that voting for Brexit “to keep our brown people” didn’t turn out like they thought it would.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 11 months ago:
Brexit was the best experiment for that. They kick immigrants out so all jobs went to the local population. People didn’t want them, produce was left in the fields, deliveries were not made, tables were not waited on and some companies folded. Anyway, immigration is now back and higher than it used to be, but from other countries.
- Comment on Every sign has a story 11 months ago:
All because of that guy
- Comment on Radical Honesty 11 months ago:
Meanwhile in Romania there is a measles epidemic because less people vaccinate their children.
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 11 months ago:
Everybody forgot that chatGPT-2 was just a bullshitting machine. Version 3 to the surprise of the developers very useful to many people while they just made a highly trained bullshitting machine.
- Comment on Let us Unionize even harder 11 months ago:
The guy is channeling Galadriel: “All shall love me and despair!”
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 11 months ago:
For a lot of producers, that’s not even true for ICE cars anymore. More safety features and emission regulations make them more expensive to produce relative to larger cars.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
Let’s see some numbers that ads work.
Companies have tested this. A DIY chain ran an ad and people complained it was annoying, so they stopped running it. Their sales started to decline. Started running the ad again and sales went up.
Probably you’re not the target audience and just collateral damage in the ad war, but for the population in general they work.
- Comment on Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout, some stores removing them 11 months ago:
Self checkout is often not the quick option for me. Accidental double scans, coupons, random tests all requiring assistance who is already occupied make waiting behind an old person a more consistent experience.
- Comment on Automakers must build cheaper, smaller EVs to spur adoption, report says 11 months ago:
Small cars, small profits.
- Comment on A Googler who just resigned after 18 years reflects on the decline of the company he loved 11 months ago:
Now you have to convince millions of people to give you funding
There are examples of people doing this. Cooperatives can be owned by the workers or by the customers. They’re usually cheaper too.
They don’t have the “move fast and break things” mentality however because by nature they don’t have a billionaire sponsors, so it’s harder to complete in a venture capitalist world. It’s when big money dries up, like the great depression, when you’ll see them popping up.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
- Comment on It would have to be a VERY lazy dog to allow a fox to jump over it anyway. 11 months ago:
Because I use the only one that I can remember.
- Comment on Microplastic overdose 11 months ago:
It’s why the EU voted in regulations today against single use packaging despite howls of protest from the fast food industry.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 11 months ago:
And remove daylight saving time. Now I have to explain that yes, the report is correct and there were in fact 25 hours on that day.
- Comment on Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for. 11 months ago:
Or you’d make every season and quarter just three months and one week. Seems easy enough to work with.
