Blue_Morpho
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- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 14 hours ago:
Roberto Bolle wins unprecedented 17th championship against King Mouse in the Nutcracker cage match!
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 day ago:
Why won’t it be back in a week? There’s nothing stopping it from coming back.
- Comment on Repair Every Day, Not Just Earth Day 1 day ago:
Funny they show a toaster. Last year my toaster stopped so I opened it up to fix it. What “broke” was a surface mount IC. I gave up.
- Comment on US sets tariffs of up to 3521% on South East Asia solar panels 1 day ago:
Cheap Asian solar panels is literally handing free money to Americans.
Trump: “NOT ON MY WATCH!”
- Comment on He has risen 3 days ago:
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 5 days ago:
There are 2x as many Blacks in prison in the US as Uyghurs in China. But we don’t call it genocide just like we call our rich Billionaires instead of oligarchs. At least for now we can make fun of Trump without being arrested. But I don’t know how much longer that will last.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 5 days ago:
Tell it to the American Blacks in prison. Glass houses. We’re all bad.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 5 days ago:
America has a greater percentage of Americans locked up than China has Uyghurs locked up and we don’t have a Thorium reactor either.
- Comment on Dark chocolate Toblerone to be discontinued in UK due to ‘changing tastes’ 5 days ago:
That and shrinkflation. Cocoa prices are up and dark chocolate has more cocoa.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
I looked at the script and it’s not in My Cousin Vinny. Is it ad-libbed somewhere?
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 1 week ago:
I believe it came from the popularity of Jon Stewart who often uses it as a joke catch phrase.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catchphrase
People picked up on it and use it to imitate this style.
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
Ha! I have mechanical keyboards subbed and split keyboards subbed. Didn’t know of ergomechkeyboards. Thanks!
- Comment on I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses — here’s what happened 1 week ago:
Yeah, you can swap more on a framework laptop than the mini PC he’s using.
However glasses, a mini PC, keyboard and battery is smaller than a laptop. Using whatever keyboard you want instead of what came with the laptop for forever is also nice.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 1 week ago:
It’s not only a picture. It’s a picture with a description. It’s the starting point. You don’t start a painting by going from blank canvas to finished product. You start with a sketch.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Now imagine if ip laws were removed. Any company could take open source work and sell it as their own while ignoring any GPL that requires the source code to be distributed.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Mass production started long before cars. The industrial revolution began in the 17th century. Interchangeable parts was invented by Eli Whitney. He showed a flint lock that could be assembled by anyone, instead of a skilled metal worker that needed to customize each part so they fit together perfectly.
study.com/…/eli-whitney-interchangeable-parts-ove….
Outside of art, machine made parts are far more perfect than hand crafted.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
That was fine before mass production made perfect copies possible on an industrial scale.
You don’t need the person when you can copy the object and produce it at volume and scale because you already own the factories.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
My suggestion of a PO box had nothing to do with you personally.
It was simply a refutation of your claim that it was illegal to not have a permanent residence.
Erdős, one of the most famous mathematicians of all time didn’t have a permanent home. He travelled and stayed in the homes of other mathematicians and scientists.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
I don’t know about Chile but in the US you only need a PO box. I suspect Chile is the same because there’s probably a middle upper class that travels in mobile home/boats in retirement like in the US.
Requiring a way for society to communicate with an individual isn’t slavery.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
They run Linux but you don’t need to know anything. They work out of the box. Guides are for upgrading to different user interfaces. You do need to learn how to make a copy of anl micro SD card because the ones that ship with the devices are extremely low quality and will quickly fail. I use the one from Raspberry Pi. It’s for installing pi OS but it does anything. www.raspberrypi.com/software/
Installing a different OS on a hand held is only picking a different image file like Knulli or GarlicOS when copying onto an SD card.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
I was actually referring to the freedom to be a vagabond
I’m not sure how that relates to slavery. Freedom to be a vagabond still requires income from work.
- Comment on Interesting logic 1 week ago:
It wasn’t a refutation. It was added information.
- Comment on Interesting logic 1 week ago:
It’s really stupid to believe aliens visited earth given the size of the universe.
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs. 1 week ago:
Before Trump announced it publicly. Martha Stewart was jailed for less.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
Not owning a house is slavery? What country today or ever in history had guaranteed home ownership?
Ideally, land should not be owned. Land is kept from pure ownership in progressive states through property taxes. You are in effect only renting the land from the state but keep the right to not be removed and the right to sell it.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
Is there any country now or ever where you didn’t have to work until you died (on average) with a lottery (birth, talent, luck) that lets you be free by living off the work of everyone else?
Getting to choose your work has always been the only fredom.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
I have/had ( bought for friends or myself) Anbernic 35xx, 35xx SP, rg cube x, 351 mp.
There are so many variations that it’s really personal preference. Like are you doing 16:9 games or 4:3? I wanted something for old arcades like pacman and space invaders so I got the cube. That screen ratio also happens to work well for Gameboy
Yeah Miyoo only makes a vertical and a flip. Retro game corps says the flip has some quality control problems.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 1 week ago:
I have an RP3+ but after using it a while, Android is too much of a hassle.
Miyoo Mini or Anbery equivalents running Linux are so much easier. There’s no setup- just put your roms in a folder and go. I spent hours on the Retroid just trying to to get launchers looking nice and emulators configured.
But the critical feature Android will never have is fast boot. When you hit the power on the Miyoo it saves the game state and completely powers down. It doesn’t go to sleep like Android where the bat is dead a day later. The Miyoo will have power weeks later. And because it boots in 10 seconds right into the middle of the game exactly when you hit power off, it’s not a problem to wait for a full boot.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 1 week ago:
If I needed a painting of a bird, it would be much easier to show the artist a photo of a bird and then describe how my idea differs from the photo instead of spending hours describing to the artist what the bird in my mind should look like.
Bradley didn’t like that his boss wasn’t standing over his shoulder describing everything while Bradley sketched the picture.
The other artists in the article had valid points.
- Comment on ‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath 1 week ago:
So you would prefer lots of meetings, messages and redone work instead of someone showing you a picture that kind of represents what they want?
