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- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 6 hours ago:
LaQuisha. I think there was an apostrophe or two thrown in there but I don’t recall where or even the spelling exactly at that was ~26 years ago in highschool. I just recall the LaQ… There were several that I do not recall specifically ATM that seemed like their folks were trying to find the most unrelated syllables to link into a name. It was funny to me. It was a school in Tennessee designed for Uni prep that was supposed to uplift people in the surrounding poorer black community. There were several black students that acted like they always had a chip on their shoulder (aggravated, just looking for any excuse to argue or fight). These are the kids that typically had the most odd names. It was funny because I viewed them like the inverse of typical white trailer trash also present in the area but not at that school. The rednecks seemed to name all their kids some indecisive hyphenated name like Mary-Ann or Betty-Sue while the equivalently backwards black families went with stuff like Keishfonda and Quinmothy. Like y’all are doing the same thing thinking you’re different.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 6 hours ago:
Brownie
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's cofounder removed from Senate in Gaza protest 1 day ago:
Yup, I hate the Nazi race, and I’m proud of that. Fuck Nazis and all murderers of innocent people, and all labels used to justify such behavior in a disordered mind. I practice what I preach. I abandoned my toxic mysticism based heritage I was born into that is used for murder. It isn’t racist. It is simply doing the right thing. If you cannot see that, you are the disordered racist.
- Comment on Ben & Jerry's cofounder removed from Senate in Gaza protest 1 day ago:
Thank you for posting this. I have never felt hate for a race of people like I hate what Israel has done. All the crap about their history is turgid to me at this point and I have absolutely zero sympathy for any of them now. As humans sure, but as Jews, that identity is only tied to monstrous atrocities and killing of innocent people. If I were a Jew I would disown that heritage and history like if my grandparents were Nazis. I have no sympathy for Nazis just the same. Starving people to death is worse than the concentration camps of WWII. If you want anything to do with a people that act like that under the same religious banner, fuck you. It is only a prejudice social network like all other religions. It is a collective imaginary friend that real people use as an excuse to kill. Grow up and leave the dark ages of human primitivism and stop the stupidity cycle or your children’s children will kill just the same regardless of your present perspective. It is ultimately a cowardly continuation of the familiar and inability to escape the things you learned and accepted when you were a gullible child.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 days ago:
Thanks for the cross post.
Citations needed on mod tool complaints. I mod one of the largest communities on Lemmy. In 2 years I’ve had around a couple dozen times that required actual mod stuff. The tools are perfectly adequate for the volume of users in my opinion.
We all took it a little hard when some regular users left. I get that. There will always be people coming and going for various reasons.
There is also always an issue with narcissists that tend to get involved with moderating for the wrong reasons.
All humans are lazy at times. And all of us have a right to pick up an leave if we choose. Blaming the tools as a scapegoat for one’s laziness, or inadequacy, or to mask one’s financial limitations, seems to me like a narcissistic way to toss in the towel and check out, like an attempt to drag others down too.
I wish those that want to leave all the best, and I’ll still be here hanging around if you ever want to come back, friend. Regardless , thanks for what you contributed to this place in the time we spent as digital neighbors.
- Comment on Laptop GPU water cooler mod phase-1 working 4 days ago:
I was also working on dialing in the finest details I can achieve with a 0.25mm nozzle and polycarbonate
I had to build my printer enclosure to print these in PC too.
PC/ABS blend is what the laptop’s enclosure is made from too. I’ve already tested with CNN loads that saturate to the point of throttling, and prints are totally unphased.
- Submitted 5 days ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 1 week ago:
This is a surveillance state and this man should be run out of town or stoned for suggesting such authoritarian nonsense. Such deranged overreach is disgusting the the duty of everyone to fight against.
- Comment on rawdogging it 1 week ago:
It is a rape adaptation… so
- Comment on When did I get so old 1 week ago:
Scientists: ^(hold^ ^beer)^ …
- Comment on What is the dead-simple(est) way to onboard compeltely new people to Lemmy/Feddy 1 week ago:
Share something useful from Lemmy with someone not on Lemmy, when that something does not also contain toxic negativity or vitriol, but is positive, inclusive, and cordial.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
You are a child that cannot handle being wrong, but you are and you have no argument or you would make one. Block me as I have done you. I do not care to engage with children of any age.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
Have you ever worked in industry. I spent a couple of years as an operating engineering out of local 12. I worked at asphalt plants and a groundman and loader operator. Most heavy equipment is basically a rental contract with caterpillar or whatever manufacturer. Once the operation is above a certain size, the company is in a position to negotiate contracts that are tens of millions of dollars or more. When a loader or other equipment has an issue, the cat rep sends their team in to do the fix. The only things that are done on site are basic filters maintenance type stuff and when the contract is up, the equipment is replaced.
In this situation, there is no potential for exploitation because ownership was never part of the equation. There is no room for manipulation because the contract covers everything except basic maintenance. This system is already feudalism. When a feudal lord interactions with another feudal lord, of course they can come to terms because they each posses considerable power. The stupid peasantry has no such negotiable position. Our only power us in democracy where we become the largest feudal power against exploitation. This is how the real big picture world works. There have been various democracies in the past where citizens had power against exploitation, and all of those were fumbled by idiots and fools that allowed consolidation of wealth and assumed that giving power to potential exploitation was okay and that those in power would do the right thing. This NEVER turns out to be the case. Ownership IS democracy and a founding principal of autonomy and self determinism. People that fail to realize this critical factor are ushering in a neo dark age in the exact same fashion as what created the last. The future will look back on our era dumbfounded about epic and unrivalled stupidity of the people that ended post WW2 democracy by just giving it away for nothing of substance. It is unfathomable brain rot on epic scales.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
It is quite a bit different in robotics like this. Check out James Bruton on YT for a practical example of open source larger robotics. www.youtube.com/channel/UCUbDcUPed50Y_7KmfCXKohA
The motors used are almost always brushes because of the speeds accuracy and torque required. That means everything has software and electronics. This stuff gets very complicated fast. Most traditional auto makers are also outsourcing most of their software development and certainly not full stack or ground up oriented. This kind of thing needs to be designed from the start with every potential feature and future thing as part if the initial project. These types of things cannot be expanded easily. Like this is why China is actually good at EVs because they invested in building the whole thing from the bottom up the eight way, instead of hack patching garbage and outsourcing.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
This isn’t internal combustion. Every motor drive will be unique. Robotics are nothing like cars or motorcycles. I’m excellent at working on cars. I’m pretty good with electronics. I mean my bedroom is a Maker lab set up for design and etching my own circuit boards and I have messed around with robotics a bit. I have also ported heads for nostalgia drag, pit for unlimited class sprint, and owned an auto body shop building my hotrod stuff on the side and owned a couple bikes.
I’m saying, in the real world, shit happens and that adds intelligent perspective on how you’d look at a thing like this when real world stuff has happened. It is hyperbolic for illustrative purpose.
Such a complex system will inevitable be connected to the internet. Anything that needs dealer support as a crutch is not owned by the end user. If this is not fully transparent and open from the start, it is means of exploitation. Only fools trust others to do the right thing or care about track records so far. That is feudalism and will result in the dark ages exactly like it did in the past. There is no reason for any consumer to trust if an honest product is sold. Honest products are completely open source and parts can be second sourced from an independent vendor unrelated to the manufacturer and anyone can potentially replicate the parts and sell them. There cannot be any single choke point where if some asshat quits supporting or goes out of business the hardware that people paid for fails. Trust inevitable leads to this stupidity and to exploitation of the built in leverage. It is corporate piracy in the end and that has to stop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
English was keep cut from the curriculum.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 1 week ago:
I see right to repair nightmare. It’s basically disposable.
- Ask your shade tree mechanic about fixing this one.
- I have one that has been sitting in my garage for three years untouched and won’t start - best offer
- it rides fine there is just a small screeching sound in reverse
- sometimes it powers off suddenly and collapses at 30 MPH
- previous owner used it on the snow/beach
- it fell in the pool once
- it doesn’t have a charger
- it gets really hot while charging
If every instance above is not a giant red flag you’d walk away from, I have a great deal on a bridge to sell you. It is a novelty at best and worthless on any second hand market other than the dealer itself which is basically slavery for the average person. There is not a single standardized part that can be second sourced on such a toy. When the manufacturer no longer supports it, the thing will be disposable. So from a dystopian burn down the world perspective this is a great leap forward. Super cool concept, but unless there is real universal parts standardisation and the thing is fully open sourced, this is like everything that is wrong with the world right now; neo feudalism.
- Comment on What is this for? (Wrong answers only) 2 weeks ago:
Emergency overflow underwear filler
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of citations to things like Britannica from 1911 that is archived and public domain.
- Comment on At least 4,500 Americans per year die from hydroxyl acid exposure 2 weeks ago:
base - Comment on Instant rotten milk 2 weeks ago:
I eat cereal with water daily. It is not bad. The trick is to dial in the amount to barely wet the cereal but leave nothing at the end. I use a 1/4 cup measure. Like every morning is 1/4cup of iron fortified ‘Os’, little honey drizzle, 1/4 cup of: peanuts, fruit and nut trail-mix, and 3/4 cup of granola cereal. That is actually better than anything I ever had when eating dairy. You won’t have sinus junk after, and you’ll likely have less inflammation related issues, pain, plus feel a little better.
I tried ditching dairy for temporarily for two weeks to see how I felt. That was around 4 years ago; never went back.
A broken neck and back are uncommon like the source of my chronic pain. So your results may vary on that front.
- Comment on Choose one 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t owned, tack, framing, electrician, blacksmith, chasing, power, rock, and scaling. I have failed. I must do better.
I used to collect a lot for auto body stuff. Odd hammer head shapes make handy dollys for shaping metal in weird places.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Nailed it.
In that case use clippers and a small sanding stick.
- Comment on At some point, kids watching older cartoons will no longer understand why putting a thermometer under a desk lamp was a way to skip school. 2 weeks ago:
I had an ice bath once at 107, shit, and I don’t even remember why
- Comment on Trying to avoid antitrust suits, Google senior executives told employees to destroy messages 2 weeks ago:
Musk is still free and has been openly doing this with self driving junk for years. This is the USA where we haven’t had reasonable laws passed since the 1970s.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 weeks ago:
5 is definitely the best. It offers a thicker handle edge for cutting and did not require a stamping bend on thinner material to add rigidity. The rounded head and outer tines serve two purposes. One it offers a smaller controlled side contact like the profile of a chef’s knife that will focus more force at the contact point allowing for better contact with the plate and shearing more efficiently. Second, the rounded outer edge will fit the contour of a bowl allowing a fork to efficiently manage rice or other small items down to the last bite with nothing remaining. The larger outer tines and shorter overall length is also more durable and resistant to bending. It cost far more to make number 5 and the design functionality came ahead of the operations cost, and materials stock selection. All of the others were made according to the minimum number of forming operations and thin stock.
- Comment on me_irl 3 weeks ago:
I don't commute or ride in traffic any more. I have no margin left. My last hit was in early 2014. Bosch drive e-bikes became retail available around the summer of 2013 in south Orange County California, and were not present in substantial numbers until around 2018.
Now, drivers are much more aware of faster bikes in bike lanes. In all the crashes I was in between 2009 and 2014, I was even faster than most e-bikes are now, but I was an extreme anomaly in that respect. Bikes were not super rare on the road, but racers on general roads commuting have always been rare. Like if you’re going to train, it is not on the surface streets. Several of my crashes were from a time when I rode a 33 mile route each way to and from work 5-6 days a week. I’m one of the most hardcore all-weather, nothing-stops-me roadies you’ll ever meet. Like I ride home with broken bones just to say I made it. Anyways, I’m on a tangent. On the road, around unpredictable drivers, my rather rare speed led to crashes. I had hundreds, if not thousands, of near misses. I had 6 crashes from cars in 150k miles of riding and have had none since. I am at around 250k now. I’m a lot slower by average speed, and I never ride around traffic like I did back then. Both of my bad crashes were from someone making an illegal u-turn. That is the one event where intuition lies and there is nothing a person can do to escape. It looks exactly like all of the hundreds of times when someone has pulled out in front of you and cut you off. So you instinctively swerve, but as you do so, the car keeps going and closes the escape route faster than the brain will reprocess the inputs. It is no different for a driver in a passing car. The worst scenario is being on a bike, right behind that passing car, and being as fast as the cars on a slight down hill when someone pulls a sudden u-turn into a passing SUV. That is what got me. The car in front of me was doing 35mph and never braked. It was a Jeep Grand Cherokee t-boning a Mitsubishi Montero. I know all about it from court stuff, but I went black retroactively to the moment I merged behind the Jeep until I was in the ICU 3 hours later. I braked according to witnesses, but my Garmin GPS computer showed I made contact at 29.7mph. I was folded in half backwards. All but one of my crashes were like that, where it was absolutely due to errors of dumb drivers. All were also in the most southern parts of Orange County CA, in smaller areas with poor infrastructure. At the time, I rode mostly in more developed areas of city with better infrastructure and those are generally much safer. I had a lot of close calls in those areas but they are usually avoidable within the space available, unlike people that get lost or are dopey on the fringes where there is no proper infrastructure.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 3 weeks ago:
I totally respect anyone that chooses to limit their perspective scope.
For me, everything in life is a messy statistical abstraction. I would not go out of my way to make decisions or inconvenience myself in instances where I see vectors of negativity and small errors in ethical disposition. These are simply elements I passively note, and when faced with a choice, such past occurrences will weigh into my decisions.
For me, I struggle to recall specifics like memorized trivia, instances of certain behaviors, or even people’s names in conversational real time. I can recall most of this information if I try, but I must focus on it to do so. I instantly have access to my abstracted thoughts and oversimplifications that exist on something like a three dimensional roadmap. When I note these types of behaviors, it is like I am painting a picture of what driving down a familiar street feels like, and I remember that picture and place well, only that imagery is the actions of the person. It takes me a while to think about all the features that make up that place, but I know where I am and what that means just by visiting. The person is not any feature but an ambiance that exists in my mind. It is their identity to me. I may not recall the name feature well, but this is not who they are to me; they are an abstraction like everything else; a likely set of probabilities, but one where I’m always curious how they evolve or add new features. No one is static after all, unless they are dead. Still I weigh negative vectors into those statistics objectively and make predictions based upon them.
- Comment on Tit 4 Tat +10% is like a proof that the moral high ground is the most successful long term strategy in life 3 weeks ago:
It depends on how you abstract. I believe that small patterns are strongly indicative of larger patterns. My life experiences have largely reflected this pattern. All of my worst business encounters were with people that cheated on their partners in their personal life. They ultimately showed the same types of behavior in business. The best people I have worked for were exactly the opposite. This includes both while running my own business for years and many people I have worked for as an employee.
The concept is also an extension of my realization that anyone that likes to talk about everyone else negatively at work when one on one, is doing the exact same thing with every other individual when I am not around and is saying the same negative stuff about me. Such a person appears to be everyone’s friend on a personal level, but is actually stabbing everyone in the back equally to elevate themselves and increase their own awareness of weaknesses they might highlight or play against others. The act of talking negatively about everyone else is a strike or vector that will later manifest if given the opportunity or under pressure.
I am metaphorically applying Newton’s premise that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, to the probability of future human behavior. If the person indicates a certain vector of thought that causes damage, they tilt the scales of future interaction and are therefore some degree more likely than not to produce a suboptimal future compared to others with a more positive track record, character, and ethics.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
