This is really cool, but it would have been cooler if they’d named their scouting missions Hugin and Mugin, since they’re Odin’s ravens that scour the earth for secrets to give to Odin.

Yep, that’s me. You could probably find a few more good examples of me stepping in shit on Hexbear, that’s hardly the first.

You’re not really using the fediverse until you’ve been told that you’ll get the bullet, too. Sometimes, it’s exhausting commenting something pretty uncontroversial and then seeing like eight notifications and realizing it was on Hexbear.

This is a mixed bag. Where I get lukewarm is that I’m convinced it’s going to come down to a shooting fight with the fascists at some point, and I’d rather that the people who are not fascists be able to educate and arm themselves appropriately. Don’t bring sticks and bricks to a gun fight and all that.

Hey, thanks for the advice. If I have some free time and spare gumption, I’ll definitely give it a go. If that happens, I’ll let you know what comes of it.

Not op, I got a free Ender 3 from a frustrated co-worker, and am now the frustrated co-worker. I’ve tried getting a new glass print surface, tried using glue sticks, tried changing print temps and speeds, tried levelling and re-levelling and re-levelling the bed, but I just can’t get the print to stick for love or money. It’s now been re-homed to the garage, as a parking obstacle for my bicycle.

I love 4x games, but playing a game of Stellaris for a week or more just to realize that I’ve inescapably fucked up and lost the game is disheartening. I just don’t have the bandwidth to spend 40 hours per match. Yeah, you can make 4x games run a lot shorter, but it usually feels like you’re doing something crazy to the game.

I’ve really been waiting for gas stations to jump in on this. Tying it to vehicle manufacturers just doesn’t make that much sense to me, not nearly as much sense as using the companies whose mission is already to deliver energy to vehicles. You need a tiny fraction of the infra for electric charging that you need to supply gas. Shell or Chevron could EASILY ink deals with, say, Starbucks, to put one or two chargers in every Starbucks parking lot in the country and just sit back and laugh as the money rolls in. And yet, they just keep pushing for exclusively fossil fuels.

AFAICT, the charger network is a huge part of Tesla’s value proposition. Laying off the entire 500 person team like this is going to be a massive, massive disruption no matter what anyone says, you can’t just patch it with [checks notes] an entirely different team. It’s going to take that new team months to get up to date, put out fires, find their bearings, etc. and by that point, issues are already snowballing. The rapport and contacts problem is also going to be enormous; basically shit canning all of the company’s industry/logistics ambassadors is what, in any other light, would be called a disaster. This is going to be a clusterfuck, and that’s before any competitors interested in starting their own charger network start scooping these newly available specialists up.

It’s incredible to see this man still idolized, even by bosses and other execs, as he tanks not just one but two household name businesses AT THE SAME TIME.

All answers to the FP boil down to one of three Fs.

We’re first, we’re few, or we’re fucked.

Lae’zel being a Bronie is permanent headcanon for me now.

Lawsuits in flight shouldn’t be able to be shot down by laws. I’ve seen global companies will worm their way out of lawsuits this way. It’s fuckin’ whack.

Before Quora went to absolute dog shit and you could actually get real, good answers to real, good questions, I remember a question was asked about tax cuts and a business exec gave a really insightful answer. They basically said “no, tax cuts on businesses don’t create jobs or boost pay. If we hire somebody, it’s because we need someone to do this work; we’re not going to hire people just because we have money laying around. We people based on the salary we negotiate with them, not based on how much extra cash we have laying around. Tax cuts are really just a giveaway for the investors and c-suite.” Mind you, they weren’t taking a moral position about tax cuts, just telling it like it is: business tax cuts don’t create jobs and don’t raise pay, about the only thing they do is increase investor returns. All you have to do is look at the massive wave of stock buybacks that happened in the wake of the Trump tax cuts.

Everyone with any insight into the business world knows this. The business leaders know it, Congress knows it, it’s probably one of the bigger scams in US politics, and that’s saying something.

Private gun ownership is legal in the US, and the reason the people who wrote the constitution put it in there wasn’t for blowing up Tannerite and posting it to Facebook.

Article drama aside, we’ve seen this strat before with mixed results. In '16, the democrats bet big that MAGA would be more unpalatable to voters than HRC and corporatist Democrats, and got everybody (including themselves) punched in the fucking mouth for it. Slow clap, you guys, never going to let you live that down. However, since '20, MAGA has been underperforming, particularly anyone not Trump. Boebart managed to make one of the safest seats in Colorado into a narrow race, and there were multiple elections where mainstream GOP candidates won the governorship while downticket maga reactionaries fared twenty points worse and lost.

So, seeing the DNC do it again is kinda like… Wasn’t getting burned once enough for you guys? But I also see why they’re banking on MAGA underporforming-- because it has been. Idk, just seems insane to me to risk the future of the country boosting these fucking assholes; let us not forget that the HRC campaign boosting DJT in '16 is part of the reason we’re in this mess in the first place.

Ah yes, state primaries are the real general election.

Can you explain what you mean? I don’t think I understand

The tl;Dr answer is build more housing. The long answer is that we need better urbanism. Our cities are awful, and have been for a long time, and the best and worst part is that it’s a consequence of seventy years of deliberate and terrible policy choices. It’s terrible because we’ve been choosing for almost a century to have the shittiest cities in the developed world while thinking that it’s completely normal. It’s great because the problem really is as simple as working to reverse these policy choices and their consequences.

This subject really deserves its own book (or even series), but the series that NotJustBikes did with StrongTowns is a good place to start.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa&si=R2TD6rICxWvUAIvs

We can have more affordable, more livable cities, it’s just a matter of making those choices. The great news is that for most Americans, these aren’t policy choices that are as out of reach as, say, universal healthcare. A lot of these policies are controlled at a municipal or county level, and can be affected by your city council. Try showing up to a meeting once in a while and making a public comment; they don’t know what people want without us telling them, and the people who want awful cities are vastly overrepresented. It’s easier than you think and the cops can’t stop you.

Oh, crap. I voted for this, and I didn’t realize this happened. I’m in favor of more housing across the board, but shifting the money to locked psych facilities just to add more three day hold capacity is not what I meant to vote for.

I’m going to my city council and encouraging them to engage in rezoning and get more housing built that isn’t just expensive ass single family homes. Everyone reading this can do it too, the police can’t stop you.