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7bicycles ,

One of the worst things you can do to the environment folks. Don’t bear children. Don’t invite another being into this madness and suffering.

As is continuing to live so why don’t you follow through on that line of thought here

7bicycles ,

very-intelligent

7bicycles ,

[dracula flow voice]: I’m getting more ass than a bizarre sea worm

7bicycles ,

I know this isn’t a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meme but it is a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meme

7bicycles ,

They’re like both not wrong

7bicycles ,

Like me personally or like societally?

7bicycles ,

This bears mentioning but tbh that’s still a windmill slamdunk on John Oliver there.

7bicycles ,

galaxy-brain: don’t even talk to your advisors, just hand in a finished PDF

7bicycles ,

My dad had to mow the lawn when I was away or heavily distracted because I’d cry about the dandelions and daisies being cut down lol

Still irks me to this day when I have to do it.

7bicycles ,

Given the climate collapse I figure we’ll both lead lives that will eventually lead us to Highlander-Dueling it out over the last dandelion and what to do with it

7bicycles ,

Maybe let that one stay a memory unless Gran’s still there and should be visited, I have an inkling it’s going to be disappointing

7bicycles ,

I’m like 50:50 on whether I’ll live to see the FRONTEX Iron Curtain because given what the EU is, where do you go from here? I mean you’re not going to un-neoliberal the EU so I’m kind of wondering what the options here are

7bicycles ,

Buddy the other option here is not them managing to deal with it, psych health care in germany is abysmally absent, it’s becoming alcoholics

7bicycles ,

YMMV on the CDU vis a vis being fascists but I’d argue you can look back at Adenauers “Radikalenerlass” (“Radical Decree” or something) that purported to stop extremists from both sides from holding certain important jobs and somehow managed to find 1000 left wing extremists for every right winger in '70s germany.

7bicycles ,

Not even international law, but their own civil laws.

Speaking for germany I’m unsure as to what you’re getting at here on a judicial level. Any arms sale has to be approved by the parliament, as such I don’t see much hope for a civil law suit here.

7bicycles ,

If North Korea brought this case I’d take a similar double-take and ask questions.

What makes you think Nicaragua is similar to North Korea?

7bicycles ,

Doesn’t matter, judiically. The german parliament approves it, therefore it’s fine.

7bicycles ,

made me realise that this place is a piece of shit with absolutely zero empathy for anyone.

Is every person the king of england or how do you get to this conclusion?

7bicycles ,

zizek-theory

but genuinely he has a bit about this. toilet habits are oddly politically important

7bicycles ,

Most stuff on a bicycle for the average person unless it’s carbon, plastics or electronics. Including safety stuff. Some caveat if you wanna huck yourself off a mountain or do like 100kph descents on your roadbikes.

But for the most stuff? The cheap shit works absolutely fine because at it’s core it’s bits of formed metal with threads attached connected by steel wires. Very hard to fuck any of that up to the point it becomes dangerous. I keep seeing parts being rated as SAFETY LEVEL 5 E-BIKE READY as if the metal rod that is my handlebar usually disintegrates once I hit the ludicrous speed of [checks notes] 25kph. Your $2 Alibaba Special V-Brakes are, at worst, gonna have garbage springs so it doesn’t return to not-braking great, but you’re not gonna like snap them in half even if you were a gorilla riding a bicycle.

7bicycles ,

Buy the cheapest version of it and of you use it enough to either break it or figure out what parts of the design you don’t like it’s a good sign spending a little extra on a better version isn’t a waste.

Agree’d, albeit with the caveat that if it’s about screws, you wanna spend at least some money on the part that actually connects with the screws, so, the bits. Doesn’t really matter all that much if your harbour freight e-motor on your drill burns out, if you fuck up all the screws on whatever you’re working on with shit bits that’s gonna be a hassle.

But even then, that’s like “pay more than the $0 free offer on alibaba” territory of spending. After that, the dimensions and tolerances are fine, it’s just gonna be longevity.

7bicycles ,

Yeah I’d argue this is probably true for bigger pets but the LD50 of stuff on your 2lb guinea pig is hit shockingly fast. Gotta watch out for the small, furry comrades

7bicycles ,

was the handlebar fine tho

7bicycles ,

Car infrastructure is just, and I do mean this seriously, unimaginably expensive. If you do not priotize the car you have such a shitton of money left over you can just put like, chandeliers in your metro stations.

7bicycles ,

Late stage, no, not so much, earlier stages? Yeah, absolutely, especially compared to like the west

"If you tell a lie big enough and tell it frequently enough, people will eventually come to believe it". What is an example of this happening today?

I would really rather that these were actual examples, and not conspiracy theories. We all have our own unsubstantiated ideas about what shadowy no-gooders are doing, but I’d rather hear about things that are actually happening.

7bicycles ,

To get anywhere close to the grid being considered decarbonised (I’m ignoring carbon capture here because that’s not going to happen at any meaningful scale unless we geoengineer shit) all of the materials, all of the manufacturing and all of the building and maintenance would have to be run on renewable energy. Like from the mines of Australia over to all of the plants in china to assembly, for every component.

And to have it make any difference at all, you have to do it within the next 30 or so years. And then there’s still the tyres, also you gotta do the entire shit again for the very climate friendly processing of building roads that withstand cars for give or take a season, extra challenge mode due to the increased weight of EVs. And also then there’s still the tyres.

hopefully the battery tech and infrastructure investments will help pave the way to better solutions.

We’ve already got those, it’s called trains and bicycles, former have been EVs for like a century

7bicycles ,

I’m not arguing pro ICE cars over EV cars, I’m arguing against cars, be they EV or ICE

7bicycles ,

Even if ChatGPT was literally a perfect copy of a human being it would still be 0 steps closer to a general intelligence because it does not fucking understand WHAT or HOW to actually do the things it suggests.

What if we AI passes the turing test not because computers got intelligent but because people got dumber

7bicycles ,
  1. a self-fulfilling prophecy of pitbulls having a bad reputation and actively being sought out by people who want vicious dogs and who will treat their dogs in such a way as to encourage that behavior.

I’m pretty neutral on dog genetics but tbh it still ends you at the same conclusion; not everyone should just be able to get the dog that kills you

7bicycles ,

the grind got so shitty the logistics players actually went on strike

7bicycles ,

TF2 Competitive

7bicycles ,

I feel like Battlebits gets pretty close to this?

7bicycles ,

Explore might be pushing it but there’s the old 3rd Gen AA title Darkest of Days where you you’re a timecop and get to mow down american civil war formations with your future machine gun

7bicycles ,

I understand your vision now

7bicycles ,

love to have people in management who cannot for the life of them manage their own workload or inbox. I don’t even know when I last got a response from my manager for anything, I just send it to the void at this point as shit falls apart

7bicycles ,

gripping experiences such as: not being homeless, not starving

7bicycles ,

what the fuck man

7bicycles ,

I feel like there’s a great vibe difference in people collecting things that are unintentionally rare and those that collect intentionally rare things

To stick with the given example: I think some guy collecting vintage Mockbas would be a lot cooler than some guy collecting the newest limited edition sneaker.

7bicycles ,

you ever wonder if there was like a short outlier on national core strength during that era?

7bicycles ,

wow that sucks, good luck though

7bicycles ,

I know the feeling and also I’m curious, what’s the difference here? What choices present themselves?

7bicycles ,

it’s “the computer is a magic box that can do anything (customer side)” clashing against “the computer is a magic box that can do anything (IT folks)” and boy do these two seemingly similar views not mesh well

Allthough I swear to god, unless you’re actively developing new tech like LLM or something most everything is a problem of processes and organisation first and foremost and then an IT problem much, much later

7bicycles ,

absolutely perfect useage of the word “visage” here, really adds to it

7bicycles ,

I mean yeah probably but you gotta have a certain je ne sais quoi to pull that shit off. it’s hard. but when it works it’s so good

7bicycles ,

This feels like cybersecurity cosplay

you want a kilswitch on a camera you go for a slideable plastic covering, like most laptops have, because you can’t hack “being able to look through solid objects” into a phone camera

why would this just be an electronic disconnect. Love to bee concerned enough about privacy to not trust google, but I do trust random kickstarter that they wire their phones up properly and also that it gets to me with no intervention

7bicycles ,

I don’t get the advantage, android already tells you “This app wants access to your contacts” or whatever?

7bicycles ,

I always figured if any given app wants my contacts it’d scrape and upload them somewhere so I always say no, but I see the use case now

7bicycles ,

Useage of roller suitcases is now bound to a license and it gets taken away if you do some inconsiderate shit like blocking off half the walkway with it behind you to gawk at a sign or run over peoples feet with it

Could probably further this to most things around having 0 spatial awareness but that one the most

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