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Wrench ,

If a typical storm causes rampant flooding, maybe it would behoove you to invest in infrastructure and tighten building codes.

You know, the job of local government.

Wrench ,

Fuck Elon, and to a lesser extend, Tesla and all. But this seems like yet another user error on several accounts. I thought “autopilot” was only supposed to be used on freeways. And obviously assisted by a human who should have seen a fucking parked cop car coming and intercede anyway.

But that said, fuck Elon and his deceptive naming of a fucking primitive tech that’s really only good at staying in a lane at speed under ideal conditions.

Wrench ,

I’m gonna reduce that. Shareholders don’t give a shit about working hours. They just care about revenue and expenses.

This is purely a management issue. Upper management might insist on these metrics as a way to crack down on productivity. In my personal experience as a dev, middle management doesn’t give about metrics unless someone (upper management) forces them to. Because at the end of the day, its just a pain in the ass hounding subordinates about trivial shit if theyre actually performing where it matters. So anecdotally, I will say this seems to exclusively come from upper management. But I’m sure people have different experiences.

The problem is that upper management is usually so divorced from the real day to day problems that the easy win they can take to their superiors is stupid shit like apm metrics.

Wrench ,

Don’t undervalue yourself

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Wrench ,

But middle aged dad bods are back in our (relative to category) prime, baby!

Wrench ,

I’d honestly love one of these, depending in if it’s powerful enough to haul a decently heavy load up a hill.

I woodwork as a hobby, and have been wanting an old truck for a while, but the used truck market is pretty insane right now. All I want is an old beater with a reliable engine and a standard sized bed that’s capable of hauling sheet goods (4ft wide) without hassle.

This would check those marks. If the price was right, I’d happily drive this little guy around.

Instead, the market is full of ridiculously sized pickups with tiny truck beds because either the cab is huge, or they waste so much space making the truck look “tough” that the beds shrink narrower than 4ft.

As long as I can get a small truck in a V6 so that I don’t stall out hauling something heavy like cement bags, I’m in.

Wrench ,

Yeah, I’ve considered that too. Neither of us have a car with a hitch, and we don’t have a good place to store a trailer for extended periods of time, but it’s an option I’m considering for sure.

Wrench ,

Yeah, I used to borrow my parents van on occasion, but they got a newer model of the same van (Odyssey) that could no longer fit sheet goods.

Also was pretty awkward tying the trunk door on the occasions where I needed longer material, which I would be doing more of nowadays. And TBH, despite my best efforts to pad things and load materials gently, I did scrap up the interior a bit, which wouldn’t be a factor with a truck.

A work van might do, though. Those seem pretty huge.

Wrench ,

Essentially what I’ve been doing. HD rental truck. But truck availability and requiring multiple round trips to return and pick up my car means I put it off until I’m blocked, and then needlessly stock up on sheet goods that I might need in the future, but ultimately sit around for a year or two before I use them.

But yeah, this is what I’m doing while I bide my time for truck prices to drop. And I’ve push back a bunch of projects that rely on ply because I just don’t want to deal with the hassle.

To your point, I bet the trailers are probably more readily available. The trucks themselves are very hit or miss in my experience. But there always seems to be trailers in the lot.

Wrench ,

You can see the syncing happen in real time when something big and unexpected happens, and it takes about 24h for them to get the narrative straight.

When the Pelosi attack happened, I was curious and monitored r/conservative.

For the first 12h or so, they were for the most part human. Most highly rated comments were along the lines of “I don’t agree with her politics, but this is wrong.”

There were still a few comments celebrating the attack with mixed votes.

Then about 12 hrs in, conspiracy theories started trickling in with mixed reactions ranging from gleeful excitement to disgust.

24h in, all of the respectful comments were buried to oblivion, and the conspiracy theories and comments celebrating violence had fully taken over.

It was both enlightening and absolutely repulsive to watch how their propaganda worked in real time.

Wrench ,

He is correct that the forces are different. The equation for centripetal force is Fc = Mv2/R.

Radius is the distance from the focal point, and each seat will be different distances.

So he is technically correct that seat position could be calculated in perfect conditions with accurate measurements.

But none of the data that reaches this service will be remotely accurate or complete enough to make that determination. It will only have one passengers phone data, and even if it collected everyones phone data, phone sensors have a margin of error well above what the difference would be. GPS data is only even marginally accurate up to something like 6ft, and really not even then. Then cars have a lot of other factors like suspension and compression in seats, etc, that would absorb enough of the forces to muddy the data even if accurate sensors were everywhere.

Tl;dr; another cocky person that took a few physics courses but walked away with a poor understanding of real world applications talking out their ass.

Wrench ,

I think that Hunter was only prosecuted for this crime because of who his father is. A real witch hunt. But at the same time, I’m not losing any sleep over it. He broke the law, and he’s someone with a lot of resources at his disposal and should have known better.

As for the law itself, I think the law should exist, but the potential punishment of 25 years is absurd.

I do think that keeping guns out of easy, legal, access of active drug abusers is appropriate. But as you say, without a conviction, the scope of those restrictions should be narrow and appeal-able.

And the punishment for being untruthful on a checkbox of an application should be a slap on the wrist. Confiscation of the firearm(s), and maybe community service. It should be the governments job to do proper screening, not the applicants job to screen themselves out.

But like I said before, I’m not going to lose any sleep over this, even if I do think it’s an unfair punishment for an arbitrarily enforced law, on someone targeted by a cult simply because of his family.

Wrench ,

I mean, I’d like guns to be inaccessible (legally) to raging alcoholics too. You’re right that a crackhead and alcoholic can both be very destructive. But that doesn’t mean I want crackheads to have guns just because an alcoholic without a felony can own one.

Wrench ,

I don’t see any problem with modders charging for their mods. They are doing work, and deserve to be compensated.

If they’re creating additional deep content, I can see that being worth paying. If it’s just some skins or configuration edits like wonky gravity, that would not be worth money to me. But I think it’s a good thing to be able to add micro transactions for.

Take the original DOTA for example. A warcraft 3 custom map. It eventually dominated the custom game lobby, at least 3:1. I would have no problem with the creator(s) making money off their creation that contributed a ton of replayability the game.

When it comes down to it, it should be the modder’s choice on if they want to charge for their work, and the consumers choice if they want to pay for it.

Also why I didn’t have problems with microtransactions for skins, particularly when it was community driven like DOTA 2. Artists can make money creating non-game altering content, and fans get to personalize their characters.

Wrench ,

How is context not important? We don’t even have a full second of clip before he throws the punch.

Is context only not important when it’s a man hitting a woman?

Would you say the same if it was a 2s clip of a woman punching a man?

Wrench ,

Yeah. That would be called “context”, of which we have zero of. And which you acknowledge matters.

Wrench ,

Yes, except these women were denied the responsibility because they are women in an Islamic controlled society. But the community was convinced to allow it.

Wrench ,

It’s almost like they had to make compromises because their options were limited by materials, time, and access to the site.

Wrench ,

Modular military engineering materials are both obscenely expensive, and temporary. They are meant as a bandaid to quickly solve transportation problems to enable logistics.

Also, being modular, they can be replaced easily and quickly.

If you want a hardy lifetime dock, you’re going to need months to years under ideal circumstances. And then Isreal could “accidentally” blow it up with a “rogue” strike, and there would be no option but to scrap the whole thing. Because most permanent docks aren’t meant to handle military strikes.

But yeah, let’s just ignore that the building constraints around this are just about the worst case imaginable. Let’s just keep whining about how a solution isn’t perfect and therefore worthless like all the other Leftist comments on Lemmy

Wrench ,

What’s your solution, then? Overnight peace in the middle east?

Wrench ,

And how exactly will that put food in the hands of the starving Palestinians?

Again with the “if it’s not perfect, it’s not worth doing” bullshit I’m so tired of hearing about this conflict.

Wrench ,

You can’t be dense enough to believe that if the US stops sending Isreal aid, that suddenly Isreal will suddenly magically be completely disarmed, and aid trucks will suddenly be able to move freely. Aid trucks aren’t even on the table.

Wrench ,

And what other conclusion is there to your answers?

Me: How would YOU put food into Palestinian hands?

You: Stop sending aid to Isreal.

Me: How does that put food in Palestinian hands?

You: Aid trucks

Wrench ,

My point is that stopping aid to Isreal won’t put food in Palestinian bellies any time soon. And when they’re starving right now, it’s a useless gesture.

Actually doing what CAN be done right now, which is bypassing land chokepoints by building a non-perfect dock to offload millions of lbs of food, is the best solution I’ve heard of thus far, to actually stave off the immediate problem of starvation.

I’m not saying I approve of continuing to send military aid to Isreal. We can attack this from multiple fronts, but getting food and medical aid into Gaza is the most urgent need. And I don’t find your efforts to undermine the most effective, if flawed, means of getting those supplies into Gaza to be helping the Palestinian’s plight in the slightest.

Wrench ,

Ok. And how has that negotiation been going?

I prefer to actually do what can be done in the short term, while we continue to work on long term solutions in tandem. Not just put all your eggs in the long term basket, and let the Palestinians starve if it takes too long, or doesn’t happen at all.

Wrench ,

You claim I’m arguing in bad faith, but all your points make insanely huge assumptions on what the US is plausibly capable of forcing, and in an insanely short timespan. Particularly taking into account how little Isreal has been willing to negotiate in good faith currently and in past.

Wrench ,

No. I’m saying that relying on that leverage completely, and expecting a fast and complete solution, and allowing the Gazians to starve to death if that hailmerry doesn’t work, is completely asinine.

And that’s not even taking into account what the absolute 180 on foreign policy WRT Isreal will cost us in the short and long term. It could very possibly give the entire election over to the Republicans. Which would obviously be even worse for Gaza.

Wrench ,

I would rather do both, because I find it incredibly unlikely that stopping arms shipments today would do anything at all to dampen Israel’s ability to blockaid the land routes for a very long time. I also don’t think Isreal is incapable of finding weapons suppliers outside of the US if push comes to shove.

Wrench ,

They could have spent that two months pressuring Israel to open aid corridors for trucking.

And most likely have nothing to show for it. At least the dock has already achieved getting millions of pounds of aid into Gaza, and hopefully many more millions before it breaks again.

And I’m sorry, “we have to aid Israel in its genocide to stop the Republicans from winning” is a bullshit excuse.

Maybe to you, but it’s a real risk. Not everyone lives in this progressive bubble of yours. I have zero confidence in the voting public, and I have far less confidence that the Republicans won’t actively encourage genocide in Gaza and beyond given the president and a majority in the other branches.

Wrench , (edited )

Why “most likely?” Based on what evidence?

See: the entire history of Isreal, and the middle east as a whole.

And if you feel that you need to aid another nation to continue slaughtering children to save your own, maybe you don’t have much worth saving.

Geo-politics are complicated, and more complicated when your own country is currently fighting a fascist movement.

You dismiss the very notion that all but declaring war on Isreal could possibly have negative effects on the Dems political standing. And let’s not mince words. Declaring no fly zones, DMZs and enacting sanctions, as you literally explicitly suggested, is one step away from declaring war.

And yet I’ve been accused of arguing in bad faith. Right.

Wrench ,

There was a branch in this thread where someone else made the accusation. But fine, I retract the statement. It wasn’t your words, so no point bringing it up.

I find the request for impossible evidence to be absurd. Since the US did not take the measures you proposed 2 months ago, there is no evidence to present for either of our sides.

I point to Netanyahu’s recent and past decisions and complete unwillingness to make concessions, as well as how this conflict has been beneficial to his standing.

But obviously, we can’t know for sure what would have happened. But Isreal has never been known to be easily forced, or even compromise to anything not vastly in their favor.

Wrench ,

And your proof that using that leverage will achieve the desired result in a 2 month time frame is…?

Wrench ,

The tendency to make Perfect the enemy of Good.

It’s a tired theme here on Lemmy, particularly WRT Gaza, and particularly in criticism of Biden’s policy towards Isreal.

Wrench ,

Well, he did love to use the hard N before this all while on set of the Apprentice, so I wouldn’t put him past making the connection on his own and steering it there.

Wrench ,

R/conservative had the habit of locking most comment threads to members only. It may have been an exclude instead of include list.

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

Wrench ,

We can defederate them now. Content will move as it reaches fewer eyes.

Wrench ,

I’m not an expert on the origins of police in the US, but I thought their origin story was basically to oppress the civilian population to protect corporate property.

Like, their entire purpose and why they were given authority was so that they could beat down civilians in the name of corporate profits. Which is the opposite of what you’re claiming.

Wrench ,

More, when in cases like this, the Chinese government is subsidizing the car’s manufacturing. Even without the tariffs, they aren’t playing on a level playing field. And guess what happens after they corner the EV market as planned?

It’s not hard to comprehend. The strategy is simple. Makes you wonder about the motives behind those crying “free market”

Wrench , (edited )

And appeals exhausted.

And his nutters have already stated they want to find and physically harm the jurors. So honestly, Trump should be gagged from talking about the jurors indefinitely.

Wrench ,

Time for another intervention, Dr Rockso.

Wrench ,

Ah yes, here you are again turning a Trump article into a Biden hit piece in the comments.

You really need another hobby.

Wrench ,

Put the boots to her. Medium style.

Wrench ,

I used to develop smart TV apps, and Tizen / Orsay (older SS TV OS) we an absolute nightmare to develop for. LG’s Web OS, and Android TV were so easy in comparison.

Wrench ,

We are the alternate universe that’s stupidly fucked up.

Wrench ,

Nope. The point of an appeal is to claim that there were unfair circumstances that resulted in an unfair verdict.

So he can appeal all the way to the state Supreme Court afaik.

Wrench ,

The redesign elevated paid advertisers to the front page, masquerading as real articles.

Suddenly 1/4th of the top content was fluff articles not very subtly advertising shit

Wrench ,

It’s different but the same. We used to get hit by the conservative bury brigades. Now, we get people actually trying to steer the narrative with somewhat thoughtful bad faith arguments.

It’s far more insidious now, and takes vigilance to shut down.

Wrench ,

One is pretty normal for career military too. Doesn’t matter on politics, but there’s certainly a right leaning tendency

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