agegamon @ agegamon @beehaw.org

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The only two places I proactively remove leaves are the street drain (to prevent flooding) and my roof. Maybe the sidewalk if I'm feeling adventurous.

If they're in the lawn IMO they're not a problem. I'm honestly shocked anyone even has time to fuck around with taking/collecting them, regardless of how they look.

HOAs are a cancer that drive people out of good homes.

Agreed. I started out with r-pi for the TV and and refuse to ever go back to just the smart-TV or stick interface. I've since moved on to more powerful HTPC/dedicated game server PC so I can host games for our friends but I still have the r-pi.

Honestly as nice as some of the smart TV or smart stick functions are, they're only nice because they're zero-effort. For just a slight amount of effort and no technical knowledge you can have a much better and safer setup.

Personally I can say the only reason I don't ride my e-bike more for daily use is due to the rampancy of bike theives and vandals. Shit is genuinely getting hard to deal with and I don't have time or money to put up with it.

If I could guarantee with just a high end u-lock or bike chain, something not too unreasonable, if that allowed me to park my bike at a busy grocery store and be able to ride home 15 minutes later, I'd use it that way. I genuinely love my e-bike and find it fun to ride, even with the annoyance of locks and security.

But after having wheel(s) stolen, a shifter broken, lines cut and even a lock fucked up, and after having transients and crackheads harass me for parking and locking up, I've just given up. Our police are still choosing not to do anything about this kind of crime, and I can't get insurance against theft like I can with my car.

Plus, my EV has security and cameras, and critically is big enough that even a jacked up thief can't walk off with it. Worst they can do is break windows or smash mirrors. I'll waste the extra time and energy driving to the store if it means I won't lose thousands of dollars to theft with absolutely zero chance of recompense.

If it a) successfully fools people into thinking their products are good, b) further fools them into thinking they're worth the batshit insane pricetag, and c) isn't illegal enough to be unprofitable, then they'll keep doing it.

So yeah, I'd wager they keep the blue/green boxes. Bet they'll also change non-rcs+non-imessage to another color to further divide things up as well.

GOP: Gaslight, Obstruct, Project

I just feel like musk wants a western version of wechat for a hybrid user base of hardcore republicans and hardcore libertarians. That seems like such a fundamental oxymoron... but here we are.

And in fact, I hate to say it, but given how good those groups of people are at bending reality and making themselves conform to a warped capitalist standard, it might just work out for a while. But more than likely it'll probably also go the way of "trump bucks" or whatever those psycho-loyalist cryptocoins were called. Basically it'll end up a big old miserable fraud.

The again if it's Elon's coin on the table I'm not so sure I care. He's just ruining spacex, tesla, et. al. Let him bleed money.

What's genuinely sad is that the people who can't bail from twitter quickly will be spitroasted by musk in the process.

I get suspicious about stuff like this because it reeks of corporate attention engineering, though at least in this case I think there's a possibility that they genuinely screwed up and had to pull back from fully killing off the bolt.

GM for a while has needed to refresh to bolt to a lower cost and more efficient battery and platform architecture, and while it would definitely cost quite a bit to do that its certainly not an unreasonable challenge. But, they could also solve that problem by entirely replacing it with a more efficient (cheaper to make) product offering. But thanks to GM dragging hind leg getting the equinox, blazer, and silverado EVs to market in any meaningful way, plus their inability to adjust to union needs, it's clear that they just don't have it in them to replace the bolt (or really, any of their offerings) with another car right now.

So, what other options do they have? The bolt is great because the manufacturing line exists and parts are mostly tooled, and there's immediate potential for federal rebates. But, again, it needs a refreshed battery and charging architecture. Maybe some knucklehead GM c-suite finally saw the benefit in not chucking the bolt line out the window and just investing in that refresh cost instead of killing the line. Maybe it was just that simple.

But more than anything, I'd make the cynical bet that this is what they planned to do all along, and were just saying "discontinue" to drum up excitement when they announced it'd actually come back to the plate as a refresh.

He won the birth lottery, as it were

Honestly the range isn't even an issue. Yes they did something wrong, but IMO in terms of misleading customers it's not at the top of the list long list. They have all this horseshit about "full self driving" that they stick all over their website with pretty animations and graphics.

Then you actually read into it and the fine text says "oh by the way, it's technically just a slightly suicidal/homicidal level 2 ADAS that nobody has signed off on, and that Tesla can yank it out from under you at any time, and thst WILL be conveniently forgotten about and valued at $0 if you decide to trade in your car with tesla, but it's cool brosky just do it for the likes"

I have to play devil's advocate here. Are you really fine with the current level of ads? Fine with some past/historical level less than now? What level is ok exactly?

To me the current level of youtube ads is unhinged. Even minus the privacy issues it's not usable. And it got that way (to me, at least) as soon as skip wait timers (remember when that was all we had to deal with?) became a thing.

Now? With unskippable ads, huge wait timers, and ads injected into the middle of 8-minute videos? Nope nope nooope. Not a chance in hell would I watch unblocked or non-premium youtube.

Pretty good analogy though. Steam has some ads (out of the box it literally launches an ad window at startup) but it isn't really a pain in the ass about it. You close the window, you move on, it only happens once and there's nothing unskippable. It doesn't shove ads in front of my face every time I launch a game from the library (I'd immediately leave the platform if there were.)

Fact is if steam and the other major platforms were ever to devolve within striking distance of how bad youtube has become, piracy would become unhinged. So far Valve has resisted the illusory "infinite money lever" that idiots in c-suites have misunderstood ads to be.

My rule for a while has been to limit myself to one major subscription at a time. It really curtails the rampant streaming costs.

I made an exception for spotify for a while (so I'd have spotify + one streaming service + maybe one small low-cost one) but with how expensive they've all gotten I've reverted to only spotify and low-cost stuff.

Right now I just have spotify and dropout TV so I can catch up on Dimension 20.

I'm sorry, I hate Elon and Tesla (and with good reason) but saying that an EV is rolling e-waste is going too far.

My model 3 has been bulletproof for the last five years. It's a 2017 model, one of the earliest, so take that for what you will. The earliest models like mine were apparently some of the better ones until 2021+ model years. I wouldn't consider buying one now due to Elon's tomfuckery and the unresolved racism issues within Tesla, but to claim that they're rolling trash isnt correct.

Plus, the fact is that virtually all cars (ICE models as well!) are rolling out of factories with dozens of integrated computers and touchscreens. It's very hard here in the US to get something cheap that doesn't have any electronics - basically imposible. And, if you do the compromise on cheaper and fewer electronics, the reality is that the poor grade of those cheap electronics will actually lead to a shorter lifespan and more overall repairs.

I'm not suggesting for that reason to go buy an EV - certainly not a new Tesla. A used one might be fine. But more broadly, electronics in cars (not just EVs) are really a huge problem. Unless they're designed with repairability and durability in mind, all new cars have this issue, and you can't single out Tesla for this.

Trump

There's the problem though, zero science and/or logic was involved. It was actively rejected. Something something freeze peach....

I'm afraid for humanity's future.

In my opinion, companies shouldn't have "water rights" in general, regardless of whether their owners/founders/whatever that person is are alive or dead. If you think critically about how our resources are used, the idea that someone can just wander along, buy up some land, and then consume all the resources that are on it or pass through and charge other people for them is completely insane. Just because you have a big fat wad of money, you get to fuck everyone else over by claiming critical resources? What??

That'd be like Elon Musk blocking the sun with a giant rocket umbrella, then charging everyone a twitter blue sky fee to literally see sunlight (maybe I shouldn't give the guy ideas... he seems the type of ruthless capitalist who'd actually do it).

At least in the case of farming, there's some honest work and genuinely beneficial product coming out the other end that leaves us with a reason for a company to own and control the land. Though, I'll not pretend that all farming is equal or good, some of it isn't conscionable either. But sucking down fresh stream water to shove into crappy plastic bottles is just an insane thing for us to allow to exist.

I know you said it was multi-ply, but did that pan actually have anything other than a copper core? For example, steel or magnetic stainless steel? Some multi-ply cookware still isn't induction compatible because those magnetic core materials aren't included. Copper alone is not compatible with induction because it can't respond to the magnetic field produced by the induction hob (which is why I'd be skeptical of anyone saying copper "draws too much current," if anything it draws too little or none at all)

I always do the magnet test on new cookware now, or look for people doing it in review videos. The more magnetic material used (within reason, obviously!) the better the pan will respond to the stove.

Hank Green is just so... awesome. Both Hank and John are, really. I'm not saying everyone should be exactly like them (they're both white, both men, etc) but I wish more people would take the initiative to cultivate the positivity that they exude. I know I could do a fair bit better at being positive myself...

There are two groups of people who support capitalism as it exists today:

1. The truly rich, the 1%, who exclusively got that way by exploiting the 99% as much as physically possible, and
2. The portion of the 99% who've been brainwashed through various methods into thinking that they can become rich -or- that the rich will "watch out for them" or some equivalent fairytale

Uuuuuuuugh. I thought of this as soon as I saw the title of this post. I'm so sorry...

What really gets me is when it's not immediately afterward that this happens, but like 30 mins or an hour later, and you've washed your hands well - or so you thought - after cleaning up. But there was just enough oil left somewhere that you still get burned when you go for your eyes.