• 1 Post
  • 281 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: October 18th, 2023

help-circle




  • I think whether we like it or not economic systems have forced their way into our political systems.

    And anyone with any existing power is strongly incentivized to kill any “new ideas” in the womb. As they would most likely represent a departure from the current system that they benefit from.

    Any dramatic restructuring is going to be a very “significant” event. We may currently be on the precipice of one such event in the United States, this remains to be seen. The existing power structures have been significantly destabilized and pre-existing norms and rules are being outright ignored.

    Power will shift, it remains to be seen how much and to where.

    In any case, we may have the opportunity for you to see some new interesting governmental concepts, or perhaps a return to some classics, or a mix of the two (a little overtly capitalist fuedalism perhaps?).

    We sure do live in interesting times.


  • One important thing for people to think about right now is “what happens when other countries don’t accept deportees?”

    They start to stack up. Housing, feeding, and guarding “dangerous undesirables” is expensive.

    Surely, it would be patriotic to save your country money…

    It might be too late. It might not, who’s to say. Videos from this weekend have a very familiar ring to them though.



  • I learned magic then the cult followed. I meant to learn sleight of hand magic, but accidentally ended up with blood magic instead. The demons won’t let me sleep, but I haven’t missed a white rhino payment yet. (I wanted to go with a regular think cause who the hell wants to pay the premium, but to be honest the blood just contrasts so much better with the white rhino, it was a no brainer)




  • Also, working physical interfaces for everything where possible.

    Lights that come on auto-magically are great, low light after bed time, that shuts itself off after you stumble back to bed, etc.

    But you also need to allow overrides, like someone double taps the lights on you override the automations for an hour or two to handle corner cases like when your 6 year old pukes all over the hall and bathroom and you need cleaning light not stumbling light.

    Also, light switches and lamps should work like light switches and lamps for guests, because these interfaces aren’t bad, they work, well even.


  • The only place I know to get it is direct from their site.

    I’m not sure that you do, as far as I know, being able to move them is the only test. I’m printing a torture toaster now to see if I’m getting similar results with that. I know there are more precise ways to measure dimensional accuracy, but I’ve always been able to print a decent benchy and calibration cube. Actual applications have been less successful.