TheFogan

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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

It sounds like the initial story was slated to air on april 1st. Origions of the story are hard to trace, and it sounds like the source itself is known for running with hoaxes. So maybe they were actors, maybe just a doctor looking for attention. Biggest thing is a lack of any real details or credibility to work with. Kind of how most hoaxes go. they leave out key details so that you can't fact check them.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago

Going off webster... it looks like this really is only stretching the lines to fit one adjective

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/square

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

Honestly at this point, I'm not sure which has the greater cost to life. I'm starting to think, maybe this is the fastest way to tangently demonstrate how fucking full of shit this guy is. He blows up a few space ships, no one's directly effected. Maybe running over one or 2 kids directly with a robo taxi will wake enough over to "maybe we shouldn't let this guy kick tens of thousands of americans off healthcare."

(not saying this is a good thing, but of a trolly problem. Musk has spent hte last 6 months getting in positions to do horrible things to so many people, and god knows how many deahts he's responsible for. Maybe if he messes up and does a few of the kinds of deaths that people get scared over and take action, than things will go better.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

It's in her phrasing of it.

"for the express purpose". In other words... we can turn the world into a hellscape to power cars, data centers",

you can build a machine that causes a category 5 hurricain in the middle of the desert for the purpose of producing 1 ice cream cone, so long as you describe the "express purpose" to make the ice cream cone. But if you make a machine that's primary purpose is to stop a hurricane, that's where it becomes "geoengineering", so yeah in short this is basically to prevent all the hypothetical solutions to climate change.

Hell it wouldn't shock me if they were then to argue say carbon filters in coal plants, or things to mitigate polution, could be "geoengineering" because the whole point of the filters is to prevent climate change, while the actual polution is to make products or power to sell.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean fair to say but a real partnership would probably be to really just get someone to play his role while the real player moves through the democratic primary and wins.

Musks role really only is going to serve as a potential spoiler for the republican candidates... no left leaning person is even going to consider a party funded by musk.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

So in short the arguement is... over time it should be like corporations in America, we just watch as the biggest eat the smaller ones until we've just got one giant nation? Isn't that basically the plot of 1984... (basically the world is down to 3 super nations... with effectively the same government. In perpetual war with eachother just to make sure resources don't pile up to the point where everyone can survive comfortably.

Because I mean that's basically it, having diverse nations is a good thing. Allows us to actually see differences in laws, learn from different governments, good ideas can be copied, bad ideas can be avoided. Any big nation can trample all the smaller ones. It's a really bad idea to let them.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

Ah yes, my state, the one that turned the primaries to hell to Bernie... one that's largely hailed as some reason an important state in the democratic primary, in spite of the fact that we all know there's a zero percent chance anyone who puts a D next to their name is going to win it in the general. Guess it's sort of the practice for democrats general strategy... (butcher the hell out of everything you stand for to try to win over the right.... get zero votes from far right anyway).

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

Because big corporations tell us what we like and don't like. People who can toss 90% of their income into stocks/investments etc... that can be used to make more money, would rather have as much as possible. Hence they preffer the costs to go onto when you are purchasing things. While poorer people obviously are spending most of their money on things.

In short it's a way to keep taxes lower for people making a good amount of money, Especially makes things better for those who can invest and multiply their money.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I own a percentage of the president duh... that means I can go where I want.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Based on my limited knowledge, but knowing a few people with yards like that. One is certainly something you are right about.

But also, least to my knowledge in this area, junk yards, scrap yards etc... are a pretty good distance away. So selling/getting rid of large, heavy junk costs more than the scrap is worth. Hence old washing machines etc... In rural areas a lot of people are scraping by on food stamps, barely keeping the power on etc.... would have lost the house years ago if it weren't paid off by the previous generation.

Obviously no HOA's, no one worried about how the houses look, and it's common enough that no one is really embarassed by it.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Gee I wonder what nation state currently is known for cyber warfare, and currently isn't in good terms with ICC... perhaps one that may even have an arrest warrant on their current leader by ICC, and/or maybe one of the creators of the stuxnet virus.

 

Hey everyone.

I have my homeassistant setup. Something I'm looking to do is a simple alarm clock, slowly turning up my LED strip, and gradually say turning on music in 1% increments. But I really haven't had much luck coming up with a not silly $100 + system to, just have a music player that hass can control. I have a basic bottom line tablet in our bedroom set up as a home assistant dashboard. we have a paid spotify account.

But I'm kind of losing my head trying to wrap around exactly what or how to actually get a controllable system. that can be set up in my bedroom without any costly additions to my bedroom. We have plenty of bluetooth speakers, but to my knowledge all of them require actually turning them on manually if they weren't playing music before. Which kind of negates their value for an alarm clock.

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