jkf
2mo ago
Seems like Yahoo's fact checking/editing department
I'm pretty sure that's not a thing -- it says at the bottom that the 'article' is reposted directly from "WhereIsTheBuzz.com" -- which looks about like what you'd expect. Highly unlikely that Yahoo is fact-checking anything; their role as a slop aggregator could use some more scrutiny I guess, but this article doesn't seem much different than their standard run of human slop to me.
jkf
1mo ago
Provably beating the average human, or even reaching the same level would be a huge milestone that Elon would be shouting from every roof.
And yet still insufficient -- the set of human drivers includes a lot of people who are drunk/stoned/distracted/angry at any given moment -- perhaps unsurprisingly, these people cause a lot of accidents, which brings the average performance down substantially.
All you need to do to be much safer than average is not do those things; for me to feel safe sleeping (for example) in a robot car, I'd want a couple std deviations better than human average at least. I imagine trucking companies feel the same way (maybe even less risk tolerant) -- particularly considering that with automated trucks they no longer have a human to throw under the bus when he does something dumb.
jkf
3mo ago
the ankle-biting will stop. Now.
Clamping down on blunt feedback to the mods is a pretty serious change in norms around here, and a very negative development -- you should stop.
jkf
4mo ago
Nonbinary people are still either men or women -- he/her. Asking for ze is asking for a lie.
Are you seriously saying you're fine with a man getting bottom surgery, breast implants and estrogen shots, renaming himself 'Alice', and wearing dresses - but once he demands to be addressed as 'she', that's where you draw the line?
Yes?
None of the other stuff impacts me in the slightest; it's (aspirationally) a free country. "Demands to be addressed as she" is maybe the least sticky of the demands that are being made IRL, but it's still sticky enough.
jkf
4mo ago
the problem with that behavior was the lying.
Many people find this to be their main sticking point with the pronoun stuff. Not only is somebody lying, they want everyone else to lie too.
jkf
24d ago
Most popular youtubers are in some ways retarded hipsters -- it's not the end of the world. They also have a tendency to leverage their popularity (and their slack-jawed faux-excitement about formerly basic knowledge like carburetors and potato guns) into the marketing of crappy products -- it's nice that this guy is (trying to) make his crappy products in America, but that doesn't make his hour-long ad interesting. (and means you should take what he says with a grain of salt -- he is literally selling you something.
jkf
25d ago
You can't because they specifically need welded chainmail links and the other samples they tested fell apart. Pretty sure you don't have that lying around, and they also said that the chainmail was the biggest part of their BOM.
Actually I can -- I have wire, and I have a welder. Both are literally in my basement right now.
Anyways it doesn't sound like their chainmail was even made in America, so I guess I could buy some from the same coolies making theirs in India if I were pressed for time.
Or I could buy some lockwashers and weld them up -- this would probably cost five bucks or so.
They are making something seem like a big deal when it isn't -- they just don't have the market to set up a proper factory, so they are using the limited production run + marketing + high price model to make a buck. Similar to the dropshippers pimping crap on Amazon.
jkf
2mo ago
Not only that, but if you bring up the economic consequences of the response (which we are certainly feeling today), they just say "oh well, you can't blame <govt X> for that, everyone else did the same thing" -- like, yeah -- that's the whole point: EVERYONE IN THE GNWO TURNED INTO A BUNCH OF RETARDS AT THE DROP OF A HAT. Seems like something worth talking about, but I guess not.
jkf
19d ago
The OG Macintosh GUI toolkit was absolutely excellent -- a real revelation to a young programmer, and an intro to O-O done right in my case.
A port/replication of the application side of that would be an interesting OS project -- I doubt the codebase is available, but the IP issues (which led Windows down its monstrous path) should be gone by now, and it was extremely well documented.
jkf
19d ago
He does say that he doesn't actually bench press these girls, so I'm not sure the mechanics there -- I can certainly lift cooperative average-sized women (or children) off the floor by the waist (from a standing position) without using my legs much.
For a bench-press equivalent, maybe they could wear a belt with side-handles, and crouch over one's chest? It would be about like pressing a large kettle-bell, and no need for the woman to be also capable of a plank or whatever. I'm pretty confident I could lift >200 lbs this way, and I'm not as fit as I used to be -- I get the feeling this is a larger lady than he has in mind?
The 1938 parallel just does not work. Germany at the time was weakened but growing stronger every day. That's the exact opposite of today – where Russia is strong (due to nukes, leftover Cold War firepower) but growing weaker every day.
Interesting that the warmongers always want to look at 1938 and not 1914 when talking about appeasement -- it's pretty easy to make the argument that absolutely everyone would have been better off if Serbia were just given over to Austria.
It would even solve the question of whether to appease Hitler in 1938, since all he'd be after is a few pfennigs for his latest artwork.
jkf
5mo ago
You should have read down the thread to the discussion about AI-generated posts, and then posted it never.
jkf
5mo ago
I agree, being evil isn't a crime. Neither is funding dangerous research.
When Congress explicitly banned the dangerous research it kind of is?
jkf
7mo ago
You might be thinking of Darrell Edward Brooks Jr -- you will note that there is not a picture of him in the Wikipedia article, and For Some Reason nobody has heard nearly as much about him deliberately driving his own SUV into a Christmas parade and killing several as they have about the Charlottesville guy. (who killed one person in a hostile crowd of counterprotestors, arguably semi-accidentally)
Given Marohn's published views on stroad repair, I suspect he sees the Texas solution - use part of the right-of-way for a limited-access road and part for "frontage roads" (which are actually streets in Marohn's taxonomy) and only allow access between them every few miles
I wonder if Texas got this from Mexico? This is a common pattern in high-traffic areas down there, although IME the driving experience kind of sucks that may be more for Mexico reasons than a flaw with the concept.
The issue is mostly "how do you turn left (and/or cross over) without a bunch of traffic lights on the arterial"?
In Mexico they just... put a bunch of traffic lights on the arterial, with predictable impacts on congestion -- plus the added quirk that left turns are for some reason accomplished by pulling into the slip road to your right, waiting for a left-turn light, then turning left across both directional lanes on the arterial part (also the opposite slip road I guess).
It's kind of fun, but I don't really get it.
jkf
2mo ago
If you're going to do it this way you need to include fake Texas.
Probably helpful to keep in mind that a big chunk of the population operates under an even simpler system: World Class City and Rest Of Canada.
jkf
4mo ago
A touch cold-hearted, but sure -- assuming you accept that Russia is an implacable threat, and a hostile relationship is the only way forward. Which could be argued either way, but there's another problem:
Whether or not Ukraine has a shot at "winning" or regaining significant territory is irrelevant. Every day that the war continues is another day that the Russian military continues to deteriorate without any loss of American life
This part is only true until it isn't -- if Ukraine runs too short of bodies to hold the line at some point, there's a risk that Russia wins outright. Then we have an implacable enemy with a battlehardened (granted, drawn down some) armed force, a shiny feather in its cap, and a nice big buffer zone between us and its heartland.
Seems a little risky?
jkf
8mo ago
Much simpler explanation is that she still wants to do those things but is lying about them because she knows that they are unpopular and she won't be able to do them if she doesn't get elected. This is not really a gendered phenomenon.
jkf
2mo ago
"I am the only guy who can deal with Trump", confidently stated, just swung the Canadian election -- so I don't think it's necessarily plague related.
A pure article of faith, divorced from any call to action or doomsaying.
Isn't this just a fad? Fads are a thing.
Explaining fucking econ 101 to the hoi polloi seems like an entirely appropriate thing to do in an environment where the Leaders of the Free World are attempting to invoke various mumbo-jumbo and/or voodoo to explain why their pumping of the money supply while simultaneously outlawing demand for the produce of about half of the economy is totally not responsible for the inflation we've all been experiencing?
jkf
25d ago
I would probably use wood for the handle -- I do indeed spend enough time working with stainless steel that I have some in the basement, and the tools to shape it. (wouldn't be much if I used a wooden handle and just rivet the steel to it)
Do you think their design is stupid drop-ship style crap?
Yes - it looks like it would not be good at cleaning grills.
How do you know this though? Sure it's possible, but I don't see any way to tell whether it (or the alternative) is the hallucination.
Certainly not:
What would they find? That's the whole point of "holding it" for The Big Guy -- if he gave it to The Big Guy, combing his financials could turn up some evidence.
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