42 Million people on the brink of starvation.

We have the food. Our government could remedy this situation easily. It is currently mid-own-goal and If it continues it will radicalized an entire generation against capitalism.

They will not be able to hide the contradictions of capital accumulation from regular ass Americans. It will be obvious, even to those not paying attention that the system is violent and it is violent along class lines most especially.

The class war has always been going on and if you are reading this you’re not on the winning side.

Capital has no delusion as to who its enemies are. But it profits when you don’t.

Unions are not a crime, but union busting is supposed to be, it is not however, prosecuted.

It looks like this was in the UK though, I have no idea how it works there.

The problem with windows 8 is that with the initial release they wanted everything to be a mobile OS, even your desktop.

“Metro Design” lol

But it seemed decent for tablets and phones.

The door monitor mostly helps when a kid walks off leaving it open thinking they closed it.

The freezer temperature monitoring has saved the contents several times. A breaker had tripped once and I didn’t notice, it let me know that I needed a generator during a power outage, and one of the kids snuck an ice cream and left the lid wide open.

So yeah, it’s been useful. It’s not needed 99% of the time.

Nothing needs to be, but I do like to monitor door status and temperature for my fridge and deep freezers with home assistant.

Kissinger lived to be like a million.

It’s not the actual tech, generally speaking, that people are upset about. Although your Luddite reference is probably more accurate than you intended.

The Luddites weren’t anti-tech, they were anti- the damage it was doing to the people who did the work.

Most people who hate these new technologies aren’t mad at the tech itself, they’re mad at the quality that’s produced when the only concern is lowering costs and the extractive infrastructure built around it. A monthly fucking subscription for heated seats. This exists now.

The alternative to this is the galaxy brained take: “THESE PEOPLE HATE HAVING A COMFORTABLE ASS WHILE DRIVING”

That’s the most hilarious thing about being good at being an engineer it seems. I’m more than 10 years into my career at this point and I spend more time correcting other people’s work and outlining the technical work that needs to be done than writing things myself these days.

I like how they’re worried about “violence done to ICE facilities.”

Really returning to the roots of policing.

Home Depot ad earlier literally said “Earn your Sunday”

Anyone can learn to code well enough for a corporate environment.

As the repo owner, you can put in place PR guardrails to help you manage the workload it puts on you. You can enforce pre-commit linting and code formatting, mandatory PR templates, size limits on PRs, etc and these can limit the chunks of work you’re sent by this person.

This is part of creating a culture of good code, enforcing code standards and contribution behaviors comes with the territory as you move up the chain in your career.

Another part unfortunately, even if you’re not a supervisor is having sometimes tough conversations with contributors it’s just part of the deal.

“Hey Bob, I just wanted to connect with you. It seems like you’re having kind of a tough time keeping up with our standards (producing code that’s usable for our team, or something said tactfully like that), is there something more that I can do to help you? Or is there something specific you’re having trouble with? I just want to help you be the most successful that you can be, because the more successful you are, the more successful our team as a whole is.”

If you have a discussion or two like this and it’s not working out, then maybe you need to talk to Bob’s supervisor/manager directly about the issue. Sometimes people don’t even realize what’s going on.

It seems to me at least that it comes through in general executive (dys-)function.

I often can’t pay attention to what I want to, even if it is incredibly important, and I care a ton about it. Decision making is awful, except under very specific circumstances: everything on fire at work and you need a solution yesterday? Done. I’ve got the solution and handed out roles, fires out. I need to eat something and there’s a fridge full of food? I will stand there with the door open till it spoils.

I have a very important thing at work that needs to be done and should only take an hour or two? This documentation I’ve been thinking about writing for three years that noone else asked for has finally found its time in the sun!

Gotta make a phone call for literally anything? Huh, my battery’s completely drained because I watched 736 YouTube shorts in a row that I couldn’t enjoy because of the pit in my stomach about a friendly 30 second call to the pharmacy.

Comcast et al have taken (literal) billions of public dollars to expand rural broadband service.

Instead of laying fiber, they used that money to change the definition of broadband.

If corporations are people we need to be able to institute the death penalty for them too.

Wow. Can you imagine what would happen if an American car company’s fully automated driving were responsible for the death of three teenagers in a fiery crash in Nevada?

I can only assume there’d be a full recall, the CEO would go on TV to apologize and resign.

But not everyone can be a beacon of freedom.

I did print myself a herome mount and everything awhile back. Added dual fans and whatnot, I was having a terrible time with petg surface quality, the dual fans helped a lot. I also had to reassemble my hotend to reprint something I messed up lol.

I’m at the point now where I’ve replaced so much on my ender that it doesn’t really look like the machine I bought, except that it’s still i3.

I’ll check out the orbiter, thanks!

The lack of banding and wobble is excellent, especially compared to where you came from. You’ve got me thinking about a new extruder. I’ve got some no name aluminum extruder setup right now, but I’ve put enough abrasive filament through that it’s made all my filament paths oblong.

Nice work!

It’s like when you look at a piece of wood on your deck and you think: “do I need to replace that whole plank, or is it just fine?” So you stick a knife in to see how solid the wood is, does the knife immediately stop or does it plunge right through.

So we shall see just how rotten things are.

Operation Sea Spray

COINTELPRO

MK Ultra

Good thing it’s terrible and will eat the resources of any business foolish enough to attempt to actually replace workers with it.