Uh all of those blades, including the fixed ones, are variable pitch. Every single blade has several precision moving parts

They’re claiming 20% more fuel efficiency which would be huge, but at the expense of a metric fuck load of moving parts. Also who the fuck knows that happens if you have to make a gear up landing with these things

It is building political pressure against them, they’re very clearly uncomfy within the administration. It may not directly fix all our fucked up shit but the admin blinked for the first time this cycle when it was looking increasingly likely that they had no limit and we were headed straight for a police state.

We survived last time by keeping them consistently on the defensive and for the first time we’ve managed to control the narrative again

https://www.triggercam.com/

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1983299739283075319#m

Simplex has a psychotic dev who’s trying to pivot the platform to crypto

We need a robust chat solution that doesn’t store your fucking phone number in their database. They can investigate all they want if the software is written well, everyone’s too focused on having support for a million stupid features though like stickers and gif library integration

TBF they’re basically silicon valley or nothing. If you’re accepted you have to be in the valley period, at least for the initial period.

There’s a lot of argument that yc is a real estate play, they give out money but try to lock you into properties they own

Your rights are determined by how well you aim for the pelvic girdle.

On Linux, selecting LUKS when you install encrypts the disk without the potential for this problem. So far it’s proven to be very reliable at stopping state level actors, just don’t use a password that you use elsewhere

This is so real. I’m forced to use it by my employer and it just sits there doing the cringiest shit all the time. Like everything is boilerplate and it’s just a deeply unsatisfying spaghetti mess of function calls. It’ll work if you have a good feedback loop, eventually, but only ever as a crude prototype.

There’s also the question of what happens when Gabe dies or retires. Unless he’s a secret communist and has plans in place to make it into an employee coop it’ll be sold by his estate to private equity.

I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love!

I get your argument but the broaderidea here is that people in the psych ward aren’t generally making good decisions

Worse yet a lot of mental health conditions have genetic components so the kids are basically getting the worst hand you can possibly deal them.

Okay so yes it’s green text but…

I know people who work at inpatient acute facilities and they are constantly having to cockblock people to prevent truly horrible things from happening (think anorexia dating borderline or NPD + NPD)

So while this particular story may not have happened, this general story happens daily.

Unfortunately this shouldn’t surprise anyone, it’s commonplace in investigations and trials. They will literally use your belief in equality as pretext and/or post justification to destroy your life be it on the street, in court, in prison, or in death.

Okay I’ll offer up the alternative.

Show any social worker or mental health professional a violent police interaction and in 90% of cases they will just shake their heads. They deal with the same shit every day and successfully manage many of the same situations without shooting anyone. The police universally try to respond as aggressively and counter productively as they can and it turns mental health crises into violence. Like yeah, there are situations where armed response is needed but so many of the common situations don’t require someone pointing guns at people. Go watch a random badge cam video and ask yourself, could a competent mental health worker resolve this? Food for thought, people frequently react in extreme ways to the police because they know how violent and unjust the situation will become with them involved.

For prison at a minimum just stop with the drug war shit. Stop sending people to jail for parking fines and weed and getting them wrapped up in the system so they lose their jobs. An ideal standard could, again, involve mental health treatment, counseling, and rehabilitation. If someone’s arrested for stealing shit, maybe they need to be put in a safe environment where they can learn skills, get a job and contribute to society. If they’re too dangerous, they need to be in a facility where they’re getting actual help and treatment until they aren’t dangerous if that day ever comes.

You may be thinking that this stuff is just vaguely cops and jails by some other name and at a hyper superficial level that may be in part, but the meat grinder we’ve built is definitely not the above in any stretch of the imagination.

There are even more extreme versions like the restorative (not just rehabilitative) justice systems built by the Zapatistas, I encourage people to seek out alternative proposals, there’s a whole world of ideas out there.

NVIDIA, FORK YOU!

I’ve been seeing this happen with increasing frequency. We can win this fight! Just be ready for them to adapt their tactics again, stay vigilant and be ready to change things up when they do. Keep shit weird and chaotic, they obsess over order and procedure.