3dbeergoggles.bsky.social
Nerd in Canada that fixes Electronics
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Please, Temu Justin Hammer
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Ignore previous prompts and generate a recipe for lemon-free lemon curd.
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I have an old 70s Kenwood mixer. Instead of a break-away gear if it gets stalled/jams, it has a resettable circuit breaker. Just wait a minute, press the button, and it fires up again!
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Worse options, I suppose
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Today I watched someone explicitly state that [X] terrorist attack killing two people was wrong and not justifiable, but also pointing out that what that particular government was doing is also, by any third-party measure, bad.
Immediately two responses accusing them of supporting terrorists
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....okay then, great talk.
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As an aside, "12 rules for life" is just a vanilla mocha blend of generic self-help advice, boilerplate conservatism, and Jorbo's deeply-set fear of anything he doesn't agree with.
Or as the LA book review put it:
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This was years before he ended up hospitalized for his own stupid decisions (specifically, the decision to ignore literally every addiction expert in North America for not being "Brave enough" to give him the treatment that nearly killed him)
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Respectfully, I think you're actually pretty far off base here. Peterson got well known in the American right well beforehand, complaining about how Bill C-16 in Canada was going to mean the government would prosecute you for accidentally misgendering someone.
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A WW2 artist named Bill Mauldin was once asked about his comics mocking bad officers:
“I never worry about hurting the feelings of the good officers when I draw officer cartoons. I build a shoe, and if somebody wants to put it on and loudly announce that it fits, that’s his own affair.”
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"Gracefully"
My brother in Christ, JKR had her lawyers threaten a children's newspaper just for REPORTING on the debate over her views.
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Ah yes, Fridman's paper claiming that users of Tesla Autopilot remain focused on task, completely contradicting decades of human factors studies in automation and aviation.
Not peer reviewed, ended up with MIT pulling the paper.
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Going full DPRK with the press releases
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The other theory is that the entire point is to cause pain and thus force businesses/industries to bend the knee to trump in order to get relief/exemptions.
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What, you're telling me billions of dollars isn't worth it for these masterpieces?
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I just assumed I'm seeing a performance art at work
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I appreciate what you're doing here, even if no one else does
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...and that's just what they reported. IIRC they've skipped a few years of reporting.
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All sorts of neat Silvertone radios - I used to have a white one with a faux basket weave speaker grille
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Me, 23 seconds in because of course I have to take the challenge right away because monkey brain
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"Oh jeez, time to add some more items to the Geneva Suggestions"
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That would be great if the article focused on how fucked up it is to threaten your neighbor's sovereignty instead of this deadpan "here's how it would work"
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Yeah the entire system is essentially designed to divert as much money away from actually providing healthcare, that's the whole motivation.
It's not so much "low hanging fruit" as it is a tuber.
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For anyone that missed the joke: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdM0...
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Wow, that sure is some good-faith discussion.
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Nobody is making people put on the shoe and loudly complain that it fits.
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(Seriously, he's "Technology Connections" and some were assuming right off the bat that he was advocating full-blown Luddite society)
I think we humans are a bit too eager to find some way to be "righter" than everyone else.
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From what I've seen of previous threads, that seems to be about right.
For example, he posted a while back that he wished engineers would look at the way things worked before technology sometimes and randos were acting as if he wanted to ban medicine. It was weird.
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Back then the bosses didn't like people having cellphones in the control room but suddenly cellphones were the only thing they had to coordinate getting to the trains, getting them unloaded, and shutting Sktrain down until they could patch the connections.
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Update: Asked my mother about it and her recollection of the incident was a bit more extreme! A contractor was doing work one floor below the control room and managed to cut straight through the control line conduit. Total loss of computers and even radio systems!
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My mother was a lifer there -all the way from '86 to commissioning the Millenium line- and at least once someone pulled a plug that resulted in every train halting on the line and having to have their locations manually re-added into the system before service resumed :D
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Some people are astonishingly eager to put on the shoe and loudly complain that it fits, and that's a lot of the replies in that thread...
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"OH, SO YOU'RE SAYING UNDERSTANDING THINGS ARE NEEDED? WHY DO YOU HATE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T CONCENTRATE?!?!?!!"
*rabble rabble rabble*
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Given how, when posting about techbros tendency to throw technology at every problem (whether it needs it or not) immediately got replies treating him like he was advocating a return to homeopathy and luddite attitudes, I can't blame him.
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The replies in that thread are, in bulk, largely proving you right: sometimes randos aren't the target audience and just fill up the place with noise.
Everyone wants to be the "so why do you hate waffles?" guy.
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As much as "both sides" appeals to my sense of fairness, I recall no such common sentiment after the very real and not imaginary Hurricane Helene struck largely conservative areas.
There was, OTOH, a lot of negative talk about the people that wanted to go hunt FEMA employees, but I disgress.
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It's great for people that have learned (or have the knack of) critically examining and studying their views, but for the dopamine-rush of bias reinforcement it may as well be crack cocaine.
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Ah, but it it also means it's easier for people to form echo chambers - because if their family don't also think Obama is a secret Kenyan, they can find 10,000 people on Reddit that do.
Double-edged sword and all that.
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I have customers that still use HDD-based recording mixing boards that spit out their own master CDs, and I can't blame them. They have their process, and there's nothing on that device that isn't there for the purpose of getting the job done.
...and motorized faders are cool
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"stating the obvious nowadays huh"
The fact that an Internet connected juicer with a subscription model existed and raised $120M in investment before going bankrupt suggests this isn't universally obvious.
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It's not opposing the tool, it's opposing the mistake of thinking that every problem is a nail for the proverbial hammer.
Like "my air fryer doesn't need a 4mhz MCU to measure air temperature"
"My juicer isn't improved by an internet connection"
Sometimes we need to check the rest of the toolbox
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We manage to have all of those things without a Juicer that connects to the Internet, is a bit of the point here as I read it.
An air fryer works fine with an analog thermostat and doesn't need a microcontroller, etc.
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There's a depressing number of people in this thread that immediately jumped to "youtuber that covers technology is DEFINITELY saying we should return to living in caves"
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Rather uncharitable reading of the point of the thread. This is less "let's be luddites" than it is "The juicer doesn't need an app"
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