gregory.wild-smith.com
VW Bus owner, Ghostbuster, & Clio Award winner. Passionate about making things, UX, & A11y.
A-CSM, A-CSD, & Agile Leadership certified Staff Software Engineer. Formerly Netflix, LinkedIn, & much more. š¬š§šŗšø
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Minor quibble: democratic republic.
Plenty of democratic monarchies (ie, a constitutional monarchy) in the world (see: UK, Denmark, Spain, Japanā¦ etc)
Itās solid slogan for the US tho, agreed. I like how they characterize it as the principles of the three core wars too.
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Yeah, the actually awesome & useful parts of crypto do not require buy in AT ALL, lets along ponzi-style trading.
They are, unsurprisingly, the least used & seen parts (like how UPS, or shipping companies, use blockchain tech)
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Yeah, exactly. I can disagree with Hamas and still find Israelās actions abhorrent & criminal.
These are not mutually exclusive positions, but youād never guess from The Discourse.
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You were mistaken.
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And yet, for all their similarities, both are incredibly different & great in their own way.
Itās really never about the idea. Itās about the execution.
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In the sense that doing absolutely nothing is practice for doing *more* nothing, yes.
Slacktivism doesnāt work, we have decades of evidence of that. It also tricks people into thinking theyāve done something when they havenāt & disillusioning them when it does absolutely zero.
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Yeah, but with old cruddy iron, sometimes itās the only way. If you scrub it directly after any flashed surface rust will come off instantly.
Just oil it up & season it in the oven for 90 mins at 400F and itāll be fine. (tho Iād personally do that 2-3 times more before *cooking* on it)
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Hmm this is what I get
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Random note: do you know your website isnāt working? Says it canāt make a secure connection
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My god I love your work
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Eh, it would be fine as long as itās not on the high heat setting.
Of course youād have to re-season it a bunch to get it back to working order tho.
Not a good idea, but itās not as disastrous as many make out.
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Ah ok, got it
If youāre equating being a dick with being a Nazi youāre just not a serious person with a working logic center.
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Elon being a dumb asshole != Elon being a government overthrowing Nazi.
Conflating the two is just silly & unserious.
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Plus, ironically, the whole thing makes their resale value plummet (even more than Elonās own behavior has) so that *makes them harder to sell*.
Do I wish I could swap it for a Rivian or similar? Yes. But those are twice as expensive as the resale of a Model Y
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Same situation. The idea that people can just sell their cars & buy a whole new one as a protest is some of the most privileged bullshit Iāve seen from too-online faux-leftists (and Iāve seen a lot of that before).
Like, sure, Iād love to get rid of it. But kid needs to get to school, what now?
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Itās partly because membership rotates
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Start your own freshman football leagueā¦ with blackjack! And hookā¦ waitā¦
ā¦ ok so maybe I got ahead of myself there.
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39, still pretty young tbh
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Iām so sorry. I literally yelled āNOā involuntarily when I heard.
Gone far too soon.
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Itās also factual. It was white supremacists.
Stop making excuses for fascists.
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Sadly makes sense. Once you allow at-will firing all bets are off.
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Unfortunately Boox devices have a habit of self destructing (likely heat damaging the screen) & the company then pretends itās not their fault & the user must have pressed hard on it.
Soā¦ caveat emptor & all that
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Sounds like a monkeys paw: good knees but the eyes & memory giving up the ghost
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Anyone paying attention didnāt laugh.
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This has been known for many years.
I just assume anyone with a substance is ok with Naziās at this point.
Itās been a tell for a LONG time.
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Which organizations are in the WH press pool that you consider legitimate?
Not that it matters much: any organization picked by his admin now can be crossed off that list
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No! Oh that poor woman, thatās so sad. She was, by all accounts, a light in everyoneās life who knew her. š¢
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Whole Foods has really gone to shit since they took over anyhow so it really shouldnāt be any hardship to cut them out.
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Should start targeting THEIR business/work
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Have some noodle soup John, youāre getting cranky.
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Ok so if itās two genres & Dan OāBannon itās likely sci-fi horror.
Hmmā¦ didnāt he do a movie about Space Vampires frozen in a comet or something? Is this that? Pretty sure Iāve not seen it. Think it was based on a book tho
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No, itās faux-leftists. Iāve blocked about 500 of them doing exactly that shit to marginalized people since the election.
While there are some liberals doing it, certainly, the vast majority are not. Theyāre the types with DSA emojis in their bio/handle whoāve never read any foundational texts.
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lol, you think itās *liberals* saying that stuff? No, itās too-online faux-leftists who think that shitposting is the same as protesting/action
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Hmmm this screams 80s Dan OāBannon to me (or inspired by) but Iām not quite sure *what*.
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There arenāt many organic spaceships out there shockingly.
This is the very underrated Roger Corman masterpiece Battle Beyond the Stars.
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Movie, and again, too easy.
Great robots tho! Not quite as iconic as VINCENT from The Black Hole thoā¦
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Both are contained in that text, technically
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BUTā¦
That is the Serenity, a mid-sized bulk transport (Class B) 03-K64-Firefly.
Owned by Malcom Reynolds, piloted primarily by Hoban āWashā Washburne, itās also been piloted by River Tam
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They prioritized the things most people care about.
Thatās not your use case, butā¦ still true
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Very very few premium phones even have SD slots anymore. Itās the lower end stuff that usually does (and needs to, because they have barely any storage on them).
Thereās a good reason for that: itās not particularly needed & people do not care
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I update every year but thatās because Iām on the Apple Update Plan so itās seamless, transparent, easy, and the cost stays the same
If I wasnāt on it..? Hell my iphone 8, thatās in a drawer somewhere, probably still works ok
My recent MBP update was after 6 years (and my wife still uses that one)
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Its both. Itās always both.
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The Barbican is freaking lovelyā¦ when well maintained & not stripped of its specifically designed in trees, water features, & plants (which it was for *decades*, sadly).
Same with the giant brutalist āsculptureā in SF. Itās actually a fountain & looks really great when used correctly!
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Yeah some were definitely more art projects rather than functional (ironically going against some of the founding ideas of the field)
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Never mind articles like this try to place blame on the Dems rather than the electorate.
Which is plain false.
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Of course the Democrats abandoning law & order to fight back would be niceā¦ but itās also a recognition that the US has fallen, because at that point *the country no longer exists*, not as a functioning entity.
So rock vs hard place