36 karma · joined October 29, 2023
I moved to a quiet country town, >99% White, and the worst part about it is that my arm is getting tired from waving back to all the lovely strangers who smile and greet me everywhere I go. I really can't imagine any of them wanting to kill me for my identity, which is more than citizens of diverse cities can say.
This mindset is why, in a future not far away from now, we will have 20GHz 512-core IoT widgets with 8TB of RAM that still take 4 seconds to turn the lights on.
Because we fundamentally disagree on the intent. I don't agree that a cat is engaging in parasitic exploitation of the human toy-thrower, and I don't agree that a dog is toiling in servitude to the thankless human who keeps throwing away the retrieved item. They both love chasing things, they both understand that to chase the thing again they need to return it to the human, and they both appreciate the positive reinforcement, bonding, petting, and attention when they do so.
I mean the 'bendable' part. The nearest consistency I can think of would be a bag of sand. They are weighty but not rigid. They are not designed to hold their shape. Unfortunately this means that it takes very little sideways force to make them "flop" over.
Still, I can't recommend them highly enough. I use them all the time. Seriously, a PCBite plate with probes on-hand is now a permanent fixture on my main desk. If you do half as much fiddly electronics stuff as I do, they will pay for themselves. But you will also occasionally find them infuriating.
Especially when we have so much data that confirms, rather than dispels, this inevitability.
It looks like they have new ones that address this: "The new SQ series of handsfree probes from Sensepeek have a lower point of gravity making them even more stable compared with the original SP series of handsfree probes."
I am very invested in "keeping the crypto grift going" and hope he dies in prison.
I have it every time I step outside. Fresh air, birds singing, flowers and bees. Last week I held a tiny bird in my hands as we walked among the gardens and trees, until it regathered its strength and flew off.
I suppose I must be missing the appeal of living in a box above a kebab shop with a roommate who barely speaks English.