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It's not half, but it's clear about 30% of the country is belligerently demanding a dictatorship and the blood of people like me.

I don't truly hate anybody, but it would be downright foolish to try and pretend this isn't so.

Checking the news every day and seeing whole new categories of open corruption, inane sabre-rattling, and petty shattering of anything that works well is just exhausting.

Not sure how to fix this, but it's gotta happen somehow.

I would be a little surprised -- Amazon already has their own custom electric delivery trucks, and FedEx and UPS could probably order these from Oshkosh directly if they wanted. These vehicles are also optimized for mail, less for parcels. None of these players need to play backroom shenanigans.

That said, blatant corruption is just the name of the game at this point in America, so who knows.

Obviously this is extremely bad and dumb and performative, but putting that aside: who is going to buy them at the needed scale? They're custom purpose-built vehicles for mail delivery, not exactly something I see the marketplace absorbing.

I really don't think you want to go down the "bombs hospitals and murders innocent people as their main goal" road if you're ride or die for Israel

Haiku is in genuinely good shape. I contributed some code to it years and years ago and even back then it ran nicely even on bare metal.

About the only thing I think you miss out on is GPU acceleration and maybe wifi? I haven't kept up with the current state.

Norway is not cold: its temperature is very heavily moderated by the ocean. Trondheim's lowest mean daily minimum is 24.6 degrees F. The coldest place I could find there is Lomen, which mininums out at around 20 degrees F.

I am strongly pro-EV, and think they're broadly fine in every part of the US, and having just gotten back from Norway they're 100% on the right track, but they're nowhere near comparable to even my hometown of Minneapolis (8.8 degrees F lowest mean minimum).

Counter-anecdote, my county banned disposable plastic bags some years back, effectively ending the former plague of feral plastic bags flapping in the wind everywhere, but I basically never see people buying the cheap bags by the checkout counter.

People really did adapt by bringing their own bags.

(I live in suburb hell -- unfortunately, I'm probably the only person who walks to the grocery store, so car use is unaffected)

It's rather meaningless from a stranger on the internet, but I'm so so sorry :(

Your point is a perfectly good one -- you don't need to wrap it in that nasty sandwich.

Fedora does, fwiw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora_Media_Writer

I think it would probably be good, though?

Third party read-write NTFS drivers took FOREVER to become really robust. I remember hearing horror stories not infrequently up until maybe a decade or less ago.

I had a Firefox OS phone for hobby development. The initial release wasn't amazing, but 2.0 was actually surprisingly smooth and snappy on the anemic-even-for-the-time hardware!

Great little device, genuinely.

EDIT: It was a ZTE Open

The majority of non-city dwellers I know are now so propagandized against cities that I think they would be neutral to outright supportive of a kill order.

This is a dire situation and I'm not sure how this country crawls back out of this authoritarian slide, but we've got to somehow.

I'm not sure which group was behind it, but login.gov is a genuine delight and I'm always chuffed to run into a government website that uses it.

EDIT: It was a joint effort between the two!

It was incredibly fun reading and was very cathartic to see the explosion everybody knew had to eventually happen. At the same time, I don't see any way it all shakes out in a way that betters the country. I think it's likely we end up with a consolidation of Trump's authority.

> "other slurs"

Yeah, "cisgender" is a normal descriptive word, not a slur, and it's really quite strange that anybody would think it is

Yeah the censorship is overbearing now. I've since deleted my account of a decade but just using the word "cis" got a post of mine immediately auto-moderated.

I think people talking about how new-Twitter is somehow a bastion of free speech or whatever are just telling on themselves about what they think speech is.

> Aren't employees saying anything against these features?

Likely, but it's just demoralized workplace grousing. Tech employees are statistically sycophantic, and the exceptions get burned out or tossed out by executives who say things like "why don't they just shut up and work"

Since reading about cephalopod intelligence, I cut calamari out of my diet cold. I quip that I have a policy against eating anything smarter than me!

Avian cognition is so darn interesting. We associate the mammalian neocortex with "higher intelligence" (which is hand-wavy), but that structure arose after any common ancestor with birds.

The avian pallium is thought to be the analogue structure in birds, evolved separately.

Which is cool! Birds have separately evolved intelligence!

This is an incredibly common and frustrating bit of bad theology. There's no textual or archeological basis for it, and the really interesting mystery is where exactly this myth even came from.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/new-testament-studie...

People have been talking about "education and retraining" to make up for jobs lost to technology since I was young. It's a nice idea, but I'm curious if that actually happens at scale rather than in isolated pockets. Retraining is hard, expensive, and risky.

My general experience is that people tend to fall backwards into either lower-quality work or permanent semi-unemployment, but I could be mistaken about that.

We should. But even small baby step measures with no downsides like plastic bag bans are wildly contentious.

I live in a county that's enacted one, and it's been unambiguously an improvement for the area on top of the core goal of "reduce plastic waste". But visiters look at me like I live in East Germany when I mention that.

I don't say this to discredit the idea, but it's politically treacherous, and not a lot of people are willing to stick their necks out for the right thing.

I was happily paying for Duolingo Super, despite being unconfident in its pedagogy, until they announced they were replacing their human curriculum writers.

Dropped it instantly. I get the bargain-basement cost-cutting appeal from a (bad) CEO's perspective, but if I'm paying actual money for a service, I want said money going to humans.

I'm curious how you figure a language whose central verbs and nouns are logic "isn't math".

Are we recovering? The knock-on damage you list seems to be accelerating if anything.

Generating a bad LLM summary of articles is poor form.

(Especially since all the markdown is just visual noise)

There is something to be said for, to date, nobody on the right wing in the US managing to even partially recapture Trump's particularly inexplicable brand of charisma. Everybody who has tried has just flamed out (e.g. DeSantis cratering like Wile E. Coyote just looked down).

I pin my hopes on that failure continuing.