PhilipTheBucket

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Seriously. “Esprit de corps”? Where the hell did he get that from? He blamed everything on Biden and it didn’t make any sense, but that’s not anything new, that’s what won him the election.

And next year, it'll be worse. And the year after, worse than that, until the planet's lungs and beating heart we all depend on begin to seize up and die, irrevocably.

1. At least on Lemmy, this is definitely what I've observed. If you look at any thread that's full of sturm und drang, it's usually a tiny handful of accounts that are creating all of it (and then roping other people into their hostility, like a little chain reaction, like Chernobyl.) If you look at the impact, it just looks like everyone's an asshole, but if you look at the root of the trouble, you realize most people are fine and a tiny minority are noisy and hostile and they can just get everyone else spun up.
2. I agree, if you're in NYC right at this moment in history and you can't see a bigger picture of things worth getting heated up about than White Lotus, you should talk with people in your community more.

I frequently make bug reports and contributions to all kinds of software. If this wasn’t something that impacted people’s security and trust evaluation, that’s exactly what I would have done.

Put it this way: If Android, or Outlook or whatever, was sending your admin password home to Google or Microsoft, and then people showed up to say it was probably an innocent mistake and why are you even making a big deal about it, just report it and let them fix it instead of creating drama, that would be absurd. That’s how I feel about the people here telling me the same thing.

Well, part of the price I pay for being a consistent dickhead is that sometimes people aren’t enthused to respond to me. I get why they wouldn’t really want to respond here and get yelled at, whether or not it was malicious, and instead just fix it and go on.

In my opinion it would be a healthier way to go about things if they were willing to meet criticism head-on, but the pro-authoritarianism position they’ve staked out for themselves is so widely and bitterly unpopular that I think that ship has sailed and they’re unlikely to engage with most of the free-speaking world at this point, because it would just be a torrent of abuse and mockery and so what would even be gained by it.

Inb4 Pam Bondi gets thrown under the bus

She’s stupid and obedient enough to survive longer than most. But how many people who were close to Trump 2 years ago are still anywhere in his orbit now? You either leave voluntarily, or you get thrown to the Sarlacc whenever it serves the convenience of the day.

The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who aren’t being anti-fascist enough, or weren’t in the past, or whatever.

I hear he used to play with Canned Heat sometimes.

The evidence for my secondary conspiracy theory grows stronger

My new conspiracy theory is that a gang of people have teamed up to try to wind me up on this particular topic in what was supposed to be a lighthearted nonsense-question to which I gave an appropriate nonsense-answer.

You’re the only one who actually did arrive at something which is pretty much the actual answer (“coulomb counting”), although you keep mucking it up by saying things like you “can get a voltage sensor” to get the energy left in the battery, or “current through the battery” when the battery is the only part current does not flow through during discharge, or by making up wild random guesses that something is “almost certainly” taken into account. Just take all that extra stuff away and stick with “the phone monitors discharge” and you’ll be pretty much right.

Hopefully we can put this whole endeavor behind us now, and go back to talking about Chipotle and chemtrails.

Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. They’re always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components together… just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.