2 weeks before the mid terms might be the right time they’re waiting for.

He’s gotten a lot better. Turns out therapy works.

Find a co-op grocery store, everyone I’ve been to has had a bulk section

I mean it’s fine so long as you set it to a short cycle and auto dry.

Oh boy! Something tangential to my special interest! In the late 1800s and first half of the 1900s bicycle mounted infantry units were a thing. Generally not fighting from atop the bikes, but rather maneuvering whole companies to position, and carrying supplies. Largely with advent of mass motorization they fell by the wayside but they held on for quite a while. The Dutch and Belgians had significant infantry formations on bicycles. The Japanese used them extensively in the invasion of Malaya and Singapore. And they were the back bone of NVA logistics during large parts of the Indochina Wars. The US had a few experimental units but they never saw service in a war. A bunch of armies used them for message runners.

For a force that couldn’t afford to support a large fleet of trucks, that were operating in conditions that trucks could not handle, or that were attempting to minimize their foot print to avoid air strikes, bikes served a huge role. They sit as a middle ground between trucks and simply having everyone walk. Not needing fuel, being able to handle rough terrain, faster movement than walking, and carrying significantly more than a single person can with a backpack.

Motorcycles also do a fair amount of use for similar reasons. The Soviet’s in WW2 also had large recon and exploitation forces on motorcycles, and there are lots of examples of paratrooper units using them as carriers for anti tank weapons and mortars.

We’re starting to see E-bikes show up in some modern conflicts now as well.

Me but light infantry and infiltration tactics.

Also like, combination K’s entire channel.

“Name 3 package managers”

I will simply reinstall and forsake my files if it shits the bed catastrophically

So generally, in the PRC, the central government will put out a request or state a problem, and then provinces will attempt to implement a solution independently. If the central government likes the out come of one of the trialed system they might make it national policy.

That’s basically what social credit was. The central government gave a vague cryptic request for potential solutions about low trust in modern society, and a bunch of different provinces implemented various ideas, some via contract to private companies. Some provinces didn’t trial anything, some trialed systems that were basically just credit scores, some trialed a system of ranking “how good of a citizen you are” and gave gift cards and stuff to people who scored high.

Ultimately, the central government choose not to adopt any of them and the various trials were spun down. So, social credit was a lot of things, and thus multiple different ideas of what it was are correct, although a lot of reports on it mixed and matched different parts form different trials to make it sound as bad as possible, and some will just talk about one particularly benign system to make it seem like others are being hysterical. Ether way it wasn’t ever a nation wide thing and is largely defunct now.

There are way more people who can attempt a hack than can attempt to break in.

To an extent, institutional inertia. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Adopting new systems brings in a layer of uncertainty, sure maybe there is some upside to the new system, but does it outweigh the risk and cost of overhauling all the dependencies of the old system? Can you be sure that all the relevant stakeholders and partners will be onboard with the new system, or will some reject it and insist on the old system, thus requiring everyone to maintain two standards.

It’s much easier to adopt a new system when the old system is clearly non-functional and untrustworthy, or when there just wasn’t an earlier system that did that function in a given economic environment. The more important the institution, the more issue it causes if it fails, the more this applies.

I’ve tried a few of those, I always get a buzzing or it gets weirdly hot, one just blew out my headphones. So I don’t really trust them at this point.

The big problem for me is that there is only one port, so you can ether listen to something, or, charge the phone, not both. Just having two ports would solve this.

Also, not something I really care about but a lot of people do, the headphone jack is an analog output, where as the USB-C is a digital output, and you need an analog signal to run a speaker. So they need to have their own DACs (Digital-Analog converter), and many of the USB-C headphones have poor quality DACs that loose detail. Used to be the DAC was just in the phone, and was generally of good quality.

Then he would fail to accomplish anything meaningful, continue unpopular policies and while quibbling about the “feasibility” of popular policies. Then the republicans take back the house and senate in the next mid term, and he looses the next presidential election to another wacko facist.

Any candidate democrats put up in the next election will probably win, the question is what happens after that. Real reform and energetic leadership is needed and that’s just not what newsome brings to the table.

i think the big difference comes down to that flicks are put up by police departments and city governments, while ring cameras are put up by private citizens.

Like, they both do effectively the same thing, but, criticizing your neighbors for putting up a ring is self censored because people don’t want to come across as “preachy” or judging their neighbors. But no one has any hang ups about criticizing a town government.

I think the bigger issue is that people have not internalized that the companies behind these systems are the real problem, less the people conned in to implementing them.

Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.

This has had actually been in the works for a while, it’s not like he just materialized this out of nowhere.

But, it has been constantly getting delayed and put through “trials”. So, it actually getting implemented is good.

The best part is seeing idiots who want any excuse to attack a DSA politician trying to argue that loose trash bags are better than dumpsters. Like, trying to make the concept of dumpsters a culture war issue is hilarious.

I saw a take that was just “he has no attention span, the only way to get him to care is to make it feel engaging and exciting”

And thus the idea of the attack was crafted to get him re-invested in the war. To make him see it as important and not just an annoying thing he wants to go away. And… given that kegseth went with him… yah… feels like a stunt.

Ok, but hear me out… that’s basically an air fryer… like, what is a dryer but a convection oven?

The US was the first place smartphones took off and in the first couple years iPhone was the smartphone, so the initial set of adopters got iPhones because android wasn’t really a consideration. Then the network effect, people got what their friends or family had. Also, since a lot of people get their phones payed for through their cellular carrier contract, they not super price sensitive since the cost was buried in a monthly bill.

So lots of people are used to IOS, and don’t see a reason to switch. Especially now with the one major differentiator, walled garden vs open platform, is disappearing with Google locking down their platform.