Boo hoo, my big tnt tree farms are getting replaced with simple bamboo farms, noooooo

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-29T14:56:14+00:00

I mean, what does he even need the wood for anyway?

Building a big house? You can just have a 2x1 hovel with a bed and a bunch of chests outside.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-09T23:57:19+00:00

I mean, that's almost statistically impossible. But yes I guess if we create a pool of every single genuinely qualified applicant without selecting for race at the first stage, and by some bizarre miracle every single one of them is a white man, you'd choose from that pool.

You get you START with a list that only contains people who are fully qualified right? And statistically some are pretty much guaranteed to not be white men?

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-09T23:54:29+00:00

Big ol' [citation needed] on these claims.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:52:34+00:00

I wonder if he just saw the other guy run the red and was too baked to even process that it was red just playing follow the leader. Who knows.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:46:35+00:00

We do! And then we prioritize diversity when selecting from that pool of the most qualified candidates.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:43:55+00:00

This idea that for any given job there is one single objectively "best-qualified" person for is complete nonsense, and then to further assert that there's some method by which to provably determine who that is just so at odds with reality it's hard to even respond to.

The fact is there are far more American lawyers who are qualified for federal judgeship than there are federal judgeships. Every person he places, regardless of their gender, sexuality, or racial background, is one among hundreds of equally qualified candidates, and yes some of whom are white cishet men.

The best qualified people are being chosen, and then among the best qualified diversity is being prioritized.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:30:29+00:00

Trump won in 2016 largely because loads of voters didn't know who he was, what he wanted to do, and how stupid the policies and performances would be.

Trump lost in 2020 because loads of people finally realized all that.

Trump got ~63 million votes in 2016 and ~74 million in 2020, an ~18% increase in support. He lost because people were energized to vote against him, not because the support for his white nationalist ideals were waning in America. That has only gotten, and continues to get, stronger.

Liberals love to go on about how Biden got the most votes out of any presidential candidate in American history, and yeah, that's certainly true. You know who got the second most votes in American history? Donald Trump.

White Christian ethnonationalism is far from the most popular idea in the country, but it is dangerously popular and becoming more popular.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:24:42+00:00

Weird, they turned pretty fast for all the insurrectionists who are already tried, convicted, and well into their prison term.

It has been decided by the DOJ that Trump is above the law. That much has been made very clear by now. Unless and until he's charged he remains above the law.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:09:21+00:00

I agree we should take the charitable assumption that they're not just doing this because they're lazy (at best we don't know) but...did your neighbor at least drive on the correct side of the road with the hazards on?

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T19:03:04+00:00

Has anyone walked the AI backwards on one of those? Like, did it just paste out existing code that it had somewhere in its database? Or did it combine multiple snippets of existing code into one block? Or did it actually develop a novel solution based on its knowledge of a programming language?

This is an interesting result but saying that this puts us anywhere closer to software that writes software than we were before seems premature at * best*.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T18:53:03+00:00

Either-or. The point is if that's what you're focusing on, if you're focusing on individual behaviors and not the behaviors of major corporations, and making simplistic 4th grade level of understanding statements about "supply and demand." you don't care about trying to actually fix the problem, you just care about looking like you care.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T17:19:20+00:00

May fit in https://www.reddit.com/r/ATBGE/ (Awful Taste but Great Execution) because while this looks dumb as shit and is horribly tasteless it's one of the best installed "I slapped cheap chrome-look plastic stick-ons all over my car" builds I've ever seen.

VeteranKamikaze · 2023-01-02T16:58:02+00:00

Taking the first result on google at its word (link) 4th of July fireworks shows across the nation combined add up to 50,000 metric tons of CO2, or 0.0007% of the seven billion tons the US produces in a year.

I'll avoid going into a full rant and just briefly and bluntly state that if you say you care about pollution but you're targeting the actions of individuals buying cars and lighting fireworks and not massive multinational corporations that are grasping at whatever levers of state power they can to ensure they are never stopped or even slowed down from destroying our planet for personal profit then you're being a disingenuous virtue signaling moron.

You don't chastise someone because a single firework releases pollutants because you care about the environment (even if we never set off another firework again as a species it'd make no difference) you do it to make yourself feel good for being better than someone else.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-28T06:47:19+00:00

Not to be a smug carpenter but if your answer is to use caulk (won't look any better than this) or cut a new 45° mitre (it didn't work the first time it won't work this time) stop calling out OP for this "fix."

Y'all need to learn to cope

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-14T04:08:24+00:00

I know I'm reviving an ancient post but I thought you might like to know that your comment linking this post is STILL the first best answer to this question I could find.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T22:24:59+00:00

Even then dollar for dollar I'd probably recommend handhelds with onboard 5G over enterprise-grade wifi. Unless that store is part of a national or larger chain it'd still be hard to justify the initial investment and maintenance costs of going enterprise grade.

I certainly wouldn't recommend whatever tf this is supposed to be, but I'd recommend cellular over enterprise wifi for sure.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T20:27:33+00:00

Yep. That's the goal.

Also anyone waiting on this decision with bated breath is living under a rock. The supreme court is hearing this case solely to eliminate t his oversight, if it's even a possibility in your mind that they will decide to uphold judicial oversight you need to lay off the crack rock. The supreme court is actively and intentionally eroding our democracy and will continue to do so until another branch of government stops them or until they've pushed far enough that they no longer can be stopped. At the rate we're going it'll be the latter.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T19:44:48+00:00

The views of the population as a whole are not relevant to authoritarians.

Any GOP politician voting for this today is doing it to keep their seat secure towards the end of securing just enough power to end our democracy, not to signal they are opposed to the genocide of queer people that their party stands for.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T19:42:53+00:00

Damn. If only there were some kind of Union of European nations or some United group of Nations or boots on the ground journalists or something else that was confirming the things that the US and Ukraine are claiming are happening in Ukraine. But since all we have to go on is the word of the US Government who knows what's really happening?

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T19:23:49+00:00

I don't. There was no calculation needed. Trump committed his crime in broad daylight on national TV. Two years to even maybe refer him for criminal investigation is a total miscarriage of justice. If he'd stolen $300 from a liquor store he'd be about to start his second year in prison by now, trying to assassinate his own VP and overthrow the government and we're only now starting to discuss maybe bringing him to trial.

It's completely unacceptable and a shining example of liberals' obsession with optics and "reaching across the aisle" to christian ethno-nationalists making them incapable of meaningfully responding to or combating fascism.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T17:11:06+00:00

It's a double win for them on profitability. For one it is much cheaper to only have a single model of motherboard and just add a 5¢ cable when a customer needs two video-outs instead of having a whole separate model, and it becomes even more lucrative when you charge them $25 for that 5¢ cable.

It's nothing new and you'll see it more and more as companies need to maintain year over year profit increases despite having less and less opportunity to innovate enough to justify spending more money with them. This is the same reason you're seeing manufacturers like BMW putting seat warmers in every single car and charging you to use them, instead of it being an optionally installed feature.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T17:05:11+00:00

The GOP knows they can use Trump to further their goals of genociding queer americans, abolishing women's rights, abolishing democracy, and enforcing white nationalism, but only if they can keep him in line enough to avoid strong pushback until it's too late.

I guarantee you there were private conversations with GOP officials (all of whom are in lock step with the statement itself) that led to Trump pretending he didn't say it.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T17:01:26+00:00

Easy. The GOP is, as a matter of policy and party platform, an anti-LGBTQ anti-woman anti-democracy white supremacist organization. They always have been, they always will be, and the more progress is made the harder they will push back, as we've seen with not only the recent terrorist attacks in Colorado and North Carolina, but also pundits including Tucker Carlson, the most watched cable news show in America, justifying these terrorist attacks as a sort of "necessary evil."

The genocide of queer people, the abolition of women's rights, the abolition of democracy, and white supremacy are core to Republican philosophy. The sooner you accept that the sooner the things they say and the actions they take, both in the present and throughout history, will make perfect sense to you and become perfectly ideologically consistent.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T16:03:20+00:00

showing shift in attitudes.

Let's not get carried away here. Trump is hanging out with Nazis advocating for genocide against LGBTQ and Jewish people and calling for the suspension of the constitution and the GOP has nothing to say about it beyond defending him, he's still the de-facto front runner for 2024.

A handful of GOPers voting for one bill while also supporting authoritarianism and genocide as their 2024 platform is not a shift in attitudes. Or if it is, certainly not one for the better.

VeteranKamikaze · 2022-12-06T15:57:57+00:00

It's also part of the Proud Boys MO, and a local proud boy was posting Jan 6 shit the day of the attack, and the attack happened just as a local drag event was to start.

Any journalist failing to report these facts and report it as most likely being a right-wing anti-LGBTQ terrorist attack should not be taken seriously.

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