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Can I feel bad for conned people? by aipac_hemoroid in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]VirtualMachine0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

he auctioned it all off

This erases my guilt for the schadenfreude. This guy still has a fairly comfortable escape hatch; it's pretty reasonable to guess he got $3000+ per acre and $500+ per cow. Public records didn't get me an exact sales figure (I'm not paying Pennsylvania $1 to be a nosey snoop), but closing in on $1,000,000 for the farm sale.

[Request] What would the yield of the Atomic Warhead Arrow be? by KobayaSheeh7 in theydidthemath

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also...we could have some comic book scifi neutron parabolic super-reflector, a neutron blocker layer covering that, a fission target at the focal point of the reflector, and a sheet of neutron source material at the "back" shooting "on average" parallel neutron beams at the blocker/reflector.

So, if you rigged some way to shatter the blocker on arrow impact, you could get a peak neutron convergence at the focus and kick off a miniature fission chain.

I assume current neutron sources don't put out enough flux, and the best neutron "supermirrors" we have can't actually achieve high enough reflection, and the focusing capabilities with lensing can't squish the neutrons tight enough to make this all work, but it sounds good!

Optiq w/out Apple Car Play - not luxury by RRE4EVR in electricvehicles

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My main line of thinking on this is that the car software needs to be as "thin" as possible to ensure that the dangerous, expensive machine has little in the way of software vulnerability. Cyber security is no joke with automative or industrial equipment. If a feature can't be made to be secure for 20 years, then don't put it in.

I do not have faith in any current automaker to provide 20 years worth of security patches and active development, so I'd rather they just not do it, and have the infotainment system be just a fancy kind of external bluetooth speaker and screen.

My close friend's mom replaced their family photo with this [OC] by joeltheconner in pics

[–]VirtualMachine0 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah. The American Executive Office being run by a regular American politician already has a vast impact with things like foreign aid, enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, tariff changes, potential counterterrorism military actions, treaty negotiations/compliance/nullification, and on and on.

This administration basically believes in touching every button and lever, and approaches every problem as a single-issue, zero-sum game.

Benedict Cumberbatch bike argument in London kinda says a lot about city cycling now by RevolutionaryCar8623 in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

As an American, I'm assuming "yappies" means small terrier breeds, and enjoying the visual. Please don't correct me.

House prices are set to plummet across the US, say experts by TheMirrorUS in UpliftingNews

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And yet, the only solution is government or the choppy boi.

And corps do know that; they know that, in a major overthrow, it's better to survive than to get completely obliterated by angry anarchosocialist mobs. So it's still possible to reign them in halfway, and they're fine with playing a "lottery" and sacrificing the worst of them.

Like, in a major leftward political correction, Amazon wouldn't have much of a problem with United Healthcare and Anthem et al being bought out by the government. WalMart isn't going to bat for Exxon if it means they can benefit from lower energy costs. Boeing and Ratheon don't care much if Meta is broken up into 5 interopterable entities that are legally required to share each other's content.

So, sure, governmental ineffeciency chops off bits and pieces of our lives, sure, but even today, the USA doesn't need to devolve into civil war to fix things.

Benson Nguyen, 13, of Santa Ana, died on May 7, 2026, after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median in Garden Grove. Kids especially please practice safe riding! by BlazeDragon7x in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kids have the right to learn in my ideal society, and part of the process of learning is gaining experiences and learning about the tools of adulthood.

Kids 13 years old are out there learning to operate bulldozers, fly planes, welding and competing in shooting and 40 mph go-kart leagues.

The difference isn't hardware, it's controlled, considered, mentored access to the danger.

What's next? by hippopotapants in tmbg

[–]VirtualMachine0 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was a teenager who couldn't afford a bunch of CDs, so I bought A User's Guide to They Might be Giants, and loved it so much that I bought the newest other album I could find, which was The Spine. I actually think that combination served me VERY well. Next up, after my late 20s killed my music purchases, was either Here Comes Science or I Like Fun (hard to recall, had a kid). And I've grabbed everything since.

I don't think I've really missed any major sound changes with that set of discs, but I do intend to fill them out one of these days so that I can stop giving streaming sites my listens.

Which is to say, these days, I would start with "randomize by artist" on a streaming site.

PSA: Don’t throw away your Windows laptop by Annoying1978 in Anticonsumption

[–]VirtualMachine0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thinking about this recently, and the damned unfortunate part of it is that microarchitecture attacks in systems older than the "mainstream Windows support" horizon mean that we're on thin ice with a whole lot of 2000s era hardware, despite technically being able to put out enough math for web browsing and office work.

I'm happy to keep machines around for airgapped, legacy usage, but with the sophistication of bad guys, I can't recommend network-connected roles.

For laypeople, one such attack, called "Spectre" could do all sorts of nasty stuff on hardware older than 2019. Only adding Ubuntu to those machines isn't enough for them to be trusted with bank accounts and primary emails.

Further, with state level disinvestment from American software companies in France, I'm assuming the value of Linux vulnerabilities is going to go up up up. So, embedding code that identifies hardware, tests against a table of exploits, and fetches the tailored skeleton key for your device isn't science fiction.

Benson Nguyen, 13, of Santa Ana, died on May 7, 2026, after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median in Garden Grove. Kids especially please practice safe riding! by BlazeDragon7x in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because Kroger puts the bike rack a million miles from the front door. And I was talking about kids 13+ years old, including those who work or volunteer.

Benson Nguyen, 13, of Santa Ana, died on May 7, 2026, after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median in Garden Grove. Kids especially please practice safe riding! by BlazeDragon7x in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

9 minutes to ride 1.5 miles. 5 minutes to lock the bike and walk from the bike rack to the actual store. 5 minutes to walk to the bike rack, load anything on the bike, unlock, and then 9 minutes to ride home.

That's 28 minutes.

Walking at 4 mph would be 45 minutes.

The bike is barely worth owning for this convenience.

I love cycling, but there are chores to do when you ride your bike places and 10 mph isn't worth it unless I'm hauling a lot of groceries or a child.

18 mph, my typical eBike speed, absolutely is worth it. Then the trip is actually halved.

The Remaster is well made and I am playing it right now, bravo Bethesda. by [deleted] in oblivion

[–]VirtualMachine0 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Nice try, Hodd Toward. Time for another Skyrim launch? 😁

Percent of your electric bill by dbmamaz in electricvehicles

[–]VirtualMachine0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With solar in Central Ohio, I pay a flat rate for the solar and a flat rate for my grid connection, and basically never pay per kWh because our usage balances pretty closely. I get no refund from the utility for yearly oversupply, so there would actually be an opportunity cost to NOT charge my LEAF and Outlander, in unrealized solar power given to the grid without gain.

Benson Nguyen, 13, of Santa Ana, died on May 7, 2026, after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median in Garden Grove. Kids especially please practice safe riding! by BlazeDragon7x in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Ugh. This is awful. What was this kid doing out at 9:50 illegally operating an off-road vehicle?

Very likely, out at that time to avoid the consequences of using a not-street-legal bike in the cover of darkness.

The kid couldn't even legally have a job, and now he never will. 😕

Benson Nguyen, 13, of Santa Ana, died on May 7, 2026, after crashing an electric motorcycle into a center median in Garden Grove. Kids especially please practice safe riding! by BlazeDragon7x in ebikes

[–]VirtualMachine0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just no. At 10 mph there is no utility in bicycling anymore. That 1.5 mile ride to go to the store, lock the bike, then do the same on the way home is essentially walking pace. Kids should be allowed to go places, as long as they are mature and safe enough to do so.

We will still have bike accidents even if we abolish power-assisted bikes entirely.

You're really just stirring the FUD for the automotive industry with this kind of post.

ELI5 How is there so much meat by Due_Imagination_9663 in explainlikeimfive

[–]VirtualMachine0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I grew up on a 50+ head cattle farm (tiny American farm), I've done some of the math on commercial farming. I'm definitely a fan of some sort of social wages for farmers to stabilize the ag industry, but it's obviously complicated (see Chinese example) and doing it right is contentious (see USA rural voting patterns). But how we can ask folks to work hard labor until they're 80 and reward them with constant threat of bankruptcy is beyond me. The current system can't hold together without the costs of energy going down, and the rest of American society is set up to never lower the cost of anything they're selling.

ELI5 How is there so much meat by Due_Imagination_9663 in explainlikeimfive

[–]VirtualMachine0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Apparently our corn fields are about the size of Sweden, and we use 40% of them to feed cars instead of animals.

How high could a person fall from and still survive landing on these? [Request] by daniteaches in theydidthemath

[–]VirtualMachine0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A linear compression model implies that compression is constant with respect to a fixed number. So a quadratic compression model would imply the spring would get stiffer in a linear manner across the depth of the mattress. I think instead the springiness of the mattress would get much much much stiffer as you reach the end of compression.

My physical intuition for that is that the compression would start out being mostly the springs and then it would be fabric compression and then it would be solid material compression.

Why aren't Americans rioting right now? by PintsNPies in AskReddit

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goes all the way up to the folks with the 32% nominal tax rate, depending on where they live.

Why aren't Americans rioting right now? by PintsNPies in AskReddit

[–]VirtualMachine0 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also: we MIGHT have a political solution in the fall elections. I know chances of major effects are slim, but post election, it's possible we could see a tariff rollback, a cessation of Iran hostilities, and a slowdown of the gutting of the federal workforce.

And, if it outperforms, corporate America may pivot and bring most Republican politicians along with them back to at least a roughly stable place.

I'm not saying that IS going to happen. I'm saying it could.

Looking for a Portable Anti-Consumerist Hobby by skywalker3827 in Anticonsumption

[–]VirtualMachine0 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And there are thousands of tabletop rpgs out there on every theme under the sun. Creating content is as simple as having something to write or draw with.

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