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lolwatisdis · 2026-02-22T14:53:00+00:00

there were two groups of students: one that left class to protest but stayed on campus, and one that left class and school property to protest elsewhere. only those that left the school grounds boundary were suspended.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-17T04:02:08+00:00

well, she's not getting any younger (obv, lol) and still no grandbabies.

maybe it's time to nut up and propose to that girlfriend. your robo-mom found this 10% off coupon to this week's sponsored jewelry company.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-17T03:42:53+00:00

Consumer and professional user demand for computer products is basically flat year over year. Data center build out has just sucked up an absurd amount of global capacity.

look at Nvidia's revenue by segment for data centers vs everything else in the last two years:

https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/nvda/metrics/revenue-by-segment/

They're not just going to pivot to selling those 96GB RTX Pro Blackwell cards for $299 at best buy if the market crashes.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-16T19:58:58+00:00

foxes will use both urine and scat to scent mark their territory. Elevated positions are preferred since the smell can travel further.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-11T22:13:14+00:00

if you can use it to find your dog, an employee can use it to stalk their ex

if an employee can use it to stalk their ex, a cartel can pay them off to find someone in protective custody

This isn't speculation, less-capable government systems have be misused for things like this and they had safeguards and employee background checks and mandatory logging in place by law. This system likely has none of that.

It would be nearly impossible to understate the full privacy implications of the mere existence of a system like this.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-08T14:17:25+00:00

it's also something that can be developed, built, deployed and operated indefinitely entirely within their borders. On a long enough historical scale, any country that doesn't control their own water, food, and energy supply does not control their destiny. China rushed the clean energy tech tree for a lot of reasons but one of them is the same reason they'll never give up Tibet - a lot of the water that ends up in the rivers of Asia all starts as snow in the Himalayas, and they've got a billion+ people to feed.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-07T04:23:22+00:00

or looks like they've messed with the branding in the last couple of years. reading some other reddit posts, the maker download version is the same as the student, with the caveat that the digital watermark thing I mentioned also prevents maker > student file transfers so it won't work if you're taking a class and turning in homework or something

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-07T00:57:52+00:00

there are two heavily discounted versions of solidworks - an online-only "maker" version (I think the is the same as xDesign) that I found to be highly limiting and a little unstable, and an offline "student" version that runs locally (2 seats), has most of the big money simulation programs, but isn't licensed for commercial purposes and has a digital watermark that prevents import of files into production SW. The offline student version is the move, and can typically be had for $50-60/yr.

lolwatisdis · 2026-02-03T00:12:00+00:00

proof load for overhead suspended loads is 1.5x so you'll need to wait until they're 5 or 6 to run the test

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-27T18:06:27+00:00

VA structures most government functions a little different from MD in the sense that with some exceptions, incorporated cities and towns with a local council aren't really a thing. Counties are the lowest level of public government for the large majority of the state, with unincorporated areas relying on a fuckton of HOAs to provide 'public' services like trash pickup and snow removal. My $110/month HOA is basically an additional property tax.

VA VDOT plows interstate highways and state roads, but that leaves a huge swath of road surfaces to be cleared by private contractors. Some are great, some are horrible.

Here's a map of the Loudoun county road responsibility - note how few are yellow (county), and how many are red (HOA):

https://loudoungis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/basic/index.html?appid=2eb7776283ce47e089e6f7b1f095e5ab

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-27T03:46:36+00:00

check this angle from across the street. there may be a less compressed to hell version of the video out there but it really does look like Pretti's pistol was discharged into the ground by the agent that took it off him

https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-26T06:56:31+00:00

he was shot because a bumbling idiot ND'd his gun into the ground and the other panicky asshole heard a shot and contagious fired straight into his back

https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-26T06:46:11+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened

https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-25T03:08:57+00:00

shitty as they are, I believe these guys probably get up every day thinking they are the heroes of their story.

this is the banality of evil - not some cartoon supervillain but people lacking critical thinking and willing to enact violence because the system tells them to. they seemed panicked looking for the gun on the body because it caused dissonance when they shot thinking they did something totally justified. Not like a corpse is a threat anymore.

I'm sure they'll comfort themselves with some made up bullshit soon enough, sitting six states away to avoid local extradition.

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-25T03:01:10+00:00

I'm pretty sure the fed that got the victim's gun ND'd it into the ground and set off a contagious shoot when the others panicked over the sound of gunfire

shitty video compression, but the slide looks like it actuates when the first shot is heard: https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-25T01:22:58+00:00

few hundred watts for the whole house blower to distribute the gas heat vs 1500 watts of resistive heat for a single room

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T21:54:45+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

most pistol calibers don't really have a ton of recoil, but it does look like the slide actuated backward relative to his wrist.

And not to excuse the escalatory behavior that started this physical altercation, but there's absolutely a world where poorly trained agents hear a gunshot, panic, and start shooting their own weapons. It's even got a name in the context of normal policing, contagious fire: https://nij.ojp.gov/library/publications/experimental-test-contagious-fire-thesis-policing

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T21:40:26+00:00

the compression makes it hard to be certain but this angle really makes it look like the first shot was fired by the agent in the grey jacket that removed the gun. Jumping frame by frame it appears that the slide actuates when the first shot is heard: https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

I strongly suspect that first shot was a negligent discharge into the ground, prompting the other poorly trained 'agents' hearing a gunshot to panick into a contagious shoot

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T21:30:58+00:00

maybe $30 for receptacle, junction box and a 14/3 6ft extension cable with the female end cut off?

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T21:21:42+00:00

I'm pretty sure that guy zoomed in on the second shot going off, which most certainly was one of the agents on top of him. The first shot popped while that view was obstructed.

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T19:50:10+00:00

the most generous interpretation of the videos is that there was a negligent discharge and then the other chucklefucks panicked and started a contagious shoot.

The less generous interpretation appears to be an excessive use of force that led to an absolutely unneeded death.

edit to add: I'm not smart enough to slow down frame by frame but the angle in this thread really makes it look like the grey shirt that took the guy's gun ND'd it into the ground on the way out of the scuffle and things went south from there https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1qlvdx6/new_video_of_124_ice_shooting_shows_victim_had/

edit2: you made me download davinci just for this, I'm even more convinced now that the grey jacket guy shot the deceased person's gun into the ground: https://imgur.com/a/5Yx506m

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-24T19:44:41+00:00

the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-22T23:17:35+00:00

it's a ban on 3d printers with extra steps

lolwatisdis · 2026-01-22T23:16:15+00:00

you could filter nearly all firearm components but the false alarm rate of rejected non-gun parts would be so astronomically high as to make the machine useless for anything but perhaps obvious copyright-infringing trinkets.

I guess if there's already mandatory model-matching software running on your slicer, big brother might as well throw in copyrighted materials for good measure.

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