SirEDCaLot

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[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 day ago

It would have been Bernie if he wasn't pushed out by DNC.
He would have absolutely wiped the floor with Trump. People wanted a radical change candidate, Bernie offered that, Hillary did not.

[–] SirEDCaLot 3 points 1 day ago

It's part of a worrying trend which seems like Google is trying to hyperconsolidate Android. Apps can already check if a device is running genuine original firmware, which means a lot of banking apps don't play well with third party firmware is like grapheneos. It should be none of the apps fucking business what OS I am running. But by giving developers the ability to check this stuff, they can wash their hands of it and complain they aren't forcing anybody to run anything it's those darn app developers.

[–] SirEDCaLot 11 points 1 day ago

And this is why people are pissed at Democrats.

Democrats are apparently annoyed that constituents are writing demanding they act like an opposition party, aka FUCKING EXERCISE THE FUCKING POWER YOU WERE VOTED IN TO WIELD. They act like they are powerless to stop Trump and they have press conferences talking about how it's red alert scenario and then they GO ON TO VOTE FOR THE VERY THINGS THEY ARE SOUNDING THE ALARM ABOUT.

If this truly is a red alert situation as another Connecticut Congressperson called it, then stop voting for this shit! Throw a wrench into the works, refuse to confirm anybody, make use of the shitty procedural filibuster and grind things to a halt.

Because if you are voting in favor of any of this you don't get to fucking complain.

[–] SirEDCaLot 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you say footage, do you mean like actual combat footage? If so I think that's excellent. You are absolutely right the US is completely isolated from the reality of unpleasantness that is often in the world, often because of us. Our only exposure to real evil and violence is in movies and TV and everything else is 'tastefully' censored. So we debate policy like war and diplomacy completely isolated from the actual reality that those policies create.

[–] SirEDCaLot 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How many times did he shoot himself?

I mean there is a pattern to these things.
If Putin doesn't like you, you shoot yourself and then jump out of a building.
If the Clintons don't like you, you shoot yourself twice in the back of the head before driving your car off a cliff.
If you have dirt on powerful people, you hang yourself in prison.

[–] SirEDCaLot 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ukraine has had a lot of success using remotely operated suicide drones. They are cheap, built mostly from off the shelf hobbyist grade components, but with a few inexpensive upgrades the signal goes for miles. Strap a grenade on the bottom or any kind of bomb with an impact fuse and you have an excellent remote control weapon.

So of course the Russians start deploying radio jammers to block the drone signals.

The solution to this is fiber optics. The drone carries a giant spool of hair thin fiber optic cable which sends control commands from the operator and video back from the drone. Because it's a cable, it's immune to jamming.

The cable is insanely thin, usually in the tens of microns thickness. So they don't bother recovering the cable, drone flies out spooling out cable behind it, hits its target and blows up, operator just detaches that fiber and pulls out another drone with another spool of cable to start again. This leaves tons of little fibers laying around on the countryside because every drone leaves one in its path.

That's the point of this video. Most of those fibers have a dead Russian soldier at the end of them.

[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's frustrating that so many people downvote this sort of thing rather than considering it. It's like if you say anything at all other than TRUMP NAZI ELON NAZI REPUBLICAN NAZI ALL BAD you are obviously wrong and fuck you.

Trump may be an asshole. He may be a horrible president. But during the campaign he promised to hack and slash away at the federal government, and that's exactly what he's doing. It may be a bad idea, it may cause a ton of its own problems, but he is doing exactly what he promised his voters.

Democrats need to learn some hard truths from this. Specifically, that while life may be great up in the ivory tower, the people on the street are hurting. The people on the street are angry that their struggle has been ignored and marginalized for so long. And when people with two incomes are struggling to afford groceries, they will always vote for the guy who says 'there's a problem and I want to fix it' over the person who says 'everything's peachy'.

That doesn't make them racist or sexist or Nazi. It makes them desperate.

[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not asking for instruction on the issue, only clarification on your assertion that I don't understand.

For example, if you argued that video games cause violence, I could say 'you obviously don't understand the issue, specifically, the sort of attitude players take toward the game. Nobody plays like 'yeah I wish I could do this IRL', rather, it's just a game and there's friendly banter between both teams.' I don't have to write a page on video game culture or statistics to do that.

Saying 'you don't get it' on a huge broad subject while offering zero detail on what specifically I don't get or even a counterpoint is lazy debating. If you think I'm wrong, explain why I'm wrong. Otherwise you are just a low effort shitpost that contributes nothing to the discourse. Do better.

[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 week ago

Your entire premise is that they are happy taking shit pay and no benefits. And that’s just not true. They’re forced to do that because they have no negotiating power when their employer can just have them deported.

We agree they have zero negotiating power when they're under threat of deportation.
I don't think they're 'happy with shit' but I also don't think they're as likely to demand more as an American. And if they don't speak the language, they're less likely to GET more as they can't negotiate on equal footing.

I expect the government to do its job. But as an example forget Latin America, let's say a person comes to the US and they're skilled but they only speak Tagalog. Do you think they can negotiate as effectively as a native speaker?

[–] SirEDCaLot -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That practice was halted and now the vehicle video is under MUCH stricter control with an option to not share any of it at all.
Given the choice, I'd rather have some Tesla employee joking about what I park next to than Tesla Inc selling my driving data to insurance companies like most other automakers do...

[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 week ago

That was from years ago.

Tesla used to sell cars rated by pack capacity. For example the 'P85D' was the performance model, 85 kWh pack, dual motor.
There was also a 40 kWh (cheaper) and 60 kWh version.
After a while they stopped building 40 kWh packs and just software-locked the 60 kWh pack to only have 40 kWh of usable capacity. I think for a while they offered an upgrade where you could pay to unlock the extra capacity.

I don't think they've done that in some time. I know when I bought my car (model y long range) they didn't even advertise the pack capacity nor was any upgrade offered. The only paywall thing I've seen with Tesla is FSD and they're pretty transparent about that. I don't think they're awful for paywalling it, because if they build the car without the FSD hardware it won't have other safety systems like lane departure notification.

[–] SirEDCaLot 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've done it. I think it might have opened the charge port or something. What do you think happens?

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