neuralRiot

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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>since you are among the smart ones who didn't send the dna, you can keep quietly minding your business while the government "rounds up" people on a racial basis? Sure it feels better not being a collaborator of your own d
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Isn’t it simpler and cheaper to reduce livestock?
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
You need to download-install an app , enter your info, your vehicle info, your credit card, the location where you’re parking, the time (which is non-refundable/ transferible if you pay too much) to park. Sometimes all this BS takes lo
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
The ting is that probaly the most interesting individuals to them wouldn’t get those devices at home or at sensitive places.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>Not every system becomes more efficient with profit incentives Maybe it does but not for the right people.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>kids were playing outside and a neighbor called the authorities on them The worst part is that someone would thing this is the appropriate thing to do rather than observe the kids and in any case approach them and ask if they’re OK. The
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
I work on cars, to diagnose a “stellantis” (Fiat, Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, etc) I need to login and pay subscription in 3 different sites, to use an aftermarket tool still need to pay and login. This obviously carries a cost that I need to ch
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
It’s basically what H.L Menken said “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Funnily, many automotive systems run QNX the blackberry OS.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>There was no reason practically all of them had to have a go at removing all the buttons and replacing them with poor substitutes Yes, the reason is cutting costs and adding “wow factor” to the design. Like teslas “Look ma, no dashboard
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Some BMWs had something like that but for the infotainment, in 20+ years working on cars never seen one that was not on the default settings. People doesn’t read manuals, this is like the VCR or Microwave clock perma-flashing 12:00
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
If I go buy something and it requires me to disable my adblocker or my VPN I just look for another place to buy.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Is 1 hour of delay on the sleep pattern really that problematic for some people? I can barely notice the time shift during DST day, specially when most clocks around us are synchronized automatically. Or maybe it’s because my most comfortab
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
I’m an avid home cook and one of the most temperamental tools in any kitchen is the oven, with the ranges, microwaves and broilers you can quickly get a sense of their character but with the oven and specially for baking you need a long te
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
I’ve had custom made front panels with front panel express and they do the anodizing and screen printing, the finish is on-par with any commercial equipment, I also have done some custom equipment using custom printed overlays by Maverick L
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
This also applies to high performance car turbo engines, a “turbo timer” is used so the ignition can’t be shut off until the turbo cools down.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>What do you mean by "metals don't actually withstand temperature"? As in the raw metal would melt were it not for the cooling vanes? This is similar to the rocket engines where the thrust nozzle and its extension are cool
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
What most people tend to forget is the scale of factory farming. About 30,000,000 cows 130,000,000 pigs and 8,000,000,000 chickens are killed yearly in the US alone. You can imagine that they cannot be just grassfed besides the fact that
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>not every place in the world is suitable to the sort of cropping required. That would be relevant if the livestock were grassfed but in the modern world where Soybeans from brazil are shipped to UK to feed cattle or From USA to Australi
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>soy beans, ..., to feed the chickens to provide the diet for minimum cost. Which points to the irony of all this. The real goal of the “project” is not better nutrition or more efficient farming, is a marketable product. You want to kno
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
It used to be that if you wanted to do gaming on a PC you started by building the PC.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Anyone with enough critical thinking should be eating on a plant-based diet. I won’t explain all the points as they’re widely explained around the web and just a search away. 1)Ethics 2)Health 3)Environment 4)Politics
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
A law that protects the lower players and punish blood-sucking corps? Not very soon let me tell you.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
The “enshitification” applies to everything, as basic functionality is harder or almost impossible to improve features are added as a sales driver together with lower price points, as you can imagine corners needs to be cut as the metrics t
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
I used to love MiniDSP but now it uses “Dirac” so you need 2 accounts one in dirac and another in MiniDSP, install 2 different softwares that work together(?) you get the download links (drivers and software) for the products you purchased
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
To me “minimalism” is just a poor excuse for bad design and aesthetic sense, like dressing all black or white to avoid color coordination. It’s easy, but totally devoid of personality and expression.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Another side effect of the healthcare cost is the liability for the owner/ maintainer of the play space as naturally parents would want to offload the cost of the treatment by seeking a lawsuit.
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>watching TV hasn't killed anyone and my generation, who grew up in front of the TV screen for lack of better alternatives, turned out just fine. I don’t think any previous generation kids spend as much time in front of the TV as th
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
Art is subjective, there’s no right or wrong interpretation of it, and I wouldn’t be sure there is higher or lower quality either. Would you say that a Monet is higher quality than a Banksy?
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by neuralRiot 2y ago
>If you want to make sure consumers don't want to return to CRTs, all you have to do are the following: Nothing. Why would any folk down the street go out of their way to try and find a TV: More expensive, Heavier, Non-smart, power

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