scarecrowbob

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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
I love your line of thinking here. Just pure, unadulterated bat-shit craziness. There is no world where the globe-spanning, petroleum based colonialist empire that produces F35 is going to somehow, out of the goodness of it's oil-pumpi
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
I dunno, the Ute and Navajo folks I live near don't agree. A lot of the indigenous folks I know think we are living in a literal apocalypse. Historically the way white folks have squared that circle has been to say that those folks ar
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
More importantly, can _I_ log into the cameras? Because allowing randos into the data is the real ask. I understand that the unspoken assumption is that (unlike internet randos such as myself) LEOs and your local government and every other
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
This is the quality of thought that I come to HN to experience because I have a hard time finding it in other places. The amount of assumptions about what it might mean to "think" coupled with a seeming obliviousness to those assu
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradi
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Getting an AI response from folks has a very "let me google that for you" kind of feel. If you're not familiar with the concept... https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=lmgtfy
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Yes, yes and their hearts pump a viscous oily goo rather than blood.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
"surely you don't actually think you've learned NOTHING from playing Fallout? Nothing about yourself?" Well, I did write out a couple of paragraphs about what I thought I learned. I did indeed "learn how to play fal
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Nothing can invalidate whatever path you found to music. I'm sorry you had folks rolling their eyes at you when you got your instrument. That's an exceedingly common thing to happen. Especially with singing. But it doesn't
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Maybe not, but folks keep telling me that I'm ignorant for not agreeing that being able to "engineer" a prompt is the same exact thing as being a poet or painter.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
As a person who plays several instruments (including drums) in professional situations, and as a person who enjoyed Guitar Hero, I always find it strange when folks are able to take the "experience" of Rock Band / Songstar &#
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
So, today was my second day piloting drones ever. I am absolutely not sure what I would need any bit of AI for... it is quite enjoyable to zip around the trees here. I did the same process as the "author", namely Joshua Bardwell&
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Internally as well, given what happens to any push back against law enforcement where I live- in the US, at least, if you try to defend yourself against state violence you'll be summarily executed in the street.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Ah, that explains why all the Q-pilled folks I know (in?)correctly believe the US government to be communist...
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Why? Because it's not a very accurate stereotype. I do first aid at music festivals and volunteer at a free clinic that serves a homeless population. I see a lot of spun folks and folks in varying stages of "burned out" (to
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Yeah, as soon as my kiddo finished college I literally moved into my pickup truck and started playing music and doing stage hand stuff. I'd literally rather live in the back of a pickup than have to keep getting woken up at 1am to rebo
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Seriously.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
People write stuff like this and get all pissy when I say yes, and that we have been doing this work for a long time. Then get all righteous and start talking about democracy and then no-true-scotsman all the actual things folks do to curta
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
I live next to a reservation and feel that there is a lot in common between the US indian reservation system and concentration camps. My position is that the US has been on this road for about 250 years. Blood quantum and similar policy ch
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Yeah, but my shoes get worn out, and I can't share them- the media stuff has always already been mass produced and there has been way more useful stuff to look at so the industrially automation of literal crap may find an audience. But
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
As a writer and cognition-enjoyer, much of the reading I do has been done by people who were using that writing as an adjunct to their own thoughts. Producing a bunch of filler content to pad things out is the opposite direction from most o
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Yeah, it is a bit dumb to talk about "cleaning" forests. Or at least I've never heard anyone who spouted that line who I thought had any understanding of the situation. Mostly they are just salty that the forests aren'
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
For a lot of us who have spent a lot of time writing, the process of formulating our thoughts in a way that's legible to other folks has also forced us to think about the material we are writing about in ways that hopefully clarify the
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
I mean, fortunately for me it's dry enough that I can run a small swamp cooler for the couple of weeks a year where those are the temps in my place. But yeah, you're correct that this is what it looks like where I am at, temperat
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
True, I have learned a lot and that has been very interesting and quite fun. I'm at 6500' but am still planning on setting up an outside shower just because it's pretty here. I am waiting on that till I figure out an indoor
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
I can see how small efficiencies would matter a lot in that sitation. When I had 6 100W panels and was trying to keep my laptop (and lights) running off that, then I did a lot more trying to keep them clean. If I was having to burn fuel fo
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
If they are like me, keeping the fridge from freezing during the winter is more energy that keeping the fridge cooling during winter...
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Ah, that makes a lot of sense.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Yeah, the one tree branch that hits my array until 10a prevents it from charging at all even though it only obscures 1/4 of one panel in the 10-panel set. But I like the branch and have plenty of full sun, so I haven't cut it.
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by scarecrowbob 2mo ago
Horses for courses. My system is off grid, so any extra power is just not used, and its designed in a way that a 2-5% change doesn't do anything. That might be a more meaningful change if I were selling power to other folks. Kind of

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