Rhaedas

If the demand is faster than the curve to replace fossil fuels, and then nuclear starts to go down thanks to not replacing old reactors, we’re going to go back to the fossil fuels. Because apparently we can’t touch demand, that has to go up.

If only we could do multiple things.

I’m good with a single check. On some sites the cloudflare one doesn’t even wait for a checkbox, which makes me wonder what is different. The security level set? But what annoys me is when the same domain forgets it just checked me, does another bot check, and then a code to the phone. And I’ve told it to remember me. I can only assume and hope the IT there are under attack and are doing the best they can, and it’s not just a lazy set to full verify everything mode every minute.

The smell of grass cutting is a warning to other grass.

And the thing is, it wouldn’t have been hard to make a competitive truck that people who have trucks might want. It might have struggled and only gotten a percentage of the market, but at least it would have been an honest attempt that wasn’t embarrassing.

I remember reading discussion when the Cybertruck was first announced as coming, all the lists of “I hope it has…”

Nope.

I think they offer cloud, but no, once you buy the camera you can either have it on a local server to store video which they also sell, or just have it on the local network with smartphones able to use an app to monitor it from anywhere. Or, just have them not connected, and pull the storage card when you want to see captured history (a pain, but doable). I’ve only used the lower tier, and they’re not too bad. Can’t say if the higher priced ones are a lot better or not, but they do offer a lot more features.

I looked it up. Starting was around $8, almost hit $10 at one point. Plummeted all 2026.

The plus is not destroying more viable land. Whether or not the power and communications infrastructure can handle what even a small data center requires isn’t a given. There will be a drain on resources, nothing is for free. And when they’re backing in the jet engine power additions with full approval from the bought city officials…

No, it’s not the hardware that sounds like that. It’s that they’re using used jet engines to run the damn things. Which is insane.

I spent some time on the VA’s phone lines while caring for my dad, and kind of grew to like Opus No. 1. There are far worse default options out there. More importantly, I prefer the necessary interruption to let me know I’m still on hold and they’re going to come back to me not be every 20 seconds, and not be at a volume twice as loud as everything else.

I really hate nothing at all. I’ve been hung up on before and didn’t realize it for a minute until I looked at my phone. Why don’t smartphones have that old disconnect sound that landlines would do? Maybe some do.

Also not a fan of the piped in radio music that apparently is being picked up under a bridge, so it’s a faded volume and keeps going in and out. Usually the music isn’t bad, but can we tune it in better?

The house reminded me of Little Computer People on the C-64.

You were looking for rational reasons, weren’t you? Not here.

He’ll absolutely question any changes that don’t favor him, but there is nothing he can do directly to stop it. The worst that can be done is give him attention as he has a melt down, but that gets media their clicks, so they will.

People are starting to not trust anything they see, even with valid sources. In a way it’s good, we were warned a few years ago it would get to this point. The problem is now everything is fake by default unless you can prove it, and most are just throwing “AI slop” without even looking close enough.

It’s also a huge country that’s very diverse, so one region or state isn’t going to be aligned with others they don’t even know to have solidarity.

But there will start being hot spots for the same reasons in Europe. It’s possible the US has better tools to control and pacify any movements (with work dependence - money and healthcare, being one of them).

The early hate was just in the period where TNG was trying to figure itself out, and if you couldn’t relate to Wesley in some way, you hated him for his part. But it got better, and the show needed that age representative.

And replaceable.

What would you say you do here?

I take directives from the CEO and board and deliver them to the goddamn employees, so they don’t have to deal with them. I have people skills, dammit!

It’s revenge, but it’s also avoiding responsibility. The words say it, “sentenced to death, and may God have mercy on your soul”. Everyone already lost. The victims. The murderer. Society. Killing doesn’t solve anything, it doesn’t deter more murders, it just removes them from being the state’s problem.

And it doesn’t allow us to pursue the question everyone asks, why did this happen? Because they’re dead.

The first Earth Day was 56 years ago. “The Limits to Growth” was published in 1972 (and didn’t even include climate change, so yay). We started to stand up, but I think got pushed back down quickly.

There ought to be a pre-LeopardsAteMyFace community. This is exactly how the people that are posted about felt about other people and issues before it hit them. It’s amazing how many people lack total empathy for others they don’t know.

I will agree that some people get themselves into a mess willingly and that spirals out of control to the point where they can’t get out. But damn, even they deserve help. Kicking a person already down speaks volumes about the one kicking.