Learned to throw my little cast net! Had it for years, never used it. The trick was watching videos on how to throw small nets. Don’t have a fishing license, no idea what I’ll do with this skill.

We already have wild pigs.

Alien. Maybe my only 10 out of 10 movie, and not my favorite!

We’ve all seen it so many times it loses it’s luster. Wife had never seen it so I sat with her in the dark and watched it for the first time in decades. Jesus. She was about to tear through the couch cushion in stress. I knew what was going to happen and couldn’t peel my eyes off the TV.

Producing quality LEDs is a hella process. Producing shit LEDs is cheap.

There are several layers (7?) and a crack of a micron or three will suck the life out of it. Add to that shitty controllers and we get shitty LEDs. But they’re cheap!

I’ve got a couple of red LEDs that were made for the original IBM PC. They still work flawlessly.

LOL, it couldn’t be more obvious. :)

“Look at you! You’re scrawny, you’re an alcoholic, if you didn’t have such a big dick you wouldn’t be worth nothing!”

I, uh…

AHHH!

You can cram a load of machine language into 70K. Seems far more than needed, bet a bunch is for redundancy.

They said the same about robots in the 80s, particularly automotive industry robots. They were going to turn society on it’s ear and it was a non-stop news item for some time.

Normal, if stiff, human range of motion. Until it rotates completely around the waist!

entire countries

Not going to even read this horseshit. Which countries? Brazil or Vatican City?

Fuck these headlines. If they have valid points to make, I’ll never see them. Grow the fuck up and be journalists or I don’t have time.

Swear I’ve read that. Anyone?

US here. I don’t think we get enough credit for our anti-smoking culture, and given that Hollywood is a major culture driver…

Even in my poor little town, where the broke and uneducated smoke more, it’s getting to be where I’m a little taken aback when I see someone smoking in public.

All this coming from a guy that smoked for 20+ years. The culture shift has been dramatic and I hope we’re exporting it.

C’mon OP, every sort of human sexual interaction has dynamics like this. Top or bottom, submissive or dominant, switching it up, all that, we humans do it.

In the Windows 3.1 days I made my own icons. Yes, a single pixel out of place or wrongly colored would throw it all off.

That’s a bit much…

They’re not merely replacing floppies, swapping in some emulators to take over. They’re attempting to redesign and future-proof the entire system. That kind of a big deal. Oh, and it all has to run flawlessly during the transition period.

This ain’t your homelab boys.

There’s far more to motivation and more pay can actually be detrimental depending on the sort of work. Sounds stupidly counter-intuitive doesn’t it? Take a look, this really opened my eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

That video really hit home for me. I looked back over all the varied jobs I had and the places I was most happy gave me what the video talks about. My last job was double the pay and benefits of the one before and I haven’t been less motivated.

Seriously, give it 10-minutes. At one point I was thinking, “Damn! He’s talking about Linux!”

Such a society is not possible because we’re human beings, warts and all. FFS, teach monkeys how to use money and they invent prostitution.

There will always be people who look to dominate others for personal gain. Also, the “tragedy of the commons” is well known fact of life. If an economic system isn’t taking human behavior into account, it’s useless, hippie bullshit.

That’s why capitalism worked so well for so long. Now that we’re into the later stages, it’s up to government to reign it in. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, a bad/immoral reputation could easily tank a company. Now no one gives a shit, keeps buying and buying. Fine. Time for the government to step up, but our representatives are bought and paid for by the very organizations they should be regulating. And that last is going to be a feature of any economic system.

Maybe it’s already too late? Seems like it, but then I see people like Lina Kahn taking on Wall Street and Silicon Valley, and I have hope.

THAT is my fear. I’m watching the ecosystem collapse on my front porch. I could go on for a long, long time with my observations, both historic and recent, but the food chain is collapsing where I’m at. Wildlife populations are noticeably crashing from what I observed 4-years ago.

SOURCE: I’m old and outside a lot. Always looking around, seeing what’s changing.