Techs like to deride sales and managers for incompetence. But Oracle is proof that salesmanship and suits can take garbage and make billions.

I remember around 1990 when Oracle handled their tech problems by making it illegal to review their product. ( You had to purchase their product to use it or be sued. And the purchase agreement required that you not publish a review of the product without their approval or be sued.)

https://huggingface.co/blog/Pclanglais/common-corpus

What do you mean by Machiavellian? Your question would be like asking, are there any smartphone keyboards that aren’t Machiavellian. It’s a text prediction tool.

Electricity and magnetism are the exact same thing. A non moving charge creates an observed static electric field. A moving charge creates an observed magnetic field. So if you were moving next to the charge as it went down a wire, you would see no charge moving. No charge moving means no magnetic field.

They only look different because things get distorted moving at near light speed relative to you. It would be like if we gave two different names to a police siren based on whether you were listening standing next to it or listening as it zoomed past you.

All corporations in the US are built on stolen native American land. The US is currently run by a fascist pedophile.

No one should support solari’s maker space because it supports a fascist pedophile and their maker space is literally on stolen land.

There are Israelis who don’t support the genocide. If that company is one of those, it would be important to support them.

All platforms that have viewers become a propaganda outlet.

You mean it started with Marvel movie marketing?

It’s in the standard elementary school curriculum.

They learn Scratch where you drag and drop code blocks to build a flowchart.

Talk to any CRT or old radio enthusiast, or anyone over 55, and they’ll tell you about it.

I did in that thread! And yes I’m over 55!

Back in the day, people could take tubes from their TVs and radios to a shop, test them, and buy replacement parts.

Did you learn that from me? I posted it a few weeks ago:

https://lemmy.world/comment/18518488

Sorry, no. I looked into them for my cats but they were all too large. There’s also the monthly cell phone fee.

I’ve looked at making my own because then I could use a sim card with free sms. Google esp32 gps. https://youtu.be/aytj77b42VM.

None of the commercial products use free sms sims. I ended up using air tags because my wife has an iPhone.

I’m just saying average Americans, the comfortable class, exist on the backs of millions of global workers living in poverty.

The claim that everyone can live like a fat American isn’t ecologically sustainable.

First of all, it takes just as much labor to make a product that lasts fifty years as it does to make a product that lasts five years.

While product obsolescence and built to expire is a huge problem, it is absolutely untrue to the point of absurdity to claim that making a product that lasts 50 years costs the same as a 5 year lifespan product.

We don’t even have the materials science to engineer an led diode that doesn’t decrease in brightness over 50 years to be able to build one. You can beef up the components and heat sinks so they last 20, but the emitter will still be a fraction of its original brightness. The same goes for everything else.

Providing the basics is why I said taking the wealth and giving it to the poor would work.

However “comfortable” is middle class, the majority of the US population, and that’s not ecologically sustainable.

Thiel is gay- and ranting about the anti Christ.

Money is a placeholder for labor. If you distribute all their money, the same labor needs to get done.

It absolutely helps, but it can’t make everyone rich because by definition “rich” requires living off the work of others. (I’m using the word rich losely to mean comfortable.) What it can do is raise the bottom 10% out of poverty.

The US consumes at a level unsustainable by the Earth. Bezos’s billions doesn’t mean he consumes a billion cheeseburgers a day. His personal waste is huge but tiny when compared the the total of 350m Americans.

Slant3d ships around 500 prints per day and is growing. So I disagree with the others that say it’s dying.

IPA does not remove oils, it solubilizes them and then they deposit back down again when it evaporates.

You don’t dump alcohol on the plate and then let it evaporate. You put it on a paper towel or microfiber cloth and rub the plate so the oils are transferred to the paper towel.

Dish soap can be problematic because many brands include oils to be soft on hands. Palmolive is named because it has Palm oil in it. Dawn has Palm oil too

If you don’t do anything but fulfill orders from those repeat customers, what is your expected revenue next month?

For example, when I sold my business it was 2x annual revenue. That is I made $2M / year from repeat customers so got $4m.

The small hardware trackers have a range of 10 meters. They literally cannot work without being a privacy intrusion like Tile/Life touch.

The only option is a tiny phone that you hide on the bike. You can go really small by getting a dog gps tracker. They work using cell service rather than depend on other nearby users running a tracking app that reports their finds back to Apple or Lifetouch so that you can login and see it.

There are levels of support and none are inherently bad. It’s up to the parents to raise the child right and the child to use the opportunities to reach greater heights than their parents.

You would have been more prepared for problems had your parents dropped you off on the streets of a city when you were 15.

My parents died when I was young. That gave me survival focus. Decades ago I had a coworker with similar childhood where his parents were teachers but his parents didn’t die. His parents support allowed him to be more successful at a younger age than me.

The entire premise of education is that you get to stand on the shoulders of giants instead of being thrown alone in a mud hut and figure out everything yourself.