Mate you’d be surprised.

I knew a guy in the Police who said that Facebook was a gift because people are dumb.

One guy posted publicly a photo with a couple kg of weed and flashing a pistol acting like a badman. The local police account commented under the post saying they’d like a word, guy responded “what you gonna do, arrest me?”, I think you can work out what happened next.

It’s both, because reducing the number of people and the options they have available to work the system is both usually cheaper to operate and it makes key performance indicators that their bosses have set go up.

The latter is where the stupid comes in and is usually more insidious because everyone always forgets that when a metric becomes a target it ceases to be an effective metric. The end result is a rats-nest of perverse incentives and compliance theatre. But the c-level bosses don’t care because arbitrary numbers went up.

Where’s my emotional support coupling capacitor? I can’t function without my emotional support coupling capacitor!

Hand drawn PCBs from the 60s: look at my beautiful curved tracks, don’t they just accentuate my thick copper fills?

Any PCB since Gerber: you’ll take my 45 degrees and like it!

Glares at high-speed DAQ electronics and high-frequency analogue sensing circuits

PCB cries in EMI

But who the fuck is actually introducing these bills? Which entity/organisation/individual/company are they getting the ideas from?

Don’t forget the conception was available as a PPV on only fans.

Sorry to be pedantic but strictly speaking “shareholder profit” isn’t the issue with capitalism because that would include worker-owned cooperatives which are not causing the same problems.

The issue is the legal obligation of a private or public company to make an increase in returns for shareholders year on year.

This is why decisions like downgrading quality, design by committee to appeal to focus groups, everything becoming a subscription service, and firing staff to reduce wage overheads in the last financial quarter exist.

Because it’s easier for the company directors / C-level executives to make these decisions which make line go up, rather than try to justify to shareholders why a steady or small dip in returns is necessary for longer term investment and growth.

This is compounded by the shortsightedness of companies only planning quarter to quarter then governments + central banks basing all economic decisions on GDP figures.

Because the easiest thing to make national line go up is to give tax cuts to the owning elites for them to shuffle even more money around in the stock and commodity markets, they buy up all the assets of the working class, the middle class, and the governments selling them off.

But funnily enough, centralising all the apparent wealth in the hands of a few silver-spooned arseholes is not a basis for a functioning society.

So the mechanic of this game is you have to collect jewels for a royal whilst they struggle to escape from the hordes of “rocks” blocking their exit for some reason?

I’m starting to think that this game is from the royal’s perspective and the “rocks” aren’t to be taken literally.

Not so much a hero but I admired his work the projects he is associated with: Elon regarding Tesla & Space X.

I had heard that he was a bit of a nightmare to work with but I just chalked that up to the usual tech CEO being a bit of an arsehole but still delivering the vision. So admired the projects but wouldn’t personally work for him.

The first time I came across something that gave me the impression something was off with him was when he called one of the Thai cave divers a pedo after the diver rejected using an unproven single person extraction canister Elon proposed.

It was just so uncalled for. Then the more I read and saw stories about him my opinion of him wained further down to a spoilt nepo-baby cosplaying as a design engineer who’d do best to get out of the way of the actual engineers trying to do the work.

Now I think the world would be better off without him and I hope the talented engineers currently work for him leave to find fulfilling employment elsewhere in the space and electrification industries as soon as possible.

It’s also useful to think of the “ground” plane as a sort of well of potential charger carriers that the conventional current model overlooks. Aside from simultaneously visualising what’s happening inside simple ICs like BJTs / MOSFETs and the circuit diagrams I’ve found it a useful way for checking for common mode noise in circuit and PCB design.

I guess this makes me a lunatic? Don’t know until we test it;

Someone give me an asylum makerspace to takeover!

Cons: cause a global pandemic.

Pros: free dinner.

I see no problem with this.

Pinky and the brain

Hey now, you show my girl some respect, and I hope you at least her paid for it!

Dozens!

Please, instead of more satirising toxic masculinity, can we have some more depictions of positive masculinity in lead roles like Aragorn from LotR?

Also, please feel free to list some good examples of positive masculinity in replies below because I and others I know could benefit from seeing more of that.

Bruh, get yourself a VPN before Starmer puts that behind ID verification too.

I love the uber dry tone and the delivery is just so matter-of-fact that it makes me chuckle.

Now if only I could read German beyond the usual “Hallo”, “Tschüss”, and “Schieße” which are all very important to understand but somewhat limiting in written words to greeting, wishing farewell, and exclaiming.

I’m sick of trying to educate people to see the bleeding obvious robbery of our lives when they’d rather blame their neighbours just because they have a different skin tone and it’s less effort mentally than trying to understand the situation with all the neuances. I’m sick of fighting and struggling for a better life for them as well because they don’t even want it. What’s the point of putting in the effort when these ignorant fools don’t even help and actively work against their own interests?

I’m mentally and physically exhausted, and I just want to sleep forevermore.

Look I’m just fed up with dealing with the slow burning of everything around me all because about a dozen people want extra zeros on their net worth and are tempting politicians to implement draconian laws with comparitivly miniscule bribes and I am obligated to spend 1/3 of my life and 2/3rds of my income satiating the desires of these bastards.

Fuck em. I’m done. I want peace, permanent peace.