You claim that your kite operates without making any noise, and yet it is powered by wind, which is quite noisy.

It’s dangerous to go alone. Here, take this. ⚔️

I would be curious to know this uptime relative to any other self-hosted sites.

I remember Reddit and Twitter constantly suffering from uptime issues and they were far more decentralized, with modern infrastructure to match.

Is 95.2% all that far out of the realm of expectation?

Disclaimer: this is all probably fake

The picture looks exactly like Pope Francis, not JP2, so…

Getting into St. Peter’s Chair to give IT advice.

Me, being 100x more productive

Increasing spam phone calls by 100x

Cancel Culture strikes again

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What does that have to do with the drm mandate being easy to get around?

You can get around the DRM mandate with a bicycle. That doesn’t mean you’ve solved the underlying problem

Very important to know the difference and be clear eyed about it

I’m not sure honestly sure what your point is

3D printers produce plastic crap.

It’s helpful to understand what you actually have control over, rather than confusing good fortune for savvy decision making.

every neighborhood has a few people who can build you a car from scratch in a day

How many cars does the city demand be produced each day? Cause my own city of Houston sees over 380k new cars sold annually.

the city already has several thousand car factories that don’t require registration

Itty bitty ones, sure. And they take weeks to produce a working vehicle, of substandard quality.

there’s no mechanism to enforce registration

Until you get pulled over

the cost of building a new car is a few hundred dollars

A plastic car that can go maybe a few hundred miles before falling apart if it’s made perfectly.

Building a 3d printer from a kit is different from building one from scratch

You can build cars from a kit, too. But I’m not going to do that when I can buy a used Corolla or KIA for couch cushion money and drive it into the ground over the next fifteen years.

That seems like a nightmare to set up.

Feels like people casually mocking car registration by pointing to the Hot Rod from Home Improvement.

I mean, sure. It can be done. But I failed to install a water cooling kit in my computer after a very long and harrowing weekend. I’m not fucking with this.

Getting a proper industrially manufactured firearm has never been easier.

The paranoia around Ghost Guns is more an expression of the gun regulation movement’s impotence.

If you want a gun in this country, and you’ve got more than a couple hundred dollars, you can get one.

even when you do have a choice, how often do you actually read what you’re agreeing to?

You don’t bother precisely because it’s an enormous amount of work for no discernable benefit.

What are you doing to do? Not rent a car or fly on a plane? Not own any electronics or motorized vehicles? Not rent an apartment? Not use software?

We have the option to try to vote with our wallets

Do we? What good is money if we can’t spend it?

price in the US of $0.1235/kWh, that’s $11.63

Way cheaper than I’d have guessed.

737 at max takeoff weight is 175k lbs. So that’s around $80 to get airborne. Seems like a steal when you’re charging easily triple that for one seat.

people agree to it

Hardly an agreement if it’s predicated on access to a service, particularly if the service is a utility, a monopoly, or a cartel.

If every vendor uses uniform language as a means of mitigating their own collective liability, the agreement is functionally coerced.

As a general rule, arbitration is a great tool for multiple parties to resolve a dispute without going all the way to trial.

The issue isn’t with arbitration on it’s face, but forced arbitration as dictated by a single party.

How do you think they’re clearing the native residents off the land?