It blows my mind that like 30% of farmers in Arkansas went out of business last year and whats left will lose 40% this year… And they have all of that diesel and fertillizer just sitting there?

He looks like a rust player character

Most of us are quite intelligent, lots are STEM, many are post-secondary grads.

Unironically if a plane crashes heading to a furry convention it would literally bring western software to its knees overnight. There would be outages. “He’s our most experienced engineer! Only John knows how this system works!” Bank of America goes dark

I’m fucking hungry yo. that’s how everything is

You can also find them with ground penetrating radar since they tend to use sand as that insulating layer. From underneath they open a hatch and drain the sand out to clear the escape hatch. A big block of sand is plain and obvious to identify on a 250MHz system.

Noted. Don’t kill people outside of north america.

When a person dies a library burns

I miss my grandmas :(

Lol this is the 1887 version of tech bros reinventing railroads.

What’s more efficient than one person driving a car? Carpooling!

In fact, if we made the car driverless it could hold even more customers.

Although we probably want to make designated roads where only driverless cars can go. That makes coordination and safety far easier.

We probably want signals specific to these roads that only the driverless cars need to be concerned with.

And you know what has lower rolling resistance than rubber on roads? Metal. If we make the wheels out of metal we would get insane fuel efficiency

Except now that rips up the road so we need to pave the road with metal too.

That’s actually expensive so maybe we just pave directly underneath where the wheels go

If we’re going to do all of this we need more passengers. Maybe we attach cars together and run them on a schedule? That should work for the most people?

Maybe we can run all of this on electricity too! No gas needed! With our metal wheels that’s some insanely low energy costs!

I agree but this looks like peeling potatoes? That’s why it says kitchen

I guess it’s an emotional reservation. It would be a bit like feeling guilty for eating passenger pigeons and contributing to their extinction, especially if you hunted them and left some to rot because it was so cheap and easy to get more. Once they’re extinct you can’t help but look back and wince or blame yourself for being part of the problem.

On the other hand, a skilled lapidary can cut a tanzanite with way more care and attention than some commercial gem cutters that are concerned with stone weight and production volume. A lot of big gems end up as windowed trash, where the center of the gem can be seen through like a glass window. No sparkle or reflections because the gem cutter preserved gem weight to charge more at the cost of beauty, and also making the gem lose even more mass later on if it needs to be recut to have proper angles.

If I screw a natural stone up I would feel horrible though. Synthetics are like “who cares you can buy them by the pound”

If you’re ever going to kill someone do it with a car. In North America they can’t punish you too hard for it or it sets a precedent even if you did it premeditated. I think the one exception to them being scared to throw the book at vehicular crimes is trying to kill a cop with it, so don’t do that one for sure.

Yeah I know and for certain gems like garnet or corundum we’re literally never running out. It’s things like tanzanite (my fave!) or emerald that are far more worrisome. With industrialized mining we can yank it all out of the ground way faster than we can find new deposits.

Tanzanite might only have the weird and oddly specific conditions necessary for it to form in this one rift in Tanzania.

Gem cutting. Once you have a good machine it doesn’t cost a lot of money for raw gem quality rough.

I want to cut synthetics since I don’t like the idea of a hobbyist screwing around with non-renewable gems… Also synthetics are flawless and can have cool color shifting patterns like ametrine (amethyst/citrine) or even watermelon colored corundums.

I just want to make shiny jems to look at :( I want to cut giant Portuguese cut cubic zirconia and square cut color shifters :(

It’s like $2000-5000 for a decent lapidary setup… And that’s not counting abrasive wheels.

“lowest bidder and manufactured as shittily as possible without violating the contract” doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same.

How what if we built a parkade? We could charge $40 per stall but have 10 or 20 times more cars in the same land!

The sheer volume of cars would saturate the bridges and tunnels in and out of Manhattan, meaning that people would drive just to park, just to drive and queue to leave. The useless mindless illogical economic activity we would be creating would spike GDP so high! It would look great for the economy!

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You might want to replace the LED with a normal silicon diode since if I were a piece of shit TV company I would measure that circuit as a voltage divider, and for a complete circuit. No current flow and no 0.6V drop, and that means I activate my out of warranty self lobotomize routine.

One point of correction:

That isn’t how the 5 eyes actually works. It’s illegal for most countries to invade the privacy of their own citizens without a warrant since they have the equivalent to the bill of rights or a constitution or something similar.

But… it’s not illegal for Canada to spy on the citizens of the other 5 eyes technically speaking (especially if nobody ever finds out…) you just blame discovering stuff on other legitimate surveillance methods, or you “get lucky” one day and catch a person you’re interested in by pure happenstance. Wow, would you look at that? They were criminaling while I was watching them.

You scratch my back spy on my citizens I scratch spy on yours?

End of July is what I’m hearing. Right now Peter is being robbed to pay paul