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  • SirDerpy@lemmy.worldtoDank Memes@lemmy.worldRip
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    One can see Elon’s influence on the product. The router/switch/wap combo box is a trapezoidal prism that plugs in on the bottom because that’s the only right angle mounting point. It even has a neat voyager looking emblem that looks like it’s supposed to light up and be a constant nuisance, but doesn’t. I think the dish would be curved and lower performance if the project had held Elon’s attention.

    But, from a technical perspective there’s little to complain about. The service fires up for the first time in about five minutes. It works anywhere I can get a small patch of sky and doesn’t object when I load the connection to sail the open seas.

    I’ve two complaints: It runs on DC but lacks a DC power connection, meaning I eat the loss on AC-to-DC conversion and bypass the benefit of my DC rectifier. And, the mounting pole doesn’t fold all the way back, greatly increasing the required storage space. Both complaints are common a large customer segment: vehicle dwellers.


    I’m an IT sub roundabout working for the US government. We’ve a multi-site contract and arrive at the one we’d been vaguely warned about: Some contractors got fired mid-job in the 90s and left some trash.

    The hallway we needed to go down was filled with all sorts of shit, waist deep, for about twenty feet. My co-worker and I put on some gloves and started making a path. We found just a little had fallen on a path made by those that came before us.

    About halfway through the hallway trash I see a small, solid green light reflecting off the floor. After a little digging we find a beige metal half tower complete with Pentium and Win 3.1 stickers, laying on it’s side but upside down, power and network ran into what looked like a hole in the wall made with multiple blows from a hammer. It wasn’t in the documentation that we could see.

    In the confusion of a vendor fuckup someone decided taking a undocumented hammer to the rules best served society. Everyone who saw it afterwards decided to keep their mouth shut. We favored past wisdom and present uptime. We buried the twenty five year old rig again, hiding it from view while ensuring good air flow.






  • Voting as a block, the six rightwing justices who wield the supermajority threw out the supreme court’s own 1984 opinion in Chevron USA Inc v Natural Resources Defense Council, which has required the courts to defer to the knowledge of government experts in their reasonable interpretation of ambiguous laws.

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    The NRLB’s complaint against Amazon “should be dismissed because the General Counsel’s interpretation of the Act and requests to the National Labor Relations Board in this case implicates the Major Questions Doctrine and associated principles of non-delegation and therefore violate Article I of the United States Constitution,” Amazon’s attorneys wrote in their response, a copy of which was obtained by the Guardian.

    The NLRB complaint “should be dismissed”, they added, because the agency’s procedures “violate Article II of the United States Constitution” by involving “the exercise of significant authority by an Officer of the United States who is improperly insulated from the President’s removal power”.

    We’ll have a king. No politician can save you, even if they wanted to.




  • If I’m understanding correctly the argument against her competing hinges upon a genetic test that the article provides no information for.

    The evidence that she’s a woman seems overwhelming. But the article doesn’t provide the necessary information for an reader to understand and defeat the objection. We’re not to reason for ourselves. Instead, we’re to rely on ad hominem: The objection itself doesn’t matter because it came from Russia. The article also ignores fallacy fallacy: There’s also a very small possibility that Russia has reached the “good” conclusion for entirely “bad” reasons.

    I know three things:

    1. She’s almost certainly a biological woman.
    2. She won.
    3. The author thinks you’re stupid.





  • I went back out with my flashlight and saw the same hundreds of eyes. Fucking gators.

    Sober, at night, in the desert: Hundreds of eyes, like stars in the sky. Fucking spiders.

    Mushrooms can give you a pretty bad trip as well,

    I agree.

    at least it doesn’t last as long as acid.

    Also, one can also mitigate the effects with induced vomiting, alcohol, or sleep. A batch of shrooms never has byproducts or laced drugs. If they’re particularly strong then grind them up, weigh doses, and encapsulate.

    I took my last dose of LSD more than twenty years ago. Everyone shouldn’t choose as I do because they’re not me. My only intent is people make wiser choices.

    My advice for either one is make sure you have people around that you love and trust - being alone or being with strangers can be bad news.

    Far more important than squabbles over which one is better to start with. I was an adolescent that took what was in front of me while back of car camping with friends, a few acting as babysitters.


  • If you had relatively clean LSD and mushrooms, both of which you’d sampled, which would you recommend the hypothetical beginner I’d addressed?

    If it’s LSD then something’s fucked in your supply or you’re a unique personality that doesn’t realize they’re different from the vast majority of others in some fundamental way.

    I can definitely understand how some people would prefer LSD afterwards, with experience. I’d advise that person that long term LSD usage, even microdosing for performance enhancement, will definitely have permanent effects upon their psyche. Maybe good, maybe bad. Future them will decide.