DahGangalang

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DahGangalang, (edited )

And they look to have the same/comparable ride height/total height

DahGangalang,

No, Freezing to death while drinking porridge together

DahGangalang,

Eh, better to celebrate those who could keep up than to fret over those who couldn’t.

DahGangalang,

Wait, you’re saying you can get the same “nutrition to cost” value out of wet beans? I assumed you meant dry beans (and this would need to soak and actually cook them).

This might just be location specific, but wet beans are much more expensive (in terms of calories per dollar) compared to ramen every where I’ve seen (lived in South West and Mid Atlantic of US).

Are you saying that’s not the case where you’re at?

DahGangalang,

Yeah and I’ll bet you use Tau instead of Pi, don’t you, you human scum.

DahGangalang,

I think there’s something to be said about shared cultural experiences, and so reading some older books is probably a good thing.

To clarify what I mean though: that means that we should be reading stuff that was written/popular when our grandparents were our age. Going back 200+ years should be saved for a history class cause that’s the real value in reading that material. In my opinion, Great Gatsby should be about the oldest book kids need to be reading for a literature class these days, and even that’s pushing it.

DahGangalang,

This attempted contradiction doesn’t seem to counteract the above comment.

DahGangalang,

I had (what felt like) an epiphany (but has seemed obvious to everyone I’ve shared it with) some time ago:

Electrical signals are serial; they’re connectionless, like UDP.

Underlying all these fantastic technologies is just aother connectionless protocol.

DahGangalang,

Ugh, yeah, that is a point of frustration I have with the family.

For them, it’s not so much “look what Musk is doing” so much as “look at how much better Twitter’s gotten”, which is particularly ripe cause none of them even use the platform. As I think on it, that probably means the big Fox talking heads are saying things like that.

I never got into Twitter myself (just never really understood / took to the format), which is kind of a shame cause I’d really like to be supporting Mastodon in this years surgance of the Fediverse.

DahGangalang,

That’s interesting to hear. I wouldn’t have expected Europeans would have thought about ol’ Elon that much.

DahGangalang,

Yeah, I hate how toxic just politics in general get. Like, it feels like any time anything political gets brought up, everyone leaves their good will and sense of humanity at the door, ya know?

I do enjoy how much tech-focused content is on Lemmy, but it also feels like there’s a higher concentration of toxic leftist type posts.

That’s definitely a thing I miss about the good ol’ reddit days: being able to scroll for days without seeing anything political. Or rather - being able to filter out all the political subs and not feeling like you were missing out on the larger conversation on the platform.

DahGangalang,

I suppose my instinctive reaction isn’t to assume someone’s politics would determine how they react to Musk.

My first real assumption would be that tech/engineering types are the only ones who’d really think about him at all (in both directions). Like, I do have an uncle who occasionally brings him up whenever theirs news on SpaceX’s rockets (though usually this gets brought up in the context of “new technology sucks” and “what was wrong with the rockets that carried up Voyager” and such).

So yeah, I really don’t think I’d describe anyone as “gargling Elon’s cock” except those who still have good will for Tesla.

DahGangalang,

Ugh, yeah, I don’t hate the guy, but I also think that anyone who still thinks he’s a visionary hasn’t actually been paying attention to his work/how his companies are going lately.

DahGangalang,

Man, I don’t know what right wingers y’all are talking about.

I come from a super right wing family and all them MFs think this is a bad idea too (though to be fair, they’re def on the conspiracy theory “everything is to get a microchip in my blood/brain” side of things).

DahGangalang,

Let’s not lose sight of the important part:

That they’re plotting it together

DahGangalang,

mUh FaMiLy!!1!

DahGangalang,

The real superior option (except when naming files)

DahGangalang,

Beer Tank

I can’t be bothered to look up the actual translation, so that is what I’m calling them from now on.

DahGangalang,

Naw, I just wanna go live in the woods, ya know, like the Libertarians.

DahGangalang,

Still better than paying taxes

DahGangalang,

American here to confirm that @JoBo is basically right.

Some of the smaller parties have “Open Primaries” (which is to say that you can vote for who gets to represent the party in the real election, regardless of your party registration), but the big two (Democrats and Republicans) have “Closed Primaries” which means that if you want to vote for who will be the Dem/Rep candidate in the main election, you have to be a registered member of that party.

DahGangalang,

Boy, I sure do hate that analogy.

But it is the reason I’m registered with a major party vs the one I actually like; I can always have a voice in the one I like, and I want to be able to have my microscopic amount of influence on a larger party. It’s as much of a “have your cake and eat it too” in the less-than-optimal environment of American Politics as I can get.

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