dgriffith

I was reliably informed at the start of the year that the US was just days away from the best jobs, the biglyest paychecks, and a golden age.

Was I misled‽

Is it possible that she can act like this and still be a good and kind person despite hating people with problems and being a bit homophobic?

Her kindness is conditional. For people who match those conditions that "activate" kindness, they can't understand the problem because they don't see the other side of her, thus it must be "your fault" somehow.

I'll bet that she never shows her bad side when her supporters are around. If she actually does , and they are fine with it, then I advise you to distance yourself from all of these people.

Public with conditions on behaviour which can lead to your licence being revoked, just like the current GPL. 🤷‍♂️

Those who use AI to report to open source projects and flood the volunteering devs who keep the World going, should be disqualified from using those open source projects

I propose a GPL-noAI licence with this clause inserted.

Linus was ahead of his time in the human-identifiabilty stakes.

None of this stands up to any sort of robust critical thinking, which is sadly lacking in LLMs.

Eg. All your "high performing" worker input relies on skills gained elsewhere , and others have already asserted that the time spent doing one job is not directly equivalent to the time spent doing another job.

All your renewable energy sources rely on external inputs to manufacture or obtain. "We'll just use solar panels and battery storage and avoid all the centralised systems", you fail to understand the enormous resources needed to create such items in bulk, which is what you'll need when making hyper local energy systems.

Essentially, your dream society is leeching off capitalism to exist, and this seems to directly go against its lofty ideals.

"Why do people do X, when in my opinion if you disregard the two top reasons for doing X, it's pointless? Prove to me that it would be better!?"

Preferential AND mandatory voting, so that all those, "meh it doesn't make any difference" voters are forced to get out there and at least put their opinion on a ballot paper.

And hats off to the AEC who do a very good job of nudging people to get their details sorted, and for putting in place systems that makes it pretty easy to do so, and for generally making sure that elections are pretty well organised.

AND we have snags and cake stalls for good causes at polling places and it's also done on a Saturday, so might as well get out there and do the thing.

Silicon spray is too thin and while it will provide a slippery surface it won't provide much actual lubrication when your body weight is on it.

Lithium grease would be better but use it sparingly in case it bleeds onto your floor. If you open up a tin of that grease and there is a little layer of free oil on top it's probably a bit too sloppy, you'd want a mix with a bit more binder in it. White lithium grease as another poster mentioned would probably be ok.

You used to see "dry lube sticks" around the place which were about the consistency of a tacky/soft wax candle. That's probably what I'd use as it will stay put when you rub it on the tracks.

"Default judgement", meaning nobody turned up to plead their case in whatever court and jurisdiction this was in.

So this woman sold 1 shirt, someone else sold 275,000, someone else sold 1200 coffee mugs, and so on and so forth until Grumpy Cat Enterprises™ gets the shits and goes to court with a case against multiple plaintiffs. Then in the absence of any defense all the alleged guilty parties get slapped with a default USD100K. The lawyers take 60 percent for fees and GCE gets a potential income of a few million or so.

All of which means very fucking little if the judgement is in East Texas and you're in South East Asia as it's going to be pretty tough to collect, but it might mean something if you live in Australia. Being a civil matter, it's pretty unlikely to go any further than being a note in a file somewhere, I'm not even sure if this could get on to Australian credit reports.

But the single sale of a shirt just before all this happened sounds extremely suspicious, like a fishing expedition to get enough people to make it worthwhile to go to court.

Exceptions for farm workers only work if they bother to check and verify documents correctly, which they clearly don't.

He seems to have this the wrong way around.

The world is the store, and he's just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.