ultranaut

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He's a right wing grifter with a history of shitty behavior and multiple allegations going back years. I feel confident in my assessment of Russell Brand as a worthless piece of shit. Unless you're a court of law you don't owe him the benefit of doubt.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Effectively, yes. Tariffs are basically just a sales tax. It's a little more complicated than that but the end result for consumers isn't really any different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I looked into it a week or two ago and couldn't find any definitive evidence. It seems plausible because Musk is well known for being into plastic surgery and IVF, but other than a musician who knows Grimes publicly claiming that Grimes confirmed it to them, I didn't see anything that looked convincing.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not really. Tariffs can accomplish legitimate policy goals but this approach of starting a massive trade war with every major trading partner simultaneously is not an effective strategy for accomplishing anything. Inflation is all but guaranteed to return now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Fun facts about Rafael: he likes incest porn, and he once tried to win a debate by eating his own boogers.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

When the rubber hits the road, he’s nothing but a Cybertruck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do not understand how you have gone through life without any traumatic experiences, that seems incredibly unlikely. Also, you are perhaps the only person on earth with perfect mental health these days.
I was thinking you had maybe had a bad experience in nature when you were young because your comment reminded me of a few people I've known. At least one of them had a series of bad camping experiences as a child that really defined how they view nature for the rest of their life. I think they had a parent who was really into nature and tried to force it onto them but it didn't go well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Did you have a traumatic experience in nature as a child?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

If I'm understanding correctly, you've not been selling the customer the additional feature but they think you have been and now your boss wants you to actually start billing them for the feature that they mistakenly think they are getting already but without actually providing the feature to them? Assuming that is correct it really does sound like fraud. Generally you can't knowingly sell something you aren't capable of selling but still collect the money. Even if the victim mistakenly thinks they got what they paid for you are still defrauding them of the money. I'm not a lawyer but I think if you do this you may end up needing a lawyer. Is there anyone else in the company besides your boss that you could talk to about this? The more people know about what is going on the harder it will be for your boss to pull of whatever he is trying to pull off. If something like this was going on where I work I would be documenting everything and sharing it with whoever would look at it, starting with my bosses boss. I wouldn't make any accusations though, just present the facts and express your concerns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If a person would be "in the right" it doesn't matter how or why they are a person.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not sure if this is sarcasm but if you're serious, you fell for propaganda because Trump has been a warmongering asshole the entire time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Grief makes people do weird things and pictures can be misleading. That said, this is creepy as fuck and you should trust your gut if you ever feel unsafe around her.

 

In case anyone is interested, the Shiftall FlipVR controllers are in fact a real product. I decided to take the risk and order a set, they arrived today. Since they are such a new product and it's hard to find any real world info on them I figured I would share my initial impressions here in case anyone else is interested in them.

Getting the controllers paired went smoothly and only took a minute (just make sure you install the driver). Figuring out how to actually put them on took a bit longer, adjusting the wrist strap especially was a little tricky because you need to push part of the material up to get it to feed through. Or maybe there's a trick to it I haven't figured out yet. Regardless, after a bit of struggle I got them dialed in and they are very comfortable. The weight of the controller is noticeable but its balanced well enough that I'm typing this review with them on and it's not been an impediment.

Flipping the controllers in and out of your hands is as fun as it looks. You can adjust how far the controller part extends and adjust its angle so getting it into the exact right spot for my hand was easy and it feels surprisingly natural. It really is a very clever design that feels right when you have your fingers on the controller.

Quality wise I would say they are good but not quite great. They feel well made but the trigger buttons are a little more soft and wiggly than I would like and detract from the the overall impression. If the controller part is at the wrong angle I find the lower trigger can sometimes pinch the skin of my middle finger a little. If there's a future revision, improving the feel of the triggers would be my top priority. There's also a seam on the bottom part that doesn't feel great if you run your finger over it but there's no reason to ever touch that part of the controller so its really just me nitpicking. Other than that I can't find anything else to complain about.

Overall, I'm impressed with the controllers. Despite looking ridiculous, or like the prop from a 1990s cyberpunk movie, a whole lot of thought clearly went into these things and they feel much better than I expected them to.

 

Kayak and Alyx at the Shiftall HQ with a pre-production MeganeX.

 

Never give the cops your phone.

 

For years, America’s most iconic gun-makers turned over sensitive personal information on hundreds of thousands of customers to political operatives.

Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found.

The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.

At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.

https://www.propublica.org/article/gunmakers-owners-sensitive-personal-information-glock-remington-nssf

 

In November, Ohio residents will have an opportunity to vote on Issue 1, a constitutional amendment that would finally abolish the state’s extreme partisan gerrymandering. Voters will not, however, be informed of this fact on the ballot. Instead, the Ohio Supreme Court’s Republican majority ruled Monday that the amendment will be described in egregiously misleading terms on the ballot itself, with ultra-biased language designed to turn citizens against it. Incredibly, a proposal that would end gerrymandering will be framed as a proposal to require gerrymandering, a patently false representation of its intent and effect. The court’s 4–3 decision marks yet another effort to subvert democracy in Ohio by Republicans who fear that the citizenry—when given a voice on the matter—might dare to loosen their stranglehold on power.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/ohio-supreme-court-voter-fraud-gop.html

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