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Ah, but I agree with you! It’s commendable that we care for our weak who would otherwise die.
The other wolf, though, thinks there’s a good chance the stupid are going to drive us to extinction.
Thanks for not taking offense when you legitimately could have. Reason 1 why Lemmy > Reddit.
I think we’re of like mind on this. It’s possible to realize something is broken without knowing how to fix it.
I’m not sure why Boeing is in space, except for the “me too” factor when they noticed the successes SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin were having. I wasn’t aware they had a military division - what do they make? I mean, outside of repurposed commercial cargo jets. I don’t think spinning off a division that’s simply modifying an existing design for a specific market makes much sense; most of the work is in the original design and manufacture, right?
Maybe? Natural selection seems to work for the rest of everything in nature. But humans are special, aren’t we? Above nature; different rules apply to us, nature itself treats us differently.
I do agree that humans are fundamentally different in that more of our individual value is learned than inherited. OTOH, more of our value is learned than inherited, and that’s where the problem lies. It’s not there genes, it’s the parents and the parenting. I’m not suggesting we’ll improve humanity by removing stupidity through evolution; I’m saying there are a lot of people who I don’t believe are fit to raise children. And there’s a corpus of examples that could support that argument; how about that guy who literally shook his infant to death last week? Good father, him?
I’m not a parent myself, and I will never be one. Maybe I’d make a good father, maybe not. But I’m not breeding, so taking me out doesn’t affect the gene pool; I’m not playing in the gene pool.
And, no, I did not misunderstand the point. What I said was that if I could get a guarantee that others would also be removed, I’d volunteer to be in the group.
That was hyperbole, BTW; if I really believed it, I’d go to a Trump rally with a bunch of C4 and ball bearings wrapped around my torso. Even if I were an Einstein, it’d be a net benefit to humanity.
Yeah. There are lots of areas I think government control is better than private sector, but they’re mostly infrastructure/monopoly areas. Power, internet, roads, etc. Normally I wouldn’t put Boeing in this category, but you may be right. Thinking about NASA, and what we achieved as a country, maybe there are some endeavors that are simply so expensive and important (as in, safety) that they shouldn’t be private.
I don’t know if breaking things up would help, though. Boeing re-uses liners for both cargo and passengers; and there are other companies making smaller planes for other sectors: military, private jets, etc. It’s just those big airliners where the cost of operating is so enormous, and the cost of entry so high, and the market so constrained, that I really can’t see any room for more competition. Do you?
Dude. If I could guarantee that my sacrifice would also remove some N>1 number of dumbshits who shouldn’t be contributing to the ecological load the Earth’s ecosystem is bearing, I’d volunteer.
The Idiocracy intro got a lot of things right.
Mm hmm… Hmmm hmmm… Wait
And the military is just sitting on its hands.
what? What should the military be doing?
That last one is the biggest goddamn cherry I’ve ever seen on top.
This is a huge point. My wife made an off-hand comment about Boeing looking like a good take-over target for Airbus, and my response was, “never. Then there would be only one airline maker in the world.”
There are exactly two manufacturers of large passenger jet liners. It’s not even a question of too big to fail; it’s far worse than that.
Personally, I think they’re going about this the wrong way. You could prosecute executives for past decisions, but they were just doing the job they were hired for: maximize profits over every other consideration. The ones that didn’t, got replaced by ones that did.
For companies like Boeing, we need a different model of capitalism. One where engineers can be in charge, and the metrics for success are dominated by something other than sheer profitability. I don’t know; it seems as if we used to know how to do capitalism better. We had a functioning, funded, effective NASA, which operated almost entirely outside of The Market and which was a national pride; now it’s overshadowed by SpaceX. Boeing made good planes.
I don’t have a solution, but I can tell that we’ve gotten lost somewhere along the way.
I get as frustrated as anyone else at the often glacial pace of justice. I’ve been told that it’s all in a good cause, that slow means careful and the best chance at just outcomes.
While I mostly believe this, my doubts stem from the fact that “justice” seems to be awfully stern and quick when the accused is poor, or a minority, and seems to only really becomes slow and careful when the rich, and especially the rich white, are accused. And the rich get to live in “house arrest” while the system cautiously, and protractedly, protects their rights. I have a difficult time reconciling that.
PS, I know you’re talking about Crowder, not the public. It just got me thinking.
I’d been wanting a new keyboard for a while, mainly to get better tactile switches and more aggressive stagger. But I tried to swap some keycaps on my ErgoDox and broke a switch, and that was enough to justify a new keyboard. I’m sticking with the Piantor for a while because I don’t want to afford to drop $250 on keyboards every few months. So, in my case, I’m sticking with it for financial reasons, not “in love with” reasons.
I do like the better programmability, tho. Definite win, although kanata certainly filled that need adequately.
To paraphrase The San Saba Songbird, cats are excluded from the statutes of man, and many of the laws of the Almighty as well.
So, which order did they violate, according to the Israeli leadership? Trying to give the guy medical attention?
I especially liked your comment further down, though, about how you immediately characterize the guy, in civilian, strapped to the hood of a jeep like a fucking trophy deer, as “a murderer.” You’ve got shit-all knowledge about this person; they could have been a journalist, a medic, but since it’s Israeli soldiers driving the jeep, he’s immediately a “murderer.”
Your biggotry is showing, there, Rambo.
(Yah, I’m answering twice)
cocot46plus looks fantastic; I do like to have that extra pinky column. Plus, I recently forced myself to convert to a trackball, and having one in the middle there is appealing. I also have a PowerMate that the knob could replace - just about perfect!
The Vulpe Majoris might be even better, since I have large hands and the more aggressive stagger is not comfortable for me. And also a trackball option; these are both fantastic suggestions, thank you!
Thanks! I thought you asked your question for a different reason.
Why did you ask your OP? Just curious.
I used an ErgoDox for years. I wasn’t thrilled with the switches, and I wanted more stagger.
For the past few months I’ve been using a Piantor. I’ve learned:
I’m a fairly fast touch typist, and while I loved the chording for, eg, the num pad, I have to have too many keys under layers and I can’t quite get the QMK settings tuned such that I’m either not getting a layer switch fast enough, or I’m getting them unexpectedly.
I think part of my problem is something the author of kanata found out and corrected for: I sometimes type a following key before fully releasing a previous key, which gets interpreted by QMK and kmonad as a layer switch (and, with 42 keys, almost every key is doing double duty). I suspect I can make QMK do what I want, but there are a lot of knobs and it can be hard to tell what to adjust.
Anyway, I think next time I’ll go for less thin, max tactile, more connected halves, at least a couple more keys on each side; I miss those center thumb keys on the ErgoDox. Same stagger. I’m going to have to solve the QMK programming either way.
At first I read “Portland,” saw my mistake, shrugged and thought, “either way.”
I’ve never been to Poland. I’m sure it’s nicer than Portland.
Few abilities will protect you from muggings as the ability to squirt substances from your ass on demand.
A self-perpetuating oligarchy. It’s always money.
It’s a choice between offering higher-ed opportunities to all income levels, or to only rich people. If you’re giving expensive educations to people who can’t afford it and aren’t paying for it, you have to get the money from somewhere. If you’re a public school, the government helps some, with grants and such, but as the stats show, tax dollars are a small percent of funding. If you’re private, you can give a big “fuck you” to poor people and only let the kids of rich people in.
I don’t have a solution for this, aside from saying that someone besides me needs to pay more taxes (corporations, rich people, etc). I’m not rich, so saying “tax the rich!” is basically saying “tax someone other than me more.” And, yeah, I think we need tax reform, and more income equality - the current discrepancy in wealth distribution is nauseating - but I don’t know how.
Things are badly broken, and it’s leading to the end of the American Empire era. I only hope whoever comes after us learns and does better.
The ribbon is what makes it classy.
Anybody following this able to give a balanced summary? I find The Hill to tend right-leaning and don’t much trust their analysis.
The Hill seems to be placing the defeat of Bowman on his stance against the genocide in Palestine, which is becoming a sort of dog-whistle saying, “stand against the invasion of Palestine, and this is what happens to you.” It may in this case be true; I can believe it, but I don’t trust The Hill to not be constructing a narrative.