I wonder how much could be done to send something backwards and forwards at say, 1 year intervals and measure the difference from where it’s expected and where it ended up. Your wind up with some map of the calibration point over time.

Seems like calibration could be done with essentially unlimited time for the system to run.

Travel, visit theme parks, play more board and table top games, restore and work on cars, be a stay at home dad.

That’s all I want to be at this point. I just wish I had the money to do it.

Don’t know where you are. But look at the directories for business parks and office buildings around you.

Which is why I don’t look for made in USA. I look for small local companies. I also refuse to support those small local companies if they are super patriotic. I hate how they’ve co-opted nationalism for advertising. Plus, it usually means they’re maga skid stains and I don’t want to support them.

A “made in USA” sticker with a flag on it is pretty bargain basement for companies I want to buy from.

I would like things made by local craftsman.

Made in USA has a markup for the cost of labor. But that’s kind of alright by me (when I can afford it) because we should pay people living wages. However, so many companies use “made in USA” as the sole reason to add even MORE markup beyond the additional costs for manufacturing.

I like made locally also because it means let’s transport costs and hopefully lower emissions in what it takes to deliver it to market.

I have a hard time understanding why certain companies should be allowed to be multinational conglomerates. Certain markets probably should have hard caps to the size companies can reach.

First. Because the government serves more than just you. So your priorities don’t always align with the needs of the entire populace. There are lots of things that need to be funded, but you don’t even know about.

Second, you can to a certain degree. Most charitable contributions are tax deductable. Meaning you can lower your tax burden by selectively funding what you want.

Yes.

We should move away from gendered bathrooms entirely and into actual single person stalls with doors that close completely with no gaps.

Yup. Like I said toward the end, it seems the only direct way is through violence and at the cost of an individuals life or liberty.

So many think that the solution to the paradox of tolerance is to simple by intolerant of intolerance. But that’s such an oversimplification. I agree on principal. I just don’t know how that looks in practice.

I don’t entirely disagree. But it does feel like it’s along the same slippery slope fallacy where once you start criminalizing one type of speech those who are unscrupulous enough will find a way to subvert it to attack others and restrict additional speech until dissent becomes criminal.

I don’t think we should tolerate the intolerant. We as a society need to be intolerant of them, but it’s a fine line when it’s the government itself that is doing it. Businesses need to ostracize them. Do not sell them goods or food. Do not allow them to enter your premises. Do not hire them.

We as individuals need to do the same.

Quite frankly, it’s the intolerant who have weaponized this so effectively. They have no qualms with harassing and doxing people whose views differ. I suppose there is a definition of intolerant that the tolerant need to collectively identify and fight at all costs. But it’s hard to define it especially when the intolerant use our tolerance against us.

I know that doing so will lead them to their own echo chambers and enclaves. I don’t have a solution for that which doesn’t involve physical harm. And the older I get, the more I understand the necessity of violence in order to preserve life and peace, as much as that sounds like an oxymoron.

Right. This one is funded and run by the state of Florida, it becomes an extension of government. So in the case of this school, yes.

Oh yea! There is no 1st amendment protection from other individuals. Just from the school itself, as a government run entity.

You and I have every right to do what you say. So long as the photos were taken in a public place where they have no expectation of privacy and the photos and flyers are true and factful information. There is nothing that I’m aware of preventing you from doing anything like that (except maybe the schools code of conduct, but no legal statute.)

I mean, that’s why we are free to post the picture of Musk doing the Nazi salute. And why I have this shirt.

This actually is a state school.

It’s part of the state university system of Florida.

It’s been that way for decades. The ACLU defended the Nazis in 1977 when they wanted to march in Skokie, Illinois. It was a big drawn out test of 1st amendment rights and while the person actually defending them hated them, he felt silencing their speech was tantamount to silencing all speech. It’s why there is the scene in the Blue Brothers where Jake says “I hate illinois nazis”

I’m torn on this, because in a way it really is a 1st amendment issue. Does a university that gets public funds and is accredited by the state get to police the political affiliations and speech of it’s students? At the college I went to in CA, we routinely had religious fanatics on campus telling us about sin and how people were going to hell, but they had a 1st amendment right to be there. We heckled them and yelled and did sin right in their faces anyways, because fuck them. Schools often have standards similar to public institutions with how they handle free speech, especially state schools.

Personally, I want to see every one in this group beaten to a pulp for their beliefs. And then beaten again. I want to see who they are and ostracize them and make them feel like shit over it.

I feel that it is more up to us to deal with it, than it is for a state institution or a school that is an extension of the state.

Cyc is short for cyclorama. A way of lighting a backdrop which kind of wraps around a stage, that wrap around effect which lead to the name.

I know of those mirrors and surprise, I have driven in adverse conditions.

I’m not saying there aren’t better ways. But cameras in their current implementation isn’t the answer.

There becomes a point where there is too much in front of a driver. I also believe the frequent “feedback” from driving assists causes me, at least, to take my eyes off the road to figure out what it’s beeping at me for and it’s usually because the system doesn’t recognize a bend in the road or the car in front of me is turning.

Mirrors just work. No electricity, no lenses to get covered and blocked.

Cameras are good for the places mirrors can’t see, but otherwise it’s more shoving electronics in places were it’s not needed driving up cost, complexity, and decreasing repairability.

I like function over form for safety items. Simple, reliable, and imo there is beauty in something clearly being designed for a purpose.

Give me texture! I want to be able to grip my phone and not have it constantly slide off tables and couches because glass is so smooth.

I use scaling to make things smaller on my laptop screen. It’s invariably chrome and electron apps that can’t do scaling. It’s infuriating.