I’m one of Ossoff’s constituents, and frankly, aside from voting with the party as expected, I’m not aware of anything notable that he’s done.

However, if his desire to be reelected forces him to increase his vigor in opposing the fascists (or better yet, pushes him left) that’s only a good thing!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who protested the usage of certain types of automated machinery owing to their concerns relating to worker pay, labour savings, child labour, working conditions, and output quality. They often destroyed said machines in organised raids. Members of the group referred to themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of “Ned Ludd”, a legendary weaver whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and government officials.

This was a crime.

Also, the hotel reservations in question were for a Flock conference happening today through the 20th in Atlanta (which is where Flock’s headquarters are). According to this article (which I also posted in its own thread), there will be a rally against Flock tomorrow evening downtown.

We’ve been told historical lies. People who have an issue with this are like Luddites, but that’s because the Luddites were justified too!

They weren’t against technology; they were against it being used to abuse and exploit them as workers.

If you already are their tech support, you probably could’ve forcibly switched then a long time ago.

At least, that’s how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it’s “use what I tell you to use or you’re on your own.” To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn’t good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they’re on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.

My neighborhood is in a big city but still single-family, and we’ve recently started getting a lot more trick-or-treaters over the last few years because it’s been gentrifying and a lot of the young couples who moved in started having kids.

What should I give out along with candy to help?

evaporative cooling

Ah yes, that famously water-conserving cooling method. Remind me again where Phoenix gets its water supply?

Well yes, but the point I was trying to make is that the issue (and the embarrassment) extends well beyond the Lincoln. This debacle puts the effectiveness of the entire Navy itself into question.

I mean, for the past 75 years, THE thing that the US Navy was best at, that set it apart from and above any other organization in the world, was its amazing logistics. We had dedicated ice cream barges in WWII, for crying out loud! The fact that we’re apparently unable to resupply ships for months because of some relatively minor regional war is a decline of the same magnitude as the one the Ukraine war revealed about Russia.

This is embarrassing for the Navy because the combat units weren’t able to protect the base, because the Seabees weren’t able to repair the base in a timely manner, and/or because the logistics units weren’t able to re-route the supply lines effectively. Take your pick!

I should’ve paid more attention to the GP’s comment, where he said he’d even be willing to vote Republican. Single issue anti-data-center voters are just as fucked up.

50MW-plus data centers must bring their own electricity generation to avoid shutoffs

And the fossil fuel death-cultists who usurped the government are champing at the bit to let them have it in the most polluting way possible.

Single-issue anti-genocide voters ended up forcing the outcome that maximized genocide, so IDGAF what they have to say about it.

I’ve been leaning towards the iGPSport computers, but I’ve been having a hard time choosing between the different models (especially since they seem to be divided into two product lines, between the BSC ones and the BiNavi ones). Do you have any advice about that?

Since I’ve never used a bike computer before, I’m not entirely sure which features are important/worth paying more for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLxUjZXqba8

If I’m taking a screenshot, it’s because I want to accurately preserve what I’m seeing. Doing anything, clever or not, to alter that is a breach of trust.

Doing it for the purpose of branding/advertising, of all things, only adds insult to injury.

You’d hope so (especially backups by the public since all this ought to be public domain data), but the other problem is that the organizations collecting it are being destroyed so there will be discontinuities in it forever now.

Clint Curtis wants a seasoned accomplice, apparently.

Robber-baron assholes aren’t “nerds” just because the industry their business operates in is computer tech.

The mesh should be about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom, not in the middle. The point of the reinforcement is to resist tensile stress, and the stress in the middle is 0.

Tensile stress increases linearly to the bottom of the slab, but you can’t put the metal all the way at the bottom because you need enough concrete under it to embed it properly.

(I realize you probably didn’t mean “middle” literally, but just in case…)