Any kinda craft. Right now it’s basic woodwork and crotchet.

Setup solar panels with 99% of it then probably die in an orgy of hedonism with the remaining 6 million.

You might as well ask me what I believe the role of lizard or a bird to be. The measures of its success is how long it lives and how well it did at copying its uniqueness. The state doesn’t exist for humans, it exists because we are capable of getting that particular meme-infection.

This isn’t a value judgement. I could argue all the points of why having a government is better for us vs not having one but I won’t bother because even if I am right it is a post hoc justification that would apply to modern governments not what we have typically had in history.

Now a very good strategy for a state to survive is to make its territory such a nice place it has productive humans and is able to attract more. Given that the pragmatic solution is the highly democratic welfare state.

Hosted a game night with friends, now just drinking a beer on my porch

You have convinced me. There definitely is room for improvement in this sector. Sadly not much I can do as mechanical assemblies aren’t real my knowledge base. If you start something and need a panel designed let me know. Sounds like an interesting project. Might want to start with something basic like a stamper/press.

Well I guess you are talking about PCB schematics, industrial if you don’t have the CAD file a PDF converter works fine.

You are right a complex mechanical assembly is not trivial especially since most OEMs are not going, sadly, to put every part in solid works.

It feels like when I am having these discussions about open source hardware that I am speaking a different language. I can reverse engineer the electrical/software for any industrial machine except maybe some complex CNC. And the majority of the time if I need it I can just request it. I just really don’t want to. The time and energy to build something from scratch is not trivial.

Just this week I was dealing with a conveyor system I want to rip out and build fresh but took the easy way and debugged it.

I feel like you just asked me if a chopstick is a fork. My clients ask me for it and I email them the PDF, I ssk other companies sometimes and they email me the PDF. What license is that?

No it’s more than that. When I rip apart s machine I know exactly where to buy each part in it, I usually have the schematic. Any given part breaks and I can fix it

Things can be true on different levels and false on others. The earth is locally flat, it is as a whole a near sphere.

I don’t know if we have free will or not, I strongly suspect that physics can explain our minds fully, but I don’t know. At the same time even if physics could fully explain our minds in practice we are so complicated we give the impression that we have a limited amount of free will. So yeah the earth is round but it is easier for us to assume flat most of the time.

Spend a bit more money and buy a generator that is easy to repair.

In the heavy infrastructure/manufacturing sector it sorta is already. Or maybe I should say it’s pretty easy to reverse engineer at least to a given point. You might not know exactly what is going on in the firmware level of your PLC but you know exactly what PLC to buy and can see the user domain code running on it.

The thing is unless you are doing system integration or repair there isn’t much use for that knowledge.

Yes it was.

Thank God. Before LLMs, there were no machines that we could ask to solve math problems.

Now the story is changing

Now what is being given?

I am sorry were you responding to what I wrote or what you wanted me to have written?

No. Once it has identified it as a math problem a different part of the code is called.

Fucking morons with Twatter accounts

Guy Fawkes was fighting for the Catholic church being the official religion of the UK. I am not exactly picturing someone trying to establish a theocracy by blowing up parliament as a freedom fighter.

Nothing really. By then everyone in my household will hold dual-citizenship and be able to leave when they decide the situation has gotten unacceptable.

I won privilege bingo so me personally am in no danger, at least for the foreseeable future. Work in the infrastructure sector and plan to go down with the ship. You guys have fun with your civil war and genocides, I will keep the garbage and sewage at bay. At least until the secret police get to me and put a bullet in my brain.

I am not important enough to be targeted but privileged enough to be noticed if I was disappeared.

The taxi driver union is a joke, almost no driver is a member of it.

I don’t know if you want your taxes so bad just keep using them. They smell like ass, huge vehicles that guzzle gas, have ads that won’t stop playing, don’t take credit/debit card, charge insane amounts, but if this is what you really fucking want go use it.