Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo @koherecoWatchdog @kctipton @andytiedye Have you seen the crap that ends up in police buyback programs? You'd lose sooooo much money.
@koherecoWatchdog @freemo @kctipton @andytiedye Lol, that's pretty smart.
@koherecoWatchdog @kctipton @andytiedye @freemo Lol, good luck. I've never seen one.
But, yeah, of course the mfrs do. The NRA is specifically the lobbying group for the manufacturing industry (not for owners like most people think). To find one without ties would be like finding a real estate agent who's not a member of the National Association of Realtors.
@freemo @koherecoWatchdog @andytiedye @kctipton Probably both. The NRA got its stranglehold on the industry by offering insurance to gun shops and ranges when nobody else would. Now it's nearly impossible to find any gun-related-business in America that doesn't have ties to the NRA.
@koherecoWatchdog @andytiedye @kctipton @freemo Right. Ironically, you'd need to go to a state with a gun show loophole to buy from a private seller.
@koherecoWatchdog @freemo @kctipton @andytiedye Yes, I was providing examples, so it's all over the place by nature.
More importantly, my post was about the far left, not democrats. There's overlap there, but they are two separate groups. Democrats as a whole generally don't go for gun bans, but the far left does.
This has got to be the highest engineering-to-volume thing I've ever worked on. It's a holder for an LED that's meant to easily snap into a dashboard. So, it's got a slot for the LED, slots for its connectors, a retaining ring, and two clips.
All for something that's barely a centimeter across!
@freemo Hence what I referred to as "wading into the muck" lol
@andytiedye @freemo @kctipton Freemo may not want to give out examples, but I'll wade into that muck. I'm a left-leaning-centrist with libertarian tendencies, so most of what I define as "far left" are good ideas at their core, but taken to the extreme.
A good example is gun control. Most Americans (including most gun owners) are in favor of reasonable gun control. The far left takes this to the extreme, though, and advocates outright banning of guns, usually based on arbitrary factors like what shape or color they are.
A second, quick example would be the whole "forgive student loans" thing. That was entirely driven by the far left in this country.
Another example is environmentally friendly cars. Most people are for electric vehicle subsidies, and improving charger infrastructure... to an extent. But California's attempt to ban non-electric vehicles (while its grid still runs more than 50% on natural gas, and the state faces widespread power shortages!) is endemic of far-left thinking, putting the cart before the horse.
Finally, you have free speech. Both the far left and the far right threaten free speech, but from opposite directions. The far right wants to ban books about homosexuality, while the far left wants the state to punish "disinformation" and charge Trump with incitement over nonsense (a lefty account I saw recently suggested he should be indicted for using the word "fight" on Truth Social, despite the fact that Dems use that term to refer to 'electoral fights' just as often).
So, yeah, I have to agree with Freemo that it's one of those things where, if you can't see it, it might be because you're in the middle of it.
@ceoln I mean, I'm not a fan of Altman, but more companies should take that perspective. Going public is basically a death knell for innovation. It incentivizes short term profits, everything else be damned.
My takeaway from this story is that people are flocking to a desert that's running out of water and maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't do that?
Drought-plagued #Nevada pledged to do away with 3,900 acres of grass – roughly 3,000 football fields' worth — in the #LasVegas area within six year...
@mentallyalex What exactly did they promise? Unity has already offered Mac build support for years.
@ThinkingSapien Wait, they do marketing and they don't want their employees to be on drugs? Must not be very successful marketing, lol.
@mentallyalex Yep. If you want a concrete example, I'm currently waiting on a set of AR glasses to help me prototype a system to help pilots see other planes in the sky easier and avoid collisions!
@mentallyalex @9to5Mac Unity is also a directionless mess that's been in development hell for years now. They've been big on big flashy reveals, and exceedingly poor on actually following through with the things they announce. Whatever they promised on stage, take it with a huge grain of salt.
(And that's from someone who released two games on the engine; I used to love it.)
@shuttersparks Literally, yes. Marketers think it's "dynamic".
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@inthehands The strangest thing about this is how universally good it is. The benefits for the children (food security) and for the parents (reduced childcare costs & bureaucratic time waste) are obvious, but others benefit too: The administrators have to deal with way less paperwork (they're responsible for verifying status under NSLP), allowing them to focus more on education. And even the businesses who act as food vendors who supply the meals make more money when the government is footing the bill and driving demand.
Literally the only people who could disagree with such a policy are the folks who have so bought into the "welfare queen" scam that they'd shoot themselves in the foot to perpetuate it. (And maybe non-parents whose tax dollars now go to subsidize parents, but you'd have to be a pretty big asshole to get pissed off about your money feeding hungry kids).
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Parents just got this email from the school district.
Still marveling at what Democrats in the #MNleg managed to do with a one-vote margin.
One vote.
Not because they had a safety margin. Not because they expect to win again this way.
Because they vowed at the start of the session to leave nothing on the table, and finish with no regrets.
@inthehands The strangest thing about this is how universally good it is. The benefits for the children (food security) and for the parents (reduced childcare costs & bureaucratic time waste) are obvious, but others benefit too: The administrators have to deal with way less paperwork (they're responsible for verifying status under NSLP), allowing them to focus more on education. And even the businesses who act as food vendors who supply the meals make more money when the government is footing the bill and driving demand.
Literally the only people who could disagree with such a policy are the folks who have so bought into the "welfare queen" scam that they'd shoot themselves in the foot to perpetuate it. (And maybe non-parents whose tax dollars now go to subsidize parents, but you'd have to be a pretty big asshole to get pissed off about your money feeding hungry kids).
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
