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
@Jonathanglick @shoq The repetition embeds itself in your mind better when you're not paying attention.
@shoq I've actually made it such a point in my life to avoid advertising that whenever I go back and visit family and they just sit through the ads, it's like an alien world.
Can't recommend the "avoiding ads lifestyle" enough, by the way: A little vigilance and preparation can save a lot of wasted time down the line.
@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @thatguyoverthere As for your second point, I've heard it suggested that BGCs should be a service offered by the post office. Everyone has a post office nearby. The buyer and seller go to the post office (without the merchandise), the buyer gets background checked, then when they leave the seller can sell with a clean conscience. Everyone wins.
@Katrags Yep, like I said, that is very possible. But I think it's also possible that this is a hoax or that the victims are exaggerating parts of the story.
@freemo @admitsWrongIfProven @thatguyoverthere It very much depends on the state. I have personal experience buying guns without background checks, even as recently as the last year, perfectly legally.
@Katrags @albertsy @georgetakei Very possible, but in the story (I searched for and found it, it didn't even make the front page), the victims claimed to talk to a detective, who should know the law a little better.
Like I said: fishy.
@admitsWrongIfProven @freemo @thatguyoverthere They wouldn't be liable for the actions of another person, no. But knowingly selling a gun without doing a background check should be a felony in its own right. That's the goal of the UBC movement.
@NerdGirlInVR @georgetakei It's illegal in Florida too, despite what that headline says.
@albertsy @georgetakei There very much are. This story is fishy...
@kwish @georgetakei No, it's a pretty standard Stand-Your-Ground law that would absolutely not cover this.
I'm a Florida gunowner myself, and everything I've been taught says this guy should be in jail.
There's something extremely fishy about this narrative.
@georgetakei I smell bullshit.
Florida's law says that an individual can "use deadly force if they reasonably believe that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to themself or another"
Someone pulling into their driveway doesn't count.
So either the police were flat-out wrong, or this narrative is full of shit.
Louis Ingenthron
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You can tell from the starship explosion the press isn't really incentivized to learn from a decade+ of mistakes, either. Musk's bulbous ego and a rush to launch on a dumb weed joke date resulted in him nixing flame diverters, which severely damaged the launch pad and engines, all portrayed by the press as a smashing success:
https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1649443447164776450?t=UBBuDSLAOI8yCh0YTvpWLw&s=19
@DrALJONES ...sounds plausible to anyone who has met a teenager before.
Louis Ingenthron
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A good deep-dive (written pre-launch) on how the largest rocket in history was launched from a dirt-cheap site that would be substandard everywhere else in the world, including Russia and China.
This was a massive regulatory failure, everything from knowingly relying on bad data to outright evasion of review by omitting critical infrastructure.
There should be accountability.
https://blog.esghound.com/p/spacexs-texas-rocket-is-going-to
@helenczerski My apologies. I stand corrected.
@helenczerski Last 71 years? How about the last 30?
@helenczerski Just read through the part of the report for nuclear and it does not explain this discrepancy. In fact, it starts with "Nuclear power can deliver low-carbon energy at scale (high confidence)".
As for the first long-term storage opening in 2028, maybe it would have come sooner if nuclear had half the subsidies that renewables have now....
@helenczerski Do you have a link you can share to that, please?
@helenczerski @Alienated53 None of that sounds remotely plausible, though:
(1) Ride sharing is suffering with the rest of the gig economy as the drivers realize how badly they're getting screwed over.
(2) Improving public transport in most locations would require redesigning/rebuilding the entire city, and it's useless in rural areas.
(3) At least in America, cars have been signs of freedom for as long as they've existed (and horses before them); I don't see that changing any time soon.
We need solutions that don't rely on half the population having a sudden change of heart, because those are *doomed to fail*.
@indyradio Heat can be reclaimed and reused.
Nuclear is more efficient than wind/solar in many ways, especially land usage, and both options produce non-biodegradable waste.
I just want to know what exactly causes nuclear to have less potential contribution to net emission reduction when nuclear is an emission-free option.
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
