VegaLyrae

joined 2 years ago
[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I am floored no one mentioned the original Ratchet and Clank

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwxLlSv5mvIa1WGSK3wH3o2Y9I4D-rqFi

David Bergeaud did such a standout job with it, it's so varied but cohesive, it's engaging and synthy but real and groovy.

It MAKES the environment just as much as graphics.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago

It seems like we've actually grown further from treating it as such.

For the first half of US history the constitution was more often than not tightly interpreted.

I imagine many things we take for granted today would not stand under the same level of constitutional rigor without an enabling amendment.

Honestly I wouldn't mind going back to a stricter interpretation, but we do need to get back to making amendments.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to say that the 2nd amendment, as written, isn't totally wild.

However I do want to mention that the Continental congress was petitioned by John Belton in 1777 to purchase his 16-shot musket. It also had a not-quite-magazine that could be replaced very quickly. The 16 shots could be fired as quickly as the user could pull the triggers (yes it had multiple).

Given this, it seems likely that the people writing the constitution ten years later had some idea of rapid fire weaponry.

Just 20 years after that, they sent Lewis and Clarke expedition out with a relatively rapid firing airgun.

It is reasonable to say that rapid fire weaponry was contemporaneous to the constitution writing era.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Looks like a covered utility trench, ironically with the cover off.

So a trench.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Eggs are expensive and I've never seen anyone wear a kimono to high school.

A cowboy kimono sounds kinda interesting Mashup tho.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

Yes this soy sauce stuff is really neat

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 185 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I explicitly support this and encourage the cultural exchange.

If someone wants to come to America and wear a cool cowboy hat and shoot a wheel gun, please, enjoy. Have fun. Welcome.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Thankfully RHEL/Centos/Fedora also get attention thanks to the large corporate influence.

Anything else can just be compiled from scratch, after spending 6 hours trying to figure out what ajfiwn-0-libs-dev is in redhat land, only to find out it was libfiwn-devel all along.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Companies don't trust their workers because they don't treat them well enough to earn their trust.

So to avoid the trust issue they just implement more and more draconian techniques to make up for the lack of pay/vacation/respect.

It honestly might even be cheaper than just being nice to your employees. So yay? Profit?

I personally do not trust any company provided equipment. I would never do anything untoward within the eye of their cameras. I work from home and I set up a second wireless network for all my work gear, and firewall rules to prevent them from talking to anything on my networks. I also use an external webcam that is usually turned off (electrically, as in no power flowing), and even my microphone goes through a sound board that can completely turn off. Bonus points is that I can also turn my mic down on my board, or pad it to hell and back and even if the meeting software lies about me being muted, I know for sure thanks to my trusted hardware.

Sounds like an arms race due to mutual distrust.

Surveillance cold war?

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Before 1916 theft wasn't an issue at the grocery, because the customer was not expected to fetch their own items.

You told the person what you needed and they went and got it for you.

If theft was the real reason, stores could simply return to this style of operation.

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Yes thankfully we have 911 by text in much of the USA now

[–] VegaLyrae@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

In the 10th and 5th circuit it is iirc.

It's still on the forms and the ATF can probably arrest you for it, but as of last month you would have 2 federal circuits of precedent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2023/08/10/drug-user-cant-be-barred-from-owing-firearms-us-court-rules/

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