If Google said, look we know we send a lot of bug reports, here’s 50MM a year, go hire a team of dedicated developers to deal with our nonsense, we don’t have the expertise in house to train them on this codebase. I doubt anyone would be complaining.

Nothing wrong with fixing bugs even if they are obscure if you have the time and resources.

Google’s pull for most is the camera. Graphene is a vanishingly small % of pixel users (estimated 200k total graphene users vs estimated 15M+ pixels in the US alone).

It was ungodly expensive to produce before the Hall Heroult process though, which needs electricity.

In what way am I giving anyone an out? Are we both talking about the Indian Creek/Surfside thing? If we are the whole shit storm is over the fact the billionaires don’t want to pay have a link..

Honestly divide by 5 and multiply by 8 usually isn’t too difficult and just gives you the right answer.

I remember it by 200mph is 320kph.

Yessir, stone and lbs usually.

So 12 stone 8 for example. 14lbs to the stone.

I like shitting on billionaires as much as the next person, but presumably they didn’t design any of this themselves. Most likely story is they just don’t want to pay their fair share as usual.

So easy too. Potatoes, meat, onion, carrot, stock in a pot.

It’s more a false advertising thing than a moral thing.

It’s not beyond the realms of belief that they do, such are the ways of corpo accounting. OS dept could be billing OneDrive dept for the ads to subsidise the OS dev.

Finally maybe we’ll get the spore drive movie everyone’s really been waiting for.

There’s a Welsh lady Alex Jones too. She’s much nicer.

Only gamers get that joke

Why is anyone even buying this paste? Artic and Thermal Grizzly are both well under £10 for a syringe.

We just go to the local puddle during the rainy season, typically between January and December.

Are you a mechanic?

Wrong again, all EU models have the 59th bulb, it’s due to minimum light requirements in the post 2018 regs update. They did use US overstock for a while (cause why not) but all the old tooling was sent over so both Dresden and Prague could build them in spec.

The vroom vroom noises are good too.

Interestingly I’ve a relative who used to be a car salesman and still gets invited to dealer events occasionally - he was telling me about an electric he got to test a year or so back, it had a simulated gear shift/gear knob setup. He said people were loving it.

I agree it wasn’t singlehanded, but he does seem to have opened the floodgates somewhat. I’m not super pro capitalist either fwiw. I’m down with a system that is functionally successful. With appropriate controls capitalism does seem to be a functional and successful system. However the controls are not being used, they’re not being updated to reflect modernity and benefitting workers is not incentivised.

Tearing everything down isn’t necessarily the solution to that. First off we need a system that works and then we need a pathway to that system. We also need it to be implemented and in a way that doesn’t result in millions worse off or suffering worse than they are.

I’m all up for AI replacing makework jobs (or just getting rid of them). What do we do with the people who are out of work? UBI is probably a start, but who or what in any major country is pushing for this and is in a position to implement it?

As an example raising the employers national insurance contribution in the UK brings out cries of “oh this is unfair on companies” for companies that are making billions in profit, giving money away will have some people in fits (people this would directly benefit).

Quality of life focused improvements would be nice. I don’t think I’ve any solutions, maybe salary sacrifice socialism - government competition for some things where they can offer efficiencies or benefits. Government offer me a package, I can pay xyz extra out of my wages and there’s a government run hello fresh or mobile network or broadband supplier or mortgage scheme or house repair scheme. I’m free to source my own or to use the government one. It sets a baseline and ot can run on very fine margins. It’s probably full of flaws but it’s the best I’ve got.

In terms of successful economic systems I feel they’ve gotten there by evolution rather than revolution - but I’ll also happily admit I’m no economist.

On the other points I think we’re there or thereabouts on the same page. There’s a great behind the bastards series on Jack Welch Part 1 and part 2

It was pretty revelatory for me as to why everything feels like it’s going down the pan. I’m not a “the past was better” type in general - but in this specific instance I definitely am. Feels like the social contract isn’t being held up by both sides. The reason the US got so good at stuff was investment in people, now it’s mostly a quick grift and memories are short. People are genuinely convinced this is the way it’s always been - I was the same until I listened to those episodes.

Hard to see a way back, CEOs are judged on stock price and will get turfed if they try and do the things they need to be doing to make this better (not defending CEOs here - pointing out there’s no incentive for change).

I could rant and it’s getting late, but what’s the real tangible feasible pathway we start working towards?