@mekkaokereke Tesla makes incredible electric cars... for the year 2017. Now, they are years behind. The stock is overvalued as hell. I wouldn't touch it.
@rasmus91@mekkaokereke The ice cream metaphor might seem strange to you, but if you grew up in the American South like I did, it makes perfect sense.
I struggle to understand what part of the "rugged American spirit" requires the attitude of "if I see one person I don't like enjoying this thing/place/service I will burn it all to the ground", but that attitude is EVERYWHERE in the US.
@WiteWulf My friend, I have been here nearly from mastodon's beginnings -- the Pixelfed team has been soliciting money for its future development nearly that entire time, and it's still v0 software.
To me, Pixelfed is like the Aptera Motors (https://aptera.us/) of the software world -- soliciting money for years from people who desperately want the dream of what it represents to be true (in this case, an instagram free of Zuck control).
I was looking up some quick stats, and it seems like each BE-4 engine is very close to SpaceX's raptor (around 500k freedom units of force). I don't know how much more power they can get out of a BE-4.
That being said, SpaceX is cramming 33 similar engines into one booster. I have no idea how -- I guess the 2 meters more diameter makes a difference.
I never thought I'd say this, but I am really rooting for Bezos here, to increase some competition.
@ATLeagle@steve@ajsadauskas@mekkaokereke It's stories like these that remind me that I am so privileged that in my nearly 20 year IT career, I have never once been in a room full of only white men.
I work for a major multinational whose US head openly used words like "critical race theory" positively, in a way that showed he actually knew what he was talking about.
@jonobie@karabaic@mekkaokereke Every now and then I actually feel bad for a Republican politician, because they'll say something like "we need to stop disenfranchising mail voters, because much of our base lives in rural areas where mail voting could actually help us."
These particular Republican voices are usually older -- getting to a polling place may be hard for them too, at that age (there are no "voter busses" in rural areas, as you might imagine).
@karabaic@mekkaokereke This change was made so that voting by mail would be restricted to only those who either had A) access to a printer, or B) maintained one of their own. Both are things that are getting extremely rare today.
And of course, since this is Georgia, you have to pay for your own stamp.
Meanwhile, in Michigan, I am on the "permanent mail vote" list, where for every election I just receive my vote, complete it, and send it back, with pre-paid postage.
@karabaic@mekkaokereke Right before I left the US South for good, I noticed just how much harder it had become to get a mail vote in Georgia, for instance.
In 2021 Georgia changed the law to require you to use a *printer* to:
A) print out the form B) sign it C) scan it D) send it via email.
Prior to this, you could just sign it on an iPad or your phone.
There was only one reason why this change was made, and it wasn't to make voting "safer".
"Another possible route is the cows’ feed, owing to the fairly revolting fact that the U.S. allows farmers to feed leftover poultry bedding material — feathers, excrement, spilled seeds — to dairy and beef cattle as a cheap source of additional protein."
...is one of the main reasons why I don't eat meat in the US
@roadriverrail@djsundog Definitely PalmOS -- and I would love to hear some of your stories about the time spent working on PalmOS. :)
(I used to use the PalmOS "Web Developer" to make phone apps in the seriously beautiful cloud designer circa 2009, or so -- did you work on that?)
My opinion comes from seeing the winners and losers from the 2006-2012 era of phones -- I definitely noticed a trend of "if it launched on CDMA, it was nearly DOA" (PalmOS, the Microsoft Kin, etc.).