Notices by cpm (cpm@spore.social)

@blaisefrederick
ponder the ole
"violence begets violence" conundrum a lot, me

yet
confronted with an aggressor
&
the aggressor is a robot?

not convinced -by definition- the confronted person *can* be violent -in the classic sense, by definition- by resisting.

aggression by a person
vs aggression by property?

what does a water balloon filled with good ole oil based rustoleum paint mixed with carpet glue, maybe an abrasive corrosion agent do to all these robots?

@ai6yr

@ai6yr
shrug

no idea

painter's tape is very the way of the peaceful warrior. heh

these 'robot dogs' etc, are bristling with sensors of all sorts

I am clueless

but was where my imagination went immediately when I 1st saw vids of these things

@blaisefrederick

@elfin
it's a good question

a few things:

the 'speaker' is an electro-motive piston

so, -of course- there are mass ratios at play

there are hacks tho:

multi-source utrasonic hetrodyning.

utrasonic transducers, -duh-, much lower mass, & highly directional,
intersection of multiple utrasonic 'beams' can be 'tuned' via beat freq interference to pull much lower freq 'sound waves', at pretty respectable SPL

I think that's where I'd dig in

phase array

@elfin
damnit!
burning brain cycles on this

ok

the gas we call air, is elastic,
'sound' waves are, well, , waves

of air, abt 20% is o2
it's the o2 we care about here

we can pull the o2 density 'down' with sound,but of course it comes right back peaking at the inverse pressure concentration from the trough

so
is there a reasonate freq for o2?
sure
do we care?
I think so
70-ish% is N
we mite care more about that,
*but*N has an affinity for o2

Gaaah!

Interesting Q
Geee, thanx a *lot*

@elfin
Ok

I need to get on with tending to my lawn mowing business.

If you, or properly more Claire,
are -at all- intrigued with where I'm going with this,

I can put ya'll in touch with 'the source' -whom I was on the cusp of waking-up with a ph call, just now-

amazingly (to me) fertile mind, unlike me, gobs of patents in this realm

Dude's blind
&
groks 'sound', bigly

another piece of rotting plaster just fell off the ceiling of my mind & crashed tp the floor

70s
buddy & I, in our misspent youth,would load up a floor jack, gas cans, my 2 drawer tool chest,some antifreeze, jumper cables, into his former copcar (bought at auction) and cruise the interstate to assist breakdowns for fun
&
it was

@pluralistic

As an on & off former beltway bandit worker.

I wholly endorse this message.

Too many anecdotes from the near half-century of being/working in & around the region to even hope to encapsulate in a post.

folks can't grasp the scale, because it defies credulity.

@cstross
Oh
man

I'm sorry!

Guess I should go back & re-read everything so far!

Lol!

OK

I accept!

looking forward to it!

great ride
&
thanks very much for your work

@pluralistic @CaffeinatedBookDragon @utopiarte @Oggie @tierranietos

@cstross
That's interesting

was it in one of the New Management novels, that a time-critical dash thru London in a cab, wherein one of our protagonists complained about speed-limiting infrastructure was a bad thing?

or was it in Rule 34?

Honestly, I thought you were in the 'automobiles first! All else be damed' camp

shame on me!

@pluralistic @CaffeinatedBookDragon @utopiarte @Oggie @tierranietos

@skinnylatte
not enough of a drinker to grok this stuff, me.

The IPA thing.

we used to drink beer. alc content was low (rel), came in pitchers, drink enough & you may well regret it.

Have had IPAs I really liked.

Very well recieved brewery opened up nearby (15min by bicycle), folks love it. Nice, bicycle friendly, famlies, dogs, kids, oldtimers, fire pits, etc.

had one of their IPAs that came in a small glass, w/tip, cost $10, & I poured it out.

I can't afford it.

who has all this $$?

@AnarchoNinaWrites
stage was set when reagan's stacked agencies 'de-regulated' media. They buyout/ups began. Was bald-faced obvious. Even NPR got onboard to try to shut out low power radio licenses.

get big or sell-out, only path forward to, , ,monopoly.

8 yrs of clinton
8yrs of obama

they couldn't have cared less.

(still don't)
@Tarnport

@skinnylatte
indeed

food service in all forms, isn't hard,it's very hard, begs to every aspect of a person's skill, talent, & ability.

and work well worth doing.

@Dave_Goldsmith
was a solid & very credible plot device in Charlie @cstross Stross's novel Halting State, penned in '06 I think.

Using autonomous taxi for assasination

&

it was very credible

@tompearce49

@Hedgewizard
rock salt!

holy shit!

yes

hard lesson to learn.
that.

not going there.

but never happened again.

@RickiTarr

Thing is

I get it.

No, really.

I do

yet,

once the tipping point is exceeded and the people start rolling out the guillotines, , ,

it's real hard to get them to put them away again.

when I was a lot younger
I thought everyone knew this

what a fool am I?

pretty big, fwiw

I always say it, and I'll say it again:

I don't always agree with Cory @pluralistic Doctorow (still), but we can dismiss that because he's better informed than I

In his 4 novella anthology Radicalized:
https://craphound.com/radicalized-full/
(2019)

the novella -that lends title to the collection- isn't often discussed the way the other 3 are, but it was(is) the one that triggered me most deeply.

And is the one that speaks to today's headlines.

Def worth a read,if you haven't already done so

@skinnylatte
for many years,when I carried a backpack laptop bag, I kept one of those small plastic jars of huy fong's tuong ot toi in a side pocket

also a small plastic jar of matouk's calypso sauce

but it's awkward and somewhat shameful to bring your own condiments, if not outright wrong.

so i quit doing it

@cstross
wait
didn't you write that?

@ShaulaEvans
I don't know

I need to know!

My day is shot now because I don't know & need to know
&
I just woke up!

@olap

@nancycomics
Beatnik Sluggo is hep