TheRealKuni

I can’t say anything about else that won’t get me a ban…

This is Lemmy, you have to worry less about banning for some stuff. But you do have to worry about things being really difficult to delete (potentially impossible, if any instances are maliciously recording things). And even upvotes and downvotes are public information in a Federated system.

Transmission failure seems likely, but I’m faaaaaar from an expert.

I don’t think so. If you watch Blancolirio’s video you can see the transmission is still attached to the main rotor. That shouldn’t happen in a mast bump as I understand it.

I don’t think this was a Jesus Nut situation. Blancolirio’s video shows a frame where the transmission is still clearly connected to the main rotor, which says there was a failure in the transmission. If the Jesus Nut failed or there was a mast bump, the transmission would’ve stayed attached to the helicopter (as I understand it).

an executive from European automation company Siemens . . . rich leeches who were getting rich from putting poor people out of work.

Are you saying that automation is a bad thing? Like, categorically?

Automation does reduce the number of people needed for some tasks, but in a way that improves dramatically the lives of those still doing those tasks.

I would much rather have automated storage and retrieval systems bring powering a goods-to-person station rather than making people run up and down shelves to retrieve stuff people ordered like we used to have. We used to hear horror stories of Amazon workers not being able to go use the restroom because they couldn’t keep up with quotas. Now robots bring the shelves to them, making the job significantly easier and reducing stress. Obviously reduction of quotas or hiring more workers could also have worked, but this way throughout remains high without the insane amount of burnout for human beings.

I would rather see conveyor systems bringing those picked goods to other stations in the warehouse rather than a person having to run or drive those goods from place to place. I’d rather see automatic sortation systems shuttle totes to their proper destinations than have a person have to take them individually from a source to destination conveyors.

Automation isn’t bad. Stymying advances in automation to protect jobs purely for the sake of the jobs is akin to breaking windows so the window makers have work.

The real issues arise because in most countries few people reap the full benefits. That issue isn’t because of automation, but because of our faulty systems.

Exactly.

Edit: though I’m sure that ratio is exaggerated.

Depends. At like, rest stops and gas stations I’d believe it because the clientele will skew male, so just by sheer number you’re more likely to get people who won’t treat the bathroom with respect.

On the road, sure.

But when I worked at a restaurant it was consistently the women’s restroom that was more work to clean.

Until your trackpad is acting up a bit and you become so frustrated you smack it and now it hardly ever works.

They manufacture significant parts of their cars (or sometimes entire cars) outside the US and then sell them in the US. It’s part of why small pickup trucks don’t really exist anymore, due to tariff nonsense.

They do it because manufacturing labor is cheaper elsewhere.

I’m confused what you’re asking.

American companies that do less of their manufacturing in the US than their Japanese rivals do.

The opioid epidemic is because the Sackler family and Purdue made money

Purdue Pharma. It’s important, because Purdue Pharma and Purdue University are not connected in any way, and when people from the Midwest hear “Purdue” we usually think of the university.

However if all the world retaliates together to this bully then he will know what will happen next time he starts doing stupid shit. classic school yard bully situation in some sense.

You’re assuming Trump is capable of learning the types of lessons that schoolyard bullies learn.

I mean, I’d rather have a milquetoast center-right Democrat than a fascist, given the de facto two-party system.

But maybe that’s just me.

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Personally I think “idiot tax” works better.

“Stupid” and “dumb” being adjectives that could also be describing the tax itself, rather than the person paying it, is ambiguous. But “idiot tax” clearly says, to me anyway, “a tax on idiots.”

Me too!

Wow was I ever the wrongest person that had ever wronged. Sorry again guys, next time I’ll just keep my trap shut

“Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.”

-Professor Faber, Fahrenheit 451

I believe the only two full-body spinners still in Battlebots are Captain Shrederator and Gigabyte. Neither are particularly successful.

But you’re not wrong, I’m constantly shocked that Captain Shrederator keeps coming back for more punishment. There was talk of it retiring after the last season, but reportedly it’s being redesigned instead. Gigabyte theoretically has a leg up on Captain Shrederator because of the self-righter, but it also doesn’t seem to do very well.

The basic design problems are pretty tough to overcome. Similar issues are faced by other horizontal spinners like Tombstone, where if you can get them hitting a wall or the floor, they’ll bounce around potentially destroying themselves. Tombstone has seen more success though, because it’s hardier and can drive upside-down (and because that giant spinning bar is painful).