geoffervescent

joined 2 years ago
[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You are extremely charitable my friend but Indonesia is not going to stop being Indonesia for Elon, so yes this is Musk's strategic error. You don't abrubtly change your entire multibillion dollar brand without doing some due diligence on the implications it will have. Or maybe he truly is deranged enough to believe he doesn't need customers in 4th most populous country to run a successful social media site.

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

Yeah he apparently started making a statement to the press and only got about 5 words in before freezing and going blank, a classic show of senility.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Investigators say they later learned the landlord of the building solicited the men following a landlord-tenant dispute.

It's only alleged because that's the journalistic convention to prevent a libel lawsuit from the landlord until a guilty verdict is handed down by a jury. That's just how articles always phrase it.

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

The trespassing thugs were, their co-conspirator/boss was not.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Karen Puzzles is just a bunch of wholesome jigsaw puzzle fans.
  • Townsends for wholesome 18th Century cooking fans.
  • Technology Connections for wholesome ELI5 electronics and engineering.
  • Post 10 for the most wholesome channel focused on unclogging of waterways and culverts you'll ever see. I'm not even joking.
  • acollierastro, someone called Dr. Collier's channel the "Jenny Nicholson of astrophysics" and thats not even wrong, but is it wholesome? I think so... but decide for your self.
[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Great post terrible title.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Somehow even this position is giving the dude too much credit.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Unintentionally based Melon Husk destroying Twitter from within.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You either haven't been on the internet long enough to recognize this very common slippery slope, or you do recognize it - and you're rooting for the slope.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Batteries have an insulated separator between the positive and negative sides. They design the battery with a particular maximum voltage in mind, so they engineer it with a separator that is always a higher resistance. Thus the electrons will only be able to make the jump when a circuit with lower resistance is formed.

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I could visualize your description of this, but ONLY because I recalled this great little Steve Mould video where he talks about a really neat toy called Spintronics. It teaches electricity through the analogy of gears, ratchets, and pulleys of a "mechanical circuit."

[–] geoffervescent@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The best de- endorsement will come from people's experience on reddit as the quality of user engagement drops. There are people who genuinely will never give a shit and will stay there, but those are exactly the sort of lazy minds who made up the critical mass of the shallow "hivemind." Id rather we make this a community that encourages independent thought more than bandwagoning.

Don't waste your time engaging them on that platform unless you're a child, douchebag, or troll. If your posts are actually good content, it sends a mixed message that good independent thinking redditors are whethering the shitstorm. Your actions will speak louder than your words, and our collective absence from their platform will speak volumes.

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