Would we fair any better. The world food supply is only around 3 weeks out.
I'm not a Nazi, Soviet, or McCathyist.
Just painful, but deeply so. It looked about like a mosquito bite, but under the surface it went deeper and impacted muscles to a minor extent for around a month. I was commuting full time by bicycle and it had noticeable effects.
I got bitten by a couple of these in San Clemente, caught one and brought it to someone at UC Irvine, back when there was a Bike Religion store on campus and I was they Buyer for the chain. They said it was a wolf spider. I was told there is a good bit of variance in the species that can make them difficult to identify further, but they are common to SoCal.
Wolf spider most likely. Which? I have no clue. I see them all the time too. Their bites last a month or more when I've gotten bitten.
I'd be looking more at interests and leaders in those interests if possible. Red States don't do much leading in anything relevant. It sucks to be looking at what one's life interests might be like at such a young age.
Personally, I'd be looking at who is closest to TSMC, Intel, Samsung, etc., and focus on getting into schools and programs that lead to semiconductor fabs. There is a lot of money and investment in that space.
There is a massive difference between rules and authoritarianism. You don't know your history very well. Feudalism started when the larger government failed to adequately protect provencal farmers. People simply picked up and moved closer to people that were rich enough to afford a few armed security guards. Eventually, this relocation enriched these lords to the extent that the people in their region lost all of their rights to everything. They didn't own land, tools, or even their right to relocate.
The only change that happened was trusting these minor authorities to simply do the right thing. This is how Roman Citizens became medieval serfs. The biggest lesson to learn from their history is to never give up your autonomy. Make all the rules you want. Don't steal my property and autonomy. It is my right to choose.
I don't even own a car, or drive. This is a fundamental cognitive failure of a generation blatantly repeating errors of the past. Those errors are very likely to cause hundreds of years of sociopolitical regression. We will be loathed for centuries to come because of our blind stupidity. Giving up autonomy is burning Rome. It won't be clearly seen for a long time, but it will be called neo digital feudalism. You will own nothing, because you did not recognize the blood that bought your autonomy or your descendants that will pay it again on the other side of the terrible age you've opened them up to endure. It has nothing to do with driving and everything to do with fundamental citizenship and democracy. Those two aspects are directly and irrefutably connected through the legislature. Once precedent is established, the grey areas tilt the table over time. Eventually, you area serf once again. It is absolutely essential to maintain autonomy to have democracy.
Apathy is a vote for the right. Therefore, you will find opposition from any Right leaning party if you attempt to damage their defacto implied voter base.
Privacy measures prevent labeling anyone as a criminal. People have always had the ability to speak in person with the same amount of ambiguity to the law. Real police work is required. Sure the scope of communication is larger, but that correlates with the scope of individual activities. There is just as much information to work with as there has always been. The problem is corrupt governments that want to steal autonomy in this disgusting neo feudal dystopia. Any sophist spinning this nonsense about mass surveillance should be feared and loathed. This is the way you create a Kremlin in a police state. This is how you find yourself invading another country for no reason, when you have no desire to kill your neighbors in such sanctioned murder and get yourself a ticket in a mass grave. Autonomy is everything. It is egalitarianism; a cornerstone of democracy; the fulcrum of enslaved servitude.
Karma in action.
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Finally, Poland Can in Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ervuwSwKu18
Nice example of real reverse engineering at a low level in a ten minute dense summary, including die level comments on structures. Also, why Broadcom sucks in engineering terms (NDA nonsense).
I got sent a bunch of lenses that are too small for the old frames I have. I thought it might be fun to try 3d printing my own frame arms out of ABS.
Modeling a lens is a bit challenging, or I'm just a bit rusty with freecad. I need a way to wrap/unwrap/flatten the curve to create the contours. For my purpose here I can get away with a rough lens shape that is simply mirrored and lacks some of the complex curves. It just bugs me when I can't model it properly...
The lens is not uniform thickness. The center is 1.8mm thick while the edges where the arms mount are 1.4mm. I want to try and make a nose piece because this is the one part that fails on these cheap glasses.
Anyways, sharing just because I can.
The ComfyUI prompt and workflow is attached to the image: https://files.catbox.moe/s3qufb.png
You can't copy pasta this prompt. There are a few nodes that are specific to SD3 and required.
::: spoiler EDIT: more proof of the chain that lead to this image. They were not all this good. I'm cherry picking for sure and these are just webp's without workflows attached:
Prompt was through ComfyUI, so it is embedded in the image: https://files.catbox.moe/aiy8p1.png
It was supposed to be a pug kangaroo hybrid but the AI apparently wanted to throw in some monkey too.
Spots have turned to stripes on the bottom half of this one.
It likely doesn't know what "womens" means, but it is funny. The minor errors indicate a comprehension issue.