EndlessNightmare @ EndlessNightmare @reddthat.com

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Learn something new every day

One of the things I've learned in life is that one should minimize reliance on behaviorial safeguards throught the use of mechanical safeguards. You shouldn't rely on people to do the right thing. As such, removing opportunities for them to fuck up is key.

The design and production of rubber bullets, as they are here, is pure negligence. That they kill 3% of their victims (per your graphic) is enough that I would wager that they would be considered a lethal weapon in other contexts.

It's such a bizarre piece of "advice", as if robotics events are as common as grocery stores or something.

It would cost me more than the price of the safety glasses to attend such and event, after accounting for transportation costs and (very likely) admission fee.

There aren't even good stores to buy electronics from where I live. Online is my first choice.

EU-specific models, just because it seems to be the most spiteful option

Preventing one single entity from having too much control over information to the extent that they can push propaganda and dominate a narrative.

Decentralization leads to better (I didn't say perfect) democratization of social media.

And air travel is increasing.

Air travel for leisure / tourism is environmentally irresponsible to the extent that I cannot personally justify my participation.

Not in any order:

• Military / warfare
• Excessive HVAC use: heating/cooling unnecessarily large spaces (as opposed to zoned) and by more degrees than necessary
• Unnecessary and inefficient transportation. This includes most air travel, cruise ships, shitty urban planning, commutes for jobs that can be done remotely, large/inefficient automobiles.
• Cryptocurrencies and AI
• Consumer junk based on planned obsolence, lack of reliability, poor quality, and excessive packaging (often plastic)
• Food - increased per capita consumption of animal products and egregious amounts of food waste.

I'm not sure how I would even quantify this.

But I could qualify this: having a consensus across multiple trusted sources.

I hate car-centric infrastructure so fucking much

The cake monster

I was under the impression that many were outright forced to fight, as opposed to signing up.

Strong Grapes of Wrath vibes

Meanwhile - Honda has launched and successfully landed a reusable rocket.

Solve it the Klingon way: trial by personal combat.

Oof, I didn't even think of that.

There has to be a joke about NASCAR on there somewhere. I don't know if they used leaded fuel or not.

I'm about at the point where I don't want to cross the border to leave the U.S. unless I am planning on it being a one-way trip.

Russia could simply stop attacking at any time, yes? Or at least they could have, not sure if Ukraine would back off at this point given how long this has dragged on.

Oh, but that isn't what they actually want.

TIL that this wedding that I heard about quite a while ago hasn't actually happened yet. The context of the news story on it was how outrageously expensive it is.