It’s how I talk to everyone when I’m not masking or following social scripts. It’s the most fun I get out of social interactions.

I’ve already adopted the transparent frame: nothing to hide, only my undivided attention if they’d like to geek out about their special interests or just want someone to listen.

Not so much a hero but I admired his work the projects he is associated with: Elon regarding Tesla & Space X.

I had heard that he was a bit of a nightmare to work with but I just chalked that up to the usual tech CEO being a bit of an arsehole but still delivering the vision. So admired the projects but wouldn’t personally work for him.

The first time I came across something that gave me the impression something was off with him was when he called one of the Thai cave divers a pedo after the diver rejected using an unproven single person extraction canister Elon proposed.

It was just so uncalled for. Then the more I read and saw stories about him my opinion of him wained further down to a spoilt nepo-baby cosplaying as a design engineer who’d do best to get out of the way of the actual engineers trying to do the work.

Now I think the world would be better off without him and I hope the talented engineers currently work for him leave to find fulfilling employment elsewhere in the space and electrification industries as soon as possible.

Is it from Dasani Peckham Springs?

Technically they haven’t paid for the feature yet, it just so happens that it’s cheaper to manufacture without having a second line of non-heated seats which makes me think “why not just include heated seats (and enabled) as standard?”

Edit: Why am I being downvoted? I’m only pointing out that if BMW wanted to have a heated/non-heated seat options it costs more to set up and operate a separate manufacturing line to support both options. That’s just a fact of running production lines.

Furthermore I’m questioning their business logic here with going with the subscription model because, as shown in the thread here, it only generates negative press, so why even bother with the subscription model and just have heated seats as standard. No subscription model for hardware BS needed, it makes the brand look more luxurious, and it’d be a great selling point in the dealerships to say “all these bad bois come with heated seats as standard”.

They can just adjust the baseline cost to include the heated seats if they need to preserve that margin.

Could be worse, if they rolled out an AI to Rochdale it’d turn more racist than Grok faster than Tay did.

It’s also useful to think of the “ground” plane as a sort of well of potential charger carriers that the conventional current model overlooks. Aside from simultaneously visualising what’s happening inside simple ICs like BJTs / MOSFETs and the circuit diagrams I’ve found it a useful way for checking for common mode noise in circuit and PCB design.

I guess this makes me a lunatic? Don’t know until we test it;

Someone give me an asylum makerspace to takeover!

(smiles and reveals nasty big pointy teeth)

They have the national railway museum there too, and once a year there’s Yorvik, a Viking festival. York’s a cool place.

That’s not even remotely an equivalent scenario, unless it’s you that view romantic partners on the same level as objects to be worn?

You ok there mate?

Pilot: Mate I sure love these supersonic transatlantic flights, getting paid for two legs in one day, and I’m we’re the fastest commercial pilots in the sky right now. This is a sweet job.

Copilot: Sure is captain, sure is… Hey flight, how are you doing back there?

Flight Engineer: All g-good mate (frantically checking guages and screaming internally in engineer)

Please can someone explain why “It is what it is” is also written on the car. Is there some additional meaning behind the use of that saying?

Hence why he argued that capitalism will only work within a moral framework or else it’ll descend back into oligarchy.

Low and behold, we’re there again.

I have one and it’s fantastic for note taking at work and personal life and reading technical PDFs on.

That’s it. That’s all it’s designed for.

I wouldn’t buy one new, get one second hand because then it’s worth the price.

Oh boy, Gabby is going to have a field day with this.

If you know, you know.

A sock doesn’t need a brain to be a puppet, just a hand shoved inside it.

Though that’s not a fair comparison; a sock has more functioning braincells.

Cons: cause a global pandemic.

Pros: free dinner.

I see no problem with this.

Having the Courage™ to employ human workers.

Those all sound delicious, I’ll have to give them a try 😋

Yeah I do and they are sold under that name here in the UK because English will just adopt words from other language or slang terms if they’re used enough. Also in English words for farm animals are Germanic in origin and words for the meat of those same animals are Norman (northern France) in origin because after the Norman Conquest in 1066, the nobility were all Norman French and were the ones to refer to cuts of meat whereas the peasantry didn’t eat the meat of the farm animals.

So here in the UK they sell these fresh in Lidl: a cheap supermarket but it has an amazing bakery where they make these and other items.

I often go to Lidl at lunchtime to buy two of these and something simple to fill them with into sandwiches, usually cheese and ham, (insert bland UK food joke here).

My question for you, in the spirit of international culinary collaboration, what Brazilian fillings would you stuff one of these with to make a great sandwich?