smitty1e

> Even if you made a competitor, you're competing with a product that has better margins than you and more access to capital.

Clearly you'd be charging a premium and targeting a niche market.

What grieves me is that, if I don't fancy these fancy fobs, and want an old-school key with a traditional ignition, our purportedly capitalist system doesn't quite have the marketplace to support me.

This is also true for a manual transmission and no-chip design. I basically want a freshly manufactured old-school Jeep.

Capitalist fail!

Children are indeed load, and if they don't grow to be drivers, then the cratered society and withered demographics before you result.

Sorry.

I wish them well, but really, really hope that people don't lose sight of the non-scalability of this.

The freeloader problem will devour this when some fanatic tries with a substantial population.

"No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force."--Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

I would need to spend some more time on this to get my mind around it.

My Wordle pimp hand is strong, but this seems an order of magnitude harder.

All this talk of "truth" and "duty" implies some larger context in which such abstractions would be evaluated.

One continues to be fascinated by the very human dichotomy in which (the global) "we" want to allude to, or leverage, these concepts, while stridently avoiding evaluating them in any way that might lead to behavioral conclusions.

For a specific example, consider: International Law, in all its emphemerality.

I backed down to a three letter one and found some joy.

> never to come back again.

Now, you know that bad ideas have an immortality all their own.

This sort of thinking may take on new life in the context of the overall European economic situation => https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/10/29/europea...

That kinda rings true here.

Would we have obtained the same "confession" after next Tuesday had they remained unexposed?

One hoped to find the definition of obliterated, but those hopes were obliterated.

Needs a (2021) in the title.

The Danish effort to emancipate themselves did not last as long as Munich's => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux

Possibly some of the newer technologies (to avoid the first and third vowels in the Roman Alphabet) will one day bring liberty.

Maybe generalize and be thoughtful about all dependencies across the board.

At the other end of the spectrum, I have never written a line of assembly code, much less used a punch card.

My chief grief with flatpak had more to do with the composition policy than the mechanism.

If one's use case for a tool (e.g. QGIS) requires extensions that sit outside of how the flatpak was composed, well, sorry.

“America has the best politicians money can buy.”--Will Rogers

And look at the mod cost of telling the truth. #hahahaha

1. Elect Claude.

2. Prompt Claude for a balanced budget.

...

??? Profit!

You speak as though the actual system were based upon two distinct parties.

The GOP/Democrat facade is just for show, I hope you realize.

It take a hero to dive on the grenade.

Such dives tend to be fatal.

Until AI can produce a blast-management plan to ensure the hero's survival, the necessary courage shall remain elusive.

I thought Stephen Wolfram had already done some victory laps.

Glad that this is a real person.

Thank you. That was far more nicely put than I was inclined.

We'll have to give it at least another decade to assess whether Musk is a hero or villain, but nothing in TFA pushed me toward the latter.

And yet, moderH8ers gonna hate.

They had a mood swing ahead of the 2008 election, and truly hilarious characters like Herbert Kornfeld were canceled.

https://theonion.com/cash-room-bitch-be-havin-my-shortie-181...

I'm reminded of the Nick Raskulinecz interview[0], where he prevailed upon Rush to re-use some of their motifs because "you own that" and there would be no shame in alluding to their own art instead of always doing something fresh.

So you hear a little "Bastille Day" in "Headlong Flight". Oh, yes.

[0] https://youtu.be/oQognzPVOIo?is=XAiy0EhMps3QrdrR

Hope she keeps her pimp hand strong.

Asked Grok the difference between mxc and flatpak:

"So MXC is a cross-platform “what may this workload touch?” layer aimed at agents. Flatpak is a Linux app format whose sandbox happens to share a backend with MXC on Linux."