Press your middle finger against your thumb. Pull the middle finger down, but barely stop it with your thumb. Play with that hand movement

You buy a thing, you end up being able to get $30k back

If I wanted that stupid looking car, I’d be overjoyed too. Especially if I think I can return it again and get it even cheaper

They can slap a Ford sticker on their cyber truck and people will probably leave them alone.

This is contributing to making a billionaire bringing on fascism go bankrupt… Yeah, I don’t love personal property damage, but they’re disappearing people.

If you’ve got a Tesla, spend 20 minutes and $20 bucks and buy a sticker to disavow the company… Otherwise I really can’t bring myself to care

Oh, you’re missing the most important part of the meta:

CEO: We just did that the consulting company told us

Consulting company: We just make recommendations

But the t-shirt wasn’t really the problem. Getting banned from the stadium wasn’t the problem - I don’t really care if one venue is banning people for whatever stupid and petty reason

They’re trawling through massive data sets they shouldn’t have and using facial recognition to pick people out through social media posts, job affiliation, and who knows what else.

They didn’t make the system, they’re clearly just users. That’s the problem here

They imply the t shirt was the problem, and that it caused him to be flagged by the security system

I thought it was a t shirt with his face on it or something. But they went on social media, tracked him down, found a picture of his face, and banned him

Oh no, I mean to say it’s much worse than what the headline said

Bad headline. They saw he made a Tshirt they didn’t like, and banned him preemptively by finding him on social media

They do exist… They’re over at Lemmygrad.ml, I ventured over when I had the same question

Their ideology is a mess, they don’t have a roadmap beyond “workers of the world unite, then we’ll figure everything out”. And some of them think China and Russia are communist, or at least socialist… Which first off, they’re not, but more importantly they’re authoritarian regimes, which gets glossed over

It’s a fraction of the left, and a fraction of them are so focused on America bad they ignore what China does, and a fraction of them outright deny China or Russia have ever done anything wrong… I’ve encountered them online, but it’s very rare - especially if you don’t go looking for them

If only. I’d support the idiot if he actually had any chance of getting humanity to Mars

Competition is good… Let them compete with the steam deck. Competition is good, even if it just highlights how much better the existing option is

Lack of competition is why capitalism fails - competition is literally the only good part of capitalism. Cheer it on when it actually happens

True, but the second you can’t buy enough food at the grocery store it all goes poof

If we stop, even for a couple weeks, the system collapses. If a third of people stop showing up for work, if a third of people steal their food rather than pay for it, if a third of people stop paying rent… It all just melts away like a snow flurry

Money means the value assigned to it - if it can’t feed you, it means nothing. If it stops moving, so does ‘the economy’. It’s so much more fragile than it seems

I mean, there’s no such thing as a perfect insulator (at least nothing we can build with)

It definitely resists the movement of free elections through… But think a capacitor let’s ions flow, grease is a sort of fluid…

So I’m thinking it must be a material that let’s atoms move around to some degree, but resists the transfer of electrons

I’d argue the tech is never the problem - it’s always “how can a bad corporation/government make this neat idea a dystopian nightmare?”

This is a fact I try to bring up often… It’s a truly disturbing piece of information

Also, they’re struggling to survive without enough supplies, they’re being cut off from the Internet and power in part so they can’t get their message to the world, and they couldn’t kick out Hamas if they wanted to - they have no organization or individual power to actually do that

So it’s worth considering…who is this message for?

But again, hacking is a tool when they want to go after something in particular - a single lemmy server is minuscule. Even the full scale of everyone on lemmy is a very small target… They might go after it if they have specific reason to, but they’re unlikely to do so when there’s plenty of work to be done on bigger platforms

Yeah, I was thinking of the other materials used in computers and had a brain fart. Although I think dielectric insulators also let ions through, otherwise it’d just be an insulator

Aside from using dielectric wrong (I still can’t remember what the term i was going for is) everything else I said is correct.

What is a MOSFET by weight and volume? Conductive metal. There’s a tiny bit of silicon in each gate, surrounded be metal sinks

Be careful what you say - don’t call for violence, definitely don’t make threats of violence against specific figures, especially ones in office, and as a general rule don’t spread personally identifying information

Past that? Let’s say there’s a crackdown. They’re going after low hanging fruit to instill fear. By nature, the fediverse is hard to tie back to individuals… But if they’re looking for you individually, they can find you

I wouldn’t worry too much. Dissatisfaction is insanely high… They’re more likely to do a great firewall and kill the fediverse long before they bother looking into lemmy accounts

Silicon is, but silicon is like a little layer in between copper, lead, gold, maybe indium or something.

It’s dielectric, meaning it is conductive depending on how you run current through it… But that’s just one part of the gate. You have millions of gates all connected in sigils…

By far, the biggest use of silicon in any computer is the fiberglass board, which does nothing… You could make it out of wood, or just not use one and connect all the components with rigid wires and have a really cool but fragile lack of board