Michael Pyne
@blindmansbinary.bsky.social
Computers, Linux, Navy veteran, KDE
And I'm not against collective groups to make each others lives easier, but phrased this way it just does what Republicans want: gets the wealthy and successful off the hook for the success of the broader society, because that's been delegated down to the poor.
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
And I'm not against collective groups to make each others lives easier, but phrased this way it just does what Republicans want: gets the wealthy and successful off the hook for the success of the broader society, because that's been delegated down to the poor.
Republicans would be thrilled to hear about concepts that eliminate rich people from having to provide funding. Mutual aid with rich people excluded is just the 'bootstraps' theory with the addition that everyone is also pulling on their neighbors bootstraps.
December 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Republicans would be thrilled to hear about concepts that eliminate rich people from having to provide funding. Mutual aid with rich people excluded is just the 'bootstraps' theory with the addition that everyone is also pulling on their neighbors bootstraps.
But with this definition, Republicans would absolutely push for 'mutual aid' (albeit calling it charity) over what you call charity (they'll call that 'a handout'). Likewise for 'school vouchers' (funded by parents of the same class) over 'public schools' (funded in good part by the rich).
December 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
But with this definition, Republicans would absolutely push for 'mutual aid' (albeit calling it charity) over what you call charity (they'll call that 'a handout'). Likewise for 'school vouchers' (funded by parents of the same class) over 'public schools' (funded in good part by the rich).
If they were just trying to find an extra buck I could forgive them. But these are average Joes who are convinced they will become life-changingly rich by doing NOTHING but hopping on a trend. There are people who buy scratchers every day with more brains.
December 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
If they were just trying to find an extra buck I could forgive them. But these are average Joes who are convinced they will become life-changingly rich by doing NOTHING but hopping on a trend. There are people who buy scratchers every day with more brains.
Even the nerds in Germany hate nuclear power. I don't know what it is in the water there but they are at least consistent on this point. Even to the point that they're happy getting radioactivity from coal as long as there's no nuclear power.
December 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Even the nerds in Germany hate nuclear power. I don't know what it is in the water there but they are at least consistent on this point. Even to the point that they're happy getting radioactivity from coal as long as there's no nuclear power.
Yeah, I grew up listening to a lot of country in the 90s and that died very quick after 9/11.
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Yeah, I grew up listening to a lot of country in the 90s and that died very quick after 9/11.
Yeah, it's been ironic for me that my mother would invoke the term "Noneya" (none of your business) throughout my childhood to remind us to separate our business from others'. And now she's lost in that MAGA bubble herself :-/
December 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Yeah, it's been ironic for me that my mother would invoke the term "Noneya" (none of your business) throughout my childhood to remind us to separate our business from others'. And now she's lost in that MAGA bubble herself :-/
You'd think the people who busily slather their CPUs in water cooling rather than air cooling, would understand why vacuum cooling datacenters instead of water cooling them is an oxymoron
December 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
You'd think the people who busily slather their CPUs in water cooling rather than air cooling, would understand why vacuum cooling datacenters instead of water cooling them is an oxymoron
My first lodging as a new adult was my small college dorm I shared with a roommate. My second lodging was my small apartment in Florida my girlfriend and I shared with two roommates. 6 people in an apartment is a lot but it's not "only NY or SFBA".
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 PM
My first lodging as a new adult was my small college dorm I shared with a roommate. My second lodging was my small apartment in Florida my girlfriend and I shared with two roommates. 6 people in an apartment is a lot but it's not "only NY or SFBA".
Sorry I wasn't tracking that you were talking about getting a plain coffee when ordering out. I haven't found that harder either but I don't know what the prices have been like, I do know the coffee at the grocery store got much more expensive in 2025.
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Sorry I wasn't tracking that you were talking about getting a plain coffee when ordering out. I haven't found that harder either but I don't know what the prices have been like, I do know the coffee at the grocery store got much more expensive in 2025.
I dunno, granted with the data plan, but when my cheap filter coffee maker broke I went to amazon.com and had a new cheap filter coffee maker the next day. Going to a coffee shop every day would be way more effort, not less.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I dunno, granted with the data plan, but when my cheap filter coffee maker broke I went to amazon.com and had a new cheap filter coffee maker the next day. Going to a coffee shop every day would be way more effort, not less.
Yep, it's the economy classics again. Or as my old XO at NNPTC once tried to suggest during a parking lot crisis: “People just need to drive in earlier to get a spot!” as if we'd all be able to park that way.
November 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Yep, it's the economy classics again. Or as my old XO at NNPTC once tried to suggest during a parking lot crisis: “People just need to drive in earlier to get a spot!” as if we'd all be able to park that way.
Yeah, that's kind of why the acquisition timeframes need to be shorter, not longer, especially in tech fields that are changing rapidly. You don't want to put massive investments in PORs that will be obsolete from day 1, and you want to be fielding iterative improvements to keep pace with the enemy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Yeah, that's kind of why the acquisition timeframes need to be shorter, not longer, especially in tech fields that are changing rapidly. You don't want to put massive investments in PORs that will be obsolete from day 1, and you want to be fielding iterative improvements to keep pace with the enemy.
It's also really hard to build institutional / tacit knowledge in the supply chains when the cycle times are so massively long. Our suppliers should be building *something* all the time. Smaller steps are also better for testing, but you need cycle times to be low to take smaller steps.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It's also really hard to build institutional / tacit knowledge in the supply chains when the cycle times are so massively long. Our suppliers should be building *something* all the time. Smaller steps are also better for testing, but you need cycle times to be low to take smaller steps.
The positive framing is fielding of a working system that does 85% of what you envision you'd need. The missing 15% hurts, but the 85% you do have works the way it would in the next gen and you have it now.
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
The positive framing is fielding of a working system that does 85% of what you envision you'd need. The missing 15% hurts, but the 85% you do have works the way it would in the next gen and you have it now.
DAS is more than weapons systems. Navy wouldn't have gotten from USS Nautilus to USS Los Angeles as fast as it did without putting nuclear boats in the water, as inelegant as the first ones were (just as the DBF guys how often the initial classes of nuke-powered boats ended up broke).
November 8, 2025 at 2:53 AM
DAS is more than weapons systems. Navy wouldn't have gotten from USS Nautilus to USS Los Angeles as fast as it did without putting nuclear boats in the water, as inelegant as the first ones were (just as the DBF guys how often the initial classes of nuke-powered boats ended up broke).
When the Navy was struggling with recruiting in 2022-2023 due to the then-booming economy, they didn't lower physical fitness standards to complete boot camp, they instituted additional prep training instead. And wow, these standards are already very lax...
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
When the Navy was struggling with recruiting in 2022-2023 due to the then-booming economy, they didn't lower physical fitness standards to complete boot camp, they instituted additional prep training instead. And wow, these standards are already very lax...
By definition, there's always about the same number of people under the median.
I actually got interested in it from everyone complaining about it so I started tracking my own grocery expenses by UPC, and they were static under Biden in 2024. At the broader level it was 8-10%/mo. for me 2020-2024.
I actually got interested in it from everyone complaining about it so I started tracking my own grocery expenses by UPC, and they were static under Biden in 2024. At the broader level it was 8-10%/mo. for me 2020-2024.
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
By definition, there's always about the same number of people under the median.
I actually got interested in it from everyone complaining about it so I started tracking my own grocery expenses by UPC, and they were static under Biden in 2024. At the broader level it was 8-10%/mo. for me 2020-2024.
I actually got interested in it from everyone complaining about it so I started tracking my own grocery expenses by UPC, and they were static under Biden in 2024. At the broader level it was 8-10%/mo. for me 2020-2024.
This was what brought air conditioning to U.S. submarines. Not the Sailors' comfort, it was equipment that would break in long Pacific patrols without it!
October 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This was what brought air conditioning to U.S. submarines. Not the Sailors' comfort, it was equipment that would break in long Pacific patrols without it!