ssorbom

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[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

To be fair, I think it's really more specifically an indictment of his management skills. I doubt he said everything up himself, but a good manager knows how to attract actual experts, not just college flunkies

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's the first I hear that there was even a riot in the UK. I was specifically interested in finding out musks involvement. Since the article was drawing the comparison, it's on them to actually explain what they are comparing properly. And yes, randomly finding an article is it perfectly valid way of trying to catch yourself up on a news story. If the author can't be bothered to post summary, they should at least hyperlink to something that does.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Any article that draws a comparison like that should explain both ends of the comparison. I'm not from the uk, and while I do try to follow UK politics somewhat, there are some things that slip under my radar, like apparently a riot that Elon musk was involved with.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

This article is slop. I read it to try to find out what was going on in the UK, and how musk was involved and there were less than two sentences about the event being covered. All the rest was about the US and how we are about to imminently fall. If you're going to make a headline like that at least explain to readers what happened. You can't assume that the entirety of your audience already knows.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You are being willfully obtuse. Atheists didn't choose the definition of the word. Magic is a catch all for things that are not explained by a scientific process. Computing is not one of those things. You don't understand computers because they are a black box. Therefore it is tempting to call the result magic. But you had better sure as hell hope that the effect of computers are reproducible, every single time, because if they are not, the world as we know it ceases to function.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (22 children)

No they aren't. Not all protests are good. It is essential that political disagreements don't capsize the society we live in. Any protests that can't be ignored is essentially mob rule

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You might look into prototype projects like cactus. It is for things like blog comments, but there might be adaptations

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought the whole point of starlink was that it provided cheap and dirty infrastructure basically anywhere. What's the point if they're going to individually license areas??

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't think a generic building that is suitable for all purposes is possible though. Inevitably the needs of a housing unit and an office are fundamentally different, going all he way down to the plumbing. It wouldn't make sense to build an office building with enough plumbing to easily become an apartment, or vice versa, because taking a down-the-middle approach could just as easily lead to a building that serves no useful purpose at all. It's not "just" about the money. He goes into the plumbing issue in particular in great depth. I highly recommend watching the whole video

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

I say this as somebody who cannot drive. And I say it with all the love in the world for public transit. Public transit absolutely cannot get you everywhere, at least not if you expect to be there in a timely manner. The vast majority of America is suburbanized, the worst possible environment for buses.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but they still have to have enough resources to build a landing pad to get back. I only just recently attained the research necessary to build these, and I realized I don't have any biofuel! So now I have to distill that too.

[–] ssorbom@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

They've obviously never heard of California City. It's not so simple to build from scratch, especially at a true City scale. Cities tend to evolve organically

 

I used to live close enough to avenue I, near Pacific Coast highway that I went there semi-regularly. Now, a lot of the area is extremely car centric. But the pandemic did something funny to avenue i. It has always been restaurant row, and the introduction of outdoor seating during the pandemic is actually turning it into a beautifully walkable pleasant area to be. The one problem is, Pacific Coast highway, the stinkiest noisiest, most dangerous road in that part of town cuts straight through it. So when the heck can we close that section just for a while so that people can see how much nicer it would be to walk there??

 

Nimesh in LA is one of my favorite youtubers! As a dedicated new Urbanist, He definitely deserves a signal boost

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ssorbom@lemmy.world to c/losangeles@lemmy.world
 

hey guys, I hope this is allowed, but I had created a community a while ago on matrix. for those of you not familiar with what matrix is, think of it like a decentralized version of discord where there is no Central company running any of the infrastructure, much like the fediverse. hope to see you guys there!

 

one of my favorite communities on Reddit was called r/cityporn. it wasn't nsfw, just people sharing pictures of cityscapes and skyscrapers. I was wondering if there were equivalent communities like that on lemmy?

 

one of my favorite communities on Reddit was called r/cityporn. it wasn't nsfw, just people sharing pictures of cityscapes and skyscrapers. I was wondering if there were equivalent communities like that on lemmy?

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