heavyboots

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if you can run it off any USB C PD that will do 100w+ without buying the battery pack. I know my MBP USB C power supply does at least 100, if not more on MagSafe.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

This is only a Windows thing AFAIK?

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago

Hahaha, you're welcome!

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 80 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Weird, very weird. Not demure, not mindful.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Unfortunatley, living in AZ (much like FL) makes it really hard to differentiate between real headlines and Onion headlines sometimes.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It really ties the room together!

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 57 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Relevant to your interests: As a straight, male mountain biker, I swear like three quarters of the cute women I meet and get interested in are lesbians. (And the other 25% are out biking with their husband, boyfriend, etc.)

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Last post that I can find by her is on Mastodon, promoting a new electronics book she helped co-author, I think?

But yeah, she has been super quiet since they "clipped her wings". But she said she would be too. Censorship sucks and I can't believe we let an entire country get away with it and still did business with them the whole time.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Click-bait titling at its best. Apparently their attempt at controversy boils down to this:

In a short snippet aired Thursday afternoon, however, Harris was shown answering questions about her changing stance on certain policy issues, including immigration and fracking. Harris said that her values haven’t shifted over the years, but sometimes her policy beliefs have shifted as she’s gotten more perspective on issues.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
  • They attended a ceremony in a part of the cemetery off-limits to photography and political events, due to some sort of dealings instigated by House Speaker Mike Johnson.
  • Trump was told he could only attend in a personal capacity and that no hangers-on would be allowed in.
  • When an official tried to enforce these limitations on his visit, a large staffer physically pushed her aside, claiming that photography was allowed, so he and at least one or two staffers were there instead of just Trump himself.
  • Trump has (of course) posted this crap all over his social media, using it for political purposes, in spite of the conditions under which his visit was supposed to take place. (Honoring a fallen soldier in a civilian capacity.)
  • And after it is all over and starting to blow up in his face, his response is unsurprisingly to lie about it all, despite photographic evidence (of the politics and extra staffers) and eye witness confirmation of the physical aspect (by Army personnel) that it happened.
[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

Pretty much we are a corporate welfare state at this point. Electing officials you think will pass or enforce laws to bring them to heel is your best bet. (People like AOC are preferred, as she has never accepted contributions from corporations to her campaign.)

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As an example of this, I believe SexyCyborg got in trouble for reporting on leaks via people's 3rd party Chinese language keyboards. So her theory is that the keyboard apps people had installed leaked data when Hong Kong protesters were communicating with the press, rather than the actual Signal app. But… as stated above, people have to take responsibility for their device and in this case, they had chosen to install apps with leak issues into the communication process.

 

… and he calls some random people after he mows down the cyclists, but not 911? How is he only facing misdemeanor charges?!?

 

For me, best of 2023 was Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow. A retirement-age forensic accountant traveling around in an ex-rock star bus from Walmart parking lot to next gourmet dining location does a job for a billionaire and suddenly ends up in a surprising amount of hot water over it. Hijinks ensue.

Runner-up goes to Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman. This is some bleak, bleak humor. Instead of carbon credits, Beauman posits extinction credits. Got a big strip mining operation coming up that will kill off a couple species? Better buy some extinction credits to cover their death! (And remember, it takes more credits to cover for a dead intelligent species, so factor that in!) Next extinction candidate: the Venomous Lumpsucker, but don't make it extinct until you've got all your paperwork done. Researcher and extinction credit manager for a mining company end up in a desperate chase around the planet trying to ascertain if the last of the Lumpsuckers are truly gone or not, and we go along for the ride.

 

(And in Space Black even!)

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