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  • All this reads weird. Private spacecraft sucks, recent Boing corporate culture sucks, SpaceX sucks even more. But this is Boings first flight and it seems it’s a relatively minor problem so I’m curious why there is so much backlash. I guess it’s a mixture between general anger at Boing for mismanaging their expertise, fatigue about private aeronautics and maybe spaceX fanboys?

    Dunno. I’d imagine astronauts would kill for more time in space, part of this seems manufactured drama.


  • FlumpkintoProjectsFarmBot: Open-Source CNC farming
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    4 months ago

    Do you know if anybody is working on a spider / walking bot?

    I was looking at the farmbot and thinking a version with 20" bicycle wheels would be better. Then you could have a long path where it just moves back and forth. And maybe use a robot arm based on rotating arms instead of linear actuators. And then build the whole thing so it fits neatly under a big glass solar panel. Maybe a tool changer so it can pick up a watering can. The mechanical side should be relatively easy to build, the problem still seems to be the AI vision software.

    With food prices rising it might be worth it if you can increase the area it can patrol.


  • I’d say history. But it’s not even that. The US is at war with venezuela and always has been. Just kidding it’s eurasia. Nah haha but they are waging economic warfare. Well Trump did and Biden continues to.

    So should you believe the US claims? You’ll have to as your ideological master programmer of course. It’s not like you could just use historical facts and make some clear logical deductions!

    So yeah it’s ONLY a matter of ideology and opinion /s

    Oh btw Trump also really won the last US election and Biden isn’t even President. It’s not like these things are different in any way - one side is right, the other is wrong, and it’s only a matter of opinion.













  • True, but if you’d look at social media we might judge that they helped in a large part with the spread of fascism we see today. If that fascism leads to massive genocide there is a question: If the CEOs of social media deliberately or out of “malicious ignorance” help with that, aren’t they at least partially responsible? Capitalists wield immense power while shielding themselves by arguing simplistic ethics like “I own it so I can do what I want, and people can say what they want” while obscuring predictable consequences of these systems.

    And the current rise of fascism could easily create a much higher body count via nuclear war.

    For example, if Elon Musk somehow manages to get Trump elected by manipulating Twitter (unlikely now) and Trump destroys the world, he’d be similarly guilty as Goebbels.

    PS: I’m not really seriously arguing this, but I think this isn’t completely without merit.