I think all the information is pretty well-known in this community, but here's a summary:

• Renewables (specifically solar + batteries) are an inevitable future of energy production due to technological advancements and economies of scale improvements; you should not oppose them but welcome them
  • We are at a tipping point where solar + batteries is now the cheapest energy source available
  • Land use for solar farms is not a big issue, they are much more energy efficient per unit area than the ethanol corn that currently plagues the US
  • Replacing all ethanol corn fields with solar farms would make almost twice as much energy as the US grid is currently producing
• Renewables are better than fossil fuels because they do not require continuous extraction; when a solar panel or battery has been "used up" and is degraded, it can be recycled, whereas fossil fuels can only be burned once after extraction
  • The end goal is an almost-closed-loop system for all energy production, similar to what we have with lead-acid batteries already
  • Recycling solar panels is relatively easy because they are mostly glass and aluminum, which we know how to recycle well, and we could probably figure out silicon too
  • Recycling batteries is a harder problem but possible too if we put some effort in; currently the recycling capacity is lacking because there's not enough batteries being recycled, since most of them are still working fine in EVs sold since the start of EV boom
  • Worst-case, we can literally just grind up batteries into battery mush and refine it, same as we do with ores from which the raw materials come in the first place, but likely something better is possible
• Alec describes his personal politics, how he values labor and working-class people, and how he thinks immigrants are hard-working people who need to be welcomed and cared for
  • Trump and Republicans as a whole are fascists and lie constantly, which needs to be called out and stopped
  • ICE must be abolished and its thugs tried for their crimes
  • Democrats are not doing enough, and in fact are pretty bad on some points, but it's still better to vote for them
  • People need to organize with their neighbors, care for each other first and foremost, and defend themselves against the government

Alec's personal views are a relief, I think it's a shame he didn't go deeper into them before (IIRC he had a video where he called out right-wing misinfo but stopped short of any direct calls for action). I suppose the contrast between his usual "tech presenter/science explainer" and this clearly righteous political call for action might get through to some people better.

This is DISGUSTING

Yeah, I agree, Gestapo arresting people is DISGUSTING.

I'm sure you are already aware, but just in case, there's a lot of prior work in getting a truly Linux mobile phone.

There are ready-made devices like PinePhone (the PinePhone Pro looks the most promising one of the bunch), Librem 5, and Liberux Nexx. I think at least some of those companies publish schematics for their boards, you should probably check those out if you want to design your own.

There is also another direction, taken by postmarketOS and the like, to install Linux on a phone that shipped with Android out of the box.

It should be easy enough to install postmarketOS on your device, since it seems to have support for raspberry pi. The benefit of postmarketOS here is that it makes it really easy to install mobile Linux UI shells, like phosh, gnome-mobile, plasma-mobile, or sxmo. This will let you try all of them out and maybe pick one as a starting point for your software stack.

Few additions:

• "reverse thrust" → "slow down (after you land)"
• (at foot pedals) "Push both to brake (after you land), push one or the other to turn"
• "go fast" → "go fast (keep levers together)"
• "keep it above the ground" → "keep it above the ground, but not too high"
• (at IAS indiciator) "how fast you're going", "keep between 170 and 400, lower to 140 when landing"
• "make wings bigger" → "make wings bigger, required when taking off or landing"

How the fuck did they have the gall to write this

If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm

I'm very much not a lawyer, I'm not even from the US, but even I know that irreparable harm is harm which may not be cured by monetary compensation. THIS IS LITERALLY JUST MONEY GIVEN TO THE STATES. IF THE DECISION IS LATER OVERTURNED THE STATES CAN JUST GIVE THE MONEY BACK FROM THEIR BUDGETS. This is the dumbest fucking shit I've read for a while.

You know what is quintessential irreparable harm? Medical complications or death from starvation. Which I sincerely wish upon the fucking monsters who signed this decision, which is illegal even by the already crooked pro-capitalist amerikkkan laws.

Y'all will need to relieve those injustices of their duties by force at some point. It doesn't seem like there's any other way.

This aint a shitpost, this is just a fact

You gotta admit though, Haskell is crazy good for parsing and marshaling data

Sounds like you got a deal. Geometrically speaking, you got a way higher ratio of carrot to carrot skin.

Man, I'm getting old. I don't understand why all jokes have to be fake twitter screenshots now.

The really offensive part is having >2 liters of milk, per person, in a work fridge. What the fuck do you need so much for? I bet that fridge smells like a mix of spoiled milk and utter distrust for other human beings.

There's no such thing as "fully mapped out". Just open StreetComplete. If there are no tasks left, go ahead and map all the individual trees, or benches, or yield/stop signs, or all the buildings so that they appear good-looking on a 3d render.

Me

My gf