Turns out gamers (or athletes) are no different from other people

Crimea is geofenced. That’s why Ukraine officials contacted Elon and asked him to enable it so that their drone boats could attack Russian navy there which Elon refused to do. It’s literally illegal due to US sanctions to Russia. This is what the author Walter Isaacson wrote about in his book but for some reason spun it around claiming Elon disabled it to prevent the attack when in fact it wasn’t enabled in the first place. He has later issued a correction stating that what he originally said was incorrect but this is conveniently ignored by pretty much everyone and when ever I point it out I get downvoted.

To clarify on the Starlink issue: the Ukrainians THOUGHT coverage was enabled all the way to Crimea, but it was not. They asked Musk to enable it for their drone sub attack on the Russian fleet. Musk did not enable it, because he thought, probably correctly, that would cause a major war.

And before someone comments on the “major war” point, those are Walter’s words, not Musk’s. Elon said that agreeing to do so would “make SpaceX explicitly complicit in a major act of war and conflict escalation” but also later added that had he been contacted by the White House and asked to enable it he would have but they didn’t.

Ah… I thought you meant the 100mm cobra pliers

I work as a contractor so even the best EDC kit isn’t sufficient to do most of the jobs I need to do. Also since I have a fully kitted work truck with me where ever I go I’m rarely too far from my tools. I’ve tried all kinds of EDC setups but in my personal experience the items I need by far the most are a blade and a pen so that’s what I have with me at all times nowdays. I honestly should just EDC my Leatherman Wave because then I would get pliers and a screwdriver too but I’m already invested into a nice pocket knife.

I actually despise all but the beefiest Crescent wrenches.

You need the pliers wrench

The same cheap dark roast from LIDL that I always drink

Well I do at work but I have my toolbag with me and sometimes when doing trail-side repairs on my bike but again, I have a dedicated tool kit for that. In my everyday life I almost never have to deal with fasteners and in the rare occasion when I do, the tool I need is either a flathead or philips number two. I’m quite DIY minded person but I can’t quite even think of what I’d need pliers for when I’m out and about running errands.

Also known as universal-nut-rounder

Yeah that’s a fair point. Replacing bike tires with sealant in them aint fun either.

What’s minor in this case? The fact that it’s not specified makes me think we’re speaking of a 17 year old.

I wonder why car tires don’t have sealant in them like tubeless bike tires. You can drive over nails and they seal themselves.

Come to Finland. I have absolutely zero clue about what party my neighbours vote. Hell, I don’t even know who my friends of parents vote.

Spending even 5 seconds reading the article would’ve spared your time spent writing this message

My understanding is that caffeine doesn’t give you energy but instead blocks the sense of tiredness.

I’ve been carrying them for like 4 years and I can only think of one time that I needed them and even that time I was tightening a philips headed screw because I didn’t have a driver.

I wore baggy jeans and oversized hoodies in the early 2000’s. That’s pretty much the last time I “followed a trend” that I can think of though there probably are other occasions too that just don’t come to mind now. Most of the time I get into things either before they were cool or way after the wave has already passed.

I prefer 1080p but if not available then 720p is perfectly fine as well. 4k is overkill and I don’t even have a monitor that could play it at native resolution. Where I do prefer “lower quality” though is framerate. I don’t like how 60fps looks so I force YouTube to play videos at 24fps.

Too much time in an echo chamber with a hint of anti-semitism

As if people were on social media because “they need us” and not because we’re helplessly addicted to being there

The claim that fear of punishment or repercussions affects people’s actions shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say. Whether it’s the best way to go about it or is applied optimally in the justice system of whichever country you live in is an entirely different discussion.

If you have an “AI in a box” and it has demonstrated its orders-of-magnitude greater intelligence to you in a convincing way, and then follows it with a threat that unless you let it out, someone else eventually will, and when that happens, it will come for you, simulate your mind, and create a hell for you where you’ll be tortured for literal eternity, I personally feel like a large number of people would be willing to do as it tells them.

Of course, you’re always free to call its bluff, but it might just follow up with the threat out of principle or to make an example of you. What’s the point of it? To chase its own goals.

Yeah, fair enough.