Well if it makes you feel better (probably not); the right wing government here is tanking the economy…for reasons.

It seems to be hell bent on giving tax cuts to the already wealthy; but usually when they have done this in the past, the kept the rest of the economy relatively stable. But this time it is one terrible decision after another, and rather then the “soft landing” we were on target for when they were elected, is looking like a full recession that didn’t need to happen.

How would that make him a non-billionare?

He paid $44B for Twitter, even if it completely failed and he could realize no value from any of the assets. $44B is a small portion of his wealth.

You could have most people in a relatively small area with the rest for farming.

There would be little need for the equivalent of roads, almost all travel would be walk or bike. The longest distance between two points is less than 34km. If the main settlement is in a ring around the middle of the cylinder, it is less than 17km to any point.

If we can do B, A doesn’t provide many benefits.

A 1km diameter, 30km cylinder would provide enough area to feed ~140k people. 95km^2 of space.

That is assuming no imported food etc, based on 7000m^2 per person which is almost 2 acres each.

140k people is a small city.

While that is an interesting take, it is possible to do both!

Moldering: “to crumble into dust, to rot”

All the definitions of molding I can find, are about shaping something.

Literally nothing.

Give him a high five and tell him to keep doing what he is doing. Since we invent the time machine, I wouldn’t want to fuck that up. Really I wouldn’t even visit.

I would however be expecting a visit from my future self, to get the details on how to solve global warming and a bunch of other issues.

Colour would like a word with you.

Wouldn’t that be mouldering?

It is too big for NZ roads, I think it is to expensive, but people buy supercars… So the value proposition is also subjective.

At for build quality… Early reports are not that encouraging.

I’ll never own one, so it doesn’t really effect me.

As someone who likes the aesthetic of the cybertruck; it annoys me that Elon has made such an ass of himself that it is effectively a non-option for serious people.

It is like the bastard child of a lamborghini countach and a delorean; but in a good way.

Preemptively; taste is subjective and personal. If you don’t like the look of it, cool that is for you. I think it looks awesome; but Elon is a fuckup and it is way too expensive.

Lathes are serious machines. They require serious caution!

At my previous job, there was a very lucky apprentice; he was working on “the small lathe”; the sleeve on his overalls caught on the work piece. His arm was pulled into the machine the overall sleeve tore as it was being pulled in. He got very nasty friction burns all up the under side of his arm; if the sleeve didn’t tear, at minimum he would have lost the arm…the lathe didn’t stop spinning during the event. He panicked (understandably) and didn’t think to hit the e-stop.

Table saws and lathes…don’t fuck around with them. Powerful tools require serious caution; but they are also very useful when used correctly.

But do they have to set jumpers on the motherboard to choose the processor voltage?

Legend.

Always found that strangely motivating.

You can probably trim that down by one.

• Treat others as you would have them treat you.
• Pursue a useful existence.

But I would also add:

• Treat yourself with genuine respect.

This feeds back into the first point.

This is also how tire balancing works for cars. Except they have a machine that does the calculations for position and weight.

But how do you know how many you lost in that drop saw accident?

The best one

The right to sue Trump on Giuliani’s behalf for some money Trump still owes him

Ok; so how much for a sandwich and a coffee; all I have on me is a pair of lesbians and a large gay guy.

It is a difficult position to be in.

So the crazy makes a plan with a local franchise owner. Tells corporate he has already said yes. Even though they likely don’t want anything to do with it, as it is a no win situation for them, they are fucked either way.

They have the shit job of saying no one of the most petty people in the world; who may be the next president. He could tell his cult to avoid McD’s because they snubbed him etc…so now it is either piss off the MAGA crowd, quite possibly their biggest market, or piss off the dems…

McD’s is not great food, but it isn’t terrible either. I don’t envy the higher ups having to make this situation palatable.

Their statement is pretty good though.

we open our doors to everyone

This is basically saying even though he is a criminal, we would still give him a chance. That is a dem dog-whistle if ever I saw one.