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So… there may be a motive.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/cybertruck-bomber-matthew-livelsberger-wife-b2673319.html

The wife of the Cybertruck bomber Matthew Livelsberger left him just days before he detonated the vehicle outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, according to a report.

With a bit more context from some of the texts he made here from here:

https://www.newsweek.com/cybertruck-explosion-matthew-livelsberger-texts-ex-girlfriend-2009064

My entirely premature, editorialized take is that this guy cheated on his wife, or his wife left him due to suspecting as much, he believed his life was ruined, and decided to go out with a bang.

He was a big Trump guy, was a Green Beret for multiple tours of duty, until 2019 when he suffered a traumatic brain injury, he kept working in the Army, most recently as remote and autonomous systems manager stationed in Germany.

Then he went home on leave, his wife leaves him, and 3 days before his death, several days after his wife left him, he texted his previous ex (not his very recently ex wife):

“I rented a Tesla Cybertruck. It’s the s**t,” read a text to Arritt, obtained by the Denver Gazette.

“I feel like Batman or halo,”

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He apparently shot himself in the head whilst inside the CyberTruck, parked outside of the Trump hotel… which then caught on fire, and the fireworks and fuel cannisters inside the CyberTruck eventually went off as well:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86wnx174q8o

“I’m comfortable calling it a suicide with a bombing that occurred immediately after,” Sheriff McMahill said during Thursday’s press conference.

As far as I can tell so far… the actual, specific mechanism that caused of the ignition of the CyberTruck does not appear to have been determined so far, but it was probably by design of Livelsberger.

While the car having fireworks inside of it is possibly coincidentally explained by New Years, fuel cans inside a rented CyberTruck probably signal an intention to go out with a bang.

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So, yeah, summed up, my take is that this notably brain damaged individual, who was a big Trump fan and probably Elon fan as well, who felt like Batman driving around in a Halo warthog in a CyberTruck…

…basically just became suicidal after his wife left him and went on a joyride in a CyberTruck, then game overed himself in spectacular fashion.

I like all of those ideas!

A lot of American Protestant chuches already are music venues in the sense that they hold 2 or 3 services a day, which involve 15-45 minute musical sessions, with mics, amps, audio leveling/equalizing equipment, etc.

These are the ones I am referring to.

No, not the insane, literally stadium sized mega churches.

Just your run of the mill, Protestant chuch serving a few hundred people, built in the last 20 years in America.

Plenty of these are built in the middle of residential neighborhoods.

With zoning laws… these of course vary widely, but generally, as long as you aren’t playing music outside of basically daylight hours, you are fine.

I’ve even actually seen some definct churches converted into night clubs, but that is the scenario where zoning laws and permits become more of a hassle.

As far as just… a daytime, small to medium music venue?

Probably any defunct church that was originally designed to accomodate daytime, amped up worship services, or retrofitted for such, is already built according to relevant noise regulations.

… Also, you can have a music venue without a liquor liscense.

I’d bet a lot of American churches could fairly easily be converted into small music venues.

… Computer too slow?

… Profits too low?

… Angel Investors saying No?

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Now, back to All My Wrestlers…

What, you mean the brain worm that directs RFK’s actions isn’t capable of effective regulation?

Certainly it won’t be the case that a random doctor from Arkansas who happens to be a Fox News contributor and also happens to shill her own vitamin supplement mix will be executing directives from the brain worm.

They marketed the headset as being able to replace the functions of basically everything an average person uses a laptop/pc, cellphone, and tv for.

People routinely use computers and tvs for many hours at a time.

People routinely spend hours on their phone and basically always have them in their pocket or nearby.

They showed people wearing the things in planes, to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Sitting down in their (strangely TV-less) living rooms to watch 2-3 hour movies.

Doing … some kind of work you’d do on a laptop, but easily being able to keep the things on, kick a ball around with your kid, and then seamlessly go back to working.

Wearing the headset as you are unpacking at a hotel, and then taking a video phone call with them.

Not the thing ringing, you putting the headset on, and then taking a call.

No, you’re just already wearing the headset, having just arrived in a hotel, implying you just had them on as you took your luggage up to your motel, like a hat.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IY4x85zqoJM

Taken as a montage, you certainly get the impression that you’re encouraged to just wear the thing all the time, anywhere, that its an ‘all-device’ that replaces a whole bunch of other devices, and is easily used/worn in many settings for long periods of time.

This makes me think of one of the citizens from the begining of Half Life 2.

You enter a ramshackle shared apartment as the Civil Protection is breaking down the neighbor’s door.

This one guy is in a kitchenette, sitting in a stupor next to basically a 40 on the table.

As you dodge the ongoing bust by ducking into his apartment, he looks up lazily and speaks with a slur:

“Was that you knocking? I didn’t even know we still had a door.”

… That guy, that scene basically exemplifies the average American in person response to basically anything that isn’t some kind of consumer media product right now.

Within about 60 to 90 seconds of him saying that, the CPs will arrest or kill everyone in the building.

Just wanna throw Windwaker into the examples of highly stylized art style games that aged great.

You jest, but I’ve spent a year+ homeless, often around fentanyl/meth addicts/dealers.

I’ve heard conversations very similar to this, albeit with more slang, many times, either just on speaker phone, or with the volume turned up so loud without the speakerphone on that you can hear the whole convo anyway…

I’ve heard this many times, on buses packed with people, at encampments, in shelters, at bus stops on the street, etc.

They don’t look around bewildered and surprised afterward. They act jubilant, cocksure.

They don’t give a fuck.

I just set up Nobara.

Shockingly straightforward.

Entire install process was very simple, with a GUI, then a neat little post install app that gives you another very straightforward GUI for running your first batch of system updates.

But uh if you’re just looking for an OS for a standard desktop PC, everything I’ve outlined in the above spoiler is not gonna be a problem, and you’ll likely have a very straightforward install process.

I’m also a fan of Nobara’s default UI… kind of a gnomeified KDE?

As well as its default apps, built in DeckyLoader and plugins for the Deck, ProtonPlus for runtime environments, and of course its built in kernel customizations/optimizations for to play vidya gaem.

Oh, and I went with Nobara over the default SteamOS because SteamOS on a Deck is a read only OS by default…

You can install flatpaks, but if you want to actually install new core packages, those will get wiped with a SteamOS update… or you have to use DistroBox… which may also get wiped on an update?

Not sure, but Nobara allowse to use the deck as both a Deck and a more standard desktop linux PC with more customizability… and not having to rely on the AUR, which I find incredibly frustrating.

The cars were going to fly short distances too.

He said he was going to use monopropellant thrusters to make his cars fly.

Hopefully I do not need to point out the many reasons this is a very bad idea, if not functionally impossible.

He also said he was working on an electric aircraft at one point.

Other companies have actually made such things… not Musk though.

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn’t. By subtracting where it is from where it isn’t, or where it isn’t from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn’t, and arriving at a position where it wasn’t, it now is.

Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn’t, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn’t. In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn’t, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn’t.

If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn’t, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn’t, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn’t be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.

Oh good, you posted an updated version!

I’ve seen people dismiss this as an old, out of date prediction from the 70s, unaware that… its been revisited and updated, and is tracking reality … scarily accurately, basically.

(Recalibration23 is this paper, BAU is an older, but still fairly recent recalibration of the World3 model.)

So basically, we, right now, are either at, very close to, or have already surpassed:

Peak Industrial Output

Peak Food Production

Peak Human Population

These things all rapidly decline, or collapse, starting basically now.

HWI = Human Welfare Index.

The average living human in 2035 will have a quality of life comparable to the average human in about 1965.

Average human QoL in 2050 will be comparable to average human QoL during the Great Depression / WW2.

… Good luck everybody! Have fun at work today!

What would happen if a bunch of people put on Luigi masks, marched somewhere, with all their cellphones just looping this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=6cHi1CaSlDo

Please tell me this also comes with a new map set in Ohio.

Here’s the quote, for people allergic to reading the update in the article.

Update: Nvidia sent us a statement: “We are aware of a reported performance issue related to Game Filters and are actively looking into it. You can turn off Game Filters from the NVIDIA App Settings > Features > Overlay > Game Filters and Photo Mode, and then relaunch your game.”

We have tested this and confirmed that disabling the Game Filters and Photo Mode does indeed work. The problem appears to stem from the filters causing a performance loss, even when they’re not being actively used. (With GeForce Experience, if you didn’t have any game filters enabled, it didn’t affect performance.) So, if you’re only after the video capture features or game optimizations offered by the Nvidia App, you can get ‘normal’ performance by disabling the filters and photo modes.

So, TomsHW (is at least claiming that they) did indeed test this, and found that its the filters and photo mode causing the performance hit.

Still a pretty stupid problem to have, considering the old filters did not cause this problem, but at least there’s a workaround.

… I’m curious if this new settings app even exists, or has been tested on linux.

Wonder if we will get 100% confirmation on the Apollo Affair as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_affair

Basically, in 1965 a bunch of fissile nuclear material went missing from a warehouse outaide of Pittsburgh, run by a company run by a Zionist.

FBI, CIA started investigations, but those investigations were mysteriously ended abruptly when it was looking quite likely that the highly enriched uranium had been covertly shipped to Israel.

Neither of the two articles are well sourced.

But you acted like yours was credible, until I presented another one, whereupon you admitted they are both equally valid.

That’s assuming that the random article you found is correct, the veracity of which I can’t verify any more than the interesting engineering article…

That is to say, you cannot verify either of these articles at all, ie, they are both of dubious legitimacy.

You accused someone of being racist based of an article you admit you cannot verify, posted a bunch of related research papers that indicate, sure, they’re trying to develop the thing your article claimed they did… but doesn’t indicate that they actually developed it.

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I can link you a patent for a triangular shaped aircraft, listed as filed by a US Navy Scientist that claims to outline how to create an electromagnetic, gravity negating field around the craft.

That would not be evidence that the US Navy officially announced that they basically built a UFO, that it works, and there’s a video of it, all officially documented and released.

But to you, it would be, if China had done all those things.

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I am not saying China certainly has or has not developed a hypersonic passenger liner.

I am saying your source for this claim is dubious.

I am saying that you believe(d?) it credulously, without any skepticism, got very hostile with people who doubted its claim less tactfully than I did, and now you admit you got hostile based on a claim that you now admit is dubious, and shifted the burden of proof from the article making the claim to the skeptic questioning it.

Again, this is the logic of a fanatic.

If we just pick which dubiously sourced claims we believe based on vibes, truth stops existing.

So, you just assumed a unsourced, unverified story is true because you have a bias in favor of China, and put the burden of proof onto the other person to disprove it, and are completely fine with calling the other person a ‘sad racist’, despite now admitting that the veracity of the claim they are skeptical of is in fact not well established.

This is the argument/personality style of a fanatic, a religious fundamentalist, a QAnon adherent, an Elon Musk simp.

This is how we got ‘the Trump assasination attempt was staged!’

Please stop posting trash tier misinformation as ‘technology news’, please stop jumping to ‘everyone who disagrees with me is rascist’, this level of unjustified vitriol only makes you appear manic.