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So how many neurons would it take to consider forcing Windows Server to run on the wetware a crime against humanity?

Unironically I am going to do this because my (suspected) AuDHD brain will not have organised thoughts unless I’m either already locked-in or talking aloud to myself.

It really reaches a new level of bullshit in this post when you find out that men wore make-up but it just went out of fashion.

I’d like to try out some make up styles that could enhance my masculine facial features, just to see what it looks like. Is that a thing?

Sweet jesus, that’s Anglo-Onomatopoeic-French!

The entirety of western Europe just gave a collective shudder.

I cast Tongue Awareness!

Effect:

You are now consciously aware that your tongue is always tense in some way and is never fully relaxed in your mouth.

Oi! I hope you’ve got a dog-skating licence, my lad! Else you’re both off to the dog pound!

Is this Brennan Lee Mulligan?

H Bomberguy new video? Let me clear a whole working day so I can enjoy the full 8 hour runtime uninterrupted.

Hmmmmm lower electric bills for our countries electorate OR giant buildings they hate that pollute their water, give them ill health from noise pollution, and take their jobs?

Sort-of. What I’m imagining is a small selection of vehicle sizes from small hatchback to estate/people carrier to van/kei-sized pickup that have a common battery pack size, motor, and inverter.

You’d choose the type of vehicle that has just the basics built-in like safety and AC.

The rest is customisable and allows for 3rd party manufacturers to make ancillary products for it. Do this by using existing standards for 3rd party automotive parts and then create new standards with open sourced designs for things that aren’t: i.e. the battery pack size and interface, and inverter size and interface.

Eventually what I’d like to see is a market where people can keep these vehicles running by upgrading, repairing, recycling.

If I had a billion dollars laying around I’d sink it into trying to create an automotive co-operative to get at least 3 different sized vehicles with a common battery, motor, and inverter made, through certification, and then released. Then let the market do it’s thing when presented with a new opportunity: adopt and grow.

And I know that I’m certainly missing a lot of issues with this idea but that’s just what it is, an idea and it’ll probably stay that way unless someone else has the resources to make it.

Slate Auto is a good start, what I’d want is something that’s beyond what they’re offering at the moment.

Wishing them best of luck, despite Jeff Bezos, the Amazon cunt, backing them.

What I’d like is a EV that has no additional shite attached other than what I want.

Just give me a chassis with a standardised battery pack, that has AC. Then let ME choose what after-market 3rd party options to put in such as:

Heated seats, Radio/CD/BT/carplay or android auto using standard car DIN box sizes, reversing sensors, cruise control, cab lighting, etc.

Fuck I forgot about internal combustion…

Well when you invent a new way to convert rotational energy into multi-phase AC please let us all know

Better hope you have zero money sent through or stored in a bank or pension fund and you don’t have a mortgage yourself or your landlord doesn’t have a mortgage or your employer doesn’t have a mortgage or business loan and doesn’t use a bank.

The correct response is what Iceland did: government bails out the bank’s customers, takes ownership, and actually jails the c-level wankers bankers.

Because like it or not, you’re still part of the financial system unless you’re currently sat in a self-sufficient earth-ship borrowing some else’s WiFi connection.

Slashing 10% of your workforce annually is something Jack Welch thought of when he was CEO of General Electric; essentially it shifts that 10% of staff overhead cost straight to profits per year.

The justification they give for the figure is that it’s the lowest performing 10% according to internal key performance indicator (KPI) metrics. What this effectively does is two fold:

1. Anyone who’s focusing on delivering stuff the company needs long term isn’t always or sometimes never will produce nice neat KPIs that can be measured along with the rest of the company. This means these people are under constant pressure and can often get swept up in the firings.

2. It makes KPIs, a measuring tool, the target which as any statistician will tell you that when you make the measurement a target it ceases to be a good measuring tool. Because everyone is automatically incentivised to deliver KPIs NOT the actual company deliverables that generate the added value and therefore the profit.

This means after 5 to 10 years of this cycle all that’s left of the company’s institutional knowledge is how to deliver for KPIs and the sycophants who best adapt to this reality. You get a hollowing out of the company.

If this AI fuelled trend keeps up then companies like Cisco and Meta will eventually implode at some point.