Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.
Swagger off the charts: https://hellgatenyc.com/most-brazen-lie-eric-adams-allegedly-told-prosecutors/
Here's the full text of the indictment: https://hellgatenyc.com/read-the-eric-adams-indictment-here/
Anybody know what's up with this Turkish connection? My assumption is that it's mob and or nepotism stuff rather than political stuff. I don't think Turkey has any real interest in NYC politics. Is it just that well-connected Turkish people own venues in NYC and they get their political patrons to donate to Adams? Is there something more funny/interesting going on?
OT: Slavoj’s shirt is so long he doesn’t need pants. Why he do this??
Absolutely. It’s better with WFH as I have started to just browse the polygon mammal site or do laundry when this happens, but I used to really struggle in the office, feeling like I need to look busy.
Weirdly I was doing the same to various other texts “stop arming Israel” etc and they didn’t stop until I sent the single word “stop”
Yeah, I know some of that exists; it never showed up in my world. We never modeled buildings with enough detail to make it really useful. Occasionally someone would get excited about Tekla and we'd spend some time trying to do shop drawing reviews in 3D and then go back to PDF. What I meant was that it isn't yet a standard thing that is understood by any technician in the industry, it's proprietary software that is subject to change with every release.
Prints have a design language to them which allows you to express fully constrained geometric designs on a napkin if you need to. Dimensions, radii, diameters, angles, datums, positions, projections, sections, GD&T. None of this is obvious in a 3D model. You don't know what the driving dimensions are, what can be inferred from other dimensions, if it is a coincidence or a requirement that two features line up, etc.
This is so critical. In architecture and structural engineering, you can add to this that you don't actually know a lot of the real dimensions - you're laying out the important ones from the structural grid or from survey points, and whatever is left doesn't matter.
Even markup, at least in a design environment, can be done in 3D (or at least on a computer), but the communication of constraints, that is, what dimensions are important and which are irrelevant or unknowable has not yet been developed in 3D models, and I suspect it will be some time before any useful language for that purpose stabilizes.
Need a version of the “this is fine” gif but instead of fire it’s a household of enslaved people and instead of a dog it’s a Roman guy and/or Rome Guy
Per Dr Eleanor Janega, Rome guys are continuing the Roman tradition of pondering the last ‘cool’ empire. Romans pondered the Greeks, now Americans ponder Rome. I think a lot of the Rome/Greek pondering in America was about justifying slavery. Hence why there’s a Parthenon in Nashville. The Romans were a “democracy” with a slave underclass, so it’s actually cool and normal to do that.
Which is, I believe, the origin of the Latin ’ursa’ and Spanish ‘oso’
Username checks out (you can call me 5bicycles)
Yeah, making a habit of walking something like what you’re describing is not a great plan. Make noise at your city council meetings instead.
Yeah like all they had to do was wrap “democracy” in scare quotes
A right wing NYC councilmember bit a cop: https://www.thecity.nyc/2024/07/18/susan-zhuang-bensonhurst-hero-cop-bite/
Right? Is the vomit emoji an ancient anti Semitic trope?
Silicon Valley believes more computation is essential for progress. But they ignore the resource burden and don’t care if the benefits materialize.
Butlerian Jihad now
Reading Giblin and Doctorow’s Chokepoint Capitalism and they used a term “freedom of contract” I hadn’t heard before, and which I realized that I have over-valued in my brain.
I’ve already broken through in a few spots, for instance employment contracts can obviously be exploitative and workers have little ability to negotiating the terms on their own.
Or bank loans, not because of the negotiation so much as the moral stigma attached to defaulting on loans. I can see that the bank took a risk, they can take the consequences too. Why add moral consequences to an action that already carries financial consequences?
I think this loans issue comes back to an association of business contracts with social promises, which I’ve spent some time breaking down.
The employment issue is another kettle of frogs. That comes back to consent and whether a person who is not entirely free can consent. I guess that’s the whole point of a revolution though. Any attempt to make contract law fairer to respect the fact that some parties are signing under duress will be thorny, because all people are under duress under capitalism.
There’s barely a question in there, but … thoughts?
