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Platystemon)
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the bikesharing thing must just be some sort of weird embezzlement scam because its china
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Nov 25, 2018 10:44
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Kleptocratic public fund abuse probably.
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Nov 25, 2018 11:02
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hackbunny posted:The same companies are here in Italy, too, in my city, but they aren't allowed to just make and dump bikes everywhere. I believe, at a minimum, that they have to register themselves as bike sharing companies (because the bikes are stamped with the city's coat of arms), and they have limits to the number of bikes they can deploy (because we aren't invaded with them) Yeah here in Spain we have them but you're supposed to pick them up and park them in specific charging stations around the city which limits their number and keeps them from cluttering the streets. But apparently the electric scooter market isn't regulated cause those have started popping up recently and people just drop them wherever they please.
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Nov 25, 2018 11:50
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Elman posted:Yeah here in Spain we have them but you're supposed to pick them up and park them in specific charging stations around the city which limits their number and keeps them from cluttering the streets. No, we already had those. I meant we literally have Ofo and Mobike here in Milan, except they must be regulated because we don't have hundreds of the things sitting in piles
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Nov 25, 2018 12:00
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Bilirubin posted:its like an infection. China (and the U.S.) has plenty, they're just being used on pigs. Which is setting the stage for another eventual facet of cyberpunk dystopia.
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Nov 25, 2018 13:14
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Nov 25, 2018 13:22
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Reminder that not only were the luddites completely in the right But they knew industrialism will make them redundant and put their families in the streets because capitalists have no sense of gratitude and are actively spiteful shits.
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Nov 25, 2018 13:46
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Reminder that not only were the luddites completely in the right Weird. That's what I knew they were right about.
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Nov 25, 2018 15:26
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thread posted:bike apocalypse Rigged Death Trap posted:Reminder that not only were the luddites completely in the right gotta admit, kicking over delivery drones is more whimsical than shoving a chunk of wood in a spinning jenny
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Nov 25, 2018 16:40
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load a shotgun with some slugs and go drone hunting
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Nov 25, 2018 16:55
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Prav posted:load a shotgun with some slugs and go drone hunting if you want to get fancy make shotgun shells filled with little neodymium magnet balls, like those toys that got banned a few years back. but really you want as many small fragments as possible to take out the propellers. i lov this so much bring back old gbs has issued a correction as of 17:38 on Nov 25, 2018 |
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Nov 25, 2018 17:36
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bring back old gbs posted:if you want to get fancy make shotgun shells filled with little neodymium magnet balls, like those toys that got banned a few years back. gotta question the ballistics on this one
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Nov 25, 2018 17:55
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Bird shot is what you want for flying drones, save the slugs for when the police robot shows up
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Nov 25, 2018 18:07
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Wheeee posted:Bird shot is what you want for flying drones, save the slugs for when the police robot shows up Yeah it turns out they're hard to hit so it pretty much has to be birdshot unless the drone is hovering stationary, or you need superhuman skills+reflexes. Or luck. Of course hammers and screwdrivers allow superhuman feats, so someone could develop a rifle scope that uses a multistatic radar dongles to compute firing solutions and give a hit/miss prediction to aid in timing the shot. That would be cyberpunk as gently caress.
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Nov 25, 2018 18:31
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGi6j2VrL0o 80s movies had the future 100% right
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Nov 25, 2018 18:34
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SlothfulCobra posted:The bikeshare companies must saturate the city with bikes (more bikes than their competitors) to make their business model work. externalities dont exist 
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Nov 25, 2018 19:05
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/on_the_matter_of_shooting_down_amazon_delivery_drones_with_shotguns/
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Nov 25, 2018 19:18
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Gonna use a magnetron and a couple motors and build an anti drone ray. Willing to bet nobody shields those things
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Nov 25, 2018 23:05
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those bike pics are insane what's crazy is I recognize those yellow bikes, those and the green Lime bikes hit Seattle first after the failed Citi Bank bike program. Now there is like a 3rd red Jump bike that recently popped up I was very happy to see homeless people already riding the red fuckers and the idea of just having hundreds of bikes ready to use is great, paying the same price as an uber would cost for two people to travel the same distance is stupid. Like my last ride was like $8 bucks for 1.3 miles, if it's me and a friend that's $20 bucks, an uber would of been $7-10. Aside from just flooding the streets with these loving things, I don't understand how this business operates at all.
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Nov 25, 2018 23:25
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Larry Parrish posted:Gonna use a magnetron and a couple motors and build an anti drone ray. Willing to bet nobody shields those things cops are starting to buy pressurized air-powered net launchers its hilarious
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Nov 25, 2018 23:40
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Taintrunner posted:I saw this in-person in Shenzchen at the beginning of this year. It was loving crazy. from a few pages back but i happened to catch them dredging the canals in the old part of amsterdam in 2012 - wasnt really any different except no bikesharing just assholes ill see if i can dig up a pic
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Nov 26, 2018 00:11
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a big reason the bike companies have investors pouring money into them is to collect data about where people go and when
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Nov 26, 2018 07:55
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Wheeee posted:Bird shot is what you want for flying drones, save the slugs for when the police robot shows up 
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Nov 26, 2018 08:15
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Now that we've found a way to make bikes bad for the environment I can't wait to see how we gently caress up solar panels.
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Nov 26, 2018 08:30
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Solar panels are dependent on rare earth metals right? And they are made in China?
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Nov 26, 2018 09:22
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Everything is made in China.
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Nov 26, 2018 10:08
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Solar panels are dependent on rare earth metals right? And they are made in China? China has most of the worlds rare earth metals thats being utilized so yeah. Iirc theres other big deposits in Russia and the Yukon but they're, uh, challenging to get to
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Nov 26, 2018 11:36
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LIVE AMMO ROLEPLAY posted:Now that we've found a way to make bikes bad for the environment I can't wait to see how we gently caress up solar panels. also fossil fuel companies continue to receive enormous state subsidy under the justification of saving jobs
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Nov 26, 2018 13:21
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the state starts paying solar panel manufacturers to destroy solar panels to prevent an energy market oversupply and too much market competition with fossil fuels
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Nov 26, 2018 13:22
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comedyblissoption posted:the state starts paying solar panel manufacturers to destroy solar panels to prevent an energy market oversupply and too much market competition with fossil fuels the australian government is now basically supporting the coal power industry out of spite at greens so were almost there
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Nov 26, 2018 13:34
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Powered Descent posted:https://twitter.com/marrowing/status/1065792951362580480 This is a sex thing.
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Nov 26, 2018 14:27
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Platystemon posted:This is a sex thing. teehee, forgot to send a screencap of my NaNoWrMo word count to my app boss daddy. guess he’ll have to bug me alllll daaaayyyy ☺️☺️😛 😂💦💦
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Nov 26, 2018 16:52
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Platystemon posted:This is a sex thing. *in a voice trembling with fear and uncertainty*
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Nov 26, 2018 17:02
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Rigged Death Trap posted:Reminder that not only were the luddites completely in the right I feel it's not-so-coincidental that the machine that most threatened the Luddites was the Jacquard loom, which was basically a programmable mechanical computer and a direct predecessor of the Analytical Engine. And interestingly, the potential threat of elaborate mechanical looms that weave physical and electrical currents had already been recognized by a paranoid schizophrenics, although in that particular case he was terrified that Jacobin assassins would use programmable electric looms to attack the ruling classes, which would have been a good thing and sounds like something Neal Stephenson would write a novel about (or maybe has, I havent read most of em). (Also, this is a good album)
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Nov 26, 2018 17:28
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turning “luddite” into a qualifying insult, much like how redneck was co-opted, is probably one of the more successful and savvy pr strategies that capital turned out
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Nov 26, 2018 17:32
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Syd Midnight posted:I feel it's not-so-coincidental that the machine that most threatened the Luddites was the Jacquard loom, which was basically a programmable mechanical computer and a direct predecessor of the Analytical Engine. And interestingly, the potential threat of elaborate mechanical looms that weave physical and electrical currents had already been recognized by a paranoid schizophrenics, although in that particular case he was terrified that Jacobin assassins would use programmable electric looms to attack the ruling classes, which would have been a good thing and sounds like something Neal Stephenson would write a novel about (or maybe has, I havent read most of em). Ned Ludd was CSPAM as hell  They said Ned Ludd was an idiot boy That all he could do was wreck and destroy, and He turned to his workmates and said: Death to Machines They tread on our future and they stamp on our dreams.
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Nov 26, 2018 17:52
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Solar panels are dependent on rare earth metals right? And they are made in China? The rarity of "rare earth metals" is generally overstated. Mostly the issue is no one bothers to mine them because they aren't presently super-profitable to extract. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/17/17246444/rare-earth-metals-discovery-japan-china-monopoly
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Nov 26, 2018 18:21
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GM, and by extension American consumers, have the memory of a goldfish. They're going to slash their electric car and small car production and then as soon as gas prices go up to $4.50 a gallon they'll be shrugging their shoulders saying "wha happened?" right before they take their private jets to Washington rattling a tin cup for bailouts.
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Nov 26, 2018 21:15
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Modern CUVs get almost the same fuel efficiency as a comparable sedan, the demand for them isn't going anywhere. In addition, compact cars remain one of the largest segments in the industry, Ford and GM aren't abandoning cars because they don't sell, they're abandoning cars because they aren't able to make competitive offerings and actually make money off of them. Basically GM and Ford aren't as good at design and manufacturing as other companies.
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Nov 26, 2018 22:36
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silentsnack posted:Yeah it turns out they're hard to hit so it pretty much has to be birdshot unless the drone is hovering stationary, or you need superhuman skills+reflexes. Or luck. I mean you can build a signal jammer that will have more effective range than any gun that has a hope of hitting a drone, then you can either collect your free drone parts or follow the drone back home to whoever sent it after you
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