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  • squaresinger@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldLoss
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    9 hours ago

    Might have been the case 17 years ago. In the mean time Buckley grew up, became a really decent guy and CAD 2.0 is a really good read.

    Thinking that loss is still a relevant critique of Buckley or his work just means you are getting old and haven’t updated your prejudices in almost 2 decades.

    People posting loss memes almost qualify for an “ok boomer” by now.













  • Because it’s not real. It’s purely for marketing, not for actual wide-spread implementation.

    Even in the best of cases, even factoring in economy of scale and all that, a robot like that will cost upwards of €50k at least, probably closer to double that, will require constant maintainance, and the risk of vandalism or accidental damage is really high. And you’ll likely need a (skilled) human operator nearby anyway, because the delivery vehicle doesn’t drive itself.

    The purpose of projects like this is marketing and public perception.

    • The company looks futuristic and future proof. That’s good to get investors.
    • The company looks like they could replace humans with robots at any time. That’s good with negotiations with unions and workers.
    • The company gets into headlines worldwide. That’s advertisement they don’t have to pay for.

    This robot is not meant to ever go mainstream. Maybe there will be a handful of routes where they will be implemented for marketing purposes, but like drone delivery and similar gimmicks, it won’t beat a criminally underpaid delivery human on price, and that’s the only metric that counts for a company like Amazon.


  • “Prescription glasses” only mean “glasses with optical properties”, so glasses that actually do anything with focus, as opposed to e.g. non-prescription sunglasses or non-prescription accessory glasses that people wear to look smart or something.

    It doesn’t mean you need a prescription for them.

    (That said: in some countries you need a prescription for your prescription glasses if you want your health insurance to pay for them.)



  • I researched a little to figure out what they are on about, and there seem to be three main options, depending on how much of a semblance of a democracy they want to keep up.

    The simplest yet weakest way is what you described: A shadow president. Worked for Putin, why should it not work for Trump. The downside: If the puppet president develops a mind of his own, things can turn ugly(er).

    The next option is to have Trump become vice presidet (the presidential term limit doesn’t seem to apply to VP), then have the president resign and make Trump president instead, claiming that the 22nd only limits being elected twice, which might be ok with the letter of the law, but only an idiot or a tyrant would interpret it that way.

    The third option would be to have the president use the appointment clause, which is very vague about to what exact offices the president can appoint someone. It doesn’t explicitly state that the president can’t appoint someone else to the office of president. But again, only an idiot or a tyrant would interpret it that way.