Or turn that family tree into a Laurel wreath.

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.

You think the US can’t invade itself?

Hahahahahaha, here in Britain the ruling class managed to colonize their own country to entrench the class system by tieing the economy to the financial services sector.

I reckon the US would invade itself, after all the only wars they know how to fight are against guerrilla forces (even then it’s a spotty record), and there’s none more challenging than one that speaks the same language.

Honestly, I’m done being well informed. There’s literally nothing I can do about any of the stuff happening on the global level or even national level apart from get depressed and angry.

So I’m narrowing my attention to what I can change around me.

Funnily enough I’ve been enjoying the sunshine this afternoon letting my mind wander thinking about how I could contribute to the solar punk future I’d like to see.

What about you? Been outside today bro? Nature’s good for the soul. Careful it’s hot out today, you been drinking enough water?

That’s not how judicial fines work, they know most people don’t have that amount in the bank so there’s zero point asking for the lump sum. Their aim is to disincentivise future “vandals” by making an example out of the first one. You won’t be able to escape the payments which will be unavoidable due to bankruptcy because a portion of your wages will be garnished so that you’ll have just enough to survive but the rest you’ll be paying back for the rest of your life.

Look what’s happening to that cunt Alex Jones, he can’t escape the settlement to the Sandy Hook families by bankruptcy so he’s doing everything he can to hide his income and assets and appeal the judgement.

So you’re suicidal?

Look I’m all for fucking over the corpo bastards but if you’re planning on sacrificing yourself because you truly think an ideal or cause is worth more than your life you’d be better off destroying the backups, blowing up the offices, and Luigi-ing the entire board of directors.

OR find some other way to fuck them over that doesn’t sacrifice your own life.

It will still be made your problem by the judge even if your employer doesn’t recover that money will still end up being paid to the majority shareholders.

That is unless you were planning to live without income or decide not to continue living.

What precisely about your point did I miss?

Until a judge rules that you’ll be paying that back over the rest of your life so every month a large court-orderd chunk of your paycheck will leave your account.

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.

Yeah I feel like when it comes to summer dress for guys it’s basically the shorts & t-shirt outfit accurately depicted in the meme, topless if you’re got the body/don’t-give-a-fuck, or white cotton shirt and trousers that make you look somewhere between wannabe boyband member and British pink-skinned colonist on a gap year.

If people have sensible options outside of that (man-kini does not count) please let us know below.

Where’s my emotional support coupling capacitor? I can’t function without my emotional support coupling capacitor!

Hand drawn PCBs from the 60s: look at my beautiful curved tracks, don’t they just accentuate my thick copper fills?

Any PCB since Gerber: you’ll take my 45 degrees and like it!

Glares at high-speed DAQ electronics and high-frequency analogue sensing circuits

PCB cries in EMI

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Absolutely, as someone who’s interacted with a fair few squaddies, the portrayal of the soldiers is very accurate.

It’s also got some fantastic dark humour and one liners in it;

“They’re not going to fucking fit!”

And

“Leave me spoon, I can’t -”

“No being a hero, you bloody hypocrite!”

And

“I hope I give you the shits!”

If you want a good British horror film:

Dog Soldiers.

A cult classic, it’s got Liam Cunningham (Davos Seaworth from Game of Thrones) and Stewart Pertwee (Alfred in Gotham).

I see the spirit of La Resistancé lives on.

Did god just give up and hit copy-paste for these guys?