luddybuddy [comrade/them] @ luddybuddy @hexbear.net

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• The top 1% have 31 times the average wealth
• The 49% below them have 1.37 times the average wealth
• The bottom 50% have 0.04 times the average wealth

(All calculated from the chart itself)

That seems like the top 1% are the bulk of the problem. If our richest had less than double what the poorest have, that would be a pretty good start.

I agree, there are a lot of people in that middle band who are not going to give up their 37% extra wealth, but I’m not sure this point is worth making. I’d rather get the lower half of that middle band to understand that they are not much better protected than those below them, than to tell the bottom band that they have nothing in common with half the country. Let’s draw a new chart with a top 10% or a top 20%, it will make this fight seem more possible.

I just got an email from Nol Collective, a clothing company out of Ramallah, saying every checkpoint is locked down.

It is largely due to seismic requirements, yes. Platform framed wood construction is very good in an earthquake. Brick sucks for seismic, and concrete or concrete block can be good for seismic loading, but is expensive. Concrete might pencil out if you were building apartments, but that’s usually illegal in most parts of a west coast city.

If this were meaningfully true, I think we’d remember that having happened already. If the universe has just as much infinite time before now as after now, I’d already have lived, died, and been born again. If this has happened, and I don’t remember it, what is the use of saying that that person and I are the same?

That one time my sister got diagnosed with ADHD in the same month that I did

Oops, sorry. This outlet is worker owned so I wouldn’t want to bypass that.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C408qdrp9NG/

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.

Cursed

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.

Ugh you’re right I clearly don’t read enough r/AITA

This guy either does not know binary or has a weird idea of what constitutes a child

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.