JayDee

There's many different types of moneyless economies. Just gonna spitball a couple ancient ones at you.

In a gift economy, individuals will create things and share them amongst the the community. These gifts just keep being given over and over, and not reciprocating a gift eventually leads to poor standing.

In a community stockpile, everyone works together to collect what others need. A group essentially tracks the stockpiling and helps determine how the stockpile should be used, such as in times of low yield.

My understanding is that Marx believed that there'd eventually be a day when people would essentially do group-makes for whatever they needed or wanted. Basically no money or anything - one guy would go "I want this", he and others would volunteer, they'd all work together to design a fabrication process, and then would all make as many of the thing as there were those who wanted it. A completely volunteer process.

Claymore mines are terrifying. Most commonly, though, they are used in large open areas and may be problematic if your home is not rural.

Claymores fire steel balls at a wide 60 degree angle. It's stated that they are guaranteed a kill at 50 meters but can still be dangerous out past 150 meters.

While claymores are often depicted as being laser or tripwire activated, they are most often activated using a clacker detonator held by an operator. They can be rigged to detonate via both electrical and mechanical means, so they can potentially be activated by a variety of methods.

That does make sense.

Why is this news being given by Ukraine's intelligence chief? I would assume we'd get it from another vector.

I think you're attributing more grandeur to Apple's decisions than is warranted.

Apple's iPhone was not the first phone to use a touchscreen - that goes to IBM in the 90s. Apple did produce a PDA the same year with a touchscreen, though it used a stylus-based touchscreen. During that time touch tech was still developing. If you follow the overall evolution of touchscreens, Apple actually deployed its touchscreen phone about as early as they could - probably because every other company was also eyeing making one but were waiting until touchscreens were cheaper and more reliable.

It also was not the first smartphone. Again, that IBM phone with a touch screen also had e-mail capability, a calendar, and various other features, and phones being able to access the web and play games along with various PDA functions was almost standard as we got into the 2000s.

The touchscreen rectangle smartphone was already on the way - Apple just grabbed the bag first.

What Apple consistently does is act brashly by deploying a usually obvious future product before the tech is actually developed enough to fully support it. They then sell it at a stupidly high price which trims off who buys to mostly just futurists with rose-tinted glasses on. It's a very effective strategy to get credit for innovation and leading the future while avoiding bad PR, and it fools massive amounts of people.

Apple is a company that is insanely good at corporate strategy. In fact, if there's anything that Apple has truly pioneered, it's the modern predatory, anti-repair, designed obsolescence fashion-tech environment we currently see.

The battery failing makes sense to me. I imagine that's the easiest thing to replace non-conventionally - especially since you can hand-swap batteries on fairphones. I think it's possible I could find an aftermarket battery of similar parameters.

Past custom ROM support: could I build a linux ROM for it? Is that something reasonable to aim for?

I didn't know you could fix a failed CPU, that's surprising news to hear. What's that usually entail?

Could replacing the memory on the motherboard be possible/feasible with a standard hot-air rework setup?

Recently saw a very interesting video which views Tyler as the real one who creates the narrator to make himself look better.. It's an analysis I have not heard before.

We gotta stop callin them conservatives. These shits are trying to roll things back, not keep it as-is. They're the opposite of progressive: they're regressive.

They are acknowledging the inherent mortality of relationships, and they seem to be doing fine together.

There is always the possibility of shooting yourself in the foot and being too scared of the relationship ending and screwing it up that way, but there's also the possibility of it ending because you ignored the risks and warning signs.

It's about striking a balance, and that balance is gonna be different for each relationship.

Ubermensch schit

Yeah, I suspect most guns are obtained unlawfully via two means: theft and undocumented pass-offs. Part of why serial numbers are removed is so the route by which the gun got to someone is obscured. You have someone willing to lawfully buy firearms or burglarize them, dremmel off the serial numbers so they're harder to trace, then sell it off for whatever at a profit.

Also, I think when they say 'removeable serial number', they are absolutely counting dremmel-able numbers on the body. I could see manufacturers being able to embed a copy of the serial number; either throughout body of the part or inside the body of the part. For example: every printer in the US has a signature of dots it leaves on the copies it prints, which allow that copy to be traced back to that specific printer. That would undoubtedly complicate manufacturing, though. You're going from precision milling some billet to all of sudden having to embed some signature into/onto that billet.

The folly of measuring once.