ChiefDelphi Problems

Looked at CD for the first time in a while and it's like, all the "everything's on fire" memes while a large robotics supplier/company is actively shooting themselves in the kneecaps continuously. It's almost as bad as Twitter right now

FIRST Robotics: bastion of inclusivity and acceptance, Gracious Professionalism, etc etc etc Also FIRST Robotics:

@FIRSTMidAtl 🙏

The @FIRSTMidAtl DCMP stream out here trying to make me cross-eyed 🤣

Interesting to learn from watching events new referee interpretations of rules, such as contact within frame perimeter only counts if the contact is initiated with an intake/appendage and not, say, driving your robot on top of an opponent

That said @RoboSportsNet the real MVP on streams and TBH one of the best things to happen to FIRST events in the last 5 years

One thing COVID hasn't helped with is the fact that I have to close the chat on FIRST event streams because of all the people in chat critiquing top tier teams about stuff like they could do it better

Three days later, and a post about a now-defunct satire blog has transformed into...

And three hours later, the post has devolved into personal drama because of some unnecessary posting... #summerCD y'all

RIP to @MentorBuilt, we will miss this institution in the FRC community

Welcome to summer CD, where debating whether a song with potentially (definitely) racist connotations should be banned from playing at events (it should) gets locked because people can't be civil on the internet (shocker) chiefdelphi.com/t/first-its-ti…

Using only a GIF – how are you feeling about #INFINITERECHARGE? #omgrobots #2020Kickoff #thehypeisreal #timeismovingSLOWLY buff.ly/2MjNY3D

Terrific thread on linguistic gate keeping and the joy and empathy of using common language to be inclusive. Thank you!

@WmLeverette @LibbysBoxofSass ‘Shopped

I would go skid-steer if it meant we never needed another one of these.

Since I'm still ticked off, some more statistics: So far in 2019 there have been 33 incidents in schools. Last year was an all time high of 97. The second highest was 2006 where there was 59. As someone who volunteers with students, these statistics scare me beyond belief.

Some stats: 6 students have been killed since the start of 2019. 56 that were killed in grades K - 12 in 2018. There hasn't been a year where someone didn't die by gun violence since 1970 (maybe before then) While my thoughts are with @Frc4418, I understand this is not enough.

@WmLeverette I put Battlebots as an option. Apparently everyone wants to do FRC, not combat...

SCIENCE SAYS y'all mentors wanna build the robots but not drive them. We can't do the "mentor built" championship if the mentors don't do everything! It's the only way