🍉Daniel "Drex" Drexler🏳️‍🌈

X? Oh you mean Xfinity / Comcast. I'm talking about Twitter.

This kind of scenario is why I never signed up with Google Fi as well. Generally you are fine but if there's billing issues you can lose all access to your account. The risks of being caught in an automated system are quite high.

@JohnTeufelNYC The way I explain this is that we live in a world with a surplus of resources needed to make things "work". So most arguments are about how to allocate the excess, which is deeply political (and also if we can make it work for cheaper)

One of the weirdest tics of centrism is pretending people don't have actual ideological differences, that everyone is a technocrat who just wants things to "work." I assure you that talking politics with essentially anyone for longer than 1 minute will cure this delusion.

(me): so we bundle instructions and data together into “cache lines” to improve efficiency (medieval peasant): wouldst thou not fear false idols when fetching from yon predictive oracle? (me): well, yeah. that’s why we invented “speculative execution” (peasant, trembling): and when this prophecy fails? (me): then we must perform “branch misprediction recovery,” restoring the righteous state (peasant, grimly): truly, thou art plagued by thy hubris, courting divine retribution with each cycle

Every two sentences of this is a golden era Dril tweet

BREAKING: The Tenth Angel, Sahaquiel, has just appeared over New York City Reached for comment, Mayor Mamdani had this to say: “A strong AT Field is developed in a child’s most formative years, which is why I’m pleased to announce: Free childcare for all NERV employees.”

A $2.5 billion robot has been alone on another planet for 13 years and is still doing science. The scale of that sentence gets worse the longer you think about it. Curiosity landed in August 2012. Obama was president. Instagram had 80 million users. The iPhone 5 hadn’t shipped yet. The rover was designed for a two-year mission and 20 kilometers of driving. It’s now driven 35.5 kilometers, climbed over 327 meters up the side of a mountain, drilled 46 holes into Martian rock, and is currently running its fifth mission extension. The computer running all of this has 256 MB of RAM and a 200 MHz processor. Your AirPods have more computing power. Every command sent from Earth takes 14 minutes to arrive. Every photo sent back takes the same 14 minutes. When Curiosity drills into a rock, the team in Pasadena won’t know if it worked for half an hour. They’ve been operating on that delay, every single day, for 4,846 Martian sols. The power source is 10.6 pounds of plutonium-238 generating about 110 watts. Less than a ceiling fan. It will keep producing electricity for decades because the half-life of Pu-238 is 87.7 years. The rover will run out of moving parts before it runs out of power. And those wheels. Machined from single blocks of aluminum, 0.75 millimeters thick. Half a dime. JPL watched them get shredded by Martian rock starting in 2013, rerouted the entire mission path, taught the rover to drive backwards, and kept going. The wheels look like they lost a fight with a can opener. The rover is still climbing a mountain. Every iPhone you’ve owned since 2012 is in a landfill. Curiosity is on Mars, 140 million miles from the nearest repair shop, running on a ceiling fan’s worth of nuclear power, sending data through a 14-minute time delay, on shredded wheels, doing geology that rewrites what we know about whether life ever existed somewhere other than Earth. We built that. With 0.01% of the federal budget.

@CantEverDie THIS is the dumb hill I will die on. I read their presentation - it's a hard problem! NYC trash is a whole thing! I am sure they charged too much and they suck but sometimes you want some capitalist vampires to drip in and sort out how you are going to manage your garbage.

neoliberals will tell you that it was worth 22 million dollars to have mckinsey tell you that in order to solve the trash situation in new york you need trash bins

They’re implementing Operation Don’t Siege Leningrad Take It Immediately

@JohnJabronriiii @kalasevsky The mistreatment of the Uyghurs is well documented. If you don't believe in the repression, then you believe in the reported terrorist activities (the CPC justification for the camps). So actually it seems like you do think the Uyghurs are militant desert rebels? Pick a lane.

@stsDrex @kalasevsky They’re both Muslim and that’s the extent of the similarities, which makes the comparison pretty racist. Unless of course you believe the “Uyghur genocide” myth and are imagining them as militant desert rebels. The reality is their culture is vibrant and flourishing in China.

No, it’s fine, I just didn’t expect Liet-Kynes to be Chinese

a year ago when my package was not only eaten but the delivery driver prolly watched it get eaten and jus reported it instead of intervening

@JohnJabronriiii @kalasevsky Care to say more...?

@stsDrex @kalasevsky No, on so many levels

Don't worry, it will only be like one of the most brutal battles of World War II

I dunno if this is one of my top tweets because I don't think it does too much with the medium - but it's def a top overall meme because it's so easily and effectively repurposed for other situations.

Some of us don't need to get this DM as we've already had a Plex setup for years at this point.

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