Dan's Avatar

Dan

@dandwig.bsky.social

40 something Mechanical Engineer. Liberal, scared, and despairing.

133 Followers  |  189 Following  |  3,425 Posts  |  Joined: 27.10.2023  |  1.7596

Latest posts by dandwig.bsky.social on Bluesky

They could always get married.

07.11.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He says he didn’t know when he got it. He learned since, and didn’t cover it up. That, alone, is damning.

03.11.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I also wouldn’t have a problem with it being updated, tastefully. It is a functioning bathroom, after all.

This is not that.

31.10.2025 21:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Venezuela claims CIA 'false flag' attack foiled, as US deploys bombers Venezuela claimed Monday to have dismantled a CIA-financed cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship deployed to the southern Caribbean, as Washington stepped up pressure on Caracas by flying ...

You mean like this? www.yahoo.com/news/article...

(I don't necessarily accept the claim as credible, but I also can't rule it out).

30.10.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know where there’s another representative that can help share the load. Why aren’t you swearing her in?

29.10.2025 12:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly, I find the impact is the dominant sensation, even in mid-winter, the cold isn’t a huge issue.

28.10.2025 05:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I accept 13% total as probably accurate. But they rotated people through, so never 13% at once.

And that ignores the fact that we know they’ve deployed various agents without anything a reasonable person would consider justification.

27.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My understanding is that the correction came from Oregon’s lawyers, found during discovery. So…

27.10.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
John Deere Combine Harvester, parked on a showroom floor.

John Deere Combine Harvester, parked on a showroom floor.

The only real Americans. /s. (And yes, I did pick one specifically without drivers)

27.10.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've been planting native perennials/shrubs in my yard, food plants where possible. Last year, I got a maybe a quart bowl of hazelnuts (Corylus americana). This year, the squirrels found them first. Things go wrong with gardening

23.10.2025 21:51 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But that wouldn't give you the fringe of burnt sugar around the edge. I'm really not sure HOW you achieve this.

23.10.2025 13:48 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Also just noticed that the original graphic is radiation from the blast, specifically. It does not take into account fallout. Exactly how bad that would be depends a lot on the bombs and if they’re set to air or ground burst, but a lot more deaths downwind of every impact.

22.10.2025 15:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Solely the fact that you are responding to a post about a β€œserious” injury, and calling it β€œcritical”
means you have no clue what you are talking about.

The further fact that you think any gunshot wound can’t cause a critical injury means your education on the subject is mostly from movies.

21.10.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remind me which party has universally signed on to release the files? If Bill is in there, he goes to prison too, and that’s good. But he won’t be alone.

21.10.2025 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also brings to mind a minor point about Christianity and the β€œsecond coming”.

20.10.2025 19:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This chart is based on total weight, not payload. A jet is spending half of its energy to transport an empty jet, and a quarter on fuel, so only a quarter on payload. A human walking, even with a pack, is something like 99% payload. That shifts the numbers per payload pound.

20.10.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

From completely unrelated activities: It's a bad idea to have decisions made by people who achieve power by being good at surviving concussions.

17.10.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Unmarked vehicle, no lights or sirens. Rammed the passenger compartment, not a pit maneuver. This is attempted murder.

16.10.2025 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 186    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIn error”, no. β€œWillfull negligence” maybe.

13.10.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The number of times I’ve had to point out that Biden wasn’t in the government when the Hunter laptop story came out…

12.10.2025 18:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Babies aren’t sentient. It takes time to develop. Although I’ll admit I’m really talking about a step under object permanence. A baby may not understand that an apple that isn’t in sight still exists, but they know it’s an apple when it comes back. AI doesn’t. They re analyze every time.

12.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This. The NLRB exists because the alternative was Mine Owners getting their homes burned down. Often with them inside.

11.10.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

She’s doing the right thing on a few votes, and she’s splitting with the cult of personality. But she still believes all the nonsense. We can appreciate where she’s doing right, but she hasn’t changed.

09.10.2025 13:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Because AI doesn’t know what it’s doing. It knows that images described by a certain phrase commonly have this element in one spot, and that element in another. But it doesn’t know what those elements are or why they go there.

07.10.2025 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They have repeatedly failed to speak up on police shootings of civilians where the civilian was legally armed. They care about selling guns, nothing else.

07.10.2025 01:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As near as I can tell, there is no situation where a judge feeling the need to point out to a lawyer that they are an officer of the court is a good thing.

It’s basically making the point that they are failing in their most basic duties.

06.10.2025 03:43 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure what it is, but I think it ate a cybertruck and is wearing it's exoskeleton as a hat.

06.10.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Right to a Jury trial, which they’ve already thrown out in immigration cases, and preventing judges from overriding jury verdicts, which, well, already has some holes, and I’m sure they’re working on the rest.

06.10.2025 00:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Your last sentence is a non-sequitur. Is it possible for true software based AI to exist? Maybe. Does that, in any way, imply that LLMs are true AI? No.

LLMs lack any form of object permanence, including permanence of self.Which is a necessary component of sentience.

05.10.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No, it isn’t. I have a complete understanding of how cars work. I can’t tell you what the path of a particular atom in the cylinder is.

05.10.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@dandwig is following 20 prominent accounts