This question is a bit too broad to get the answers you may want.

Here’s what I think we need to know to give the best answers:

• What general industry are you working in?
• How ‘bleeding edge’ is the research?
• Are you really pushing the envelope with new untested ideas, or just innovating incrementally around market-tested concepts?
• Is the R&D for a totally new company or is it occurring within an established company?
• What expenses are absolutely required, including labor, capital and operational costs? Do you need just a pen and paper and someone to use them? Or do you need a multi-billion semiconductor fab?

I’m in love with Stanford Beer and his saying “The purpose of a system is what it does”.

So yes, if most of us are depressed and anxious then that is what the system is for.

Well, they have effectively compartmentalized the damage to canon with the rift stuff.

Without spoiling too much, let’s just say I agree with Cool Boimler on this one.

Still it’s a fun romp and I like the riffs and easter eggs. Give us more!

Here’s how I think about it lately.

Just because society is falling apart, that doesn’t mean my social life needs to suck.

Nothing ever ends really, not until the last hominid gasps her last breath (and even then evolution may try again with other uplift eligible species).

Someone is going to live through this great upheaval. I predict it will be those who can build and keep good real-life networks of family, friends and general acquaintances.

Let it all burn down. I will sit by the fire with those in whom I see the image of the beloved.

Thank you. I chose to do it this way to allow others with different fundamental takes to start different conversations on the topic. This is a confusing time and I want to hear it all on this subject.

I posted this because I am personally invested in the idea that we, the people, must become our own media.

We know we cannot rely on corporate owned media to work in our collective interests. Yet they will remain because they are useful to the ruling class.

I know lemmy is full of special people ;) but I have been impressed by the level of media savvy on display.

How do we improve the quality of our information diets in the face of blatant propaganda? It has become so obvious to many people, now.

Mr Buttle, I’m here to install your new ducts!

I do not accept homework assignments at this time.

I’m too busy shitting on rich people.

Because PSL does not seek to get people elected, I question their usefulness as a revolutionary force.

PSL brands themselves as a political party. The only purpose of a political party is to get people elected. The track record there speaks for itself.

Exactly!

Then it’s a dumb revolution. No new human system can arise that doesn’t use remnants of the old. Observe the current revolution happening in the united states. The MAGA fuckers are putting their cronies into positions everywhere, with the clearly stated purpose of destroying our current system.

A revolution that envisions a clean start untainted by what came before is the revolution of a naive child.

I have to agree I find PSL disappointing. In their long history they don’t seem to have put even a dog catcher into elected office.

Colorado has a good set of policies that support consistent and long term public funding of outdoor recreation, such as trails and parks. The level of connectivity among local and regional trail systems is very good and always improving.

Lkke Kleenex and Xeroxes for tissues and photocopies, DnD is now the generic term for tabletop analog RPGs. All the wizards of the coastal AND land-locked regions can suck on that fact.

SafeRent was a giant piece of shit before “AI”. I tried to rent a place 15 years ago that used them. The report returned several serious felonies committed over years by another person with an only vaguely similar name who lived in a state I had never even visited.

The leasing office people admitted that the report was transparently bogus, but they still had orders to deny all housing to negative reports.

My only recourse at the time was to lock my record so they won’t issue reports in my name at all. I now ask right up front who a renter uses for screening and they get a vigorous ‘nope’ if they use SafeRent.

Fsck SafeRent!

I’m such a prude about this kind of thing. I have plenty of miles on my sex-odometer but still can’t or won’t do the degradation-talk thing.

A friend and I were trying to find a new song to work on performing together. We found a good sound with “Piss up a rope” by Ween, but I just couldn’t get any vocal punch on the line that advises the big booty beyatch to commence sucking. Like my autonomic nervous system wouldn’t let my diaphragm work properly.

Yet I am filthy in my casual speech among friends? It’s not speaking of sex acts that make me go cold, it’s specifically the degradation talk that my whole system seems to rebel against.

My poor lovers, it’s probably like receiving kind and gentle directions to perform filthy acts on my body directly from Fred Rogers.

Mr Waturi is the unsung hero of that film. As a supporting actor, he nailed the tone of the film by personifying the rank stupidity of corporate thinking.

He can definitely do the job.

Also a fair point. My devices did not need to last indefinitely and I found the gaffer tape to be very forgiving when prototyping, allowing removal and replacement as I worked out the kinks.

I’m living on an old farm with lots of junk.

So naturally I am building an 8 foot tall wind-driven kinetic sculpture of a Wendigo.

I bought a welder and a cutoff saw. All the materials are retrieved from the trash gully that every respectable high desert property must have.

It’s a form of cope and even ritual magic for me. Embody the spirit of hoarding and greed so it is vulnerable and can be imprisoned, that sort of vibe.

It will take all winter to finish it. The rebar armature is flexible and bobs in the wind. I will add sun bleached oak branches to give it flesh.

I recommend you try gaffer tape instead of duct tape.

Advantages:

• Remains flexible and removable forever.
• Looks nicer, a cool matte black or manynother colors.

Where I get off making this recommendation:

I needed a light-excluding bellows for a photographic project. I made one using black illustration stock and gaffer tape. It worked extremely well on the first version and held up to hundreds of cycles of extension/compression. My application was sensitive to pinhole light leakage and there was none.

It would have lasted longer but that was the end of that project.

My two cents. I love DIY stuff!