I don’t know enough about specific kinds of epoxy/glues… but has anything actually been reported as to… is it just the wrong kind of glue? applied improperly? combination of both, and/or other errors?
Given that it affects … basically every cybertruck produced, im guessing its not just one guy or one shift that’s incompetent, and more likely a fundamental manufacturing process/materials problem, management or c suite incompetence.
… many of the body/trim panels… are glued onto the frame.
Not even fasteners of some kind.
Just glue.
Glue which keeps failing so often that basically all cybertrucks have been recalled because … the body / trim panels will fly off on the highway, like an uncovered/unsecured truck load.
I think I agree with you but maybe didn’t explain my stance so well.
Putin and his immediate orbit are … largely, but not entirely, successfully creating a hyperreality for everyone else to live in and experience, they purposefully engage in it as an intentional tactic, to sow confusion and chaos around everything, and then at least project into that chaos that they are stability.
Trump and his immediate circle… are too fucking incompotent to engage in creating a hyperreality as an intentional tactic… in the sense that they actually believe in half of the insane bullshit they throw out into the world, and they are not actually capable of projecting themselves as that island of stability.
Putin and co largely do not live in the hyperreality they create, at least not anywhere near to the extent Trump and co do.
Putin usually knows when he’s lying or promoting an utterly dubious notion.
Of course there are some utter nonsense ideas that Putin seems to truly believe, what with his personal idea of how Russo/Slavic history, and identity actually work, and his initial vast overestimation of the capability of the Russian military.
But Trump… doesn’t even know enough, in most instances, to even know if he is intentionally lying or not.
Trump himself is to a much greater extent, completely lost in the hyperreality he initially created, and can no longer wield it as a political/psychological weapon/tactic with intentionality.
To torture a metaphor:
Trump is lost in the sauce, utterly drowning in it, Putin just has a daily foot bath in the sauce.
My only income is Social Security Disability Income.
I am quite literally having a call with a pro bono lawyer from a non profit law firm that specializes in Social Security matters in a few hours, after having gone through their application process last week.
I am just trying to pre emptively set myself for at least some kind of legal counsel… as it now seems inevitable that I will need one, given the insanity going at Social Security, thanks to Musk and DOGE not being able to understand how any of their databases work, and taking a hatchet to staff headcount and shutting down Soc Sec physical locations.
Its hyperreality, as Adam Curtis shows in his documentary mostly focusing on Putin… but the Trump admin is actually too stupid to realize … that that is what it is, they fell for their own bs, sheltered and curated worldviews because they are so, so skilled at (really, privileged enough to be able to) surrounding themselves with yes men and sycophants and cult members.
I mean, a big element of it is falling for much of Putin’s actually intentionally constructed hyperreality… but the Trump admin and MAGA people are actually too stupid to even been correctly just… generally cynical, and the result is honestly more akin to a 1944/45 Nazi movement that has leaders and followers mostly just still in denial/cognitive dissonance and grandiose cult like faith at the same time.
But the MAGA hyperreality … isn’t centrally planned or directed. Its … basically an accidental consensus of a bunch of idiots screaming different kinds of idiocy into the void loud enough, and the kinda sorta generally agreed on hyperreality is whatever ends up echoing the loudest and most clearly.
They can’t even project stability or competency, even as hollow suits, even as a false but semi-convincing front.
Just go look at the last two weeks ish of public appearances of Trump and his cabinet and Elon.
Half of them are having emotional breakdowns, manic episodes live on air, Hohman, whatever, the DHS goon leading deportations… either he was fucking drunk, or his dentures were falling out of his mouth, a reporter/news host asks him a question and he gives like a 75 word rambling response, maybe 10 of the words actually intelligible.
The inmates are running the asylum.
… Oh well, at least I’ve personally passed through the intense despair and depression phase of knowing this was coming, and am now just laughing at how truly stupid and farsical this all is, and how it is honestly, precisely what Americans deserve for either being idiot cult members, apathetic, or placing their faith in an utterly incompetent Democratic party that just still thinks its 1992, or squabbling over inane idpol differences.
We are apparently actually so stupid, irresponsible and/or more concerned with petty nonsense issues that we are just actually going to have to go through the fire of either overthrowing these malevolent morons, or just acquiesce to all becoming true debt serfs and burn to a crisp.
I’ve been saying that Trump and his ‘ideas’ on tariffs are just… completely, fundamentally broken and self contradictory, at every possible level.
He literally just doesn’t get it, he doesn’t grasp what you’d be taught in AP Macroecon or a first quarter of Macroecon at a college or uni.
Yes, of course, more competent oligarchs can profit from an engineered economic collapse…
But Trump and his immediate orbit are literally too stupid to understand why what they are doing won’t work the way they think it will.
These idiots are very largely at the peak of the dunning kruger confidence vs actual knowledge curve, right before you fall off into the abyss of ‘oh shit this is actually really conplicated and i am a moron.’
Of course, they’ll never admit they are morons or were ever wrong, they’ll just keep lying, misdirecting, and inventing new insane conspiracy theories with secret enemies thaf explain why they failed
Yep, I forgot that one.
They can either do very basic pre planned routines, or they’re controlled by guys in VR helmets and gloves.
Basically he remade Asimo from the late 90s with modern tech and materials, he is literally decades behind Boston Dynamics, hasn’t innovated anything.
I only have a single gripe with the steam deck:
The way your thumbs work on the trackpads.
Basically… if you use your pointer finger, as if they were laptop touch pads… they work 100%, super great.
But… when you use your thumb… the angle your thumb is at functionally offsets your ability to go beyond about 80 to 90 % of the input register of the left edge of the right pad, or right edge of the left pad.
This means edge spinning (analagous to holding a joycon max in a direction for max rotation speed) seems greatly lessened on those sides, and it seems like a right thumb can turn faster to the right than to the left.
What valve needs to do is add another config option that basically allows you to… not just resize the extent of the ‘edge’ zone, but to recenter it, to actually shift it left and right, possibly up and down as well.
Theres nothing wrong with the hardware, and it works perfectly when your finger is perpendicular to a pad, but it does this weirdness when using your thumb, at an angle, unless you have very spindly thumbs with a very claw like grip.
But other than that, vanilla DX runs pretty well on a Deck, and oh I forgot to mention Revision adds in more support for different resolutions and HUD scaling.
Awesome!
Send this to the Dropkick Murphys.
Seriously.
Worst outcome is they don’t respond.
Best outcome is we get a new celtic punk power ballad.
You know what you have to do now.
Hehe!
If you have the Steam version, the Deus Ex Revision mod is basically now the de facto megamod that includes a whole bunch of the most popular mods and more, with a whole whole bunch of toggleable mix and match options.
But you can admit you were duped.
So, so many people are so vain and/or insecure that they will defend to basically their own deaths in some cases… that no, actually every decision they’ve ever made was good or great, and they never needed to learn anything, they’ve never been deceived.
Seriously, kudos to you for being able to admit you made a mistake, and then remedied it.
Also very good ones.
I’ll throw in one more: At one point he went on an arc or ‘era’ on Twitter of using Deus Ex avatars and memes.
He thinks he is JC, when in reality, he’s a more pathetic, attention seeking and far less competent Bob Page.
He is the ultimate poser, and I hope he crash lands on Mars and never comes back.
… what do you want to bet he never even realized you can save Paul?
Howabout SolarCity?
Totally fradulent demonstration.
Hyperloop?
Laughably stupid in concept, Musk pretends he invented the idea… he did not. Never amounted to anything, other than its actual real purpose: setting back high speed rail in California by a decade +.
Neuralink?
Hired the assistant to an actual pioneer in the field, possibly illegally replicated his work, proceeds to torture a bunch of pigs and monkeys to death, most of the original team bails, and currently has produced a brain implant that is no better than, and may actually be worse than existing brain implants designed to help parapalegics and those with serious nervous system disorders, etc.
Rewriting history to pretend he actually founded Tesla?
Saying he’s going to put cold gas thrusters in Teslas to make flying cars?
The Tesla Semi being a shitshow of false promises that were not delivered on?
All of the insane nonsense around BFR, now Starship+Superheavy?
Oh yeah, I’m still waiting to catch my reusable ICBM trip from Seattle to Tokyo, where the ICBM will be ready to go again in 2 hrs.
Starlink sats fail at such a high rate they are now about 90% of all known orbital debris that could endanger aircraft or the ground.
Starting out saying AI is a potential grave threat, being a skeptic, then suddenly doing an aboutface when maybe he can make more money by … doing exactly what he’d warned against, barreling forward, developing it without extreme caution?
He’s been an obvious con artist for at least half a decade now, more like a solid decade, purely from anyone just looking at his actual ‘business acumen’, ignoring all of his personal views or opinions of a political nature.
… But he developed a cult of personality around him, a whole bunch of emasculated, aggreived male dorks looking for the dork messiah, just believing Elon was personally the man who would transform today into the tomorrow of our dreams from the 80s and 90s.
Very few people actually stopped to check if his math actually mathed, and when they did check, and found it to be very, very sketchy at best… well Elon’s fanboys and bot armies harassed them mercilessly.
It is a condemnation of the general public, all society, that it took until Elon just overtly became a goddamned supervillain Nazi Lex Luthor President for the general sentiment toward Elon to actually go negative.
Not directly DARE, but pretty close.
… It’s probably a good thing the F35 is not in Warthunder.
Are you implying a massive company would collaborate with a government to build hidden backdoors into its computer hardware?!
Pshaw!
Oops, turns out your purchased 100 million dollar jet aircraft is uh, reliant on DRM to function, guess you should have read the fine print.
If you have any complaints, please contact our support line at 1800FUCKYOU.
Yeah, you are right that it could just be a coincidence, and the image is based off of an actual corpse… but it could also be intentionally altered off of the actual real world source image to extentuate the seeming stoppage of the burn damage to stop roughly where the mask/faceplate/helmet segments are.
It is commonly believed that CPs never receive any actual augmentation… but I don’t think there is actually any evidence for that within the actual, mainline, canon games.
They are offered ‘non mechanical reproduction simulation’ as a reward for completing their tasks, by the Overwatch voice.
Ok… so… what would that be? A drug or digital/virtual sex simulation? It depends on what exactly ‘mechanical’ means.
Contextually, it could mean ‘involving a machine’, which could mean some kind of weird, combine grown/made, organic version of a fleshlight is offered to them… or it could mean ‘involving mechanics’, where the physics oriented definition of mechanics is … basically as broad as any physical action.
So… if it is a drug that makes you climax, I suppose that could be administered without augmentation. If it is virtual/digital… well that could be just watching porn thats … so good it gets you off with no ‘mechanical’, ie, physical stimulation… or it could make use of some kind of brain-computer-interface, which would be an augmentation, though a minor one by the standards of the HL2 universe.
They are also encouraged to get a full memory wipe as a step toward possible more extensive augmentation into an OW. This could imply that their memories/personalities have already been modified in some way.
We never see a CP take off their mask, beyond Barney, who is obviously a spy/mole/double agent.
Barney’s CP mask is also noticabley larger than all the other CP head/mask models… so that the entirety of his head can actually fit inside it. Could just be minor, unimportant technical detail… could also imply his helmet/mask is custom made, and other CPs heads are… actually altered.
There’s no models of CPs with their mask/helmets partially removed or damaged, afaik.
There’s no evidence that a CP can… ever actually go off duty, return to their family… they are just threatened with the seperation/relocation/destruction of their family should they fail.
All that means is they signed up with the idea that their families would be protected. Maybe they knowingly sacrificed themselves for their families… maybe they unknowingly signed up, thinking they could return to their families one dah, and uh oops, stop-loss is now in effect, forever, you can never go back.
So as I see it, there is 0 actual evidence the CPs are wholly non-augmented, and there is slight, non-conclusive evidence that they may actually be just slightly augmented.
The way I see it is that CPs are slightly augmented, and basically just get more augmented as they progress toward becoming some other, more specialized OW soldier, or the various types of Combine soldiers in HL Alyx.
I admit that is an extrapolation, but at the same time, I don’t think there is actually any concrete evidence that CPs are wholly unaugmented, just humans wearing a fancy suit.
If you can point out some hard evidence that I’ve missed that postivively indicates the CPs are wholly unaugmented, I’d appreciate the correction.
My face when the Combine roll up:
Notice how the … dermis is stripped off, right up until about the area the faceplate of a CP/OW stops, and connects into the rear/neck part of their headgear?
This guy is either a dead, former CP/OW, or an early attempt at making a human into a CP/OW that… didn’t work out so well.
… This is basically confirmed in HL Alyx, you can find some OW with… very similarly fucked up faces.
Once the mask goes on… taking it off will almost certainly kill you.
Yeah, asterisk to indicate multiplication is much, much more common amongst coders.
… And script kiddie DOGE interns.