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Presumably because you are a different person to me and the vast majority of my students (seriously, canvas is the #1 source of complaints across the entire university. Every quarter complaints about canvas make up more than all other complaints put together. Parking, dorms, admissions, everything dwarfed by canvas woes). IDK how you can stand using it, but I’m glad you’re able to be content with it.
There’s way too many for me to list them all and that’s just some random site; but Blackboard is a decent all-rounder from the instructor side of things but sucks bcz proprietary. Personally I’ve been having pretty decent engagement with OpenLMS which is based off Moodle, but OpenEDX is also getting popular. Google classroom does suck, no argument, and Blackboard is corpo garbage with a slick UI so I can’t really recommend it beyond “steal the UI”.
Moodle is great if your IT group can support it though - super customizable and doesn’t require the collection of obnoxious amounts of student info like with the alternatives. A little less robust but still much less rigid and soul-suckingly tedious compared to canvas.
You are in the minority opinion there. Had you had exposure to any other LMS or group collaboration tools prior to canvas?
Huh. So the miserable UI, constant feature reversion, nightmare that is support, lack of integration tools and the historical total lack of action on reported security issues…?
Have used canvas for years. Canvas is just shitty software, and Instructure are utter bastards to anyone that aren’t mormon and have gotten some incredibly shady contracts to force wide adoption. They’re awful, and this breach just hilights their shit practices.
Neat that their software is available under aGPL tho, that really matters.
oh I fucking TOLD THEM SO god canvas is just the WORST.
Unfortunately because of how ultrasonic transducers work you need an extremely rigid connection between it and the blade - otherwise it’s like having a spring between the two and it completely negates the benefits of being ultrasonic. The easiest way to get that connection is just to weld the blade directly to the transducer. In a consumer application like this, where you’re compromising on basically every aspect in order to fit the form-factor, the losses from a swappable blade would almost entirely negate the benefits of the system.
In short, to have even the moderately functional product they’ve got, there’s no way for them to have swappable blades. The system just won’t be powerful enough to compensate for the losses.
Okay? Kinda hostile take for a stupid consumer product. It’s literally just a transducer with a base station instead of a battery, that’s the only difference besides a flashy case.
This is the most common handheld style, there’s all kinds of different blade shapes depending on application (god this company has poisoned the search results. SEO is a plague…) https://www.knmsonic.com/handheld-ultrasonic-food-cutter/
Ultrasonic knives have been a thing in commercial kitchens for decades, I wonder where they get off claiming to be the worlds first US chef’s knife…
That thread does not appear to have been purged, though? It’s still there, as are quite a few other heavily downvoted comments. That one comment specifically was removed recently.
If we’re being charitable, there is perhaps an argument to be made that showcasing such a reprehensible comment getting ratio’d that hard helps to reinforce the community ethos of opposition to that sort of sentiment (“if you’re going to punch a nazi, film it so everyone can see the positive reaction to punching nazis”). However it’s a moot point now; while it did linger, that comment was removed a few hours before you called it out here.
They moderate a mental health meme comm, a community for fan theories with five posts all from more than a year ago, and a community that documents the collapse of society under capitalism… what about those demonstrate a high amount of tolerance for zionists?
As Lisa Friedman reported: “China, India and Russia are not attending. Nor are Saudi Arabia or other Gulf nations whose economies depend on oil and gas.”
Pretty based move. The most impacted by climate change are all small nations; banding together against the superpower states is going to be critical for survival.
These are all great and ty for writing it up! I just want to pile on about this point:
What’s stopping them now? There’s lots of copper in the street lamps and various equipment at a store. The answer is that the copper isn’t easy to access. It would take someone way too much time to get any substantial amount of copper from the wires so long as the run back is protected. They would need to rip apart each panel to get to it.
Nothing is stopping them now. Wire theft is a huge problem and mitigation of the risk is a constraint on any commercial electrical installation. It’s so pervasive that street lamps dont use copper wire anymore; they mostly use aluminum wires, so that people don’t have as much of a reason to lop them over and loot the wiring (they do one, discover it’s not copper and then skedaddle instead of doing the whole row). People absolutely can and do steal wiring, all the time (meth makes you so productive)
Restricted access is the only real way we have to deal with this (besides keeping lines energized - yes, horrifyingly that’s a very common technique). A couple cameras and a few hundred a month to a monitoring service to keep an eye out for anyone inside the fence is kinda the only option. l-ion angle grinders man, they’re a problem.
An aside: Carport solar exists, which is basically what people mean when discussing this topic. Unfortunately it’s more or less greenwashing. They do technically work but I haven’t seen one yet that wasn’t severely limited in functionality due to the site and stylistic requirements. They’re no “Solar Freakin Roadways” or anything, but they’re not nearly as useful as the marketing hype would have you believe. They’re large, extremely rigid structures that require drainage accommodation and are very prone to damage due to the nature of the location.
You’re also going to have a large energized transmission network running over an area with extremely high foot and vehicle traffic - The low electrocution risk could absolutely be mitigated (unless there’s damage, which is an inevitability for any equipment installed in a parking lot) but that’s not going to be a problem because the entire electrical system is going to be ripped out by a junkie before there’s a chance for anyone to get hurt…
Then there’s also the additional complexity required to clean elevated panels like that, the difficulty in maintenance, complication to firefighting, the list of logistical issues goes on.
There’s a middle ground though, which is to simply dedicate the lowest utilization portion of large parking lots to instead house standard ground solar installations. This is being done successfully in many places, as parking lot utilization is down across pretty much every commercial category post-covid so it’s an easy decision to make (especially in locations like dying malls) and commercial buildings often have very robust grid infrastructure already and underground utility conduits (for things like the lights in parking lots). They’re about the ugliest way to site a solar facility, but so much better than a parking lot…
Start torturing the kids ourselves!
… not that much of a joke, actually. My mother has been seriously looking into something along those lines; setting up a “honeypot” gay/trans conversion therapy camp. The general idea being to teach the kids how to keep themselves safe while helping set them up with a pathway to emancipation and a support structure they can call on, but under the guise of “we’ll get your kid to stop using those weirdo pronouns just send them here for free”. Maybe we can start convincing the chuds that there’s a magical shot that cures wokeness and just don’t mention that it’s E/T…
I am wheezing, thank you for this.
I was pretty sick the first time I saw this episode as a teen - all I really remember is they stepped onscreen in those outfits and I spent the next five minutes laughing so hard I started coughing up blood then passed out. My god, the costume design on this one still brings a tear to my eye, what were they thinking.
Holy shit, twokinds is still going?? I remember reading this in middleschool… That’s awesome!