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A little over a decade ago I worked for a company that designed and fabricated stonework for buildings. Not just anyone can clad their house in marble, so I wound up interacting with some very wealthy people. I can’t say who, because they’re still just as wealthy and powerful and I’m about to shit all over them. I came away from the experience with much less respect for them afterwards. They essentially have no interaction with ordinary people at all. They don’t do anything for themselves, and they don’t engage with the real world. It’s no wonder they lack empathy and only act in their own self-interest. The real world is an abstract concept to them, I doubt they think about any of us as being real people.

I was raised dirt poor, like food insecure and periodically unhoused poor. The guy I interacted with was literally a billionaire and had always been a billionaire. His staff treats him like a noble lord, and they buffer him from nearly any circumstance that would lead to him experiencing reality. One perk of being a white guy with good diction and vocabulary is that you can hide your low-class upbringing. Put me in some decent clothes and they’ll assume I’m from a similar background and speak more openly. The conversations were disturbing. The things they said about poor people, my people, were horrible. They think about us like animals if they think about us at all. I had to sit there and smile the whole time.

Even before he became a political figure, he could have had the entire LAPD at his house within moments of the first sign of trouble. It’s not like the french revolution. They have a modern army that is well trained to deal with large groups. They’ve had lots of practice. We can’t just roll up on him with a guillotine in the back of our truck and expect to actually prevail.

My experience at that job radicalized me somewhat and drove from me any lingering desire I might once have had to obtain wealth. I do not want to live in that world. I want to unmake that world.

people are rarely able to harm the person that harmed them, because the power imbalance is what facilitated the harm to begin with. The axe forgets, the tree remembers. Getting through the multiple layers that insulate the upper class from consequences is an uphill battle and it’s fought on many fronts. most of these fronts you’ll never see because the upper class prefers it that way. It’s a long war with many individual engagements. but this is always the goal.

“youtuber” and “still uses twitter exclusively” hmmmmmmmmmm. lol.

Please do! I think logic is a really under rated part of the game. If you have a mind for it you can make some really amazing things. I’d love to see more people doing it, which is why I started making these videos.

Sure, you can use a circuit like this to create a one way door, so if you’re building a puzzle box base you can control the players movements through it so they can only go forward and not backward, . You can use the concepts in this circuit in any situation where you’d like to introduce a time delay of a specific length, which is vital for complicated builds like shooting galleries and pinball machines. So, say you had an array of targets, and you need them to stay lit for a limited time while the player shoots at them, you’d use a variation of this circuit to do that. You can also use this circuit any time you need one action to follow another action in sequence. For example, say you’re building an airlock, you want the inner door to open a few seconds after the outer door has closed, you would put a circuit like this between the two doors. Closing the outer door starts the timer, then there is a short delay (you could even add some hissing airlock sound effects during the delay) then the inner door would open. Here are two videos of these examples… https://youtu.be/RpaBZaA47GA https://youtu.be/npzqULt4D6w

Yeah, that’s what I figured. I’d heard that a lot of europe lacks warm weather infrastructure and most homes lack the basic air conditioning that is ubiquitous here in the US. I don’t see a lot of fixes for that.

yeah, 104 a spring day in bakersfield California. But we have AC and stuff. if they’re not used to those temps they might not be prepared for it

without wire interactivity i rarely build on ship, because it gets real hard to see the point of doing it if I can’t make anything cool

Fantastic. If you need help with the logic, that’s kinda my bag. I’d love to see more players diving into logic.