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raul-pilla··on Birduino: A card-triggered audio player for [learning] the birds
I known a certain person that would love this. Would it be possible to make something similar using Ntag215 tags and a phone app perhaps?
raul-pilla··on X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare)
What a strange thing to say.
raul-pilla··on SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There
Exactly. The root of the decision to suppress political dissent is at the core of the supreme court.
raul-pilla··on SpaceX Pulls Employees from Brazil, Discourages Travel There
>I'm not familiar with some of these accusations

Then you're just guess posting for your ingroup.

raul-pilla··on What the Suburb Haters Don't Understand
Are you aware of the concept of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-trust_and_low-trust_socie...?

As I said, people and business flock to areas where they are welcomed and the limiting factor is money.

raul-pilla··on What Would Society Look Like If Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?
The cultural revolution is a good place to start.

There's a reason society's economic foundation resembles natural selection

raul-pilla··on Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models
The browser is the new OS.
raul-pilla··on What the Suburb Haters Don't Understand
Reading the first few paragraphs gives a vibe that this is purposefully written to bash on suburbs once more. Your takeaway is correct, as city living can be absolutely terrible, it usually is for most people in most cities, the "answer" lies in the middle of the road between downtown and suburb and the "question" is -- as always -- money.

America is in a place where people can actually make it happen as turning a suburb in a 15-min city is much easier than turning an existing city into a livable space that is not a crime-ridden concrete dystopia.

raul-pilla··on What the Suburb Haters Don't Understand
Demographics drive everything we do; no one wants to be close to crime, you don't need a marketing for that: it advertises itself.
raul-pilla··on What Would Society Look Like If Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?
> you need to place the means of production under democratic control

That's a really good way to starve a couple million people. It's quite good to limit the wealth accumulation as well when people are only receiving rations for working from dawn to dusk.

raul-pilla··on An Update on Dianna's Health (Physics Girl) [video]
>Get your boosters people!

Heh. Was that a clever one or am I seeing things?

raul-pilla··on Food Prices Are Soaring Faster Than Inflation and Incomes
So you're a proponent of the "give the fish" and not "teach to fish"? If the supplies flowing to them stop they starve again, so I am not sure you're right.