Digital letters of marque ought to be a thing.
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This goes both ways (old to young and reverse), but family goes before politics. You don't cut out, or disown, or stop visiting, or badmouth family because you disagree with their politics...
If you do so, you were a shitty relative to begin with.
It depends, if the political take is sufficiently shitty it’s a betrayal of your morals, friends etc to continue to associate with your family spouting it.
Typically that has to be some extreme form of bigotry people won’t let go of after repeated coaching. Extreme bigotry or conspiracy thinking is arguably a form of abuse directed at other family members and it’s 100% ok to cut people off for being abusive.
I’ll comment before this inevitably gets flagged.
Federal agents intimidating a sitting governor is an affront to the United States federal system. Anyone failing to protest this only reveals they have no actual allegiance to federalism and only ever view it as a useful tool to bang on when they are not in power in Washington.
We are in deeply dangerous waters as a country.
I've been buying from Goulet for years, but lately their service has taken a major nosedive. I recommend people stay away from them now.
The last pen I received from them was broken. They would not take it back, asked me to deal with the manufacturer directly. Horrible customer service. After so many expensive pens (Pelikan, Pilot and Visconti), I won't be buying from them again.
Potential buyers should also be aware the fountain pen community on Reddit has soured massively on Goulet.
In addition to deteriorating service and slow shipping concerns compared to alternatives, there’s a view that purchasing from the company directly funds anti-LGBTQ owners and organizations. The owners cofounded a branch of a church whose pastor made wildly anti-LGBTQ remarks. The response to the controversy was not well handled by the Goulets (essentially radio silence then an highly misleading statement). The controversy came around the same time a well beloved podcast employee Drew was fired.
There was also the prior controversy with Noodler’s Inks and the Gaulet’s rehabilitating him after anti-Semitic imagery was placed for a second time on his bottles.
Because so much of the original megathread was deleted (whole lot of subreddit moderation drama occurred because of this incident) I’m linking a later summary for those curious.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fountainpens/comments/1heveiu/the_2...
generj commented on AV1@Scale: Film Grain Synthesis, The Awakening netflixtechblog.com/av1-s... · Posted by u/CharlesW
> I sometimes do something similar on photos, where I darken the edges a bit.
Which is also an emulation of the shortcomings of older/worse technology.
Not necessarily, there are still lenses being produced today with vignetting, especially wide open.
Avoiding vignetting is a trade off between complexity, cost, weight, and other optical flaws. That said modern optical design and manufacturing has made it a lot easier to have nearly flawless (clinical) designs.
generj commented on SpaceX Ship 36 RUDs During Testing youtube.com/watch?v=WKwWc... · Posted by u/codewiz
Worse for SoaceX than losing StarShip, I think the pad is lost.
Ground Support Equipment is often harder to replace or rebuild than rocket stages.
Technically, Toyota doesn’t use 6sig, and when you say they are moving away from it, what do you mean? Because I would be deeply amused (and shocked) if the Muda, Muri people would be giving up on quality control.
Idk about Toyota moving away from Kaizen, but they certainly have moved away from JIT. Toyota pioneered Just In Time (JIT) part inventory which dramatically lowers inventory costs and makes balance sheets look far more attractive.
What Toyota realized in 2011 due to the Fukushima disaster however is that this completely fails for computer chips because the pipeline is too long. So they kept JIT for steel, plastic parts etc but for microcontrollers, power supply chips, etc they stockpile large quantities.
generj commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
This made me wonder what the tariffs will do to private jets and if the 100% write off for them just includes everything or if there is more nuance there.
I’ve heard private jets goers barely get bothered with customs - I’m curious how much smuggling starts happening via them.
generj commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
That's a really cute way to describe a deliberate fabrication of intelligence in an effort to unseat an elected President of the United States.