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Those look like a some kind of arborvitae. They can be trimmed back, but not too far at once. If you part the branches you'll see the greenery is only on the outside of the bush, the inside is bare branches. You can not trim back to the bare branches, they can not sprout fresh foliage there.

I just had to cut down some giant arborvitae at the house we moved into. They had been allowed to grow way too large for the space where they were planted and trimming them back to the needed space would have eliminated nearly all the greenery.

I hated to do it, I helped plant them about 25 years ago, but they were rubbing on the roof and eaves (a bigger variety then you have here) and from on the porch you were just looking into the bare branch interior of the bush.

Right, but they could keep them in a private Library. Shoot, throw them in a tote and stick them in a closet. Deliberately destroying rare books isn't just regular profit motivated evil, it's over the top. I'd say cartoonishly evil if it didn't piss me off so bad. Seriously, are they going to drown bags of puppies next? Burn down an orphanage?

on Sketch similar to soliworks? · c/cad · 1 pts · 14d

If it's a side gig thing you can get a SolidWorks Maker license. $48/year for full SolidWorks, you just can't make more than $2k per year using it. Looks like it's 50% off right now too.

Edit: just realized that is probably what you were talking about when you mentioned the cheap SolidWorks Version. It's very Monday today, sorry.

Most birds are assholes (by mammalian sensibilities), I don't think any amount of training would have made it safe to turn your back on one of them. Wide adoption of mounts that are just waiting for an opportunity to kill and eat you is a tough sell, lol.

on Vroooooom! · c/lemmyshitpost · 12 pts · 16d

Unfortunately the telemetry is not an EV only problem. That's all cars now, and until we make it illegal.

Expect the Slate pickup, they claim.

on It just happens somehow · c/lotrmemes · 4 pts · 19d

I mean, he didnt remeber what his name was until someone addresed him by it. It wouldnt be surprising if a few things got lost permanently after being reembodied.

on [meme] Anon likes bikes · c/fuckcars · 2 pts · 27d

That is interesting! Looks like that table is for passenger transport specifically, not energy per mass. People don't pack nearly as densly in transport as heavy cargo does. Not safely and willingly anyway.

Hmm, what was the term for the audible affect of something traveling over the speed of sound? Sonic whisper? Sonic barely can can hear it?

It is possible though, a private company ironically named Boom had an experimental test flight last year that was supersonic with no audible boom at ground level. Only mach 1.1, but still.

Yeah, modern politics and big corporations can't be adequately explained by stupidity though. At a certain point malice and greed are the only plausible explanations.

In this situation with D Brand, stupidity does seem adequate. It's a lot of stupidity, but definitely not an unbelievable amount, especially since they've been doing similar things without it really biting them in the ass until now.

Although, I guess whether or not it is just a PR stunt there was a certain amount of shadiness happening. Either directed at the public if it was, or intending to make unlicensed profit off of Valve's IP if it wasn't.

Anything is possible, but they announced it very early, made what looks to be a good design, made enough examples to send to a bunch of content creators, and took pre-orders. For the this to be intended to be a PR stunt only, everything would have hinged on Valve sending them a C&D after they did all those things. What if Valve had ignored it? The most simple explanation is usually correct, and never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity, lol.