The AI-generated cat pictures thread
Boost Czar
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Chantilly, VA
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conspiracy theorist saying hi:
This is how Ford envisions the future:
If someone lags behind in his payment, the smart-car constantly sends annoying notifications to the smartphone, calls police or drives itself to the nearest junkyard if repossession is not profitable.
Prior to this, it will take milder measures, like blocking radio, navigation, a/c, preventing ignition or locking out the owner altogether.
Ford is kind enough to allow the use of the vehicle in case of medical emergencies though, as long as the owner provides proof remotely through the vehicle's cameras.
just buy an EV.
This is how Ford envisions the future:
If someone lags behind in his payment, the smart-car constantly sends annoying notifications to the smartphone, calls police or drives itself to the nearest junkyard if repossession is not profitable.
Prior to this, it will take milder measures, like blocking radio, navigation, a/c, preventing ignition or locking out the owner altogether.
Ford is kind enough to allow the use of the vehicle in case of medical emergencies though, as long as the owner provides proof remotely through the vehicle's cameras.
just buy an EV.
Boost Pope
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
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We're probably all familiar with the phrase "tin-foil hat."
Despite the fact that cooking foil hasn't been made from tin since the late 1940s, we all understand the basic concept of a paranoid person covering their head with metal foil, in order to block some perceived ray from entering their brain. Government mind-control satellite beams, 5G Covid waves, etc...
Well, leave it to free-market capitalism to make the tin-foil hat stylish:
These folks have a whole line of EMR-blocking clothing. Hats, underwear, shirts...
Despite the fact that cooking foil hasn't been made from tin since the late 1940s, we all understand the basic concept of a paranoid person covering their head with metal foil, in order to block some perceived ray from entering their brain. Government mind-control satellite beams, 5G Covid waves, etc...
Well, leave it to free-market capitalism to make the tin-foil hat stylish:
These folks have a whole line of EMR-blocking clothing. Hats, underwear, shirts...
Boost Pope
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Location: Chicago. (The less-murder part.)
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Had a bit of an Erat moment yesterday afternoon.
This is up on the 3rd floor, just above the main rack room. A pressure relief valve on a 2" hot water pipe... relieved. And then stayed in the "relieved" position. This is after the building engineers got that section of the line isolated and started pumping out the water. Guessing that several hundred gallons of very hot glycol-water mixture made their way out onto the floor, and then found every possible way to escape down onto the second floor. It rained in a few peoples' offices, but thankfully none of the racks got wet.
That's the main UPS distribution switchboard in front of Tom the Engineer there.
This is up on the 3rd floor, just above the main rack room. A pressure relief valve on a 2" hot water pipe... relieved. And then stayed in the "relieved" position. This is after the building engineers got that section of the line isolated and started pumping out the water. Guessing that several hundred gallons of very hot glycol-water mixture made their way out onto the floor, and then found every possible way to escape down onto the second floor. It rained in a few peoples' offices, but thankfully none of the racks got wet.
That's the main UPS distribution switchboard in front of Tom the Engineer there.