Oh, something that the Tucson Metro Chamber will surely push back on!

Oh wait, no? They just wanna suck off Juan Ciscomani for not gutting Medicaid today.

Huh, I’m beginning to think that the Tucson Metro Chamber doesn’t give a flying fuck about commerce, just the predominantly white business owner class.

Totally get you on that one. Fortunately, usually when someone misuses one of those it’s easy to figure out what they meant.

That being said, constantly using the word deport for illegally disappearing a citizen is far more egregious of a failure than mistaking decimate with devastate.

This is an excellent point. Perhaps my directive should be a little broader. I didn’t really consider that facet!

Odds this targets mosques more than churches too… maybe not in the text but in practice.

Maybe so… but also catholic churches that do mass en espanol.

I foresee another catholic schism on the horizon. This isn’t going to go over well with the Roman Catholics, but the American Catholics will cheer it on.

Interesting. I couldn’t vote for this one, I was just on the other side of the line in Tanque Verde.

Would’ve just added to the “no’s”, but hey!

Turnout is pretty low, but that tracks compared to prior city-only elections. It’s concerning nonetheless, I was hoping to see increased government engagement during times of economic stress, uncertainty, and the erosion of rights.

I say ban medians! Stroads are a blight on suburban civic engineering! /halfjoking

I mean, FWIW, if it’s made for a 1-4 year-old it’s probably at least non-toxic to consume.

Agreed on aperture fever. I find 10" the largest manageable size unless you get an Obsession Ultra Compact for $$$$$.

Didn’t really consider binos for OP since viewing anything more than 45 degrees up is a pain without a proper mount. A dob is easier to use near the horizon than using a bino to view straight upwards.

For 200 you could probably land yourself an old criterion telescope or used Skywatcher. The important part is the aperture. For good nebula and Galaxy viewing, you’re going to want at least 6 in of aperture. But more is better.

Definitely check Craigslist, Facebook marketplace, and cloudy nights classifieds.

Sorry, bot was offline for a bit, when it turns on, it backposts a few days. You can block it if you like. It’s really only supposed to be relevant to tucson locals.

It’s caught up and won’t post until something on the source RSS feed updates - as it usually does.

Hi @[email protected] , thanks for getting out the word. However, I’d like to ask that you provide a bit more locally relevant details if you’re going to post here in /c/tucsonpolitics. This isn’t a warning or anything, I won’t even take down future posts if you don’t - but I think it’s a bit more effective in getting participation than generic calls to action.

Ideas:

• Include the address of the protest site in your post description or as a comment.

• Use an image that includes a simplified map.

• Post en español with the language set as such, huge plus if you have graphics in español to match.

I can, of course, help, but consider how much impact the above could make in your outreach’s effectiveness!

For what it’s worth, I expect the governor to veto.

100%

So many self-identified progressives or leftists aren’t deemed moral enough to even be allies with.

I have far more moderate friends than I do leftist friends.

I have more conservative friends than I do leftist friends.

And to become moral enough for the left, you need to cut out everybody else in your life except the left.

The left expects you to cut out all of your support network, but then refuses to be a support network in and of itself. Leftists are the shittiest friends I’ve ever had. The constant judgment and moralization just drove me away.

I disagree. The modern left is too busy and moralizing consumption, people’s personal mistakes, and vilifying them before they even get to the table.

If you listen to the lefts big influencers, you would have to cut out your family, a good chunk of your friends, and are expected to maintain exclusively left-leaning relationships.

The left needs a heaping dose of pragmatism.

I say this as a person who identifies as a leftist. I say this as a person who’s tried to spread the word of multiple community actions here in Tucson, only to not get resources because the various progressive organizations don’t deem me progressive enough.

So yeah, I have an entire website, that could advertise crucial community action. But people aren’t willing to send me graphics to upload in the various languages and won’t forward me to the organizations that initially planned these things. All because I don’t measure up to their moral standards.

All in all. Fuck The Democratic socialists of America. Fuck modern progressivism.

They are all no show pieces of shit.

The moderates in my life all do far more for their community than anybody on the left.

It’s moderates I find running the soup kitchen. It’s moderates that decide to start businesses and grow their local power.

I liked it just fine!

I know there are a lot of Asimov diehards that found it disappointing. I don’t know why. The iRobot book wasn’t even really a book, it was a collection of short stories. Not exactly an easy thing to adapt to a movie.

I think this take is starting to be a bit outdated. There have been numerous films to use Blender. The “biggest” recent one is RRR - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/

Man in the High Castle is also another notable “professional” example - https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-man-in-the-high-castle/

It’s been slow, but Blender is starting to break into the larger industry. With bigger productions tending to come from non-U.S. producers.

There is something to be said about the tooling exclusivity in U.S. studios and backroom deals. But ultimately money talks and Autodesk only has so much money to secure those rights and studios only have so much money to spend on licensing.

I’ve been following blender since 2008 - what we have now is unimaginable in comparison to then. Real commercial viability has been reached (as a tool). What stands in the way now is a combination of entrenched interests and money. Intel shows how that’s a tenuous market position at best, and actively self destructive at worst.

Ultimately I think your claim that it’s not used by real studios is patently and proveably false. But I will concede that it’s still an uphill battle and moneyed interests are almost impossible to defeat. They typically need to defeat themselves first sorta like Intel did.

Ha…

I listed only a mini tripod under “always”, which - in the age of social media - is rather common daily carry. Everything else is software or under they “TRY” category.

But sure, be the internet contrarian you’ve always wanted to be. I’m sure your ancestors would be proud.

I mean, regional instances don’t have to stop folks from engaging primarily with interest based communities.

Some regions will dominate certain interests for example - here in Tucson we’re consider one of the Amateur Astronomy capitals of the world. If mander.xyz were to disappear tomorrow, Tucson would make a good home for all of the fediverse’s astronomy needs even though its a region based instance.

Further, there’s nothing that states an interest-based instance needs any registration. One could imagine a world where local instances have all the users and identities, and the interest based instances simply provide communities to the larger fediverse with no users of their own.

But yeah, it’s definitely a paradigm shift that makes interest based communities a bit more difficult to find.

Oh okay! I’m sorry about the misunderstanding.

???

I don’t particularly have any issues with them.

But if a user did, they don’t have much recourse. I’m talking about that as a structural aspect. Not a moral one.

But sure if you just want to claim this puts me in the [email protected] community by ripping it out from any relevant context, go ahead I guess?