Fortunately/unfortunately, they didn't get bought by Amazon. I only say unfortunately because they made a lot of business decisions expecting it to go through, and when it didn't, has caused them a ton of trouble. They seem to be hanging in there pretty well and this current gen of bots seems to be pretty solid. I've had iR stuff for over 20 years now and have generally only had good experiences, so they're still my go-to.

I just bought one of the new 705s that has LIDAR and it's been pretty fantastic. Most of their new lineup has LIDAR now and it's been pretty good compared to my old j7's vSLAM. I'm really not a fan of them being app based and hope that they'll eventually work with Valetudo, but with 2 huskies and cats I just really don't want to have to manually vacuum every single day.

Slowly? It's been less than a year...

They actually changed it slightly because the original name, "Program for Evolutionary Dynamics and Operations", was a bit too on the nose.

Well, they're scared, but also the admin doesn't want the identities to be revealed and shown that like 90% of ICE was probably recruited straight from known neo-nazi/white nationalist groups like the Proud Boys

As someone in that group, there's a huge difference between doing well on paper and actually doing well. My peers and I are worried about losing our jobs, and there's a likelihood we won't be seeing a significant portion of our paychecks due to the economic hits from the tariffs. Sure, my net worth is technically higher since last year, but that doesn't mean much when you're 30 years from retirement. I can't just infinite money glitch my 401k by taking out loans like billionaires can with their net worth.

I realize that I'm a lot better off than most, but I only bring this up to point out that even people who aren't poor are also feeling plenty of negative economic pressure as well.

I got to go as Enid from Wednesday and was super happy! It was my first Halloween post-transition, and I had a great time.

Living in the US, it certainly feels like the GOP is a hostile foreign invader holding us all hostage.

I think given it's a high angle light, it's cut off at the bottom of the stage

It's so real, especially early in transition. I remember chatting with a coworker via Teams about cars, and he was being really weird about trying to flex his car, getting really upset I wasn't fawning over it, and being extremely dismissive of basically every opinion I had. I kept thinking to myself "wtf is this guy's problem?" because I had literally never interacted with a person so condescending when talking to me about cars.

Mind you, I'm an automotive engineer, working for an automotive company, who has been racing since before I got my license. I would say I'm decently knowledgeable about cars.

It wasn't until he said "There goes silly hovercat with her silly opinions again" that I realized "Oh shit, he's talking to me like that because I'm a woman". It was incredibly affirming, but definitely some mixed feelings about the whole thing.

I'm so, so fucking sick and tired of all the doomer shut-in fuckwits who think that we're going to fix this by doing a Jan 6 style raid on the White House. That's not how any of this works. I went to a No Kings protest. You want to know what happened before/after the "parade"? Thousands of people signed up to move our state towards ranked choice voting, information was given out on protecting your community from ICE, and people are getting resources to be more politically active. Literally every political advocacy org in my area has absolutely exploded and we're at a point where we're having to pause memberships because there are so many people trying to join.

Real change takes a bit of fucking time and I'm so, so, so sick and tired of all the people who act like no one is doing anything, while they themselves do fuck-all but doom scroll on Lemmy and post about how it's all over.

It's a boss battle, and bitching about how people are just dodge rolling and parrying and have barely chipped away at the health bar is absolutely asinine.