You've strayed from the topic a bit, but since you're into culinary stuff, I'd recommend Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat if you haven't read it already. More of a food science book than a cookbook, it gave me a much deeper appreciation of salt and how to properly use it.
There's a lot of good food science in that book, and if you dork out about cooking at all, I'd highly recommend it as a solid reference book to have around. I've tweaked some of the things that I make regularly based on stuff I learned from that book and they've gone from pretty damn good to "ruined eating this in a restaurant forever". When you can make something better than most restaurants for 1/3 of the cost, it's really hard to justify ordering that out.
Salting properly is one of those really important techniques.
That's a nice strawman. Was that intentional, or did you just not read this thread at all?
The GGP posted a list of factually incorrect statements, all right wing talking points, then said he "wasn't taking sides". My "not a middle ground" was between "not knowing enough to speak on the topic" and "taking the side of Trump". I was being somewhat generous there, because when all your statements are factually wrong talking points from one side, it's pretty clear that you have indeed taken a side. On the off chance that he really hadn't picked that side, I offered an out of ignorance.
Facts are facts. There isn't a middle ground on them. If you think there is, you're part of the problem.
The reason smugglers funnel through legal ports of entry is because existing walls make cross desert travel much more dangerous, encouraging them to attempt to get past the border control agents.
And back here in reality, it's because you just can't get enough humans willing to transport hundreds of tons of product over tens to hundreds of miles on foot, and because they'd be trivial to spot in the quantities you'd need.
You seem to not understand the scale of the amount of drugs that come across the border. It requires trucks to move that many tons of drugs. Some guys with backpacks tromping through the desert really aren't sufficient.
And even if he somehow managed to get the national "emergency" through the courts, there's the little problem of needing to acquire thousands of acres of private land to build the wall on.
That's also going to get tied up in court for years.
And good luck being the federal government and swinging through Texas telling ranchers there for generations that you're taking their land. That might be enough to turn Texas blue a lot sooner than it's going to be blue anyway.
The wall is never going to get built. At least not before Trump is well out of office, and likely not before he's dead and gone. It's just not feasible. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
I disagree. (With what will likely be a very unpopular disagreement.)
I think the story was always bad, from the start. What made it tolerable was that when it was released, the special effects were groundbreaking. We all ignored the gaping plot holes, terrible characters, and overall lack of coherency because it was flashy and it was fun.
We got dropped into IV with pretty much zero backstory for any character. We're vaguely introduced to different planets, yet there's not even a discussion of where they are. There are no maps to tell you what else is on any given planet. We literally get 1-3 scenes on a given planet, then it's off to the next one.
I can't think of any other fantasy movies that have gotten away with forgoing any coherent description of the universe or world that the story happens in. At the start, there wasn't even a source novel to help fill in the gaps! The characters' motivations are never, ever coherently explained. Giant questions like: Given the size of your average galaxy, and given the near uncountable number of planets in any given one, how, exactly does the Empire control one? And what does that control look like? What, exactly, are they controlling? Trade? Planetary governments? Why? (Controlling the flow of spice at least makes some sense, e.g.)
When 1-3 came out, they utterly undermined the plot and characters of 4-6. Obi Wan is revealed to be a sick, twisted bastard, and Darth Vader has a really good reason for being pretty pissy. The bots' selective memory-wipe of everything that happened in 1-3 isn't explained there or in 4-6, which makes their actions in 4-6 rather inexplicable.
The CGI of 1-3 wasn't that good, and once we hit 7+ that level of effects was commonplace. It was at this time that the magic of special effects started to wear off. When your mind isn't blown by the special effects, the story and characters have to make up for it. (See the Princess Bride, e.g.) And unfortunately, I don't think they ever did throughout the entirety of the series.
You've missed a massive cost sink for ICE cars: Maintenance.
I've now got a few friends with EVs, and they don't really do maintenance. Rotate the tires every now and then, add some washer fluid, and that's about it.
EVs don't have engines, radiators, exhaust systems, or transmissions, and the regenerative braking is extending brake life to 100k+ miles. They are seriously simplified vehicles, and those cost savings just go up with time, when ICE parts would be starting to near their end of life.
I've got a 14 year old car which has always been relatively cheap, but I know that in the next few years I need to drop many thousands of dollars into preventative maintenance that I wouldn't have to put into an EV. I need to fix the heat shield, drop a couple grand into the exhaust, new plugs and wires, a radiator flush, new brakes, etc. etc. And that's what I know. I don't know exactly how good the engine, coolant, and transmission systems are.
I'd happily take none of those but a scheduled battery change every 8-10 years.
I'm not sure why you think age is tied to the likelihood of an alien culture. Unless you're proposing going back 13 billion years or more.
We know that life is going to need at least a second generation star, since the first generation of stars are pretty much all hydrogen and helium, with no other materials to make long-chain molecules. But it turns out that our home, the milky way, is a very old galaxy. It had second generation stars something like 10 billion years ago, perhaps even before that. Once you have the building blocks for molecules and planets, it's just a matter of having enough time for intelligent life to evolve. While we only have one example to look at, the earth gives us a view of what's possible.
Intelligent hominoids popped up in just 10 or so million years. It takes time, but not that much on a galactic scale. There also doesn't seem to be any reason that intelligence couldn't have popped up on earth a good quarter of a billion years earlier than it did. The animals back in the age of dinosaurs generally had all the bits needed for intelligence. You could argue that it's possible even further back, I suppose.
There's also no reason that we should think that a planet would need two billion years of single-celled life before multi-cellular life even popped up, like we had here on earth.
So given we had 2nd generation stars in the neighborhood 10 billion years ago, lets give a planet a billion years to form and cool, a billion years for single-celled life, and a billion years for multi-cellular life and intelligence to form at the tail end of that. That puts us at intelligent life 7 billion years ago, 3 billion years before our sun even formed.
There's no reason intelligent life couldn't have popped up somewhere in our galaxy 7+ billion years ago. And for all we know it did, and the star it was around is gone and they're all dead.
That was my thought as well. Or to simplify growing this E. coli, we'll genetically engineer a yeast to make X and Y bases. Then that escapes, and all hell breaks loose.
That's your favorite part? Come on. How about where Cohen tried to pay for manipulating online polls with a fucking grocery bag full of cash and some boxing gloves from a minor celebrity from his office at Trump tower. AND THAT DIDN'T COVER THE WHOLE BILL SO HE PAID THE REST WITH PERSONAL CHECKS!!!
What the everloving fuck is that shit? This is the dude Trump trusted to be his "fixer" and "lawyer"!?!?! Holy. Shit.
This is the sort of absurdist comedy sketch that wouldn't even make sense at 2am when you were high as shit.
Extending this, outside of the holidays a whole frozen turkey around here in the US costs a bit over $1/lb, sometimes discounted under that. So a big old 16lb turkey can be had for under $20, sometimes as low as $12-$14. Roast it, cut it up, break down the skeleton and boil it with herbs and veg for stock, and for all of $20 you're going to get about 8 lbs of turkey meat and 2 gallons of soup stock.
For each meal add some potatoes and some vegetables, and you're talking a solid 6-8 meals for a family of four, at less than $5/meal. Way more nutritious and cheaper than fast food; you just need some time and effort to make it happen.
A whole frozen turkey is some of the cheapest high-quality protein you can get. People just don't want to put the effort into defrosting, roasting, and carving one. Once you figure out how to do that, you've got a whole lot of cheap, good eating ahead of you.
Are you kidding? This is a better use of everyone's time. Do you honestly think asking students to write a paper they know that you're going to skim and then bin is a better use of time?
At least here there's a chance what they write about will be read by more than one hurried, not-so-interested professor or TA. The traditional way is a ridiculous waste. We're not talking in lieu of published research here. This is instead of an essay.
You can't for instance, as a small investor, just pick a random company to give money to.
What? Of course you can. You pick one, walk in, drop a bunch of cash, and walk out. Granted that makes you a really shitty investor and the ROI isn't there, but that's totally doable.
Yeah, but when you need to plaster a third to half the country with wind and solar to even get close to providing enough energy, then even the most blind of idiots must realize that this is probably not going to be our salvation.
And yet nuclear power plants that take decades to get built, if they get built at all, and which suffer routine cost overruns at the tune of multiples of the estimated cost is our salvation?
While wind and solar and large transmission lines also suffer from NIMBYism, they are nothing like nuclear. I think it's actually more likely that enough of those could get built even at the scale needed than enough nuclear power plants could built in the same time-period for the same amount of money.
I've priced out adding a 200v outlet in the back of my garage already. Not in the market for another year or two, but it's definitely on the horizon. Our typical day is about 20 miles of city driving. That's like $1 worth of electricity. Even with our stupidly, unsustainably low gas prices around $2/gallon, that's still half the cost. Factor in the almost total lack of maintenance, and adding that 200v outlet pays for itself in just a couple of years.
and the rates can be manipulated if efficiency goes up in order to keep the revenue stream roughly the same
You obviously don't live in the US. Around here, the rates can't ever go up. For any reason. Why? Because politics, and some incredible short-sightedness where the original tax wasn't even pegged to inflation.
I'm going to negotiate with all the streaming services to bundle their streams into one service for customers. I'll get a bit of a discount from each one so I can pass some of that savings onto my customers, then I'll pocket the rest. If it gets popular enough, I'll be able to charge customers a premium for it. And later on if the customers are sticking around, I'll slip ads into the content to make even more money!
I'm in the opposite camp. I love my charging mat and stand! So much easier than plugging in a cable every time. Just set it down, shift it a few cm until I feel the vibration indicating it's charging, and I'm done. Any time I want to use the phone, just grab it. No cable to get tangled, no need to unplug and replug.
I still use the cable when I need a fast charge, but generally the mat on my office desk keeps it topped up all day, and the stand can slow-charge overnight at home. Since my last two phones had the micro usb port go before anything else, I'm pretty excited about the wireless charger. That should theoretically let me keep my phone for longer.
I would like to see a better explanation of their methodology.
No, you fucking anti-science asshat, you wouldn't. If you had wanted to see it, you'd have read the linked article. Since you obviously don't care enough to put a lick of effort into educating yourself, I'll summarize for you, in the hopes you can at least make it through a/. comment:
We analyzed all terrestrial lands excluding Antarctica.
That said, the reason they can get to 5% is that they apply a "fragmentation metric" to the places with human impacts, and estimate them as falling off as you move away from where they find these impacts. They bin the human impacts by severity, and the higher the severity of the impact (open pit mining, e.g.) the further they estimate the impacts extend.
This is far from perfect, but it's not a terrible method. Running a railroad line through deserted land doesn't just impact the land under the tracks. During construction you're altering the land, changing the drainage, foliage, etc. There may be dumps of rock and soil from construction, or roads built to bring in materials. While in use, the pollution and noise isn't constrained to the immediate area. Animals who die on the tracks don't live under them generally.
Since they excluded Antarctica, and you noted Greenland, it's clear that you don't know about Camp Century. (Not that they necessarily picked up much of that, but holy shit.)
I think it's fair to argue that they made this "fragmentation metric" too large, but if you really want to do that, you're going to have to publish a rebuttal, not just post lazy, ignorant shit on/..
If you'd been motivated enough to even just skim the article, you'd find this graphic, which looks pretty much like what I personally expected, and probably in line with what you expected as well: https://wol-prod-cdn.literatum.... Since you you find this challenging, HM stands for Human Modification, and green is low, and red is high.
This was my thought as well. It takes a lot of manpower to design and manufacture rockets. It takes a lot of manpower to design and implement a rocket retrieval process. It takes a lot of manpower to design and implement an inspection and refurb process for reused rockets. It takes manpower to learn from the fuckups doing all of this and reconfigure what you're doing to address it.
At this point, SpaceX is past all of that design and implementation work. They seem to be at a fairly stable place, building a few rockets a year, and launching, landing, and refurbing a whole bunch more.
I really am not surprised that they need to reconfigure for 2019, especially given their change in focus. I bet a lot of the employees that they just let go aren't that surprised either. It's one thing when your company does arbitrary layoffs. It's a different thing when you can see the work you're doing drying up, and you can see the company focusing on something that you're not part of.
Does a USER of a social media bot have a right to Free Speech?
Obviously no, unless they're using a public forum, and it's the government shutting them down. If they're using a private forum and that private entity has a no bot policy, or even a "you over there, you're not allowed to use a bot" policy, they have no rights to free speech.
Free speech applies to people acting in a public space and the government denying them that. Nothing more, nothing less.
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You've strayed from the topic a bit, but since you're into culinary stuff, I'd recommend Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat if you haven't read it already. More of a food science book than a cookbook, it gave me a much deeper appreciation of salt and how to properly use it.
There's a lot of good food science in that book, and if you dork out about cooking at all, I'd highly recommend it as a solid reference book to have around. I've tweaked some of the things that I make regularly based on stuff I learned from that book and they've gone from pretty damn good to "ruined eating this in a restaurant forever". When you can make something better than most restaurants for 1/3 of the cost, it's really hard to justify ordering that out.
Salting properly is one of those really important techniques.
That's a nice strawman. Was that intentional, or did you just not read this thread at all?
The GGP posted a list of factually incorrect statements, all right wing talking points, then said he "wasn't taking sides". My "not a middle ground" was between "not knowing enough to speak on the topic" and "taking the side of Trump". I was being somewhat generous there, because when all your statements are factually wrong talking points from one side, it's pretty clear that you have indeed taken a side. On the off chance that he really hadn't picked that side, I offered an out of ignorance.
Facts are facts. There isn't a middle ground on them. If you think there is, you're part of the problem.
The reason smugglers funnel through legal ports of entry is because existing walls make cross desert travel much more dangerous, encouraging them to attempt to get past the border control agents.
And back here in reality, it's because you just can't get enough humans willing to transport hundreds of tons of product over tens to hundreds of miles on foot, and because they'd be trivial to spot in the quantities you'd need.
You seem to not understand the scale of the amount of drugs that come across the border. It requires trucks to move that many tons of drugs. Some guys with backpacks tromping through the desert really aren't sufficient.
And even if he somehow managed to get the national "emergency" through the courts, there's the little problem of needing to acquire thousands of acres of private land to build the wall on.
That's also going to get tied up in court for years.
And good luck being the federal government and swinging through Texas telling ranchers there for generations that you're taking their land. That might be enough to turn Texas blue a lot sooner than it's going to be blue anyway.
The wall is never going to get built. At least not before Trump is well out of office, and likely not before he's dead and gone. It's just not feasible. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise.
I disagree. (With what will likely be a very unpopular disagreement.)
I think the story was always bad, from the start. What made it tolerable was that when it was released, the special effects were groundbreaking. We all ignored the gaping plot holes, terrible characters, and overall lack of coherency because it was flashy and it was fun.
We got dropped into IV with pretty much zero backstory for any character. We're vaguely introduced to different planets, yet there's not even a discussion of where they are. There are no maps to tell you what else is on any given planet. We literally get 1-3 scenes on a given planet, then it's off to the next one.
I can't think of any other fantasy movies that have gotten away with forgoing any coherent description of the universe or world that the story happens in. At the start, there wasn't even a source novel to help fill in the gaps! The characters' motivations are never, ever coherently explained. Giant questions like: Given the size of your average galaxy, and given the near uncountable number of planets in any given one, how, exactly does the Empire control one? And what does that control look like? What, exactly, are they controlling? Trade? Planetary governments? Why? (Controlling the flow of spice at least makes some sense, e.g.)
When 1-3 came out, they utterly undermined the plot and characters of 4-6. Obi Wan is revealed to be a sick, twisted bastard, and Darth Vader has a really good reason for being pretty pissy. The bots' selective memory-wipe of everything that happened in 1-3 isn't explained there or in 4-6, which makes their actions in 4-6 rather inexplicable.
The CGI of 1-3 wasn't that good, and once we hit 7+ that level of effects was commonplace. It was at this time that the magic of special effects started to wear off. When your mind isn't blown by the special effects, the story and characters have to make up for it. (See the Princess Bride, e.g.) And unfortunately, I don't think they ever did throughout the entirety of the series.
You've missed a massive cost sink for ICE cars: Maintenance.
I've now got a few friends with EVs, and they don't really do maintenance. Rotate the tires every now and then, add some washer fluid, and that's about it.
EVs don't have engines, radiators, exhaust systems, or transmissions, and the regenerative braking is extending brake life to 100k+ miles. They are seriously simplified vehicles, and those cost savings just go up with time, when ICE parts would be starting to near their end of life.
I've got a 14 year old car which has always been relatively cheap, but I know that in the next few years I need to drop many thousands of dollars into preventative maintenance that I wouldn't have to put into an EV. I need to fix the heat shield, drop a couple grand into the exhaust, new plugs and wires, a radiator flush, new brakes, etc. etc. And that's what I know. I don't know exactly how good the engine, coolant, and transmission systems are.
I'd happily take none of those but a scheduled battery change every 8-10 years.
I'm not sure why you think age is tied to the likelihood of an alien culture. Unless you're proposing going back 13 billion years or more.
We know that life is going to need at least a second generation star, since the first generation of stars are pretty much all hydrogen and helium, with no other materials to make long-chain molecules. But it turns out that our home, the milky way, is a very old galaxy. It had second generation stars something like 10 billion years ago, perhaps even before that. Once you have the building blocks for molecules and planets, it's just a matter of having enough time for intelligent life to evolve. While we only have one example to look at, the earth gives us a view of what's possible.
Intelligent hominoids popped up in just 10 or so million years. It takes time, but not that much on a galactic scale. There also doesn't seem to be any reason that intelligence couldn't have popped up on earth a good quarter of a billion years earlier than it did. The animals back in the age of dinosaurs generally had all the bits needed for intelligence. You could argue that it's possible even further back, I suppose.
There's also no reason that we should think that a planet would need two billion years of single-celled life before multi-cellular life even popped up, like we had here on earth.
So given we had 2nd generation stars in the neighborhood 10 billion years ago, lets give a planet a billion years to form and cool, a billion years for single-celled life, and a billion years for multi-cellular life and intelligence to form at the tail end of that. That puts us at intelligent life 7 billion years ago, 3 billion years before our sun even formed.
There's no reason intelligent life couldn't have popped up somewhere in our galaxy 7+ billion years ago. And for all we know it did, and the star it was around is gone and they're all dead.
That was my thought as well. Or to simplify growing this E. coli, we'll genetically engineer a yeast to make X and Y bases. Then that escapes, and all hell breaks loose.
That's your favorite part? Come on. How about where Cohen tried to pay for manipulating online polls with a fucking grocery bag full of cash and some boxing gloves from a minor celebrity from his office at Trump tower. AND THAT DIDN'T COVER THE WHOLE BILL SO HE PAID THE REST WITH PERSONAL CHECKS!!!
What the everloving fuck is that shit? This is the dude Trump trusted to be his "fixer" and "lawyer"!?!?! Holy. Shit.
This is the sort of absurdist comedy sketch that wouldn't even make sense at 2am when you were high as shit.
Extending this, outside of the holidays a whole frozen turkey around here in the US costs a bit over $1/lb, sometimes discounted under that. So a big old 16lb turkey can be had for under $20, sometimes as low as $12-$14. Roast it, cut it up, break down the skeleton and boil it with herbs and veg for stock, and for all of $20 you're going to get about 8 lbs of turkey meat and 2 gallons of soup stock.
For each meal add some potatoes and some vegetables, and you're talking a solid 6-8 meals for a family of four, at less than $5/meal. Way more nutritious and cheaper than fast food; you just need some time and effort to make it happen.
A whole frozen turkey is some of the cheapest high-quality protein you can get. People just don't want to put the effort into defrosting, roasting, and carving one. Once you figure out how to do that, you've got a whole lot of cheap, good eating ahead of you.
Are you kidding? This is a better use of everyone's time. Do you honestly think asking students to write a paper they know that you're going to skim and then bin is a better use of time?
At least here there's a chance what they write about will be read by more than one hurried, not-so-interested professor or TA. The traditional way is a ridiculous waste. We're not talking in lieu of published research here. This is instead of an essay.
You can't for instance, as a small investor, just pick a random company to give money to.
What? Of course you can. You pick one, walk in, drop a bunch of cash, and walk out. Granted that makes you a really shitty investor and the ROI isn't there, but that's totally doable.
Yeah, but when you need to plaster a third to half the country with wind and solar to even get close to providing enough energy, then even the most blind of idiots must realize that this is probably not going to be our salvation.
And yet nuclear power plants that take decades to get built, if they get built at all, and which suffer routine cost overruns at the tune of multiples of the estimated cost is our salvation?
While wind and solar and large transmission lines also suffer from NIMBYism, they are nothing like nuclear. I think it's actually more likely that enough of those could get built even at the scale needed than enough nuclear power plants could built in the same time-period for the same amount of money.
It is in an enclosed artificial environment that replicates growing conditions on Earth sufficiently to germinate elsewhere.
Please explain how that environment replicates 1g in that 1/6g environment.
Most islands relying on fossil fuels for power spend absurd amounts of money on it. I bet the payback wouldn't be very long at all.
I've priced out adding a 200v outlet in the back of my garage already. Not in the market for another year or two, but it's definitely on the horizon. Our typical day is about 20 miles of city driving. That's like $1 worth of electricity. Even with our stupidly, unsustainably low gas prices around $2/gallon, that's still half the cost. Factor in the almost total lack of maintenance, and adding that 200v outlet pays for itself in just a couple of years.
and the rates can be manipulated if efficiency goes up in order to keep the revenue stream roughly the same
You obviously don't live in the US. Around here, the rates can't ever go up. For any reason. Why? Because politics, and some incredible short-sightedness where the original tax wasn't even pegged to inflation.
You don't read the news ever, do you?
That's why I have a genius business idea:
I'm going to negotiate with all the streaming services to bundle their streams into one service for customers. I'll get a bit of a discount from each one so I can pass some of that savings onto my customers, then I'll pocket the rest. If it gets popular enough, I'll be able to charge customers a premium for it. And later on if the customers are sticking around, I'll slip ads into the content to make even more money!
This is genius!
I bet it's like 20 to 25 percent of one.
I'm in the opposite camp. I love my charging mat and stand! So much easier than plugging in a cable every time. Just set it down, shift it a few cm until I feel the vibration indicating it's charging, and I'm done. Any time I want to use the phone, just grab it. No cable to get tangled, no need to unplug and replug.
I still use the cable when I need a fast charge, but generally the mat on my office desk keeps it topped up all day, and the stand can slow-charge overnight at home. Since my last two phones had the micro usb port go before anything else, I'm pretty excited about the wireless charger. That should theoretically let me keep my phone for longer.
I would like to see a better explanation of their methodology.
No, you fucking anti-science asshat, you wouldn't. If you had wanted to see it, you'd have read the linked article. Since you obviously don't care enough to put a lick of effort into educating yourself, I'll summarize for you, in the hopes you can at least make it through a /. comment:
We analyzed all terrestrial lands excluding Antarctica.
That said, the reason they can get to 5% is that they apply a "fragmentation metric" to the places with human impacts, and estimate them as falling off as you move away from where they find these impacts. They bin the human impacts by severity, and the higher the severity of the impact (open pit mining, e.g.) the further they estimate the impacts extend.
This is far from perfect, but it's not a terrible method. Running a railroad line through deserted land doesn't just impact the land under the tracks. During construction you're altering the land, changing the drainage, foliage, etc. There may be dumps of rock and soil from construction, or roads built to bring in materials. While in use, the pollution and noise isn't constrained to the immediate area. Animals who die on the tracks don't live under them generally.
Since they excluded Antarctica, and you noted Greenland, it's clear that you don't know about Camp Century. (Not that they necessarily picked up much of that, but holy shit.)
I think it's fair to argue that they made this "fragmentation metric" too large, but if you really want to do that, you're going to have to publish a rebuttal, not just post lazy, ignorant shit on /..
If you'd been motivated enough to even just skim the article, you'd find this graphic, which looks pretty much like what I personally expected, and probably in line with what you expected as well: https://wol-prod-cdn.literatum.... Since you you find this challenging, HM stands for Human Modification, and green is low, and red is high.
I don't believe that the stuff under an ocean is referred to as "land surface" by anyone, except, perhaps, you.
This was my thought as well. It takes a lot of manpower to design and manufacture rockets. It takes a lot of manpower to design and implement a rocket retrieval process. It takes a lot of manpower to design and implement an inspection and refurb process for reused rockets. It takes manpower to learn from the fuckups doing all of this and reconfigure what you're doing to address it.
At this point, SpaceX is past all of that design and implementation work. They seem to be at a fairly stable place, building a few rockets a year, and launching, landing, and refurbing a whole bunch more.
I really am not surprised that they need to reconfigure for 2019, especially given their change in focus. I bet a lot of the employees that they just let go aren't that surprised either. It's one thing when your company does arbitrary layoffs. It's a different thing when you can see the work you're doing drying up, and you can see the company focusing on something that you're not part of.
Does a USER of a social media bot have a right to Free Speech?
Obviously no, unless they're using a public forum, and it's the government shutting them down. If they're using a private forum and that private entity has a no bot policy, or even a "you over there, you're not allowed to use a bot" policy, they have no rights to free speech.
Free speech applies to people acting in a public space and the government denying them that. Nothing more, nothing less.