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ShepherdPie ,

You think poor people are driving golf carts around?

ShepherdPie ,

What does that have to do with determining whether they can be used on the roads here or not? No US manufacturer builds a station wagon anymore. Does that mean they aren’t meant to be used on US roads either?

ShepherdPie ,

I believe in some locales they do but in my area we don’t.

This points out the difference between coroners and medical examiners and seems like states/counties use one or the other www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK221913/

Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said “oh let’s see if my membership helps out.” So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I’m paying for in this membership if the items “original price” is higher for me than it is for...

ShepherdPie ,

FYI you can claim unemployment when businesses do this to you if you previously been working consistent hours.

ShepherdPie ,

Batteries can show good voltage on a multimeter but then drop immediately once a load is applied if they’re failing.

ShepherdPie ,

I don’t have a recommendation for a tester, but after about a decade of vaping and dealing with 18650s, I will say it can be beneficial to keep batteries paired together (on devices that require more than one cell) during their lifespan so that you don’t have one sagging from old age while the other is still performing well. This probably isn’t as big of an issue on normal electronics that don’t have a massive current load like an ecig, but something to keep in mind. I typically never break up a pair but when I used to have several pairs of batteries, I would just use a sharpie to mark a full set “A” or “1” while the next set is “B” or “2” to avoid mixing them up.

ShepherdPie ,

Kinda hard with a “one size fits all” smartphone market in terms of both size and features.

ShepherdPie ,

Oh yeah? Seems you dropped the “people have different needs and experiences” point pretty quick. This reads like someone who has their identity wrapped up in the purchases that they make and can’t handle someone criticizing multinational corporations.

ShepherdPie ,

Their entire product line really went to shit around 2015, whether you’re talking about phones, TVs, or appliances. Now they just skate by on their previously good reputation and intertia.

ShepherdPie ,

Death is a plausible ending to any day for everyone, though.

ShepherdPie ,

I’m assuming they do this to prevent people from abusing this as a way to get someone else to pay for veterinarian bills and then adopting the pet right back.

ShepherdPie ,

For me the first season was arguably one of the worst. I didn’t start enjoying it until around S3 with the time jump, but it’s been hit or miss since then. I just can’t stand how, for lack of a better word, sappy the show can be with the constant “cut to crewperson’s face giving an approving nod while Burnham gives a motivational, whispered speech backed by heartwarming music.” It all seems so over the top, lazy, and gimmicky. Rather than write better stories, they want to pull on your heartstrings with cheap tropes to keep people watching.

ShepherdPie ,

If you think he’s a liar and a con man, then why even bring up his promises? They’re obviously false. SpaceX has done great work despite who their current CEO is.

ShepherdPie ,

Okay? I thought we already established that he’s a liar. You really sound like a fan of the guy since you follow his every word, but none of this detracts from the accomplishments of the engineers working at these companies.

ShepherdPie , (edited )

Is your assertion that the US and Israel will no longer be allies if the US doesn’t support Netanyahu’s actions? Isn’t Israel’s government made up of a lot more than a single man’s actions, and doesn’t Israel have a lot more to lose by losing us as an ally than we do by losing them? I say we call their bluff and let this murderer go to jail. The Israeli government will clean up the mess he made and still be our ally.

ShepherdPie ,

Same goes for business. If you see a bank called “Reliable Credit” you know they’re going to specialize in super high interest loans. “Honest Car Sales” is going to sell you a car that breaks down before you even get home.

A lot of bills in congress seem to be labeled like this too. Anything with “freedom” in the name is going to be some authoritarian bullshit.

ShepherdPie ,

They might gave been loss prevention. This is pretty common to see around here at places like Walmart.

ShepherdPie ,

So did Ukraine until they gave them up at our behest because we promised we’d intervene if Russia were to invade them.

ShepherdPie ,

How is it an offensive war if they’re still fighting on Ukrainian soil? I haven’t seen anyone propose invading Russia itself.

ShepherdPie ,

I had to pay sales tax to purchase two tickets from a Ticketmaster subsidiary in a state where we have no sales tax. I even went through the hassle of contacting them and they just blew me off with “it’s to cover state and local taxes” which are nonexistant in reality.

ShepherdPie ,

Yes it can also be argued that stupid short-term gains like this can lead to less revenue in the long run which isn’t doing your fiduciary duty.

ShepherdPie ,

Because it’s insanely restrictive and can’t be used by most people or in most situations. It’s little more than a marketing ploy.

ShepherdPie ,

So you’d rather more people die in avoidable traffic accidents because we weren’t allowed to develop this technology?

ShepherdPie ,

What do those options matter if nobody is developing them and they only work in dense cities? You might as well be arguing for Star Trek-like transporter technology here.

ShepherdPie ,

No, you have the meaning right.

ShepherdPie ,

Great that’s admirable, but that isn’t going to happen because it doesn’t work for most people and there is no political capital to make it happen, so what then?

ShepherdPie ,

Pistols don’t beat AR15 rifles. If the opponent outguns you, you need to wait for backup and bigger guns.

Why is that? Does the AR15 generate a forcefield around the person wielding it making the shooter immune to any “lesser” weapons? Catching a bullet from a pistol will kill you just the same and this shooter was severely outnumbered. What police lacked was the guts to actually put their lives on the line to protect these children, even though they love to talk about how they put their lives on the line every day as they arrest people for weed or hand out tickets for going 5MPH over the speed limit.

ShepherdPie ,

Some of the parents whose children were being slaughtered were willing to try while police stood around scrolling Facebook on their phone, but police arrested them for it.

ShepherdPie ,

You know what else puts kids in extra danger? Standing around for hours doing nothing while the shooter continues to slaughter them. Not only that, but they went in the school and shouted for kids to call out to be rescued, except they didn’t rescue them and the kids who did call out were then shot. Your take is absolutely insane and indefensible. These people are specifically trained and paid to deal with these types of situations not stand around scrolling on their phones while children are being murdered just feet away.

ShepherdPie ,

This is a giant strawman. What names have I called you? You’re the one doing mental gymnastics to defend the lack of action from these people who are paid and trained to handle situations like this.

You claim you “never said the police made the right call” yet you’re sitting here claiming every one of their actions were correct “because AR15 shoot far.” Absolutely absurd.

ShepherdPie ,

I guess you didn’t see the recent article that studied all the information manufacturers collect on you in these new generation of vehicles. Some notable ones are Nissan and Kia collecting information on your sexual activity and six companies collecting your genetic information all for what? So you can control Spotify from your infotainment screen?

…mozilla.org/…/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-pr…

ShepherdPie ,

I’d personally wait a bit as the market is trending down from the high prices during COVID and manufacturers are slowly rolling out more and more incentives again.

ShepherdPie ,

The reason it’s called that is so when you’re buying the car, you can read “full self driving”, the salesman can call it “full self driving”, and then you can get excited and think you’re getting full self driving and pay stupid amounts of money for an iPhone on wheels.

Who exactly are you describing here? Like someone who’s been living under a rock for the past 5+ years and thinks cars just drive themselves now, but who also has $50k-$100k to drop on a car and also doesn’t do any research beforehand? I think you’re blowing this way out of proportion.

All these systems are flawed to some extent as nobody has cracked the code to L5 automation. There is some danger to it but there are many dangers to driving and this eliminates some of them. People have died in Teslas but many more have died in every other production vehicle that has ever existed. If this guy did the samr thing in a Toyota Camry, do you think we’d even be talking about it right now? These systems can only get better with a lot of real-world usage.

I totally get where the other person is coming from. These arguments are so tired and meaningless at this point. If you want Musk to go away, then stop bringing him up at every turn because it just makes people sound like bizzaro-world Musk fans as they hate the guy but can’t stop talking about him and following his every move. Some of us want to discuss and debate the actual technology and Musk had nothing to do with developing it.

ShepherdPie ,

The systems with LIDAR aren’t L5 either. It’s impossible to claim what is and isn’t needed when nobody has actually come up with a solution.

ShepherdPie ,

Well why are you lending him further credibility by continuing to make him prolific? You’re just feeding into his goal of garnering more attention at every turn. Media outlets will continue to focus on all his insane ramblings because people like you are guaranteed to click on it.

ShepherdPie ,

So who had the best unit?

ShepherdPie ,

And the rest of the year.

ShepherdPie ,

Have you considered trying to be a market disruptor by leasing drugs?

ShepherdPie ,

That doesn’t even look that bad.

ShepherdPie ,

And they’re doing it again right now but for some reason people lose their shit when you speak about it.

ShepherdPie ,

It’s just lip service. He has his Attorney General defending them in court.

ShepherdPie ,

You’re assuming these people have principles and integrity, but they don’t. They’ll just blame the government for allowing it to happen/not providing them enough assistance.

ShepherdPie ,

Not if you’re the one voting in the people who refuse to do anything about it and make every attempt to further the issue.

ShepherdPie ,

So what’s your proposed solution if you find that persons comment to be bad and annoying? Racking up $100k in payday loans at 200% APR isn’t going to get you out of that situation.

ShepherdPie ,

How is their shrimp supplier determining what promotions they run and when?

ShepherdPie ,

I think people outside of flyover states are tired of these old corporate chain restaurants with terrible food and high prices.

ShepherdPie ,

It’s not really a dig at these states more just stating how things are. Chain restaurants like these are the main game in town due to low wages and much lower population density.

Biden: what would Trump have done if the Capitol riots had been led by Black Americans? (www.theguardian.com)

Joe Biden has launched one of his most scathing attacks yet on Donald Trump’s record of racism, suggesting that the former US president would have acted differently to the January 6 2021 insurrection if was led by Black people....

ShepherdPie ,

Israel will have the green light to eradicate the people of Gaza.

Like they’ve been doing for the past 7 months?

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