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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 15 hours ago

They specified 1 significant figure


at that level it's the same.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is the same argument used for blaming the cost of college on government loans for education, for $$$ housing prices in cities that offer low income subsidies, for food prices due to food stamps...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 16 hours ago

That's because you're thinking of trucks used first and foremost for heavy duty "truck stuff." That is not the only market for trucks, at least in the US: https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume

According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website -2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

0-60mph is mostly deprecated these days in favor of 0-62mph, which just so happens to be the same as 0-100km/h


what a coincidence!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 18 hours ago

It's an interesting (predictable?) look into the psyche here.

I work for a big company, and while yeah it's a big faceless company, the people treat us ICs as assets, not liabilities; the company makes money because of its employees, not in spite of them, and they


colleagues, manager, director, SVP


acknowledge that.

My partner's company OTOH seems to treat employees more as a liability


the kind of attitude of "we'd be more profitable if we didn't have to pay you," which is really aggravating (different industry than mine, so this is more the norm mindset unfortunately).

It's really clear how this whole farce of a government agency views the world.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 18 hours ago

"...and there are no comments, because it's Self Documenting™"

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Modern bots are bad, but the old school IRC (maybe early Battle.net?) bots... I'm cool making an exception for them if you are.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 17 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Stupid adults being stupid and paying for their stupidity is one thing. But 1) this affects their kids, and 2) this can affect my kid (<1yo) and anyone who can't get vaccinated because they're immunocompromised/etc.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

CC "debt" that's paid off in full every month is debt in the same sense that eating at a typical restaurant puts you in debt.

Don't get me wrong, unmanageable CC debt is a real thing, but that's not what we're talking about.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

A six/seven figure donation for these companies is...nothing. While I'm all for grabbing my face eating leopard popcorn, I'm not sure I'd say this falls under that category. This amount of money doesn't feel like trying to buy favors


more like "please don't specifically target us with your wrath of incompetence."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This title makes it sound like he wouldn't be a good Klingon, either. Which...is definitely true.

I bet he thinks he'd make a good Ferengi. But that's insulting to the Ferengis...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 5 days ago

It's one of the reasons I hate having one person cook and the other clean


the incentives are misaligned, and it just breeds bad habits and reckless cooking IMHO. If you do both cooking and cleaning, you'll hopefully learn to clean as you go.

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