tiredofsametab

People are much more likely to write a complaint letter than a praising one. Same as it ever was but internet version.

I worked for a company that had a post karma system before reddit ever existed. It was no different then. No matter how much we said that the downvote button is not a dislike button, it changed nothing.

I was in a big city recently and had business by their BYD dealership. I walked in as I had never seen any of the cars in person. Two of the models they had had physical controls (both the low(er?)-end ones). If I had planned on buying, that would have ruled 2/3 of what they had out. One complaint about my current vehicle is that it has touchscreen exclusively for all the HVAC controls (I have music controls on the wheel). I’m used to my older cars from (my an '83, '86, '95, '97, and '03 in order of model year) that I could adjust anything without taking my eyes off the road. I don’t mind ALSO having a tablet for navigation and the like, but want my main controls to all be physical.

I think a/c is mostly (entirely?) a north-american naming convention. It’s been “aircon” in the other places I’ve lived in traveled.

English is notoriously awful regarding orthography vs pronunciation. I actually thought you meant something that rhymed with Bach just looking at the name with a longer ‘a’ for some reason (which is weird since vowel length isn’t phonemic in English).

Edit: you probably also could have said “hard a” or something since it probably literally thinks ‘long a’ means ‘hold the a sound for a longer duration’ (which makes sense to me)

Raych?

I’m old enough to have been through this in IT (that and leapseconds) and it’s what my mind first jumped to (well, other than enshitification).

I despise that idiot and his republican enablers and supporters. I want the Epstein files released.

That said, people say this shit at least about Hawaii all the time. I don’t know if the same is true for Alaska. Is it dumb? Yep. Is it especially stupid being a president? Absolutely. Do I think that means “he’s already given it away” or something? No way.

That or really bad tape was what I was thinking.

Pure speculation: ;possibly to identify sexual nudity and “inappropriate” content as some kind of legitimate usecase. What was actually done, I have no idea.

If I kept chickens, I would have a net over (we have hawks and other aerial predators as well) to avoid the situation, but if something somehow snuck in, this would be a good thing in my opinion.

Well, absent any other gains they wouldn’t do it and I don’t see any other gains. My only assumption is that it must ultimately be profitable.

It is insanity to me that medication, especially prescription medication, can be advertised anywhere. Fuck the US healthcare system.

In my mid-40s and this is more-or-less what I think as well.

Whilst this is not wrong and shame is a big motivator in Japan, some otherwise bored cops fining literers for a while would probably prevent that situation. On the other hand, I think maintaining some bins (infra to install and hardware + maintenance cleaning and maybe the odd security check) would be cheaper, beeter, and friendlier

We survive that way in Japan with almost no bins. Of course the odd person litters, but most don’t; if we can pack it in, we can pack it out. Now, if there were no bin inside the cafe, that would be idiotic.

Not sure what this is but, as a software developer, this screams “encoding issue” to me where it chooses the wrong encoding (or it’s getting saved in the wrong one) causing it to display as you see.

I was expecting an a magic lamp with a broccoli-shaped genie or something.

I mean I want to block my ability to be PM’d at all (or maybe by just people I follow)

I still don’t see any settings to block PMs on the mbin side. I would at least like to filter to people I follow or something with the option to fully disable PMs.

FFS got another one after posting this.

It’s not my favorite day of the month and I suppose we could just stick a small month at the end of the year