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If you run out of gas you’re also stuck. Only upside is that the recovery service can bring you a few gallons of fuel instead of a tow.

> pg's reading of it is so blunt and misrepresentative that I'm nervous about what kind of content he's consuming. Guy wrote an essay criticizing “woke” on the eve of Trump’s inaug…

> I don't select my engineering tools because they give me a bad feeling. Those bad feelings are often your years of experience trying to tell you something.

Self install?

One of the biggest fantasies in that book is that the "protesters" would be so unified and ethical in their plots. In real life the attacks in response to climate change(and in thi…

There is a video of Elon performing a gesture in which he forms a heart shape with his hands, and then mimes giving it out to the crowd. It is quite distinct from the multiple Nazi…

The inefficiency of creating, transporting, and converting hydrogen into motion is way too much to bear for the purpose of eliminating a 45 minute charging stop.

There might be some political differences between these three women that may be relevant to the conversation.

He also came down the stairs calling Obama a secret Muslim Kenyan.

SPOILERS. In B5 the only thing close to ineffable alien were the ones that went beyond the rim. Most of the day-to-day aliens were stand-ins for human nations and cultures. The OPA…

> but don’t pretend this is some novel or uniquely partisan creation. There is no need to pretend. The specific excesses I mentioned are Republican actions. The Democrat failures d…

Your argument is ultimately that it’s ok to ignore the constitution, civil rights, and human decency because it’s time to do things “the hard way”.

Even if the current state of immigration policy was forged in a bipartisan agreement(it wasn't), it would be inhumane and I would condemn it. Fortunately the Republicans, specifica…

Are you trying to imply that Germany didn't deport anybody in 1939?

I wanted to play devil's advocate here, but unfortunately did find an example of a "politically disapproved position" in frumple's post history: "The deportations will continue reg…

My point isn’t about the advancement of technology, it is about theft and destruction disguised as technology. If what happened to my wife happened to Warhol the equivalent would b…

My wife draws comics and exhibits at comic con, and her website is basically being ddossed by AI scrapers to the point of NEEDING cloudflare to keep the site online. Then people ge…

> but at some point workers have to face reality. If workers have to face the current reality, we are in for an unfortunate time. The better outcome would be fixing the current rea…

> Sugarcane is mostly grown on degraded pastureland far from the Amazon. I vaguely recall campaigns against turning Amazon into pastureland via slash and burn.

Anecdote: In the days of Quakeworld, for important games, I would reboot into linux for the match. Framerate and ping were better.

Being stupid and controversial is now a popular ideological option.

I have tried this approach to mixed results, got Boxer set up on their laptops with a few classics, but they didn't really gravitate towards it. I searched for modern alternatives …

Tesla’s valuation isn’t based on their ability to make a BEV.

Same here, it's been so difficult to find good shows after Bluey and Avatar. The gap between those two shows and everything else is almost breathtaking.

Dinosaur Comics I believe.