Viewing profile — mentalpiracy

Telling me that you’ve unilaterally decided to lobotomize a product I already paid you for, and then thinking that I’d like the privilege of purchasing additional goods from you - …

A good example of this is their meat department, specifically beef as an example. You will generally find that Costco is not any cheaper than your regular supermarket, but the prod…

This honestly sounds like the electricity service line into your place is fucked slightly and it is gradually destroying your electronics.

> "I think it got 98% of the information correct... I just needed to copy / paste a few things. If it can do 90 - 95% of the time consuming work, that will save you a ton of time" …

a definitive assertion offered without elaboration

ships use ports, boats use docks.

that’s very true, good point

If that is the only reliable signal in this context - what signals of measuring value are available in this context that you feel are unreliable?

public transit benefits the community/region more so than any individual benefit, so I don't think cost per passenger is appropriate either. Sometimes basic science research fundin…

Dynamic routing destroys the value proposition of a bus route entirely. The whole point of a system of bus routes is that you are providing a _reliable_ system of stop locations an…

Public transportation does not need to be run at a profit - it is a public utility, just like mail service. What better metric could we use to compare private driver services to pu…

public transportation is a service, a public utility, not a business. it should not need to be profitable, and framing it terms of profit at all is wrong imo.

>>> This is not quite the same situation as the end of Rogue One and A New Hope, where some people make the argument that Rogue One ends just a few minutes before ANH begins; I am …

It is not about stating a source, the bad thing is treating chatGPT as an authoritative source like it is a subject matter expert.

I remember feeling like a power user upgrading from Frontpage 98 to Dreamweaver and being able to hot swap between code and the live view. Dreamweaver rolled a ton of then-groundbr…

> The hyperbole is a bit much for me. It shouldn't amaze me, but here we are. Partisans are able to construe spending cuts and shrinking the purview of the state, with authoritaria…

incredible cyberpunk concept

drop a few of these into your nearest water-world, wait a few years, et voila: your very own sea monkeys.

Your failure to understand that the knife remaining in your body is, in fact, going to keep you alive longer than if you pulled it out is exactly the problem. Leaving the knife in …