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throwawaytea
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Comment #48969820
If you buy the common reliable gas engines, and stick to timing chains, you really don't have to do much. Our 4runner has 260k miles and hasn't ever had anything done but engine oi…
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Comment #48948851
It was made with zero artistic intent, so it has zero value. If you sat down a talented art student that cared, they could prompt AI to make something artistically interesting to w…
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Comment #48936565
I sold cars for a living so I pay attention to randoms in cars more than most probably. The amount of people (mostly women) sitting WAYYY too low in their car is shocking. I don't …
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Comment #48936527
The police sure would. And when people these days talk about drinking and driving, most of it IS the 4 beers after work they're talking about. The crazy drunkard having stiff drink…
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Comment #48930193
For sure drunk driving increases your odds of an accident. But people make it sound 3-4 beers and you're bound to have an accident. We should be more honest about it.
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Comment #48928805
I worked in car sales. Most of my coworkers drove drunk once a week or more. So basically I've seen 10+ people drive drunk 100+ times, and no doubt they do it more outside my view.…
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Comment #48928790
Those are real tech IMO. Consumer media type software isn't 'tech', at least not regular useful software sense. That would be like calling addictive drugs and slot machines an inno…
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Comment #48928673
I'm not assuming you are ignorant. More like wrong, or misinformed, or corrupt, or an enemy of good people, or stupid.
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Comment #48928653
Do you also inform Jewish people about the lower bound estimates of their people killed, or only Polish people?
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Comment #48887745
They literally celebrate the group that did it, tofl this day. Zalensky recently had a medal/award rescinded by Poland because of it.
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Comment #48876220
The Ukrainian executed 100k Polish civilians not too long ago, but I'm sure now they are angels.
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Comment #48831857
You're conflating better for apple (and shareholders) with better for the country overall.
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Comment #48825918
So you happen to be a rare example of someone that buys a new car recently, and you live on a narrow road, and you like to do a semi rare act when wide cars approach. And that has …
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Comment #48701529
I gotta be honest, I personally don't think someone playing wordle is a gamer by the common usage of the word.
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Comment #48700227
Facebook marketplace for one.
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Comment #48695468
I sold cars for a decade and wouldn't even take the insanely cheap priced company demo car, just driving my 10 year old car instead. On that note though, most car salesman are some…
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Comment #48695438
What's crazy is these people want to invest decent money to use AI/LLMs, but somehow don't think to just ask an AI chat bot which would easily answer it for them and any follow-up …
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Comment #48695411
Next you're going to tell me that car salesman recommend just leasing new cars, doctors recommend just following the standard of care, construction workers just recommend subbing i…
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Comment #48695390
That's clever, and I can't imagine or explain it as easily. Something to do with a reference point moving away from you so when solving for bringing it back to zero it's different …
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Comment #48695132
Because things like energy are relative. So if you label the ground 0, and go up 10 feet, you get x energy. Going up another exact same x from your 10 foot ladder spot you could no…
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Comment #48692954
I had the same hunch when I saw it, which is either pure genius on the part of the author/publisher or pure lol meme magic.
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Comment #48681321
Yes and the world has 6 billion researchers too because we Google things. It's a lot more useful though when words have meaning and we take them seriously, otherwise nothing really…
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Comment #48681312
Well California automatically pays more than most of the country. And I believe FedEx has some Union drivers. And yes, just like the average software engineer salary isn't all that…
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Comment #48679128
That's not a good analogy because you had to work and contribute to get your SS, while the new illegal has money spent on him for basically breaking the law and sneaking into the c…
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Comment #48679046
Half the world's population is easily too young or too old or too poor or too rich to be gamers. So that 3 billion stat alone shows me people love just counting any moments spent i…