Too much corruption in RAM, need a power cycle

Assumes he’ll get hung. Assumes he’ll be raped. Implies there are people built for prison.

Damn, tell me how you really feel about the prison system and who you think belongs there

Or “I might be Irish, but at least I’m not an Italian” to not make yourself look better, but to make the others look worse

I’m not talking about what the individuals go on to say from their personal capacities. I’m talking about a reality TV show where men pretend to beat each other up. Or am I out of the loop and wrestlemania is now part of the campaign trail?

I used to say all the same until, likely related, the relatively recent growth of John Cena’s film career. We know wrestling is fake. We know Twoicide Squad is fake. That doesn’t stop me from talking about the cool things Peacemaker does, so why should I police other people talking about wrestling events? Plus, after seeing live wrestling, it’s genuinely entertaining to watch as a sports/dance event. Note: I have zero interest in mma/boxing/etc and really don’t watch sports anyway.

People watch plays. People watch concerts. People watch sports. People watch wrestling. It’s just entertainment

I came back to the top to write a leading question: is Instagram going to be the main social network used to communicate? That changes the purpose of following. If not, then here’s my take regarding content alone:

Do I care about their lives? I’ll follow back. Do I like their content? I’ll follow back. Do I not care about their lives and don’t like their content? I don’t follow back.

My interests have major overlap with some opposing ideologies and if they make it a part of their content, I’m not following them. If they post low effort bullshit about their outdoor alcohol without doing any proper photography technique, I don’t need to see that snapshot of their day unless they’re a core person I care about.

If you don’t follow back, they’re probably going to forget within a day. “Oh I don’t check it often”. You’re also allowed to unfollow people if you don’t like their content later. It’s not a big deal. If it’s a big deal to them now, they’ll either figure out it isn’t a big deal later or they’re always going to prioritize something I refuse to. Follow count should be natural but it will always feel like a competition and a measurement of success. Always has been, on every social platform.

Mutualism, parasitism? The group wants some puritanical bullshit and knows a tactic to make other services comply

Are you sure gun and violence culture is on the chopping block? In the American market?

In context, I suspect they meant to say some 30 year olds will be less mature, rather than saying look at a less mature age group, then go even lower

Omit jobs held less than 2 years? In this economy? They’re all less than 2 years! Props to those who’ve held jobs for several years because you must be comfortable. Most people shopping aren’t comfortable and changing jobs has gotten me more money than any in-house raise ever did.

So you’d sell it cheaper than everyone else and then… Still spend the market value for the replacement? I like to think of myself as an altruist, but I bow to you. I’m not gonna go carless or homeless for the sake of selling things below market to make a point. I don’t have the capital to cover that.

It was over a year last time, I believe. It’s really not as common as it sounds, but it’s a very specific thing that happens in a precise place and certainly makes me want to have a small live display of this counter.

I don’t see how this is a surprise or secret knowledge and certainly don’t see how you’d get charged for using the batteries if you didn’t know. If the panels and the batteries are on the same side of the meter, then using power from them will slow (and even reverse) the meter. Are you talking about emergency batteries requiring a total switch over between sources? Or are they integrated night time buffers for solar?

My area only offers credit and only approves grid hookup if annual production is equivalent to annual consumption. Don’t worry, they’re still taking the government incentives regarding green energy credits.

People that wanted to buy new are instead settling for used. They have more money on hand, meaning in order to secure the deal, they’re offering more money closer to asking price. They were probably even over asking price in 2020-2022. It’s automotive gentrification where the top buyers are settling for lesser product, pushing each bracket of buyer down to a lower product rank, squeezing the bottom buyers out of the market. So tell me, with buyers willing to spend more, are YOU going to be the one that charitably sticks to the 2019 KBB value of a car you’re selling?

Anyway, take a look, used prices are down closer to where inflation was projected pre-2020. New car supply is up, so most used cars normalized. Project car prices have crashed now that most people are commuting and socializing again and don’t have time. Hybrids/EVs leveled out since gas prices are normalized.

Probably because it’s just a nice round tens of thousands that’s the current benchmark. It wasn’t long ago that similar articles mourned the scarcity of the sub-$20k car. I don’t want to say it was a Scion, but I don’t think the gap could be that big between the death of scion and the general loss of the $19, 999 car.

Tried to look up what I saw years ago and instead found there were still sub-$20k cars as of 2024. Hyundai Venue and Mitsubishi Mirage. And the venue just surpassed the mark.

Anyway, see you again in 2029-2035 when someone else writes about the loss of the $40,000 economy car

As always, bills are packed full of shit so trying to catch a win in one aspect is always tied to agreeing with something else entirely against your ideology. Fuck this ferrying, coat-tail tugging, crosslinked system.

The overuse (and overtrust) of LLMs has made me feel ashamed to reference video game NPCs as AI and I hate it. There was nothing wrong with it. We all understood the ability of the AI to be limited to specific functions. I loved when Forza Horizon introduced “drivatar” AI personalities of actual players, resembling their actual activities. Now it’s a vomit term for shady search engines and confused visualizers.

Really? Like the steak sauce? I guess I should have seen that coming since the 00s motorcycle communities keep asking about their F1 light. Fuel 1njection

Acts of violence with cars are notoriously underpunished. Some bullshit about the unrealized power and semi-autonomy of a vehicle in motion