Especially when people fuck with the ride height on their trucks. They almost always end up with the front higher than the back, relative to it’s stock setting. Then don’t bother to adjust the head light angle to compensate.

Then, on I need a massive light bar on the top of my truck. Never mind that I never take this thing off road or do any work with it. It looks cool and it’s bright and shiny.

Fuck off. Can we just tax these things properly and not v give them a lower tax rate since their classed as commercial vehicles. No one buying these massive boats uses them for more than going to home Depot once a year to buy some leaf bags.

/Rant

Another data point yesterday was University of Miami (Ohio) poll of Ohio showing Trump+3 in Ohio. It’s not as extreme a swing as the Selzer Iowa poll but it’s a significant shift from 2016, 2020 and much of the polling this cycle.

So while the Selzer poll is out on a bit of an island, the Miami-Ohio poll certainly shows a similar swing.

I’m inclined towards pessimism, but it’s hard not to feel there’s some significant herding happening, and that the averages are being affected by it as well as some low quality pollsters flooding the data with polls

Translation: all the times Tesla has vowed that all of its vehicles would soon be capable of fully driving themselves may have been a convenient act of salesmanship that ultimately turned out not to be true."

There’s a word for that already. Lied. They/He lied.

No need for 30 words when 2 will do.

They Lied.

I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the fashion at the time

I think it’s a poor phrasing. A more accurate statement would have been, “We have not been able to confirm a motive at this time” or similar. Basically leaving room for the idea that we all more or less know what the motive was, while acknowledging that’s it has not (yet) been proven conclusively.

In-N-Out is definitely overrated. Their burgers are fine, maybe even good, but the fries are fucking trash. You can’t be a restaurant with 2 things on the menu and have one of them be awful.

Pretty sure Spirit still does

Which I find extremely odd, since some traditionally masculine activities are nature oriented. Hunting, fishing, outdoorsy stuff in general. It wasn’t that long ago that (environmental) conservation was a huge component of those activities to ensure continued access for people to those activities. Maybe it still is but I certainly don’t get that impression as strongly anymore.

Disney built its entire empire on existing/public domain stories. Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Robin Hood. The list goes on. Hell even Aladdin is largely located from Middle Eastern fairy tales.

The fact that they’re relying on existing IP now is nothing new. It’s who they’ve always been. It’s just that they had to buy it since it wasn’t already in the public domain.

What I don’t understand is how Microsoft has/has Watson which was able to answer questions well enough to go on Jeopardy and dominate. And now, more than a decade later these LLMs absolutely suck at it.

It makes me wonder if Watson was nothing more than a Mechanical Turk because what is out there now seems like a huge step backwards.

It’s cute that you think that would matter to Trump

30s

I will not stand for this! Rankine will be the standard! It will confuse and infuriate everyone equally. Truly the fairest of outcomes.

They would come up with work arounds in six months.

Six months. I give it 6 minutes. Tops

My biggest fear with this proposal is that lower wage positions just get offloaded or somehow classified as “independent contractors” or consulting or some other bullshit. Or they create some shell company to all these positions. Or some other chicanery.

Don’t get me wrong, I agree in principle. But God damn if actually enacting and enforcing wouldn’t be some legal whack a mole with these slippery bastards

New? Hardly. Republicans have been using Iran as a scapegoat for decades. I can remember Bush admin being filled with Iran hawks and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it go back to Reagan or further still

Honestly, it’s had pros for even longer. The USSR “amateurs” were members of the Red Army whose entire job was their sport.

Did Nazis co-opt the valknut? I know it’s Norse, so it wouldn’t surprise me if they did, just couldn’t find anything from some quick searching.

Yes. For communities that on Reddit were small to medium size there was a critical mass of people to sustain large, lively threads, particularly during live events. Lemmy currently lacks that, outside of the letter tech, politics and meme communities. And for the smaller communities, activity can be almost non existent.

Then the federated nature of Lemmy allows for duplicate communities on different instances. This is not inherently a bad thing, particularly for larger interest areas as it helps prevent a particular sub group from dominating discussion in an area. But fracturing of smaller communities can make just finding an active one more difficult. I know that this is a feature in many ways, but it does have tradeoffs that have to be acknowledged.