Which, genuinely, if it was cheap I wouldn't care about. If it had no wifi or heated seats, no touchscreen or self driving. If it was just a cheapass vehicle for point a to point b and back, I would not mock it. It would have a place in the world and it would fulfill a purpose.
But currently it's place in the world is for the people who are unable to touch Elon Musk, but want to caress his face or be stepped on in a masochistic fashion by him. This truck is as close as they can get.
I mean, in the era of VHS this won't work because ultimately you're fast forwarding and rewinding. So you're gonna watch it anyway. but in the digital era I thought this would be what any Police officer did?
Like... they're not even gonna spend 10 minutes on a theft?
Admittedly, there is no government housing for politicians, which means either buying renting in washington DC (not cheap) in addition to your home in your own state, or moving entirely to Washington DC for a position you may lose in 4 years.
The entire job seems to be closed out to everyone but millionaires.
... He barely used the smartphone, he just scrolls with it in the credits and occasionally uses it and his OP protagonist powers to just melt things. I was really hoping it wasn't just a "I am a god" power trip anime but it was one of the worst ones I ever saw.
Honestly they only gave him a smartphone so that they could give it a unique title. Then they proceed to forget they gave it to him.
I remember starting to read Isekai Vending Machine solely because I thought it was going to be garbage but they fully commit to "nah this guy is a vending machine". It was way better than anticipated. I hate it when the protagonist is never in danger and just has to sneeze to get out of things, but a protagonist that can't move and uses the only thing keeping him alive to upgrade and output a shield? That's how you make something interesting.
Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy. But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods. White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.
"at scale" it could be just as bad. C02 isn't poisonous the big problem we're dealing with is we're putting C02 from the ground in oil and coal and putting it into the air. We've been adding C02 that was NOT in the environment into the environment.
Yeah some water isn't a bad thing, but if all of a sudden we're adding from sources outside of the water cycle a LOT more water into the atmosphere you've got increased clouds, increased weather patterns, All of a sudden the inland portions of continents can start dumping as much water into the air as a warm ocean, that can DEFINITELY be a problem.
If you imagine the old timey beds the 7 dwarves slept in in snow white, they had their names on the foot board of the bed and the headboard of the bed was on the other side of the bed by their head.
Honestly they seem out of fashion nowadays. It's one more thing to move when you move, it cost a lot for very little, most people lack a tool set to attach it to the bedframe.
Right in the very movie moment when they heard it, the words completely freaked out the sinister skin-walking aliens of John Carpenter’s action-horror classic They Live.
I’ve been experimenting with putting headphones on (not playing music, just blocking noise) in situations where there is a lot of noise and it kinda helps! Although, apparently it’s not considered “socially acceptable” to wear headphones while singing along with a group of people at a youth event lol. (I did explain it...
Earplugs can handle it even better. I originally bought them because I work in AV but it's really nice to be able to just crank down all the audio in the world. A decent set of acoustic earplugs can be bought for 8 bucks at a guitar center. I highly recommend acoustic because they don't make everything sound muffled, just quieter. If you find it helpful then you can shell out for something a bit nicer.
Even if you're not autistic, it helps drown out the noise to hear people in a bar, it protects your hearing, and really does help with feelings of being overwhelmed. Doesn't FIX it, but it does help.
Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that...
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
I always use edge whenever I'm making a public presentation with a computer I use. Simply because I never use it. Then autocomplete won't embarrass me if we look something up.
A house
-- Just purchased, closing is closing in soon.
two cars
-- completely mandatory. We couldn't possibly bus, we have two used cars approaching two decades old and we're dreading the day they croak.
a healthy relationship
-- married in July
a career
-- For me, finally started the career I wanted two years ago, after a decade of trying to become a programmer I finally am. Wife might be in a career now, she's not quite sure. She's happier where she is than Target, but that's a low bar.
livable wage
-- livable with the ability to go on vacations (mostly anime and comic conventions)
2.5 kids
-- don't want them at the moment.
a dog
-- ... two cats
I do NOT in any way feel like I've earned this. I have been saving to buy a house EVER SINCE I paid off my student loans. I dumped all my money for YEARS to get that debt off of my books and after I did, I immediately started saving. Didn't even change my living habits because they were habits at that point. I didn't even have a GF at the time. I just knew that I wanted to be ahead, because I knew that it was going to be a slog when I was finally ready to buy a home. Just like it was a slog to get into my career, just like it was a slog. I wanted to be AHEAD I wanted a good home. And after all that effort I got...
half a duplex for $305,000... Cheapest we could find if you don't count badrealestate suggestions on lemmy.
All that effort and I barely have a home. barely. We could've taken a larger loan but, shit happens. We could've been laid off, One of our cars could've needed to be replaced, We could've been disabled, We could've had our identity stolen, We could've been scammed, We could've been robbed, We could've come across a cop who didn't like our faces, We could've missed payments because Wells Fargo SUCKS and have our credit killed.
All of these things DIDN'T happen to us, so we got to purchase a house. Because if any of those things happened to us, we would've dipped into savings and we wouldn't be purchasing a house in our 30s. All of those things that could've happened were completely out of our control. (except for Wells Fargo, you can choose to not be fucked by Wells Fargo by LEAVING Wells Fargo)
Tesla's Cybertruck is a dystopian, masturbatory fantasy (www.engadget.com)
Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police (startrek.website)
Citizen watchdogs eye Congress' 'killing it' approach to stock trading (abcnews.go.com)
Lawmakers could vote for infrastructure bill, then buy stock in a concrete firm.
What's the most disappointing anime you've seen? (sh.itjust.works)
KeeperFX 1.0.0 released - Dungeon Keeper opensource remake and fan expansion (keeperfx.net)
BioWare's endless cryptic teases for Mass Effect and Dragon Age aren't just frustrating, they're arrogant (www.pcgamer.com)
The studio's acting like it's on a victory lap, when it should still be on its apology tour.
What is white hydrogen? Scientists say the clean-energy gas could save the world. (www.businessinsider.com)
Hydrogen power is an exciting form of clean energy. But hydrogen typically needed to be produced in a lab using energy-intensive methods. White hydrogen, a newly identified hydrogen source, could eliminate the need for lab production.
Is a bed without a headboard seen as cheap?
Or odd, or something?
AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion and ControlNet (reticulated.net)
They Live: The Story Behind How Roddy Piper Came Up with the Movie’s Most Famous Line (www.syfy.com)
Right in the very movie moment when they heard it, the words completely freaked out the sinister skin-walking aliens of John Carpenter’s action-horror classic They Live.
If you squint, my beef stroganoff is trying to tell you something (sh.itjust.works)
Headphone Experiment
I’ve been experimenting with putting headphones on (not playing music, just blocking noise) in situations where there is a lot of noise and it kinda helps! Although, apparently it’s not considered “socially acceptable” to wear headphones while singing along with a group of people at a youth event lol. (I did explain it...
What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?
Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that...
Microsoft Edge, anyone?
I recently discovered that you can get Microsoft Edge for Linux (🤢🤮) and am curious… does anyone here use Edge for Linux, or have you ever? What was your reasoning for using it?...
Plant based > Flesh based (lemmy.ml)
Agility Robotics has opened a factory in Oregon to build 10,000 of its 'Digit' humanoid robots a year. (spectrum.ieee.org)
Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart (feddit.de)
I’m at true neutral.
Caption This (lemdit.com)
Trolley Dilemma (lemmy.best)
'One Piece' review: Netflix does the impossible (mashable.com)
Does anyone feel like their life is going according to plan?
A house, two cars, a healthy relationship ,a career, livable wage, 2.5 kids, a dog. ya know, the expectation many children were told in school....