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7·4 hours agoI think it’s even worse than that: he wants black people to get back to the “work” the holiday was about emancipating them from.
4·5 hours agoCompletely unrelated fun fact: ALPR systems are just cameras attached to a computer, and cameras are pretty fragile.
*sedition
2·8 hours agocounter prohibitive
LOL, what a delightful malapropism!
Ernest P. Worrell, of course!
https://youtu.be/G1G7KQZpP3c?t=42
Jim Varney’s character — with “knowwhatImean, Vern?” as his catchphrase — was so successful that he went from doing cheap commercials for local TV to become a legitimate movie star.
15·14 hours agoI think he’s just taking the opportunity to point out that Amazon is committing tax evasion by fraudulently misclassifying those employees as contractors.
Let the sunshine in!
(That song was released decades before I was born, BTW.)
But help me understand how it’s possible that our “free market” is enabling this, unless it’s just a controlled market charading as free?
John Deere is relying on DRM enforced by copyright law, which, being a literal government-granted monopoly, is as anti-free-market as it gets.
Years ago, folks hacked a Jeep Wrangler remotely, with a WIRED reporter in the car: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
That freaked the shit out of vehicle manufacturers. It led to encrypted CANBus messages: https://dev.to/living_syn/can-bus-message-security-3h43
In other words, they deliberately learned exactly the wrong thing from that: they could have taken it as a lesson to not have a fucking transceiver in the damn thing so it couldn’t receive remote messages in the first place, but instead they used it as an self-serving excuse to implement anti-consumer and anti-third-party-repair bullshit.
I’m just thinking about how various European militaries used to give dipshit aristocrats officer commissions back in the day, until they got curb-stomped by Napoleon or whoever and figured out it wasn’t such a great idea.
Why you gotta hate on Ernest like that?
Desktop mode is good.
Big Picture Mode is good.
Why it’s so easy to accidentally switch between the two makes no fucking sense.
3·17 hours agoIt’s also really expensive but it feels like being in the sort of store you’d go to if you were rich, not like being ripped off.
That’s kinda how Whole Foods used to feel, before Amazon bought it.
Lemmy markdown — which is better than Reddit markdown in some ways, but worse in others — will automatically do a similar conversion, except it takes three hyphens instead of two (two hyphens gets you an en dash). It’s nice, but also unfortunate because it messes up people’s muscle memory since using only two for it mimics what was customary when writing in ASCII, on mechanical typewriters, etc.
You’re the one who posted misinformation, got called out, asked for more info, and then dismissed it when given. That’s your shitty behavior, not mine.
I tried to compare to a '90s F-150, but that site doesn’t have one.
Also FWIW, anecdotally around here small trucks seem more likely to be used as work trucks than [now greater than] full-size ones. My '90s single-cab Ranger was pretty clearly a former work truck (given how beat up the bed was and the fact that it came with a toolbox), for example, and I use it mainly for hauling and towing. Small trucks can, in fact, “cut it” in a lot more situations than people give them credit for.
Hmm… apology accepted. But you should eat more Scotch eggs!
Do you think even all the charities put together come close to fixing the problem? 'Cause they don’t, which you would understand if you’d actually bothered to avail yourself of the info you asked for beyond your “short wikipedia scan.”
Claiming that they have experience working with homeless, but demonstrating that they’re a callous asshole (and probably very bad at their job, if they aren’t outright lying).
“Ideological” does not cover:
There are lots of situations in which a threat to kill is not terrorism. Quit trying to dilute the definition of terrorism.
Okay, and…? I never disputed that this situation counted as terrorism; I only took issue with your overly-broad definition. In fact, it’s doubly weird that you’re choosing to die on this hill because you didn’t even need to go overboard making the definition wider than it is when the situation easily meets the real definition of it anyway! The guy you initially replied to was wrong and you would have been correct, except that you overstated your argument for no good reason.
Words have meanings and you’re using one of them wrong. That’s all.