Canada’s the same except we have serious parking mafia and it’s c$20.

When my dear friend suffered a Widowmaker heart attack, and they lit up and staffed a theatre on an early holiday Sunday morning for a brace of stents, he didn’t have to sell his house to make payments for it… Because it was c$20 for parking and a bit more for some really bad coffee. Costs were borne by all of us and it was pre-paid from taxes.

Dude survived and annoys us with his sarcasm and piss-takes to this day.

so I’m not sure how exactly they help?

I would say yes, that you are not sure how exactly they help, if I’m answering your question as written.

I’m sure they could slap something together in days and have it in the field in weeks.

We make a lot of assumptions about how other people live, and what they have available.

fireexit

Because the hyphen or space keys are so far away.

Competition is the core of capitalism

Lemmy tells me that exploitation is the core of capitalism. Not so?

If a crook steals a watch, you gonna jail the crook or jail the guy who makes timex?

Systemd now wants to do homedirs. Is that the same thing?

Excel is a powerful tool.

You typoed ‘popular’?

You can choose to repatriate your workload. People are doing it to save money constantly; now you get to claim it’s for the greater good!

fun how you didn’t respond to a single one of my points. because you can’t.

I stopped reading almost at ‘full stop’. I really stopped at ‘literally’. At that point I’m making too many assumptions and it’s nothing I can touch objectively.

He did about 4 walls of text after, and it sounds like you went down some serious rabbit holes. So you think you may have drifted a little into the paranoid ‘othering’ lane?

Anyway, cut him some slack and try with someone else. Next time for sure!

That makes logical sense, but what about the numbers? They can’t go up if we keep spending the money we promised to spend on the 69th most effective and absolutely most expensive healthcare system in the world. What is this, an essential service? Rubes.

I use both daily.

It’s sad that Skype is more reliable and usable.

Well it’s also a US company.

Are you suggesting a US company that shoots rockets to the moon can’t be arsed to follow even a global standard? Like, who the hell else can it be doing business with if the Imperial standard from a king 200 years ago is its ride-or-die baggage?

Beetle EV

The Karmann Ghia EV conversions are stunning. Go see the most gorgeous thing VW ever made do 0-60 in 3 seconds.

So, as someone who drove three different classic beetles in the past, you know the KG is still my vote.

bad news for you about living languages…

Is it “the good ones, like French, gate-keep changes to prevent capricious drift by vapid Instagram whores, and the others are ‘literally’[sic] English”?

Scenario1:

“Um, hi. Can I just order here inside? Thanks. I’m really hating the apps now. For sure: one medium cold-brew, please. Yes, thanks, to go. Okay; tap here? Excellent. Oh. Put ‘guppy’ on the cup. Thanks! [pause] Oh, perfect. Hey, thanks again for letting me skip the app. Those are so frustrating! I’m really starting to avoid any place that uses them, and I’m so grateful I can still come in. Have a great day!”

Scenario2:

“Um, hi. Can I just order here? No? Just the app? That’s too bad: I’m really getting frustrated with the app and I’m starting to avoid places that need them. Nope, that’s all I needed, sorry. Thanks anyway, and have a great day!”

I like this idea because

1. you’re affirming the target behaviour
2. you’re getting a coffee and going
3. you’re being chipper so they don’t feed off your grumpy face
4. you’re providing feedback without being too much ‘that guy’, I hope, to the serving staff.

In all things, you don’t wanna be That Guy, because you know servers don’t need that shit. But, while the odds are slim of feedback getting up the chain of command, you’re being clear (and probably more concise) as to how to get more of your business in case the feedback DOES go up.

This.

And VWs were survivors, crossing the desert under air cooling and repairable usually with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver. The rear bumper can hold a grown man perched back there manually pulling the throttle if you bust the linkage … or, so I … hear.

I worry Teslas wouldn’t survive long enough to become classics. They don’t seem to be survivors.

/63+71+71super here.

Isn’t a few cop-shops using Tesla cars now already?

I worry how the cars hold up to aggressive driving, after seeing how the truck was pwned so badly by whistlinDiesel .

Immediately there should be a contempt charge for disrespecting the Court.

And when you do that with Canada, you make a tidy profit!

Then again, if you can find a house anywhere in the country, with running water, for less than a mil, there’s a gov analyst job waiting for you too!