There’s the whole thing where if you’re white, even if you’re not a bigot, you benefit from systemic racism and a bunch of stupid motherfuckers unable or unwilling to think twist that into “all white people are racist.”

But in my experience the venn diagram between those people and bigots that don’t like being called out is a circle.

Edit: To be completely fair, I have occasionally seen (in print, never in person) the opinion that benefiting from systemic racism makes all white people racist, even if they don’t act or think in any bigoted ways, even if they’re actively anti-racist. But I always assumed those brain-dead takes would be rejected out of hand by any reasonable person, and certainly not lead someone to think the culture in general labels them as a racist just for being white. But I wouldn’t be surprised to learn those articles, or whatever, were boosted in racist spaces to feed their bullshit about “white oppression.”

Great except for audio quality. I don’t understand why they stubbornly refuse to improve it. I’d be willing to pay more for a higher audio quality tier.

I check to see if they’ve improved every now and again because I think their stations made from a song or artist (my preferred way to listen) are without peer, but until they get their shit together I’m sticking with Tidal.

Tidal also lets you do a lot of things Pandora doesn’t: scrub thorough any track, play more specific songs instead of waiting for them to come up, see the whole queue it generated and play anything on it, and a few other things but I would happily give it all up for Pandora’s superior station generation if they would only get higher quality audio.

Yeah but at least it was a scandal. That asshole, and a bunch of others, went to jail, even if it wasn’t long enough. If it happened today they’d either never be charged or pardoned and that asshole would be the Secretary of Defense.

From your comment I’m going to guess that like most in this community, and lemmy as a whole, you know a lot more about this than your average user.

From the perspective of a reasonably tech savvy person that doesn’t like to be told how to do things and is willing to put in a little effort, the question I ask is this; is this hardware I bought actually mine to do with as I please out of the box with a minimum amount of guardrails to stop me from doing something really stupid unless I know what I’m doing as opposed to just licensing it from a nanny?

Linux - yes, maybe too much, at least for me.

Windows - yeah, usually.

Mac - lmao no, stfu and take your sippy cup.

And there is nothing wrong with someone who is just a user saying “I don’t ever want to deal with any of this shit, I’ll take the sippy cup.” But it’s still a sippy cup.

Fucking Gauls.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-somewhat

If you can’t do that, that’s a manufacturer restriction. I’ve never had a phone that couldn’t do that and my current one is only last year’s model. I plug it in, it gives me a few options: charge, usb storage, i think something else also, and it works like it always has. I assume the OS files and some app files are protected but everything else is drag and drop as if it was any other storage device like it has been since my first Android in 2010.

Jesus dude, I know the average person’s reading comprehension is bad, but you really take the cake.

I’m not advocating for auto manufacturers, I’m advocating for updating the CAFE standards that unintentionally incentivize large pickups. They already make the things and sell them down in Mexico, they’re very popular. The reason US customers can’t buy them is the EPA.

But I think you know all that. You’re just uninterested in learning the causes so effective adjustments can be made. You just want to impotently piss and moan to absolutely zero effect.

They make things people will buy. No one is buying an S10 that costs 20% more after penalties because it can’t be as fuel efficient as a Camry.

Edit: I’ll stipulate that the auto manufacturers are, and always have been, run by a bunch of fuckers. Fuckers that have worked against public transit, fuel efficiency standards, and emissions standards. No one is arguing with you about that. But they don’t do it for fun. They’re not supervillains that want to ruin the environment. They’re not aliens trying to terra form the planet. They do it for money. If there is no profit in small pickups, they won’t make them. And if the only choice for people that want/need a pickup is a giant truck, that’s what they’ll get. These standards as written take away the option of small pickups.

While regulatory capture is a huge problem, in this case, auto manufacturers definitely didn’t write this. They would like nothing more than to see it go away, or at least rolled back to where it was a couple decades ago. Overall that would be bad for fuel efficiency standards, but it would allow for small pickups again.

In my completely amateur opinion, a solution would be a cutoff on the wheelbase where a vehicle was no longer a car/light truck, but a new catagory with different higher standards. Or maybe a carve out for vehicles with a bed that allowed a little wiggle room for smaller vehicles. I don’t like the idea of allowing less fuel efficiency, but if the choice is between a small truck that misses the fuel requirements of a similarly sized car by a few MPG or a behemoth with half the MPG, I’ll come down on the side of a carve out for little trucks.

It may not be only the EPA’s fault, but an unintended consequences of the CAFE standards and how they change over time is a perverse incentive to increase wheelbase and track, lowering the fuel efficiency instead of raising it.

If you haven’t yet, watch the video. It does a good job explaining why you can’t make the Chevy S10 we used to see all over the place in the 90s without a big penalty that would make it too expensive.

I recently renovated and said fuck no to all the smart home shit. Just the idea of having to troubleshoot the WiFi because my kitchen light won’t turn on drives me into a rage.

Given who we’re taking about, I won’t hold my breath for it.

The main reason republicans are able to get better results from a filibuster than the democrats is republicans don’t give a shit about the consequences.

When there is a lapse of government funding it causes chaos in a lot of programs that tens of millions of people depend on. Even if it’s just a day, the government spends weeks preparing for it and when it’s over it’s not like flipping a switch and everything goes back to normal, there is a long recovery period. Even getting close to a lapse results in wasted effort preparing for the possibility which takes away from running the programs and harms people.

For republicans that’s an added benefit to a point, not something to be avoided so they will hold out until they get a large portion of what they want. Democrats have to weigh the pain and suffering from a lapse against getting concessions so their thresholds are different.

But as absentbird said, that doesn’t really apply here because rescission isn’t something that democrats are going to use often.

No, you can’t. Debate time is limited in the senate for a rescission package. There is no filibuster, neither a traditional talking one nor one where they just say they’re filibustering to prevent a vote.

I suppose someone could just talk and refuse to stop. They would be ruled out of order, and if they didn’t stop the Senate Sergeant at Arms would have them removed. If every democrat did that I guess that would hold things up a bit, but it’s not a filibuster and eventually the vote would proceed.

Rescission packages aren’t subject to the filibuster, only a simple majority is needed. Expect more of this.

Apparently Been Shapiro’s wife (she’s a doctor btw) disagrees. It’s supposed to be dry as the Sahara, just like it is every time she begrudgingly gets naked in front of him.

If by “their own version” you mean the original version, yes. The original version used Atlantic City, New Jersey place names. It’s since been localized all over the world and there are also tons of specialty versions based on pop culture, hobbies, colleges, etc. The previous game it was based on, The Landlord’s Game, used places from New York City.

I had a chance run in with one of my profs and his TA at a bar. He was the department chair but got roped into teaching an undergrad class that semester. He was basically that guy on the right, and the TA was on his way there. The insights into what life as a physics PhD was really like that I gleaned from that conversation is why I’m not the guy on the right and instead found something easy and high paying with a different major. Sometimes I feel like I might have wasted my natural ability, but I think I’m probably much happier. Also, maybe I’m just not that smart anyway and my absence is absolutely no loss to the field.

Fuck cars and up with cycling and bike infrastructure and all that but unless this study is more specific than the article states, it’s useless. And if it is more specific this article may be misleading.

It just gives a percentage of “in compliance with traffic laws” and doesn’t give a breakdown of what laws. Since most drivers speed at least a little quite often, and most cyclists are incapable of speeding anywhere near as much, what laws are the cyclists breaking to get them as low on compliance as drivers? If it’s stop signs and red lights, that is right in line with the stereotype of them being dangerous scofflaws the article is saying this study shows is incorrect.