So Step 1 in the insurance scam, buy a bear suit. Step 2, buy a Rolls Royce. See already it's already way out of my budget. I guess that's why they say it takes money to make money.
After the US election, I think yes they will out of pride and spite.
I got a 10-speed bike when I was about 10. A friend and I rode 15 miles to my uncle's house to visit my cousin. Got home that evening and told my mom and she was like "That's a bit too far away. Anyway let's have supper."
Yeah but good this time. Build it from a gamers perspective.
That is on only one Earthlike planet in the Elite Dangerous Milky Way galaxy.
Any woman or veteran or union worker who voted for Trump is going to have a serious case of buyers remorse. I am none of those things but still voted for Harris because it seemed like the responsible thing to do, lesser of two evils. Way lesser it seems.
I work to have money for shelter and food and, just as importantly, some spending money for hobbies and travel. The freedom to be able to drive basically anywhere any time is a great thing to have.
The inequalities today are large but also the standard of living for even the lower class is probably higher than any other time in history. You can go your entire life without holding a shovel or hammer or piece of firewood Imagine instead having to build your own house, grow your own food, and cut firewood to stay warm. Things aren't so bad.
Give the people what they want. Solid business strategy.
Yeah when you look at a flight tracker site it's easy to conclude that this amount of air traffic can't be good for the air.
Well to be fair at some point most/all CRTs showed a blue screen instead of static. So it's possible someone born in 2000 never saw the snowy display.
Why are there cars?
I installed Manjaro to test a year or so ago. Only issue I had was my USB wifi adapter, that took some time to get working. Otherwise the OS install was very smooth.
It is awesome that your son wants to spend time with you. But I also think a 14 year old is old enough to understand that you don't want to go on a long trip with his mother and her new husband.
This trip is just one thing, maybe discuss other things you can do after the trip with just the two of you.
If they didn't sell out to a corporation they wouldn't be getting orders from the corporation.
Went to visit my elderly aunt, she's the oldest one in our immediate family at this point. We went out to eat at a local pizza place too, Don't think I've ever been to a restaurant with her before
If it isn't protecting you from popups in 2024 then it needs work.
So they renamed IMDB TV to FreeVee, then when they added commercials to Prime video they moved various content to FreeVee. Now they are getting rid of FreeVee and including it with Prime, but for free? I guess that's better, but confusing.
Too expensive and too late mostly.
A report shows that while the industry is growing, its biggest competition is Fortnite, GTA, Call of Duty, and Roblox
This data will probably only lead to more live service games. :|
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.
This is strange to me. Did the students create the deepfake nudes or did software create those nudes? A normal image editor program won't just create explicit material on its own, the user has to do it with a mouse/tablet/whatever. But AI algorithms will. Even if the kids were giving the instructions to AI, why isn't the software and/or the company that runs it at least somewhat liable for creating child porn?
Suppose the students drew the nudes themselves, but they were really bad stick figure drawings with a name beside them to say who it's supposed to be? Is that illegal? What if they were really good artists and the drawing looked like a photo? At what point is the art considered good enough to be illegal?
Ukraine’s fearless and expert EV mechanics bring electric vehicles declared unfixable in the US and Canada back to life on the other side of the world.
The Ukranian guy in this article didn't like spending $400 a month on fuel for his Jeep. So he spent $53,000 getting a wrecked Tesla imported and fixed, so he could pay about $50 a month to charge the Tesla.
Now he just has to drive the Tesla for 12 years to break even on fuel costs. Good move. :|
How do you feel about valet parking?
Valet parking seems to be getting more common at some city locations that don't have a good parking situation.
How do you feel about valet parking? Doesn't bother you in the least, will do it if you have to, will never do it, something else?
Personally I don't like some random person driving my car.
What does cigarette smoking do for people?
I've never smoked, but I've been around people that do. What do people feel during/after smoking? It doesn't seem to make people high or hallucinate or anything. It maybe mildly relaxes them?
UC Vanguard and Freestar Rangers questlines question
I've been getting diverted on sidequests, capturing ships, and exploration too much.
But I really don't want to do the Constellation questline yet, I've seen some spoilers and I'm not ready for that . I'm thinking of concentrating on the UC Vanguard or Freestar Collective questlines. Can I complete those without interfering with the Constellation questline?
Crimson Fleet Captain ship
Just went through a Starfield experience that sort of awed me. Wanted to capture some pirate ships, I took a mission from Freestar Rangers mission terminal to destroy a "Crimson Fleet Captain." I thought it was a person, but that's the name of a ship.
Engaged the ship, battle was fairly easy, took out their engines with EM weapons and boarded the ship. I was immediately blown away by how big and full of stuff the ship was. I've got a couple class B ships, but this one was probably 5 times the size of my Aegis. There were rooms after rooms, a few big open areas, several kitchens and sitting areas, a medical bay, storerooms, weapon rooms, armor mannequins, and a medium size trek-like bridge. The ship had at least 3 levels, and had probably 10-15 pirates to fight. Got to the captain's chair and was able to sit in it because I had leveled up my pilot skill enough. The ship was mine! I did this sort of thing last week with a smaller but impressive ship, but wasn't able to sit in the chair because my pilot skill was too low, so I had to abandon it.
All the time I was fighting my way through the ship I was saying "oh my god" to myself as I saw how much bigger this ship was than the ones I was used to.
For all it's shortcomings Starfield really nailed the ships, they are very unique and even compare very favorably to ships from Space Engineers, Empyrion, and Elite Dangerous. Elite Dangerous ships might give them some design competition but you can't walk around in them IIRC.
ETA: The ship is apparently originally a Crossbow III, it's not all that huge but compared to the starter ship it's massive: https://inara.cz/starfield/ship/1984/
Biden administration/NHTSA supporting Mass. right to repair law again
The Biden administration has changed its mind about a Massachusetts state law giving mechanics and car owners access to more diagnostic data.
>Car manufacturers could comply with the law “by using short-range wireless protocols, such as via Bluetooth,” to give owners or independent shops authorized by owners access to the information they need to diagnose issues with and repair vehicles, the letter says.
Hopefully no manufacturers are allowing changes to the vehicle wirelessly. It should be read-only.
Breakthrough raises hopes that musicality of natural speech can be restored in patients with disabling neurological conditions
Sound clip is pretty creepy.
Our entire existence may be a sort of stable spacetime bubble that can pop at any moment.
Like ants nesting on a river bank, some only live a few days. A colony could live for many ant generations on a riverbank but when a big flood comes their entire world is wiped out.