chucksta

683 karma · joined March 23, 2018

chucksta··on San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic?

Kensington is hardly an example of the city, it was a mess before the pandemic. Drug epidemic is bad but that's all cherry picked, dude even said it https://youtu.be/nl0fDm7HSQ0?t=169 "one block is clean, the next isn't"

chucksta··on San Francisco: An Elitist Bubble Ignoring a Crime Epidemic?

https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2023/03/28/philadel...

Philly violent crime is down against last year but still ranks in recent highs

chucksta··on Tesla Model Y overtakes Corolla to be world’s best-selling car in 2023

Could be a lot of reasons, likely came from naming ships though

chucksta··on Peloton CEO quit after laying off 2,800. A lesson about how not to lead (2022)

Life

chucksta··on A Uber DEI exec placed on leave after hosting event “Don't Call Me Karen”

How in the world do you know what color they are if they aren't shown. Hell of a leap

chucksta··on Baltimore sues Hyundai, Kia over spike in car thefts

Uh it is.. https://www.yahoo.com/news/nationwide-rise-kia-hyundai-car-2...

chucksta··on IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers

https://sendcutsend.com/

chucksta··on A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku is huge in Japan

chucksta··on A song that uses AI to clone the voices of Drake and The Weeknd has gone viral

What will you do after its too difficult to tell how it was created on the surface level? Vet all media that comes into your life?

chucksta··on I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

Its Hydrogen, the concern is explosion https://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/safety_haz/battery-charging....

chucksta··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base

asshat sure, I think everyone has been there. Neo-nazi? no.

chucksta··on Pentagon leaks linked to young gun enthusiast who worked at military base

You've never said something off color to get a rise from someone? I've said some terrible things but am largely a good person. No one is perfect.

chucksta··on Elizabeth Holmes loses bid to stay out of prison during appeal of sentence

2008 housing crisis, OxyContin lawsuits, Wells Fargos infractions, Epstein, tax enforcement poor vs wealthy, Ohio derailment

chucksta··on The heaviest bicycle in the world is 4800 lb

Same concept doesn't effect calling a bike with training wheels a bike tho

chucksta··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive

I almost went with one of the new ones, got a GTI instead

chucksta··on Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum has died

Not sure what active shooter has to do with healthcare, but rich people can pay to send their kids to low risk schools.

chucksta··on At Long Last, a Donkey Family Tree

Had donkey confused with mule and was expecting some sort of joke. Mules are a cross bread of donkey and horse and are effectively sterile, ergo no tree.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mule

chucksta··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive

Believe what you want, but we don't get the good ones.

Good breakdown of the actual differences hatch/suv/crossover/sportback

https://www.motorhappy.co.za/motorhappyblog/education/know-t...

chucksta··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive

Hatches aren't as popular here as they are in the EU for various reasons. Very common for US to not get them

https://jalopnik.com/a-simple-explanation-why-america-doesnt...

https://www.hotcars.com/these-are-the-best-hot-hatches-ameri...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/cxmwk4/why_are_all_th...

chucksta··on New York City Prices Make $100k Salary Feel Like $36,000

The only thing that makes it expensive is the desire to be there. If you move that "desire" to a rural location, its going to cost the same but have larger distances to travel, a la Los Angeles.

chucksta··on 60 Days to Find a Job or Leave the Country

>why should a person born in India get treated completely different from someone born in the US? That is just racial discrimination to me

That would be nationalism or xenophobia, not racism.

Generally speaking it's an organizational issue, determining who can do what on a mass scale.

chucksta··on Privatizing our digital identities

What's the next person with your name supposed to do?

chucksta··on Coinbase Launches Base

same, i'm still trying to figure out how it would even go together? Supporting transactions in them?

chucksta··on Soylent Acquired by Starco Brands

Meaning?

chucksta··on Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing

High wage didn't stop pharma from getting to doctors

chucksta··on YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

A major benefit of paying for it is easily supporting more creators without directly donating. They get pittance for ad rolls but substantially more for premium views.

chucksta··on The US Air Force may have shot down an amateur radio pico balloon over Canada

Good point, like birds aren't real https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Aren%27t_Real

chucksta··on Bing Chat is getting ‘unhinged’ and argumentative: It ‘feels sad and scared’

>black slaves were freed because enough people believed that all humans are created equal, and that none of them should have absolute power over others. However, no such freedom was granted to animals, because not enough people believe that humans should not have absolute power over animals.

There you go, belief is your answer, whatever logic is behind that

chucksta··on Bing Chat is getting ‘unhinged’ and argumentative: It ‘feels sad and scared’

You're interjections are not what is being said or implied. It's stating that's how people perceived human slavery and will apply the same logic to cyber. There is no reason. People put themselves first, period, that's it.

chucksta··on Ohio cleaning up toxic train derailment as pollution 'plume' moves downstream

What advancements has there been with the balloons? The entire time its been "its definitely not aliens, but we don't know what it is, and we can't recover the debris for reasons"

Is the ecological damage and impact to residents not an ongoing event? Elected officials responses to the event/pressing them for one, informing people of proposed changes to make sure it doesn't happen again

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