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In western Washington State everything is on a hill and it feels as if the road is always wet all the time due to rain. Subaru is the most popular car brand in the whole state because it handles these conditions well.

Maybe water access for parts of the process?

Did he put up though? Do you have multiple examples of pro-consumer wins he had early in his tenure?

> The alternatives have always been crap

LibreOffice is actually fine for 99% of all paper pusher workloads. The only office app that can claim superiority is Excel.

Normally “second screen content” refers to something you glance at while doing your main task such as a day job (emails, etc).

Another example is Old School Runescape, which has gained a moniker of “second screen game” because a lot of the boring grindy content can be done while focusing on something else.

The Nintendo Switch 2 is the fastest selling console of all time. Consoles are not dying, it is just that Nintendo won the war.

Which is fine. RuneScape has been in development since the early 2000s, long before GenAI even existed. They got along before GenAI and they can continue to not use it.

People may be forgetting the game has 20 years of content already, why do they need to make more faster with GenAI? Its already a massive piece of software.

Runescape is quite literally a dinner table name it is that famous. Their only true competition is probably World of Warcraft. The community is already huge. What competitive advantages are they going to lose? Likely none.

My company uses Oracle BRM to bill for millions of phone calls each month. It would be such a crazy upheaval project to move from that.

Prehistoric humans get a pass in my book. They seemed to have a cozy life.

I agree with this statement in general, but it “hurts less” to spend money when you are running things yourself. Hard for me to give a specific definition as to why, but it may be more palatable to companies to burn their own cash on their own hardware.

Maybe it is “sunked cost” or maybe it is “I will do it myself dammit”.

I wonder if the popularity of NetBSD for research has to do with how easy it is to compile a version of NetBSD with favorable licenses.

You can opt to build it yourself and exclude anything that is not 2-clause BSD licensed, as some drivers and such are if I recall correctly.

My response to that would be

“Hey intern/grad student, enjoy your new assignment”

Captions are for audio. I presume if someone is reading captions they can read the whiteboard.

Now if you are talking about the blind then sure thats different but the blind don't need captions.

Counter point is captions are also really cheap. I presume the lecturer read from a script, just use that.

Birthright citizenship is a constitutional right in the US same as freedom of speech, religion, the press, and the right to sue the government.

The change would require 2/3 of all states to approve a constitutional amendment. It won't ever pass. Most of us are only citizens because someone up the chain was born under this rule.

My family came here in the early 1700s and fought in the revolution. It would be a disgrace for me to do anything other than support immigrants.

Could be that woodlands grow better in areas with more rain and thus less sun and thus more cases of seasonal depression?

“Birds aren’t real” is fully and completely a meme for goofs.

Zuck I think is also just for goofs but the others yes indeed have true believers.

Note: not my video. Please support the author/developer who is "Grow Now! Games".

Anyone who tries to unironically complain about “DEI” in the headline does not deserve a read. It is just a dog whistle at this point.

Temu had a Superbowl ad. Not sure AliExpress did that.

Where I live it can rain hundreds of days a year and the nearest course had browning greens last time I drove by.

We can do two things: limit almond farming and limit AI water usage.

Isn't this how gambling works though? You and I place a similar value of chips on a table, then the winner walks it over to a third party (the counter at the casino) to exchange the chips for currency?

> As far as I know, the only reason spoofing is even possible, is so that call centers in other countries can pretend to be calling from a local number, which.. why is that even a feature?

It is very common for each individual phone in a call center to have a direct inward dial number, but when they dial out they want the main support contact number to be displayed so you can get routed appropriately and not harass their tech support employee.

Just like how sometimes I consider how little I should care about a social media frequenter’s opinions. I am, for better or for worse, getting near the last willing comment I am going to leave on this, or any, social media site.

That is not due to age or illness, it is due to enshittification. Not by the admin but by the populace.

City run grocery stores are certainly not evil.

Examples?

> The effects of rapamycin are temporary, and repeated dosing loses efficacy, making rapamycin, itself, an unlikely candidate as a broadly-used treatment.

Havre, MT has curved rays going east. Is that intentional?

> Every gamer has dreamed about having an infinite library of games to choose from.

Eh, that sounds like I would have difficulty picking which games to play. I kind of prefer having a narrower selection from my shelf (and digital shelf)