Why such a small number?

Heck, if you’re managing to live paycheck to paycheck without saddling up on CC debt, then you’re doing better than 50% of the people here.

Not a cop.

Bad take.

If the journalists had intervened, the cops would have just arrested them and confiscated/deleted the interview.

It’s so fucking bad.

I’m currently having an issue on my work machine where my Windows App doesn’t close properly, and will hang the next time I try to connect to a virtual desktop unless I kill it in the task manager.

Imagine the crazy vague answers you get when you search for “Windows App won’t close”.

The problem is Microsoft is trying to push the corporate environment away from on-prem infrastructure and into the cloud. There is less and less you can do from Active Directory and Group Policy, more and more of it gets moved to InTune everyday.

Microsoft is pushing Azure Arc as well, which is intended to let you manage your on-prem resources using your cloud management interfaces.

but other areas it would be illegal to ignore invasive plants and not remove them.

I’ve never been in a park or area where you, as an individual, were legally liable for not removing invasive species.

That being said, I did get in trouble for having thistle in my yard, but there was a specific city ordinance against thistle, and not against invasives as a whole (otherwise most of the fucking neighborhood would be torn up, which TBH would be great.)

Because an uneducated bible-thumping yeehawdist’s is given the same (if not more) weight than a well-researched and rational vote.

My unpopular opinion from the last 26 years is that equality in voting means pandering to bottom half of the population. If you want an intelligent and effective government, it needs to be run by intelligent and effective people. Democracy is representative of the people, so if you have everyone voting equally, then at best, you’re going to end up with a 50% intelligent and effective government.

I honestly don’t know how to solve this problem. I can’t see a way that you can weight a vote by intelligence or “connection to reality” without having a system that is very vulnerable to oppression, and still protects the rights of the morons and sheep who want to get rid of social services while they are receving substantial welfare.

I’m not advocating for removing or watering down anyone’s right to vote, I’m just calling attention to a fundamental flaw in the system.

Yeah, my household tax rate last year was ~32% after Federal, State, and Local. That’s not counting the other taxes I paid on gas, or fees for my car, or property taxes. I would not be surprised if 50% of my income was taxes.

Bezos paid like 0.9% I think. Fucking ridiculous.

By your reasoning nobody learns anything before they go to university?

Absolutely not what I said. Please re-read my comment.

Because in what other educational environment you would read multiple books’ worth of information about a single subject…

Yeah… You definitely did not understand what I wrote. Read it again and see if you still feel the same way.

Glances nervously at Ford, BMW, VW, Mitsubishi, etc…

Reading can be part of learning, but just reading Wikipedia is not. If you want to learn something, you need to invest the time in it to understand not just the words, but the context of that information, you need to be able to apply what you have read, and make use of it, even if that use is purely academic.

For instance, you can read about the American civil war on Wikipedia, but a history teacher would not say that you learned the history of the American civil war. You would need to read multiple books on the situation before the war, during the war, and after the war, along with exploring the relevant technologies available at the time. You’d also want to look into primary sources like the diaries of some of the major leadership on both sides of the conflict, and review maps of battle sites and troop movements with time and dates, maybe even go visit some of the major battle sites, and at that point, you could say you’ve learned the history of the American civil war.

Same thing for space. You can read the Wikipedia article on space, but you can’t claim that you learned about space from that. You’d need to look at other sources, rely on previous education you’ve had in school, maybe make some observations of space on your own, watch interviews of astronauts and astronomers, and then you can start to say that you’re learning about space.

Learning takes an investment from you. Simply reading the material is not learning, you need to interact with it.

I hated chemistry in school, because it was teaching us irrelevant shit like the electron structure of atoms.

It’s only unimportant because you don’t care. Reading random facts on Wikipedia isn’t learning, it’s just reading. You can read the Wikipedia page on juggling, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling) but I wouldn’t expect you to understand (much less, perform) a 3 ball cascade, reverse cascade and waterfall after just reading the page. Those are very basic juggling patterns and fundamentals to more advanced patterns, such as juggler’s tennis, mills mess, boston mess etc… and that’s the difference between learning, and reading.

Not ripping on going on a Wikipedia dive here, it’s one of my favorite things to do, but recognize that it’s not the same as learning

Windows 11 is vibe-coded garbage. Vista was a better OS at launch than 11 is 4 years in.

It’s definitely something to consider. I was pointing out that electronic parking brakes have their own benefits, since the previous comment said they did not understand them

Nope. Horribly mean. Why oh why would you do this to sweet innocent me.

Yeah, we good. I didn’t think you were being mean.

I’m not saying it’s impossible. I’m just sharing my experience with how Tesla implemented it.

Did you miss the part about unencrypted admin creds being widely available on the internet?

Electronic parking brakes take up less space in the cabin, clean up the center console, and can automatically deploy if the car starts rolling while unattended, or automatically release if the driver forgets to release the brake before driving.

I switched from a 6 speed manual to an electric car last year, and the lack of “physical indicators” of my car’s configuration bothers me, but I can see why it is prefered by 90% of car buyers.

My brother’s Tesla has a manual latch you can pull, but it is not marked, and “concealed” by the door handle. I kept using it by accident which kinda pissed him off, because the door is designed to roll down the window about a half inch before opening to avoid damaging the window seal. Using the manual override skips this rolldown, and just bends the seal out of the way when you open the door.

Personally, I like the interior handles on the Mustang Mach E better. There is one latch to open the door, but it has two stages. First stage triggers the electric “door kicker” and the second stage physically pulls the latch open. So in an emergency, you just pull the same door handle harder to force it open.