MrMcGasion

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Slap an anti-Musk bumper sticker on it. That would be enough to switch me from judging to thinking you are cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That's part of it. Unions also made a difference for a while, until the propaganda machine convinced a bunch of people that Unions were bad. When in reality, Unions are a benefit to everyone, they protect workers from bad bosses, and historically they also protected bosses from getting the shit beat out of them by their employees.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I have had someone tell me that they'd rather live in an economic system "like we have in America" where people have a chance at rags to riches, than a system "like Germany, where the social safety net means the average person doesn't have a chance at making it big."

If anyone ever tells you wealthy people are intelligent, don't believe them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A high-coke rail off a hand rail on high-speed rail.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Not saying 6 figures isn't an insane amount of money for a speaking fee, but Obama was getting $400,000 in 2017. Obama is arguably a better speaker, and Melania doesn't get as many gigs as Obama did (there was a period in 2017 when he did 3 events within a couple months, which caused quite a bit of outrage on the right about his speaking fee), but 6 figures isn't all that unusual for former Presidents/First Ladies (Michelle's is reportedly around $200,000).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Tesla announced they can do this before they even announced the price of the cybertruck. As part of the buyer agreement, there is a stipulation that the original buyer can't sell the cybertruck until one year after getting it, and that breaking the agreement could result in the vehicle being remotely deactivated.

Honestly, that's probably what happened here, it was probably less that Elon personally deactivated it, but that it was sold to an intermediary, who then broke the Tesla agreement by "selling" it within the first year, getting it remotely disabled. Alternatively it may have just been a stolen cybertruck, which probably get it deactivated as well.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

This is correct, and along side the Rust development, they also started work on a web renderer, in Rust, called Servo that at one point was considered as a possible future replacement for the Gecko engine. Around the time Rust transitioned to the Rust foundation, Servo was also pretty much abandoned by Mozilla, moved to the Linux Foundation in 2020 and then Linux Foundation Europe in 2023 where it is finally getting some steady development again. There is also some recent progress on building a browser based on Servo, although it will probably be some time before it's ready for daily use.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Jefferson was the one who rewrote it without the magic and miracles. Franklin proposed his own rewrite, but only did a chapter of Job as an proof of concept and said he didn't have the "necessary abilities" to do it himself.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Not to be pedantic, but wouldn't making an endorsement make them no longer "Uncommitted"? Yes, Harris could and should be better on the genocide happening in Gaza, but "Uncommitted voters still uncommitted after not meeting with candidate" also isn't much of a story.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

If the Democratic party gets to be too large of a tent, and the Republican party shrinks, eventually the Democratic party will fracture too, and we might get a real progressive party out of it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those are local outages due to trees causing downed lines, squirrels getting into transformers, motor vehicle accidents, etc. They aren't the same as the blackouts like you get from an overloaded or strained power grid like they have in Texas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I just hand them my debit card inside and tell them what I want. Usually with an apology that I haven't filled out a deposit/withdrawal form. Most of the time the teller will say it's fine and the same amount of work for them either way. I'm sure it depends on the bank or branch, and I personally try to avoid the bigger banks like Bank of America or Chase just because their fees are so much higher and I hear their service is worse, so that's probably a factor as well.

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