And the apartments we rented in the past had shitty inefficient heating systems (gas converted oil burners and baseboard heat that cost us a fortune every winter (7-8 months a year).

Now I’m looking at installing solar and a heat pump. Not something I could have done in a rental. The asshole landlord wouldn’t even fix the sink drain.

Yeah I feel like Joplin proved that all wrong too.

Was the idea that tall buildings might break up wind shear that would feed the tornado?

10-16 million voters who didn’t feel it was necessary to stop a fascist?

Roll over, roll over🎶

I so metal working as a hobby. You’ll hurt yourself, but it’s usually burns and using the the hammers as a thumb detector. Fingernails grow back though usually. It’s the angle grinders you gotta respect.

Tell her that scars are cool and go for it!

Just wear eye and ear protection, and get a good leather apron and welding gloves.

Yeah there was a lot of really nice design going on at the time. This looks like the discount cases from the early 90s clones.

Thanks to this thread TIL it was one of the few serious competitors to ATTs monopoly.

Southern Pacific Communications and introduction of Sprint

Sprint also traces its roots back to the Southern Pacific Railroad (SPR), which was founded in the 1860s as a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific Company (SPC). The company operated thousands of miles of track as well as telegraph wire that ran along those tracks. In the early 1970s, the company began looking for ways to use its existing communications lines for long-distance calling. This division of the business was named the Southern Pacific Communications Company. By the mid 1970s, SPC was beginning to take business away from AT&T, which held a monopoly at the time. A number of lawsuits between SPC and AT&T took place throughout the 1970s; the majority were decided in favor of increased competition.Prior attempts at offering long-distance voice services had not been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), although a fax service (called SpeedFAX) was permitted..

In the mid-1970s, SPC held a contest to select a new name for the company. The winning entry was “SPRINT”, an acronym for “Southern Pacific Railroad Internal Networking Telephony”.

Lock picking it open is probably the best choice, or just dragging it away with a stolen Kia.

Hey hey hey, half cowards.

A lot were busy manufacturing, mining, or farming towns.

The mines run out or become unprofitable.

The manufacturing has largely moved to out of the states, or been automated.

And big farms and grocery stores have squeezed independent farmers out of everywhere but the farmers markets near rich cities.

Naw, those are free market capitalists your thinking of.

In my experience people who really use excel are always going to need excel.

Also in my experience excel runs great on Mac Laptops, which are so much better than any other laptop I’ve touched in the last 20 years. If you’ve tried their touchpads you’ll know what I mean. Total game changers for truly mobile computing working without a desk.

Force is the wrong word, I meant more difficult to ignore.

I wonder if it’s related to training on website comments, which often role the same trajectory.

I also wonder if this isn’t something that someone has “told” an LLM, and that now it’s just parroting it back. It all fits with my opinion of the AI craze.

Linux would need overwhelming market share in the consumer end to force chip makers to play, whether they like it or not.

Windows might be finally doing a bad enough job again, to drive Linux adoption, but it’s hard to tell if that’s just Lemmy talking.

I have the Chemex and a Mac.

The price of real (good) filters fits with the Macs unfortunately.

Yeah, the fifth panel is the billionaires stuffing their private jets with the cash over the corpse of the big government.

Yeah yours is a more thorough and less flippant description of what I meant.

We used to make fun of all the corporate word salad that the Managment would use at my last “real” job. But it really was weird salad all the way down [up].

Being convincing and confident without actually knowing is how 9/10s of them make it to the C suite.

That’s probably why they don’t worry about confidently incorrect AI.