I miss when the state ran our liquor stores. Was much cheaper.

Get out of here with your nuance.

Millennial with a hairband for a wallet here.

Yep. Teacher here. They (almost) all have wallets.

It’s… it’s not just trucks of RAM and GPUs?

The general sentiment (don’t downvote just because you disagree) is correct, but the context of it is a bit different.

The comment heavily implies (“… simple truth…”) that their statement is reasonable and correct. But in reality, their statement is whackadoo nonsense and downvoting that kind of thing is completely reasonable.

Even with “one-pedal driving,” there’s still a physical brake pedal for backup/emergencies.

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And then, per the 13th, legal slavery!

It’s incredible to think about how the city council members in places like Los Angeles have meaningful sway over more people than most governors.

What is a rocket but a fuel depot with a nozzle?

Lots of citations. Lots.

Also, wide margins.

Do you mean “sit-down, shut-up, & read”?

Some US states are also like this. Often limits on the types of relationships and a low age of consent (16, say, but with a harder limit on how many months there can be between the parties).

There are a lot of people who are against the kind of predation that is lauded amongst the vile and the wealthy.

Seems reasonable on its face, but I’d love to see what the “rebound” times are for getting back to normal.

Like, I know that my computational speed goes up when I use a calculator and I suffer without it. But when I get back into the swing of mental math, I feel like I return to a baseline. Do the doctors who get worse at spotting cancer bounce back after they realize they’ve gotta do it without AI?

Ridicule and mockery remain relatively effective responses to the quiet, scared acquiescence that fascists demand.

Also, excellent username, Manny.

That makes sense. But I’ve got a wallet of burned CDs from the 90s that put the question to that 15 year timeline.

And these discs? They have not been treated well.

I definitely agree with you. I feel like I see people talking about optical media rotting all the time and it just doesn’t seem like a practical issue for 99% of use cases.

I seem to remember the conversation in the early 2000s being about how discs would rot in 50+ years and now I see people saying ten or 15.

What is this 10 year thing? I’ve also got CD RWs and CD Rs from 1998 that still work. And DVD Rs from like 2002 that are still fine.

First, I didn’t make the argument.

Second, I think most people could draw a line between allowing a suffering prisoner to choose death and forcing it on them.

Third, that assumes that there’s an ethical argument for life imprisonment.