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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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Shut up and take my resume!

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

Ha! You think you can scare me with a haircut?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I second this. It's an amazing utility for video encoding.

Used it for converting class projects back in the day. The queue feature saved my arse back when prores to HEVC conversions took days.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Excited for that jump. How do I buy tickets?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Weeeelllllll.... Yeah I guess you have a good point. If something did happen, finger pointing starts.

Gestures at wires

But it's right there! I need a 1-day OSHA permit just to yank crap out!

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (9 children)

I kinda want one of these. I could load it up with my collection. It'd be awesome. I can imagine my SO's blood boiling already at the sight of "more useless junk"!

And what do you need an electrician for? Turn off power, open a panel, and disconnect the wires. Snip snip. Frankly, I'm surprised a dedicated switch/breaker for a 3rd party kiosk isn't mandatory.

If only I had the space ...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The graphic designer has a misinformed idea about engineering.

Cars are not meant to travel fast through cities.

This is true. City traffic planning was designed to maximize efficiency, not speed. This is no longer the case of many cities which now engineer congestion into design.

Rush hour traffic still goes to a crawl

People assume traffic represents failure, but the road still holds capacity, even if flowing slowly. Government data collection on infrastructure utilization and traffic recovery is prohibited in my area by vocal minorities to obstruct studies countering their goal objectives.

... Something something Trains

Trains are fun!

Just one more lane will fix it

I agree adding one lane won't "fix" traffic. Cities are organic and traffic balances out with infrastructure pressure and necessary.

On the other hand, many lanes around my area have converted to dynamically priced toll lanes; the resulting increase in congestion for remaining lanes drives up the cost of tolls. This has been very profitable for the government and flies in the face of this argument; if it were true, it wouldn't be so lucrative.

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

The estimated value of the three separate shipments was $342,000

CIC Ventures earned $300,000 in Bible sales royalties

Uh, did someone get dirty money they need to launder quick? Feels like the real transaction isn't the kind that makes it to the accounting books.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What? An item wouldn't have both dates. But almost everything has at least one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

So we're changing "Sell By" and "Best Before" to "Use By” and "Best if Used By”

I don't really see this helping food waste at the consumer end, but greatly benefits supermarkets by allowing products to remain on shelves longer and closer to spoilage.

However, in that case customers could have less margin to use their purchased groceries before they go bad.

I think this has a chance to backfire. There is greater incentive to dig around for the product with the most time. Those who frequently shop or most desperate would buy the items expiring sooner, but folks like me who only really check items I've been burned on, will start checking everything. I'm not buying a $3.99 head of lettuce with 2 days left.

EDIT: don't grocery stores already donate lots of near-expiration unspoiled food to support systems? I thought there was a organization in CA that coordinated all that. They may see a dip in donations.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Raises paddle

$2.50!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I recall you still can through ADB, but it's a pain and they started locking that down too. Ad blocking VPN (at least the one I tried) didn't work.

There was a big update about a year ago that very clearly sent the message "this device will show what we want you to see."

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

First of all, thanks mods for your work. I know spam sucks and ain't easy.

I'm new to this lemmy thing, but there seem to be a few bots out there that may be able to help or ban spammers.

Could we maybe look into that and automatically suspend/ban posts that link to amazon? That would seen to put an obstical in this kickback scam going on.

Just an idea.

 

So we're posting Celicas now?

This is a project car I've been working on off and on for a while. Yup, there is still much to do (mostly cosmetic) but it drove for the first time since I totally rebuilt the engine...

... until the heater core hose burst and sprayed my leg with hot antifreeze.

It's been a really fun project and hitting this milestone feels great!

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