I have noticed that occasionally the nitpicking collides with poor reading comprehension to create some of the most annoying yet hilarious comments ever.

So like the reply ITT would be something like uh yeah op sounds like a you problem, that’s completely fucking false about lemmy. People take things way too seriously here, and everybody is way too nitpicky and judgemental.

brain dead take

Quick, go get your SUV and say they ran out in front of you!

It works well, until it doesn’t. That first part lulls people into complacency. I rented a Kia last year that had automatic cruise control and lane keep assist and it kept me on the road far past when I should have pulled over and taken a nap from being sleep deprived after a redeye flight. Dangerous? Yes. Skill issue? Maybe. What I took away from the experience is that it is frighteningly easy to get used to a thing “just working” and forget about its limitations when it is convenient. I also learned that I do not want lane keep assist or automatic cruise control in my personal car.

They turn into a soup-like homogenate. As is natural in the life cycle of a lab mouse.

And if they weren’t euthanized they would almost certainly die of horrible horrible cancerous tumors. Not because of anything the labs do, but because it’s a crime against nature for a mouse to live past maybe 2 years.

bikes delivering scooters delivering skateboards delivering rollerblades delivering heelies

I know it’s a distraction but I abhor the way the man speaks.

“I was informed this morning by the joint chiefs of staff that at so and so time in such and such operating theater we lost communication with blahblah asset. All US service members were recovered safely with no loss of life. We are committed to peace, but if this was, as we believe it to be, a violation of the ceasefire agreement, this provocation cannot go unanswered. I am urgently seeking communications with the leadership of the IRGC and am directing our forces in the region to move to a state of enhanced readiness.”

• serious
• sounds like something a Sorkin character would say
• leaves diplomatic buffer in case it turns out something other than an Iranian missile caused the loss of equipment

“Army told me IRAN shot down our very fancy helicopter in operating theater, amazing pilots safe but now im mad. I’m gonna bomb them back >:( >:( >:(”

• unserious
• less room for backtracking
• sounds fucking stupid

Lemmy Commenter Eviscerates CNBC Over Editorial Practices

fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping

HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.

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Ah yeah I got that and then kinda lost scope reading the reply. Non sequitur for a non sequitur.

Y’all have a funny definition of guilty. Didn’t read the whole thread but I bet one of you silly sumbitches called a Caesar salad a guilty pleasure. Mine’s pizza. Any variety. I will eat the whole pie. Pizza is love, pizza is life.

mistakes like selling the evolutionary upgrade of the previous generation as the revolutionary next generation? That kind of mistake?

Never forget that the original 4G spec promised gigabit.

Sure, but in the case of an accident that footage is ammunition. Maybe the other party was eating a four course dinner and cranking their hog, but unless they had an interior camera too you can’t prove a thing. These cameras seem like they would be a disadvantage in court no matter what.

Yes. A key contradiction in capitalist economics is that the wealthy have a much lower marginal propensity to consume than the working class. Therefore the more wealth the rentiers capture, the lower the velocity of money. One way to recirculate that money would be to levy steep taxes against them. Another would be if they would just spend more money on labor.

Government revenues aside, for a functional capitalist economy the money has to flow vertically one way or another. It’s A or B, and they constantly bitch and moan about both. We cannot have a functional capitalist economy when these chucklefucks are dictating policy.

I’m sympathetic to communism myself, but that’s not hard to do when we’re living through the failure of late stage capitalism.

Okay 🪄. Everyone who makes under 70k will never eat out again.

This eliminates more than half of the customer base of the restaurant industry, most of which promptly implodes. Millions lose their jobs. What’s worse is that all that restaurant spending gets redirected towards grocery stores. Grocery stores move far more product with just a fraction of the workers and they will be damned before they hand out raises to share their new windfall profits. This drastically reduces the velocity of money in the economy and drags us into a sudden contraction.

The storefronts those restaurants occupied, the ones that used to be central meeting points for their communities, become urban blight. Those workers, too, stop being able to pay rent or buy much of anything else, which deals a collateral blow to residential real estate and every business that makes consumer goods. The collapse of the restaurant industry and the sudden blow to landlords of all varieties takes a large tax base with it, and state and local governments that rely on sales and property tax see an immediate budgetary shortfall.

These so-called titans of industry cannot see, will never see, that the “wasteful” and “unthrifty” spending they hate is utterly vital. Their distaste for the poors experiencing such luxuries as participating in simple consumption blinds them to the fact that that spending is the economy.

ETA: Instead of the rest of us tightening our belts even more, the wealthy need to spend a lot more. Fund a literacy program, hand a million dollars to a small electric car conversion company, drop a cool 10 million on urban infill, fuck, build a pyramid. Anything is better than sitting on your wealth doing nothing but chasing rent-seeking enterprises like stock buybacks and cloud infra.

But that requires R&D, and that means hiring and paying more engineers! And maintaining multiple production lines! And paying people to work on those! Can’t we just make a law that all Americans have to buy an F-150 by the time they turn 30???

1. Lobby to become the default mode of transportation in the postwar period
2. Get dragged kicking and screaming towards efficiency
3. Successfully lobby to gut regulations and manufacture demand for SUVs and crew cab pickups
4. Stop building cars altogether
5. Help get a fascist elected who kicks off another oil crisis
6. Cry about China eating your lunch

I wonder why that might be.