BallShapedMan

@BallShapedMan@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

I don't, but Tesla owners almost every time think it compares to my sports car.

Don't be fooled by randomness. Randomness comes in clumps. For example if you flipped a thousand coins every day for a year and measured how each one predicted the stock market, heads for up, tails for down, at the end of the year you'll likely have one coin that far out performs the average. But would you use that coin to determine your investment strategy the next year?

And yeah Boeing is now killing people outside of their planes.

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Option 3 is the only one that will change anything. Just saying.

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I'm nostalgic for the day when Google was the good company. A few years before "alphabet" you could see the change coming and since "alphabet" they are worse every year.

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Last year it took 6 months to get water to stop leaking in my office, so yeah I'm just excited the note is charming...

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Traffic (the book) says most Americans merge into traffic wrong when lanes reduce (from say 3 lanes to 2 lanes for example.)

The right way is waiting until you are at the very end of the lane that's reducing. When that happens up to 60% more cars per hour get through the bottle neck in heavy traffic and accidents resulting in killed or serious injury are reduced by up to 80%.

Bottom line having multiple entry points in a queue with multiple slow down points due to the multiple entry points is the cause of the reduced performance with the way most Americans do it.

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Fuck, this is my kid...

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My grandma would say "he can put his boots at the foot of my bed." My grandma had the hots for lots of younger country singers.

My kid argued with me about what one sixteenth of a pie looked like when he was serving me. He tried to give me one eighth and I was already full!

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This is the way.

Yup, all the evidence scientists point to agree that if anything we are early to the party.

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You're amazing and your students are lucky to have you. Thank you for being you!

I try to be.

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Fucking damnit to hell! 😂

Watt does this mean?

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I'm not sure this counts but paid off all the cars, credit card, and medical debt. Only the mortgage left. Paying bills has never been this easy! And all the extra cash is pretty great too.

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Su-Poor-Humapt*Sippset!

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To add to your comment, ceramic window tint is a night and day difference. My steering wheel, shifter, and all couldn't be touched after work. I wore driving gloves to get home. With the tint there slightly warm and the AC doesn't take half the drive to catch up, the car is cool by the first stop light.

Maybe they should sell cars with that by default instead?

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Bob Ross, I've always been an introverted person and didn't make friends quickly as a kid. Bob helped me become comfortable with that and just put my energy into things I do like instead of trying to be something I'm not.

That's fucked up, nice work!

What did you make this in?

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To add to this my wife got the Samsung Flip or whatever, the one that folds like an old flip phone.

Every year she's had to have it replaced because the screen cracks in the middle. Fortunately we have the insurance so it's only $5 to replace it. She just got her third phone this week.

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Fax machine?

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Damn... Thank you.

Rosie and Jules chilling with my wife in her office on the couch we bought just for them. Yes we spoil them.

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Turning good food into poop.

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Not that this is adding anything but I've been hit three times by big trucks that "didn't see me".

The first time my wife and I were driving home from a date and he came from behind and just came into my lane and destroyed the left side of my car. He was a good guy and agreed it was his fault and the insurance worked out great.

The second time my wife and I were on our way to a concert and the same thing he came him behind except he also pushed me into a parked car destroying both sides of my car and almost ripped off my front left tire. This fucker lied to his insurance and because we had no witnesses I ended up paying for the rental and deductible. I also installed dash cams after.

The third time I was driving home from seeing one of my kids (they're all adults) and stopped on the interstate in stop and go traffic. This guy rear ended me. When e pulled over he swore I stopped suddenly for no reason and was driving like an idiot. We called the cops and I showed him the video where I stopped due to traffic and the guy was at least 200 yards away when I did this PLAYING ON HIS DAMN PHONE! Needless to say the cop was on my side.

Note: My small cars are sports cars, so not exactly environmentally as kind as a smart car, but I still am concerned with these giant vehicles that are just begging to hurt people. I think they should follow the same regulations as buses. Put giant ass mirrors on the front on them like school buses and all, require a higher level license just to be able to drive them and so on.

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Yes, that's it. I know how to shave 27 years of age with makeup. I was feeling cute, might delete later 🤣

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We are, they are good humans!

She was a 10, I'm a solid 4 when I get all done up.

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This is what I thought was going to happen at the end of 2 and was so excited I had to watch 3 right away. I was disappointed.

I'm still a snob and just play games on my steam deck that are able to maintain 60fps. As soon as they offer a 120fps model I'll probably jump.

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It's fucked and I'm sorry you're a victim to it.

There are small pockets where it doesn't suck. My current company has amazing benefits where my youngest had to have major surgery and it literally cost $100. My previous company however my wife had to have minor surgery and 6 years later we still owe them $23k. We're paying it off slowly.....

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I don't have time to play on the hardest settings anymore. Plus I'm old and I'm just not as good as I was 20+ years ago. My son laughed at me once when he saw I was on easy, that was 10 years ago, he's still grounded. 😂

InstaPot. I hate gadgets and things that have limited purpose so when this was gifted to me I planned to regift it. I use it so often I got an upgrade model. Totally worth the counter space!

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When I was in my 20s a guy wanted me to maintain his website that sold do l delivery service of food to college kids and it would have been my first paying gig doing it but he wanted to pay me in "equity" which at the time translated into he wanted free labor and I ghosted him.

About 10 years ago he sold his company to Grub Hub for a few hundred million. Fucked that one up.

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I don't think I like it. No judgement for others but I don't like cars with fake vents and I'm sure I won't like cars with fake transmissions.

I think there is value in a transmission in EVs. While they don't really need under gears they do need overdrive to get better highway mileage. And I imagine if we put weaker engines we could use under gears to get the performance with less of a power drain.

Some cars first gear is over 3:1 while others it's closer to 2:1.

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That's two votes to one, I'll let my wife know she's been out voted. I'm sure she'll go along with the decision peacefully....!?

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The answer that is common but I don't see here is it's a soft layoff result. It allows the company to reduce their employee spend because a percentage of them will resign without the publicity of doing a layoff.

Without internal intelligence I feel like that's what zoom is doing for example.

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I already had mods that disabled achievements by then just to fix this mess.

Runs and looks great now, ~15 mods to get there.

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I'm not sure how much my brother costs, but the three of us brothers were running across the top of monkey bars and jump kicking each other. I kicked my youngest brother off and he busted his head on the ground. It's ~40 years later and he still has the scar on the back of his head.

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