grossly overvalued

Just grossly? lol

It would be more likely to be critically hit by an SUV or pick-up, just saying.

I’m guessing this is a “leopards ate my face” situation for a lot of people.

I don’t even know what the FAA counterpart for maritime is.

Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.

I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.

Probably all crisis actors. /s

“Butt bots… Sorry. But bots have become…” (Read in Ze Frank voice)

The map is 64-bit.

I think homelessness and despair cause mental illness and substance abuse. If we can prevent “normal” people from losing their homes, I think they would be more stable and able to take care of themselves long term.

Allowing homelessness is far more costly to everyone else than preventing it.

An EV engineer friend of mine said that this is specifically the Hertz Teslas because Tesla parts are expensive and sometimes hard to get. So when a Tesla breaks, they sell it rather than repair it.

I rented a Bolt EV from Hertz once. The car was fine, but the charging stations in the area were mostly broken, or they required downloading an app and giving personal information to charge.

I got the feeling the charging networks are all about collecting government incentives and the sale of private information from subscribers, and not at all about service.

My new preferred rental car is no rental car at all.

Ohm my god, right‽

What does “connected experiences” mean?

This guy got some footage of some people saving a lifeguard (about 1:36)

https://youtu.be/uj7vo3DIczA?si=lTeoJU2XKkvlFrx5

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I think commercial social media does a lot of subtle things to “drive engagement” that I don’t think fediverse instances are doing. Like a sort of gamification of getting likes and followers and of course the algorithms that show us things that provoke our emotions.

Reading and participating here is a lot more relaxed feeling than I’ve had on profit-driven social media sites.

The conviction was about a year after the crimes, which is a lot faster than I would expect than in my country. 5.5 years does seem light to me, too.

The rhetoric is still somewhat apologetic to the perpetrators. Like “it’s difficult for students to resist due to a sense of closeness to their teachers” doesn’t say anything about rank, authority, and power that teachers have over students. And “checking whether a teacher is under excessive pressure” seems to redirect fault away from the perpetrator.

Did Karma get a speed update? Lessgo!

Long ago “drive” meant urging an animal to move forward. And “dialing” a phone number meant entering the “digits” by turning a rotary dial with your digits.

Words aren’t as static as you seem to think.

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