Ah, wonderful capitalism working as intended. Everything comes down to money.

Parking a large truck is also just plain harder.

• Parking spaces are smaller relative to the size of your car
• Sitting high up with a huge hood in front means there’s less visibility in front
• Longer cars make it more difficult to judge distance using your mirrors, somewhat eased by the requirement for parking cameras.
• Longer cars generally have a longer wheelbase, making a worse turning radius

The only saving grace as a driver is that heavier cars can be safer for their occupants, at the cost of everyone else’s safety… which most would consider a negative.

Right, most of the complaints people have about Zuckerberg is that he’s a stereotypical tech bro ceo lacking a moral compass.

People calling Zuckerberg a lizard person or robot mostly come from how he talked and acted when under intense public questioning by legislators regarding user privacy and their business model. That’s a high pressure situation where he was coached on what he could and could not say by legal to minimize the fallout, so his awkward expressions and stilted speech are understandable.

People don’t like him because he’s a ruthless ceo, and that requires some level of sociopathy pull off. Musk, on the other hand, actively antagonizes people and seems to thrive on controversy. His primary goal seems to be ego-driven, unlike Zuckerberg who’s solely in it for the money.

I use my HP printer infrequently enough that every time I booted up my inkjet, I had to put it through a printer head cleaning cycle. I’d be surprised if I got more than 20 sheets of paper for each cartridge do to the wasted ink, and the dang thing malfunctioned frequently even after cleaning (streaks, blots, complaining about missing colors when printing b/w, etc).

After switching to a Brother mono laser, I haven’t had to do any maintenance in 3 years and it’s still on the original toner cart which it came with.

This is the way.

And here I was thinking that it was 100 hotdogs lined up end-to-end. What a deceptive headline!

Eh, you can improve reporting, time usage, and statistics all you want. It won’t help people stop making stupid short-sighted decisions. If it isn’t middle management, it’ll be the people controlling the AI’s which replace them.

CEO: “AI, give me a plan to improve profits by at least 10% in the next quarter.”

AI: “<insert plan>. Note: enacting this plan will cause talent attrition and there is a 70% chance of -50% revenue over the following 5 years.”

CEO: “Sounds great, I’m retiring next year!”

The people up top have plenty information on how to run a long-term successful business, but still choose to make illogical decisions which screw them over the long term. Changing the source of data to an AI just means that the CEO can ignore any feedback or metrics which don’t agree with their internal model and incentive structure.

All penalties for to large organizations should be based on global turnover. Not only that, they should have a third metric which is based off the calculated benefit the company gained by breaking the regulation.

So if Meta complains it would cost $X to moderate effectively, they should be fined $X * 3 or whatever. If Amazon saves $500B by misclassifyjng its drivers as contractors, they should be fined $1.5T. If the company needs to file for bankruptcy because it was based on illegal practices, so be it.

Yea, they’re afraid of potential backlash and wanted to float ideas in a safe space.

Oh wow didn’t know that. This is awful - people to defederate from any instances which accept meta money as well

Well said. They react with fear to anything they don’t personally identify with, and only know how to use fear to accomplish their selfish goals. They aren’t the sole source of the fear, but they are certainly happy to stoke the flames and counter any attempts to reason with dangerous rhetoric.

Ideally the list of behaviors which trigger suspicion would be expanded over time, yes? Low hanging for first, just because it’s easy doesn’t mean spammers will program around it unless we check for it.

People need to shift their perspective a bit to understand why conservatives keep fighting an obviously stupid war. It isn’t about the specific group they’re trying to demonize. It’s about having something to fight, period. They lost on gay marriage - if they actually thought it was so terrible, they would still be fighting it. The same is true for Trans exclusionary laws. Anyone can do the math and realize that the societal harm caused if you assume even their wildest claims are true is dwarfed by the political money required to fight for and against these laws. And money, of course, is the root of the problem.

As long as they have an unlimited number of people to punch down at, they can keep riling up their bases. That means they have job security, and they can exploit these positions for “legal” bribes through cushy retirement jobs and conduct their real (economic) war on behalf of the rich.

You can export excalidraw files as images or svgs. My main issue has been subpar support for Samsung pens, which is in part due to Samsung requiring an SDK to detect button presses or gestures… which means hitting the toolbar button to erase stuff

It tends freeze and mess up your writing when it autosaves. Not much of an issue if you set it to every 5 minutes, but annoying at the 15 second default.

Lastly, large drawings have performance issues. A few “pages” of notes and you can start to see the renderer struggle to track your pen correctly.

Tbh I’m probably just going to use another app and export images into my obsidian repo.

Good God. On beehaw I had to block every furry community separately. Talk about annoying.

I find it helps to intentionally “break it in”. Draw something silly, write a bad poem, write a journal entry upside down, freehand a chart/page layout with bad lines, etc. Do something to make it no longer “perfect” to get yourself out of the mindset that the paper pretty notebook deserves a level of care and attention you find exhausting and ultimately disappointing when you can’t keep an insane standard of care.

What makes them nice is the experience of writing on them. Not that the writing in them is a certain quality. Do you go back to your spiral bound notebooks? What if that content were in nice notebooks, would that change your behavior? I’ll bet it depends on the content, not the paper it’s written on.

If you stop writing in them as soon as your writing devolves, let it do that immediately and keep writing. If you want a perfect notebook, the only way to do that is to exhaustively transcribe from another source, and who has the time to do that?

Could you frame a conversation with them as seeking advice about someone other than yourself? “One of my classmates is coming out and I want to support them, what do you recommend?”

Their reaction and advice could paint a pretty good picture without putting yourself in their crosshairs. Worst case, you can refuse to name the person and maybe get grounded for protecting someone imaginary.

But yea, that won’t give you a complete answer to how they would react if their own child came out.

You can pay for simpler sync, but I use obsidian with syncthing/git, no subscription required, works fine with the mobile app.

Tbh I think obsidian and notion fill different needs. Obsidian is text-first (markdown), doesn’t have the same feature rich blocks that notion does. That’s a good thing and a bad thing, depending on how reactive you want stuff to be. The equivalent to databases is junkies and through a plug in.

Relay until the blackout, browser only now since I’ve uninstalled everything reddit after.

This is why boycotts aren’t a replacement for legislation. Blaming consumers for making the best of a shitty system is simply shifting blame onto the victims, when the bad systems which force it are what’s to blame.

Labor didn’t get rid of company scrip by boycotting the stores, they fought against unfair labor and compensation and got it outlawed.

The fact that our system is set up so that the only way people who work full-time can afford to live is spending their money at the same collection of exploitative companies which employ them is only one step removed from it - instead of trapping people physically, they’ve rigged the system to trap them economically.

permanent mental scarring