I have a Tuxedo laptop, and the camera and especially mic are really really bad. Just FYI

In other news, everyone is naked underneath their clothes.

Cars should be taxed by size and weight. These cars are ridiculous.

No need to apologize.

Anyway, US airlines can and do choose between Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer. No single company holds them hostage. On the supply side, the Airbus factory in Mobile, Alabama employs more than 2000 workers. And of course Airbus has US suppliers in addition to this.

The lack of widespread regenerative breaking in subways is leading to commuters’ lungs being filled with brake dust, in addition to heating up the stations, which is a problem in summer. This is really bad and embarrassing. Rail moves far too slow when it comes to adopting new tech.

How is the airline industry just Boeing? What an odd thing to say.

Apparently the arm doesn’t work that well.

Roborock seems to be the nvidia of robot vacuums. They’re not always the best, but are seen as a safe choice, and they have the best app. I gave up on reading tests since apparently models are refreshed every monday, and just got a roborock.

The best vacuum is apparently the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, and you can actually find it in stores still, but it costs like 1200 euros or something insane like that.

Tldr it’s a market for lemons, sadly. Everyone copes by getting Roborock. The one known good one costs as much as a 5080.

To be fair, there’s a lot of “art” in video games that no other industry would recognize as such. Brick textures. That kind of thing. I’m perfectly okay with using AI for these necessary but unimportant tasks. Same with using stock assets. These assets just have to be good enough for nobody to notice they’re there.

Desktop OSes are not suited to running untrusted code, unfortunately, so you want to run as much as possible of your closed source megaco software in the browser

Isn’t this a bit much? Smoking is bad, but smokers gotta do it somewhere. Outside seems good to me.

I don’t like this analogy. It’s more like insurance premiums. We’re doing risk pooling, in a way.

I think it’s fine that the crackpots have their own instance. And anyway it’s possibly good that there’s a counterbalance to the right wing MAGA/Orban shitheads, although a stronger center would ofc be best. I just wish there was a way to block the ibstance so I wouldn’t have to listen to their inane opinions.

Until the USA goes full dictatorship (admittedly less hypothetical than I’d like) that’s not going to happen. Democracies don’t fight like this.

Also the US is who is pushing hardest for higher NATO defence spending. So that makes no sense.

Isn’t 5% a lot? IIRC even the US aren’t that high. And what are we supposed to use all those soldiers and weapons for? Surely that’s overkill, even for Russia? Is this actually about China?

Edit: It’s 3.5% on the military and 1.5% on dual use infrastructure like roads, for a total of 5%. That’s high but quite a bit more sane.

Did a driver just say it’s political correctness that this guy can’t high five? What does the driver think PC means?? You just know that’s an annoying as hell person

Also the reason they don’t want to anger Russia. Just a voter base defined by selfishness and - even worse - short-sightedness. Anything that’s not of immediate and personal benefit to them personally they are against. Fuck others and fuck the long run.

Grade level crossings mi amor

Bad things also happen outside the concentration camp. Everyone is oppressed in a fascist state. Besides, there were other ways than skin color and nose size to end up in a concentration camp under the Nazis. Having the wrong books was enough. If you truly think the US is going all the way then the rational thing to do is to get out before you no longer can.

In such a scenario you have bigger issues to worry about. Your first priority should then be to emigrate far far away, ideally across some sort of ocean. If this seems like an overreaction to you, then what you’re experiencing may not be comparable to the actual Nazi party.