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doggle ,

An enormous percentage, especially in the current housing market, however...

Many (most?) American cities have wildly inadequate public transit and are prone to sprawl. Many Americans live in apartments, but are a multiple mile walk from their grocery store. If there's any public transit at all it's probably an infrequent and unreliable bus line that may not go anywhere near their home to begin with. They live in apartments, but are not anywhere near 'downtown'.

These are problems that need to be solved, and quickly, but public transit is best grown with a city, which didn't happen. Inserting a subway after the fact is difficult, expensive, and slow.

The reality of right-now (which is all a renter is likely to be able to consider financially) is that a reliable car is an essential item in most parts of the country.

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Near all apartments around me have exclusively open-air parking, so this isn't a viable solution for many. It's not that the available power is inadequate, it's non-existent.

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You explicitly asked about apartments tho

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I don't expect MS will give you the choice. Not as far as the whole spying on you part is concerned, at least.

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As long as they are truthful they only report on the quality of the product and prevent many people of spending a lot of money from losing it by buying something that doesn't work.

Well, yeah sure. The problem is whether or not that's actually what's happening in any given circumstance. Most reviewers I've seen are more than happy to include personal opinion, and some will exagerrate points for the sake of getting views.

Things get even more fraught when the reviewer is a bigger company than the company whose product is being reviewed. For example the debacle with Linus Tech Tips and Billet labs that they were dragged for. That's the kind of coverage that absolutely can sink a company that seemingly only ever did exactly what they said they would.

Reviews are good if they present the important facts and generally act with integrity, but sometimes that's a really big 'if'.

doggle ,

Computers are dumb and need to be told how to take the data of an image (stored as a long series of 1s and 0s in memory) and draw it on the screen so you can see it. The people writing the software to do that needed an image to test with, just to make sure everything was working right.

Either because they were a bunch of lonely geeks in the 70s or they didn't have any other good photos to scan in, they used a headshot of a PlayBoy model. They couldn't have known that it would effectively become one of the first digital memes, meaning it's still semi-frequently used by graphics programmers (professionals and enthusiasts).

I can't claim to speak on the model's motives, but it's not hard to imagine that having their headshot used in perpetuity without consent would make someone uncomfortable.

doggle ,

Many parts of the Internet has become functionally unusable without one. And given online advertising's history as a vector for malware, as blockers are just the sensible choice.

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It's a credit card, they don't typically have pins like debit cards do. They do have a 3 digit CVC code on the back, but 3 digits is pretty easy to get just by brute force guessing.

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Props to him for talking about it. A lot of people get too embarrassed to tell anyone they got scammed. The reality is that phishing works on a ton of people and we should avoid shaming the victims. Everyone's acts like they're a digital security expert until their credit card gets stolen.

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Phones are easily tracked, and police generally can get that info. As for the beatings, in the US police commonly aren't held responsible even when they've clearly broken the law. Often, they aren't even charged.

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Battlebit remastered. War crimes.

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A Lemmy instance. The one this post is on, and my local instance, as it happens.

It's self described as anarchist and has an active piracy community which is occasionally a point of controversy with other instances.

doggle ,

We can. At least most of us. Though I suspect there's significantly less play in the skin, so it may be more difficult for some.

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I wrote out my turn signal stalk tacking across lanes driving up a headwind the other day. 0/10.

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“We’re not disappointed in our employees; we’re disappointed in ourselves as managers and leaders,” “The fact that a majority of Norfolk employees felt that they wanted or needed a union constitutes a failure on our part.”

While this is certainly a better response than the typical overtly anti union stuff, it still betrays a misunderstanding of the necessity of a union. Workers need and deserve fair representation whether their employer is abusing them or not.

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I have also killed off my Netflix subscription for good

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"choosing"

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It's a pretty big area back there and razors are very small. It would take decades or maybe evenover a hundred years of regular use before it is likely to fill up. The building could even be condemned or otherwise destroyed before it's full.

But yes, if it did somehow fill up, you would need to remove the tiles and cut a section out of the wall to empty it. That's not so big a deal if you only have to do it every 50+ years.

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I've been in a restroom and had the lights turn off on me because a sensor didn't detect someone was still I the room. I'd bet good money I'm not the only one. Sensors, presently, are either invasive or inaccurate. Or both.

doggle ,

If you can't afford healthcare you likely can't afford a car either.

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Klim could save a lot of bad pr by just blowing the airbag anyway and sending a bill for the remaining value of the vest after the fact.

But then you're just financing a vest and that's not a fancy buzzword that makes the c-suite cream their pants.

doggle ,

A law like that would be a violation of our rights

We have a right to not clean up after ourselves? Tell me more

The fact is you're borrowing a cart from it's owner, probably a store. If the store requires you to put it back and you don't the they would be within their rights to sue you over it. The only reason they don't is because their damages would be massively less valuable than their legal fees and the time it would take to present a lawsuit.

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Safely, but still creating more work for store employees to collect the carts and possibly inconveniencing pedestrians. Point 1 for the moral absolutists.

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The post specifies an exemption for dire emergencies. It would need to be pretty dire for 30s to make a meaningful difference.

Otherwise, by the metric here, you're a bad person whenever you're in a moderate hurry.

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You judge them as bad people, I guess. The post only defines how to judge people, it doesn't prescribe what should be done about it.

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Aldi used to do that in the US. Maybe they still do. I never carry coins on me, so for this reason (and the always extremely long lines at checkout) I never shopped there.

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Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but are you saying that it's morally neutral to put others at risk as long as you're putting yourself at the same risk?

Cuz it's not. Not at all.

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Because then we can't use it as an arbitrary metric for judging people's moral righteousness.

doggle ,

I mean, yeah. Aldi is European but has locations in the US. They're the only store here that does this afaik. I've never seen the keyring thing but sincw no other stores need a coin I'd have to shop at Aldi a lot to justify ordering one online.

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Most stores here do have one or more people whose job is to collect carts.

You, meanwhile, are stepping dangerously close to a 'the customer is always right' argument. Having worked in retail I can personally assure you, the customer is usually wrong.

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Stores have tried it. Customers hate it. Chiefly because many people simply don't carry any coins on them. You can't have all of your store's registers set to card only mode (yes this is very common for some reason) and then expect people to have a coin on them at all times, so they don't bother.

It also seems trivially easy to circumvent. Easier than remembering to bring a quarter with you when you go to the store.

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Yeah. Sure.

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The post neither implies nor states that 'closet trans' and 'shitty cis' are the only possibilities. There's obviously a lot of cis men who would take the offer of transition information in stride. The OP isn't judging you.

As for the whole American thing, you're right, you did go wild.

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Seize the means of reproduction, as it were

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