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Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons. So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one

Decades later, I still remember a few weeks without skin on my palms, elbows, knees, forehead. At the time i wasn’t sure survival was a good thing

While I don’t entirely disagree, we’re a lot closer than you seem to think My cars trip planner tends to ask 10-15 minutes of charging at trip chargers to stay on the steep part of the charging curve, and that’s good for 3-4 more hours of driving It’s not quite as fast as filling a gas tank but if you go in to use the restrooms, you’re most of the way there. It’s really hardly any inconvenience

If they made the batteries go from zero to full in the same time as it takes to fill a gas tank

I’d argue we effectively do have this, or close enough. Obviously I’d always want better but

• normally time doesn’t matter: plug in overnight and it’s always full by morning. Then it’s more of an infrastructure problem in that not everyone has a place to plug in
• on a trip, at a trip charger, my cars trip planning only asks 10-15 minutes of charging to stay on the steep part of the charging curve. If you use the restrooms, you’re almost there

brought the price way down

We can and should have that now. Prices are getting closer to parity so a few more years with incentives would have done it. Or, if we got rid of protectionism and allowed competition, we’d be well past cost parity

Gas should be more expensive: look at typical prices in the rest of the world

That’s crazy. I’m seeing as long as 15 seconds ads and considering no longer wasting my time on YouTube

Recently shrinkflation hit juices. What used to be 1/2 gal, is now 1.5 L (at least in my grocery). It’s easier to just stop buying it: too much sugar anyway I used to buy soda in 2L bottles as the best price, so it was sufficient for a family or a single person several days to a week. The reality is if it’s there I’ll drink it: the sugar rush is addicting. I think a lot of people still do this. Now I buy soda in a can, despite the much higher price and packaging, because I’m more successful at moderating myself to a can a day (and it’s usually sugar free so the calories are no longer the problem)

33cl is the standard for beer

Same here historically. US beer cans and bottles used to be 12 oz and I still occasionally see them. I even have one in my fridge.

But most new beers (as in new brands, new styles, actual good beer) are sold in pint cans, which in theory should match a bar draft (but don’t always and there are no regulations to protect consumers)

I never go into the “swill” aisle of my package store so my perspective may be biased

Chuck Norris jokes weren’t insufferable, the suffering was on you ….. ok that was a pretty poor attempt but I tried

I don’t know if he was merely conservative but nothing here screams MAGAt. Conservative is a legitimate belief system that we can work with for the good of society. A true conservative should be horrified at MAGAt positions

It’s important to distinguish conservative from MAGAts. One I merely disagree with

Fast chargers aren’t the only option Tesla already has fast chargers with megapack, and with solar. There are fast chargers that don’t impact the grid much we definitely need to build out destination chargers. Charging at work is no different from at home, except for when. And build out of solar can make peak energy available just when needed there are proposed answers such as streetlight chargers Obviously we don’t have an answer yet, haven’t built out the infrastructure, but we do have options

Since no one can afford health insurance, vaccines are apparently bad, and our government is prescribing horse dewormer …. We’re getting there

Water beds are making a comeback. This coming year, I swear!

Rinse it in hot water

Yeah I think you’re just lucky. I also live in a masonry house and would describe the bugs I get inside as much less than your description. For the most part, sweets and stuff are in sealed containers. But my weak point is dog food. Not the container, the bowl. If the dog scatters crumbs and we don’t notice or don’t clean it same day, we’ll get that line of ants cleaning it for us. They’re always there, ready and waiting until you need their help cleaning something

You’re not going to see that until one of the scouts discovers the open honey jar and reports back

You don’t have to rotate a spoon

Just squeeze the little plastic bear and the honey spurts out the top of its head

4, because I work partly remote so there have been occasions where I have no reason to leave the house or see another person for four days. I’m introverted so it’s kind of nice, but it’s probably not healthy

Every attempt to make something idiot creates a bigger idiot While I totally see the point this is already “solved” in that they shouldn’t have high beams on in the first place. Pedestrians and cyclists are tough because drivers don’t think to toggle their high beams, even If they see pedestrians and auto-high beams aren’t any better. We’re out of luck In my neighborhood we have very narrow streets and where there are sidewalks not pavement right next to the street. I never thought I’d appreciate the small amount of separation a standard sidewalk give but it actually does make a difference in how blinded your u are by traffic. But the bottom Line is similar to yours: this is a high density neighborhood with streetlights where no one should use high beams to begin with. Realistically there are several Poorly placed houses whose owners are probably even more frustrated

I’ll take being briefly blinded as a car hits a pothole over ten terrifying seconds of zero visibility as a monstrous vehicle careens toward me and I have no idea where the street is or what’s in it

At least in Manhattan, traffic is usually slow enough that pedestrians are at least as fast. Also they tend to go as a crowd. I’ll usually wait for the light but when hundreds of other pedestrians swarm into the street I figure we’re fairly visible and safe. I would never drive in Manhattan simply because it’s the slowest and most frustrating way to get around. I used to drive around queens when I had a girlfriend there but we’d always take a train around the city, and I’m sure traffic has only gotten worse. It’s just not worth it

This may be another case of needing technology to rescue people who are just that dumb. Auto-high beams have been getting better over the years to the point that humans can no longer claim to be more responsive. They just work. Every time. And never forget my car has active matrix headlights and it’s freaky to drive at night with the high beams on and watch a dark spot follow surrounding cars In ten years we’ll all forget how to toggle off high beams, as it will just work most of the time

My similar anecdote is people taking a right on red without stopping (or apparently looking), and would probably be included in those statistics I used to be a proponent of right on red, because who wants to be stuck at a dead intersection? If you only consider cars, it’s a nice efficiency gain. But now non-car users like pedestrians and cyclists don’t have a safe time to cross the intersection. And it’s so much worse now that people turning right on red seem to have forgotten the parts about “after coming to a complete stop” and “yielding to other traffic”

I knew someone who did that because the sidewalks were too uneven. She had bad ankles and kept rolling them trying to walk in the sidewalk Since pandemic I’ve fallen twice because of bad sidewalks. It’s embarrassing as shit

We’re still working on the loss of caring about driving from pandemic. For some reason it brought out the worst in people, and some of them are still there

I’m not buying that. Sure, what you say is absolutely true but we’re talking pedestrian deaths. That’s more of the fault of the high steel wall at the front, and that is purely a style choice.

There are plenty of cars with stock LED headlights and proper cutoffs, so they’re less blinding than traditional headlights It’s aftermarket “illegal” LEDs, LEDs that are misaligned or started at a bad height, and way too many drivers who never turn off their high beams. Yet another safety rule we only pay lip service to, resulting in unnecessary deaths

My stock Subaru can handle more off-roading than most trucks ever do

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Of the boomers I know one neighbor was a spiteful asshole, the other not my ex’s father is a fairly liberal vet my exs mother is not just liberal but is still at her age motivated by how much she can help people working at social services my mom is the most liberal in our family and frequently argues with my conservative brother

And boomers are NOT all the same Google search tells me 48% Democrat, 46% Republican and the remaining undecided

That was one of my objections to replacing kitchen appliances for all too long. I’m not even going to consider all the same brand. But they’ve added enough “styling elements” that it’s tougher to fill a kitchen with similar appliances from different manufacturers

The problem is it’s not really people’s choice. Companies have gotten very good at disguising quality traders and marketing has got very good at muddying the waters. Since this is about tools, I’ll bring up Craftsman as an example. For many years, it was a quality brand accessible to homeowners. But as they changed to be cheaper they still marketed themselves as a quality brand and they seemed like the same price. It was only after the brand value was destroyed, that it became clear how “cheap” the tools had become and people were able to make a legitimate decision to move on

6-7 miles walk, that’s a few hours