Cutting ropes is a thing that only happens in movies. They don’t have Boyscouts in California I guess.

Every conceivable use for a rope has a knot that will accommodate it. Knots that don’t bind when under tension are a whole genre.

Apple products are great. The Apple ecosystem is not. If you like FOSS, you’re going to have a bad time.

Putting music on my iPhone sucks because iTunes won’t recognize or transfer .FLAC format. File sharing on iPhone is really inconstant and buggy. And I need a whole 3rd party app to get the data moved. Or I can upload things to iCloud 5GB at a time.

Personality disorder: it’s like a mental illness, but “getting better” would mean changing who you are.

There is no consistency and no standards. It’s actually a big problem. Customers don’t have any reliable way to know what kind of dose they’re getting. And even experienced users can get surprised.

There needs to be regulation on dosage and packaging. If marijuana was more dangerous, this would be killing people. Can you imagine ordering a drink and not knowing if it was beer or liquor until you started to feel the effect?

Most of the batteries in EVs are still in service. As the tech ages, their is going to be a need for a robust recycling program. Led-acid batteries (the kind in gas cars) already has a 90+% closed supply system which means the primary input for new batteries is old batteries.

With robust recycling, resource extraction can actually go down even as we use more and more batteries.

I used to work at Blockbuster. (am old)

They required a credit card to open an account. They would charge this account for late fees if you hadn’t paid them in 30 days or so. Their computer system didn’t check for valid credit card #s. The entire time I worked there, I misstyped almost every credit card number on a new account.

Obviously with people changing accounts and cards expiring, the failure rate when we charged these accounts was always high and nobody ever said anything about it.

I visited Sequoia Nat Park maybe 10 or 12 years ago. The bears were crazy. I knew I was likely to see a bear, but the animals moved into the camp like they were clocking in.

There were signs that advised campers to make noise like banging pots and pans to drive them off. Less than 30 seconds after sunset, you could hear pots and pans banging in every direction.

I saw two bears that first night, one got close enough that I could hear it breathing.

It’s nice to see that at least one billionaire who put Trump in power is facing direct consequences. And I don’t think it’s lost on the Iranians that they’re targeting the true power structure in America.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that starting wars is worse than abusing women and even pedophilia. The low estimates for Iraqi civilian deaths are in the hundreds of thousands.

I’m sure OP didn’t intend to dismiss Arab and Persian lives, but the meme does imply that.

Tom Waits? like the artist? I’m confused.

Eugenics has always been a popular idea, all you have to do is call it something else.

In internet culture, the movie Idiocracy (2006) is extremely popular and the most common sentiment is that it’s coming true. It’s a cute move, but it’s central premise is Eugenics: the idea that if humans are allowed to breed naturally, it’ll lead to societal collapse. There are so many online people who think that movie represents how evolution works. It’s scary.

I used to do meter work for the Power Company. I was taught that an arc flash would reach 40,000 degrees (F or C doesn’t matter, don’t ask), and could instantly vaporize tool-steel.

I have a melted pair of pliers to prove it. Luckily, I was probably the only worker who actually used my PPE and was fine.

Brosheph Goebbels: this is what they call each other at The Daily Wire.

I don’t know where this gender war crap comes from. I always dated people that I liked and wanted to be around. It was even fun sometimes.

This sounds like an updated variant of “I hate my wife” boomer humor.

In the Middle East: drones deliver to Amazon.

Our passwords are screwed because the companies that store them can’t be bothered to secure them. All of this could be solved with a regulation that every compromised account means the user is owed $500.

But of course the contributors to the NYTimes can’t find fault with businesses, instead scolding customers that they’re not protecting the data that they didn’t want collected and the credentials and credit scores we didn’t ask for either.

Nobody is going to steal your identity, they’re stealing credentials that you didn’t ask for, do not benefit from, and have no control how they’re stored or maintained.

I think Ai is a solution to our fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I think your attitude to sex work is a fucked up relationship with naked bodies and sex.

I have an elderly cat, and I share your aggravation. I stop using bottles when they’re like 1/4 full. When I’ve used up enough of the new bottle, I pour the old stuff in.

You know it took 80 years between the time someone who looked like Obama could vote, and the time that someone who looked like Harris could. It shouldn’t be surprising that this same pattern would appear in electability.

Harris probably can’t win, but it’s not her policy or resume’. It’s her vagina. Because at the end of the day, two women have run for the chair, and Trump beat both of them. Maybe their weakness is the obvious thing they have in common?

Harris lost because America is such a misogynistic country, it’s a problem on the left too.

If you disagree, then please explain why Harris’ weaknesses don’t apply to the (cock having) Joe Biden. I don’t remember Biden being a socialist hero, but he was still able to defeat Trump without leaving his basement.

Did you know that when obstetrics and gynecology was new, it was seen as absurd. Because midwives and clever-women had always dominated reproductive care and the idea of going to a man was ridiculous.

The American Medical Association needed to discredit midwives and clever-women. Part of that campaign was legal oppression, by making things like abortion illegal. This is the birth of the anti-abortion movement in America. Not moralists, but capitalists; same as it ever was.