Not now she wouldn’t, not after going to town on Trump then right back to boot licking.

Then watch it at a slower pace. Don’t drag everyone else down with you.

> Goes to show they are pretty great at adapting books, luckily the TBP book series is already finished, so they won’t have the GoT ending problem.

I have to say THANK YOU. I’ve never heard anyone else point out how terrible this set of books is before, so I’m glad to hear someone else say it! I got not even halfway through the second book before reading the wiki summary, and being glad I did so I could quit the books. The first one had interesting ideas, but…

I read the first book, got about 40% of the way into the second one before the pain of the bad writing, non-sensical characterization, and increasingly bizarre plot got to me, and I checked out the rest of the plot on Wikipedia. After reading where it goes, I realized there was zero point in finishing the books, it…

The other solution this provides is if there’s an exploit found in iOS they can update phones before they’re sold to prevent jailbreakers from buying up all the exploitable phones.

DEI isn’t hiring based on race or gender, it’s ensuring that qualified candidates of all races, genders, etc., are represented and in the talent pool. It’s not “hire minorities” it’s “stop looking for qualified candidates in the same place, cast a wider net.”

But it’s easier to say one is against it by using the…

Saying a car that REQUIRES more attentiveness is safe is like saying a razor is safer than safety scissors, in that it is wrong. If people can’t give enough attention in automatics, giving them three more things to do in the car won’t help. Manuals are not safer, they’re just also not more dangerous.

Re: A Trade Is A Trade

No, this one’s real. Go into the dealer with your funding already secured, don’t play games with the 4-square sheet, don’t argue with them about financing, don’t tell them you have a trade until you’ve hammered out the price for the car, because anything they give on the trade above what they can…

Yep, he needs mental health assistance (seriously, two tours in Afghanistan, we need to care for our veterans) and banned from gun ownership.

No, FAA is part of the Executive branch and has it’s own regulatory authority delegated by Congress. They do not have congress approve new regulations, only big scope changes in the FAA’s mandate.

Oh, they TOTALLY understand that, that’s why they go shopping for corruptible people.

I’m fine with this as long as I can turn off the constant “Should I put this thing you don’t want in your shopping cart? Can I get you to buy a thing? Would you like me to annoy you more?” crap. Every few months now I have to an re-disable notifications because a NEW notification type has been added and it defaults to…

Book 2 starts off promising and very quickly gets bogged down in the same boring insanity that took up most of book 1, except it’s even harder to read because people are making even worse, bizarre decisions. After reading the plot synopsis, just don’t go back, there’s nothing valuable there.

Yeah, but you’re not reporting, you’re opining, and poorly to boot. Competition in the appstore area? Unquestionably a good thing, to argue otherwise is to argue in the face of overwhelming evidence it’s harmful to users. “But a handful of concerning policies make me wonder”... So, this whole article is “I’m just askin…

I never made it through book 2. Book 1 underdelivered on what it set up, and book 2 was so obnoxious I read the summary on Wikipedia and realized I should not waste my time. I genuinely do not understand how people call it good.

A lot of folks also use cheat enabling controllers, which is a large issue. There’s got to be a way to balance both.

> Musk got convinced by some folks in his circle to do this, and then regretted it and tried to back out but couldn’t.

Close. He made an impetuous offer, had a bunch of folks tell him it was a terrible idea and that he was massively overpaying, and then tried to get out. He COULD HAVE DONE SO by just paying the…

And lacks pressure sensitivity. So they made a pencil that’s more expensive to manufacture (sliding parts and a mechanical port), but with fewer features and a lower price. I literally don’t even know why they’re selling this. They’re actually losing here.

Smooth flat tires are great for racing on a smooth, flat, dry racetrack. You lower the air pressure to get a larger contact patch between the tire and the ground. A larger contact patch allows the car to put more energy directly into the ground via the tire to propel it forward faster. If you look at a funny car…