Got it, thanks

So a patent existed prior, but that doesn’t mean they were made. SAAB made them standard 14 years after this car. Do with no other data, I’d say no and no.

Edit: just realized that reads like I’m being pissy, but that wasn’t the tone my finger was swiping with. Thanks for the data!

Did anything have a seatbelt in 1944?

I’m just barely a boomer, but I’m also a software engineer/manager. Sometimes younger folks assume I need help with computers/tech, or are surprised when I’m knowledgeable about them. It’s starting to change for me, too, though. I haven’t kept up with newer languages, and as a manager I really don’t write any code outside of the occasional Excel VBA, so I’m getting pretty stale.

Hard to believe that cold spots could stay for more than a moment with the Brownian motion.

Or he consider himself a crusader for a cause more than a vigilante and was carrying it to get more attention to his beliefs.

I don’t eat at McDonald’s for a variety of reasons, but I doubt very much that the company has anything to do with the guy being called in.

Hey, yeah, the alcoholic will just quit drinking, no big deal. He could totally stop anytime.

Not knowing anything about his death before reading the article, the headline made it sound like some odd coincidence. “Sudden death” makes it sound like something that just happened unexpectedly. Not sure why they didn’t just say “…before suicide.”

Is that RFK Jr?

No, that’s bullshit. Maybe you just don’t remember his first term. His picks then were the worst ever, but not nearly at this level. It was infuriating. You don’t remember the harm Betsy Devos did to the department of education? It’s the cabinet members who cause much of the destruction.

Oh, well, silly me then. No, like the other guy said, it’s very stretchy. If you have your own scrotum, it’s easily confirmed. If you have girly parts, the skin is very similar to the outer labia: very sensitive to scratching, but it doesn’t hurt to stretch it.

This whole thing is so soul crushing. I’ve always stayed informed to the point that I consider it a part of who I am. Now Trump and the Republicans control all branches of government, he’s putting in literally the worst possible choices for cabinet positions, they’re actively planning on some of the most abhorrently racist actions, and Trump is spinning up his grift machine. All of the checks and balances have been removed and replaced with loyalty assessments, and so we’re sitting here with no reasonable way to avoid the disasters. My chest is constantly tight and I just don’t think I can keep tuned into live coverage of the national disaster.

Not sure there was a right answer in this one. We legitimately bitched about Trump not supporting a peaceful transfer of power. Now he’s legitimately won the election, and Biden is trying to support a peaceful transfer of power the way we have for every election other than the one Trump lost.

I don’t think they’re asking about the stretching, but about having a puddle of alcohol on your scrotum. That was my first thought as well. Probably okay if it’s wine, but not sure about something high proof.

When I do bcc to a big list, I describe the distribution in the email header. Like “To: all users of the xxx application” or “To: All Engineering employees at the yyy site.”

I agree that, asking with the bad things OP mentions, there are good things about a smaller site. I remember a lot of times on Reddit when I had something to say, but when I went into the thread there were thousands of comments and I’d feel like there just wasn’t a point in adding mine.

On Lemmy, when I make a comment, it’s very likely to be seen (for better or worse), and I have much more of a feeling of adding to the conversation. It’s more like joining a conversation at a party.

There’s a huge contingent, even here, who loves both those guys, but maybe more importantly, they’re supposed to be on our side. Hell, Trump is the president! Putin is the dictatorial ruler of an enemy country, we expect that he’s going to do and say stuff that’s terrible.

To be fair, torties aren’t happy about much of anything

Isn’t this one of the LLMs that was partially trained on Reddit data? LLMs are inherently a model of a conversation or question/response based on their training data. That response looks very much like what I saw regularly on Reddit when I was there. This seems unsurprising.