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Ookami38

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  • I need new glasses. The only insurance-approved place I can shop online will cost $250 with my needs. I went to a "cheap" glasses website that doesn't accept insurance: $250. Yay, America.

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  • I've had the exact opposite experience. Last time trying glasses at a local place, they hurt my eyes and couldn't figure out how to adjust them properly. Every pair I've purchased on Zenni has lasted multiple years of me sleeping in them or doing contact sports in them. I still have multiple pairs kicking around my house or car as spares.

  • Rule

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  • I'm sure that's a big part of it. Simple supply and demand also is probably part of it. It's a big situation, lots of influences.

  • Rule

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  • My gut tells me they're expensive because they offer a set of benefits that otherwise similar units don't. Until they become more the norm than a stand out, they'll probably be more expensive. I've 0 data, again just what my gut says.

  • Cop described Sonya Massey shooting as ‘self-inflicted’ in initial dispatch

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  • I have long thought the paradox of intolerance was bullshit, largely spouted by those who don't want to put in the effort to actually understand the humanity of the other. The easiest example I can show that pretty handily disproves the paradox of tolerance is Daryl Davis, the black blues musician who befriended and converted many KKK members, including high-ranking people, simply by talking and tolerating them.

    Note that you can tolerate the human without tolerating the actions. Actions can be good or bad, people are just people, each as capable of great good as they are great evil, and the only way to actually crush intolerable ideals is by connecting with the human inside.

    I don't think anyone has an obligation to this. Be safe and true to you, but for those who CAN, hiding behind a paradox IS intolerable.

  • Cop described Sonya Massey shooting as ‘self-inflicted’ in initial dispatch

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  • Because they're still someone. You can't take a hard line moralist approach and abandon it as soon as it's inconvenient.

    No one should suffer these things, not the vilest of criminals, or the idiots who think they should.

  • Cop described Sonya Massey shooting as ‘self-inflicted’ in initial dispatch

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  • People who glorify horrible deeds when done to certain people always confused me

  • Under an air burst nuke

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  • I unironically saw one of these and could not for the life of me see anything other than the t-rex's. I thought it was odd, but also better than the other decorations.

  • Ohio Supreme Court rules boneless chicken wings can have bones

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  • Your hand sanitizer doesn't advertise germ-free, it advertises 99.9% germ free. It'd be a problem if they advertised it as germ free, and it wasn't

    99.9% boneless wings, sure. That's fine. You expect a leftover bone here and there. Who the fuck is gonna buy 99.9% boneless wings, though? No one. You know that, I know that, and advertisers know that. So they label it in a misleading factor to sell more.

  • Ohio Supreme Court rules boneless chicken wings can have bones

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  • Surprising, a vegan coming somewhere, unprompted, to decry their moral superiority. The only things as reliable are "get a real measurement system" and "oh, that's a problem? I use Linux."

  • Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes

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  • Fine, it won't accelerate in the turn, you're still set higher coming out of it. Now you accelerate in the straight instead of the corner. There's no case in which that's a good or desirable outcome, and it can be easily mitigated by not having these controls so easy to accidentally press.

  • Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes

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  • Physical buttons I'm fine with. It's the capacitive/swipe buttons. They're far too easy to accidentally activate, since they only require a touch, and they're in the one spot of your car that you touch the most often.

    Critical functions, so things that effect how the car cars, should never be on touch buttons. There is too much wiggle room with them consistently activating when you expect them to. If you want to put non-critical components on touch buttons, so things like radio, AC, locks... Fine. I don't prefer it, but at least you're not creating a hazard. Acceleration, deceleration, steering, braking, and safety should NEVER be on a capacitive sensor.

  • Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes

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  • The point is, your car shouldn't be state changing suddenly. It shouldn't be accelerating when you're expecting it to coast or cruise. Unless something is wrong. Which I guess there is, there are capacitive slide inputs on the steering wheel.

    This issue is only a couple of levels of abstraction removed from Boeing's mcas system. A poorly implemented feature no one asked for that isn't explained properly. Trained pilots can't react to their planes suddenly operating in a way that they don't expect. You expect a layman in traffic to?

    It's easy to decry individual responsibility, and say only the most fit should be able to drive. What about the responsibility to the manufacturer? It's clear enough that there's a design flaw with this system. More drivers need to be aware, but why the hard-on for defending a clearly bad implementation of a feature? What's at stake for you?

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  • Can confirm, my car has the following cruise control buttons:

    On/off - res/+

    Cancel - set/-

    The on/off button arms or disarms cruise control entirely. With it armed and no speed set, set/+ will set the current speed as the target speed. With no speed set, the only other button that does anything is the on/off button, which disarms the system.

    With a speed set:

    On/off will still complete disarm the system

    Cancel will remove the set speed, but keep the system armed

    Tapping the brake will pause the cruise control

    Res/+ will increment the speed by one mph, or resume cruise at the previous set speed if cruise has been paused

    Set/- will decrement the mph by 1, or if held pause the cruise control until it's released.

    One of set or resume will set the current travel speed as the new cruise speed, if travel speed is higher than cruise. I think it's res.

    For the most part this works fine. I don't use the resume function, like you said it can be a bit harrowing if you're not certain exactly what speed is set, and my car is over a decade old - it doesn't have that feature. But, critically, it's not a fucking CAPACITIVE BUTTON, and I've never accidentally hit it once.

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  • Sure, I totally can't see someone swiping on their steering wheel, say, shuffling across it to... I dunno, turn it? And either jetting forward because they just bumped it from 55 to 75 over the course of a turn, or suddenly slowing, probably without brake lights. Swipe on a steering wheel has got to be the worst car idea I've heard in a while, and I've heard some bad ideas.

    Again, unless I'm misunderstanding the controls, which I am open to the possibility of. Please, if this is the case, let me know.

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  • Wait a minute. There are SWIPE CONTROLS on the steering wheel that adjust the cruise control speed by 5 mph increments? And we don't think that's problematic? I'm either misunderstanding the controls or not sure how that seems like a good idea at all

  • Windows 11

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  • Paid shill, purchased account, blind consumer... What's the difference?

  • Windows 11

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  • Critically wrong in this case. Crowdstrike updates push outside of, and regardless of, os settings. This wasn't, and never was, an os issue, it's a crowdstrike issue. Good try though.

  • Kamala Harris Holds Emergency Call With Dem Donors

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  • Thank you for the information. I didn't remember it being specifically tied to her, with it being 8 years ago and all hahah

  • Kamala Harris Holds Emergency Call With Dem Donors

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  • The unfortunate truth is that that's not an option. We get either a Republican, or a slightly better Republican. We need to put in a lot of groundwork to open the doors for any other options, and we're just not there yet.