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Solemn

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  • I'm getting old

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  • Like how Marvel writers lately keep saying they're getting hate for writing strong female leads, when really they're getting hate for writing idiotic Mary Sue's.

  • I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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  • I live in DFW right now. I'll admit i don't commute through downtown proper daily, but even when i do go through downtown after work it's bad, but not nearly as bad as plenty of other places in thr US.

  • I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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  • 15-45 minutes... I'm not exactly knowledgeable about pizza delivery logistics, so forgive me if I'm wrong about specifics. There was a decade or so where every chain promised delivery in 30 minutes or the pizza was free, but that's no longer a guarantee these days.

  • I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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  • Pizza delivery has electronically heated insulated containers for the drivers to keep the pizza in during the drive. Generally I think they group up orders so one delivery driver will hit up maybe 10-20 deliveries in that one run. It's normally not driving 20 miles just to deliver one pizza.

  • I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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  • Our cities aren't densely built up, except for New York. The actual urban area of most cities generally has far fewer people than the suburban metroplex surrounding it. 6.5km is literally larger than all of downtown Dallas, depending on how you define downtown.

    Even our cities are designed for car travel, so unless it's rush hour you're still faster by car. Unless there's a concert or other event happening, it doesn't take nearly 20 minutes to traverse downtown Dallas in a car.

  • I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07.

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  • Are you in the US? I've literally never seen a delivery driver on a bike, except for that action movie about bike couriers in NYC.

  • Impossibly thin fabric could cool you down by 16-plus degrees

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  • ... Silk is used as a cold weather baselayer in active wear? Not sure if it performs differently as an outer layer, but it's got solid insulating properties for keeping in heat

  • TIL about the TRAPPIST-1 Star System

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  • Mars is an example of why the natural process isn't exactly reliable either... You can engineer things to be as durable as planets, there's just generally not much demand for a project to be that costly in resources. In this case, I'm pretty sure making an artificial magnetic field that's more durable than the natural one would also be cheaper than recreating the natural one.

  • STEM Students Refuse to Work at Google and Amazon Over Project Nimbus

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  • I'll say that if the really talented people are signing on to this, that could be noticeable. I know Amazon tends to just churn through devs every year, but actually good software engineers are surprisingly hard to find.

  • I’ve been locked out of PayPal for years because of their mistake

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  • Zelle is free. It sucks, but it's there.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • I'm glad you think I can afford to triple my rent, but that's not happening.

    Edit: If you mean the road trip scenario, my family works in various different industries, and the opportunities are better in different cities. That's also not happening.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • That would become a 15+ hour trip then...

    Edit: On further investigation, it's also not significantly cheaper than flying, and is much more expensive than fuel for driving.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • Don't forget to plug in your block warmer so you can start up your diesel generator in the cold.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • I'd honestly love to just plug in every night instead of having to spend time getting gas every week. Sure it's only a few minutes, but that's probably a few hours of my life every year. Getting an electric vehicle and renting cars for road trips would honestly make much more sense for me.

    Unfortunately, it looks like it'd be financially irresponsible for me to buy an electric car right now while I still have a perfectly functional ICE car.

  • xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas

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  • I make a 9-10 hour drive to see my family multiple times a year. I normally stop twice to get gas and use the bathroom, and that's it. Sounds like you'd be adding most of an hour to my travel time each way. I've tried stopping longer and grabbing food, it's not worth it for me.

    With that said, I drive 25-40 miles a day the other 360+ days of the year, so it'd really make much more sense for me to have a short range EV and rent something for travel when I have too much luggage to fly.

  • House Passes Bill To Automatically Register Young Men for the Draft

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  • The US is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. You elect representatives to represent your interests. Or these days, you elect representatives to not represent the other people you don't like.

  • YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to counteract ad blockers

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  • Look up how HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) works. They just need to generate a personalized playlist for each person which points at things already hosted on CDN, and insert the ads where they want in the literal text file that your video player reads from to serve you the video.

    I don't know much about it, but it looks like there's specific tags designed for dynamic ad insertion. Idk if YouTube plans to use them in this case though, if they want it to be undetectable to the client.

  • American Airlines passenger sued by FAA after being duct taped to seat

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  • I'm not exactly a deregulation fan, but this race to the bottom also democratized access to air travel. When the prices were fixed, they weren't exactly fixed at anything near the cheap prices we have now (when adjusted for inflation).

  • Many such cases

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  • They didn't misspell "stream deck"