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  • ‘Everything is a scam!’ Trump ridiculed after pics of Black church event show white crowd

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  • Rofl. Way to turn a thread on Trump getting caught faking an outreach to the black voter in a black church into an anti Biden/Harris smear.

  • DeSantis Declares Emergency Over Floods After Cutting Stormwater Funds

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  • If a typical storm causes rampant flooding, maybe it would behoove you to invest in infrastructure and tighten building codes.

    You know, the job of local government.

  • Tesla in self-drive mode slams into police car in Orange County

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  • Fuck Elon, and to a lesser extend, Tesla and all. But this seems like yet another user error on several accounts. I thought "autopilot" was only supposed to be used on freeways. And obviously assisted by a human who should have seen a fucking parked cop car coming and intercede anyway.

    But that said, fuck Elon and his deceptive naming of a fucking primitive tech that's really only good at staying in a lane at speed under ideal conditions.

  • Tesla Shareholders Approve Musk's $56 Billion Pay Package in Early Voting

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  • Don't undervalue yourself

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  • I'm gonna reduce that. Shareholders don't give a shit about working hours. They just care about revenue and expenses.

    This is purely a management issue. Upper management might insist on these metrics as a way to crack down on productivity. In my personal experience as a dev, middle management doesn't give about metrics unless someone (upper management) forces them to. Because at the end of the day, its just a pain in the ass hounding subordinates about trivial shit if theyre actually performing where it matters. So anecdotally, I will say this seems to exclusively come from upper management. But I'm sure people have different experiences.

    The problem is that upper management is usually so divorced from the real day to day problems that the easy win they can take to their superiors is stupid shit like apm metrics.

  • The current state of auto insurance: shit that belongs on a shady Kickstarter from 2013

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  • He is correct that the forces are different. The equation for centripetal force is Fc = Mv2/R.

    Radius is the distance from the focal point, and each seat will be different distances.

    So he is technically correct that seat position could be calculated in perfect conditions with accurate measurements.

    But none of the data that reaches this service will be remotely accurate or complete enough to make that determination. It will only have one passengers phone data, and even if it collected everyones phone data, phone sensors have a margin of error well above what the difference would be. GPS data is only even marginally accurate up to something like 6ft, and really not even then. Then cars have a lot of other factors like suspension and compression in seats, etc, that would absorb enough of the forces to muddy the data even if accurate sensors were everywhere.

    Tl;dr; another cocky person that took a few physics courses but walked away with a poor understanding of real world applications talking out their ass.

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    Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle

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  • But middle aged dad bods are back in our (relative to category) prime, baby!

  • AOC backs Hunter Biden verdict and says its proof Dems are ‘willing to accept when our justice system works’

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  • I mean, I'd like guns to be inaccessible (legally) to raging alcoholics too. You're right that a crackhead and alcoholic can both be very destructive. But that doesn't mean I want crackheads to have guns just because an alcoholic without a felony can own one.

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles

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  • Essentially what I've been doing. HD rental truck. But truck availability and requiring multiple round trips to return and pick up my car means I put it off until I'm blocked, and then needlessly stock up on sheet goods that I might need in the future, but ultimately sit around for a year or two before I use them.

    But yeah, this is what I'm doing while I bide my time for truck prices to drop. And I've push back a bunch of projects that rely on ply because I just don't want to deal with the hassle.

    To your point, I bet the trailers are probably more readily available. The trucks themselves are very hit or miss in my experience. But there always seems to be trailers in the lot.

  • AOC backs Hunter Biden verdict and says its proof Dems are ‘willing to accept when our justice system works’

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  • I think that Hunter was only prosecuted for this crime because of who his father is. A real witch hunt. But at the same time, I'm not losing any sleep over it. He broke the law, and he's someone with a lot of resources at his disposal and should have known better.

    As for the law itself, I think the law should exist, but the potential punishment of 25 years is absurd.

    I do think that keeping guns out of easy, legal, access of active drug abusers is appropriate. But as you say, without a conviction, the scope of those restrictions should be narrow and appeal-able.

    And the punishment for being untruthful on a checkbox of an application should be a slap on the wrist. Confiscation of the firearm(s), and maybe community service. It should be the governments job to do proper screening, not the applicants job to screen themselves out.

    But like I said before, I'm not going to lose any sleep over this, even if I do think it's an unfair punishment for an arbitrarily enforced law, on someone targeted by a cult simply because of his family.

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles

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  • Yeah, I used to borrow my parents van on occasion, but they got a newer model of the same van (Odyssey) that could no longer fit sheet goods.

    Also was pretty awkward tying the trunk door on the occasions where I needed longer material, which I would be doing more of nowadays. And TBH, despite my best efforts to pad things and load materials gently, I did scrap up the interior a bit, which wouldn't be a factor with a truck.

    A work van might do, though. Those seem pretty huge.

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles

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  • Yeah, I've considered that too. Neither of us have a car with a hitch, and we don't have a good place to store a trailer for extended periods of time, but it's an option I'm considering for sure.

  • Move over, Ford and Chevy: Kei trucks are pulling up as customers opt for smaller, cheaper vehicles

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  • I'd honestly love one of these, depending in if it's powerful enough to haul a decently heavy load up a hill.

    I woodwork as a hobby, and have been wanting an old truck for a while, but the used truck market is pretty insane right now. All I want is an old beater with a reliable engine and a standard sized bed that's capable of hauling sheet goods (4ft wide) without hassle.

    This would check those marks. If the price was right, I'd happily drive this little guy around.

    Instead, the market is full of ridiculously sized pickups with tiny truck beds because either the cab is huge, or they waste so much space making the truck look "tough" that the beds shrink narrower than 4ft.

    As long as I can get a small truck in a V6 so that I don't stall out hauling something heavy like cement bags, I'm in.

  • Republicans push conspiracy theories after Hunter Biden verdict: ‘A fake trial’

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  • You can see the syncing happen in real time when something big and unexpected happens, and it takes about 24h for them to get the narrative straight.

    When the Pelosi attack happened, I was curious and monitored r/conservative.

    For the first 12h or so, they were for the most part human. Most highly rated comments were along the lines of "I don't agree with her politics, but this is wrong."

    There were still a few comments celebrating the attack with mixed votes.

    Then about 12 hrs in, conspiracy theories started trickling in with mixed reactions ranging from gleeful excitement to disgust.

    24h in, all of the respectful comments were buried to oblivion, and the conspiracy theories and comments celebrating violence had fully taken over.

    It was both enlightening and absolutely repulsive to watch how their propaganda worked in real time.

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    Millionaire Investment Banker Jonathan Kaye caught punching, and breaking an unarmed woman's nose during Brooklyn Pride Festival

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  • Yeah. That would be called "context", of which we have zero of. And which you acknowledge matters.

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    Millionaire Investment Banker Jonathan Kaye caught punching, and breaking an unarmed woman's nose during Brooklyn Pride Festival

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  • How is context not important? We don't even have a full second of clip before he throws the punch.

    Is context only not important when it's a man hitting a woman?

    Would you say the same if it was a 2s clip of a woman punching a man?

  • ‘Rigged’: Trump attacks judge and courts in first post-conviction rally

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  • Well, he did love to use the hard N before this all while on set of the Apprentice, so I wouldn't put him past making the connection on his own and steering it there.

  • In Indonesia, women ranger teams go on patrol to slow deforestation

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  • Yes, except these women were denied the responsibility because they are women in an Islamic controlled society. But the community was convinced to allow it.

  • Gaza pier used for aid delivery has been reconnected, U.S. officials say

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  • The tendency to make Perfect the enemy of Good.

    It's a tired theme here on Lemmy, particularly WRT Gaza, and particularly in criticism of Biden's policy towards Isreal.