mulderc

Oregon

My states system is very transparent and has many systems for detecting fraud but people on the right claim otherwise and they are either ignorant of how it worked or just lying.

Without the Lisa we wouldn’t have the Mac. The Vision Pro is a first gen of a new product category for Apple and I fully expect whatever comes from it will be very different than what we have today.

The Apple Lisa was introduced at around $10k (~$32k in today’s dollars). I do agree it is expensive but not historically out of line for a version one of a new product category for the company.

I have always been amazed at how outlook just seems to always get worse. When I first used it decades ago I found it awful but it had a logic to it, now it is worse and makes no sense in the current world of options.

I would imagine there are actually more 68k devices out there than 486 and, I am told, the 68k architecture is much more enjoyable to work with.

I live in the pacific NW and feel that we do largely have those but people don't know about them or don't want to use them. For example, the easiest way for me to get to Portland/Seattle/Vancouver is by far the train. In none of those cities would I recommend driving as public transit is better in almost all cases. I live in a medium sized city and even here we only drive about once a week. So it is totally possible but it takes some additional planning and tradeoffs that many people don't want to do.

Given how insane people are driving today, I sort of want a car to snitch on bad drivers.

It is wild the type of AI generated videos I have seen on YouTube. Today I saw a short video on the history of OS/2 that I am 99% sure was AI made and I was just left wondering why would someone make that? Is there a market for a video like that?

Public transit is much faster for me but I lived near the Hollywood district and worked downtown.

The neighbor was 2022 or so but even more recent people have seemed a bit confused. I think having a car in the driveway makes people think we are home.

Well my curtains and light open and close on a schedule so they won’t tell them much. Also who can afford to drive to work anymore?

I would have thought this but was amazed at the number of times people would think I was home while talking to them via my doorbell. I have neighbor that told people I was rude to not come to the door and didn’t know I was talking to her from work.

West coast cities like Portland and Seattle both have very good transit and in my experience is generally better than driving since traffic and parking are awful. Where I live on the west coast is a mid sized city and transit is completely viable, my family only drives on weekends for example.

NPR/PBS are still there and basically the same.

I am not against Plate Readers in theory but feel like you should have to have a warrant to look things up in the database.

Apple doesn’t have a monopoly in any market they are in.

This was all a money laundering scheme right?

I’m with you but there are plenty of places where public transit is superior to driving and people still drive.

Strong disagree on being worse off than cable. I now almost never see ads, that is a huge benefit in my book.

I also find Netflix video quality shockingly bad and oddly inconsistent. I think they just don’t prioritize video quality in the same way as say apple or Disney does.

I have been on both a Bronze plan and Catastrophic insurance. They are not the same at all.

Have you been on an ACA bronze plan? I wouldn’t consider it a Cadillac plan nor did I find it covering lots of unnecessary things.

There is a Kagi extension that makes Kagi the default search engine.

True but that also protects me if something goes wrong.

Is it? I pay people in other countries with normal credit cards all the time.

To be honest, that probably means the value isn’t zero.

My understanding is it isn’t so much people being idiots but that acetaminophen is in many products making it easy to overdose on when you are sick.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/dont-overuse-...

“56,000 emergency department visits and 2600 hospitalizations, acetaminophen poisoning causes 500 deaths annually in the United States” -Acetaminophen Toxicity Suneil Agrawal; Brian P. Murray; Babak Khazaeni. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK441917/

One thing I don’t understand is why people even do business with many of these scummy financial companies when credit unions exist.