New technology to increase hard drive storage? “Get perpendicular!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II

It’s pretty fucking disgusting to self censor inoffensive language

It’s disgusting to need to do it. I won’t blame poster/commenter for doing it so that their shit doesn’t get deleted.

The message specifically said it was due to the “unusually large tip”. They wanted me to confirm that it was intended.

If the article linked below is to be believed, the credit card company does indeed know how much of the transaction is a tip due to the way the transaction is processed. Note that this was at a full-service restaurant, not tipping at the counter for fast food or some other thing.

Consider when you pay with a credit card at a sit-down restaurant, they read the card first. Then you write in the tip on the receipt, meaning that they process this part later after the initial card reading. It is probably different with the tabletop self-checkout devices though.

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-tips-given-in-restaurants-never-show-on-credit-card-statements

It was instilled in me from a very early age that cops are not your friends.

Law enforcement in the U.S. in its current form is a gang. The key points here are lack of accountability, lack of oversight, and a lot of unjust laws. The latter may not be their fault per se, but it is still a factor that needs to be corrected.

I’ve had transactions flagged for (intentionally) leaving large tips before. These large tips were justified for various reasons, such as comped meals.

Could be the specific credit card company I use?

A 50% tip can get your credit card flagged as potentially fraudulent activity.

And tipping culture has creeped in both magnitude (i.e. 15% used to be standard, but now it’s the low end) and scope (e.g. tips prompts at fucking fast food places)

We need to start using U.S. troops to make these food deliveries. These types of “mistakes” would stop immediately.

Alternatively: murder

It’s all over the board. Most don’t melt, in my experience. Some become crispy.

I went with a media center PC and haven’t looked back.

Cannabiserra

I feel like I’m just running the clock down to FIRE

Reduce my hours to ~30 and I’d get the same amount of work done in that time.

Full disclosure: I do still use Reddit, simply because of how much content there is on that site. But I’m tapering off to spend more time on Lemmy. I hope to see this platform grow.

If I had to boil down my description of Reddit into one thing, it would be “passive aggressive.”

I’ve been banned from subs I’ve never even previously commented/posted to. But then I’ll make a comment and it’s been shadowbanned. It’s so prevalent that I got in the habit of logging out to check that it actually appeared. I mostly stuck to commenting and made new posts rather infrequently, but it seems like some subs no matter what I posted it would get removed for very dubious reasons. One of the worst offenders was the sub for unpopular opinions, where they would just remove anything and say “must be an unpopular opinion.”

From the article:

The answer was pollution. Counties that experienced the biggest job losses in the Great Recession, the economists found, also saw the largest declines in air pollution, as measured by levels of the fine particulate matter PM2.5.

Seems like a good case to promote work from home. WFH is such a win on so many fronts, yet there’s been a big push to get people back in offices. We are in the bad place.

Good charts comparing why the “just world fallacy” is indeed a fallacy.

Hybrids do involve extra parts, but the wear/tear is split across the drivetrains to an extent.

Think if you have a set of regular “all season” tires and a set of winter tires. You have twice as many tires but the wear is split across the sets.

Of course you aren’t splitting it to that degree, but you aren’t just wearing 2x the parts either. In particularly, the Toyota hybrid system at least has been proven to be highly reliable. Part of this is the highly reliable transmission (eCVT) they use and some other parts (like the traditional starter motor) that aren’t needed.

This article explains it a little: https://inhabitat.com/hybrids-are-more-reliable-than-gas-cars-in-recent-report/