Have you not read the relevant chapters in The Wealth of Nations?

If he meets enough Billie Eilishes he can finally have enough copper to sell and buy a house.

You said no weapons, but no mention of armor.

Wrap me in some chain mail or kevlar or whatever, and set me loose. I will rain down an ungodly firestorm upon any number of squirrels. They’re gonna have to call the United Nations and get a binding resolution to keep me from destroying them. I will massacre them. I will fuck them up.

Its niches are nowhere near as strong as reddit though. The only reason I can’t ditch reddit is small hobby subs and stuff like that. Their alternatives on lemmy are just not good enough, because of a hideous combination of lack of users and fragmentation.

I believe the C in CAT stands for “contrarianism”

Wait, don’t Bluetooth devices randomize their macs like wifi to hide their identities from unpaired devices?

It’s a list of words for each letter in the English alphabet so they they can be spelled unambiguously over the radio.

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Erdoğan had been in prison and had a political ban.

In Turkey a political ban means you can’t get elected, but it does not stop you from being the leader of a political party. In the 2002 elections Erdoğan was very much the face of the party and the campaign. He was the man. But he wasn’t allowed to run for PM, so the party ran with a proxy instead. That proxy PM served only long enough to lift Erdoğan’s ban and do some fucked up retroactive election bullshittery to get Erdoğan officially elected as a representative in the parliament months after the general elections. The main opposition, in their infinite wisdom, helped them cook up a bullshit reason to do a repeat of the last general election in a small town, and allowed Erdoğan to run in place of another rep that had been in those same ballots earlier. The proxy PM then resigned and left his seat to Erdoğan, who was now an officially elected representative.

They found a very interesting way of selling their hybrid cars as full on EVs where I live. Their e-power stuff are small ICEs working as generators for electric motors that then drive the wheels. Apparently the fact that the wheels get all their power from an electric motor makes it definitely not a hybrid no sir, despite the fact the cars have tiny ass batteries and the single source of power for the whole system is the ICE. Also they somehow have worse fuel efficiency than many contemporary ICEs that cost quite a bit less. I don’t understand Nissan.

What is “best experience” though? It’s such a subjective thing. For you it might be pushing a lever back and forth. For every one person like you, I bet there are hundreds who’d rather leave that menial task to the car. Manual transmission can quickly stop being “fun and engaging” and become a chore, especially if you drive through traffic regularly.

I, or rather my left leg, personally do not consider manual transmission as a good experience at all. I also think paying much less for fuel is also a very good experience for my wallet. Though of course I don’t drive a Lamborghini or even a nice M4, so there’s that.

Plenty of brands stopped offering manual variants of plenty of models. IIRC BMW practically begged people to stop asking for manual variants, saying it just does not make any sense to mess with the supply chain and the production line and the car itself just to put an objectively inferior transmission inside it.

Go to the videos of 1.5+ years old songs and get one dollar bill every time you find a “still listening to it in <time>” comment.

I have an idea to make this idea even wilder. Make the robot dog lift its front hind leg.

Only if they don’t realize that kites are actually a real propulsion method distinct from sails. Kite propelled ships look nothing like sailing ships.

Are you capacitance-shaming her?

Correction: she’s 35 Farads.

His stuff at least manages to make money somehow, so that makes some kind of sense from a money worship point of view. I doubt Blomkamp’s movies raked in as much cash though.

Yeah obviously made up for fake internet points. There’s no way there was a third toot, it’s just impossible. I don’t buy it.

An anthology-like mini series where each episode deals with one pilgrim and is written and directed by different people. As many different styles as there are pilgrims, just like how the book is written. Would translate very well to screen IMO.