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- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 19 hours ago:
Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.
- Comment on Every single time. 1 week ago:
I remember seeing a stunningly beautiful woman at the grocery store, and I looked in my cart and saw lactose-free milk, lactose-free probiotic yogurt, and ultra-soothing toilet paper.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 1 week ago:
Where else would it go? The veins are blue!
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 1 week ago:
This was something I realized when we drive to my wife’s parents. It’s 2,000 km each way from our house in the US to where they are in rural Quebec, Canada and we usually drive it twice a year. The charging times sound long, but even with our petrol car most of our stops end up being between 15 to 30 minutes anyways between fueling the car, taking the dog to grass, taking turns going to the toilet so the dog isn’t alone in the car, getting food and giving me a chance to eat so I’m not trying to drive and eat at the same time.
I think the real challenge of electric range anxiety is that it still takes planning, at least in some parts of the US. There are areas on our route where it might be 100 kilometers to the next fast charger, and there’s no guarantee that all of them will be working or compatible with a car’s fastest charging speeds. We don’t really have to think about where we’ll get gasoline; there’s pretty much always a station, often several, within the next few miles. Usually if we’re waiting to stop for fuel it’s because we’re looking for the best price, looking for a place that might have decent toilets, and/or might have an appealing food option along with the gasoline. That’s all manageable in electric but might need some advanced planning, and many American drivers aren’t used to doing that kind of route planning in advance anymore.
How many cars in Europe can drive 1,000 km without stopping anyways? The only ones I can think of offhand are large American pickup trucks intended for towing large trailers long distances. I wouldn’t expect to see them in Europe.
- Comment on A product of his environment 1 week ago:
You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I feel like it would need to be some relatively early show that has maintained a degree of popularity. Maybe an early cartoon that was seen as appropriate kid’s programming, like The Flintstones or The Jetsons.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 2 weeks ago:
So this is the strategy of putting 4 houses on your properties in Monopoly and never upgrading them to hotels because that way there are no houses for your opponents to buy
- Comment on 0mg 2 weeks ago:
!youdontsurf@lemmy.world
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Iceberg or wave for me, thanks
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 weeks ago:
So in Germany one often has to move out of Harms’s way?
- Comment on We All Know This Guy 2 weeks ago:
!nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
- Comment on How come in American classrooms they make another language an elective. Why not teach our kids as many languages possible that way if we go somewhere we will kind of have uper hand? 2 weeks ago:
I know it varies from state to state, but where I’ve lived it’s an “elective” in that you got to pick which language to take of the available options (some schools might only have two choices, others four or even five), but taking a certain number of foreign language credits was required for graduation. If you wanted to go beyond the minimum and had room in your schedule you could.
- Comment on 😋🔫 3 weeks ago:
I think I only ever needed a white shirt and tie. My younger brother was in band but when they performed with the string orchestra to give more of a symphony I think they actually did have some sort of suit, maybe tuxedo-like. That was all arranged by the school at the very start, of course.
- Comment on misleading cover 3 weeks ago:
This seems to be garnering a lot of attention. Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 3 weeks ago:
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
- Comment on 😋🔫 3 weeks ago:
Orchestra
- Comment on Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement 3 weeks ago:
IIRC when it was implemented in the first place, it seemed like lemmy.world had actually been contacted by some stakeholder with a DMCA-style request, even though the community was not actually originating on lemmy.world. Explaining how federation worked to lawyers didn’t matter much and with .world at the time becoming one of the larger and more visible instances that seemed like the best way to avoid the headaches. Initially they defederated with dbzer0 entirely before developing a way to block just the community.
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on For that special someone on Valentine's Day 4 weeks ago:
What are the red things in the top photos?
- Comment on ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering 4 weeks ago:
I hate this, +1
- Comment on ai;dr | (ai; didn't read) 4 weeks ago:
I’ve worked a number of jobs in TV, most behind the scenes. I’ve long said most of those jobs people at home wouldn’t know exist unless I make a mistake. That does not mean they were simple jobs.
Many people do not understand the amount of work that goes into other jobs they have never done, nor do they understand what makes someone good at that job.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 4 weeks ago:
As The Clash say in “Know Your Rights”:
You have the right to food money
Provided of course
You don’t mind a little
Investigation
Humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation - Comment on Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage 4 weeks ago:
As someone who hasn’t paid a lot of attention to this case other than general curiosity out of how odd it is. I had wondered why the family hadn’t been able to give the police the security footage sooner.
When Nancy Guthrie went missing, officials said she had a doorbell camera, but that it had been forcibly removed, and she did not have a subscription.
- Comment on Video cable for Dreamcast 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t played the Dreamcast since they were an active system, but if you already have the cables to get S-video into your monitor you’re probably fine with that. Technically component would be better, but I don’t know how noticeable the improvement would be. The main improvement would be in color, but S-video wasn’t bad. I would have to doublecheck if S-video supports progressive scan, but if you’re at SD resolution on a CRT I wouldn’t expect you to notice a difference between interlaced or progressive video. Interlaced video was made for CRTs and wasn’t actually bad there, never mind how we appreciate and prefer progressive video on modern flat screens.
- Comment on America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs 4 weeks ago:
I’ve found that to be the case more and more with The Atlantic in recent years: long articles that might sound impressive but don’t actually say much or could’ve said things much more succinctly. I usually don’t read their articles anymore.
- Comment on The Realest Shitpost Out Here In A While.. 4 weeks ago:
Did they cause the poopsplosion as an excuse to buy you dinner?
- Comment on The bushes were people 🤯 4 weeks ago:
I kept expecting them to dance and was shocked it never happened
- Comment on Valentines 5 weeks ago:
Is this something where people pay this group to make a dance video greeting?
I have no idea who Melanie Martinez is
