tmyakal

Reality outpaces satire faster every day.

Alright, nerds, what am I switching to?

Melbourne Sexual Offences and Child abuse Investigation Team (SOCIT) detectives

Sounds like one team investigates both sexual crimes and child abuse. This looks like it has nothing to do with minors.

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Sane-washing. Pretending that the things coming out of his mouth aren’t stupid or incomprehensible. If the news is pretending he makes sense, the country only knows he doesn’t if they actually listen to him speak, and no one actually listens to him speak.

Doesn’t the Jurassic Park power-restore scene align with this, too? Muldoon gets wrecked by a raptor on his side, while Ellie immediately notices/dodges the one that pokes through the wiring.

That is very region-specific in the US. Around me, rent prices have absolutely exploded while the housing market has very slightly softened vs 2 years ago.

I was having this conversation with a co-worker recently. He was buying a second home with the intention of renting it to his brother “at cost.” Which is to say, his brother is paying the mortgage while he gets the equity. When I pointed out how fucked up that was, he agreed and bought the house anyway.

gameplay didn’t evolve

Massive understatement. The PS5’s biggest titles were remakes and direct sequels. Coupling it with the “upgraded” versions of PS4 games like Ghost of Tsushima, Last of Us Part 2, and GTA5, even the marketing seemed to boil down to “This is just a really nice PS4.”

Yeah, my wife has historically loathed JRPGs in part because the turn-based combat was too dull. She tried Expedition 33, fell in love immediately, and tried to show me the combat system like, “Look! It’s so new and innovative! This is how all those old games should’ve been!”

…So I’m putting Barkley Shut Up & Jam Gaiden on her computer next time she leaves it unattended.

reliable and familiar that won’t break the bank.

This is why car companies are not going to offer EVs that people actually want without government intervention. I remember GM leasing EVs back in the '90s to some acclaim. But they didn’t let anyone buy out their leases and they discontinued production by the end of the decade because most of their money came from service. And a bare-bones electric car has very few service requirements.

Manufacturers need the bullshit features because they need something important and breakable for consumers to come back with. Even if it’s just planned obsolescence driving another purchase, like it sounds like the article’s author is heading towards.

Well, yes. Businesses are run as dictatorships, not democracies. This is one of the reasons why no one who would “run a country like it’s a business” should be elected to public office.

Hahaha. So many people outside of logistics have no idea how logistics works.

I can only speak for the US, but I am confident that anyone who gets into trucking now will be able to retire from trucking when they hit 65. (Assuming we’re not all already dead from war or climate collapse.)

Big LTL companies like UPS or FedEx will probably be able to automate standard pallet hub-to-hub shipments. Per this article, final mile delivery for small parcels can probably be automated. So that just leaves… most freight?

Smaller shippers and receivers, including regional carriers or smaller manufacturers, are still running their logistics like it’s 1970. They don’t have the capital or any real incentive to modernize to a standard that would be needed for fully automated logistics. There would need to be funded government mandates and extensive infrastructure work across the country.

I’m wondering why I even need a smartphone at this point. I’m tempted to go back to a flip phone.

Yep, same situation for me. “Ambidextrous” roughly means “two right hands,” so I like to joke that I’m ambisinistral - I’ve got two left hands.

In case Google incorrectly identifies someone as under 18, users can submit a photo of their government ID or a selfie to verify their age.

So Google is going to incorrectly identify damn near everyone as a minor now, right?