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I lost a beloved cat a few months ago that ran into the road. My security camera caught the whole thing.

“What if?” Is its own torment for us, but analytically, she simply wasn’t visible and there was nothing the driver could/should have done to prevent the horrible outcome.

There are in life no-win situations. It hurts, but it’s an adult realization. Cats go under cars to hide - to avoid being seen - and can’t grasp danger the same as humans.

Holy correlation fallacy, Batman!

Incorrect. I was unemployed for a time and very burnt out. The churn still grinds you up and spits you out, shit paycheck or none.

Now I’m underemployed and still burned out. But at least it will take longer to go bankrupt.

Anyone else feel that site reads like AI? Registered 2023, all posts have the same format. New random articles every 3-4 days complete with research & graphs. Occasionally off topic.

I’ve been wrong before though. It’s hard for me to identify AI content sometimes.

… it has been plagued for years by severe understaffing … The agency has a $3 billion repair backlog, thousands of positions are vacant …

Doesn’t sound like a good time to pick a fight with 35,000 of your employees.

Workers will not be removed, suspended or demoted without cause and due process

We’ve seen “causes” fabricated to target individuals and ideologies. Breaking unions probably allows targeted removals of employees’ peers (cough democrats cough) without triggering a strike.

Man, I would. I am 100% the target demographic, jumped in the 3D TV rabbit hole and loved it. Totally knew it was a gimmick, but didn’t care. Would have friends over for 3D movie parties.

But adding them to my Plex server sucked. TAB or SBS files were half-assed and the PlayStation I used took sooooooo damn long to freaking start the movie and skipping was an issue.

Why stop at chrome. Break off Android too. They are shitting all over that now.

Engines don’t necessarily wear faster, but there are modifications such as rubber seals, more robust fuel lines, and new air/fuel mapping to accommodate running ethenol vs gas.

Actually that is becoming more popular. I just saw one last month that gutted a V8 engine to hide an electric motor. Looks like an ICE from the outside. It was pretty neat!

It’s the battery packs that hold these conversations back. Older car suspensions just weren’t built for that kind of weight.

Shhhh, nobody correct them 😉

In Leno’s defense, smog checks for older cars can be absolute nonsense in CA.

I have an older car caught up in that nonsense. The header pipes cracked and replacement parts didn’t exist so I had a shop build some. They did amazing work and function perfectly; it’s just pipe about a foot long.

Anyway, the smog test shop sees that and fails visual inspection. That super sucks. There are no CARB exempt headers, and OEM is’t available. I spent $$$ to put the old, leaking pipes back on, and send it back to the shop. Visual passes, smog passes. Next stop to the mechanic to swap headers back again.

At the moment there is a lot more to smog testing an older car than a tube up the tailpipe and actual emission data which is the whole point of having this program in the first place.

Leno likes cars, keeps his in great condition, and may simply need replacement parts manufactured that no longer exist.

Edit: that said, I hoped the Leno law would fail. I looked up registration for my older car as a “classic”. Yikes that’s pricy! And has all kinds of strings attached like special registration and have to be garaged. This would be devastating to the classic car community.

The outcome is sort of the same if those kilograms break rules in front of a 2 ton brick obeying laws.

Along the same lines are all the parks in my city that cut down large trees to plant small ornamental trees. Oh, want a bench? Nowhere near the trees. Yeah, I’m talking about you, Shoreline park! WTheck

I just got a cheap minipc to tinker with and it had windows 11. Not bad and unexpected.

First thing I did was wipe and install Ubuntu of course because that’s what I wanted.

If it takes a whole 60 seconds for this glorified camera-carwash contraption to scan a vehicle and generate a report, they are charging $11,400/hour.

Hertz, I will personally sit on a roller stool with a camera and make beep boop sounds for that dough. Take my resume.

That’s great for food workers, but there are many, many more jobs just as dismal. I personally know workers who are scheduled randomly between 0 and 5 days a week. Hell, there was a month this year with 4 5-hour shifts. What complete BS.

There is no financial security whatsoever. But that’s sort of the point. Keeps labor costs down and if they quit, no unemployment.

While I do think CoveredCA needs a healthy (pun intended) fine, tech companies need need a serious grilling for taking this info. Not just the cost of business crap that’s handed out for getting caught.

More importantly, WE need resources to notify, find and curate or revoke data about us! Start putting that in settlement clauses; I don’t care about my $3.20 gift card left over and split from a class action win.

Me too. I’m up to 3TB locally. Had to do that slowly though. Hit some temp bans a few times.

Absolutely no good will come of this psyops group targeting Americans.

This isn’t a genie that can return to a bottle. This is everything Snowden warned the world about, supercharged and networked and only available to the administration currently in charge.

Yes and no. A 14.9db increase of 85db background noise is big, while a 14.9db increase of 40db background noise certainly is not.

Decibels is logarithmic and there is little information in this study about environmental ambiance.

One graph starts at 40db, which indicates data was collected at roughly the noise level of a refrigerator. A casual conversation would roughly qualify as “noise.”