You pretty much have to use the middle button, because they've made the scrollbars so small they're difficult to hit.

>"Both GNOME and Firefox are considering disabling middle-click paste by default, arguing it's a confusing, accident-prone X11 relic that dumps clipboard contents without warning."

PLEASE DO NOT. How about having an environment variable and LETTING THE USER DECIDE. I use middle-click pasting all the time. PLEASE DO NOT use the stupid gsettings stuff. I don't use GNOME, and that stuff is annoying and confusing.

And this crap Firefox does with single clicking in the URL bar selecting the ENTIRE LINE is beyond annoying. PLEASE LET US CONTROL THAT AS WELL!!!

again, what war did it prevent? Korea? Vietnam? Iraq/Iran? USSR Afghanistan? Serbia? USA/ Afghanustan? USA / Iraq? USA / Panama thing? ruzzia (permanent UN security council member) Ukraine in 2014? in 2022? Constant attacks on Israel by every mofo piece of shit islamist state out there, pkus hamas, hezbollah?

World war 3 (nucleat kind?) is prevented not by the antisemites in UN but by the promise of MAD. Everything else is happening all the time. It is a pathetic joke and needs to be abolished.

Rich people are either already rich enough that it doesn't matter or they also know to make their kids study something other than the BA in BS that most college students who don't know better end up saddled with.

The fallacy of composition: what's good for one individual is also good for everyone at scale. Classic example: I get a better view of the stage if I stand up out of my seat, therefore everyone will get a better view if everyone stands up at the same time.

Correlation as causation fallacy: X occurs with Y, therefore X causes Y. Classic example: this rock repels tigers, here's the rock and there's no tigers around.

Superficiality fallacy: X shares some similarities with Y, therefore X is functionally identical to y. Classic example: Airliners have wings and engines transport people thousands of miles, my to airplane has wings and an engine therefore it can transport people thousands of miles.

College degrees are a kind of superficial marker of aptitude for many kinds of white collar work. The actual course of study is rarely mentioned: engineering students, premeds, prelaw, and business majors end up making a lot of money later in their careers; humanities students not so much unless they've got money or connections that render gainful employment less necessary than it is for everyone else. This distinction is erased when talking only of "college degrees."

Further, basic economic principles (like the ones you can learn in high school) will tell you that the more supply there is of a thing, the lower a price it will command. If the market for "people with college degrees" is flooded with more people who get a piece of paper for the sake of getting a piece of paper, then the salary they will be able to command will drop unless they bring some other hard-to-find distinction to the negotiating table.

The above is not some obscure taboo truth, it is the blazingly obvious. The reason it does not get the airtime it should is that the people who profit from the informational arbitrage, namely the employers who want to depress wages and colleges that want to keep getting (subsidized) tuition payments, do not want to admit to the scam.

The upper echelons of the corporate world and finance also attract sociopaths. But as private actors they can't force people to buy their products of give them money at the point of a gun the way governments can.

Government and its sort-of monopoly on violence being a necessary evil, we limit its power, divide its authority, and structure our society so that government is not in series with essentials like food and housing.

EVs and hybrids shoudln't have significantly different brake wear. Factored in oil changes, which includes the oil filter. I've never needed to add any other fluids in any car I've owned other than wiper fluid, which an EV also requires. I guess I left out the air filter, but that's such a tiny maintenance cost compared with the other stuff that it almost isn't even worth mentioning.

Belts and transmission do wear out eventually, but that's not an issue unless your car is outside of its warranty period, and an out-of-warranty EV can also have things go wrong. The only straightforward comparison is between two in-warranty cars, because it's impossible to predict the costs for an older vehicle reliably. It might go 300k miles or it might blow a head gasket 10 miles out of warranty.

Jiffy Lube in the Bay Area. And while cars are under warranty, if you don't do an oil change at the recommended interval, it can negatively impact your ability to get engine problems covered under the warranty, so most people do so.

Regarding the "Fishing boats": even the most adherent of the mainstream lefty agitproppers have long since abandoned that narrative, because it's so easily disproven by even a layman with a modicum of knowledge. Fishing boats don't have a hundred thousand plus dollars worth of Yamaha outboards on them. They don't go 80+ miles per hour, they don't go beyond the horizon in the middle of night, and they actually carry fishing gear and tackle, which anyone with a functioning eye can plainly see none of those boats had.

You're like five news cycles behind the times, bub. There is no argument that you can provide which would prove these boats were not up to no good. On the other hand, is there an argument that maybe we shouldn't blow them out of the water? Maybe try making that argument instead of repeating stale propaganda.

Of course, they also charge you more for your heat and air during the day. With a whole-home time-of-use plan, they're likely to get their money either way.

I'm pretty sure the only way you're not going to get screwed with your pants on is to have a separate meter on an EV-B rate plan. Totally worth $1.50 a month. Too bad I'm not currently eligible because of where I live (because PG&E doesn't own the meters). Then again, I have unlimited supercharging, so I guess I probably wouldn't use it anyway. :-)

Sure, but only if you also have a Powerwall or similar. Otherwise, your car is going to be at work during the day, rather than charging at home, and you're going to be getting jack s**t for your excess solar during the day thanks to PG&E's rate structure, and then buying that power back at night at full price.

PG&E nearly went bankrupt with lawsuits over their mishandling of gas pipe maintenance (San Bruno explosion) and high tension line maintenance (multiple wildfires). If they can't make a profit from cutting corners on maintenance, their only choice is to make a profit with extortionate rate hikes. /s

In all seriousness, the biggest mistake multiple California governors have made was not letting PG&E go bankrupt, buying up the assets, and starting over with a state-owned not-for-profit power company. For-profit essential utilities are like for-profit medicine: you pay more for less. Competition never really works when you have a natural monopoly like essential utilities or when comparison shopping is impractical, such as emergency medical care. That's why certain essential services are generally better off socialized. And anybody arguing otherwise doesn't have a solid grasp of economics.

So will they be able to demand that flock and other types of cameras delete and do not record everyone's personal information?

https://youtu.be/uB0gr7Fh6lY?s...

and if you do not think they have your personal information, here, watch this: https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo?s...

with AI they DO have your personal data. They can see you and follow you in real time, they know where you live, they know what you drive, they know who you are, they know everything about you because you cannot escape 80,000 + cameras everywhere, ALPR (Automatic License Plate Readers) and PTZ (Pan to Zoom) cameras.

There is no more 4th amendment in the USA with this technology available to the state.

preventing which war exactly? You do know that ruzzia is a permanent member of the UN security council, right?

Yes, I do not like the UN. No, I do not believe UN exists to prevent wars. It exists today as a bad joke, a horrible reflection of the ugly reality. USA shouldn't host it, it should quit the stupid thing.

In California, even if you can charge at home, the cost per mile is more than many gasoline-powered cars:

Model 3: 3.7 to 4.2 miles per kWh. PG&E residential service averages 45.33 cents average per kWh. That's 10.79 to 12.25 cents per mile.

My usual gas station is $3.90 per gallon. A Prius hybrid gets 56 miles per gallon. That's 6.9 cents per mile. Add to that an oil change for $100 every 5,000 miles on oil changes, which is 2 cents per mile, and the Prius hybrid is still 2 to 4 cents per mile cheaper than the Model 3.

The only way you save money per mile with an EV in California is if you have free unlimited supercharging or free workplace charging. And even then, somebody is paying for your charging, just not you.