Central banks do a lot of useful things, but they don't give currency a value (they can, however manipulate the value others give it by printing it, destroying it, changing interest rates, changing the amount of reserve banks need and the multiple they can lend, etc). What gives a currency value is supply and demand- the fact other people want that currency. Which is also what sets international exchange rates.

There's also the fact you need it to pay taxes, which sets a base amount of demand. But beyond that it's all supply and demand when deciding how much value it has against other currencies or physical objects.

WHich is different from crypto how? You print it from doing large amounts of useless work on a computer that provides no value and is immediately thrown out. Or the new proof of stake algorithms, in which you print it by having previously printed it. I'll take cash, thanks.

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I don't want edit, I want a browser grammar checker that's all client side.

The rates are bad, we don't focus on using the least bad estimate we produce, and we stave off crisis to a degree with mediocre public assistance programs which struggle to cover needs for lack of funding but which really amount to can-kicking. That's better than nothing, but still leaves us poised for disaster. If Cheeto Benito successfully terminates these programs (as he has been trying to do, and he has successfully been interfering with them) then the looming crises become immediate not quite overnight, but in literally more 10-30 days.

Today I'm mostly avoiding working on cars, but I do have some ongoing projects and they suck. I can't wait for "every" vehicle to be an EV, which isn't practical for me now, but hopefully will be in the future. But I really don't want everything phoning home with information about me constantly. That information could be used against me, so I don't want it to be collected. Nothing prevents it here except opting out by not buying the whatever-it-is, but sometimes you need the thing.

As vehicles age, they tend to get first cheaper but then more expensive to maintain, so just staying in the past forever isn't realistic. It would be nice to have some options without the constant oversight.

So you have been up close to the towers on ridge lines and you still think they have generators? You're lying about literally everything. Typical coward shit.

Whatever, Russian bot.

Anonymous cowards don't get to get treated like humans.

The difficulty of the job is based pretty much entirely on two this, difficulty of removing electrical connectors and ease of adjustment or lack thereof. The door itself has to meet crash standards so it has to have stuff in it. Therefore most aftermarket doors are for off road use only.

There is no "merely paying" in capitalism. That's literally what it's all based on.

Oh look, modded down by a clown, it must be a day that ends in y.

I know the tower near my home that I normally get signal from doesn't have a generator because it went out after the batteries ran out when we had our last quake, and Verizon promised to bring in a generator but didn't. They wouldn't need to bring one in if it were already there.

I know the tower near my work has a generator because I can see it. I could poke it with a stick through the cyclone fence.

There's a bunch of trolls on here who are mad that I know things. It's very fucking weird.

TBH I don't get it. Google was literally known (back when people cared) for being massively Linux-based. Then when they make their phone they ruin everything about Linux and then gradually un-ruin it

Apple is participating in the creation of the AI bubble. So yes, it is Apple's fault, in part anyway. Why do people give Apple a pass on behavior they hold Microsoft accountable for?

Supported by Android 11 and later, support came in a play store update in 2025.

Yeah, but it's also trash on Windows, with Acrobat. Acrobat was never amazing but it used to work. These days it is absolute trash. Features just stop working on you mid-session. It chokes on documents which Evince can render without difficulty, and that's just displaying them. How did Adobe fuck up Acrobat so badly?

How many cash dollars, and I do mean actual cash, does Apple keep in the bank? Hint, it's literally a historically unprecedented hoard no matter how you do the calculations.