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Comment Re:Cool. (Score 1) 245

Gotta tell you, it's reasonable to accuse me of TDS -- I think that dude is the worst, and a wannabe genocidal fascist who seeks to end Democracy -- but even I'm sitting here going "yeah, that's actually a reasonable call, to eliminate the penny."

Comment This article tracks true for me (Score 0) 304

I haven't paid for a hotel room in years. Every family vacation I take is covered by rewards from my credit cards.

So I'm definitely advantaging from the wealthy side of this equation. It really dors feel like an unfair system that rewards people who have money by giving them even more money.

Shame on the republicans and corporate democrats who allow this system to exist

Comment Re:You mean THE Tesla Roadster. (Score 1) 99

Apologies, Imma "Well actually" you here. Most people these days when they think "Tesla Roadster" think of the promised vehicle that will come "some day" that some people put $500K deposits on. But Tesla's first car -- before the Model S, before the model 3, before the model Y -- was a "Roadster" that was made between 2008 and 2012 or thereabouts. They made a few thousand of them (IIRC they mostly just took Lotus Elans and changed all the guts to be electric, but I could be wrong about that).

Comment Re:3D printer? (Score 4, Insightful) 348

I think this idea is stupid, obviously, but gosh, your assertion that setting up a printer that works, getting the files, etc is complicated feels like it's a few years out of date. It used to be the case that owning and running a 3d printer was akin to owning and running a car back in the early 1900s -- you had to have a deep and intimate understanding of the printer and a mechanic's level ability to debug and calibrate it; if that's your jam, you can still do that (for example, the Voron project will happily give you the plans to make your own printer, largely from scratch), but it's no longer required -- with printers like what's coming out of Bambu Lab these days, we're pretty close (not quite there, but pretty close) to how easy it is to print with a laser printer. It's made the whole process extremely consumer-friendly. (As someone who's been in tech for a while, it's tempting to analogize this to how when I wanted to register a domain in 1991, my peers told me basically that figuring out how to register a domain was an effective test for whether or not you should have one, and then more consumer registrars came around and now anyone who wants a domain can easily register one without, say, having to figure out how to run their own DNS servers).

Comment Re:I would not be surprised... (Score 1) 94

Not arguing, just confused -- I feel like most movie theaters i've been to, for example, only carry Pepsi or Coke but not both. In fact, that's true, I think, for most fast food joints too, right? Like, McDonalds for example only has Coke products, not Pepsi products. Is the issue here whether or not they're paid to make that decision?

Comment Re:And (Score 1) 72

This is exactly right. Since we increased security measures in the aftermath of 9/11, 23 years ago, look at the NUMEROUS attacks on security lines in airports. It's been an absolutely terrible situation, with most people I know being really afraid to stand in those lines because of just how deadly the attacks have been on them. I mean, look at the number of casualties we've had from such attacks in the last 23 years, it's literally ... Wait a second ... No, that can't be right.... Uh, Wait, this apparently has not really been a problem? Weird!

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