A small propane grill, a table and an umbrella will immensely improve your life.

It’s so rewarding to simply grill up some mixed veg and marinated meats with a beer in the warmer months. Container friendly plants will do well there, too. Stuff that likes lots of sun like hot peppers

Way too easy.

Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager

Steam Deck, hands down. It rules being able to play PC games in bed with my partner by my side.

The steam voice chat feature really improved and is very intuitive to use now. I’ll frequently use that.

I’d like to think they’d be more accommodating.

“Ahhh Mr. Albatross, we’ve seen your social media traffic and we’ve been expecting you! In anticipation of your arrival, we’ve prepared some lovely poop, if you would just step this way…”

I honestly feel safer with my data in a foreign authorities hands than domestic.

China can’t do dick to me nor should they want to. I’m just a lil guy! The US does nasty things to its citizens on the reg, I don’t wanna be caught up in that!

Oooooooh that makes sense! Thanks for explaining. Yeah I wish we had legislation around it here, it’s stupid that I have to play games to get lower prices on things.

Wait what??

The consumer is barred from swapping providers annually to get better rates? Or are they barred from lying about fake quotes to get a better rate from their current provider?

Edit: By chance did you mean “price walking”? I did some searching online and I couldn’t find anything about the UK forbidding consumers from changing insurance companies to seek lower prices by searching for “policy walking” but I did find something about insurers slowly increasing prices on customers (thus creating the need for the behavior I suggested) called “price walking”, though I didn’t see anything about it’s legality. Admittedly, I’m just skimming while working.

Every year, call your insurance/internet/phone/TV etc. provider and tell them one of their competitors gave you a lower quote and you want them to match it or come close.

They will often give you a better rate just for asking. It’s easier if you do have an actual quote to compare it against but you don’t need one. Everything is made up. Just ask to pay less and threaten to stop paying them and they’ll often just give it to you.

Even if they refuse, just say, “Okay. I need some time to think about whether or not I want to continue our relationship or switch.” Hang up and do nothing.

It has been right add the top of the page, it looks like they changed it.

Holy shit that image… we need to destroy AI I’m sick of this absolute garbage polluting the web

The car from the 70’s survives accidents better because more of it is rigid, but this makes it more dangerous as more of the force of the accident is transferred to the driver.

Modern crumple zones are placed intentionally so that while the car will crumple, the driver will not.

Can one give consent in a situation when they’ve mentally decompensated to a point where they are a risk to themselves or those around them and need intervention?

It’s a good reply even if it helps but one person

Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird’s song “The Butcher’s Sher” is a fairly quick summary of (including some quotations from) Capital with the bonus of a lil klezmer, but in general I think there’s value in just reading the text.

Yess so you go into the stall and grab some shit tickets so you don’t have to touch the door handle and then Ooop they didn’t put a trashcan anywhere near the door.

I understand not everyone is gonna shell out for a hook so you can operate the door with your foot, but at least put a trash can in throwing distance of the door so I don’t have to touch the nasty ass handle with my clean hands.

Good luck, buddy. You’re gonna need it.

I have to use week numbers for scheduling things at work and they are very useful once you get your head around them, but it’s also useful to have larger monthly descriptors too.

I’m big into adding 10,000 years to the date to better show how long human civilization has existed and I would appreciate some standardization in month length. 12 months is useful for dividing the year up in many neat ways, but I’m not married to it. In any case, we gotta make Sept mean 7 again and so forth, or just change them to like Month-1, Month-2, Month-3, etc., sorta like how Mandarin handles it.

I’ve watched people get stupider in the past few years using LLMs to replace thinking for themselves, so, yeah I guess so.

You can say it’s just a problem with capitalism, and, yes, capitalism is a problem, but AI is the current tool de jure that capitalists are using to crush workers, so, yes, I oppose it.

It’s pointless to argue about how it could be used in a post capitalist world, we don’t live in that world, we live in a world where LLMs are actively being used to harm the working class. This applies to a myriad of things, of course.

You want to use and develop AI tools for use in a post-capitalist world? Alright, let’s get to the post capitalist part first. Until then, I’ll oppose tools used to harm the underprivileged.