It all depends on what you want to do with it. I had plenty of great games and applications on my 486 DX4.

Also, nowadays you can swap out the old spinning rust with a BlueSCSI or PicoIDE and get much faster disk access.

Hey now, Vista wasn’t 2026 levels of bad.

Ooooooohhhh, Yeaaahaaaa!

The current president, who just barely won 2024, is still butt hurt he lost 2020. He wants to instill a sense unease and air of doubt of the accuracy of american elections in order to better rig them his party’s way in the future via different multiple methods of control.

I’ve always thought similarly, but you also have to remember that if they can use that $1M of vehicles to get more than $1M in donations, it’s a net win. get $2M and you broke even, any more than that and you’re getting more than you would have had if you just plunked down the $1M on research or whatever instead of investing it.

Doesn’t mean they should be squandering it on BMWs though.

I know 12-15 people in my neighborhood. I only know 3 of their names, the rest are all <dog’s name>'s dad/mom.

I feel like at some point it gets big enough that they need to drop the Jr.

Sounds pretty past tense to me!

Here driver’s ed taught

green = go red = stop Yellow = proceed with caution

Not that it’s the rule I follow, but that’s what gets drilled into kids heads.

The advent of red light cameras turned yellow into “Can I safely stop without being plowed by a jacked up SUV/Pickup?”

The fun part is when both of you don’t… because you’re in a sedan 4 car lengths back from a jacked up FU Freedumb truck and can’t see the light.

My parents had a house with a 30 year loan in the 80’s… at 16%. That said, it was also only like $25k.

Credit cards in the 90’s had low limits but people would just get a bunch of them. I remember hearing the average person had 14.1 cards in the late 90’s.

This has been going on forever. I feel like it’s an integral part of American society since at least the 50’s. Deregulation has increased the speed, the disconnect between wage growth and inflation/buying power, etc.

Honestly, there’s a lot that goes into it, logistics costs, packaging costs, average usage, apparent value, etc. are all taken into account. The manufacturing and distribution cost of a 100ml bottle isn’t really much less than a 250ml one. If someone see’s a 100ml and 250ml sitting next to each other, with the actual price difference, they are vastly more likely to buy the 250ml… even if they’re only going to use 75ml. It seems like a “better deal” and thoughts of “what if I need it for something else? I’m not driving all the way back here for it!”. Combine that with “there’s a finite amount of shelf space” and the grocer isn’t going to want to stock both if 90% of the time people just buy the 250ml.

Honestly, with the economics of scale, the cost of gas, the machinery to fill twice or three times as many 100ml bottles instead of 250ml’s, it might actually be cheaper to make and sell the 250ml’s.

It all comes down to “Companies aren’t dumb. They’re looking to maximize profits with minimal inputs.” There’s likely a few good reasons for the sizes they choose.

I can only stay in zone 2 for a few minutes, but it’s amazing. Then it’s zone 3, which is fine… but within a mile of starting, it’s above that and I have to walk, let it drop and then start off again. I wish I could keep it in zone 2 or even 3.

I’ve been running for 12 years, 3-5x a week 3-5km a time and am not overweight… when does it get better/easier? I’m starting to think it’s just not for me, even though I enjoy it.

This is the way. Move it one over, multiply by 2, round it up to the nearest whole dollar, done.

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And lobbying.

Honestly, as someone who just got one, it’s not really that bad. Just do it and treat yourself afterwards… it’s absolutely worth it.

This is why I went through and ripped all of mine. As soon as the second one died I went full “Fuck this, I’m backing them up.”

Jellyfin and offline streaming was just an extra bonus.

The majority of my daughter’s teachers in primary and middle school gave out their numbers. Not all, and it wasn’t a requirement, but the majority.

Not that I ever used them. Teachers work hard enough, they don’t need to be available 24x7.

Step 1: Remove EV Tax Credit Step 2: Spike Oil Prices Step 3: Put extra tax on EVs

Now you make people get EVs AND pay you for the pleasure. Extra points if you invest your stocks right to capitalize on both the spike in oil and the raised demand of EVs! So much winning! (But not for the Average American)