They can part them out and make back a few bucks--batteries, motors, stainless steel, maybe the wheels--nothing like the ~$100K they’re in debt for, though. Maybe if they strip the body off, some of them can build something useful on the chassis? Or, are they complete garbage?
EDIT: Ope, nope, they aren’t built like that at all. I suppose most cars aren’t anymore, everything is “unibody”:
Fuck off, Schumer. You fucking DINOsaur.
I say it the way it’s spelled. Other, perhaps more common pronunciations came about out of laziness. People just slurring the syllables together and now they’ve all agreed that’s how it’s pronounced because that’s how “everyone pronounces it”.
If that’s true for this and so many other words, then why don’t we just change the spelling to match the pronunciation we’ve “all agreed on?”
Right now, a problem schools are having is they’re trying to teach kids how to read without teaching letter sounds. Why? I have no fucking idea, it’s stupid.
My kid read above his grade level throughout school and at a college level in high school, because WE taught him. If we had relied on the schools alone, he would have floundered.
A critical look at “SoR”, or the Science of Reading movement that has left so many kids unable to read at grade level, sometimes falling four or five grades behind:
https://righttoreadproject.com/2024/07/06/hoping-for-the-best-is-not-a-viable-strategy/
They keep pushing this to make us think we won something.
It was far from a “blue wave”, more like a lapping at the shore.
Until we’re consistently voting in a super majority of DSA into both Houses, we’ve gained almost nothing. That is what it will take to win this war by voting alone. If you think that’s impossible, then maybe it is.
True of literally everything in life. It’s just our turn to hold matter in this form and experience consciousness. Our planet is a virtually closed system wherein everything is recycled.
(Yes, I know we get water from comets, and perhaps even biological material from asteroids, etc., but in the relatively short term, all of that has been incorporated and we’re living in a virtually closed system.)
Until we’re consistently electing a super majority of DSA candidates, we’re too far right.
The so-called “blue wave” was little more than a lapping at the shore. It’s been branded as such by the right to make us think we won something, so we’ll relax. Hell, it was one election, it’s not even a trend yet.
We need to fight the perception that Rs support lower taxes and business development for jobs. That’s bullshit, but so many “moderate” Rs hang their hats on that. What the greedy fucks want is lower taxes, and they try to sell it with the promise of jobs. So, our neighbors, who look no farther than their paycheck stub and see the taxes push, scream, and cry to persuade people around them to vote for Rs.
That has never worked out in the long run, as we’re witnessing now. It’s very clear they don’t give a fuck about us as workers or people. They care only about themselves and their profits. They’re clamoring to replace us with machines and computers, and wetting themselves over the false promise of owning AI machines, rather than employing difficult to manage people.
Good to know for people who don’t want to have kids.
How long before the billionaires ban surgical methods of birth control, too?
Might seem strange to ask after Dems won a few seats, but remember, money is power and power corrupts, no matter which color banner they stand under.
Older user here: My iPhone 12 mini is plenty big enough for me. I was happy with the iPhone 4, really.
Why animated? There’s nothing fantastical, or difficult to film about running around shooting people for revenge.
Just because?
I can do this with all of my fingers, except my thumbs. I think most people can, but most people never have, so it freaks people out a bit.
Sorry, you just need to see it:
I did a ten month stint in a call center to make ends meet once. I had to quickly and unexpectedly learn this. And, occasionally put up with the, I’m guessing, old vets who insisted on rattling it as fast as possible when reading off serial numbers, etc. And, WOULD NOT slow down to accommodate me at all. So, I’d just ask them to repeat it sometimes four or five times, until I got it.
Okay.
As with all claims of this sort, I’ll wait to see it.
Preachin’ to the choir over here.
I avoid it all as much as I can.
As some who has barely ever drank, never smoked anything and never used any other recreational drug, I find I know a lot about drug use, simply through osmosis (roommates, GFs, co-workers), reading, movies, etc. Or, at least more than I would expect.
Ooof. It’s only November, my brother.
I just installed OpenSCAD last night to check it out. I use Blender for everything because I know it well, but there are times when parametric would work better. I downloaded a hinge model from Printables that has a bunch of parameters to change in OpenSCAD to easily change the hinge design. That’s pretty cool.
Add a zero to the upvote number, that makes it correspond to what you’re used to on Reddit as far as vote count goes. So, ATM, you’re at 1620 updoots, in equivalent popularity. This helps when you first start, but you’ll get used to it pretty quickly.
We all know it’s a much better system. Reagan killed our attempt at switching. No one has tried since.
Personally, I use metric for 3D printing, and I use imperial for wood working. Until standardized material sizes change, it doesn’t make sense to use metric for wood working. That change needs to come from the top, from government regulation.
They might as well spend their time doing this, they won’t pass any bills.
Upvote for “to try to”, which is correct, rather than “to try and”, which is incorrect, but all-too common.