Y|yukichigai

Alright. Gore is the inside squishy bits of the body you shouldn’t see: muscles, torn flesh, whatnot. You see someone’s brains or a stump where an appendage was just separated, that’s gore.

Blood is… well… blood. In context it’s alarming, but ultimately it’s just a bunch of opaque red liquid.

I mean, the phrase “blood and gore” sort of lays out the distinction.

For anyone wondering: it’s not gory as such, but it is significant in that way that tells our lizard brains something undeniably bad just happened.

I’m on Spectrum in the US and their “support” is somehow worse than just not having IPv6. Tons of dropped packets, shifting IP address ranges, and overall a lot of headaches. Tried everything I could to sidestep the issues but there was nothing doing. Eventually I just disabled IPv6 and the issues went away. Maddening.

I had no idea there were existing compatibility issues to be honest. If anything I’ve had better luck using my 8BitDo controllers with the Steam Deck versus my Windows machines. My SNES30 (yes, SNES30, not SN30) always had issues co-existing with other controllers on Windows, but it’s never been a problem on the Steam Deck.

You can update the title of your post to reflect the updated title of the article. One of the distinct advantages of Lemmy.

Like I needed another excuse to replay Earthbound. Dammit man!

Seriously cool though.

By design, I’m sure. Can’t have those poors even thinking about saving money.

Passport proper is still kinda expensive, but you can get a passport card for $65 for a first-time applicant. Good for a decade, Real ID compliant, works for all US land border crossings and domestic flights. That’s not exactly cheap, but it’s not that much more than a License in California.

whereas previously all states kinda did their own thing

This can’t be emphasized enough. Different states had (and still have) wildly different standards for what is required to get a basic Driver’s License or ID Card. Making a unified standard needed to happen, even if the way Real ID was implemented was… let’s say “problematic”.

AFAIK you can still get a non-Real ID compliant license in almost every state, though for some the difference in documentation requirements are all but nonexistent. Here in Nevada the only difference in required documents is that you can’t use a Prison Identification Card to get a Real ID.

Quick, someone make a Lemmy instance called Scunthorpe. Should keep out the trash level of LLMs that seem to shit things up.

Full-sized trash cans don’t fit in a car very well. But they fit nicely in a truck. This truck can “haul”…all kinds of bulky, awkward shit that doesn’t weigh much. I’ve got a lot of that in my life.

Yep, furniture especially. A Queen-size bed is bad enough, but at least you can tie that onto the roof of most sedans. A table and some chairs? Some dressers? Doesn’t matter how light they are, you run out of space real quick, and that’s assuming you’ve got your Luggage Tetris skill maxed so you can cram everything in perfectly.

…or you could just set it all in the bed and put a net over it if you really wanna make sure it won’t go anywhere. I know which one I prefer.

Debian 12 let me turn an ailing Gateway Centrino laptop into a media center + game station. It’s technically dual core but it’s 32-bit and really, really goddamn slow. Still, it’s more than fast enough to run everything from the 4th console generation and before, and play a bunch of stuff I snagged with yt-dlp… as long as I made sure it was h264 and 480p or lower. Yeesh.

Still more than enough to make the break room at work amazing.

Ironically, a large portion of that industry is owned by the Timeshare industry. You can imagine that they aren’t always the most effective at getting people out of those contracts.

What’s the Venn Diagram of “childhood pyromaniacs” and “Linux users” look like?

There are plenty of pieces of legislation which allow small businesses to exist which do not involve literally outlawing the competition. Outlawing competition is the sort of regulatory capture that simply should not exist, no matter who benefits from it. Rather, the consumer never benefits from it.

small businesses

car dealerships

Bruh, wat?

Yeah, famously “small business”, those car dealerships. Right up there with payday loan places, and equally ethical. I can’t even.

Because the laws had to exist for dealerships to exist…

If a business cannot exist without its competition being made illegal then it should not exist. Anti-competitive laws cut both ways.

All of the things you’ve listed there are reasons why dealerships should be allowed to exist. They do not address why manufacturers should not be allowed to sell cars directly to consumers at their own stores. Why would that interfere with the numerous benefits you’ve suggested that dealerships bring about? Consumers would still be able to choose to purchase their car from a dealership, so why wouldn’t they? What could motivate them to go direct to the manufacturer?

Price. It’s the price. Manufacturers can offer cars to the consumer at a better price, period. Not only that, they offer it without you having to sit through 2 hours of high-pressure sales and having to double-check every goddamn form you sign to make sure some rate or term duration hasn’t “accidentally” been changed to a much higher value.

If dealerships were actually competitive they wouldn’t need this law on the books to keep their industry alive.