SARGE

"You have to protest!"

"no, not like that"

Think of it like when you know you need to have the car keys taken from grandpa because he's an actual danger to himself and others.

But it's easier said than done, especially when grandpa is surrounded by people who either refuse to acknowledge his bad driving, or actively encourage him to go out and drive.

Also grandpa is armed and there's no guarantee that any of the people around him will stop him from shooting you and everyone in the neighborhood for trying.

And don't forget that half your siblings are actively cheering grandpa on and calling you slurs for even suggesting something is wrong, and they are also armed and aching for an excuse to shoot you. Your own gun isn't much use since you aren't close to grandpa, and by yourself you can accomplish little to nothing, and you can't reliably call your saner siblings to help out without drawing grandpa's caregivers attention.

The whole government is one giant dementia patient and needs to be burned to the ground so we can build something better, but there's no guarantee any of your siblings will make it or even be successful.

Unrelated, my mental health is great these days.

10 years ago you're absolutely correct.

Now? Just one less barrier for fascists to do their thing.

In a way that will realistically never happen in such a large country that arms it's police like they're military.

I'll happily arm up, call the people I train with, and get to work. unfortunately without large scale organization that simply isn't allowed by the alphabet squads because "domestic terrorism" or any number of made up bullshit claims (any leftist/progressive group. see also: black Panthers) the only thing that would result is 1-15 people dead in the street. Or more likely their beds, because they got raided at 2am and the cops just dropped grenades on their houses/apartments.

I do love how much I've been seeing ".ca" users clearly advocating that the US go through another revolution/civil war/domestic disturbance that causes the deaths of thousands, if not millions.

I'd rather just use the internet and look around for an hour or two.

Wastes way less water and power than asking a single question of an LLM and I'll have a much better idea of how to accomplish my goal.

Luigi (who I am not convinced actually did it) only stopped at one.

I bet if we kept going, things would change pretty substantially.

I park next to an 80s beetle with over 350k on the odometer. My own truck is from the 90s with 280k.

I work with a guy who daily drives his dad's old Mercedes. While he inherited it, it wasn't a "project car" or anything, it was a daily driver kept in good repair. Honestly, you put on a new clear coat, detail the interior? It feels no more than a few years old. 500k miles.

That's insane to me.

I have money to buy something, and I'm being refused the sale despite this money being legal tender.

What elegance might even an extra millimeter of chassis space produced?

People really don't seem to understand that in the electronics world, one single millimeter can make worlds of difference.

You absolutely can cram so much more stuff in "dumber" electronics, but phones are even more constricted in design, because they need to send and receive signals of different types, so feedback and signal noise are concerns.

Adding in even slightly more space allows for much better design, because you have more tolerances to reduce signal noise. It allows dozens of wires for camera sensors to route better. A 20% longer battery life. Heck, just being slightly more ergonomic and less droppable is a bonus to slightly thicker phones.

I didn't even consider signal noise until I got into fpv drones and rc stuff, it can mame a ton of difference if you have a single wire 2mm out of place. (and crash your drone because the motor interfered with your antenna)

Thiner≠better.

The rich fail up and everyone else has to play by the rules or get fucked over.

You're playing by their rules, and it only matters as long as we allow them to not play by the rules.

I bet they'd stop doing it if they got literally ripped into pieces by horses. Or a horse's solar-powered motorized equivalent.

100% spot on.

It's absolutely a scam designed to extract even more wealth from the poors.

No joke, I've had a car dealership tell me they can't sell me the car I want because my credit score was nonexistent (no credit history in 7 years). I was paying in full, in cash, literally in an envelope in my hand.

Grand total of 8k, all in 100s, super easy to count.

But no, I didn't have a "good enough credit score" so I couldn't buy that car from them, despite having the money to do so.

Mental gymnastics on that one.