laughing_man

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by laughing_man 4d ago
Eh... I was thinking of harvesters, not tractors.
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by laughing_man 4d ago
To put this in perspective, a large John Deere tractor with a corn header costs in the neighborhood of $1.25 million.
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by laughing_man 4d ago
That's normal stuff for anyone producing a vehicle, isn't it?
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by laughing_man 4d ago
This is actually pretty widespread on newer models. There are cars for which you need a subscription costing thousands of dollars every year to put your parking brake into "maintenance mode", without which you can't fix your
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by laughing_man 4d ago
For a large commercial operation, $200/year is nothing, but it's enough to hurt the smaller guys.
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by laughing_man 9d ago
That OneDrive thing was what convinced me to finally get rid of Windows. I bought a new machine, copied my old desktop over, and only then realized all my tax returns and other sensitive documents had been copied to a Microsoft server some
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by laughing_man 11d ago
Part of the problem is we've essentially made corruption legal, at least for Congress. In the past if you gave a million dollars in cash to your Congressman, he stood a good chance of getting caught and arrested. But these days it&#x
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by laughing_man 11d ago
There is always a better choice than a 741 for new designs, but somehow people still use those things too.
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by laughing_man 15d ago
Not necessarily. Some of the most profitable games out there are not very fun to play, but they have their monetization strategy nailed down. People laughed at Blizzard when it came out with the mobile game Diablo Immortal , and I've
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by laughing_man 16d ago
If you take the king's shilling, you do the king's bidding. The law doesn't make boycotts illegal. It just says that you can't receive federal money if you're going to spend it on operations that engage in this ki
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by laughing_man 17d ago
That's great and all, but what they should have done was just scrapped the age-verification stuff entirely. You can't really justify having that kind of restriction on Windows and MacOS but not on Linux.
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by laughing_man 18d ago
How do people find jobs where they can spend this much time doing things that aren't part of their job?
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by laughing_man 18d ago
Same here. The thing that makes it so high stakes in EVE is you don't just respawn with all your stuff. It might have taken a couple weeks (or longer) for you to grind up the money for the ship you're using, and if the fight doe
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by laughing_man 18d ago
Yep. My wormhole corp would shoot just about anyone we ran across except Signal Cartel. You get a bad rep killing those guys.
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by laughing_man 18d ago
I played EVE for many years, and I really hated the addition of skill injectors. When I first started playing, the only way to get your skills up was to spend the time training them. Now it just takes real money cash. There's a legit
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by laughing_man 19d ago
I stopped looking into drugs when I stopped having problems.
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by laughing_man 20d ago
SSRIs and SNRIs just didn't work very well for me. If they had an positive effect at all, it wasn't enough to rise above the proverbial noise. Coming off of them wasn't too bad though. I got the brain zaps, but those were e
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by laughing_man 22d ago
The problem is one of the alternatives they consider worse than homelessness is a life without opioids. I had cousin who was homeless in San Diego. Over the years she came into money a couple times, either from family members or through in
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by laughing_man 22d ago
You don't go to jail for possession of weed in most US states. You won't even go to jail for dealing unless you've been busted multiple times or you're moving heavy weight. When you see statistics about people incarcera
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by laughing_man 22d ago
Most Asian countries are pretty serious about keeping drugs out of their countries. In Japan's case it's a little easier since they're an island nation. You can get a life sentence there for first offense import or manufactu
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by laughing_man 26d ago
I did not, in fact, lose track of that point. I was merely pointing out it's not a solution. I'm sure the guy in the topic article thought he had things figured out, too. You know how they say ignorance of the law is no excuse?
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by laughing_man 26d ago
Ah, I see where you've gone wrong. You're expecting to apply common sense and reason to the law. That kind of thinking has landed a whole lot of people in prison.
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by laughing_man 26d ago
I'm a bit mystified why anyone would bring an electronic device over an international border with anything that could be construed, fairly or not, as evidence of criminal behavior.
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by laughing_man 26d ago
The last time I tried to do that on a trip to Germany, admittedly many years ago, I found I could not get phone service without a local address.
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by laughing_man 26d ago
They can hold you for a few hours while they investigate, but they can't just arbitrarily detain you without a legal basis.
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by laughing_man 26d ago
I wouldn't assume that to be the case. It's illegal under federal law to destroy evidence of a crime. Just what the government needs to do to show that you've destroyed evidence of a crime and not just the sexting you did w
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by laughing_man 27d ago
>Much of this happens in agricultural settings, where any work done by children under 12 is counted as child labor, even if it is light and non-hazardous. >Imagine an 11-year-old helping on a family farm in sub-Saharan Africa. He feed
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by laughing_man 29d ago
It's really difficult to see what technologies will be enablers of state power. IMO, the techs ushering in 1984-levels of control are wifi, cheap cameras, and LLMs. The three technologies on their own are beneficial, but taken togeth
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
It does happen, though, and if this were to occur I think it would happen.
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by laughing_man 1mo ago
That's the key point here. You won't be able to sue a judge who does that, but he could still be impeached. And probably would be. You would probably have a really good shot at an appeal, too.

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