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by stanski 8d ago
All well and good until we found out that Google updated the name before GNIS managed to do it. They went out of their way to score points as quickly as possible.
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by stanski 8d ago
There was a good editorial cartoon recently in the Canadian Globe and Mail paper related to this: https://ibb.co/fdG9PtST
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by stanski 16d ago
Well, he did get elected so...
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by stanski 21d ago
Doesn't even matter who owns them. Reliability is consistently terrible and the vehicles are consistently nice to drive.
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by stanski 21d ago
I heard that term about the Hyundai Santa Fe first. Now it's the Chinese manufacturers giving JLR competition. Of course if you drive the actual vehicle back to back with a Land Rover, you'll find that looks or interior do not a R
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by stanski 1mo ago
Is this satire?
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by stanski 1mo ago
I'm not so sure that motorcycle emissions are much better than a car's, even if they do consume less gas. Cars have very complicated emissions systems and are under stricter regulations. I've also never been able to get anywh
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by stanski 1mo ago
Exactly right. OP determines value differently than a mega corporation.
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by stanski 2mo ago
I was surprised cause I thought the Focus was fairly reliable. Turned out the post was about an Escape. Title is wrong.
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by stanski 3mo ago
Must be viral if it says so in the title.
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by stanski 4mo ago
Sounds like an Ayreon song.
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by stanski 6mo ago
If they could remember they wouldn't keep making the same mistake multiple times. But I guess no danger of that.
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by stanski 6mo ago
I may be in the market for a new car soon, which I hope to keep for at least a decade, so this kind of thing bothers me. I don't want to buy something that's already years behind on efficiency.
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by stanski 6mo ago
I think that's the point - to discourage (certain) people from living there at all. Except it turns out people are capable of never-ending suffering and persevering through it. You would think Israelis would already know this very well
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by stanski 7mo ago
Grieving for a pet is totally a thing. Comparing its importance to that of a child might be taking it a little far. Nothing would compare to losing a child.
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by stanski 8mo ago
Been using Zoho for years with no issues. Both via the web interface and IMAP.
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by stanski 8mo ago
Putin is a traitor to Russia but there he is still, 25 years on with no end in sight. The public is too easy to manipulate.
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by stanski 8mo ago
A couple of tiny steps between the likes of Venezuela and Greenland and China though, eh?
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by stanski 9mo ago
> We're gonna need that cornea back. Not exactly a sentence you would hope to hear...
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by stanski 11mo ago
This is ridiculous. A burger is a construct. Sure, you can't call a veggie patty a beef patty, but how does the meat industry own the word burger?
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by stanski 1y ago
So they sold their account to a fraudster who also moved into their old address? Sure, it's possible but now verging on the ridiculous. They can use common sense for the refund. They are just choosing not to.
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by stanski 1y ago
I thought about this too - own a small electric vehicle for 90% of the family needs and rent a bigger SUV when the need arises. Until you do the math and realize that the 3-4 annual trips of multiple days would end up costing thousands of d
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by stanski 1y ago
My guess is Jerome Powell.
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by stanski 1y ago
My wife was recently re-hired by a place she had previously left. The director who wanted her back was given a hard time by HR precisely because she had pointed out issues during her exit interview. She didn't feel like she was burning
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by stanski 1y ago
Especially on the Tesla he drives.
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by stanski 2y ago
My last problem with pihole was that I had forgotten the root user password on the system I installed it on. Exactly because I had set it up and then literally forgotten it...
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by stanski 2y ago
Only if you use them in conjunction with an HTML5 supercomputer. (Sorry, I couldn't resist with Nikola in the news again)
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by stanski 2y ago
Been using opensuse for both my personal laptop and a server for many years now. Still don't understand why it's not more popular.
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by stanski 2y ago
The vast majority of WordPress sites are static sites with no use for comments.
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by stanski 2y ago
Only if you already have a narcissistic personality.

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