Usually just air quotes right. Well since people caught on to the ‘echo’ dog whistle of 3 brackets some racists moved to quotes too. I was just checking, so nvm, don’t let them try to steal that the way they did with the ok hand gesture.

No no, after initial degradation, the battery health levels off and stays around 90% for a long while, generally.

My ICE vehicles are maintained but don’t have the new car fuel efficiency either. I wouldn’t be surprised to find they have lost 15% since they are pretty old.

Recent research shows that batteries are likely to outlast the body of most EVs, if the battery is not abused.

Also, people overestimate the typical daily range used with the primary or secondary vehicles, but even short range EVs cover the average daily drive for most.

Just for Leafs and some of the short range compliance cars like Golfs that don’t have active thermal management of the battery. The old SparkEV batteries are following the expected curve mostly: about 10% loss in the 8yr warranty period, followed by relative plateau of slow degradation mitigated somewhat by its overprovisioning. Hyundai and Kia etc. batteries should be fine, for example.

Telemetry is just as much a problem though.

I bought glasses recently and, like the dork I am, loudly complained about trying to find a pair that didn’t have advertisements in the form of logos on the arms. Since they aren’t discounted as compensation for fluffing their marketing department, and all that.

Clerk said ‘yeah they actually charge more for the stupid name’ and shoppers laughed so people mostly know but comply. The supply chain is perverse, ok. Life is full of struggle so the small ones slide.

Ah, OK then someone needs to tell you that the 3 quotes lately has been used by white supremacists as a dog whistle for jewishness, especially referring to economic control.

How many decades does this restitution take to actually make criminally vile behavior stop? I’m no spring chicken and I’ve been waiting for a long time for a train, it seems, that is just not coming.

You are at the wrong station.

Please folks, don’t confuse justice with policing, or crime prevention.

Restitution, and in general a ‘fixing the wrongs’ approach to justice, is not about prevention, it is about clean up and repairs. How that is done is a whole discussion about details, but we are discussing principles at the moment.

Prevention: a healthy neighbourhood with embedded nurses, social workers, and active mental health services could have caught this kind of shit. Functional education system would have caught it. Also: see economics for causes, aka material conditions.

Punishment: well cruelty is the point, isn’t it? And you get to participate without guilt.

I don’t believe them getting shanked will deter or prevent other child abusers in any way. Different issue.

Examples should be made

Whelp, if deterrence worked the prisons wouldn’t be overflowing. Most murderous bastards are not rational about it.

There is no touchy-feelying this one into anything remotely civilized.

Ah there it is, the rule of law is subject to the Law of the Jungle ethos.

‘They weren’t civilized, why should I be?’ I have explained this issue to toddlers through teens. That is not how it works.

Restitution vs retribution is not touchy-feely FFS. It’s basic ethics. We need more of that in grade school curriculum, along with history.

Most of TFG’s legal troubles are related to financial fraud, especially real-estate related. It’s more projection.

A chicken is a vegetable that can count and ask for hugs.

Krill were my first choice, squids might be up there too, but the word ‘species’ instead of a more broad taxonomic term is a special limit.

Mushroom = sex organ of alien invaders

I don’t understand your nonsense… you must be a fish.

Cuttlefish are molluscs. Smart mussels then!

OK Richard, I will bite. Why three (3) quote marks?

WHY THREE, RICHARD

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“Just”

An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind.

Restitution works towards material conditions being corrected. Justice requires making things right --conditions, capacities, results.

But revenge is just childish emotional indulgence. Prison is revenge, at its core. I’d like to see victims set right as the main result of sentencing.

Well the MBA has some standout features:

• build quality, it really is well made
• trackpad (all apple laptops)
• fanless, this is underrated for some people
• runs macOS
• battery life
• powerful enough for nearly anything south of long 4k renders or LLMs etc.

Honestly, oranges to oranges, I consider the Air as competing with more expensive business class laptops with more ports and bigger numbers, but worse end user experience.

Yep, most people seem to have cellphones, and if you wanted to use a tablet as a phone I would suggest an android tablet (or a cheap used smartphone, TBH).

Yeah true skimming eh! Fuck Apple.

Yes it’s annoying, which is why storage on the list. I have different but equal complaints about other manufacturers.

FWIW I usually advise a compromise at 512GB as that is enough for most current working active projects, then periodically offload to a media or archive drive. Most clients are fine with that.

In the cases where 32GB of RAM is needed and not just nice to have, maybe a different computer is better, like LLM capable machines with discrete GPUs. If you need more RAM for professional purposes like Vectorworks, well it’s a write-off and the cost vanishes compared to ROI so whining is just indulgent.

Uh, I think you are agreeing with my last point…? You savvy user you.