Bro it’s a parody account. Anyone can make one

My last played game was Railroader so I guess we drivin trains today!

How about they just put a latch on the door. No energy, internet, compute, apps or data required. Just a $3 latch that anyone can open, and you can even have the local highschool woodshop bang out some replacement kiosks if they need to be replaced

Alternate headline: Lord of a crumbling, gutted empire struggles to maintain relevancy

There’s like a dozen of the little free libraries within a half mile of my house and I love it

Why do you have to use an app to unlock it? There doesn’t seem to be any functional reason for it

Literally every time I talk about the black coffee problem, assholes show up to deny

You bring up a generic boomer fantasy that doesn’t happen in the real world, using conservative boomer verbaige when you complain about it and people point out that it sounds fake? Say it isn’t so!

I hope that this mild inconvenience is the worst thing that happens to you this week, and I’m sorry that you subjected yourself to anything that comes out of a McDonalds

Apparently the “you can’t order a black coffee anymore” thing is a common conservative fantasy

I honestly was blissfully unaware until I stumbled across the above video

Nah it’s the new email marketing meta. So many emojis and ASCII symbols. It’s the new play to try to stand out from all of the existing ad industry noise in people’s email inboxes

Is there any way to prove that some service like that is actually trustworthy?

This is the right question to ask and the ultimate reason why I don’t use a commercial VPN service. Ultimately a commercial VPN is just moving the trust from the Internet service provider to the VPN provider (or in Tor’s case to the exit node provider)

Personally I just block all ads across everything, select more privacy friendly software, avoid known privacy invading services where feasible and otherwise generally just enjoy not knowing the scope of adtracking because I never see the ads anyways!

It gets wonky with a non-cash windfall though. A couple of years ago my wife and I won game tickets valued around $3k which of course you have to pay income tax on which was ultimately around a thousand dollars (I don’t remember exactly, but it was something like 30-50% of the winnings) for just those tickets, which of course since they’re game tickets you then spend more money going to the game. Ultimately we could afford it and enjoyed the experience but I do not want to imagine how that goes for folks who win for example a $40k car and don’t take the cash equivalent option

That video of the truck driving over the Ferrari in a parking lot that recently went viral occured because the truck driver literally could not see the vehicle and did not realize there was a problem until their vehicle could not longer move. At least that’s what the truck driver said, but it’s somewhat believable given the sheer height difference between the notably lifted truck and the notably low to the ground Ferrari

It is completely unfeasible for cops to try to do anything to curtail that on an individual basis

It’s actually very easy to do and some municipalities actually invest the traffic enforcement time in doing so. The police simply need to ramp up enforcement. Bring a half dozen squad cars and pull over anyone going over the posted speed during rush hour and repeat this a few times and the visibility of multiple cars being pulled over at a time slows traffic down pretty immediately

I just play zebra and enjoy blending into all the other people going 15 over.

If you’re going 15 over then you’re going 15 over. Doesn’t matter if others are doing the same thing, you’ve joined into the unsafe, financially irresponsible and illegal behavior

The speed limit in most states isn’t a hard limit

The speed limit is the maximum speed allowed by law. Doesn’t matter if you’re passing, delivering a baby or have gone over that speed a million times and never been pulled over, if you exceed the posted speed limit you are breaking the law. It’s one of the few extremely cut and dry traffic laws

Not an excuse for following at an unsafe distance

They never said anything indicating anything about what lane they’re driving in. How do you know they’re on roads that even have a left lane to camp in?

So uhhhh have you started using APIs yet?

Nah this is just ageism. Now, I do think there might be a conversation to be had about once medical power of attorney goes into effect if the individual should no longer be permitted to vote, but there’s no set age where everybody lacks the mental faculties to vote.

I’ve had relatives knocking on deaths door by age 60, and I have a 100 year old relative who drives the Amish around as his retirement gig

Ehhh depends on the exercise and your goals. If you biked 5 miles to get the ice cream and now are biking 5 miles home you definitely have enough calorie deficit for the day that the ice cream is inconsequential. But if your goal is to lose weight, filling your calorie deficits from excercise with treats isn’t very productive at all

For me it was estimation that unlocked the magic of mathematics. What’s the fastest way you can get close enough to the correct answer that the innaccuracy doesn’t matter?

For example, in salary negotions if you need to convert between hourly and annual salary take the annual value, drop 3 zeros and divide in two and you have the hourly. Or in reverse, take the hourly, multiply by 2 and add 3 zeros for the annual. It gets you close enough that you can know you’re talking about for salary negotiations, budgeting, etc. and you can let the computer calculate out the exact conversion for payroll and tax withholding purposes