parkingrift

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by parkingrift 4y ago
> I’m not going into details here not because I don’t know what I’m talking about, but because, more pragmatically, the list of examples would constitute an article on its own, and would definitely exceed the scope and focus of this piec
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The hyperbole on this thread is truly something to behold. Effectively broken? Well okay then. I’m trying to defend the thought process here, but I can’t. Willing to spend several thousand for a premium laptop. Unwilling to spend $3 on prin
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>If they’re all treating you like an employee, then all of them But, they aren't. Any traditional employment situation would forbid working multiple jobs at the exact same hours of the day. Any traditional "hourly" emplo
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by parkingrift 4y ago
And what if you’re simultaneously driving for Uber, Lyft, Alto, etc. To which are you an employee?
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by parkingrift 4y ago
In NYC the explanation is pretty simple. Weekday subway, bus, and train ridership is about 60% of pre pandemic levels. Most of those people are no longer commuting at all, but some percentage have switched to driving. The percentage numbers
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Anything is possible, but the polls and prediction markets are telling a pretty grim story. Democrats may still hold the Senate, but it’s little better than a coin flip. The fact that people are downvoting this obvious proclamation is furt
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>This is a serious thing, and it paints humanity as being far darker than it would seem from the surface. "Build it yourself" internet bubbles are giving people hilariously wrong impressions of society, and humanity. These same
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Ha. This would be like going to that HOA and telling them all about how little you care. Just stop lying and admit you care.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Meta: It’s only 3% of posts, it’s not a draw for our users, and it’s a trivial portion of our revenue. We may just shut it down. Also Meta: Please please please please don’t pass this law. I don’t know how anyone can take this company seri
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Isn’t that already the case? If a restaurant has a wheelchair ramp, but I still can’t afford to eat there, have they discriminated against me? Where do you think my “rights to patronage” should start and stop? Why arbitrarily stop at wheelc
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>I think the issue is that “the disabled don’t need access to everything” ends up with the abled deciding what the disabled deserve to access. We’re talking about privately owned establishments. No one deserves to be able to go to these
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by parkingrift 4y ago
You won’t need to worry about rich people taking a taxi. Because they’ll all have moved out.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Adjusting economic models? We’re significantly below replacement level. That means population collapse and, eventually, actual extinction. We’re not headed toward a future where we just stop growing. We’re headed for a future where populati
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Rings of Power is roughly similar to rewriting the Bible. Keep the same characters but change the timelines and have all the characters get into new and unique things. And then go and ask Catholics to just give it a chance. C’mon don’t be a
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by parkingrift 4y ago
T-Mobile has been offering free Netflix for over three years. They don’t even market it these days. As for the reduction in mobile game usage, perhaps consumers are finally growing weary of the abomination that has become mobile gaming? Pre
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. Force them to divest these companies, and then these companies can compete with each other in the open market. >Split up what, a declining social network for boomers? Yes, definitely yes. Comp
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by parkingrift 4y ago
>So you wanna split up Google Unequivocally, yes. >for owning Tenor too? No, not specifically for that.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
I want it to just run macOS. The 12.9" M2 iPad Pro is absolutely perfect for me in every way except the gimped OS. The screen is great, plenty of storage, amazing battery life, it's light and portable, WiFi 6E, and a cellular mo
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by parkingrift 4y ago
You don’t think the Surface Pro and Surface Laptop are competing with the Mac and iPad lineup? They seem like direct competitors to me.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The US is just one of many countries. Not every country agrees that global warming exists. Some countries think global warming will be beneficial. You could cut the US military budget to $0 and it would be less than a rounding error to what
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by parkingrift 4y ago
> Irrespective of it, in case the headsets can become as easy as wearing glasses, I doubt why anyone wouldn't use it. There is nothing in the world that could convince me to bring a Meta VR headset into my home. May as well just ins
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Easy. Google is a spyware company, and Android is a spyware operating system. Outside of things like LineageOS or GrapheneOS I’d rather not have a phone than support Google or Android.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
…in regulated markets.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Nope. Grandparent comment asked why the US is a violent society. Absolute top comment on the chain is just outright incarceration numbers. No one asked anything about race until you came along.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
You do know that there are other demographics than race?
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Where shall you house these homeless people? During the pandemic NYC tried using vacant hotels to house homeless people. Surprise surprise the areas immediately surrounding the hotels turned into a drug and needle playground, and people eva
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by parkingrift 4y ago
The FBI is racist and fabricated these stats, as we all know.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Worst possible conditions? Seriously? It’s the worst conditions that can possibly exist. Nothing could be worse than being in a prison in the United States? On the labor issue I don’t see why prison populations shouldn’t get put to work on
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by parkingrift 4y ago
There is not worldwide agreement that global warming is a problem. Russia, for example, will directly benefit from the earth warming. They will become a massive grain export economy.
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by parkingrift 4y ago
Yes and that “experienced homelessness” figure includes people who moved in with friends, family, or relatives. The headline number is garbage.

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