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by rconti 2y ago
It's worth explicitly stating that you (often?) don't get hotel rewards when your stays are booked through a third party. This isn't the case with airline miles; you get them either way, it seems. But there are often other be
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by rconti 2y ago
First they came for the speeders, but I had nothing to fear, for I was not a speeder...
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by rconti 2y ago
I like it when people naïvely believe the insurance companies' model of safety has anything to do with actual safety.
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by rconti 2y ago
"Perfectly synchronized?" I airplay to 6 sonos speakers using airplay2 (not grouping in the app) multiple times a day, and I can practically predict what will happen if I try to add speakers too quickly, or too slowly. You'll
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by rconti 2y ago
> The New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness described the ideology as one that “promotes targeted attacks, mass killings, and criminal activity, and has historically encouraged members to engage in self-harm and animal
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by rconti 2y ago
Eurail passes (for non-EU citizens) were cheaper than interrail passes. You needed a non-EU passport, and a non-EU address. I ordered one to my parents' house in the US and had them FexEx it to me in Europe.
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by rconti 2y ago
pretty sure that was in my tagline generator...
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by rconti 2y ago
It's by far the most common phrase I've heard used to wipe+reinstall a system in the past 20 years? 25 years? Not just the most popular colloquialism, the most popular phrase, period. My experience is US/West Coast/Tech
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by rconti 2y ago
If there's a better coupon code, but the retailer pays Honey to not show it to you, the consumer loses.
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by rconti 2y ago
... and also lets stores ensure the end user doesn't get a deal the store doesn't want them to get!
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by rconti 2y ago
haha yeah, I went back in time and found that same comment from gamblor956 and was thinking "comments that don't age well"
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by rconti 2y ago
No doubt on the 300lbs. My dad and I hauled our brand-new 35" Toshiba when I was a teen. I clearly remember it was 198lbs per the spec sheet.
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by rconti 2y ago
I have a 40, it's great. Fewer pixels and width than my previous 3x 27" 4k setup, but more height.
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by rconti 2y ago
Every local store I walk into is trying to fool me by not including sales taxes, why would online stores be any different?
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by rconti 2y ago
Unrelated other than being an airplane incident, but I recently was reading up on BOAC flight 911[1] while in Japan, and the full story about how many other air disasters occurred to Japan that year, the plane taxiing past the wreckage of t
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by rconti 2y ago
It felt really odd that the author neglected to mention the reason the stunt should have fallen flat was that he was using it to mock Harris for actually having worked at McDonalds, not cosplaying at it.
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by rconti 2y ago
I'm guessing the idea of going from a passenger car to a truck but that's not exactly uncommon, especially because Rivan makes an SUV and plenty of people use SUVs and even 4 door pickups as everyday transportation.
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by rconti 2y ago
Mercedes is pushing some pretty awful motors, like the new C63 4cyl turbo hybrid thing. Of course, a lot of this is driven by regulation, not Mercedes being cheap.
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by rconti 2y ago
> I’d never buy a Tesla. They are a joke and you’re paying for the name and they used to be able to charge a premium because they were the first to market I'm not sure where you're getting "charge a premium for the name&qu
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by rconti 2y ago
There are numerous options available for that; Strava, RideWithGPS, Google Maps, etc. I think the point of this project is to create something _new_ and different.
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by rconti 2y ago
> Interestingly, in all cases urban roads are worse quality than rural roads, presumably because they see higher traffic than rural roads. There's more infrastructure under urban roads. Crews come in to fix some utility, shred a sec
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by rconti 2y ago
I do think that the i3 is the one that fits best here. But being an all carbon fiber structure, being 2-10 years old, being a BMW, I understand there are a lot of strikes against it here when people think "cheap small economical car wi
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by rconti 2y ago
My aunt and uncle have a couple of Teslas (at different homes, I think). We have one as well. They're looking at replacing one with another EV, so she was probing me for options, and then also said "I can't help but notice yo
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by rconti 2y ago
The counterargument is obvious for anyone who has been on call or otherwise responsible for system stability. It's very easy to become risk-averse in any realm.
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by rconti 2y ago
If you think you're a pariah for having 3 children, I think your view of how others judge you could use some recalibration. You might just be projecting a massive amount.
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by rconti 2y ago
Yeah, I _do_ think I would have been embarrassed to be buying a pregnancy test a year out of college, because statistically speaking that would be an unexpected pregnancy. I'd say by 26-28 it would be more likely to be a socially accep
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by rconti 2y ago
> memetic pressure to have fewer children What does this mean?
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by rconti 2y ago
Well, the algorithm only pushes engagement bait so it's selecting for morally flawed takes rather than nuanced takes.
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by rconti 2y ago
I had a friend who often said "sunlight is the best disinfectant". Of course, he was saying that in about 2010 and I'm pretty sure it's aged extremely poorly, because the increasing publicity around conspiracy theories h
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by rconti 2y ago
Yeah, I don't think I could do zone 2. Zone 1, yeah.

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