I said, “IT MIGHT WORK BUT GOD DAMN DOES IT SMELL AWFUL, AND MAKE DISHES AND SPONGES SMELL AWFUL.”

Because American ideals don’t line up with American reality.

It might work but god damn does it smell awful, and make dishes and sponges smell awful.

To any idiots out there, yes, Luigi’s actions were in fucking vain assholes so don’t say it

Well I’ll be the idiot.

I think it’s hard to say that it was in vain. I feel like it demonstrated some important points clearly:

• people are very upset with insurance companies and by extension the healthcare system. (Note the lack of negative reaction from the public even as the media tried hard to demonize Luigi)
• megacorps arent invulnerable against those with nothing to lose. (I think it’s easy to draw the line between Luigi and companies backing off from a few over the top policies)
• how much the media are in bed with and/or controlled by those same megacorps. (Again, the blatant attempt to demonize Luigi followed by dropping coverage as the public didn’t react the way they wanted)

If it was going to have true impact it needed to be followed up by more incidents and copycats. Without that it’s only a nudge, and maybe not a wake-up call, let alone the full-on revolution that may be needed to force change. (Not speaking of political overthrow of the government, that’s a whole other topic)

Luigi may not have been the pebble that launched an avalanche but neither was he nothing.

That’s true to some extent. Those wattage numbers are pretty fuzzy depending on how it’s measured (continuous vs instantaneous power and such).

However the actual article is almost exclusively focused on being able to go 40mph+, and the hassle of making the motorbike street-legal and getting licensed.

I think it’s closer to “whatever they want it to mean so they can persecute their enemies”

The thing is I have yet to see any reasonable alternatives.

Threema is the closest but it’s not free-of-charge, so a non-starter for most of my friends.

The others are controlled by Russia (telegram) or Meta. What else even is viable?

Dumb article. The author wants electric motorcycles without the hassle of licensing, registration, and insurance. She does not want an e-bike.

And I believe they call pavement metalling. What a crazy country.

No. Some people just can’t handle subtlety.

This is the onion right? …right?

The only advantage I see is that it actually seems to keep a better handle on the status of the process/service. The old-style unit scripts would often get out of sync and not realize that a process had died, or if they did they would repeatedly respawn a service that would just die again. Maybe that was less of a problem in later years than I experienced earlier, but it was there.

The whole init.d system felt very ad-hoc with every script working a little bit differently, giving different output styles, etc.

This may help.

Because the instructions, “draw a brick here, a pipe there, here are the rules for how jumping works, etc.” are smaller than “these pixels are blue, that one is orange, that one is white, etc.”

No. I just don’t kid myself, I know I’ll never read it.

They produced episodes IV-VI. Mark Hammill and Anthony Daniel’s were among the film cast who reprised their roles.

It’s really good.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio_series)

Almost certainly this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(radio_series)

They’re using it as a euphemism for poop. For some reason.

Better title: “Photographers complain when their use of AI is identified as such”