If he’s so deadset on reuniting, why hasn’t he come to see you? He wants you to drop everything and come see him at emotional and financial cost to yourself, but is unwilling to do the same?

I dunno, might be something for him to consider. I’m sorry you’re in this crappy situation, it sucks that he’s making such firm demands.

Yeah it seems like everything is the exact same crappy jellybean off the shelf mouse put into different cases. Even the sensors in the high end vertical mouses like the MX master are only as good as just a regular desktop mouse.

Seems like capitalism just hasn’t made this market yet. Maybe in a few years when gamers start getting older.

Polling rate, ability to change between low and high DPI on the fly, programmable thumb buttons.

You do not have to hand it to them.

It was, originally. It still is now, but it was then too.

I do now code with a glock next to my mouse.

I mean, I do this too but that’s just in case the printer turns into a Decepticon.

“they targeted me in an attack directly. That was disconcerting. Even more disconcerting was that the USG has absolutely 0 response. I’m a private citizen. sure i have a lot of ties to the DoD but i’m certainly not a warfighter.”

Lmao he’s a fed and he’s mad that makes him a legitimate target.

“Hello, can I take your order?”

*indecipherable mumbling interspersed with crackling feedback over the sounds of a customer screaming at you from the other side of the counter.* “Uhm, excuse me, Hello??? Are you lazy fucks even listening‽”

How is it possible that this is only the first confirmed sighting of a white person in California?

But yeah, this is not good for agriculture.

At this point DDG is basically just an alternative frontend for Bing.

What oversight exists for bicycles?

Helmet laws; 200 years of largely safety-focused design refinements; significant safety regulations regarding things like brakes, lights, where they can be ridden…

None of these things apply to scooters, which is why the injury rate for scooters per distance travelled is roughly 115/million trips vs 15/million trips for bicycles.

“if everything was gumdrops and candy we could have sensible transit infrastructure and a healthcare system that covers injuries but here in real life we have to privatise the sidewalks with unregulated scooters that don’t include a helmet and regularly injure people and bankrupt them with hospital bills.”

China’s transportation infrastructure and layout environment is very different from that of the west, with dominant public transit, relatively low car use, and significant usage of bicycles and other emobility systems. Inserting scooters into the mix is easier in that case.

Just dumping them onto sidewalks where they get in the way of pedestrians and wheelchair users, and then having riders only options being either getting sideswiped by cars in the road or bombing past pedestrians on sidewalks isn’t safe for anyone. Ceding the last semblance of public space in the west to private corporations is not acceptable and justifying it under the guise of “well it’s not like the government will implement a functional system so we have to let private companies do it” is a neoliberal talking point.

After grad school I got sort of stranded in a small town and took a job as an insurance salesperson for a few months. Even that was too ghoulish for me and I became physically ill from stress and quit. I can’t imagine what sort of person could work in debt collection, hospital billing, or insurance denials for more than a couple of desperate months without quitting or doing something drastic.

“maybe we should get the government to prop up these silicon valley startup companies that dumped a bunch of scooters in our town without permission and ewaste them every 6 months.”

How about we ban these services and create appropriate last-mile infrastructure instead of basically just handing money over to do the work for lazy techbros.

methystikovalian

How can this be a human right if it’s not even a word?

Stay safe out there, comrades.

Yep. It’s officially a piece of shit.

“oh sure but if it was a woman killing a gamer then you’d be fine with it”

Yes.

No light rail: heavy rail only. There should be a 750 km/h maglev HST that can take me between any two arbitrary points on the north american continent, and it should do it at no cost to me.

It’s not even disguising innovation. It’s just calling existing technology that’s been around for many years “AI” because it’s a buzzword.

That doesn’t even appear to be the case here, they’re not even trying to say any of these features are AI enhanced. They’re literally just marketing it as an AI hard drive because you can store datasets for an AI model on this hard drive. You know, like every other hard drive ever.