cordlessmodem

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[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

The private for profit health insurance industry - because what could make number go up better than a (LEGALLY MANDATED) do nothing middle man who's only purpose is to take your money and ensure as little as possible is spent on healthcare sitting between you and not dying?

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 80 points 1 week ago

Just think of all the great things you're going to learn about emergency boot recovery!

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Competition is good! Unless it makes shareholders sad.

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

From reading the penny arcade blog about it and watching the trailer, it seems to be an arthouse movie that just happens to be made by the most famous people on earth. You might love it or hate it but most people just won't get it either way

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

lot of that going around I guess

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not an idiom, but a slogan for a sugary children's cereal Trix.

I saw the wall of text, skipped to the punchline, and rolled my eyes glad I saved myself a couple minutes

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

@josephos@iusearchlinux.fyi

 

Here's the best time from Sunday's Pike's Peak Hillclimb, Robin Shute driving. The car (all the cars in this class) is a custom made hill climb car possibly made just for this race.

The run itself is a new record but still has a few issues including what seems like a stall or shift failure early on.

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Just build a road one mile wide between and directly through the middle of every urban center so suburbanites have an easier time getting where they're going. This is so easy I should be a road planner

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That average has to have some really grotesque edge cases. What really SHOULD happen for a variety of reasons is city centers shouldn't be a place you commute to but that you also live in and all the changes that come with that, including having far less or no cars at all. Suburbia and cities designed for cars are the problems, self driving cars are a venture capital magnet looking for a problem to fix.

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reading more of these comments it's clear we need to invest heavily in biking and transit infrastructure so taking away some idiots drivers license doesn't damn them to poverty

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