Well, you had one post go over badly. Perhaps you should leave Lemmy.

That’s the argument.

We have this problem in WV, too, but also with coal mines.

Mining companies have to put up reclamation bonds to get permits, but those bonds aren’t even close to the cost of cleanup. So companies just abandon ship, forfeit the bonds (which are far less than the cost of cleanup/remediation), and the taxpayers are left to foot the cleanup bill. In the meantime, they leach heavy metals and other toxic crap into nearby communities.

ET, and I think someone dug those up semi-recently.

Edit: Yep: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-desert-sold-108-n418971

For a very long time, every disk in my catalog was a repurposed AOL Floppy Disk with a piece of tape over the write-protect hole and a Post-It taped over the label. I didn’t have to buy blank floppies from like 1994 to about 1999 when they switched to CDs.

Man, I kinda miss the days when junk mail was legitimately useful.

I run the same 500kb limit on my instance. It was becoming restrictive, so I added a feature to Tesseract that optionally preprocesses uploads to webp, client side, before uploading (with a user configurable quality level) which has worked well. Might be something to consider or perhaps can patch a similar preprocess step into your default UI.

And forbidding them from blanket raising premiums to make up for the fine.

I never really ran into that, and part of the curriculum for that class was editing / correcting other people’s documents.

Was that only if you imported a document from a different format, perhaps?

There were a few times I encountered slight formatting glitches, but we were taught to just turn on Reveal Codes to easily find/fix those.

I miss old-school WordPerfect. Our school was largely using Office 97, but one teacher preferred WP, and we had to use it in that particular class.

My biggest takeaway from it was that, contrary to what MS would have you believe, it is absolutely possible to put formatting options in logical places in menus. Everything about WP was just so intuitive.

Lol, yup.

Normally, you’d be right on the money. It’s always some former congressperson/staffer dishing out all the illegal things they saw. Except instead of reporting it to the authorities, they want you to buy their book and read about it.

To be fair / credit where it’s due, he was vocally anti-Trump when he was still holding office. He and Cheney both, and they were ostracized for it.

That is horrifying but also very impressive soldering.

As it stands now, utilities have become the “insurer of last resort” when it comes to damage claims from wildfires tied to their equipment, said Emily Fisher, general counsel at the Edison Electric Institute, an investor-owned utility trade group. The industry has become difficult to insure because there isn’t a limit to their potential wildfire liabilities, Fisher added.

Power companies also need to spend billions of dollars to make their infrastructure less prone to start fires, funding fixes such as installing weather monitoring equipment, burying power lines and replacing old poles. “It’s not a sustainable regime,” Fisher said.

It is certainly sustainable, though it may not be as profitable. I’m sorry, but I couldn’t care less what the general counsel for an investor-owned utility trade group that only cares about the next quarter’s earnings has to say on the matter.

“Thanks for blazing the trail, climbing the mountain, and throwing down a ladder for me to climb, but fuck everyone else; I’m pulling the ladder up behind me.”

-Typical ‘I got mine’ mentality

Bonus: “Surely the people I’m helping to pull this ladder back up the mountain won’t push me off once it’s done.”

Get 'em, RIAA.

Unlike the little guys downloading a few songs here and there, these companies are 100% making money off of the infringement. Maybe ruin their parasitic business instead of regular peoples’ lives for once, yeah?

Easier on my wrist, less arm motion.

I really like my trackball mouse, though I had to buy it myself.

Though the intention was always to get this before the “friendly” supreme court.

Yup.

Best case scenario: The schools’ walls will be plastered with tenets from every religion instead of anything actually useful to learning or society.

Worst case: Christianity gets a free pass yet again, the goal posts are moved, and more of it is going to get shoved into everything.

My dumbass state requires every classrom display 'In God We Trust" and they got away with it because they’re not saying which God. Even assuming that’s a valid loophole (it’s not), it tramples on the rights of those who don’t believe in such fairy tales.

No they didn’t.

In a strictly technical / laboratory sense, maybe not. But in practice, they stopped just the same. I also slow down to a stop (regen braking is amazing) and don’t slam on my brakes at a stop light (like some drivers I routinely scowl at). And driving through the country and having to slam on the brakes when a deer jumps out (which was common where I lived), I noticed no appreciable difference in stopping distance between the two tire types.

…huh? ABS has nothing to do with rolling resistance…

ABS prevents the tires from locking up and skidding (anti-lock braking system, hence the name). Under normal driving conditions, it merely helps you maintain control, but on slick roads, locking up the wheels can skid you further than without it. So, no, ABS doesn’t directly relate to rolling resistance, but it’s part of a system along with the tires that contribute to stopping distance…which is what I was talking about.

I wouldn’t think stopping distance would be noticeably impacted by less rolling resistance. My original “eco” tires stopped the same as the standard ones. They’re “eco” because they have less rolling resistance and are slightly lighter.

Plus, with ABS, you’re not likely to lock the wheels up such that the decreased resistance would be significant.

On slick roads would be my only concern, but a good and season appropriate tread should mitigate that.

It’s going to be all about the price.

My hybrid recommends “eco” style tires to get the best gas mileage. Those were $100 more, per tire, than the standard low-profiles. At the time, I commuted about 110 miles/day, so tires typically only lasted me about a year before they were either officially worn out or too worn to be safe to drive in winter.

I only noticed about a 1-2 MPG loss with the “standard” tires versus the “eco” ones that came with it. Over the course of a year, I doubt that 1-2 MPG added up to the $400 difference.

So, these cleaner tires are a good thing, assuming they’re not more expensive than current-style tires. Depending on use-case, 35% longer life (if that holds true) may be able to tempt price-conscious buyers.

All that said, I could definitely see these becoming the “factory” tires for new EVs, though.