I have a Samsung TV and it’s kind of irritating that it does this same thing. Any option you leave selected for a few seconds will start playing a sample

It’s frustrating to have to go hunt for a safe place to put my cursor so my TV doesn’t start playing something I don’t want it to.

18 billion yearly profit last I checked.

Not enough.

Never enough.

And on the flip side of things, I live in Florida and biking as a primary method of transportation in the summer is just insane.

I do bike for exercise in the summer and 15 minutes will leave me drenched in sweat needing a shower.

Man, I barely graduated from high school because I saw the entire thing as busy work.

My grade in any class was dependant on how much the tests were weighed versus any class or homework. Sleeping or reading through class was my usual.

Now that I’m older I see the value in building the discipline needed to do that sort of busy work because if I don’t my house falls apart and such, so there’s that.

I wish it didn’t take me so long to learn it though.

No one does that.

Because they can be slotted in to work existing machinery without retooling the entire plant.

Yeah, but I’m talking about if this happened to me when I was a kid.

I kinda would have been, but I had a dictionary at home so didn’t use the library one much.

The programs these churches run are typically filling in gaps in social programs that the government doesn’t have the political mandate to enact.

If these churches were taxed you’d see their charities diminished while the funding went to some pork belly spending project, or at the very least not related to what services the church is suddenly not providing.

Not all government spending is a net positive.

Wouldn’t know, have ublock.

8gb of RAM? What year is this?

I’ve seen… Primer and Gattaca.

Bashforever.com

No.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent

• Salvor Hardin

I can’t think of a better way to explain the difference between the books and the show then that quote.

Can you imagine Salvor of the show ever saying that?

What media is an LLM going to be able to reproduce that I can’t already reproduce with a copy paste?

Everyone knows how dangerous guns are. Part of the point of owning one is that it can be used in a dangerous situation to protect yourself.

The mental issue part is why anyone would want to harm another human with one.

The justice system isn’t about revenge.

I’m around your same age and have always been told immigrants generally good.

That’s not a generational view you have there. I’m willing to bet that immigrant is a synonym for ‘not white’ by whoever in your past has said this.

Apparently the plan was to disband the local department and merge it into the department of a neighboring area, then split the cost in an effort to lower the overall operating costs of police services in the area.

The other city they were going to do this with declined the deal and so this town had to keep their local force in tact.

Upon hearing that the city they worked for was trying to eliminate their jobs, a bunch quit.