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That was the case but the past 10 years or so have changed and started going back the other way toward short lived cars.

Parts that used to be made of metal are now plastic which are cheaper to make, lighter, but also shorter lived as they age. On its surface this shouldn’t be a big deal because they’re cheap to make so replacement parts should also be cheap. However there are two problems with this line of thinking:

• Labor costs have increased - so even if the cheap part breaks and is cheap to buy the replacement, modern cars require lots of labor to disassemble cars to the point the replacement part can be put in.

• Replacement parts are getting VERY hard to get - this is true of not only cheap plastic parts, but also complicated electronic modules (which may need custom programming to install).

“Mechanically totaled” is a fairly common phrase auto techs are having to communicate to customers. This means that the cost of repairs is greater than the cost of replacing the entire car with one its same age and condition. This isn’t just lower end Kia cars (though they are a big offender here) but many cars across Korean, European, Japanese, and American brands.

You’re correct that today’s cars are more reliable than the 1940’s and 1950’s, but even those cars were serviceable with readily available parts and fairly cheap tools and labor. So when they broke, they could be fixed again. That can’t be said for many of today’s cars.

“I heard that one say you might not be wearing any clothes! Fire him!” - Loomer probably

It would be cool if it could somehow integrate to a VPN and only do that while the VPN is active. I don’t think it’s possible, though

Potentially possible, but I agree, likely not worth the effort.

I’m not so sure of that. It seems like they’ve served their purpose in getting him into office. “Giving them a break” would also interfere with large agribusiness companies interest in gobbling up financially failing family farms.

When was the last time you checked the length of your DHCP lease?

I’m past caring about giving my IP to a website that I want to use, but what this is doing is handing out your information to every single advertiser that is published on any page you visit. In some cases this plugin would match the definition of “leaking personal data”.

You do you though. I won’t stop you.

If you care about your information and privacy, why are you giving them your information for nothing?

That HTTP request would also show up in the advertisers web logs with your origin IP address.

I keep going back and forth on this for myself. I believe I have a responsibility to contribute to fixing the problems here as it affects others negatively and I have even the smallest amount of power to help fix this.

You don’t think FlyingSquid had a family? I’ve immigrated twice. You think I don’t have a family?

FlyingSquid left the USA because of his family. His child was part of a group targeted by modern day conservatives. He did the most important job as a father and protected his child. He took his child to a safe country.

My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.

I do this too. The unique email address I create for each is identifiable to the place I’m using it. This has other benefits. If an organization you created and account with sells or has a data breech you know exactly which company it was when you start receiving spam or phishing email directed to that address. This is also nice because you can “black hole” that email address and all the spam goes with it even future spam not sent yet.

I sold $1mm in stocks over the last 2 weeks.

That must have been a really hard decision especially to incur the likely $100k+ of capital gains taxes.

Poor #4 had to settle for knees.

Settle? We don’t kink shame here, sir.

They should have canceled the entire “White House Correspondents’ Dinner” and simply held a completely new event at the exact same time at the same venue with a different name, and kept the jokes at the president’s expense.

Arrest Of Elon Musk For Felony Vote Buying

YES! FINALLY!

Demanded In Wisconsin

Dude, don’t tease me like that

There’s a large one with about 5x the subscribers and more activity here: https://lemmy.world/c/leopardsatemyface

However, there’s room in the Fediverse for both!

and sticking a hypodermic needle into an officer’s penis, according to a report.

That’s a very brave act to do to someone in building full of guns within arms reach.

“You’re on trial for shooting a co-worker to death. What is your defense?”

“He intentionally stuck a hypodermic needle in my penis”

“Case dismissed, you’re free to go.”

I don’t know much of Warhammer lore, so I had to look up tech priests:

"No longer the master of its creations, the Cult Mechanicus is enslaved to the past. It maintains the glories of yesteryear with rite, dogma and edict instead of true discernment and comprehension. For instance, even the theoretically simple process of activating a vehicle’s engine is preceded by the application of ritual oils, the burning of sacred resins and the chanting of long and complex hymns. "

Its clear to me the author of this block of text was having trouble starting his vehicle’s engine, and was pissed off when he/she was asked to put in a ticket before help would be rendered to the him/her.

Musk said. “Let the record show that I said this.”

Oh Elon, your record on “what you said” and reality has been divorced from one another for a long long time.

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