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  • I got a huge office printing center thing from government liquidation out of my nearby military base for $55. It came with more toner than I could ever use in my lifetime.

  • At this point, I'm pretty sure I'd just fake my own death.

  • A source the editors not distances itself from and that uses a limited data set is certainly a reliable one.

  • The right source for this kind of stuff is the NHTSA's database, but you can't manufacture juicy headlines from that.

  • Even the Lending Tree "article" has a disclaimer at the top that they haven't reviewed or approved any of it.

  • Last time a garbage clickbait hit-piece like this pissed me off, I looked into the crash statistics myself and found Tesla vehicles were around 1/80th the average crash ratio per capita.

    I'm sure this is somewhat skewed by the kinds of people driving them versus the average work vehicles and clunkers out there, but still, it just feels absurdly false to claim Teslas even approach the highest crash rate.

    And even the sketchy "study" not even endorsed by the site it's posted to, then linked by Forbes, then says Ram vehicles as the highest crash rate (lol), so it's wild that Forbes goes on to say it's Tesla at the top spot.

  • First we hear fast walking is more gay, now it's less? Which is it?

  • They could use one of those corten type steel alloys that develop a protective rust patina so it looks hideously rusty, but isn't actually losing strength.

  • Unfortunately, the US Environmental Protection Agency (emphasis on mental) has rules in place regarding emissions per unit length of vehicle which effectively penalize manufacturers who make small vehicles.

  • Anything but money, you mean.

  • Yeah, especially in the EU where apparently their laws regarding circumventing DRM might make the people who fixed this the bad guys instead of this comically evil manufacturer who put GPS kill switches on public passenger trains.

  • If you RTFA, they were paid by the repair company who was paid by the private train operator to fix the train. In doing so, they reverse engineered the hardware/firmware and found the DRM added by the manufacturer to prevent the repair company from doing the repairs by bricking the train.

  • That was good general advice, but with Amazon links, anything starting from /ref= can be deleted so it ends with that product/idnumber.

  • I don't understand why so many would consider this rage bait; the title seems reasonable and the article lines up with what I expected from it. He sounds like a rare CEO who gets it, though who knows if that will amount to anything...

  • I'm typically against government-run healthcare, but yeah, the insurance companies ruin EVERYTHING. I experienced how worthless they are firsthand, too.

    I had a torn ACL and needed knee surgery with my insurance, so I went to the same doctor and same surgeon my housemate had for his ACL repair without insurance. After all was said and done, we compared how much we'd paid out of pocket and I maaayyybe paid $1,000 less than he did, while my insurance claimed to have covered like $30,000. And this was decent, corporate insurance that I'd been paying $120-170/mo for over the course of 6 years at that point. What a waste of money...

  • Again, it's about supporting the creators without the absurdly high cost of several dozen Patreon subs, not about avoiding the ads. If I could pay $15/mo to Patreon and have it distribute a portion of that to 60 different people based upon how much of their content I viewed that month, that'd certainly be the way to go.

  • I just figured out how to use that feature and it's not as clean as manual pruning. You right click on the URL field and choose Copy Without Site Tracking, but it still leaves half the junk.

  • Why would they complain when they could just have the party's healer offer to heal the NPC in exchange for something? That'd be especially great if they were a merchant.

  • Sir, this is the Internet; we take everything we read at face value and only believe what we want.