KnightontheSun @ KnightontheSun @lemmy.world

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Whereas we are smack dab in the middle of cities, but just far enough out of reach to be stuck with 20Mb DSL that will never improve.

Interesting to see this news. About a week ago I had picked up the mail and we still receive mailings for a deceased relative. This means we often get correspondence for the older demographic. On that day, it was the Epoch Times. Looking ever so like a normal newspaper. Trying to look like a trusted medium to the older audience to whom it was addressed.

I’ve known of them, but being dismissive had never scrutinized it. Having a rare opportunity before me I did so and was not terribly surprised. In summary: References to “woke” news everywhere else, all glory to supreme leader trump and covid was a hoax.

Anyhow, I did have to take pause and admit the propaganda machine of the right is quite good at what it does. Millions of Americans getting this rag, reading it and nodding along. Is there an equivalent on the left? One that lies and deceives and reaches so many? I don’t really think so.

What is the quote? ‘a lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on’.

I am glad there are legal issues for them now, but the machine itself will keep grinding. Stay vigilant!

I really loved this game way back when it came out. Still have the disc for it. I will have to check this out.

What a coincidence! Thomas did too!

I was being sarcastic, Mr Surfer. I wrestled with whether I should include the "/s" tag since I was making a joke about the spoiler tag being the indication of sarcasm. I chose neither and here we are. Hi! ;)

I don't see a spoiler tag, do you?

He purged the State Department at the beginning of his presidency, so we already understand the damage it will do:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/29/state-department-purge-trump-foreign-policy

competition eating is not what is causing the inequality

Please point to where I said it was the cause. So because it didn't cause it, it's perfectly fine to flaunt the inequality?

watersports shouldn't exist, anything televised is evil

I'm just spitballing here using your example, but what if watersports were shown to drought-stricken audiences? And we know they are just down the street from the event. Is that alright?

Yes, anything superfluous to basic life itself is the purest of evils. You can see I've obviously stated the very same. Plainly. /s

This might not be popular, but in my opinion the world absolutely does not need a "Major League Eating" organization or competitive eating contests.

Competitive eating has no reasonable place when there is so much food insecurity around us. Even moreso when there are people going hungry within the same country as the competition. I'll even wager there are people within a mile of it that would greatly appreciate one of the fifty hot dogs a competitor eats.

In my limited view, it appears to me as an overt display in food gorging and over-consumption. Is this a skill to aspire to? Perhaps it had a place when showing the world how successful we were as a nation, but now it just seems gross as the optics (in my view) have changed.

The rest of the world is competing by simply vying for food. Any food.

/rant

Yes, whilst you do have a telemetry box, it is not phoning home. Data must be actively pulled from it by hand. As you know, typically this is done after an accident to better tell what the car went through. I know there are people who have sought to disable the boxes, but I don't know the legal or insurance ramifications of doing so. It is also difficult to locate them as they are "hidden" in the mass of wiring and other components. There are probably manufacturer-specific auto forum discussions on the matter to refer to.

Years ago I found a good list of manufacturers and the year they became compliant. I can't seem to find the same list today (isn't that the way with the internet?). I did find this site that seems to list the recovery capability of the vehicles which indicates whether they are compliant or not. This should suffice:

https://blackboxrecovery.com/supported-vehicles/honda?rq=honda

It looks like you are in luck! Bad luck anyways. 2012 was the first year that Honda model was compliant according to that site.

Edit: Here is another list so you might cross check (PDF warning): https://www.collision-recon.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EDR-Supported-Vehicles-List.pdf

Every car. Not pretty much every one, but every one. Telemetry boxes have been around for a while and you can even get Telemetry Insurance if you have one. I think by 2015 all manufacturers had them.

Edit: I want to also state this is for the US. Other nations are also doing this, but may not be there yet.

I am unsure as to why a progressive would ever vote Republican. Progressives cannot politically exist on their own in this two-party system. They have to adopt one party or the other. Since the Republican party is completely and absolutely opposed to anything a progressive would believe in, they adopted the one party that has a minor shot at enacting policies they adhere to. There is no doubt they would likely vote D all the way down the ballot in every election. It's the only opportunity at policy progression they have. It has been this way for a while so this claim isn't some new prediction or revelation.

Here you go, smoke this... ...

I am being told that's not what he meant.

I'm not sure which part of this is intended to be sarcasm

100% of it. Sorry I wasn't funnier to help you there. Story of my wife...life! I meant life!

Of note is that I did not create the "chain of bicycles" term, but did find it alluring to use here.

That's the automobile term and is quite offensive in this context. A "chain of bicycles" would be more appropriate. Stragglers would be called "spokes". You should probably edit your post and then go apologize to the bicycle sub post haste before this gets out of hand. --> /s

Really? Which episode? It's been a few years...and were they making a movie...? Yes, they did. I went and looked on imdb. I'll need to see that.

Such a great show!

Dink, dink. Dink dink dink dink, dink!

Except that for some products they show the unit prices differently for some maddening reason. Like $.04/ounce right next to a competing product that has the label $.40/biscuit or something similar. Like they are trying to make it more difficult for the shopper to compare so they throw up their hands and buy whatever they are used to. I see this frequently.