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I believe the Pro (or whatever they call the highest trim nowadays) supports USB4.

The terrifying part to me is how many people they must have had doing that boring task week after week.

Like sure, I don't want everyone to be jobless because the robots are taking over. But I am hugely in favor of the boring, repetitive tasks being automated away so people can work on more interesting things.

Every time I see one of these I think of what Philly did. RIP.

I make use of Reolink cameras with Frigate (mix of PoE and WiFi) and haven't had any issues with the smart home integration. The only issue I've had is with some RLC-811s (and a few other outdoor ones) where water gets into the reset cable and the camera essentially starts boot looping. Seal off those cables and you should be good though.

Something something "at will employement"? Gotta love most US states...

I'm 100% confident that at the time that's how this was interpreted. After the guy talked about how he was the least racist person in the room (lol), calling him Abraham Lincoln doesn't seem like much of a stretch.

The smoking absolutely kills me, as someone with asthma who has gotten very used to the fact that most things in the US are non-smoking now. It felt like there was a cloud of smoke basically everywhere I went in France and, to a lesser extent, England.

German cars can't be locked with the driver's door open

This is becoming increasingly common is cars produced around the world. I'm a huge fan of it, personally.

German apartments can't be unlocked if the door is closed

I have no idea what this means. Wouldn't the door always be closed if it's locked?

Yup, there are a few towns and cities in MA that do this. Walking diagonally across and all-walk intersection isn't quite the same as jaywalking, since in those cases you're allowed to cross (as long as the walk sign is on).

It's also way safer to have an all-walk intersection so cars stop hitting people on right turns.

I appreciate the law in Massachusetts, USA where jaywalking is so common that the fine was reduced to $1 for the first three times in a year and a whopping $2 for each time after that.

You can't remove the law, but you can make it silly enough that it's never enforced.

I think Musk is scummy, but I appreciate your response here clearing things up. It makes sense why he wouldn't re-activate it, but at least it's not like he shut it off mid-flight. They just went out of the known range.

I still think Musk is scummy, but for other reasons.

That was my guess, but it's missing letters vs the other two which had a single additional letter, so that's why I wasn't sure.

I just realized the OP was edited and now it looks closer to opinion.

Second one appears to be dissertations. Third one I think is a misselled flagrantly. I'm convinced the first one isn't a real word.

I've unfortunately met people before who think those areas are just another parking spot, so honestly I wouldn't be surprised if this was the real answer.

There's a car that I see occasionally that has a vanity plate that's basically "SPOTTY". It's a car with spots on it. I approve.

Okay but really, how unexpected was that? It's not like a wolf has never had a marine animal before.

My bad, I didn't mean to insinuate that you'd call them a fool. I definitely would though.

Maybe just the recent buyers though.

Yes, 100%. Anyone is a fool to use Tesla "FSD Beta" pretty much anywhere. But Tesla markets it as totally safe to use anywhere and everywhere (but especially highways) so there's a point where you have to stop calling everyone that owns a Tesla a fool and acknowledge that the common denominator is Tesla and just not the owner's foolishness.

For years and years I thought that was how this worked. That you said you wanted to round up, and all of the money collected went into a pool that the company then used as a tax write off in one lump sum. So they were stealing your tax write off basically.

Nope, that's not actually how it works in the US (can't speak for other counties). If you round up your transaction for charity, you're eligible to write it off on your taxes as charity. Do most people? Nope. But could they? Yes! And some people even do save their receipts for this purpose.

The company doesn't get to write it off as their donation, because it's not. For them it's pretty neutral, they're receiving funds and transferring them on behalf of the people who donated them.

Note: I can't speak for companies that do donations for nonprofits related to them. I assume it's still neutral for them, since you definitely still can use it as your own tax write off, but I haven't looked into that side.