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Xennial: came of age in X but adulted as a millennial.

I can't stop laughing at this. Thank you!

Sure, I'll just travel to places to verify the source every time when I consume news. That's reasonable!

I've owned an electric since 2013, never run into a down charging station. Early on, I'd run into single chargers that were occupied, but that's it.

Not saying it's not possible to have a broken station, just never hit it. But I, like most people, charge at home, 95% of the time.

I drove a leaf for 3 years and it had 80 to start with and ended around 67. At the end, it was a pain, but didn't notice until around 70mi range. Somehow, 75 would get me from home, to the airport, to work, and back home again with room to breathe. At 67, it was nail biting.

To the point, 150 is probably good for quite a lot of people.

I used it before and still use it. No issues with my $5 linode.

It depends on the state I've recently learned. Some states allow inheriting debt, others don't. Even some are in between allowing it for spouses only.

States rights!!

(Republicans: not like that!)

XMPP was very popular. Google joined it, and with it, the power to give it's users on Gmail access to all the other chat products that all had more chat users by sharing the same XMPP space. Users were very happy to use the superior Gmail product and also let go of their old chat tools because they could still talk to everyone just fine!

Google waited until they had most of the users and simply started making non compatible changes to their chat until they finally defederated themselves and suddenly their users could no longer chat with anyone who wasn't also on Google.

People noticed, but most of the users were no longer willing to drop their now-familiar gchat client because they were now used to it. Users like me who wanted to use Pidgin still were suddenly unable to chat with 80% of their friends unless they gave in and opened up gchat too.

If Google never federated with the system, we might still likely have aim, msn, etc still around focusing on their chat users. But Google did their thing, stole the market and we're where we're at now. Ironically, most people I know now disable Google chat because Google has tried really hard to ruin something that was just fine. But no one is installing Pidgin again and have mostly moved to Discord and Slack (at least in my circles).

Read this for an idea as to why people are against letting Meta federate: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

It's not a cut and dry yes or no for me.

I wanted to downvote, but then I read it. While I don't accept the premise entirely, I think the points are very well made and thought out well (even if taken to the extreme).

Why wouldn't they?

Ohh, that news story in "For All Mankind" makes a lot more sense. Alternate timeline, we didn't give it back.

I just had my screen replaced because the L in LCD started oozing all over. It was $2200 which didn't include the radio that cost an extra $500. So, not 10k, but not cheap either. On the plus side, outside of New tires, that's the only thing I've done to the car in 8 years.

Using your link and a quick search about filial laws: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dallasnews.com/sponsored/2022/08/28/the-parent-trap-filial-responsibility-laws-cause-financial-havoc-for-children/%3foutputType=amp

"Most of the 30 states that have filial laws do not enforce them"

I guess I was lucky that my father and I did not live in one of those states. But, 100% agreed that it's beyond up that it CAN be a thing in some states. Seriously, wtf.

Neither, just passing on my experience. I didn't have any lawyers involved and it was pretty much telling them to fuck off and not paying the bills that came in his name.

Debt to an individual dies with that individual unless the other person cosigned or if the debt was tied to collateral. They can sue the estate, but it's a slog to do that and basically no one will. Debt collectors will, however, claim that all of this will happen and threaten away to the point where people either get scared or tired of the harassment and give up and "make payments". IANAL, but I went through this with my Dad when he passed. We were able to have his estate (a 5 figure sum) pass down to me without the medical debt collectors getting any of it.

It's a common thing to say in context. As a headline though, it's absolutely click bait. "The Supreme Court is on the ballot" was heard over and over in 2016 which turned out to be 100% true.

You can only threaten to cancel if there's an alternative. I tried this and they were like: okay man, just be forewarned that there's a connection fee when you come back.

They were right, it was more $ to follow through with my threat and they knew it.

I don't think so in this context. This is probably more like SSL cert trusting or some private/public key pair.