boonhet @ boonhet @lemm.ee

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I'd hoped their EVs would be less problematic as I've seen their ICE models break grown men. I guess I'll continue to avoid them like the plague. Thanks.

You know the saying "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger"? This is literally what it means. You suffer hardships you can learn from, and you adapt. Lots of people seem to think it's about physical suffering, but in reality it's more about overcoming adversity in general.

That's why they call us backend developers!

Duckduckgo and bangs. Or just add search keywords to your browser.

I'm too lazy to find the article (google the man who ruined google search, think it was ed zitron's blog) but TL;DR they made the key metric for search users something like ad impressions per search or something, whereas it used to be how fast you found what you were looking for. It was a deliberate decision, so I'd say 'simply' may just be the word here.

Which E-tron? The original SUV? Are you happy with it?

I test drove a 55, was super happy with the powertrain, felt meh about the infotainment and didn't like the interior much, BUT it was a Bolt short term rental, not a particular car I was looking at buying, so I reckon it probably had the minimum spec seats and such. They were cloth and uncomfortable. Likely leather and higher optioned seats would be nicer. I also love that E-Trons have heat pumps, it's kind of a requirement for an EV in the Estonian climate.

Overall what I felt really weird about was the suspension. It had air suspension, but it did not, even in comfort mode, feel like a plush ride at all. Is that to be expected of E-Trons? Would I be better off just getting an ICE powered 5-series or E-Class for ride quality? Or maybe it was just an example with worn-out suspension, since it sees daily abuse from people test driving it...

Also, RIP Jenny :(

Gates is always whitewashing his own future or past actions when he does something philanthropic tbh

Is the opportunity “once in a lifetime” or can you find alternatives like Europe?

Generally speaking, opportunities are difficult to find and if you let go of one, depending on what kind of opportunity it is, you might get another one in a few years, or decades, or never. Depending on what line of work you're in, European opportunities aren't comparable to American ones either. Tech industry in Europe is in a laughable state, for an example.

Who the fuck thought it'd be a good idea to hold the world cup in the US, a country that doesn't even give a fuck about football?

If you piss on Ronald Reagan’s grave in California and are caught by police its a misdemeanor charge carrying a $1000 fine.

I mean if I was a millionaire YouTuber who farms outrage, based somewhere other than the US, I know what I'd spend a hundred thousand on...

As it stands, I'm not American and don't live in the US, so I can't really partake in the fun. I hope some people do, though.

They could always go to the John Oliver Koala Chlamydia ward to get treated tbh.

Everyone who actually owns one says they're keeping theirs for years and see no need to upgrade, but go on.

You have a valid point if you say this for all smart watches though. None will last half a century like a proper watch.

Idk how it is with the IRS but in my country you could easily do it unless they can show you're trying to avoid taxes on non-business expenses. Putting in your post-tax income is already a sign you're likely not trying to game the system. Setting up some potential income stream would be even better. Doesn't have to turn a profit but you might be able to show you're TRYING to be profitable. Then you could use company income on it.

If your lemmy instance is actually community outreach for some other part of your business, you could run it from pretax income and get reimbursed VAT without having to show it as an attempt at making money.

You can set up an LLC in Estonia without ever visiting the country for under 300 euros. It's pretty nifty. But if you try to do any hardcore tax optimization, they will catch you. You can optimize away small things, but overall if you're making a bunch of money and only have lots of business expenses and pay no salary, they'll start investigating you.

I mean soon as you add the book, it's an entirely different proposition because now you have entertainment, so you're traveling like a sane person.

Though personally I don't know if I could concentrate with the noise. ANC and podcast for me, I'll just accept that I'm less cultured.

Hell people born in the 90s have families and mortgages now. But I think this cutoff is people who are young enough to have grown up online, not being too badly affected by 2008, etc. Post covid has been some of the hardest times of our lives, whereas I guess people in their late 30s and 40s have gone through plenty of harsh times before, economically at least.

Cybertruck isn't allowed in the EU anyway so our regulatory agencies and courts have no power over it. Plus they could just enable it in EU and keep disabled in US if there was a verdict in the EU court system that they have to honor their original terms.

Conservatives will happily take their own wages being garnished as long as there are more liberals whose wages are being garnished than conservatives.

Okay yeah, Indian food has strong flavor for sure.

It's more local stuff here that is fairly weak flavor and in comparison, American-origin fast food has stronger flavor. We're a meat and potatoes kind of people. Without too much flavoring, except we have ridiculously strong mustard that you put on your plate instead of it being used to flavor the meat beforehand.

Brb changing a million libraries on npm to use padStart instead of left-pad and removing the dependency