dejected_warp_core @ dejected_warp_core @lemmy.world

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Invest in people.

Barring that: move to somewhere that is better for investing in people.

Doing better with only a focus on money, within a capitalist framework, will absolutely challenge your morals and ethics from time to time. Investing time in people, and community in general, has no such downside. Also, you'll need both to ascend Maslow's Hierarchy and be a well-rounded and healthy person around here. Succeeding in this area will also shift your viewpoint away from purely financial matters, or worse yet, basing your self-worth on your financial value to the market.

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Honestly, I'm not sure if that's any worse than the oft-abused FARM USE tags.

I've also seen a few people just say fuck it, and not have any tags at all.

The downside is that the lack of sovcit "plate" might make you more likely to get pulled over. Word is those guys are a huge PITA for cops.

They can also refuse to register the car,

Virginia has a model for this that can be a tad regressive; not sure about CA. On the one hand, there's regular safety and emissions tests that must be passed or you cannot (re)register your car for the coming year or two. This more or less keeps deathtraps and oil-burning-smog-machines off the road. On the other hand, it has absolutely crippled plenty of households just scraping by where that old car is needed to just break even every month. Depending on where one stands on car-dependent culture and if owning/operating a vehicle is a necessity, it can be quite the contentious issue.

Point being, I can easily see how a higher bar for registration, and re-registration, can change the makeup of what's on the road. I can also see how that can suddenly prevent a whole chunk of the population from participating.

I have always considered leasing a car to be throwing away money.

I was in the market for a car back in the start of 2023. I was floored at how leases were at the same monthly cost as just financing new for the same exact car. As in, there was practically zero advantage in doing so. Why do people do this?

this just means driving their fossil fuel burning car longer until they can figure something out.

The cost of new and used are at a point where if you own your car outright, it's far cheaper to just keep it on the road. I know not everyone can afford the downtime for big repairs, and keeping $1000-2000 on hand for repairs is not easy. But it can work out to a lot less per year which is the trick. Sadly, economics got us into this mess and without some kind of intervention, they're gonna keep us here for a while.

Thank you for replying. This makes complete and total sense.

Well, duh. How else is anyone supposed to tell them apart? /s

There's some wonkyness here, that's for sure. The major thing that makes this look legit is that the mirror is dirty and it has a correct reflection for the person's arm and the trashcan.

IMO, it's not even good phrasing and sounds hollow somehow.

Yes, where we were READY to solve problems like "is that game ported to my system" and "is it any good?"

FWIW, we were also dropped immediately into a BASIC interpreter, day one. PC's may have been priming IT professionals, but were C64 users primed to be programmers?

I'm inclined to agree. The idea that a cabinet-to-be is able to make headlines during a lame duck session is... well, I don't think it's normal, but I may be misremembering.

Nothing earth shattering today (Dec 13) but a few noteworthy things on AP: https://apnews.com/hub/congress

Protip: fill each day with novelty.

When we're young, everything is new. Our minds are on constant overdrive taking everything in, followed by more each and every day. As adults, we're simply not challenged at the same clip and wind up throwing out all these dull and repeated experiences - so fix it! Keep reading, keep learning, keep exploring, and never stop asking questions.

It makes sense, really.

I believe that people really don't want to live inside a perpetual political cycle; they have lives. They (sometimes) want to show up on election day, vote, and delegate all the work to someone that makes them the least uncomfortable. The hope is that the politicians then go fuck off and leave everyone alone for at least 20 months, and maybe things don't get worse. Shoehorning your whole platform into everyone's life on a 24hr news diet is not the way to go - success here is surgical, discrete, and yet, memorable.

That's not the point. For TIME to do that, they're more or less stating that we're already living in that world, and have for the past year. Just wait.

featuring a person, group, idea, or object that "for better or for worse ... has done the most to influence the events of the year".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Person_of_the_Year

I think boils down to "similar optics, different gender identity", but I'm neither of these flavors so I really don't know. But for this joke, I think either works.

Calling for assistance: we need a ruling here. Halp.

While we're on the topic, we all have very slightly webbed digits, multiple involuntary reflexes for when we get wet, and a nasal/respiratory system that is (partially) adapted to swimming. I wonder how far our DNA could be pushed to pad out what was started here?

Okay, the penciled-in numbers (but only for non-military time because who uses that?) just sent me. Easily one of the best "job's done boss" images I have ever seen.

Sorry to hear about your dog.

I think I'm rehabilitated Doc. I can go home now.

Maybe. Please go into the next room and stare at the floor for five minutes. I'll be here.