hansl @ hansl @lemmy.ml

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It’s closer to how you (as a person) know things than, say, how a database know things.

I still remember my childhood home phone number. You could ask me to forget it a million times I wouldn’t be able to. It’s useless information today. I just can’t stop remembering it.

Here’s an article that explores pros and cons; https://www.nationaltransmission.ca/manual-vs-automatic/

Interestingly all automatic transmissions I used had a high and low drives, which can be used to down shift or up shift as needed. Also, many automatic transmission from middle or high end cars have a semi-automatic shifter to go up and down gears. Best of both world.

I think this debate will be useless real soon anyway, with EV not needing a transmission at all.

Lifetime guarantees are absolutely still a thing. But it’s normally for higher priced items since the quality of the average ware went down.

I agree with you that customers should become more responsible for the decisions they make. But we’ve proven time and time again (for decades if not longer) that customers are not rational actors that know everything about everything. Ads would never work if that was a thing.

But here we are. There are laws against false advertising and words have exact meanings. The fact that “unlimited” is still not false advertising baffles me. It should be.

I guess you’re okay with predatory wordings in product descriptions that target people who don’t understand that things cannot be without limits? Just because they should know better, ignoring the fact you don’t know everything? Where do you draw the line? Would you blindly trust a single drug description saying it cures cancer, though no such thing can ever exist?

In the marketing department apparently.

Companies should stop saying unlimited if we all agree nothing is unlimited, don’t you think?

And modern automatic gearbox are actually more performant and use less gas than human shifters. We’re not driving 90s cars anymore.

!dataisugly

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

His name is “Fuck”?

How the fuck am I supposed to read that shit?

Or reverse.

How the shit am I supposed to read that fuck?

Just be creative.

M’minem! /tips fedora

I’m talking about the republicans overall. In the general they better have a platform but it seems this is going to be a repeat of 2020.

It’s a “the system is broken but we have to play with the rules” thing. We can protest/protest/canvas for new voting rules to get third parties more chance to be in congress, but I can’t see the presidency ever changing in a regular setting.

TBF, we have achieved a FSD that is safer than one human this year. But we took away the driver license of grandma so now we have to find another human that’s worse than FSD.

That’s what the general is for.

It’s even funnier when considering they could suggest climate denying policies and still don’t.

They have no platform. Literally. Not even a regressive one.

“We tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

Can congress removes state prosecutors? facepalm I can’t read.

“Turn of the 19th century” has been used for the end of the 19th/beginning of the 20th.

It used to mean the end of the 19th, start of the 20th, but it evolved. No need to be snarky, I’m not fighting museums here.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_of_the_century which has additional sources. Unfortunately most sources aren’t clear either (both Cambridge and Webster dictionaries state that it’s when a century ends and another begins, without more info if the century is specified).

I’m just trying to help disambiguate.

For context, “the turn of the 20th century” is ambiguous. In your case it means the beginning, but it could also be correctly understood as the year 1999.

Better to say “at the beginning of the 20th century” to avoid confusion.