If you don’t succeed then you presumably won’t pay.

I still hate it though. The “colour coding” of the offer dial too, encouraging you to make an overpriced offer in the “green” range.

Get fucked. I hate this blind bidding nonsense. Offer me a price upfront, and I’ll tell you if I want it or not.

Those few days between jobs are moments of pure joy.

You’re finished with all the bullshit of the previous job, and are blissfully unaware of whatever fresh bullshit is waiting for you at the new one.

This is exactly it. By intentionally ensuring the working class live in poverty, this creates desperation, which means people will accept even worse conditions and even less pay to do terrible jobs - and their children, too.

This is simply the next step in what has already been a decades-long strategy of exploitation.

Yes it matters. Loads of manufacturers are doing soldered wifi on some of their models. Delll, HP, they are all at it.

And even if your wifi wasn’t soldered, wouldn’t it be better to know you were buying a machine where it would just work out the box rather than needing replacement?

There plenty of other things to consider too, though, especially for laptops.

WiFi chipset, trackpad hardware, webcam, all can lead to a sad time with the wrong manufacturers and driver support

So, could be any time then?

With a fucking PILLOW!

Makes sense, historically.

A suspension bridge is one in which the primary structural element is formed by ropes or cables which are suspended across a gap in a hanging arc.

In the simplest form of that bridge, the deck is directly attached to the wires and follows the same arc, like here.

The bridge most of us think of as a “suspension bridge” is the “suspended deck suspension bridge” in which the deck is also suspended, by more cables, below the primary suspension. So there’s two independent suspensions going on there.

But in all cases the bit that makes it a suspension bridge is the main structural cable.

Looking back, I think we can say that the year 2000 was a much better time than 2025

A lot of the reviews that are for the “wrong item” are there because of the seller repurposing the listing.

The seller will list some item that is easy to get good reviews on, like a hammer or something. Then after they rack up several hundred 5* reviews saying “Works great, seems high quality!” they edit the listing to change the item title, description, everything to a new product but keep the reviews.

Then the new product gets a big boost from the high review count and star rating of the previous product.

Very scummy.

You have to suffer for your art, I suppose

The purpose of the video is to test a hypothesis, not to total a car.

Mark Rober is a youtuber sure, and some of the stuff he does is to feed the algorithm. But he’s also an engineer, and that involves experimentation and a good dose of science.

Engineers won’t set up tests that intentionally destroy their expensive test equipment if they can conduct an equivalent test non-destructively.

Yep that’s right :) Intentionally blocked so I can never go there either accidentally or on purpose, and so any embeds or cross site tracking doesn’t work.

Same for Facebook, X, and a bunch of others, also using pihole the same as yourself.

Simply better for my wellbeing to cut some of this out of my life.

I literally can’t, because I’ve got tiktok DNS-blocked

Very kind and polite of you

To play the role of the annoying five year old, “And why is that bad?”

That’s part of it, but it’s certainly ALSO a mechanism to encourage people to use an account, or to register if they haven’t, because that’s more trackable and monetisable.

Same reason why when you hit an X post or an Instagram post it normally lets you see a little tease but roadblocks you to sign in as soon as you start scrolling. They want you signed in for their own reasons.

If google wanted, they could implement a range of measures to disincentivise bots, like not counting views apart from signed-in users so there’s less reason for bots to be engaging with the platform, but that also is bad for their ad view monetisation metrics so they surely don’t want to do that. They’d rather inconvenience the user.

Sus timing, though it’s certainly just branding.

The whole “My-” prefix for “My Documents” and “My Computer” and all that is something that was around since the 90s, and really served to emphasise the “Personal” is “Personal Computer” at a time when PCs were coming into the home for the first time.

Nowadays that branding is really unnecessary and feels pretty antiquated too, especially in an era where most stuff for most people is online, and the emphasis is.more on connected seamless stuff rather than a cute little folder to put your things in.

Why is “Pre-War” a selling point here?

If I had to make an assumption it would be that materials and production were funneled to military application during the war and so civilian production and quality suffered, but I don’t really know.

This painting wasn’t done carefully with a brush or roller, it was done by spraying with a jet of paint.

It took them no time at all to paint this, because they just blasted it at the same time they were doing the rest of the wall, without even caring it was there.

What would have taken time would be to try and carefully spray around without getting any paint on it (or the proper solution, to remove it from the wall before painting)