Pro tip: live in one of the few cities that has a working mass transit system to most places.

Peak average high for unleaded regular was in 2008 at $4.09/gal. That’s $6.21 in 2026 dollars. We’re not at a record yet.

Audacious isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than the others that I tried. Had been using VLC forever in WIndows, but for whatever reason I kept running into issues that I couldn’t resolve, so began a search for alternatives.

The only huge issue I have is when I add more songs to my music directory, I can’t refresh the existing playlist. I have to delete and add the directory again. Don’t do it a lot, so it’s more inconvenience, and everything else works so much better than other alternatives did.

Which sucks for people that actually create their own art that falls into a category that was used to train with. They get accused of slop when it isn’t. Makes filtering difficult too.

Impeachment without consequence is jut a footnote for the history books. He’s got two asterisks to his name, he’s still President. That’s the problem.

Bloodied rabbit with a knife. Overgrowth reference?

It’s worse. It’s the projection of a 3d shape onto a 2d shape, which is then captured on a different 2d shape to be displayed to us.

It also has a brief 4d dimension, sliced at the second the picture was taken.

Life started very early on, possibly soon after the surface cooled enough for water to condense. We’re in the midpoint of a typical yellow dwarf star like the Sun, and as I said, the Sun’s conditions start changing long before the red giant phase. I don’t see where you get not even being halfway.

I wasn’t claiming man as ultimate, but just the only species I’ve noticed that managed to find a way to escape the Earth’s biosphere (briefly). It won’t happen again. No hubris, just a matter of time.

The problem is that man was probably life’s only chance to escape the ultimate trap, the end lifecycle of the Sun. Which for life’s purposes isn’t the end red giant stage, but long before. Life has had a few restarts in Earth’s history, but it may not have that same window of time for another one that would get to what we have now.

I agree. This is feeding off of a new way to market and use people’s insecurities, selling them a fix that will do more damage. I think we’ve already seen this in the business world with adoption of AI for every damn thing, even forcing employees to enbrace it or leave. And the best ones aren’t even that good. And then there’s Co-pilot, which is worse. So adding another more personal version will pull in more people looking for answers to their problems (caused by a society that’s broken).

The question of AGI and whether one can be personal with it is an interesting debate, and not one that people are happy to entertain in discussion or acceptance at this time. But we don’t have AGI, may never have it, and this is simply a money grab no different than OnlyFans and webcam girls, only there’s no human at the other end that has to get a small part of the profit.

No Walmart, McDonalds, or CVS in sight.

I ran across another post tonight that helps give a different perspective on what that number means. That $200 billion he is asking for is more than Smaug’s mountain of gold. About four times more. We’ve already spent more on Trump’s war than Smaug had in the Lonely Mountain.

Not just weaken what security there is, but introduce more problems. Just like everywhere else they’ve gone. Wonder how the airlines feel about that potential?

people on Lemmy

It’s funny how “on Lemmy” is often used when it’s been that way even before the internet. Just like it used to be “on Reddit”. But yeah, it’s Lemmy that’s the problem.

The red label isn’t why they’re doing it though. It’s simply a consequence of the actions.

A complicated question, but in short, yes, it’s finite. The amount is actually far more than we could ever use possibly, but the real limitation is accessibility. As we extract and use up the easier to get oil, it costs more to get the harder to get. At some point we won’t be able to get to oil that’s there, and what we can get will cost so much that usage will be limited.

In some cases we’ve still extracted from places that had a low or negative ROI, such as tar sands, because at the time investment was persuaded that it would pay off. Then there’s the changes that make hard to get places suddenly an opportunity, as the arctic areas might soon be.

We should be changing not because of supply, but because of what the use of oil does. But we haven’t changed in the right direction after decades of saying that.

An OS that allows its appilcations to take over and crash it isn’t a great OS.

But it is a common thing for Windows, so users have become accustomed to it being normal.

Both. He’s always been racist, but dementia removes what filters do exist.

Look at LotR reactions (which have mellowed some, but there are still diehards that have their issues). And I would say Dune fans are more rigid. It’s not a problem, the movie will do well, it’s just hard to do adaptations, and people are set in their own interpretations of works tha have been around a long time.

Speak softly and carry a big stick

Say loud dumbass things and swing the big stick around hitting everything