China’s home grown Starbucks is called Luckin and their logo is a buck backlit by the moon.

I find that hilarious.

completely depends on the rental agreement. I encourage anyone reading this to find all the loopholes and exploit the ever living shit out of them.

If I paid for Hertz’s $7 a day insurance and it says I’m not liable for damages in any way, then fuck yes I expect to be able to drive into a brick wall and walk away. Landlords who are too stupid, lazy, or uninformed to protect their capital from the people they’re exploiting to grow it don’t get special treatment, their capital is fair game. It wouldn’t be my fault if Hertz sold me that coverage, and it wouldn’t be a renter’s fault if a lease agreement let them off the hook for flushing a barbie down the toilet.

What’s the last time you scrubbed the floor at a McDonald’s out of the kindness of your heart, just because some pee splashed on it?

If you don’t own it, it shouldn’t be your responsibility to repair it. The only circumstance in which you should spend money beyond the rent you already pay to fix something that doesn’t belong to you is if you broke it and your rental agreement doesn’t cover accidents. Homes require maintenance, lived in or not, and a homeowner can decide to neglect that at their own peril. If something goes wrong, it’s the landlord’s responsibility to fix it, not the person paying them for the service of having a roof. If they don’t they’ll likely lose a tenant and therefore income, so fixing their investment property is just required investment maintenance, the cost of doing business as a landlord.

I’m well aware many places have laws that touch on this subject, many of which have been heavily influenced by landlords.

21.25 extra people have left the library. There’s 3/4th of a person lurking somewhere among the stacks.

That’s just unfair. You’re completely discounting this list of excellent, well supported software products created by legacy car companies:

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He’s building that insane clock in the desert, does that count?

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

That is 100% a chatbot using a regex email validator someone wrote as a meme that the chipotle dev copied from stack overflow without context.

Elon Logic: One site, one SRE. Genius.

The room is in vacuum, the person is dying from hypoxia, the wasps are a hallucination.

He did! The heuristic was “what the chef recommends” and the next meal will adjust that estimate downward… assuming “as much cheese as possible” doesn’t result in the collapse of the universe.

If the world was fair, steaming turds would have started flopping out of his mouth as soon as he started talking.

From the U.S. Coast Guard press release:

https://www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releases/Article/3593964/update-1-unified-command-monitors-responds-to-mpog11015-incident/p

Initial engineering calculations indicate potential volume of crude oil that could have been released from the affected pipeline is 1.1 million gallons.

So yeah, no one can go out there with a bucket and measure it, but that’s probably a safe estimate.

As a Texan, I’d be remiss if I didn’t post about HEB:

Practically every store is different, they tailor them to the neighborhoods they’re built in.

https://thcshoanghoatham-badinh.edu.vn/descubrir-70-imagen-heb-interior/

Half the phone system in Dallas just went down.

You’d be amazed. They’ve directly or indirectly been contributors to open source pretty much since open source was a thing.

https://www.ibm.com/opensource/community-involvement/

Plus, you probably use several services that use IBM. Much like AWS, they aim to be a silent integral part of the infra and utilities of as many companies as possible. Lots of government involvement as well

When there’s a meeting and some higher up says “We need FOO to do BAR”, and the middle manager glances over at the tech lead to answer, they’re gonna say “I’ll see what $CURRENT_PROVIDER has to offer.” Then the middle manager will interject “Ah, and we’ll check $COMPETITOR[0] to see if we can save some cash”.

Those ads are aimed at making sure IBM is in the zeroeth index of the middle managers COMPETITOR array.

(Also making sure people who currently use IBM feel good about themselves)

Republican feelings. About anything really.

if only it could have been proposition 40

Orcas train in packs, and have been observed passing learned behavioral traits onto others.

I can only hope they one day rise out of the sea to destroy us all.

shadowsocks seems to be the best way for now.