Nougat

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 28 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Early hood ornaments, and hood "spurs" were most certainly dangerous to pedestrians. Regulations in the US eliminated traditional fixed hood ornaments, though some later models featured smaller spring-loaded ornaments.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 171 points 6 months ago (43 children)

There's a reason we don't have hood ornaments anymore, but somehow a vehicle completely constructed of sharp corners and edges is just fine.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

First shot fired in the Water Wars.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's dedication.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 67 points 6 months ago

Conservatives, they don't send their best and brightest.

Oh god, maybe they do.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 4 points 6 months ago

Windows will do the exact same thing. It'll even boot and run just fine, only telling you that Windows isn't activated. And you can get vendor support if you need it. I had a Windows system that started as XP and got upgraded and passed around among newer and newer hardware up to Windows 11 with nary a problem.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Then I switched the motherboard and windows decided I no longer had a key for it

The reason for this is that Windows builds an identifier based on the hardware of the machine on which it is installed. When that identifier doesn't match, it throws a flag that says "Hey now ..." I think that you still get a couple of "honor system passes" before the installed OS enforces anything.

Once that gets enforced, you can call Microsoft Clearinghouse, "I upgraded my hardware," and they'll give you a new key to enter.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He set the path of humanity onto a road to nowhere.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 25 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, a deist, who also produced the Jefferson Bible, created by literally cutting out all the mystical woo from the New Testament and pasting the remainder onto pages.

I can say with some confidence that nobody considered either the Declaration or Constitution as "religious" at the time.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 44 points 6 months ago (4 children)

God-given Constitutional rights and freedoms

They're trying to co-opt the US Constitution as a religious text.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 8 points 6 months ago
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