nilloc

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HOA manger merde.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Carter built houses for 4 decades after his presidency mismanaged the Iran hostages, energy crisis, and 70s inflation (though I’m not sure he deserves credit for the last one).

Bush is ~~eating~~ playing with paint and hiding from his mismanagement of the 9/11 attacks and subsequent unrelated war he started.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been saying this pretty much since I started working in tech in 2005.

They paid too well for a while and gave nice lunches and free lattes while sucking 60-70 hours per week out if us.

I quit and fix cars now with hardly any retirement funds and shit health and dental care.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, more of a facade, than just a sign.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Massachusetts has had decent right to repair for a decade too. And had universal healthcare way back too. They just got legal weed recently, but like the others, cost of living is rough there. Boston, Somerville and Cambridge housing, but you’re stuck in Boston.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Stack overflow has been one of the consistently reliable googleable sites for decades.

It’s a shame Quora has strayed so far from their initial cloning of SO’s site. It seems to be turning into AskYahoo 2 fast from the results I’ve seen lately.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago

But it turns out to be too dense to follow along.

Until it meets some carbide…

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds like a job for the torque test channel.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lead acid batteries seem to be less and less reliable lately. The warranties are shorter and shorter as well, which is the best supporting evidence I have beyond needing batteries more often for the 4-5 vehicles I maintain.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

At least the charging network. We can buy it off Tesla no problem (we already have them a $17 million down payment).

Then start printing up new stickers to cover the Tesla logos.

I don’t even own an EV and I support funding this. It’s probably cheaper than the existing charger network plan anyway and would allow actually standardizing around the smaller smarter Tesla plugs too.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I could imagine them letting AI (or offshore workers) manage everything, and keeping the managers around with chatbots reporting in to the managers, so they wouldn’t know they were being replaced.

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