Broken window dead bicyclist economics.

Heck, I’ll let you not use windows for $49.

Isn’t the free market great?

git diff —no-index before.json after.json > showmethegoods.diff

You don’t have to save it to a file but I often do.

Economists love toll systems because they’re essentially a use-tax: drive more, pay more.

Unfortunately, they’re also a regressive tax. Poor people generally drive more because they can’t afford to live near their work/school/etc. So, the additional tax revenue is mostly extracted from the people who are the least capable of changing their behavior and have the least disposable income.

3rd sentence of the article:

Indicted on three counts involving money laundering and wire fraud, the Charlotte-area man faces a maximum of 20 years per charge.

If you follow the article to the press release:

SMITH, 52, of Cornelius, North Carolina, is charged with wire fraud conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and money laundering conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Never heard of this dude before, but I’m getting some serious second-hand-catharsis for the public naming-and-shaming Frost gave him on his way out.

I’ve left a couple jobs angry, but always bite my tongue.

It’s soothes my bitter heart to see someone burn the bridge and also take a shit on the ashes.

This seems like nothing news/fake drama to make people think about Deadpool and oh by the way go see that movie in theaters.

That only works when everyone is participating in good faith.

Call it tragedy of the commons or sealioning, but the unfortunate reality is a lot of online “discourse” is only interested in distracting, confusing, and exhausting you.

Not disagreeing with your core point but infrastructure is never paid off.

Upkeep on a mile of asphalt is way more than I expected and I live somewhere temperate.

The law does apply to social media posts.

The social media company has to mark sponsored content and give users the means to do so themselves (when the partnership is between the user and a third party rather than the social media company).

Unfortunately it’s hard to prove and profitable to lie.

Brb. Gonna air gap my home real quick instead of updating windows.

Jai alai?

Just fyi:

• performant == effective
• performative == related to artistic/dramatic performance

I don’t have nearly enough tinfoil for this

Don’t blame the devs.

It’s the execs and PMs who have other priorities.

I’ve been asking why cars don’t have more obvious visual indicators since I was like 8 years old.

It’s pretty weird that we’re basically just working with 2 sets of lights and blinkers at this point.

For AV’s specifically, a pretty significant/obvious missed feature is some indicator that the car “sees” you. Pedestrians make eye contact with drivers to check if crossing is safe. How is there no equivalent for AV’s??? It’s such an obvious miss.

It’s okay. I’ve misspelled “peek” as “peak” multiple times in the last week.

English just be like that.

Lot of armchair philosophists disagreeing with you, but you’re right.

Sure, some people make art for art’s sake. But it doesn’t put food on the table. Like it or not, most popular media is created at least in part as a source of income for the creator.

It’s fine to pirate things if you actually can’t/wouldn’t otherwise engage with the media. But at least be honest with yourself and recognize that you’re stealing income from the creator.

Doesn’t it warn you on your laptop from like 20% down?

I always laugh at how early it starts warning me to charge mine.

It’s a goofy design but I agree. It would be cool if I could plug it in to charge while using it but it barely affects me.

It will also contradict itself and make the same mistakes even if you point them out.

Can be useful as a starting point, but you basically need to fact check everything it says.