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I think that’s actually how it works on the backend (someonr please correct me if I’m wrong!) but it’s a bit more convenient since I don’t have to plug in to a computer.

You can remove undeletable apps using Canta and Shizuku

Purchasing card. It’s a special credit card that companies give to employees to make purchases when they cannot issue a purchase order or it is otherwise more convenient to use a credit card for a transaction.

Not necessarily, there are plenty of people who argue in bad faith or refuse to accept logic in the first place. Failing to ‘win’ against someone like that doesn’t indicate that my position is wrong since they weren’t open to an actual debate in the first place.

If my opponent is debating in good faith and presents an argument that I cannot counter, then yes, I am generally willing to adjust my view.

Plastic and elastic deformation are both terms used to refer to the behavior of a material under stress (such as compression, tension, or torsion).

For an ELI5 since I don’t feel like cracking open a material science textbook or really getting more nuanced than this for a basic explanation, elastic deformation is generally reversible without permanent changes to the structure of the material, while plastic deformation imparts a permanent change.

All materials have elastic and plastic deformation modes that can be identified based on their characteristic stress-strain curve. Generally, the linear portion of the curve at lower stresses is the elastic region, and the plastic region begins where the curve becomes nonlinear.

For example, a wooden beam in a house will bend under normal load. As people move out of the room that beam is in, it will straighten back out- that is elastic deformation. Put too many people or some very heavy furniture in the room, though, and the beam will become permanently bent or even break altogether- that is a plastic deformation.

Some solid books on this topic are Shigley’s Mechanical Engineering Design and Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain

The colloquial use of elastic and plastic to describe certain groups of materials is based off the behaviors of these modes of deformation. E.g. elastics are stretchy and return to their original shape. If you really want to get into semantics, there are only four types of materials: metals, polymers, ceramics, and composites. Everything else is one of those 4 things.

He’s mentioned in some videos that he lives in the Chicago area. It usually comes up when talking about electrical work in his home, since building code in Chicagoland generally requires all electrical runs in conduit.

If an insult is all it takes to change one’s position on human rights and equality, they likely only held those beliefs because they were politically expedient rather than actually believing in those principles. That’s not a true ally.

For a particularly recent example, I think Maphra’s cover of Doomed by Bring Me The Horizon is fantastic.

(Assuming you are in the US since you used miles and $)

Availability, even of used vehicles, appears to be pretty limited in the sub-10k range.

It’s important to note that EV range estimates in the US are often based on the EPA estimate for new vehicles, so the cells on older models will likely have degraded and thus the range will be lower than stated. Frequently charging above 80-90% and discharging below 10-20% are also bad for the longevity of the cells, so whatever you get should have enough cushion in the range to avoid that if possible.

I’d look at listings on craigslist and facebook marketplace. Aggregator sites like Car Gurus will also be useful here.

• Car Gurus (EV, price <10k)
• Edmunds (EV, price <10k, range >75mi)
• AutoTrader (EV, price <10k, range >100mi

Should call them the goodlands

I’m pretty limited as to who my insurance covers, so I can’t go to any of the independent pharmacies near me. I’ve been going to the kroger and it’s great, they’ve never once had an issue with my insurance and typically order refills / reach out to my dr for a new script before I even realize I’m low.

You’re not missing much, it’s a pretty pathetic paragraph suggesting that we should lick billionaire boots because Amazon delivery is fast.

Here’s what I got with some element zapping in ublock:

Billionaires Rock

Kyle Smith

We ought to build statues of them, not chase them from state to state.

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Before Amazon came along, ordering anything by mail ordinarily meant waiting six to eight weeks for delivery. Today, for a trivial fee, not only will Amazon bring virtually anything to you with astonishing alacrity, but the final cost of the goods is comparable to, sometimes even less than, the best price you can find at a retailer near your home. During the pandemic, when we were all afraid of crowds, it kept us all going with anything we needed. Thanks, Jeff Bezos.

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Lmao no.

I have found that going to literally any other pharmacy besides walgreens or cvs is a significant improvement in competence and convenience.

Encouraging people to get the depopulation (emergency use authorization mrna) shots is also disqualifying to me

the unforgiveable thing to me is the lack of basic first-principles reasoning and also an inability to read scientific journals criticially.

Really telling on yourself here lol. If that was your takeaway from research around the vaccines then you lack the very competencies you find it unforgivable to lack.

Nice, the default file types isn’t a deal breaker for me. I’ll have to give it a shot! I’ve been testing debian on my laptop before changing my desktop over. Hadn’t found a good solution for a handful of my windows-only programs yet but this seems like it might do the trick.

Winboat looks really interesting. How does it compare to just using WinApps? It seems like it’s basically just doing the heavy lifting for setting programs up, yeah?

A framerate changing from low to high can be a problem in games where the physics engine is tied to framerate. This is less common nowadays, but there are a lot of older games that have an issue when played at higher than 30 or so fps.

Where there a will to enshittify, there’s a way.

They could weave dependencies in such a manner as to prevent other critical stuff from running without it, or straight up build it into something that would prevent the system from running properly if you remove it.

Of course, they’d lose the vast majority of their userbase, but short term profit line must go up according to the idiots with MBAs.

Edit: fixed a typo

Yes, it’s fuckin yummy