What product comes up if you scan it?

I didn’t realize that at the time. I don’t know how closely copied the game is so it could be wrong.

There are some benefits. Using it as a transmission lets you pick a gear like a mode. Want to have more efficient stop and go? Low gear. Want a more efficient highway drive? Higher gear. Direct drive is an option on some but a problem on others. Many vehicles also have a transmission that sits in the middle of the vehicle and delivers the power to the rear wheels. In those cases, it’s much easier to do the work in the engine bay than try to fit a motor in harder to access/modify areas of the vehicle. It’s all pros/cons to consider.

Look into what wildflowers are native to your area and get some seeds. It’s minimal cost and helps the local pollenators.

Make a bee hotel post. (Various sizes of hole drilled into a piece of upright untreated log) Solitary bees need a place to nestle in too.

If you are a ‘car guy’ you might have the skills to do an electric conversion. Get someone’s old junker with a good manual transmission, rip out the gas motor and strap in an electric and some batteries. Or do it small first on two wheels.

If you can get away with it, try some guerilla gardening to enhance the local growth off your patch as well. Natural with some help can be even better/more biodiverse than untouched woodlands.

Misread woodworker as woodpecker. Amusingly surreal.

Visit the doctor and feel so ambushed you need to visit your psychiatrist.

Unfortunately, people like that are an outsized problem wherever they exist. The extremes are often the most visible parts of a group, especially in the world of algorithmic relevance. If you really want to see whatever your group is achieve cultural success, those people are counterproductive.

Lay beneath a sky the color of a television tuned to a dead channel, bringing down the E Corp mainframe while our panzerboy and solo drive the battlewagon to the extract.

…Or pretend that’s what you’re doing while you run cowsay.

Americans: No.

‘Old enough’ is a troublesome concept. I’ve met parents in their 40s who I wouldn’t say met the mental competence minimum to be capable of informed consent, so age isn’t really the measure.

If you want to give a kid the chance to learn tech but not be messed up by it, the best advice I’ve seen is to keep it isolated and user focused. The computer is a place they can go to when they demand its utility, not with them all the time and demanding their attention. The computer is a tool to let them do something else, not a way to cure 30 second windows of boredom with a stream of content. No internet or uncontrolled content, only curated software with no social aspect so they aren’t open for exploitation. The internet is basically a ‘no’ for maintaining sanity and safety. They’ll get access to all sorts of things as they get older/gain autonomy, so you won’t have to worry about when it’s appropriate to give them access.

Call? People still do that?

Holy shit, you’re right!
I gotta go do a thing. We probably won’t talk later.

Trump has a lot that seems might be wrong with him, but schizophrenia never really seemed to be on the list. Narcissism, dementia, psycho-/socio-pathy, compulsive lying, and possibly more, but I’ve never gotten the feeling he displayed the hyperpatternicity I associate with schizophrenia.

That’s the difference shareholders make.

US slowly working its way to a Japan style monetary system where the fractional unit ceases to be used as the buying power of the main unit dwindles.

Did you know Japan had a coin called ‘sen’ which was 1/100 of a yen? They aren’t made anymore. They’d be near useless if they were because a cup of ramen is ~¥200, or 20000 sen. Although, it would be pretty funny in a show to see some ancient Japanese guy paying for his lunch with his sen collection while some uptight salaryman loses his mind in line behind him.

Pretty sure that’s not what they’re talking about. They’re talking about how the entire comic is drawn almost entirely in black (rgb(_0,0,~0)) and white. (rgb(_255,255,~255)) There’s no ambient light level or distance effect because it’s a drawing, and you can’t see anything in the way the guy is drawn that would suggest any particular ethnic background.

Thank you.

People the investor bots will love it.

Great, now I can ask the BS machine to summarize the BS created by another BS machine that spans 20 pages to say something that a human could have said in a paragraph, and did, but had their paragraph shoved down to the fifth page of the results by the other kind of BS machine we call bots and the other just plain BS we call ads./s

Not to get sidetracked but what is the significance of the red right arms? Scots burn quickly in sunlight but not usually in such an isolated way.