Antisemitism is a huge problem. Palestinians are Semites, so supporting Israel’s genocide of them is antisemitic.

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If you can afford a house, try as hard as you can not to buy a house that you can barely afford with a 30yr mortgage. Limit yourself to a house where you can afford it with a 15yr mortgage. I did that in my 30s and now in my 40s I don’t have a mortgage anymore. Obviously with the current housing market this advice won’t help many.

I got a 30 year mortgage at a fixed 2.something % 15 years ago and am very happy with that because I could invest more in stocks with a higher rate of return.

'Course, with the current interest rates that won’t help many either…

Check that your fund allocation is appropriate (e.g. a target-date fund or otherwise 80%+ stocks). It would be an absolute disaster if your money has just been sitting in the cash sweep account this whole time.

Also, up your contribution percentage to max it out.

I didn’t say people shouldn’t boycott. The “just to” was important.

I was planning to see The Voyage Home, but I was so frazzled by the end of Dragon Con that I thought it was on Tuesday, not Monday, and missed it. 🙁

Edit: hmm, it redirects traffic toward the road with the bike lane. Shouldn’t it send them somewhere else, where there are not bicycles?

No, because bike lanes are for streets with enough traffic to need them.

Remember, bike lanes are car infrastructure, not bike infrastructure. Without cars, they aren’t necessary.

I like how the screenshots omit the instance, giving the false impression that it’s a repost to the same community instead of the reality that it’s a crosspost to the corresponding community on a different instance.

“Incompetent” is not the right word for it. This is deliberate.

When are Lemmy instances going to start letting us say what needs to be done without being banned for violating the ToS?

Well, don’t leave us hangin’! it’s 2:35 PM central time right now; did he show up?

If you’re an AAA member, you can already just go there for a lot of DMV services and have them done there. They’re considerably faster.

That’s fucked up. A private organization shouldn’t be allowed to handle stuff like that.

That’s reading more insight into my comment than I actually had, but sure. Overconfident AI that tries to extract orders from an intercom feeding it staticky gibberish could be part of the problem, too.

'Course, considering how many times I’ve had AI phone tree systems tell me something to the effect of “sorry, I didn’t understand that response” even when the audio quality is decent makes me think they might have accounted for that part.

I was mainly just bitching about how drive-thru intercoms suck in general, while assuming that McDonalds probably didn’t upgrade them as part of the experiment. I can just imagine the overpaid IBM sales consultant confidently telling McDonalds “sure, you can use the same intercom hardware; the software will correct for it!” while the actual engineers who have to implement the damn thing facepalm in the background.

Frankly, I doubt the problem was even the software at all; I think it was doomed to failure simply by shitty speakers and microphones.

Of course it wasn’t ever gonna work; the sound quality of typical drive-thru intercom systems is too shitty even for humans to understand half the time!

It depends how hard the digital piano is trying to mimic an acoustic one. Some of them have “graded hammer action” where the keys have something approximating the inertia and friction you mention, as well as varying from heavier for the low notes to lighter for the high ones.

Yeah, I should’ve revised my comment after I read the release notes.

There’s something about being in a car that makes people fucking nuts.

It’s such a well-known phenomenon that Disney was making cartoons about it 76 fucking years ago!

I own a few web apps and each of them have proper configurable cookie settings (including the banner).

Configurable cookie settings are not “proper.” Unconfigurable eschewing of not-strictly-functional cookies is “proper.”

Don’t delude yourself into thinking your malicious compliance is “proper!”

Laws don’t care about technical ‘gotchas’. If the law says tracking is illegal, it’s illegal whether it relies on cookies, fingerprinting, magic pixie dust, or literally any other applied phlebotinum you could possibly think of. It simply does not matter what the means are if the intent is to track.