ArbitraryValue

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The top third is the middle class. The super-wealthy don't show up on graphs like this at all because there are so few of them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

The upper third is, as you say, the middle class. However, my main point is that the majority of people in the bottom third preferred Trump.

Source.

The poor preferred Harris almost as much as the upper middle class did, but Trump's message was particularly appealing to working class voters, which is why he was elected.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Sorry, I was kidding. I know what people did/do.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

No, they're Soviet pliers he bought in the 40's. They look similar to these:

Note the pinchy parts on the outside of the pivot that will cut you if you're careless while opening the pliers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My pliers. They're passed down from my great-grandfather. He bought them used.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Must be a soccer player.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

he gets the recoiling breech block in his face

I expected to respond to this with the sad crab meme captioned "this kills the recruit". That guy must have an amazingly thick skull.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

When my sister bought a couch, it wouldn't fit and so the building super "helped" her by ripping half of it to pieces in order to get it into her apartment. Then she made me put it all back together, which was rather challenging. At least the upholstery was still in one piece.

I'll have my revenge years from now when my sister wants to get rid of the couch. She'll try to break it up again and she'll realize that I put it together using heavy-duty screws rather than the little nails that the factory had used. That thing is not coming apart again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I'm glad that I live in the present day rather than the primitive times when I would have had to interact with other people face-to-face in order to survive. I can't even imagine how difficult that must have been.

(How did people satisfy their sexual urges back then? Did they have to convince another person to pose naked every time they wanted to masturbate?)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I bounce up and hit the roof of my car. When I have passengers and they bounce up and hit the roof of my car, I tell them that I paid extra for the ultra-rigid suspension.

 
 

I was supposed to move my car last night but I forgot. The ticket is for $65 but I found a dollar on the ground near my car so I'm actually only out $64.

I set an alarm in my calendar so I won't forget next time.

 

It'll cost $9 each time. They're raising money for the mass transit system by charging specifically those people who don't use the mass transit system and that feels really unfair to me.

 

Archive link.

As recently as February, Mr. Walz said on a podcast that he had been in Hong Kong, then a British colony, “on June 4 when Tiananmen happened,” and decided to cross into mainland China to take up his teaching duties even though many people were urging him not to.

But it was not true. Mr. Walz, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, indeed taught at a high school in China as part of a program sending American teachers abroad, but he did not actually travel to the country until August 1989.

Why bother making something like this up?

 

Pretty much every major shopping website has terrible search functionality.

I usually want something very specific, for example 60w dimmable e12 frosted warm led bulb. I have not found a single shopping website that won't show me results without many of these terms in the description. I don't want to see listings that say 40w and don't say 60w anywhere, and it isn't hard to filter them out!

Are these shopping websites bad on purpose? What's in it for them?

 

Before covid, I would be sick with a cold or flu for a total of about two weeks every year. That means I spent 4% of my time sick; one out of every 25 days. Since covid appeared, I've been wearing an N95 in crowded indoor areas whenever I reasonably can. (Obviously I can't if I'm eating something.) My main goal initially was to protect my elderly relatives, but during the last four years I have not gotten sick even once, except from my elderly relatives who didn't wear masks, got sick, and then infected me when I was caring for them.

Why isn't everyone wearing N95s? Sure, it's uncomfortable, but being sick is much more uncomfortable. And then there's the fact that wearing an N95 protects other people and not just the wearer...

 
 

There appears to be no straightforward way to permanently stop Windows 11 Home from rebooting on its own after installing updates. I looked for workarounds but so far I have only found a script that has to run on a schedule to block the reboot by changing "working hours". (Link.)

Is that really the best that is possible?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I have an Intel i7-4770 CPU (from 2013) and I don't think I have ever been CPU-bound so I would rather not spend money on upgrading it. However, I want to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon RX 7600. My motherboard supports PCIE 3.0 which the RX 7600 is fine with.

Is there anything I should look out for? I'm worried that I'm missing something that will prevent me from running a 2023 video card on hardware ten years older than that.

(In case anyone is curious, my current video card is a GeForce GTX 960. It has been good enough for Diablo 2 Resurrected but I don't think it will be able to handle Baldur's Gate 3.)

 

I bought a new-in-box LG V20 about 18 months ago because I was tired of phones without removable batteries and headphone jacks. However, it gets absolutely terrible reception for some reason (as in, no signal in the middle of Manhattan). Some guy had the same problem and he soldered a big antenna to his phone to fix it. I might try to do that but given how great I am at soldering, there's a good chance I'll break the phone. Should I do it? I don't want to have to buy a modern phone with a built-in battery but I can't just have a phone which doesn't work when I'm away from wi-fi...

 

Driving is the most comfortable, convenient, and fun mode of transportation. Walking and biking can be OK but only for traveling relatively short distances in good weather. Mass transit is inherently unpleasant. No matter how nice you try to make it (and most mass transit systems aren't nice) the fact of the matter is that passengers are still stuck in a crowded box with a bunch of strangers and limited to traveling to the mass transit system's destinations on the mass transit system's schedule. Compare this to getting into your own car and driving wherever you want, whenever you want...

I currently live in a place too crowded for driving to be practical - I get that places like this need mass transit. But needing mass transit sucks!

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