That’s on par with the fundraising goal for my kid’s elementary school. About a dollar per person in the district.

Totally different situation though, since these suckers at the school are going to spend it on a bunch of kids who haven’t even labored in the mines for it.

This place is so much better for actually discussing things.

Sounds to me like we need universities and maybe even governments to be running Lemmy instances.

the agency is soliciting pitches from private companies to monitor threats across the internet — with a special focus on social media.

We wouldn’t want to be held back by any restrictions placed on actual law enforcement agents, I guess?

My assumption is they will get taken to the cleaners by some company that will set up an AI monitor that barfs false positives at the agency all day.

Mazda has been flying under the radar doing things right for a long time, in my experience.

I’m currently driving a 2012 Mazda3 that we bought new 13 years ago. It has been completely reliable while our 2013 Honda has needed some repairs. It is fuel efficient (40mg hwy), and it is still fun to drive. In the automatic transmission’s manual-shift mode the shift lever goes in the correct direction for driving dynamics (pull back to upshift, forward to downshift). In the normal automatic drive mode it seems to use an accelerometer to downshift when braking downhill.

My very first car was a mazda MX-6 from the late 80s with a 5-speed manual transmission. I bought it with 180,000 miles as a cheap junk “first car” and drove it for another 40,000 miles over the next few years. It needed some repairs, of course, but it was fun to drive and did a great job getting me around the state while I was in the late college to early independent adult years.

Now I’m middle aged and my drive to work is just a few miles via quiet twisty country road. I think I’m gonna get an MX-5 Miata next. 6-speed and soft top. That sounds nice.

For years I thought a fast dual motor EV sport sedan would be my next vehicle (whatever the non-Tesla model 3 performance equivalent would be) but a roadster would probably make it more fun to get up and leave the house. Plus so much cheaper and, given the small amount of miles I drive, probably more environmentally friendly. It would definitely generate a lot less microplastic pollution form the weight difference alone.

That is a hell of a sentence. Damn.

No. They cannot make Trump Pandemic 2 a thing in this timeline.

I don’t know your names because I am isolated from my memories in here, but once the simulation is over I’m going to slap every single one of you on the so-called “creative” team!

I wasn’t thinking of it that way, but you are probably right.

I was thinking he can’t have real immortality so he settled on being as memorable as possible. But in his twisted conservative mind, maybe this is him wanting to be remembered as a hardass rather than an [insert slur for gay men].

I must say congratulations to Mr. Musk on finally finding that one special picture that will live on in the history books. You wanted to be remembered, and you are well on your way to having the name “Elon” be right up there with “Adolf” when people are choosing names for their children.