charonn0

joined 1 year ago
[–] charonn0@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

In the USA private homes are not usually required to have them. Rentals, yes, but that's a responsibility of the landlord.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

It's similar enough to a real bill for the distributors to be charged under 18 U.S. Code § 475 (Imitating US notes for advertising).

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Reminiscent of John McCain questioning James Comey.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

They prefer to be called the primal forces of nature.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am an apartment building manager. Once, years ago, I was brought in to clean up after another manager who had quit/been fired for... let's just call it incompetence.

Anyway, there was a unit in the building that was occupied by a guy I never met or even saw, and the rent was months overdue. So I followed the required legal procedure to declare the unit abandoned. I spoke to neighbors. I posted notices, etc. Eventually, the unit was legally declared abandoned and I started the task of clearing out any property left behind.

The unit was very neat and tidy and full of nice stuff. Not the usual state of a rental that someone abandoned, and this should have tipped me off. But it didn't, and so I had everything hauled away. Furniture, electronics, clothes, the lot.

Then after 6 months I moved on to a different building. Later, I learned that the person who lived there was on active duty in the military, and that's why no one had seen them for months. Apparently, a neighbor had been entrusted to pay the rent but they had just kept the money for themselves, and lied to me when I inquired about the neighbor's whereabouts.

So, this poor guy comes back from overseas military service to discover that not only has he lost his apartment but also everything in it. And since I had followed the legal procedure, no law was broken (by me.)

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Several autonomous car companies operate in my city. They're impressive technology, but they're not nearly as good as an attentive human driver. In particular, they have problems coping with anything unexpected, such as road closures or emergency vehicles, and they do not understand gestures.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never understood the DMV hate. I just make an appointment online.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

I can’t imagine “Temba, his arms wide”-ing a way to warp capabilities.

There's a fan theory that they use a distinct music-based writing system for math and technology.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

The actual reason in most cases is because they think that abolishing capitalism would benefit them personally. Whether this is true or not is debatable, but that's ultimately beside the point.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago

Apartment building super. But also a computer geek.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Country-code TLDs are sponsored by the nation-state, but they still fall under the aegis of ICANN.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 126 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Keep it a secret.

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