They’re called weedout classes, and they’re designed to be hard.

Also, never mix iron (not a vitamin btw) with dairy or tea. And take it with some vitamin C

Aside from it not being kosher (milk and meat) what’s wrong with mixing the two?

Bill Gates bailing out Apple so there could be two main companies like Pepsi and Coke, I really don’t get why people don’t criticize that.

Because in the late 90’s, the DoJ was going after Microsoft for anti-trust issues. Had Apple closed up, Microsoft would have been a monopoly with pre-existing anti-trust concerns, and there’s no way in hell that Microsoft wouldn’t have gotten split up.

A lof of the complaints that people had about Microsoft software - like how there wasn’t anything comparable to the iLife suite - came down to MS execs being unwilling to greenlight for fear of the DoJ splitting MS up. That’s why the Zune software was different from Windows Media Player, Photos wouldn’t backup to SkyDrive by default, and tons more that I can’t remember from 15 years ago.

Our local hospital just switched from covid/flu/strep tests to individual ones, because they can bill more for 3 tests than one.

And fix their quality, and upgrade their interior to have buttons, as well as be somewhat nicer than a Toyota for the price they’re asking.

Where I live, no amount of anything is going to get me away from a car. Even if I had a billion dollars to invest, I couldn’t get rid of the need for a car, for at least 10 years. It’s a nice position to take, but completely devoid from reality.

Traditionally, samon was considered a pauper food.

I’ve never been able to make a single salad for less than the price of a salad at a normal-priced resturaunt, ever. Sure I can make 10 salads for the price of one, but it’s really hard to buy 1/4 a tomato, or 1/2 a head of lettuce from a grocery store.

They should have built it to vigorous aviation engineering standards.

I’ll echo this. My understanding is that compared to other countries, Americans are willing to share our lives with strangers. Now, apply that to politics. As a country, we’re very open about everything.

That’s only relevant if you have a mythical car that can charge to 80 in 10 minutes. My car does it in about 90, the Solterra I almost bought has something like a 60 minute 10-80% charge time, and the fastest charging car on the market right now is the EV6 which is (IIRC) still 18 minutes to 80%.

Nevermind that the estimated 350 mile range in an ICE car is pretty spot on, where as a 250 mile range in an EV is best case scenario.

I own an EV, I think EVs are the future, but they’re not there quite yet. Not completely, and not in a way that can compete with a RAV-4, CR-V, or Forester in terms of miles traveled and minutes spent filling up. And often, locations where you want to stop, aren’t the same locations that have a fast charger.

Never gonna happen. Where I live, it’s not safe for my daughter to walk the 1/2 mile to school. To make it safe, we would need to install sidewalks throughout town. That’s millions of dollars that less than 100 children non-taxpayers would use. And since the school is in the middle of a residential neighborhood, there’s not really any other use of the sidewalks either…

But using a custom blockchain, so the price for coins is not set directly by reddit. So if the price goes up, they can just say “not our fault”. Love it.

I remember John Kerry ran as “Not Bush”, and I felt like a large part of Hilary’s campaign was “Not Trump”. Running as an opposition candidate instead of a candidate in their own right, almost never works.

I have a canon with an ink tank. I love it, but it’s only about 4 months old. I’ll actually curious how I feel about it in a decade from now.

Idk if this is true. there were fewer posts about voyager 2 on lemmy, but they were more comments on it and it was a better article. I found 2 or 3 posts about it on reddit, but very few comments.

But also know that it’s not a jpeg, and it only works because whatever app is opening the jpeg is able to read the webp format.