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I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

Anti-tankie leftist

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Everyone in general

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Ones here in the states vary a lot from place to place. Some places have absolutely everything, books, movies, games, tools, makerspaces (or at least 3d printers), computers etc.

But most city libraries outside if your big big ones are still relatively small. My local one is about the size of a small grocery store, real modest. Damn do the workers there pour their hearts and souls into it though, they're always hosting events and stuff. Really appreciate our library workers. Main benefit is getting access to their network, which generally gets you a whole host of other stuff. Ebook rentals, audio book rentals, book transfers, etc.

It's a shame what the GoP is trying to do to the American library system.

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I know it's kinda cheating to bring them up in this context, but the Swiss manage to run trains to very small towns just fine

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Emulation when I was younger (and to a lesser extent now. I own the vast majority of old consoles/games I have any interest in playing these days). These days it's near exclusively TV/Movies and pretty much entirely because of convenience. Between myself and the others in my household, we have near every streaming service, I just can't be fucked to figure out which one what I want to watch is on.

I really need to get around to turning my old pc into a media server.

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...why would you put that image im my head

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Car bad, train good

I fucking hate stroads

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Not at all an answer to your question, but a very semi-related tangent.

The last receipt of a US Civil War pension passed away relatively recently. She was a young woman who would regularly help out a local older man, a civil war vet with no kids or family otherwise. Towards the end of his days, he married her so she'd get the benefits of his pension, as things were really really tough.

Some of the detail might be off, going off of memory, but that's the general gist.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

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So I went to double check, and I got a fair bit of it wrong.

Irene Triplett
She was actually the daughter of the woman I thought I was talking about. Her mother married her father at ages 29 and 78 respectively, and she was born one of five children in 1930, living until the age of 90 before passing in 2020.

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Ah yep, you're right that's the one I was thinking of. Both are pretty interesting, forget how young this country is sometimes.

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While true, the general cultural preference for larger vehicles will inherently carryover to when people are deciding what EV to buy.

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Russia could've, y'know, just not done an illegal invasion of Ukraine.

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If we're going old school, go old school. Oldest kid rides in the bed.

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It's a feedback loop. A fairly small jump can get you trending, which makes people watch it, which makes it even more visible, rinse and repeat.

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Anyone who’s name is an anagram for The Reptile invalidates your entire premise…

You don't know even know my real name, I'm the fucking Lizard King

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There's plenty of tech from my younger days that was fun then that I wouldn't find fun now. An original iPod is not one of those.

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The primary benefit for the average consumer tends to be longer battery life due to the same task using less power, in theory anyway.

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I like keeping tabs on it, as they're really the only ones pushing mainstream high end ARM chips at the moment.

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Hoping they have success, but to say that their laptop chips are truly mainstream, at least in the same sense that Apple gives, is a bit generous I feel.

Obviously the X series has a decent shot at changing that, which I really hope it does.

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Sure, if you use it for an hour a day, you're not gonna notice it much. And I'm not disagreeing that a lot of the software sorely needs to be improved. The people who are going to notice aren't you. They're the ones using their devices all day for work or similar.

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If we had the same size, I could be wearing my grandfather's steeltoes that are probably a solid 40 years old. People really underestimate how long good footwear lasts when you take care of it.

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I'm assuming it's unnecessary and out of place sarcasm

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Username does not check out

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This is the most fed post I've ever seen

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Right? I remember being absolutely mind blown away by a 2gb SD card. Nowadays I pickup a 32gb microSD for $3 every time I got to Micro Center

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Hey we're actually ahead of the EU in something!

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Is Planet Earth cheating? Is David Attenborough in general cheating?

I don't care how many times I watch it, it's one of my comfort shows (miniseries?).

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Ah yes, the famously anti-escalation Obama.

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That would likely be why they specified North America

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