Starbuck

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[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Things like this are literally just so that there is a test case to make it up to the Supreme Court. They do something ridiculous that obviously violates the intent of the law but mostly stays inside the letter of the law, in hopes that the Supreme Court will take it up and overturn the law. So, yes, the fact that the vending machine can technically sell bullets to minors is a feature, not a bug. Why is their endgame getting rid of age restrictions for firearms and ammunition? You’d have to ask the death cult themselves about that one.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wanted to confirm this because it was so cool.

The main hit I found was a National Geographic article (paywall it seems) from Jul 18, 2012

Nat Geo Article

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Because showing up exposes them to lying and losing, which would be objectively worse. Of course, you could not be a shady sack of shit, but then you wouldn’t have to lie and might not lose.

And complying with discovery would mean exposing his communications with dear leader Mr Trump, and you can’t risk that.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Right? The math here is all over the place. Like he figured out how much WoW would cost over two years and then asked ChatGPT for an investment plan with $950 or something.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, all these people are acting like at 2:1 odds are some kind of impossible situation still to this day.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (14 children)

Did you know that you’re allowed to write all the letters in the word F-U-C-K on the internet?

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Did nothing besides kick off the process intentionally designed to take more than 4 years so that two consecutive administrations would have to keep it going…

They already started to get it rescheduled. https://apnews.com/article/marijuana-biden-dea-criminal-justice-pot-f833a8dae6ceb31a8658a5d65832a3b8

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

From a marketing perspective, it sounds like a slam dunk. Someone wants to sue you, with lots of fanfare, saying that your energy drink doesn’t actually give you wings? Sure, come in at us. In the mean time, we’ll take out ads everywhere with fake apologies about not actually giving you wings.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It’s shocking that anyone would use MS, they have a pretty terrible security record. https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf

Basically they used the same encryption key for every tenant and thought that rotating the key was too hard, so they stopped.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I feel like a meta community is a clients side feature with server side hints.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Right! Bilbo spent all these years telling the Shire about how scary the dragon was, but for his birthday he got Gandalf to simulate the dragon for everyone.

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That’s a bummer. I would have a plan for how to get to the courthouse without personally driving, otherwise the judge might take offense with how you arrived there illegally and do something more drastic.

 

I know there was an avalanche of car manufacturers announcing the switch to NACS, but it looks like a lot of them are just giving drivers access to Tesla via a CCS adapter initially.

Has anyone announced a non-Tesla NACS native car yet?

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Surface noise (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Starbuck@lemmy.world to c/vinyl@lemmy.world
 

I have an older turntable, Philips GE 212 form the 70’s, that I got from a relative. I’ve had to do some modest repairs so far, and I’m still getting more surface noise than I think I should be hearing. Just an occasional pop every once in a while. My most recent project was replacing the needle I came with (AT DR300e) with a newer cartridge (AT VMN95e). I thought that was going to be then end of it. It does sound very good, a lot of depth, but I still get the pops.

I have a little record brush, and I don’t see any apparent dust. The air is pretty dry because it’s cold here and my heat is running.

I’m worried that there might be something wrong with how the cartridge is connected to the head shell, because it has these flimsy connectors that don’t hold tight anymore after 40+ years. The Philips 212 has a distinctive head shell, and I can’t find replacement wires. I wouldn’t be opposed to replacing the head shell next, if it’s necessary.

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