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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • The article says that his condition was stabilized, so he wasn’t murdered.

    Also, according to this article, the retirement info you have can’t be right.

    Meyer has been judge in Tippecanoe Superior Court 2 for 12 years. He’s in the final year of his second six-year term. Meyer, a Democrat, announced in December that he didn’t plan to run for a third term in 2026.

    The election they’re talking about is in 2026, which makes sense, because if his term was up in January, it would be strange for an elected official to announce his retirement in December.

    Also, I obviously don’t want to make any conclusions about motives, but I can’t help but see the word “Democrat” in that quote from above.





  • As you say, tools are just tools. Even a dumb phone and CD players are “technology.” You can use a hammer to build a house, or you can use it to break into a house and kill the owner. The tool itself really doesn’t hold any sin.

    Some people prefer to use older tools, though. It often gives them more of a feeling of connection, especially if we’re talking about the things they grew up with. So, there’s nothing wrong with choosing older technology just because you feel like it, either.











  • “This arrangement, now in place for 236 years, has served the country well,” Roberts wrote in the report, which was released by the Supreme Court hours before the start of the new year.

    “It was only when I started giving Trump all of the power that is supposed to lie in the Supreme Court that the arrangement started to fail,” Roberts continued. “I thought I could get an even greater position of power by kowtowing to the demands of Trump, but now he says that my ass isn’t as supple as it used to be, and that I keep losing concentration when I’m servicing him. But what can I do? He keeps falling asleep in the middle. Justice Thomas said the same thing. I knew people had said that with Trump, loyalty is a one-way street, but it’s shocking to experience it myself. I used to have all the power in the world, but now I just really feel used by this whole ordeal.”




  • I’ll level with you. A car wash mode is a great idea. It makes sure the windows, mirrors, wipers, and various sensors on the outside of the car like the opener for the charging door are in a good state for a car wash. I think every modern car should have a car wash mode.

    What’s not smart is that the Cybertruck is vulnerable to completely dying from garden-hose-based attacks, in general, and that they “fixed” it by using car wash mode, as if water never gets sprayed at a car at any other time. They’re abusing the car wash mode.

    To summarize, car wash mode: good idea. Abusing car wash mode to hide glaring design/implementation defects: shitty idea.