Either they bypassed the alarm (there’s various hacks for various vehicles, but usually this is rare for petty thieves), or your alarm didn’t go off properly.

Either way, it doesn’t matter. Thieves are in and out in seconds and nobody except the owner gives a shit about a car alarm going off. You’re better off treating it like your car doesn’t even have an alarm.

The best way to avoid your car getting broken into is to make it less attractive than the cars around it. That’s not always easy, though, so it’s kind of useless advice.

I knew people once who always left their car empty. Privacy screen over the trunk/hatch was always open. Glove box was wide open. Ashtray and any places you could store spare change - wide open and obviously empty. They even left the fucking doors unlocked.

They never got broken into, but it must have been a pain to live like that.

…again

High col area means buildings are disappearing and being redeveloped as condos around me.

Gas stations are slowly dying as the land gets too expensive to justify a low traffic gas station, and increasing EV popularity is further shrinking their appeal.

Banks seem to be infiltrating stupid places now, like fucking indoor shopping malls.

There’s nothing like seeing a fucking BANK to make you not interested in visiting an area. If I don’t bank there I will never walk in. If I do bank there I will walk in once or twice a year. Such a shitty use of high visibility retail space.

One wing of my dying mall is entirely banks, dentists, and cell phone stores. Why would anyone want to stroll through that?

I’m sure this is a big, professional, intelligence operation, but I still can’t help but think it’s just a LAN party.

There’s so much bullshit out there about this “problem”. They’re mostly crap.

The one thing I found works well is to stop the eggs into an ice water bath and let them cool for at least 10 minutes before peeling. They really seem to hold together quite well almost all the time.

But nothings guaranteed. I remember some chef on Reddit years ago said you can be as good at peeling eggs as anybody - they aren’t all going to peel cleanly. That’s why when they are peeling tons of eggs in a restaurant (for deviled eggs or any dish where appearance matters), the rejects go into the bowl for making egg salad later.

IMO Bosch is the only company in the world that makes dishwashers.

My parents have a Miele that works really well, but I’m not a fan of the racks and the way they designed the tines - nothing seems to load efficiently.

Bosch Bosch Bosch.

I’d add on: depends if it’s emotional.

Sometimes people gotta process things and telling their story is what they actually needed.

Sometimes they’re giving me directions to the post office, and I can happily cut that shit short without anyone getting offended.

I’m seeing a lot of items that are now using “Packaged in Canada”. I assume that’s complete bullshit.

I think any purely manual, highly repetitive job would kill me. Like assembly line work.

I worked as a dishwasher in a small restaurant as a teenager. Those 2 4-hour shifts felt like they lasted DAYS.

For a guy that’s always crowing about making deals, he sure seems unhappy about people making deals.

I heard about a Chinese rpg that did something similar. The conversations were wide open, and instead of clicking through limited dialog choices, you had to type your responses. You get some guidance on what the purpose of the conversation is, but that’s it. Like: “cheer this person up!”

I think it’s a cute idea but ultimately too unpredictable using the current generation of LLMs.

IMO AI is better used as a game design tool than something running live in game. I remember running around so many open world games where it was obvious you had left the area you were meant to be in. Suddenly there’s few monsters, no quests or NPCs, and the least thought given to foliage and landscape decisions. BORING. I feel like that’s a great use of AI - create a non-critical landscape players can continue to explore, even if they won’t make any progress on the main quest/story lines.

A game studio isn’t going to pay designers to create rich experiences in unnecessary parts of the world, but they should be willing to pay designer to review a region like that and get it into the game.

Just when these American citizens needed their rights the most…their government took them away. and rights aren’t rights if someone can take em away. They’re priveledges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of TEMPORARY priviledges; and if you read the news, even badly, you know the list get’s shorter, and shorter, and shorter.

There’s a longer version of this great routine by George Carlin, as well as recordings from live shows. I highly recommend reading the whole thing - it helps put a lot of this into perspective.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1242679-boy-everyone-in-this-country-is-running-around-yammering-about

It’s 2026 in the worst timeline. You don’t ask that anymore. You ask if any entity faced consequences for doing it.

They should rename it Orangeland.

I did a sewage treatment plant tour in my high school biology class. At the end of the second stage filtration, the worker pointed at how it discharges into the ocean.

“So at this point, the water has been treated enough that it’s safe to drink”

We all scrunched our faces at that. Then he added

“But I wouldn’t”

Is that before or after Kupiansk?

Aches and pains. New medications they’re on. How things were so much easier when they were younger.

The same conversation that happens everywhere when the people have been around for a while.

This is a good compromise. When I was tight on backup space, I just had a “backup” script that ran nightly and wrote all the media file names to a text file and pushed that to my backup.

It would mean tons of redownloading if my storage array failed, but it was preferable to spending hundreds of dollars I didn’t have on new hardware.

Holy shit, this has every cert I’ve ever generated or renewed since 2015.

Share your memories, receive a studio-quality custom song with vocals in minutes.

This is the high level pitch and is exactly why this product misses the point.

Creating a song or art or playlist for someone requires time. It’s the personal effort that makes it valuable. Spending a minute filling out a form before an algorithm generates a song is neither thoughtful, personal, nor meaningful.

A hand written card is better than a typed letter is better than an email is better than an emoji. GiftSong is the emoji.

If someone sent me this I would be insulted and wouldn’t even listen to the end once. I would never spent my money or time trying to be a user of something like this.