[-] SCmSTR 1 points 19 hours ago

Hard to insure what's always on fire.

[-] SCmSTR 5 points 19 hours ago

Oh, your car can't follow the law? Then it isn't allowed on the road.

Oh, your car broke the law? Owner of the car is liable.

Oh, your car is avoiding being pulled over? Owner of the car is liable.

Oh, it's owned by a company not a person? Owner of the company is liable.

It's a fleet car that will never have a driver, put everything on the CEO. And if there isn't a CEO, pick a random person from the company. And if there ends up not being people at the company, the government now owns them and can do whatever they want with them. And if the government owns a fleet of something that's dangerous to the public and doesn't do anything about it, well then the people have a right to ownership.

If there is no liability, then nobody owns it and it's up for grabs. Autonomous cars aren't fucking dragonflies.

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 day ago

I'm doing both. I want these systems totally offline. If I could, I'd tear them the f out of the car entirely. This shit is evil.

[-] SCmSTR 3 points 1 day ago

There's probably a fuse you could just pull instead that shuts down that entire system

[-] SCmSTR 3 points 1 day ago

I cannot believe that site is still up

[-] SCmSTR 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not the best tv show theme, but Voyager has the best ST theme out of all of ST.

[-] SCmSTR 1 points 1 day ago

Oo, fuck yeah. But you gotta specify the North American 4Kids censor/cover, and not the original Japanese one.... Which was very different.

Wikipedia, on the development of the song, just because it's interesting:

John Siegler and John Loeffler wrote the lyrics to the song. Siegler produced the track, also playing keyboards, bass, and programming drum machines. David Rolfe, the vocalist for later themes of the series, played the guitar while Jason Paige provided the vocals.[3] Kati Mac, Loeffler, Ken Cummings and Louis Cortelezzi provided background vocals.[5] The song was written in G minor.[6] Siegler initially felt the show's concept was "incomprehensible" but decided it had potential after viewing its debut episode.[7] Jason Paige recorded the original theme song in four hours.[8] Paige initially received a "standard, three-figure flat fee" for the recording, but did not receive any royalties from the song. He received a one-time payment "in the mid-five figures" for the song in 2000.[8][9] Paige claimed that he "didn’t really know much about Pokémon" when he did the demo, other than a scene in the animated series that caused bouts of epileptic seizures in Japan.[8] The theme song premiered on the debut episode "Pokémon, I Choose You!" on September 8, 1998. In 1999, Paige recorded an extended version of the theme song for the album Pokémon 2.B.A. Master.[3]

According to Norman Grossfeld, the then-president of 4Kids Productions, the line "Gotta catch 'em all!" was created as a "tagline for marketing purposes that would also be included in the theme song". It is derived from the Japanese tagline "(ポケモンGETだぜ!, Pokémon getto da ze!)". One other contender for the tagline was "Catch 'em if you can", which was used in an earlier version of the theme song.[7]

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Theme

Another interesting aside, is that 4Kids also notoriously and routinely butchered anime, famously, One Piece. So that they somehow turned out the Pokemon theme makes no sense, but that they did it by what seems like basically pure luck and taking advantage of artists, makes a lot of sense.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AyhK7yxZPiU

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 1 day ago
[-] SCmSTR 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Peter Theil looks like if you combined the guy from Oh Brother Where Art Thou and Darth Palpatine

[-] SCmSTR 2 points 2 days ago
[-] SCmSTR 19 points 3 days ago

Is this why everything feels EVEN SHITTIER than it did a year ago?

[-] SCmSTR 25 points 3 days ago

please don't mess this up ubisoft

Lol

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submitted 2 weeks ago by SCmSTR to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

For those of you who eat tuna spread sandwiches, you may know that portioning the amount of spread is... Variable... And sometimes messy. It depends on the bread type, thickness, toast level, etc., as well as the spread's qualities, AND what you're feeling like.

I wanna know:

How The Heck Do YOU Make Your Tuna Sandwiches?

Tips? Tricks? Secrets? Ingredients? Spill the beans! Er, tuna.

I'll go first. If you use a fork to kind of...wipe each slice of bread carefully with its own mechanically-stable layer of tuna and THEN put them together, I've found that it usually ends up being the perfect amount. It takes a little longer, but gives a boringly great result.

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submitted 4 months ago by SCmSTR to c/mtf

Dr Powers is dropping all out of state patients and multiplying fees by several times over. He cites the current federal administration and hints at litigation, as well as death threats and other violence, and losing one of his employees.

I'm so tired.

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What to buy? (self.espresso)
submitted 4 months ago by SCmSTR to c/espresso@infosec.pub

I'm in the USA. I've had a flair classic. It was able to make better espresso than most baristas, but because of preheating and cleaning, the first shot could take like 15-20 mins.

The weird plastic portafilter grew a hairline fracture and so I can't make espresso at home anymore.

I want something, new or used, that costs under, say, 700 usd (possibly closer to 400 usd), and is faster and possibly more automated, and makes just as good espresso, that I don't have to fiddle with as much once I've gotten it honed in.

I probably don't need a grinder because I have one of those hundred dollar hand grinders that does a pretty good job.

I also want a good steam wand on it to steam milk.

I'm considering like a sage/braville bambino, but that's such an influencer brand that I can't trust anything I see on it. Also considering a gaggia classic. But I haven't used any real espresso machines, so I don't know what I'll like or not.

Durability/robustness, espresso quality/output, and speed/time-to-coffee are my big priorities.

Any advice is welcome!

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by SCmSTR to c/mtf

They stayed up late putting in edits that bans Medicaid from covering gender affirming care even for adults now. They said they were going to. It may be voted on in the house Thursday, May 22nd. Trump is pushing this massive spending bill to be passed ASAP.

The House needs to vote on it, it succeed, it go to the Senate, they vote and it and it succeed there, then the president accepts it, for it to become law.

Republicans hold majorities in both the House and Senate.

They will likely try to pass through the filibuster in the Senate with Budget Reconciliation so as to not require 60 votes, and therefore just a simple majority. That has its own rules though.

Edit: This morning the house voted for and passed the bill. Off to the Senate it goes. This is where everything happens.

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