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Cake day: November 10th, 2023

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  • Most recent, but not the absolute worst, was ripping my pants at work. I bent down to pick something up and heard the rip. It was over my crotch region too. Thankfully I had boxers on but was still pretty embarrassed.

    Thankfully my boss was cool about it and I just drove over to Costco down the street and got a new pair and changed in the back of my car. He make a joke when I got back which was fine.








  • Probably because it adds something to the game that is unexpected and creates dialogue around this.

    Kind of like that Dune popcorn bucket. They absolutely knew what they were doing. Everything on the internet is sexualized to death.

    It’s just that CP77 was really poorly received on launch, too much so, that no one made memes about it because people were too busy memeing the horrible performance of the game. But had the launch gone successfully, guaranteed it would have been memed to death and talked about for a long while.







  • In my area, a lot of used EV vehicles are and have been cheaper than ICE vehicles. The Nissan Leaf immediately comes to mind, being at or well below $3k USD for 5+ year old vehicles. The very low range has likely been a huge part of that, some not even seeming to go above 50 miles of range.

    The Tesla 3’s always seem to be coming down in price. You can find them at around $20k or just below with these not even being much above 50k miles on the vehicle. I found a Model X with 100k miles last week that was just below $15k.


  • With the current technology that we have, it would be that way where you get there but it will be difficult to impossible to get back, relatively speaking. But we’ve been at work to try to not make that a reality for those visiting the planet.

    This is one of the reasons why the rockets from SpaceX are so valuable in that they can land the same way they take off. Because with other rockets, we’d need a situation like we had on the moon during the Apollo years where a ship orbits the planet and waits for a separate landing ship to come back which is a waste of fuel and cuts down on the potential time that can be spent on the planet as well as resources that would be consumed and need to replenished and also waste of humans waiting in orbit instead of being part of the ground crew.

    While that technology is now here, there is still much testing that still needs to be done to ensure safety is there.

    What you may also be thinking of is the time in which it takes for a ship to travel between the earth and mars. At its shortest, the trip could be as little as 6 months, but is more as both planets orbit the sun further away from each other, so we are trying to find a time that works with that orbiting schedule as well so it doesn’t have to be a one way trip and they can get there and come back in a reasonable amount of time while having enough resources to last the journey.




  • Yeah I’d be suspect of it for that reason. I just now noticed that you said you’re looking and this isn’t a device you currently have. I was thinking you already got this device.

    For that reason, I’d recommend against this. Like where I work, when we retire devices, we remove them from our MDM and the same goes for other businesses and school districts. The only (semi) legitimate reasoning I could see for this not being the case is if the business went under out of the blue and the IT just up and left and they and users just grabbed devices on their way out.

    Still likely not a legitimate case as those devices may need to be part of liquidation, etc.

    But generally these are cases where someone stole the device from an employee like out of their car or the employee stole it from work, either taking it without authorization or not properly returning it when their employment is done, etc. and those cases wouldn’t be favorable to you if you had the device too.

    I’d say skip this one and look for another machine instead.