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Rent requirements in the US are nuts
  • Probably make as much use of the scam mortgage insurance that they can too. I forget what it's actually called but it's a scam IMO. $100 a month baked into my escrow for insurance to the lender in case I lost the house. To my knowledge it provides me no benefit.

    Upside is when I refinanced it was taken off. (Think the whole first time home owner program requires it for the initial loan.)

  • Rivian CEO issues strong statement about people who purchase gas-powered cars: ‘Sort of like building a horse barn in 1910’
  • Not OP but searched up EE's video on a topic like this. Been a long while since I watched it so I don't remember much about it in description is the sources. So at the very least you can check some of that type of stuff.

    https://youtu.be/6RhtiPefVzM?si=_i0p3AQftvmqXcal

    But yeah in general an ICE is horrendous at efficiency vs electric. An ICE blows some 70+% of its energy on making heat we don't use but instead actively use some of the available energy made to cool it.

  • ChatGPT generates cancer treatment plans that are full of errors — Study finds that ChatGPT provided false information when asked to design cancer treatment plans
  • People want to trust it as a source of quick knowledge. It is easier to be told 9 goes into 81 a total of 8 times trusting that the computer is always right, because it had access to everything, than to work out the answer given was wrong and is actually 9.

    Think of WebMD. People love to self diagnose despite it commonly being known as a bad practice. But they do so because they can do it with less effort, faster, and cheaper than making an appointment to drive to an office so you can speak with a doctor that runs a few tests and gets back to you in a week saying they aren't sure and need to do that process all over again.

  • Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
  • Pretty sure I joined in 2011 as well. I'd check but why give them traffic. The website was only still usable with old reddit and the app is total trash. RiF is what I used to interact with reddit about 99% of the time. When they axed it I left and the flow of people over to Lemmy has made it just fine for my needs.

    Sure it is still a little lacking for some of the subs but it's getting there.

  • POV , your secretary bought a new car for her daily commute to the grocery stroad.
  • Probably. You'd be amazed at what someone with a regular license is allowed to drive. Such as the International CXT. Basically made to be just under specs that require a CDL. (To my knowledge it is mostly a weight thing. Like 26000 pounds and CDL is needed. 25999 pounds? you're fine without.)

    The laws are pretty arbitrary and leave a lot to be desired. Which is also why you see some sketchy driving by people driving the large U-Haul box trucks and other moving rental companies. Same with trailers/campers. Any random can hook up an oversized/improperly loaded trailer to their little Ford escape and drive about.

  • What are some examples of your tastes changing as you got older?
  • Have always loved dark chocolate. As I got older I liked the darker stuff more. 85-90%. (Fyi 100% is no good. Lol.) Milk chocolate has always been a no for me. Best I can do is tolerate it if the flavor is mostly masked by whatever it is encasing.

  • Truth.
  • Hate on CVT all you want. It is I waiting on manual transmission lazily shifting though gears as I am at a constant rate of acceleration. Then anymore CVT will accomplish better MPG.

  • Best Lemmy client for Android?
  • Sony Xperia 1 III. Aside from server issues in the first few days this month with Lemmy the Jerboa app has been working well. Seems fairly close enough ish to RiF for me. Really probably has a lot more going on than RiF ever did. Some mild stuff to get used to but overall a good experience. Was happy to see the ability to change the post sizes to smaller so I can see more at a given time.

  • Nobody alive has a kill/death ratio IRL, since you can't divide by zero.
  • Yeah I think some of the issue here is games likely just cheat math to get an answer then remove said cheat once the math works how they want again.

    So something like K:D if D=0 then D is 1. Beyond that they can release the rule and let it work normally.

    Otherwise to get the stat before someone has died it would have to briefly run on a kill per life. I think...

  • Why do i see mostly posts from a single community?
  • Active isn't very good. I've been having good results with hot/new. Haven't tried top by time yet.

    Then I would suppose same community might just be a function of traffic those are receiving vs others so your odds are higher to see the same. Should smooth over as more places get better established.

  • YSK: Flossing your teeth is only uncomfortable when your gums are unhealthy
  • I've had it get stuck in my teath before. A second string of floss seemed unable to find the right spot to go between the teeth to attempt to clear it. A trip to the garage to get some needle nose pliers did the trick.

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