5KB of RAM

TIL! I’ve been living a lie for decades thinking the 20 in VIC-20 was the amount of RAM like the 64 in C64 meant the amount of RAM. I only owned the C64, never a VIC-20.

Commodore VIC-20 came out in 1980 with 20KB as well.

I appreciate the reply with your experience and the context. Can I ask what your opinion is on electric paramotors? Do you think they are mature enought yet?

There is legal obligation to honor the shelf tag if it says a product should be lower than what it rang up for.

At the federal level (in the USA at least), there isn’t. Some states might, no law covering the entire nation.

Otherwise it’s essentially a bait and switch, and can usually get a store in trouble if a customer complains to the right people.

The legal barrier for “bait and switch” is higher than that. Bait and switch is if the price is intentionally lowered and advertised, then raised or not offered when the customer tries to buy. If a customer took one of these “expired shelf tag” situations to court, the retailer could easily point to their sale promo from the week before showing the price was valid at that time, but that the old shelf tag hadn’t been properly taken down. The retailer would win, but the retailer knows this too and the cost of legal representation, bad press, and losing a customer usually isn’t worth winning the legal argument, so they usually just honor the mistakenly lower price and move on.

From a geopolitical angle, has Iran harassed its neighbors so much they are willing to be the local targets for Iran’s reprisal attacks?

trump’s thought process during the evaluation:

“Got it, got it, need it, got it, got it, need it, got it, need it.”

Every 5 years go so I think about getting into powered paragliding. It looks amazing! Inevitably each time I find youtube videos talking about how much progress has occurred in the industry…and a heartfelt eulogy about a wildly experienced paraglider pilot that died recently while paragliding. I always turn away with the same thought: “If the very experienced people are dying like this, it is far riskier form me to try.”

$0.21 isn’t going to get you a piece of one. However, if you can come up with another 4 cents and you go down to the bodega on 2nd there’s a slice of avocado toast they’ll let you get a nibble off of for 25 cents. They also sell loosie cigarettes.

Wether AI already contains hidden ads or not, it will be here before we can blink an eye.

Its not hidden ads. Its likely lazy operating using the public internet for its training data scooping up ads already published elsewhere on the internet. I seriously doubt Facebook, Google, etc got paid to mention those unlicensed casinos after they were specifically prompted to return answers for unlicensed casinos by the article’s authors.

Your rant has nothing to do with the article. Did you see “AI” and then just copy/paste a premade AI rant you had on hand? You’re stomping pretty hard on Rule #6 of this lemmy community.

I wish they’d open that up to customers, it’d be an actual reason for these to exist.

That works against the retailer. They want you looking through all the product because you might see another product you hadn’t intended to and buy that too. If you just walked down an aisle only picking up items with your color flashing light, you’d likely spend less money.

I completely understand the retailer’s desire for electronic shelf tags, and it doesn’t have to be nefarious of the store taking advantage of customers.

Way back in my youth when I worked retail, keeping shelf tags up-to-date was multiple-peoples full time jobs. This is was for a whole bunch of reasons.

The obvious:

• prices go up
• prices go down

The not so obvious:

• new products come in that don’t have an existing tag so one needs to be created
• products are out-of-stock and will not be replenished, so someone has to go to that shelf and pull that tag off
• promotions have some stock moved from its normal shelf location to an end cap or otherwise special display in a store so more tags needed for the same amount of product
• shelf space being utilized differently such as more product being oriented vertically where before it was horizontal so more tags needed for the same product
• patrons steal shelf tags (who knows why), but it means a new tag must be printed and deployed to the shelf

What’s more, if a shelf tag isn’t updated and the price rings up higher at the register, many retailers will honor the shelf tag listed price so there is a financial loss to the store from poorly maintained shelf tags. I am not surprised at all that it is cheaper for the retailer to buy and implement an entire electronic shelf tag solution over paper tags and labor.

I could see the vigilante justice response to this would be the theft of gender labeled bathroom signs. It then becomes a 50/50 gamble whether any human that needs to empty their bladder’s goes to prison for 5 years. Even just opening the door to see if there are urinals or stalls-only should run afoul of this law.

Their sitting congresspeople. They don’t have to win an election to affect change. They can simply use their vote to go against the immoral legislation put before them. Instead, they’re just heading for the exits and months or years of voting for the horrible stuff.

We happened to be a drug store yesterday in the Easter candy aisle. We saw the bargain basement horrible candy maker “Palmer” with two different hollow candy rabbits.

Palmer’s Parsnip Pete:

Palmer’s Peter Rabbit:

Both of these were side by side and marked at $8.99 each. It took me a bit to figure out why there would be two different candy rabbits from the same company, sold at the same price.

Peter Rabbit is 5oz and is chocolate

Parsnip Pete is 7oz and isn’t chocolate! - looking at the ingredients is all sugar and hydrogenated oils. Only a tiny bit of chocolate in it.

Palmer is the worst chocolate I’ve ever run across. Even if I’m offered it for free I won’t eat it. I don’t consider it chocolate, and with their other lines of products (like Pete) that isn’t just a preference on my part but a provable fact.

I didn’t read the article, fwiw. EVs should be taxed.

I’m already taxed on my EV at the state level. The article you didn’t read would add additional federal taxes. I’m not opposed to paying my fair share to maintain roads. The problem is these EV tax levels are WAY OVER the fair share.

US infrastucture is paid for by taxes on fuel at the pump, so all EVs do is destroy roads.

The problem is proportion. The EV, lets call them “road taxes”, are a static number, and that number is VERY HIGH.

Lets assume the average car gets 30 miles/gallon. My current state EV tax is $200/year. The total fuel tax (state and federal) where I live is 38.5 cents/gallon. If we do the math EVs are paying the tax on the equivalent driving of 15,584 miles/year.

The article you didn’t read talks about the GOP wanting to put an additional $250/year tax on EVs at the federal level. So using the same metrics as in the example before an EV would be paying the tax on the equivalent driving of 36,065 miles/year.

Because these are static taxes and not based on actual use, actual road damage, there’s nothing a consumer can change in behavior to lower the tax except to buy a gasoline car instead.

This also says nothing to the argument that while, yes “all vehicles destroy roads”, a passenger vehicle does a tiny fraction of the damage of a giant 18-wheeler (HGV). While those big shipping trucks certainly use more fuel, they damage they do to roads far exceeds the tax they pay in fuel*.

So again, I’m fine paying my fair share of road taxes, but the current and proposed additonal EV road taxes are disproportionally high compared to both gasoline vehicles and giant 18-wheeler trucks.

Repeal the gas tax and tax the weight of the vehicle is a sane option. I am sure that isn’t what the oil-backed GOP wants, though.

I’d be fine with that.

Adopt EVs even faster

GOP are working hard against that attempting to add new annual taxes on EV usage.

Instead of letting fields lay fallow for crop rotation, they could plant diverse wildflower meadows to improve quality of bee health for the traveling bees that get shipped around for crop rotation.

I can see a potential problem with this suggestion. How many of those wildflowers are net nitrogen fixers? If they are net-negative this approach could be draining all the nitrogen out of the soil during off-rotation years meaning large amounts of petrochemical fertilizer would have to be used to make the field productive again for nitrogen consuming crops (like wheat and corn).

Maga is so incredibly good at picking the biggest possible losers to rally behind

I always thought they perhaps started from better candidates, but even after the most simple vetting those candidates somehow fail ideological purity tests ( such as “candidate is great on white supremacy but poor on abortion, NEXT!”) or some other bullshit maga metric, and what remains are people like Mr Lumpy Pillow.

After much back-and-forth, Lindell finally grabbed the papers and tossed them on the floor.

Thats awesome! There’s now video proof he was served and he can’t deny he never wasn’t.

Process servers take note of this. If you want your target to accept the papers, simply have a second person attempting an interview.

The gas price increases are what will doom Trump.

I’m going to say its “energy prices in general” that will sink him. Gasoline is certainly one of the biggest ones. However, Americans are being squeezed on energy prices in all areas. This winter just ending has been pretty cold and natural gas prices have been higher. Electricity prices too with the double whammy of increased demand from data centers and the decline in supply. Supply is not keeping up because of trump’s war on commercial solar and wind generation, and pissing off our wonderful neighbors to the north that have abundant electricity from hydropower for export.

Worse, consumers, hit with high home and car energy prices, will seek substitutions. Home PV solar and EVs are pretty good solutions to this. Then consumers will see that trump canceled PV solar and EV tax credits in his signature BBB.

In June we’ll see the next auction rates for electricity generation. I think its going to be even worse than the last auction rates. With climate change increasing heat during the summers, we’re going have months of eye-popping electricity bills at the retail level right as the November elections are getting underway.