Yeah, completely agree. For a lot of years I could never understand why people wanted such top-heavy vehicles, then my knees started getting bad. When my wife suggested looking at a Subaru forester, I was offended. Then I got in and out a few times, and the difference was huge. So much easier

I just got a newer car and I gotta say the height was up there in priority as my knees keep getting worse- yep, another suv. Minotaur monster sized but enough to be easy to get in and out and my adult kids to be comfortable if they’re in the back seat

I don’t love the gas mileage of those bigger vehicles

• When my forester was new, it hit near 30 mpg- not bad for such a big car
• my current suv is an EV, rated at 120 mpgE

Streetcars and tram lines everywhere!

Friend of mine always buys Honda, starting in the 1980’s. At the time it was an Accord and civics were tiny, but the consistent choice made it easy to watch it grow. At some point, I think early 2000’s, he switched to Civics, because they were bigger than his original Accord

No, not in years. I don’t even know whether the one in my car works. Radio is crappy music, too much talking, constant ads: just not worth it

Streaming is like you want radio to be: select a genre or band and it just keeps playing

Mortality. I was always “invincible”, with a better future always ahead of me, but now I know that physically it’s all downhill from here and eventually I will end

I use a password manager so I don’t have to remember all of the hundreds of passwords that online services insist I set up. Each one is unique and complex, unguessable … and there’s no way I could remember them all. Before the password manager, I would find a good password and use it for many/most places, meaning that if anyone was careless and leaked my actual password, then someone would effectively have all my passwords.

But to answer your question, yes, for apples implementation, your normal account and phone unlocking also unlock your passwords. Depending on settings, you probably need to use your biometrics each time

This logical disconnect is even worse than the time loop concept. There’s no logic for someone remembering from a previous loop and even less logic for some people remembering and some not

I can really only compare to Reddit and find the fediverse generally better

But those outliers are a doozy. I don’t recall even wanting to block anyone on Reddit but have blocked at least half a dozen here. Just earlier today I had to because we were enjoying a nice discussion, then someone stumbled in saying they’ve debated politics with me, starts attacking, trying to start an argument over something completely unrelated …… Reddit had plenty of trolls but I never encountered anyone there who followed me around to be an asshole.

So on the one hand the capability of blocking anyone is a great way to stop seeing the most toxic part of the fediverse, but on the other hand there’s got to be a more permanent solution

Maybe Chicago. It’s been years: I used to like going once or twice a year and convinced my ex we had to do it for the kids

Edit: or maybe that Billy Joel show

I still remember when my state required large pickups to have commercial licenses and have commercial insurance. Adding a few extra hoops to jump through could be similar to abolishing pickups while still allowing reasonable exceptions, maybe requiring extra drivers training

I know it could be personal bias but a lot of pickup drivers don’t seem capable of staying in their lane, taking a turn, maneuver in a parking lot. We need to recognize these are huge vehicles and require a little extra skill to drive.

And they should lose that license if they leave the trailer hitch in while they’re parking over a sidewalk

Dry? Plain? Flavorless? Even if you start with good bread with flavor, toasting it takes that flavor away. But I’m not going to judge if you want my toast. Dry, plain, flavorless toast with nothing on it. Enjoy!

Yeah none of that, but one of my kids is a pretty serious weightlifter, so I need some serious equipment for when they’re home from school for the summer.

And an exercycle for cardio when the weather isn’t good

Started with the cycle: a high end machine for dirt cheap off Marketplace. Then dumbbells (except they’re only up to 30 lbs and he uses higher). Most recently found a deal on an Olympic bar and plates. Now comes the hard part: benches and racks, and I’m running out of time to find them on Marketplace

I gotta admit to one particular nightmare here

Setting up a home gym in my garage to hopefully remove my excuses …… but years back an acquaintance died while using his home gym in his garage, and was discovered by family. You don’t usually think of exercise as a deadly risk but it happens. Since I live alone, the nightmare is it would be a long time before I was discovered and that much more traumatic if it were family

Literally watching a presentation right now where they quoted “Use AI intentionally, not as the only answer”

On the other hand my human knowledge is invalidated because my kpis focus more on how frequently I use ai than on what I do

In my real life, also mostly no. My kids are in college, so they mostly need their bills paid and I rarely see them in person

Then you have the additional challenge of matching the amount of bread to the amount of spreadable butter or peanut butter

Ha ha, my wife accused me of that as well, because of this exact scenario.

…. But eating sandwiches is very predictable: why wouldn’t you order exactly the slices you need for a week?

Bread would be worse because I’m less likely to want to eat just bread. It’s also minimal because why care about bread? I might eat it simply because I don’t want to get up to find a place to dispose of it. If there were extra cheese I’d just eat it

But I reject this scenario: a more realistic and relatable one would be crackers and cheese. It’s also philosophically more of a challenge since crackers are valuable bread

That’s crazy. I’m seeing as long as 15 seconds ads and considering no longer wasting my time on YouTube

I mean that’s the actual problem I have: no longer have that thick hair. It started thinning out early and now it’s unavoidable. The thing is every barber or stylist wants to give me a combover despite me clearly saying not to from the beginning, and making them go back to fix it when I notice they did it anyway

But combovers only have a short window where they can reduce the obviousness of thinning hair, and quickly just call attention to it. It’s way too late for a combover to look reasonable on me, it just looks desperate and cringey.

I have to admit to some minor amusement when I wake up with a weird Mohawk though

I think I need to do this. I hate doing to get a haircut and they never listen to me. I’m sure I’ll look horrible in a buzz cut but at least it removes their freedom to do worse and shorter means I can go less often