Or just the toaster dock and some bare drives.
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In the meantime I’ll say that the ambiguous capital I is indeed rampant in sans fonts, but that’s not a reason to perpetuate it. Why have any ambiguity ever, when every schoolchild knows how to make a capital I? There is no benefit in doing so, and there are drawbacks.
Only sometimes does the lower-case L have a tail. And even if it does, there's no way to know that unless it happens to appear in the same text as a capital "i."
Then I built an iOS app for a consumer-electronics company alone, from the ground up. I learned Swift and wrote the whole app in it. I liked it a lot. Once I had the language down, I was very productive and able to implement almost any change that management requested in a few days at most.
SwiftUI, however, is a very different story. It's a half-assed, often brain-dead environment that has made building my own application from the ground up PAINFUL. Not only has it taken months to do what should have taken weeks, but SwiftUI and the attempted "reactive" paradigm it's supposedly optimized for are so full of holes that Apple's recommended practices simply don't work. "One source of truth" my ass; SwiftUI and the absurdly incomplete observation framework it relies on make that impossible.
I usually blame myself for just not having read enough, but with SwiftUI my research has far too often concluded with a finding that, "Oh yeah, that doesn't work."
One way to devalue incorrect terminology is to call it out when you see it, and use something accurate instead. That's how people learn.
I was disappointed by many of the "reforms" passed under Obama, but this one in particular and some other banking-related ones stand out as truly helpful.
Here's another one that relegated my AmEx card to a drawer: To redeem airline-ticket benefits, AmEx forced you to use their own Web portal to book your flights. This inept portal considered LaGuardia and Newark a connection. As in... you can walk from a terminal in one to a terminal in the other to catch the next leg of your flight.
WTF.
Look at Ford's own picture of two hapless hipsters struggling to fit any furniture into a Maverick. They're not even going to get the couch in there, let alone all that other crap: https://www.thedrive.com/content-b/message-editor%2F16461598...
You're way better off with a minivan.
Meanwhile, TicketMaster/LiveNation/(scalping thing) has demonstrated a textbook consumer-harming monopoly for DECADES with impunity. DECADES.
And politicians and agencies wave hands over "inflation" while the four U.S. meat producers report 90% profit increases (after whining about a "labor shortage"). NINETY PERCENT increases.
Corporate toadies in Congress sit back and pretend that the Fed's feckless interest-rate hikes are all we can do. Disgusting.
So you start getting notifications from vendors that they canceled your orders right before Christmas, because of trouble with your card. When you call AmEx and ask why the fuck you weren't notified of fraud on your account, they say (and I quote): "Oh we don't do that. We wait for the customer to get in touch with us."
The monumental stupidity and irresponsibility of this "policy" should be evident and disqualifying.
And don't bother pretending to think that he wants the government to use his opinion as justification. That's obviously where you're going, so don't insult the rest of us by continuing.
That's the entire profit margin of some businesses. At least some places like L.A. are taking tiny steps to prevent a total takeover by these assholes by outlawing "cashless" businesses.
There's plenty of justification for allowing people to choose what type of neighborhood they want to live in. Downtown L.A. is not "full." If you want high-density living, that's already available. There's no reason to destroy already-residential neighborhoods when there are tracts of disused non-residential areas to convert into housing, or high-density areas that aren't fully occupied.
Nothing in these laws helps the homeless. Nothing. If you're eating from garbage cans, you're not going to be able to buy the "luxury" housing that developers are going to build, nor the ONE "affordable" unit they're required to include to get all kinds of waivers.
And you make a lot of unsupported assumptions about commercial areas all being contaminated. It's absurd. Commercial areas are rapidly redeveloped all the time. I've seen condos go up on the site of an auto-paint shop in a matter of months, even in CA.
Then there are the shams regarding "mass transit corridors," used to excuse even more concessions to developers. You know what's considered a "mass transit corridor" in CA? ONE ZIPCAR in a four-block area. ONE. And what happens when that car gets moved or destroyed? Tear down all the buildings?
And, even if it were possible to integrate groundwater management effectively while allowing massive ground coverage, it's NOT BEING DONE. It's too late; the laws are on the books. Gross omissions like these testify that these laws are handouts and shams, hurriedly rushed through during holiday sessions or piggybacked onto other bills to avoid public scrutiny.
So people can petulantly downvote all they want. The fact remains that these bills and these ridiculous claims that destroying single-family-home neighborhoods will "solve the homeless crisis" are a massive rip-off that won't solve the problem.
Meanwhile, in addition to the disused properties gathering weeds in non-residential areas today, states are ignoring the biggest threat to home ownership: corporate buy-ups of entire neighborhoods. It's well-documented that home ownership is the best way to build wealth, but the scourge of corporate home-hoarding is putting homes PERMANENTLY out of reach for millions more Americans every year. Yet it's ignored by politicians.
Gee, I wonder why.
And in a drought- and heat-stricken state, let's pave over what little soil remains, to prevent groundwater percolation and exacerbate urban "heat islands."
This article regurgitates all the usual bullshit with no citations, such as "The ensuing housing shortage caused mass homelessness." What a crock. That doesn't even make sense.
My 1996 Mustang had a bad battery, so it would barely start. I took the remote fob off the key ring and left the car running, but locked it (using the physical door-lock button). When I came back later, the fob would not open the door.
WTF? Had to have another key brought from home.
Another good one: If you open the back door of a Mini Clubman (or the regular Cooper, most likely) and then accidentally drop your fob into the car and close the rear doors or hatch... the car will re-lock itself and you're fucked. This is great when it's a hot day and you just put a dog in the car, which is in the sun. Now you get to break a window. Yay German engineering.
The other glaring flaw with cameras is that they always face perpendicular to the street, so even if the getaway car has plates you'll never get a shot of them. Not that the car isn't stolen anyway...