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You got 37MPG in a (I guess they're technically "compact") SUV with a gasoline (petrol) engine? I'm just having a really hard time with that. That's in the same ballpark as what diesel wagons get (the TDI Sportwagen sees a real world ~43 MPG) and the Q5 isn't exactly a svelte profile, aerodynamically speaking.

Did this roadtrip consist of large amounts of elevation loss? I just have a really hard time understanding how you bested the EPA estimates by almost 28% while cruising at 70+ MPH. I roadtrip in an Outback wagon that can manage somewhere near 30MPG if I keep my foot out of it and is a similar footprint to a Q5, if not a bit more aerodynamic.

Like... Mars candy? looks Yep, that Mars. What timeline am I stuck in?! I want off this train :(

While I agree that having a modicum of restraint about making claims of Mad Max being imminent is prudent, I also believe that this is coming to a head at least during our children's lifetime, if not ours.

The earth isn't hosed tomorrow - we've probably got a couple of decades yet, but the writing is on the wall. OP can plan according to their risk appetite. I'm sure as heck not trying to buy a million acre ranch in Wyoming right now, that's for sure.

I suspect the housing data would support this theory. While the 90's and early oughts marked an inflow of people and investment into the city cores, the last two/three years seems to have reversed that and sent people scurrying into the suburbs and exurbs. If your commute needs are sporadic at best, the quality of life is going to be (perceived to be) higher in single family houses, even if you're an hour or two from the "office".

Yes, the housing is, by-and-large, a lot cheaper, but the cities are not super walkable (if that's important to you) and the weather is often the opposite of cold and wet - it's hot and muggy. I don't do well with humidity, so a huge swath of the US is out for me.

Plugging this tool again because it ate up an hour of my day last time it was posted: https://www.movemap.io/explore/us

It says that certain sites (cough:pinterest:cough) have totally poisoned the search results and that little has been done to rectify that.

I've had very different risk appetites during the trajectory of my career. Early on, I was okay with taking roles in teams and companies that may not have been a surefire thing because I basically only needed to make rent and feed myself. Now that I have mouths to feed and a mortgage to pay, I have far risk appetite.

I've been in a large company now for a few years (watching my peers capture huge salaries in the interim) and there are trade-offs these folks should be aware of. You're going to find far more ingrained politics and baggage. Your opportunity to make waves (positively) is limited. You really have to sharpen diplomatic skills to navigate the sheer quantity of siloed team structures. It can be quite a jarring transition for folks used to moving faster.

Agreed. Between browser extensions and DNS-based products (PiHole) the number of websites that simply refuse to function is quite high. Deciphering which part of my environment is breaking the site is more time consuming than I wish.

Yeah, there's a lot of bad product folks out there. It's a valid criticism. I hope I'm not one of them.

As someone who is in the product realm, one thing that has frustrated me about engineers is how difficult it can be to get Engineers to see see where the puck is going, let alone to skate to it. Many seem to want to operate much like a computer - they take a literal input and give an exact output.

It's so rare, and lovely, when you run into an engineer who can not only figure out how to do the task they're being assigned, but run through the next couple of steps in the future taking the team strengths, company strategy, and product shortcomings into account.

You missed the takeaway of OP's message - OP is saying that the message, as it was broadcast, was not authentic because it was a long, meandering explanation, burying the part where people are losing their jobs in the last sentence of the third paragraph.

I said the same thing earlier this week about Klarna's announcement. For those not in the know, it's called BLUF - https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-to-write-email-with-military-pre...

Don't waste people's time by burying the most important information. You can receive a longform explanation, but not at the expense of comprehension or speed of delivery.

Of all the boogeymen that have been attributed back to China, I think the one that's potentially most insidious is the taproot Tiktok has into the captive collective. Just imagine the kind of power you'd have to be able to turn the knob - ever so slightly over time - and influence millions of 13-40 year olds with viewpoints that they'll absorb and likely hold on to forever.

It's simultaneously the most brilliant and terrifying thing I've ever seen.

Growth is the name of the game. If you're not constantly growing, investors get antsy.

I didn't understand why my parents seemed so ambivalent when I'd come to them with the early fruits of the internet and try to get them to buy in and get excited. Now, I'm doing the same thing when people try to "explain" what TikTok is. I know what it is - I just don't see enough of a value from it to bother, thanks.

I was a paid customer, and I still support ProtonMail's mission, but the app experience drove me to cancel my paid subscription and go with FastMail instead. The mobile client and desktop were never in sync; I'd swipe an email to archive and it'd show back up in the inbox, etc. It happened time and time and time again and I got sick of it having to clean up after their messy app.

I believe that clear, concise communication should live at the top of every message. Thoughts, feelings, explanations; that stuff goes down below.

"Today, I have to announce unpleasant news: in the coming days, Klarna will be downsizing our workforce. If you are impacted, you will receive a meeting request shortly to discuss specifics for your separation.

Even though I've been a CEO for BLAH and this is HARD and BLAH BLAH and you're forever my KLARNA HOMIES and this WAS NOT my fault, BLAH…"

I don't think you need to be brutal about it, but being more direct would have been better here. Someone else already captured the essence, but this was all over the place and still didn't really convey that 700 people were losing their jobs.

> If you discover the (fingerprinting) setting has become re-enabled, it is likely a Web Extension you have installed is setting it for you.

How very helpful, you extension! I'll wager this "feature" gets baked into all sorts of extensions :)

Good riddance. If you survived on cheap cash burn and never bothered to shore up the fundamentals, well, the free ride is over now, kiddos.

The consumer shouldn't have to parse whether or not their goods are genuine... that's squarely in the wheelhouse of the merchant. This is Amazon's problem to fix, don't you even for a second suggest foisting this onto the consumer.

I do love the Marathon watches - they are truly a tool of timetelling. I just happen to like my Tudor more :D

I came into collecting modest watches around 2010. There was certainly a renewed interest in mechanical watches at the time, a lot of it being driven by things like MaleFashionAdvice on Reddit. I believe MFA had a significant hand in rescuing Seiko from obscurity with the SNK809 and SKX007. Old Seiko mechanical chronographs like the 6139 could be had readily for less than a thousand dollars. I had a beautifully restored one I bought and sold for around $300. The same watch is worth at least three times that today.

At that time, it was still possible to acquire steel Rolexes at "modest" prices. As a goal to celebrate my (future) career achievements, I set my sights on a birth year Submariner - which were attainable at the $3,500+ price points at that time.

You can't really buy a Submariner for less than $10k today. As mentioned in the article, Rolex dealers and others play crazy games where stainless models are virtually unobtanium. Even trickle down brands (Tudor, for example) have ridden the wave. I can no longer afford, nor do I want to afford, a birth year submariner. To me, the beauty in those watches is that they are tools; they were built to serve a purpose.

I ended up lucking into a Tudor Pelagos Left Hand Drive. The ultimate tool watch - light titanium, great lume, etc. I wear it. I wear it hard. It's been with me for dozens of life momentous events. When the watch craze passes, I hope I can pass it down to my kiddo as a reminder of my existence.

How do they perform? I run an older Mac Mini to do all my network routing, IP Camera recording, PVR, etc. I would expect they've got some decent graphics prowess seeing as how their sole job in life to capture and display video conferencing…

This is so cool. I'ver definitely wanted this tool multiple times over the last couple of years.

I have repeat purchased from vendors on eBay for different items based on previous experiences. eBay makes that easy - Amazon is the complete opposite. They hide the vendor as much as possible.

I used to drive this route regularly a decade ago - as a closeted av-dork, I always loved it. This streetview angle just gave me one of those memory-powered dopamine dumps. Thanks :)

Humans are not geared for our "village" to be this big. The expansion of our sphere of "care" flies directly in the faces of thousands of years human evolution.

The "bubbles" we create, consume, and participate in are a subconscious attempt to slim down our giant "tribe" into something that our brains can manage. Of course these bubbles are readily aligned to people like ourselves - language, interest, appearance, culture, etc.

Expanding your bubble is hard. It takes work. As a result, most people don't.

As a BUYER, the FB marketplace experience is TERRIBLE. Seriously, it's beyond bad. Searching for an item gives you different listings every. single. time. It's a dice roll if the faceted search works. And that's on top of the usual cruft of selling online - the requisite "is this available?" and ghosting being the most annoying. I'm a member of several B/S groups and half the content is split between posts and marketplace items and searching between them is obnoxious.

Full disclosure - I use the mobile web experience because I refuse to install the app. I would rather Craiglist 8 days a week, but because FB has the user already there, logged in, they've gained a lot of traction with a seriously inferior product.

>And at my local stores the available quantity shown on the website is rarely accurate. Fairly frustrating experience to show up when the app lists “20 in stock” and there isn’t anything there.

Seen the same and now I draw an arbitrary line - if they have less than 10, you're taking a chance - don't bet your project on it. If they have less than 5, you can almost guarantee they don't actually have it. If they have 10+, you can often find them, but they've not been unpacked or stocked on shelves yet. Usually an associate can locate them up high on the shelves and if you really need it and ask nice, they'll often get it down for you if they aren't otherwise busy*

*I wouldn't expect this to work on a Saturday at 11AM, though.