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Nah. The best an adult could do would be to pull out of the region, but even if the US did that, there is no way Iran willingly goes back to the previous status quo. Iran controls the strait and the oil flow now, and it knows it. It has absolutely no reason not to fuck with the world's oil supply at when, whenever anybody does something it or its allies don't like.

This is just one of the many ways Trump has done permanent damage to the world that can't be undone even after he's out of office/imprisoned/dead.

That's what Incognito Mode is for.

Nah.

I mean, yes, in the TNG era it was Rick Berman's fault. But it goes all the way back to TOS and Gene Roddenberry himself. And also costume designer William Ware Theiss, for that matter.

From https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheissTitillationTheory :

Though Theiss was a costume designer, according to Inside Star Trek: The Real Story by Herb Solow and Robert Justman, most of the costumes — following this theory — were actually somewhat more modest before being "improved" by Gene Roddenberry. According to the "Art of Star Trek" book, Theiss preferred to design costumes that only appeared to be in danger of slipping or coming off, through the use of strategically-placed sheer or skin tone fabric. He was further able to enhance the effect by the censorship rules of the time regarding what parts of the body could or could not be shown (the navel being the most well-known restriction). He found he could get surprising amounts of appeal from the carefully-arranged display of skin not generally considered erogenous.

First, get a condenser microphone with an XLR plug and one of those adjustable arm stands:

Second, get an XLR->USB audio interface (or just a converter cable) to go with it.

I own the gear pictured, but I can't recommend those specific things because I bought them 8 years ago and they've been discontinued since. I started out with the box-shaped interface, but eventually realized I didn't need its features and swapped it for the XLR->USB cable to save space/complexity. If I were using wired headphones (studio monitors) instead of speakers I might have kept using the box.

Also (and perhaps most importantly): the mic itself is analog and the USB converter is just doing generic analog->digital conversion. There is zero reason for it to need any software other than the kernel's built-in USB audio driver.

Fines are just the cost of doing business.

Wake me up when corporate charters are dissolved and executives are put in prison.

The kind of homes that would be a starter home for a working class family back in the 1950s just don’t exist anymore.

First of all, yes they do. They're just mostly condos instead of single-family detached houses.

Second, even houses literally built in the '50s that still exist are expensive these days.

(That's why arrest data is required to be public, despite the damage it does to the arrestee's reputation, BTW.)

they have the lawful right to seize and inspect your phone

Sure. They can look at the outside of the hardware all they like. But if they can't access the data on it, that's (Constitutionally-speaking) purely their problem, not ours.

American civil engineers still use a lot of customary units. 💀

My Ranger seats 3 in a pinch and is rated to tow 1600 pounds (2.3L I4, regular cab, manual, 4x4) so you can see how my perspective is a little different.

I don’t think aerodynamics are particularly relevant to towing?

Aerodynamics are extremely relevant to towing. "Aging Wheels" on Youtube did a test and found that payload weight makes basically no difference at all, but a trailer with bad aerodynamics can cut an electric truck's range in half.

The Slate is almost the equal and opposite, it’s what r/fuckcars thinks of when they start a sentence with “Can’t you just make do with…” A 20 year old S10 kicks the Slate’s ass in every way because the Slate is designed mostly to play dress-up like a barbie doll. They’re taking pre-orders but they won’t show you where the tie down points in the bed are.

Speaking as a mod of !fuckcars and the owner of a 30-year-old Ford Ranger, I want a Slate truck and I don't think my current truck would be able to kick its ass. (Well, aside from off-roading, since the Slate doesn't have a 4x4 version yet. And, uh, ease of refueling in the wilderness. Hmm.)

Okay, so maybe it wouldn't be an upgrade in all ways, but IMO those tradeoffs are still worth it because the lack of telemetry and other enshittification means it's the first modern mass-market electric car (of any type, truck or otherwise) I'll be willing to own.