[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 0 points 1 hour ago

What does that even mean? Is that a roundabout way of saying that this guy deserved to be assaulted and that a homeowner can, or should be able to, physically harm anyone in their home for any reason simply because they own it?

You sure the guy who was assaulted didn't live there? It seems they quoted the homeowner right in the headline as saying "I let my friends live in my garage for months."

It seems like you're Just making up your own story and your own facts at this point.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 0 points 1 hour ago

Is that my "line of thinking" when I never said anything of the sort? I don't think so.

I've never played Cyberpunk 2077 nor No Man's Sky and have zero opinion on them, but you bringing them up out of nowhere as some sort of 'gotcha' screams "my argument is based on emotion and not fact."

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So Bethesda is good because Starfield might be worth playing 10 years after it was released? You're obviously not understanding the point here.

It doesn't matter that they improved '76 after the fact. It matters that they keep releasing top dollar garbage that needs years of work after the fact to even be playable.

Like imagine if you bought a brand new car that broke down immediately after you drove it off the lot. You take it back to them and they tell you "We understand you're disappointed, so if we get time we'll fix it for you and should have it back to you in a year or two." Are you going to be satisfied with no car and no money for that long? Does it really make it better if they do actually fix it at some undetermined point in the future?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah it's a messy situation that the media is trying to spin into some rage-bait headline. A similar scenario would be a husband beating up his stay-at-home wife, who then gets a protective order against him. The headline here could also read "squatter uses courts to get homeowner kicked out of his own property" and half of the people who see it would skip reading the details and start ranting about "the rights of homeowners!, this country is going to shit!, and blah blah blah."

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

I wouldn't pull too hard as it might just be a proprietary slot like the other user said. The plastic around the plug looks like it could be easily ground off with a dremel tool and allow you to use a normal extension cord.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 2 hours ago

Even A-B-A is counted as "two trips" which immediately doubles the number of trips and halves the distance of each. I have no idea what the rates of A-B-A versus A-B-C-D-A trips are, but their methodology here makes the entire study seem almost pointless, at least when trying to gauge the average mileage people are driving per day in reference to EV range.

Even using average yearly mileage can be misleading as almost nobody drives a fixed number of miles 7 days a week. I have a fairly long commute at 100 miles round trip, but my average daily mileage over a year is only 60 miles, or 60% of what I actually drive when I'm going to work. Someone telling me that a 120-mile range vehicle would work just fine for me based on my daily average would be completely wrong in that assessment when you account for efficiency losses and extra load from things like highway speeds, using the heater, or me having to make side trips somewhere on a work day.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago

"Bethesda hasn't improved since Fallout '76 was released"

Make sense now?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 5 hours ago

and they ended up with something that didn't really work and shouldn't have shipped.

That sure didn't stop the marketing department, as this game was being shoved in our faces left and right as if it was the end-all-be-all game we'd be playing with our grand children in 50 years.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 7 points 6 hours ago

That quote says nothing about squatting. it mentions a protective order being issued after a physical altercation occurred.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 8 points 6 hours ago

It's literally a miniature Kia Soul which is hilarious. I don't think it looks that bad and the boxy design is quite functional.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 points 6 hours ago

That number is a little misleading as it counts every stop as a "new trip." I could leave my house and drive 60 miles, stopping every 10 minutes, and they'd count that as 20 trips of 3 miles or less. Meanwhile a car with a 120 mile range probably wouldn't have enough juice to make it back home depending on how far away my last stop is from the house.

Multiple stays of longer than 10 minutes before returning home were counted as multiple trips

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Does it look like the prongs have dropped into the case further than they're supposed to be? My old trimmer was very similar but the prongs stuck out quite a bit more so that you could use any regular old extension cord on it. I'd try gently pulling on the prongs to see if you can get them out of that recess in the plastic. People are suggesting using an ungrounded cord but I don't think they're very common or easy to find.

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