Oh damn, probably I could have claimed that then. Thanks for the tip!

Yeah, just out of warranty unfortunately

65" Hisense TV. Bought it new and 1.5 years later the motherboard died. Scoured the Internet for the part and it turned out Hisense didn’t even sell it, you had to buy secondhand used boards.

But it must have been a common problem b/c over ~6 months even the resellers were permanently sold out. Recycled it in the original packaging.

IMO companies like that should be forced to recycle every scrap of their e-waste themselves.

At least in the US, tipping is the accepted way that we compensate certain people for their time.

If you habitually never tip, you are not paying for the service that you receive in good faith. This is theft of service.

If you don’t like tipping, patronize places that include the tip in the bill. Tell restaurant owners to change their pay structure to avoid it. It won’t be changed by you individually shirking your obligation to pay.

Your choice not to tip will make no difference to the company, but every difference to a person who suffers through customer service for a living.

“I don’t want to subsidize a company” is just you inventing a convenient way to justify what is essentially theft. Why stop at not tipping? You could probably get away with stealing IDK, playground equipment too.

You could buy a couple of acres of land and turn it into a forest preserve. And then don’t let anyone buy it to build or cut down trees / etc.

Depending on how much you care, you could even plant a sustainable forest and grow hardwood as an investment.

*You can only teleport out to where you teleported in from.

Does this mean you get dropped into outer space if you stay inside for more than checks notes ~4 minutes?

Is it feasible? Sure. The limit on this kind of calculation is basically how much detail do we need to add to the environment (i.e., can we make the model) and how high resolution does the sound wave need to be (can we calculate it given finite compute resources).

To get something that roughly sounds like a rock? Not difficult to model or calculate, if we make some reasonable assumptions.

The sound of a wet towel thrown in the water during a hailstorm? Uhhh that’s a tough one.

Simulating sound uses classical mechanics governed by the wave equation, which is well-understood. In terms of CPU power, the calculation to propagate a simple sound wave (wavelet) could probably have been done on a TI-89 calculator from high school.

Birth rate decreasing isn’t a problem, it’s a symptom of declining quality of life/access to resources.

Instead of unsustainably adding more people maybe we should worry about the damage an obsession with growth+profit does to the climate and social structure.

Oh yeah the hate speech is legal, it’s just the hanging of the sign on public property that isn’t.