Comics = American

Manga = Japanese

Generally that’s the accepted connotations, even though the words are technically the same.

I’m morbidly curious at how that happens/works

I’m in the US and the local blood centers near me give $20 gift cards for whole blood ($40 for platelets and “automation” whatever the fuck that means (that might be the whole blood donation idk (if that’s the case then I don’t know what specific donation the $20 is for exactly))). No idea about plasma though.

What?

I’m sorry what?? Why the hell???

Fuckers got my entire complex’s Internet shut down (I am a renter not the owner)

Imma need a full report and analysis posted on philosophy memes

you should do it now.

do you need chia seeds for overnight oats?

understandable, I judged too quickly.

uh, doesn’t Walmart do the exact same thing?

The more modern version of this is to use Apple or Google pay or whatever the fuck those are called.

note: I do not use those services

wait is THAT why my mint edge iso randomly fucking sends me back to login screen??

ooh boy, and I was going to do pop!OS on my main rig thinking mint wasn’t good for gaming.

Been using Mint for about a month now on my daily laptop. It’s nice, not having to deal with windows’ bullshit, but on the other hand I’ve had a number of issues with it; most recently, it sort of reboots itself every so often randomly. That, and issues with not being able to hear high fidelity audio on a bluetooth headset while also using the headset’s mic (there’s a codec that let’s me use both mic and audio, but the audio is low quality).

Usually though issues get fixed with an update, just gotta check the update manager often.

Don’t worry, let this one cook for a while and it’ll turn into the cool dystopian one.

can’t believe it got cancelled, it was really good

fair point tbh, but I’ve seen (from my personal experience) the military and it’s leaders are mostly conservative. idk much about civil wars and how they begin though; I’d assume we need people in strong political positions to lead a concerted opposition, no? otherwise it’s less civil war and more rebellion/revolution?

I agree with national unrest and protests, but imo a civil war would be over before it began. America as a country hasn’t been pumping billions into the industrial war complex for no reason; anyone on the other side of the people who control the military are fucked.

there’s a lot of abbreviations in the article that I don’t understand or know lol. what’s a BEV? HPEV? etc.

Good article tho. From my limited view prices definitely are a huge limiting factor for electric vehicles, though they brought up a good point about the charge times. I guess if people treated it like their phones (charge every night) then it wouldn’t be a problem?

Honestly not surprised that demand has dropped for them though. Anyone who was interested in it has either decided it’s not worth it or already has one. Price puts them out of most people’s budget, and with rising costs and stagnant wages, people can’t really afford to take on monthly payments anymore. The environmental friendliness of them is heavily marketed, but won’t bring into effect the large scale, immediate change we need to slow climate change. Plus there’s the whole Tesla thing with delayed shipping and paywalling features built into software (admittedly not up to brush with Tesla tho).

For a while they were a new, impressive technology, and while I still think they’re cool, until they become very, very cheap and accessible, I won’t be getting one. The fad is starting to die out.