Do your research first, talk to a mechanic friend or relative about what cars are reliable. Get a late model of that or an older one with few miles. Stay away from CVT transmissions, avoid the first model of a car, go with a model that’s been around for years (plenty of parts and bugs worked out). Get the most basic version, and go for reliability over style.

The worst part is dealing with dealers.

Well there goes that tool down the dumpster. Meetup has been nothing but finding ways to raise prices and revenue and not about building the site to be better, as it went downhill since like 2015/16

With AI that will be reduced, because the future is AI designed apps, just like sign companies slap Arial, Times New Roman on signs and others use wix/wordpress/squarespace for their company page

I wonder if you can hook it up to a monitor and use it like macOS. That would be the killer phone and killer laptop, then you just need to connect a mouse in and display or tv and work wherever. But I doubt Apple will ever do that, I don’t think they are bold enough to cannibalize their laptops.

Imagine being able to hook up a small slab to a keyboard or mouse Bluetooth then connect to a monitor, tablet or hotel tv, like the Samsung Dex can do. And run full laptop/desktop applications. One can dream

Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing

> Hope he died quickly, instead of having to deal with the pain of multiple bones crushing

from the article: “skull broken in 61 places”

Doubt you’d stay conscious long enough to notice

Instant unconsciousness. Hopefully he didn't wake up.

How do you know that? Is it confirmed that this led to instant unconsciousness?

The skull was found in 61 pieces, which is above the limit for quantity of pieces your skull can shatter into from blunt force while remaining alive.

OT but... This reminds me of a classic Esquire Dubious Achievements Awards headline from the 1980s, "Man Drills 22 Holes in Head and Lives".

It went on to tell how a man had committed suicide by drilling 23 holes in his head.

> The skull was found in 61 pieces

Breaking a skull into 61 pieces by a single blunt weapon would be instantly mortal, I think, but that’s not what I read in the article. It says (emphasis added) “including a skull smashed in 61 PLACES”.

Also, https://cfp.dainst.org/25th-european-ppa-meeting/talk/GHF9V8... says: “Patterning of fractures indicates that the focus of impact was around the right shoulder and the back of the cranium, with higher fragmentation in this area”.

I’m not a expert on blunt trauma, but I think that, if the victim got trapped below the projectile, preventing rapid blood loss a bit, unconsciousness due to loss of blood pressure may have taken long enough for the victim to realize they were hit. Still unlikely in my book, though.

Won’t happen the big players make too much money the way things are, and that is more important than people’s lives or for our country

If you don’t use the dryer your clothes will last longer and not fade either, dress shirts keep their sheen as well

But they get to have their city/state name and a bunch of minimum wage jobs, and extra flight traffic for people and athletes that have no care about the area to come in and spend a few more bucks at chain hotels and restaurants that have their HQ in another state/city

You can also run Ad Nauseum if you want to

2003-2009ish was Web 2.0, part of it was CSS/web standards and AJAX and blogging becoming more mainstream

Ha, people who didn't live it will have a hard time believing AJAX was as strong a buzzword as AI is today. Crazy to think asynchronous requests were peak innovation at the time