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watty

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  • Even a minimally featured bidet will at least soften things up and make wiping more effective.

    I used a tushy bidet to start, which is pretty cheap and easy to get going and get comfortable with it. I would recommend the warm water options, but you need to have a sink nearby to steal the warm water from. Fancier warm water bidets have an instant water heater, so you don't need a hot water tap, just power.

    I have since upgraded to one with all the features, and here's how my process typically goes:

    1. Sit down on heated seat
    2. Push out what I can
    3. Using the remote, turn on low pressure heated water with pulsating mode. I can also move the spray back/forth with the remote to get everything.
    4. Switch to high pressure for a moment. That has enough pressure to get up in there a bit, which seems to lubricate/soften any parts that didn't come out through sheer effort earlier.
    5. Pause, push out one more time
    6. Go back to low pressure to tidy up
    7. Turn on blow dryer for a bit, or dry off with TP if I'm in a hurry.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn't exist based purely on their own situation (right now). I'm pointing out that it does exist with my situation as an example (right now).

    That's all. Should we pretend like there's no last mile problem?

    Maybe in some ideal world, the last mile problem could be solved purely with public transit. We don't live in that world. Investing as of we live in an ideal world is foolish.

    If one approach is effective for more people, that's great, but shouldn't we also invest in solutions that fill the gap?

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • Here's a summary of this thread:

    Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there's public transit

    Guy 2 - last mile problem

    Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

    Me - it doesn't work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it'll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

    You - that's your own fault so stop complaining

    Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

    That's how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it's just my own fault and I should shut up.

    We have a long way to go to get ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

    I'm saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

    You want to know what's harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • So fuck everyone who can't afford to, or doesn't want to, live in the city?

    I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don't let perfect be the enemy of the good, and I recognize that no one solution works for everyone.

  • After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers

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  • I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

    I'm not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

    That's great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

  • Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"???

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  • Except that all of those produce HTML. They are all HTML websites.

    PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor" because it is a Preprocessor of HTML (HyperText Markup Language).

    If we are talking about browser performance, none of those technologies that you mentioned execute on the browser at all and are therefore irrelevant to Firefox's performance compared to another browser.

    From a browser's perspective, every website is HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

  • Why is that the Normies had shifted from "I have nothing to hide" to "Privacy is not real"???

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  • Can you give an example?

  • Bluesky crosses the 15 million user mark

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  • My impression is that AT_Protocol lends itself to decentralized computing resources moreso than decentralized control or authority.

    In the fediverse, instance owners have pretty strong control over their instance, the content it hosts, the people who can use it, etc. Bluesky takes advantage of self hosters for more distribution and reliability, but still maintains centralized control over content and user management.

    The key difference, to me, is that if someone doesn't like how the main Mastodon instances are running, they can make their own and have a completely separate network from those bad actors without rebuilding the world. With Bluesky, there's not really any exit door like that.

  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • "That’s what one real-estate agent claims in a video that went viral on the social-media platform TikTok"

    Hardly a compelling source.

    " he’s suggesting that companies such as Zillow are using the data they glean from people’s perusal of home listings on their sites to make decisions about which houses to buy as iBuyers."

    Based on what exactly? Zillow used publicly available information about houses, just like everyone else does. Zillow traffic patterns had nothing to do with it and really wouldn't even be useful for that. Buying decisions were based on home value and forecasted ability to resell, not derived interest based on page views.

    "Gotcher later argues that the company will buy 30 homes at one price, and then purchase a 31st home at a higher price. “What that just did is create a new comp,”"

    False. Zillow literally excluded houses that it bought from its comps to avoid that bias. I know because I wrote that code.

  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • Zillow over payed for houses, then couldn't sell them as quickly as expected because the COVID housing market took a down turn, and so they sold them at a loss, lost millions of dollars, and closed the house buying business. They also made plenty of low offers or under-payed for houses at times. They were trying to break even on home value on the hole, but couldn't reign in the wild swings of gains and losses. Their entire business model was based on the seller fees, not on the house value.

    In any case, they closed that business in 2021, and has since sold the rest of their inventory.

    I don't see how that would have a lasting effect on housing prices though. I'd attribute it more to a housing shortage due to people buying up real estate, and keeping it as rentals. Even when operating, Zillow aimed to resell houses within 3 months, not hold on to them as investments.

  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • Based on the actual Zillow report, it's just based on home values across the board in different regions. So, these are averages. Of course, if you make more improvements and stuff, your result would vary.

  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • Housing market affordability is so bad that Zillow says it will take you 13.5 years to break even on a purchase from July onward

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  • How did Zillow do this?