The dip only lasted a few months. By August of 2020, VTI was back to where it had been before the dip in February.

Finally, a day when it is acceptable for me to lure children into my van!

They get paid more by the advertisers for delivering personalized ads.

It adds insult to injury, since it shows that they expect that some people will want to apply those filters, but then they don’t care enough to make the filters work. They just waste even more of my time by creating the false impression that they have made a tool that does what I want.

I don’t understand why browsers support this “functionality”.

always chooses the cheapest option

quality isn’t great

Capitalism is to blame!

Well, at least under capitalism a few people do get to live well…

I don’t have a profile picture, but just FYI I’m shirtless right now.

At least you can fix the sleeves in public. Uncomfortable is when your underwear slides down inside your pants.

WD, Seagate

Has Seagate improved? After having multiple Seagate drives fail, I did some research on failure rates and Seagate was way worse than every other brand. Since then I have only been buying enterprise-grade WD drives. However, I did my research almost ten years ago and a lot could have changed since then.

We need another meme like this about Firefox but with the first panel saying “Antitrust judgement against Google” and the second panel blank, without anyone coming to the rescue.

The large majority of Mozilla’s revenue comes from the money that Google pays to be the default search engine in Firefox.

But is the cat a crack shot too?

$5 million for information on Fuad Shukr

played a central role in the October 23, 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut which killed 241 U.S. military personnel and wounded 128 others

Specially Designated Global Terrorist

There’s the US side and the bad guy side but I think some Americans would support Satan himself as long as he was anti-America.

Then the artist searched his library for a card and put that card in his hand.

Edit: did you clean the dust out of the fans and heat sink?

The summoning circle is broken! You’re free!

I don’t know about Oregon, but I see how people ride their e-bikes here in NYC and it makes me suspect that most e-bike/car collisions are the e-bike’s fault.

Well, yes - George W. Bush appears in retrospect to have been sincere. Some of the other powerful supporters of the war did profit from it, but at the expense of American taxpayers rather than Iraqis.

This meme contains a common accusation from 20 years ago, but I think it’s odd that it is being posted in 2024, long after it became clear that whatever the purpose of the invasion of Iraq actually was, it wasn’t to obtain oil wealth.

When you say it’s common, are you talking about heat pumps or old-fashioned resistive heating? I’m not very familiar with heat pumps since they weren’t common at all when and where I bought a house, but at least where I lived it was normal to have either an oil or a gas furnace for heating. Resistive electric heating cost a lot more to operate and so it was generally used only where it would be too difficult or expensive to install a furnace and hot water pipes or hot air ducts. For example, some friends of mine lived in a 19th century house which was meant to be heated by a wood fireplace and they also had electric heaters in the bedrooms, whereas my own house was built in 1980 so it had an oil tank, a furnace in the basement, and hot-water radiators.

(My own house also had a modern wood stove in the living room and buying firewood was even cheaper than buying heating oil, but the problem was that the wood stove took a lot of work and it only heated the living room since it wasn’t connected to any mechanism for spreading the heat to the rest of the house.)

Is heating with electricity common in Finland? That seems like it would cost a fortune even in good times.