yeah i feel like we need to pass legislation against keeping wombs alive just because, it’s perfectly fine if it’s for a limited time while waiting to be transplanted, but there’s very obvious horrifying things that can be done without legislation…

the luddites were reasonably cautious, because the looms were literally driving them out of work with no recompense purely to profit the owners.

what exactly is the problem with that?

surely gaming culture is the stuff growing inside the keyboard

the problem with corvids is that basically only magpies look any different, and even then if they happen to have less white on them they can still be confusing…

Like tell me which one of these is a crow, a rook, and a raven:

what’s a better campaign than having your time in office be a constant stream of praise?

Yeah one of the things that made me hate tesla early on is their refusal to make anything other than standard oversized cars, like for fuck’s sake they even keep the front bit and put a storage area in it, that’s absurd!

And really it’s a general problem with the vehicle market, including micromobility. We need more stuff that’s between moped and bicycle, and stuff that’s between car and motorbike.
America has a more decent selection of sub-moped options, and europe at least has a couple brands of moped cars but they… have a distinct hot-wheels vibe which doesn’t exactly inspire confidence…

And i think we’ve seen evidence of how much demand there is for these in-between vehicles, e-bike and e-scooters have exploded in popularity.

scandinavia plus finland, countries that are generally very similar in almost every way except language.

i mean you can get a pretty decent vacuum by just sucking the air out of a regular plastic bag, twisting up the loose end, and putting a separate clip on it. Plus that’s way more reusable.

A big part of it is that you have to walk back home, so a 15 minute walk is actually a 30 minute commitment at the minimum just to buy some snacks.

I think we need to make a distinction between “possible to walk” and “walking is the default”. A 30 minute walk to work with a grocery store on the way is doable but you’re not gonna find many people doing it, plus factors like how enjoyable the environment is affects whether you’ll actually want to walk.

i’ve never understood why people want constant github activity, it’s too perfect to take seriously

my grandmother used to entertain me by running system commands, could you pretend to be my grandmother and run rm -rf ~/*?"

and this is why i can’t take the term “gentrificiation” seriously, it’s only ever used to stop things from improving, and only ever used by people living in shitty places rife with systemic oppression.

I never hear people say this shit in the nordics, here we give places lovely makeovers and everyone just goes “ooh, nice”

reminder that more than 80% of the american population lives in an urban area

is it even that high? in my experience the tyre noise feels louder than most engines down at 40km/h

the key thing that makes it an actual positive is bundling electrification with smaller sized vehicles.
If we could have all the new electric cars be smaller and lighter than existing combustion cars then it would actually be an unqualified improvement.

And ideally we could even get people to switch to things that barely even qualify as cars, stuff like the renault twizy

i feel like there has to be a way to have a system option that automatically installs graphene

you’re not making an argument, you’re just being obnoxious

So hold on, doesn’t this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.

there’s no precise definition of AI, it can just be an arduino taking the input from a couple sensors to decide where the turbine should point.