You are clearly stating that you are not an historian and this is just your intuition. People give you information and facts contrary to your intuition, and you accuse them of being mean and agressive.
No. It’s not a reason. It could, but it’s not. They are telling you. Sorry.
The Dow is over 50 000!
If not buzzed on laudanum, it would have been on coal fumes.
It’s also remarkable that although cast iron radiators are becoming rare, the principle remains the same today and some still heat their homes with steam or hot water. That baby could be retrofitted on a modern system if someone really wanted to.
Electric mucus is such an elegant colour.
Hehe, that reminds me how it feels when you don’t like something the rest of society really really likes. I’m Canadian, don’t like hockey, but when I stop to pay attention to things around me, there’s hockey promotions on bags of chips, on soda bottles and cans, on cereal boxes… there’s even hockey promotion on toilet paper packaging. So I’m sitting on the toilet, looking at the pack of toilet paper, and can read about some contest I could win in relation to hockey.
I live alone and sometimes stuff like this isn’t worth it. Go out and get a salad that’s already made. It will be less wasteful this way.
I only bother with stuff I can freeze. Like, I buy carrots and celery, blanch them, freeze them, and use them when needed in soups or rice.
It’s mostly a construction thing where I live. Lots of construction workers here seem to have taken the habit of parking their pickup truck anywhere they want, like in pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, and jam a high visibility vest in their window to show they work in construction.
I don’t know if it’s working and they avoid getting a ticket this way, but if they keep doing it I’m guessing it’s because there’s not much consequences.
“Yes Kyle. Now get to your pickup truck parked in a pedestrian crossing with a high-vis vest jammed in the window, and come pick me up.”
Hehe. Car keys in general, yes. But just to break motonormativity, not mine because I never had a car and I hope it can stay this way as long as possible.
🎵 You’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older, and now you’re even older…🎵
Best is suggestive. It’s a weird movie but I wish there was more of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. Maybe a sequel since the movie ended on that possibility. But it’s probably going to end up repetitive, if not recursive.
And its an idea that has been explored in different other movies and series anyway. So as much as I liked the style of that movie, upon reflection, maybe it should just stay where it was left.
I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.
So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.
It’s obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.
Yes, but it’s also the nature of how those platforms work. It would be hard to get new subscribers without popular and active posts. If mods of small communities are removing posts and comments from people that diverge from the main opinion there, growth will be difficult.
It is something I try to keep in mind before commenting on a random thing I see when browsing all communities instead of just what I’m subscribed to. Check the community before making a comment, to make sure I’m not insulting fans of something I don’t like.
I was too anti car for /r/fuckcars. When on that sub I was told multiple times that some people had no choice but to use a car and all their excuses were valid, always. So there were lots of comments in an anti car sub just saying “I would lOoOOvVe to ditch my car but its just impossible because…”
As a car free person, it felt like I didn’t belong in that sub. Plus, there was the API scandal at that time and that meant RedditIsFun would stop working eventually. So I abandoned reddit for smaller communities here.
Unfortunately lemmy has kind of the same issue reddit had. When the post of a small sub/community gains traction, it gets popular beyond its small community and gets “invaded” by people browsing “all”, resulting in a majority of comments from users not subscribed to that community.
No no no. There will always be solutions to the problems they cause.
They kill billions of animals every year but we can build nature overpasses. They kill millions of humans every year but we can blame pedestrians for wearing headphones or not looking properly. The tires shed about a quarter of all microplastics in the environment in Canada but surely we will find a technological solution for that eventually. The parking spaces still cause heat islands but we can just cover them with solar panels. Parking also causes flooding because of impervious surfaces but we can just resurface all of them with new materials.
And soon cars will all run on hydrogen and be totally environmentally friendly. And soon cars will all run on electricity and be totally environmentally friendly. Everyone on the planet just has to buy a new car eventually, keep buying cars, and spend (buy!) energy to move them everywhere they go. But they will be environmentally friendly! Except for all the other issues but surely we will find solutions for them. Save the planet by getting an electric car, the biggest and most expensive consumption object, and have a taste of freedom when paying to fill it with energy.
/s just in case.
I quit my job last year and uninstalling Teams was such a liberating thing to do. Unfortunately I’ve been through a few interviews lately and them being on Teams (at least it’s the web version) sadly reminds me that I am gonna have to eventually reinstall that annoying piece of… software.
“Reopening postponed due to unforeseen circumstances”
It’s another reason to avoid those things but TBF, I don’t really care about remote intervention on “autonomous” cars because I think the whole idea is stupid. It’s for car dependent people that shudder at the idea of taking a bus, but don’t mind being at the mercy of a giant corporation for getting everywhere. If your city is big enough to have a fleet of “autonomous” cars, it’s big enough to have public transit. And if you don’t live in a city, those “autonomous” cars will not be available anyway.
I am car free and I avoid using taxis unless it’s absolutely necessary. My city has transit, with buses and trains. Otherwise I have a bike and can walk. Using a taxi means continuing to be dependent on cars.
When those first started to come out and be introduced, I was kind of enthusiast and thought it would be great to have a service that could bring me in places where public transit wouldn’t. Like, it would be wonderful to have an autonomous car drop me in a provincial park, or in the countryside somewhere. But they are not made for this. They are made to replace public transit in cities, which is absolutely stupid.
So if I am to pay to be driven somewhere by a taxi, I would feel safer and prefer to have someone behind the wheel locally rather than someone remote controlling the car from the other end of the world. Even if my experience with taxi drivers is less than stellar, it can’t be worse than being stuck in a car because it doesn’t know how to process a trafic cone placed on its hood.
Yes , that’s how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it’s on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that’s how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It’s how they can do anything without consequences.
I can’t tell you about the US but I’m from a “young” country too. Younger than the US. The westward expansion of Canada passed the Great Lakes was entirely dependent on railways. It was a national project to make sure the country could actually exist in the first place. It’s what built most of the prairies. Having a railroad that traversed the country was seen as a primordial enterprise that had to be realized at any cost. It was a way to bring European colonizers and troops in the west. Here’s another ad in French.
French colonizers arrived in Québec in 1608. Sure, there were no trains and they relied on the St-Lawrence for more than a century. By the end of the 1700s colonization was expanding westward using canals and locks. First small ones like at Coteau-du-Lac, then bigger ones like the Lachine canal that was built in the 1820s.
But just like in a lot of other parts of the world, our young country also saw the industrial revolution and the invention of trains. The first rail line in Canada was between La Prairie and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, to help people traveling between New-York and Montreal. Passengers were taking boats between New-York and St-Jean using the Champlain and Chambly, then would have to take a coach between St-Jean and La Prairie, before getting on another boat to finally get to Montréal. So a rail line was constructed. It eventually linked Montréal and New-York directly. Most of it still exists.
And just like in Europe, eventually railways replaced canals and we had them every where. Every fucking where. I come from the south of Québec and there’s easily half a dozen abandoned railways from the 1800s in my region alone. It was possible to go to the smallest villages by train. But then highways, cars, abandoned lines. VIA Rail’s network keep shrinking. All of North America’s rail network is shrinking.
No, it’s not because we’re “young” countries that we didn’t have the chance to develop a robust rail network.