That's why I stick to skill games for the most part. I know I want to sink hundreds to thousands of hours into a game so I might as well be able to actually get good at something too and surprise or impress somebody.

I have an uncountable number of hours in rhythm games and plastic guitar especially. But I also like Counter Strike and recently Ring Racers.

"Pedestrian" is also a car brained term for literally anyone being anywhere outside of a car. So if you switch to active voice, you get "SUV driver kills person" which is a hell of a lot more neutral and brings up very different emotions than this extremely obscured language.

Not really horrifying. You're misconstruing the astronomy meaning of "void" as your own colloquial understanding. It just means a place where there is meaningfully less matter than was predicted.

That's a lot of text to say what we already knew based on the fact that it is a Land Rover

Yes, ultimately I agree with you. Micro mobility is far preferable to cars. It would be a better world if everyone was getting around on e-scooters.

You're talking about private ownership. I'm talking about the rental scooters. I don't care if people own them as long as they aren't the ones going 80km/h.

My problem is with the rental scooters people don't know how to control/brake and squeeze on 2 people.

Not a fan of e-scooters personally. Would prefer ebikes ANY day. You are more likely to get hurt on a scooter than bike because of the way you are positioned on the device, and I'm pretty sure the only reason they're popular now is because they're cheaper for the rental companies.

Again, I'm in favour of bikes and ebikes and dedicated bike paths. Not a fan of e-scooters where they dump you on sidewalks and roads and tell you "good luck".

I am making the choice to not cross the border at all. If I was required to for some real reason, I would bring one of my old phones SECURELY wiped (as in, writing over all the old bits on the flash storage), with nothing but the absolute essentials installed and NO accounts.

Is it schizo? Not anymore. They're detaining everyone and deporting/disallowing you in the country for ANYTHING now. JD Vance memes will get you banned at this point.

I don't really care that much either way for speed cameras. They work in a very limited fashion, but they punish the poor the most, and the money goes to cops.

At the end of the day speed cameras are a solution to a problem that doesn't need to exist. We are failing to use technology available to us for basically no reason - we already know how to slow people and calm traffic without any kind of economic/punitive incentive.

I don't see why not. The only difference between how most people use Spotify and the radio is that on Spotify it's an algorithm and not a person. The majority of users are just using generated playlists anyways.

Yessongs if you like that kind of thing.

I agree, I have absolutely 0 issue with patiently leading people through a process. Even if they're a bit confused or unsure, as long as they are honestly listening and trying, I will try my best to explain things in a way they can understand. The thing that pisses me off is when people go all learned helplessness and try to get you to do it for them instead. No, I want you to try and learn it for yourself. If it doesn't stick, I'll patiently guide you again. Just try. Believe me, people of any age can "get" technology or refuse to learn. It's a mindset

I will make an exception, and that's when I'm dealing with people who literally cannot learn. If you have dementia or a severe learning impairment that's a different story, usually those folks will have someone else who can learn for them though.

Yes, working in tech I've personally encountered this lots and it never stops personally pissing me off. It's a facet of learned helplessness. It's pretty clearly a way to get other people around them to do things for them. They probably don't see it as manipulative but it is, albeit in a pretty minor way.

Just so I understand what you're saying here, you're saying that Aboriginal people are genetically predisposed to being criminals? Are you aware that is, without exaggeration, something the Nazis believed and used actively to justify atrocity? Textbook eugenics

It's so tiring. What's to be done about Danielle's blatantly corrupt (and fascistic) government when everyone around her is on board?

Bad news from a lifelong Albertan: I've seen MAGA gear here from other lifelong Albertans. The problem has already leaked here. But tbh I still would be in favour of barring MAGA from Canada on the basis that they threatened our sovereignty.

But for good news, MAGA are woefully bad at pretending to be normal and can't help but to bring up their deranged politics at the dinner table.

Agreed. Build more dense housing, incentivize more public transit, and plan for both of those things to become higher in demand (and close the TFW minimum wage loophole), then we can start inviting folks into our country again to provide us the value that they objectively can.

Maybe it's not so great how monolithic systemd is, but it has brought a lot of great functionality to the Linux world. Not as if Linux has ever been married to the Unix philosophy anyways.

If we can't feed the people we have, why are supermarkets dumping bleach on perfectly good food? Sounds like an artificial problem to me.