Hemingways_Shotgun @ Adderbox76 @lemmy.ca

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Solutions need to be based in reality; and the reality is that getting rid of vehicles for bikes doesn't change anything in the real world because 20 people sharing a single truck for an hour each week to do their shit uses just as much fuel and causes just as much pollution as those same 20 people using 20 trucks for an hour.

And that single truck, seeing twenty times the usage, will wear out faster and end up using exponentially MORE fuel and causing MORE pollution as it ages and wears out; eventually needing to be replaced 20 times faster.

THAT is what I mean when I say "really real world". Saying some hippy-dippy bullshit about how let's replace trucks with ebikes isn't contributing to any sort of serious discussion about realistic solutions. It only exists to make you feel better about yourself without needing to examine the long term repercussions.

Have fun getting groceries. Have fun renovating your house. Have fun taking a load of household recycling to where it needs to go.

Basically have fun doing anything actual real adults have to do in the really real world.

I swear to god, you people who think that replacing vehicles with bikes is actually feasible are so laughably naive about how the actual world works that you must just live on a commune somewhere drinking ayahuasca and playing fucking bongos.

Bikes are great. Ebikes are great. But here in the real world, adults need to do adult stuff. You might as well be telling people that we should all be skateboarding everywhere...

Barring any sort of major accident. Almost certainly suicide.

But not in an "I'm depressed, get me out of here by any means necessary kind of way."

More in the, if I have terminal disease, or am otherwise going to be suffering a slow painful death, or I'll be a burden to those around me because of health limitations, I'll take myself out of the equation quite logically and happily.

So in that regard, there are only two possibilities; sudden accident, or taking care of it myself when the alternative is a slow decline.

And yes, old age is just another terminal disease, just on a longer timescale.

One million dollars per assassin until one of them eventually gets through to Trump, then Vance, than Musk, Than the Republican Supreme Court. After that, a 50,000 dollar bounty on any sitting member of Trump's Cabinet and any sitting member of the GOP.

Even if it takes every penny to finish that list and I end up right back where I started. I'll still consider it money well spent.

Anything less than a full Nuremberg level cleanse of nazi's in America is just not going to be sufficient.

Kill them all.

And I'm not being even the least bit facetious.

By "came into", I'm going to assume that you either received it for free or got it very inexpensively because of circumstances.

In which case I'd take the opportunity to make a profit by selling it for far more than it's value to some moron who see's an Apple logo and automatically creams themselves. They're not hard to find.

Then you can buy whatever you want.

If anyone still thinks the path back to power doesnt include a rebel army and plenty of guns, they're naive as fuck.

The right has zero intention of giving up control ever again. And the sooner people realize it and start making IED drones, the better.

I apologize if this sounds flippant, but it's FICTION.

Literally ANYTHING works if its written well enough...

Are you sure about that?

Because the thing that most people never consider with "post apocalypse" scenarios is "lubrication".

Everything needs it, and for the most part it's petroleum based lubricants. Chains, gears, wind turbines, cogs, wheels, doodads and whazzits....

The machines that create power require regular lubrication and maintenance to prevent them from breaking down. Power, is needed to mine, refine and ship the petroleum...

You see where I'm going with this...

For me it's the fur, especially in the dog's right side. It's too muddy and undefined.

Even the most single-toned animal will have more detail in it's fur regardless of lighting.

This is my dog waiting for me to get my ass out of bed to get her breakfast.

I don't need to zoom in to see individual hairs.

I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except "good. The time for bullshit words is over"

it's not hard to tell that it's a painting after even a cursory glance.

But the question is, would it have been harder to spot as a painting if I hadn't been told it was a painting before clicking on it?

I dunno. But I still think it's very obviously a painting. A very good one, for sure. But not quite as photorealistic as this thread seems to want to ooh and aahhh about.

In order for that debate to even take place, it has to be proven that "consciousness" exists on some special level.

There's no proof that there is some special sauce that is "consciousness" beyond just synapses, hormones and chemicals.

In other words, It's very likely that consciousness falls under the category of "if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck..."

My answers aren't dictated by an awareness of self; they're dictated by a chemical hormonal soup that we pretend is some grand concept of self-awareness.

Management pulled similar shit during the Christmas strike.

Union offered a rotating strike so as to affect christmas package deliveries as little as possible. Management refused and then did whatever they could to blame the workers for "ruining Christmas".

Fuck corporations. Even government ones.

Anything whose primary motive is profit should be bombed.

Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?

I thought about this the other day when asking my IT department why they won't let me carry a USB stick between home and work to be able to work from home and instead lock down the USB access and instruct me to use Google Drive instead....

I decided that most corporations only cosplay their IT security inasmuch as it only matters up to and not beyond the point of economic convenience.

If any of these companies truly cared about security, they would at the very least be using a hardened fork of Chrome with Google Services stripped out. They'd be self-hosting their own servers connected only via a VPN or some sort, etc... etc...

But that shit takes money and staff to maintain it. So they'll give everything to third parties to manage instead and then send out pop-quiz emails about phishing every couple of weeks followed by sternly worded emails when a person fails it.

(Sorry...off my anti-depressants until pay day, so I have a lot of micro rants that have built up...haha)

I feel like this was the ultimate sin of Andromeda (a game that sadly had far too many sins)

It had some great combat mechanics (that I hope get ported over to the new one). But the characters are just ultimately so damn forgettable. There's no reason or need to get to know them. And when you're main character is just a nepo-baby, that's a problem.

At the very least they could have made Cora Harper an interesting character as the person who has trained her entire life only to be superceded by said nepo-baby. But nope...she's just immediately cool with it and all you can do is find her a fucking rose garden.

What...a....waste....

The only somewhat interesting characters that should have been fleshed out more was Sloane Kelly, the security chief who led the rebellion and became the head of the exiles. SHE could have had an interesting storyline in an Aria T'loak type of way. But she's just relegated to killing her in order to advance another boring plot.

I've played the trilogy multiple times with multiple different agendas for the character (today I'll be a racist like Ashley. Today I'll be smart-ass, etc...)

And the only hard-and-fast rule is "always...kill...Alenko".

I've actually gotten all the way up to Virmire multiple times with the intention being "okay...not this time." only to have the thought strike me right at the moment of truth that i still have two more games to go with him hanging around and at least the space racist has boobs to distract me.

Poor poor Kaiden.

Most IT nowadays is just simply the ability to google. What sets a professional IT person apart from an amateur is that the professional has an educated guess as to what to google in the first place.

Non-professional: "My computer is making a weird buzzing noise"

Professional: "What are the symptoms of a bad cooling fan?"

I guess they commonly know to use asterisks for italics and bold

I wouldn't guess that at all. Pretty much everyone I know in the "normie" world would AT BEST use ctrl-i and ctrl-b if they're not just pressing the icon in the gui.

Hell, most of them look at me like I'm a goddamn morlock when I tell them to Shift-delete in order to skip the recycling bin.

I'm going to cheat and say that with the exception of everyone's favourite space-racist, most of the side characters from the Mass Effect Trilogy are far more compelling than Commander Shepard.