Floon @ Floon @lemmy.ml

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Fuck urban rents, how about that?

People who give this message like everyone is just choosing to screw the environment for fun make a crapton of assumptions about the forces people face in finding a place to live.

US energy is 40% renewable already. Solar is the fastest growing energy segment.

In my county, our electricity is 2/3 sourced from hydropower, so an EV has significant impact on emissions relative to an ICE car.

Quid: you're British. Great.

You're smaller in area than Texas. It's a little easier for you to stay close to everything, you're never more than 70 miles away from the sea.

This is why people hate liberals, and why liberals often migrate over to conservatism: no matter how right you are, there's always someone happy to crap on you for not being right enough.

Don't shit on EVs for merely being one of many solutions that all need to be engaged with. It's not like without EVs, so many people would be rushing to areas of greater density and riding public transit, so your message is not helpful in achieving what you want, and actively angers your allies.

Seriously. Brand recognition like Twitter is the dream. It's so strong, X will forever be known not as itself, but as "X, formerly Twitter".

I think you're thinking of zergs. Orcs are just ugly, evil brutes. Zergs are endless and individually worthless.

Hate this. Every time, I seem to guess wrong.

Guess I'm a robot.

I can't believe how much he gets away with. He has zero shame, and seldom pays the smallest price for it. Sane people making sane observations about him are called deranged, and attacked over and over.

He's a stochastic terrorist, worse than Henry II, and society has to hold him to account.

The real crime here is downloading Chrome.

Firefox, for privacy protection.

I wasn't a bad person in my 20s, but I was stupid and thought I was smart. There's a lot to learn that you learn after a few years as an adult: you learn what's important, and what's just a waste of time. As you get older, you have fewer and fewer fucks to spare for the waste of time stuff.

People responding to the meme that needing cars isn't evil, and is required for many areas, are missing the point of the meme.

The meme is complaining about areas we built that can exist as they are only if everyone owns a car. If we weren't so consumerist, and if white people could better tolerate living near black people, we wouldn't have so much of the population living in suburban areas where cars are so necessary. A lot more people would live in circumstances where public transport is more viable for them.

And, of course, some shade thrown at the car buyers who buy comsumptively-extreme cars to do piddling stuff in. The number of basic sedans that can be had with 200+hp engines, or F150 pickups with massive gas-guzzling engines, that only get used for surface road driving one or two people around, is pretty ridiculous.

The main wrong thing about the meme is that it's assuming our situation was created specifically so that evil corporations could sell cars and gas... no, they're profiting from, and exacerbating, the problem of white flight from cities. Most of the country's problems come in large part from racism first, and then profiteering on top of that.

I don't mean arguing with him, but with people I know. It does help.

Because it can be educational to keep track of his lies. His Twitter archive was a very useful resource in making arguments against him.

It's amazing Canter & Siegel were the most hated people on the Internet at one time...

Immigration, as an issue in the United States, should not be an issue. We're a nation of 350m, we can absorb a lot of people with no trouble. It's only an issue because racists make it so, and the GOP oligarchs have been stoking white resentment for decades, with this "Let's you and him fight" propaganda, pitting working class people against other working class people.

We have immigration limits that were set in the heyday of the KKK in the early 20th c, having had none during the preceding centuries. Those limits have never kept pace with global population growth.

People are fleeing countries we used to provide assistance to, but no longer do. We have dumped thousands of US-raised drug gang criminals into those countries, helping their inability to maintain a stable state. We blame refugees for fleeing circumstances we helped worsen significantly.

And we can't remotely surface any of this in the national conversation. We can't even agree that adults who have lived in the US their entire lives, pace a couple months in their birth countries, deserve to be citizens, or deserve to not be deported to countries they've never known.

We aren't nearly as moral as we think we are.

Call servers "Lemmy Service Providers" and people might make the connection with what ISPs do.

Yes. His lawyer Alina Habba missed the filing deadline, so he didn't get a jury.

You're almost right: they do have to ask. They get a warrant, and they ask, and they are never told no.

Cory Doctorow termed it "Enshittification", and wrote about the process here: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys