ProgrammingSocks @ ProgrammingSocks @pawb.social

Hello! My name is Cobalt Swiftpaw. I'm here for memes and art.

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"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.

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.

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.

Honestly I think I like Java better than C++ because with all that complexity at least you get memory safety, actually readable errors, and portable code. C# is great but Linux support is spotty.

This is what kills me about liberalism. Your system is driving record numbers to drug abuse. The inherent nature of people hasn't changed, only their conditions around them. Improve their conditions and the numbers will go down.

Can we get rail already? It'll even bolster the steel industry, making us less dependent on TACO Trump.

It is textbook fascist rhetoric. "Our country has been destroyed. We must retvrn to our time of glory."

A very open aperture looks like this. Or a bokeh effect.

"I like getting fucked over" is a weird thing to brag about but aight