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  • I drive newer cars occasionally as part of a carshare program since I don't need one for a commute and I live somewhere in North America that transit actually functions.

    I do appreciate anti-rear end features but it's only activated once for me on a bridge since I'm usually leaving plenty of distance in front. But holy cow, the nagginess of some features can be beyond the level of your average backseat driver. In particular because they are persistent.

    Yes car, I know I'm a bit on the shoulder line because it's a mountain pass and tractor trailers are roaring down in the oncoming direction. Yes car, I see that the vehicle in front of me has started moving away, but I'm not going to follow them left turning into traffic because of it you bonehead...

  • Prime Minister Carney, know the signs of a scam!

    It may be a scam if someone:

    • Demands immediate payment
    • Uses threatening language
    • ...Requests payment by cryptocurrency or gift cards

    If you are in doubt, take a minute to ask yourself why you are being contacted. It's okay to ask questions and say no.

  • What I mean is not to go all in, all our eggs in that basket like Toyota had for 10 years and ended up behind their competitors.

    I'm not going to write it off, but IMO we don't have to invest into hydrogen with the same vigor we should be with electrification, renewables and storage.

  • They have a point, though, we are apologizing for the crimes our colonial-era ancestors committed against the First Nations of Canada and its prolonging effects, while at the very same time watching a modern version of a similar ruthless colonization in Gaza. In the future, we will all be very sorry for failing to intervene. By our and our leaders' inaction, we are failing to show that we learned from our past.

  • Hydrogen might be interesting, and it may work in some instances/industries but it is very unlikely to work in others.

    Long distance freight by railway? Hell yeah I see hydrogen trains happening. Planes? Very unlikely but possibly. Boats? Seems plausible to me. Static energy storage/facility level distribution? It will work but will leak its own gases anyway when perfectly airtight options are there. Hydrogen automobiles? Not worth it, Toyota has already tried that hand for way longer than anyone else and is hardly getting anywhere.

    Electric cars, hydrogen cars and gasoline cars are neat but they aren't there to solve the climate crisis but to solve the personal automotive industry crisis. It's really commercial transport and other uses that really could use these.

  • Customers who bought bread between January 2001 and December 2021 and did not previously take a gift card from Loblaw will eventually receive up to $25.

    $25 would surely compensate for being overcharged for bread for 20 years.

  • Lol. But the overall point is, regardless of whatever you believe in, the common theme of moral teachings is to be good to others, not how many hours you should work or how many times one should be beaten for a transgression. Anything else gained from religious text or tradition is a speculative interpretation brought from the ancient to the modern context, and should be taken and understood as such.

  • The important difference this historian highlights between fascism now and fascism before is that the violence and henious behaviour was hidden and every effort was spent to hide it, the lies crafted to bend the truth in intelligent ways to front a consistent alternate truth.

    Today, that alternate truth is not only completely detached from reality but changing frequently from one thing to another, the number of lies and henious actions that have been widely publicized are of such number that most people cannot track it anymore, leading to a paralysis, a nihilism, or a belief that nothing is true (which is the goal of the people flooding the zone with obvious lies and crimes).

    The people that were supposed to have protected the US from it (Congress, the Supreme Court, federal agencies, the media, lawyers, community elders, state and local politicians, educational institutions, major corporations) have been hollowed out over decades, leading to this situation where the honest ones are in positions of minimal power, and the ones with power stand to gain from post-truth fascist corruption.

    The antidote is to establish the ground truth with the people around you, to lower the level of powerlessness that arises solely from uncertainty and chaos. A robust long term solution will be electoral reform, for example so that a consesus of various viewpoints lead to government than having to select between two hegemonies of disparate ideas.