Evkob (they/them) @ Evkob @lemmy.ca

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My main mode of transportation is a bicycle and I live in North America. I will likely die spread out on the asphalt when someone runs me over with their oversized SUV/truck after they blow through an intersection out of turn while on a Facetime call.

No amount of defensive riding will protect you against that, unfortunately.

Holy fuck yeah, you weren't exaggerating. I respect their goals and all, but this part made me chuckle:

A “computer” should be per definition a helping tool, not an energy-consumption with endless scaling

Someone should tell them that computers should be helping tools, not ideological purity tests :P

I'm bitching? About people who can't do math? That's news to me. Thank god you were there to tell me!

Both definitions of nerd have co-existed for decades now. "Nerd" on its own is used as you described, a person devoted to intellectual, academic, or technical pursuits or interests.

However, if you scroll down a bit, you'll see:

also : a person preoccupied with or devoted to a particular activity or field of interest

So a "something" nerd, e.g. a theatre nerd, Star Wars nerd, or what have you, is distinct from using "nerd" on its own. Both definitions are equally valid and widely-understood.

Linguistic prescriptivism is lame #DescriptivistGang😎

You're pretty on the money there, at least if you live in an area with poor infrastructure. I can't go outside without feeling a bit of dispair for how my city is built for cars rather than people. Car-centricity is everywhere I look.

Honestly, maybe two hours? I'm not much of a gamer anyways, but the little experience I had with the game focused too much on cars for my liking. I hear there are mods that fix that but I never got around to installing any.

Don't quote me on this, but I think you'd have to add --volumes

Yeah I've started to notice people are engaging in less good-faith conversation than when I first joined Lemmy last summer.

I think a lot of ex-reddit users, after the initial excitement and novelty of the migration to Lemmy, eventually slipped back into their bad habits from reddit. Reminds me of this this blog post denouncing the unhealthy behaviours that are all too common of online discourse.

My friends would all tell you how tired they are of hearing me go on and on about urban planning and infrastructure.

The ways in which our communities are built have such a large and profound impact on our lives, yet most people give little thought to it. IMO a great deal of the social woes we're dealing with (at least in North America) are caused or made worse by our lack of sensible city-planning, from carbon emissions to social isolation.

There exists so many cool and interesting ways to build solid, sustainable communities! It's really exciting! Sadly I have to live that excitement by researching other countries. The only form of city-planning that seems to exist here in Canada is "highway going through a parking lot interspaced with strip malls and encircled by single-family housing suburbs".

In my area (New Brunswick, Canada) you do a written test (+eye exam) to obtain your learner's permit (class 7.1) which costs 25 dollars.

With a class 7.1 permit, you must be accompanied at all times by one (and only one) passenger who has their full licence and minimum three years of driving experience. At this level, there's a zero-tolerance policy for BAC above 0%. Additionally, driving outside the hours of 5:00 a.m. to midnight is forbidden. After a year (or 8 months, if you choose to attend a driver training school & graduate) you're eligible to take a road test for your class 7.2 licence.

With a class 7.2 permit, you're allowed up to three passengers, with no need for them to have drivers licences. You're now allowed to drive between midnight and 5 a.m. but only for work/education purposes or if accompanied by a passenger with their full licence (unless you're above 21 in which case no night time restrictions) Zero percent BAC still applies until age 21 at this level.

When you're 18 years-old or older and have minimum 2 years of driving experience, you're eligible for your full (class 5) licence. This might all sound like a lot when written out but it is extraordinarily easy to obtain a permit here. I messed up decently bad on my road test and the instructor basically said "eh, don't do that OK? Alright you pass."

Presenting the pricing as if it represents a bulk discount when it doesn't.

The only reason to do this is to trick people who can't do multiplication into buying more.

We don't live in history anymore, we live in the present. Our relationship to information and journalism is not the same as it was in the past, for better and for worse.

In the past, a typical individual would have access to maybe a handful of news sources. You'd pay for the printing and delivery of a physical newspaper and that was going to be the extent of the journalism you were exposed to. I don't think it's realistic to think one should subscribe to every news source they're likely to encounter online. I'd also counter that radio journalism was one of the main sources of information in the 20th century and had no such paywalls.

That said, I'm most annoyed because no one is actually talking about Stract, just about how 404media decided to lock the article

You know how that could have been avoided? If the link actually contained any useful information about Stract instead of being a sign-up page :P

That's putting a large amount of faith in the intelligence and propaganda-awareness of the average Canadian. I wish I shared his optimism.

They're fully within their rights to restrict access to their content, just as everyone complaining is fully within their rights to not give up their email to access content.

I realize independent media financing is a huge struggle right now, and the quality of journalism has been in a downwards spiral for decades now. Clearly, the current system is unsustainable, I agree with 404media on that much. I wholeheartedly disagree with restricting access to information as a solution, as that seems completely opposed to what journalism should aim to achieve.

Hey no worries, we all have our bad days. Props for owning up to it! Apologies if I ever came off as rude as well.

Hope you feel better soon 💕

Well in any case, if you were the only one, you aren't anymore.

If they're that concerned about the safety of homeless people, maybe they could help the overcrowded shelter, or help with repairs to the church?

It's pretty disingenuous to say "this is for their well-being and safety!" and then immediately throw them back out on the street.

I get this is likely a reference to something, but casually using slurs and linguistic elitism are both pretty lame.

Edit: Anyone care to share their issues with what I said rather than simply downvoting me?

Why in the hell are government and bank logins literally the least secure logins I have??

My bank doesn't let you set an actual password, only a 6 digit pin, and the only 2FA available is SMS codes. I have better security on Lemmy than I do for my fuckin' financial institution!