relevants @ relevants @feddit.de

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Then you did a very poor job of making that point through your (presumably rhetorical) question.

Setting aside how needlessly passive-aggressive your comment is– most people don't care about the world at large. They care about their family, their social circle, their tribe/in-group, but not the world at large. Otherwise climate change wouldn't be as big of an issue in the first place.

Some people use "race" to mean that, but the word you'd be looking for is ethnicity.

For a second I thought you were calling sea water a dangerous gas.

Someday we'll all be cruising in [...] SUVs.

God I hope not. These things are a nuisance in urban spaces and everyone would be worse off in your fantasy world, including the drivers.

First he needed an exception for a 1-letter name in the App Store, eventually he'll need exceptions for going over the character limit.

I think they are just different designs with different use cases in mind. I use Safari tab groups and find them very helpful to quickly get back to specific work contexts, sort of like just separate browser windows that I can close and bring back as needed.

Having only used Chrome's tab groups briefly I think I recall them being more of an ad-hoc organizational tool for existing tabs in the window. In that case, I think Chrome's tab groups are closer to the name, whereas Safari tab groups are a separate concept that could have maybe used a different name.

Yeah, I know. I was thinking mostly of the plans to drill for more oil, but overall of course car dependency (including electric cars) impacts so many other aspects of life as well

Sorry, you're right. I should have read on before accusing you of being too cynical. I guess the real joke is me thinking a British person could make a point without somehow being transphobic about it.

There isn't? It doesn't make sense to me why this entirely unrelated political statement would be has been weaved into an article about environmental issues. Granted, I don't know the author or their leanings. But I think it's pretty clear that this is meant to say "Do you tie your identity to your car" , and that is how I read it until the similarity to the "one joke" was pointed out by the OP.

Edit: corrections

I mean, that's clearly not what this is..? There's no need to undermine a valid point about how strongly sone people are emotionally attached to a vehicle, just because it happens to remind you of a different social issue.

Edit: ok, I should have read the actual article, with the next line it's clearly intentional. I still don't understand why the author felt the need to bring this up in what I thought was otherwise a valid criticism of car culture, but that was just me giving them too much benefit of the doubt. Sorry!

Damn you weren't kidding. I always felt the swipe in Voyager to feel a little "off" but could never tell why. It was the haptic feedback! Now it feels just as natural as it used to in Apollo

As a second-year uni student I applied for a tutoring job at the university. I was still underage by a few weeks when the semester started, which caused them a bit of extra bureaucratic hassle when I was supposed to sign the contract.

After that, they've added a question "are you going to be at least 18 when starting the position" to the application form :D

Since at least some legitimate answers are already in, I will just say that I've noticed this as well from playing GeoGuessr, and it is definitely limited to only a few countries, I believe mostly in SEA.

Minor mistake in the article, keychain does have 2FA code generation built in.

Ah got it, millions of people suffering is not a lot, so it must not be a real issue. You're the worst kind of person.

those people experiencing food insecurity barely make up anything

Then it should be easy to feed them with just a fraction of the food that's thrown away?? How you could possibly say that and think it helps your point is beyond me.

Currently, as much as 40% of food is thrown away in the US, while millions of people experience food insecurity. The scarcity is fully intentional.

You acknowledge there are legitimate reasons to be opposed to Musk, but at the same time you are discrediting anyone who has that opinion as "[not] to be taken seriously"?

Brushing off criticism as "hate" and "trendy" is counterproductive and whether you like it or not, says a lot about your own biases as well. If you are actually interested in genuine discourse, you should instead engage with the reasons why he is disliked, and make your case as to why they're not important/accurate/whatever. Because blindly defending him from "haters" is just as much a trend thing.

And before you accuse me of "[struggling] hard when having to state those reasons", there's a myriad of good reasons to think Musk is a bad person. From the way he treated his workers during the height of the pandemic, to the way he publicly treated Twitter employees fearing for their jobs, to the kinds of politics he's using Twitter to promote under the guise of "free speech", it's clear that he does not feel a need to be respectful to people he has control over. I don't know what your moral compass is, but I don't particularly care for selfish rulers.