Kindness is Punk

It’s like the malabar front in 1984, It’s not about what’s actually happening It’s about creating an identity through social engineering, making an attack on the ideology an attack on your idea of your place in the world.

There are a lot of rich and powerful men trying to see how much of the system they can bend to their will and they will not stop until prison or violence stops them.

I’m happy that some people are realizing the damage this is doing; however I’ll hold my celebration until it has some real world consequences for these people.

That’s the issue with all products and services being permissible only by service agreement.

You’re always at the whims of the provider and as they start to implement more AI oversight the chances of a clerical error causing major disruptions in your workflow is a risk worth considering.

Honestly it feels like you should regulate how Facebook can interact with children instead of the children’s access to it

Glad is definitely more positive than I’d put it. More like it’s the least bad option in a world that is predicated on market consolidation

Yes please, I’m so sick of technofuedalism. This has gone too far.

Yes, please, this has gone too far, I’m so done with tech bro technofuedalism

Are you telling me that Donald Trump, the sitting President of the United States of America might have some sympathies to Russia and therefore it’s leader Vladimir Putin?

Stop the presses.

If only there had been signs, like well documented investigations and years of praise.

Jarome Iginla was always my hero.

You should definitely vote but it shouldn’t be the only thing you do.

When she’s fresh out of the shower

Often when going into the doctor’s office I have to go with my wife because if I don’t they often dismiss her, I will just succinctly restate what she’s been saying and then and only then will she get help It’s incredibly frustrating.

Oh man, I read the archived link, my bad, I didn’t see the date

TL;DR: Chinese automakers saw their marketshare in Europe decline in October. After surpassing South Korean brands for the first time in September, their collective share of the hybrid and electric vehicle categories fell by ~three percentage points. This was primarily driven by a sales drop in the United Kingdom, although their marketshare has continued to grow elsewhere in Europe.

Despite this, Chinese manufacturers like BYD, Chery, and Leapmotor plan to continue investing in European market expansion. They plan to achieve growth by offering budget models and leveraging partnerships, such as the Leapmotor-Stellantis venture, to compete directly in markets like Germany.

Yup I’m voting NDP next time, need to rename themselves to the Neoliberal party.

The word of the day is obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.

It sucks too because the old trucks with a low bed were so much better for actualy doing work if you care about your back at all.

Vehicles are getting way too big on average, I mean the F150 is North America’s best selling vehicle (*edit: I have since learned as of 2024 that spot actually belongs to the RAV4) since forever. It’s a problem of misaligned incentives.

There’s an exception carved out for large vehicles in the EPA guidelines that hold them to less stringent emissions standards which incentivizes building larger vehicles 1

Large cars are also incentivized by our crash safety rating system which only takes into account the mortality rate of those inside the car as apposed to average related fatalities. This means it will prioritize safety of those in the vehicle, which has led to our average fatalities increasing. 2

As an unintended side effect this also damages roads much faster because vehicle weight per axle determines the magnitude of the damage a vehicle does to the road. 3 anecdotally this makes me concerned for the additional weight that electric cars add.

Also as vehicles increase in weight the amount of microplastics put into the air as a by product of tire wear increase. 4

As cars increase in size (and therefore weight) the downsides are exponential.

In this economy!?