gizmonicus

All great stuff. Now convince this asshole to support it:

I'm totally here for all the things you said. But maybe 1 in 10 people where I am would even consider the idea. Carbrain has metastasized here, and it's terminal.

I understand the problem fully. The problem of solving it is a whole different kettle of fish.

How do you break the cycle? In the USA it feels insurmountable. Nothing is close enough to be walkable, so you must have cars to do just about anything. But that makes everything more spread out, which leads to even less walkable environments and so on.

I live in a hilly area, for example. Being built around car infrastructure means that steep grades don't matter all that much because you won't be sweating your ass off pedalling up a 10% incline; you're in a 3 ton hermetically sealed air conditioned box with a 6.0L V8 chugging diesel to get your fat ass up the hill.

I'm sure that if we were building our environment around bike infrastructure and public transit and actually had to think about things like this, the entire road network and neighborhood layout would be drastically different. Without just starting over from the beginning, how do you fix that?

100% this. I've been on Linux for 27 years now (ffs I'm getting old), and until proton, I just wrote off gaming as a hit or miss experience, usually not worth the trouble. Now I'll buy Windows only games without even checking compatibility in most cases. Unless it's a full price AAA game, I'll risk the off chance that it doesn't work.

The costume has a hood though.

America is so fatally car brained, I've lost all hope it will ever change. I literally was yelled at yesterday for making a left turn on a two lane road on my bike because I was holding up traffic... completely ignoring the fact that the exact same situation would happen if I was in a fucking car.

Language evolves, the meaning of words change. It's a natural part of the evolution of language over time. You say hang up the phone or dial a phone number, don't you? But you don't literally hang up a phone when you're done with it or turn a literal dial anymore. But they used to work that way, so we still use that language even though the original meaning is lost.

I would argue that although this phrase originated from dismissing the opinions of actual boomers, it's become a convenient shorthand way of calling someone out of touch with current social trends without having to adapt new phrases every time a new generation takes the place of the boomers as being out of touch.

I really hope he is successful.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AJ0e_AxNASc

Good. Fuckem. They make shitty, oversized trucks that are a danger to pedestrians and people who drive reasonably sized cars anyway.

*claiming he is going to start a party. I don't believe he actually has the will or the focus required to do it. I hope he does, and splits the right's vote share, but I'm not holding my breath.

I would be on board with this if we would just finish the job and throw the rest of the cars off a cliff too.

I am so completely fucking done with these brain dead ass conspiracy theories about cloud seeding. Science illiteracy is a real fucking problem.

You. Cannot. Create. Torrential. Rain. With. Cloud. Seeding. Alone.

Cloud seeding precipitates rain from existing weather systems. If those clouds do not contain the water required to create a torrential downpour then it is impossible to create a torrential downpour. And if those clouds have enough water in them to create a torrential downpour, it does not require cloud seeding to precipitate it.

It is soul crushing to have to explain to people that human beings do not yet have the capacity to steer and control large weather systems. And it's very likely that we never will, given the scale and the amount of energy that it would require.

We cannot control hurricanes. Why? Because hurricanes possess and release more energy than the entire combined energy production capacity of human civilization. They are mind bogglingly powerful, and to think that we can steer them to target political enemies IS BATSHIT INSANE.

Climate change is real. Republican conspiracies cause me physical pain. And I need a stiff drink.