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- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 17 hours ago:
We are not talking about the inherent danger of driving, but the danger caused by people either physically or psychologically unfit to drive. The problem is not highways with speed limits of 130 kmh, but the people driving 240 on them, or the people driving drunk, running red lights, etc.
And as SUV sales show, most people are not comfortable with higher death rates for themselves, but are okay with endangering others. Ironically though, SUVs are more dangerous for their drivers as well, so apparently people are going for a perception of safety rather than actual safety even for themselves.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 day ago:
That’s one way to look at it, but I think it was more of the Reagan-Thatcher generation killing off the left and the rot set in. I wouldn’t discount the achievements of leftists as just concessions from capital. They don’t give an inch if they don’t have to.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 day ago:
We could increase the training requirements and oversight.
I wish.
And who’s going to tell all those people that they are not going to drive again, ever? In pilot training, even showing signs of bravado or machismo is grounds for getting failed. The problem is that if you do that those people will go and vote you out, especially in this climate.
One of the main campaign promises of the idiot who got the most votes in the last Dutch election was to put the speed limits back to 130 kmh from the reduced 100 kmh on motorways. People like to be dumb.
BTW it would take minimal effort to enforce highway speed limits with cameras checking entry and exit times and distances. In some places with road tolls, it wouldn’t even need any more data collection. A single SQL query would return all those people doing 100 kmh over on the motorways. Wonder why outside of a few outliers, nobody does it.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 day ago:
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 day ago:
IDK about trains, but the problem with cars is that we let people operate them with minimal training and practically no oversight. You see shit on roads daily where if the driver was flying a plane, they wouldn’t even be let on as a passenger anymore ever.
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 day ago:
Yeah I’ve been in a few places around Europe, and it really seems that in Western Europe, labour movements made big gains in like the 1970s and neolib governments have been squandering that ever since, and we are nearing the point where it all turns fash.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 5 days ago:
Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.
That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.
- Comment on Apple is placing warnings on EU apps that don’t use App Store payments 1 week ago:
No it wouldn’t need to be Apple.
If a payment processor won’t comply, you can ask for a chargeback at your bank, and if it keeps happening, the payment processor can be blocked from accepting EU payments at all.
- Comment on Uncultured 1 week ago:
Nobody expects the Kommentblitzkrieg
- Comment on Elizabeth Holmes' partner raises millions for new biotech testing startup 2 weeks ago:
The unbridled free market is truly the best and most efficient way to organise an economy.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 weeks ago:
Galactic Basic
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 2 weeks ago:
Because the instructions on the bitterballen said so
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 weeks ago:
You can take trees and replant them in the city, you don’t have to grow it there. There are tree farms.
- Comment on Saint > Pope 2 weeks ago:
I think Trump himself just likes to be in the spotlight and also evade prison.
As for his backers, they want the collapse of the US (and nation states in general) to found company town-esque technocratic city states.
- Comment on Celebrity Inquiries Season 2 Episode 4 3 weeks ago:
hate when that happens
- Comment on Celebrity Inquiries Season 2 Episode 4 3 weeks ago:
on her side
- Comment on Don't be Evil 3 weeks ago:
And fire the intern and let them die uninsured.
- Comment on Don't be Evil 3 weeks ago:
I can almost see the grey face of the marketing intern shuffling out of another pointless meeting to write this, debating whether their health insurance would cover jumping out of the building window.
- Comment on Elon Musk Blasts WSJ for Report Claiming Tesla Is Searching for a CEO: ‘DELIBERATELY FALSE ARTICLE’ 3 weeks ago:
He’s deeply sick, but the system lets him project his twisted worldview onto the world instead of consigning him to treatment.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be similar grammtically as saying “God, I hope I’ll pass” or something like that?
- Comment on Classic meme 3 weeks ago:
I guess that stereotype implies that boys must always be horny for everyone so it’s okay to kiss them while girls must never be horny so it’s not.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 3 weeks ago:
Am I correct in the assessment that his recent antics are because being a nazi no longermakes him special?
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
Depends on where you are from, but the sort of thinking that gets people into religion gets people into misogyny even without religion in my experience.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 4 weeks ago:
Where in Europe?
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Mod Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 4 weeks ago:
The point is that they shipped an update that was mostly pointless, or even completely pointless on PC, that basically blocked the release of a huge scale very anticipated mod days before the release date.
The argument is that they like profiting off their mod creators, but they try to squeeze the community for more money every time they can, like with the paid mods nonsense, and also don’t give a shit about them.
- Comment on Notepad autocorrected what I was typing for my foreign language exercise 5 weeks ago:
People on Linux are used to things just working I guess.
- Comment on Anon describes their dream home 5 weeks ago:
Anon wasn’t trying to live off the land, just to have a hobby
- Comment on Full Circle 1 month ago:
Depends on your viewpoint.
Emigrate from Europe and immigrate to Europe is also a valid way to look at it.
- Comment on Rick and Morty copypasta 1 month ago:
This is beautiful, I don’t know the original Rick and Morty one, but the way it branches from the unhinged rant to the straight up Trumpian word salad is a lovely composition.
- Comment on Appers 1 month ago:
Meanwhile in Eastern Europe: A STREAM OF PURE UNADULTERATED NATIONALISTIC SLURS
