schnokobaer
@schnokobaer@feddit.de
- Comment on Ironing 4 months ago:
Yeah, no need whatsoever to eat cramped too tightly around a table.
- Comment on Car 4 months ago:
and the brake pedal in an automatic is the width of both pedals in a manual
Yeah… no.
The clutch would be to the left of both pedals in an automatic. Your foot rests in the empty space left of the brake pedal, usually there’s some kind of footrest roughly where the clutch would be. If anything you’d slam on that rest. Lifting your left foot off that rest (where the clutch you intend to slam would be) to hit the center pedal (which is where the brake is in any car) makes zero sense as a potential mixup. Not to mention it would feel extremely unnatural to operate a pedal so far right with your left foot if you tried.
- Comment on Car 4 months ago:
How could that possibly happen? Do you left-foot-brake?
- Comment on DRASTICALLY 5 months ago:
Eating 76 kilograms of protein seems slightly excessive, would change my body drastically no doubt. /s
- Comment on utterly bamboozled 6 months ago:
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 10 months ago:
That’s the best part, when you meet people of the language you are learning you can say the odd quirky shit from Duolingo and they’ll absolutely love it. What, you are an apple?? A dog is wearing three pullovers?? More relevant for beginners who can say a handful of stuff but can’t yet hold a proper conversation.
It’s not like Duolingo is just randomly generated sentences that make no sense either. They are carefully sprinkled in to break up the routine and make it a bit of fun.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Coming straight from “unless 100% of people abstain 100% I’m not calling it change”-folks. There’s significant shifts in both of these issues. Meat more so, or leading ahead compared to cars, but the fact that some people aren’t going to drop one or either doesn’t change anything about that.
So maybe efforts to reduce the impact of those kinds of things aren’t necessarily wasted.
Not only are they not wasted, they are absolutely necessary. What’s important to understand is, however, that large parts of the negative impact of cars aren’t affected by EVs at all. It’s not just internal combustion engine exhaust pollution, it’s the waste of space, gigatons of asphalt for roads and parking, microplastics from rubber tires driven endless miles by a billion people, traffic congestions and the never-ending demand for another lane to fix them, ““cities”” sprawling out so far that everything is too far to get to by any means other than driving, pedestrian (if such a thing even still exists in your neck of the woods) safety, noise, socioeconomic factors such as the high upkeep costs vs low-income population who are reliant on a car in a car dependant world, …
We have to transition to EVs either way, but it’s not going to fix anything meaningful. And that’s just the neutral outlook, a real danger we’re facing is that through car manufacturers’ greenwashing that is already in full swing, we coax ourselves to a good eco conscience over our no-emissions cars and continue growing the dependency, which would eventually increase the impact. The only real way of reducing the impact is by reducing cars and car dependency where it’s possible. And people are, very slowly, waking up to the fact that this is more often the case than they were led to believe by lobby driven media and politics of the last 60 years.
- Comment on Bye biiiittttchhhh 1 year ago:
Anti-EV? The fuck are you talking about this is anti car dependance.
- Comment on Follow up. They fixed the light bulb 1 year ago:
We heff eckssidentally repläced wan bulb with a kaltweiß kind, Wolfgang get ze shotgun
- Comment on Seamlessly photoshoped 1 year ago:
6 months? In Germany itself 2 weeks of returns is granted by law and most shops do one month, more than that is pretty special here.
- Comment on Nothing says "I'm an accountant" like a big ass ute. 1 year ago:
I always thought a Ute was specifically a normal sized, non-offroad car but with a bed rather than a boot with a lid.
