I simply don’t understand the distinction between seamless integration and losing your cultural identity.

They’re synonyms to me; the positive and negative sides of the same coin.

40% of people are voting to divert the meteor and 40% are voting to accelerate it towards us…

Hmmm… I vote we change the moon’s orbit a bit. I’m a single-issue voter and neither plan really addresses the moon very well.

That’s understandable and not implied by the comic, so you’re not targeted by my joke.

I hear the meteor has a lot of palladium, which should help our economy.

A vote for a third party under FPTP is mathematically a vote against the party closest to your values. If you live in the US, that means you vote(d) against the Democratic Party and for the Republican Party.

I too long for a third party, but 2024 is not the time.

Imagine if you could vote to stop the meteor but choose to stay home and read the comics instead.

The DNC has plenty of flaws but I didn’t stay home and enable fascism because of it. How fucking stupid can people be?

Russian propaganda is too hilariously good.

Oh my god this ‘both sides are the same’ nonsense is even more disgusting post-election.

Children’s stories are often seeds of critical thinking sown in growing minds.

It’s definitely a different line for everyone, which is why I asked them to self-evaluate to challenge their own thoughts about it.

It could be they’re ready when a standard battery is 300+ miles with a half hour charge up. Could be 500+ with 10 minutes to charge, etc. until we get to a place where it’s probably far outside our lifetime and it’s suddenly a hard no to EVs and they may have had no idea.

I just chafe a bit at vague “not yet” with no clear goal. It’s the bread and butter of bad faith arguments against EVs and I don’t like to see it spread, intentionally or not.

EVs are older than ICE cars.

The market definitely went ICE for decades, but how mature is mature enough for you?

ICE engines improve all the time too. Are you similarly hesitant to buy a car with one?

Percentage depends on the exact year.

Or did Disney retcon that?

Which ruins the surprise.

Did a little digging and it seems like the main barrier to entry in the way of plug and play would be setting up a Meta account and using your smartphone to set it up. From what I know about Meta automatically making an account for every human they are aware of and the fact that all Androids (and iPhones?) have Facebook pre-installed with pre-loaded wide permissions, that’s effectively the same as handing Zuckerberg all of my personal information by buying a Quest. While researching, I found it incredibly difficult to find anyone serious about privacy discussing the matter without getting shut down with a “Who cares? They have your information already just give them more.”

Soft pass until I know how to do it without leaking my life to the Meta gods.

I would love the Quest and have multiple if it weren’t for the Facebook requirement.

Mysteriously, your performance review is suddenly much worse, citing completely unrelated reasons.

I know for a fact they have wait() code in there. If you try to do anything on a thread the OP has blocked you, it takes 10s or so minimum.

Do you know why some countries wanted to attack Germany in the 1930s and 40s?

Sometimes the lesser evil really is war, but much more rarely than war hawks would like to claim. The Roman Empire famously caused strife among their neighbors and used that as an excuse to attack “for the safety of Rome.”