that raises a philosophical question, at what point does a backup become an archive?

it’s the kind of thing that should literally require 3 people turning physical keys at the same location

“behold a screw!”

this assumes that a big car is better, which is the opposite of reality.

at best it was a playground for people who are fundamentally fucked in the head, i’ve never understood how any normal person can tolerate it at all.

i can’t fucking believe we now have to read “space force” and take it seriously

right, but maybe americans can try to remember that actual rural areas (as in, something between the density of suburbia and wyoming) do exist, and that the entire world doesn’t consist of 30 megacities in a desert? It’s very frustrating to see perfectly valid modes of transport dismissed as bonkers and inefficient, when it demonstrably works okay in the right circumstances and enables 90% of my country to have any sort of public transport at all.

I see this kind of thing so often from americans, taking their personal experiences with public transport and their local conditions, and projecting that upon the entire concept of public transport as a whole.
Everything from “public transport is full of stinky druggies and is only for the truly desperate”, to “the only form of public transport that exists is buses; trains and trams are ancient and irrelevant”. And it’s baffling because just looking at how things work in the rest of the world would immediately disabuse those notions.

oh come off it, it’s a great way to provide service in areas that are NEVER going to get proper bus lines otherwise.
We use it in most of sweden (as a fallback in rural areas) and it’s perfectly functional.

why i’ll use the fucking godot engine if i ever have to make a graphical program, and otherwise will merrily stick to scripting in python which literally requires no boilerplate at all.

Even if you just want a simple qt/gtk/windows program it takes so much more faff compared to scripting, meanwhile with godot it’s specifically geared to let you easily make graphical programs that run anywhere! Yeah it’s a game engine but fuck it, it works.

yaabadabadoooo!

which is quite possibly one of the most accessible maintenance things in the world

Ideally we could just have the best of both worlds, if a device can charge a built-in battery i see no reason it couldn’t just be built to charge a removable battery instead.

funniest thing about 2: If there’s a prolonged blackout you SPECIFICALLY want an EV, because it’s literally a battery pack with wheels! Just drive somewhere with power, charge, and come home with electricity to power the most vital appliances in your home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO5fJ8z66Z8

i also question how much safer it actually is in practice, because it’s harder to control a heavy vehicle, especially stopping takes a longer distance.

Honestly i’m fine with the value of the vehicle not affecting tax (beyond VAT upon purchase), because there’s not much harm in someone having an expensive vehicle as decoration or collector’s piece.
In fact i wish more people would do that, rather than actually driving the vehicles around on a daily basis.

I like the idea of just having a tax linked directly to how much wear a vehicle causes to roads, because the wear goes up exponentially with weight. Not only would this make oversized cars (and cars in general) much more expensive, it would also provide the funds needed to repair roads that get completely annihilated by trucking companies.

i’m not sure what you want me to say, it’s basic physics that if you put a larger volume of sugar into a smaller volume of water, that becomes syrup. And soda in the can is very clearly not syrup.

it’s also quite nice to grow more things domestically because it means you have some regulatory oversight and the money you spend will stay in the local economy and thus might make its way back to you.
Like if companies start using domestic canola oil, that means canola farms might open near you, where YOU could get a job and get money to buy things like food and housing! very cool

why would i eat it less frequently when i can just make it healthier and enjoy it all the time? that makes absolutely no sense to me

so if cooking it doesn’t kill germs, what exactly do you eat?