FireRetardant
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- Comment on Walking three times a week ‘nearly halves’ recurrence of low back pain 1 week ago:
I genuinely believe walking is one of the best exercises you can do for both physical and mental health.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
I think much of north america is dug so deep into car centric planning that making drivers pay the full cost would be too expensive for a significant portion of the population and workforce. I think the alternatives need to exist before the taxation because many people are constrained to their car being their only reliable way to get to work.
Making that cost more could put huge financial stress on a family whereas building the rail before the taxation could provide a cheaper alternative before the taxation even begins.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Yes and i agree with that sentiment. 20 years down the line we will realize our cities are just as unwalkable and unable to be served by transit if we build them to exclussively serve the car. We should build cities so walking, cycling, transit and driving are all realistic options. For most north American cities we only prioiritize the car.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
The only reason people in urban centers do not have transit is because governments neglected to build it. If they can build a 6 lane highway through your city, they could build transit.
We shouldnt use rural and spread out areas as an excuse to not build our cities and denser areas better and service them with transit.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
The vast majority of people who are anti car are anti car centric urban environments. Noboby is expecting a small town of 300 people to build a tram, we are expecting places with congested highways to build transit instead of “adding one more lane to solve traffic forever”
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
We should defintely still make EVs, overall they are going to be better than ICE. We just shouldn’t force/subsidize everyone to have to buy and drive an EV like we did with ICE cars.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Here is my reasonable argument against EVs. EVs only really solve the emissions part of the equation. They dont solve the massive amounts of paved surface, private ownership of thousands of pounds of steel and plastic, they still use massive amounts of energy to move that steel and plastic abd building cities for cars is largely ineffecient.
We could do a lot more for the environment than EVs. Id rather see their subsidies go to things like electrified transit, cycling infrastructure or walkability improvements.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 1 month ago:
Electric cars aren’t going to fix climate change
- Comment on Is it greener to just burn plastic? 1 month ago:
The post was not clear to me that OP was talking about incineration facilities, I know several people who burn plastics and garbage frequently on their own property/camping. Even well filtered incinerators have a considerable amount of fallout.
- Comment on Is it greener to just burn plastic? 2 months ago:
Plus burning it allows those toxins to disperse across the environment while more traditional recycling can keep the toxins mostly concentrated on landfill/processing sites.
- Comment on AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful 2 months ago:
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- Comment on AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful 2 months ago:
Or even like modern wifi. I saw a vacuum with wifi capabilities. Do I really need to check my vacuum battery level from my phone?
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
I had a harder time getting good at and staying interested in ITB. I still really enjoy a playthrough every now and then.
With FTL I guess it just feels more replayable and “on edge” to me. There is just something special about ftl runs, be it overpowered, under powered. There are so many ships, weapons, systems, and crew combinations that no run really feels the same.
The same could be said about ITB and their different mech teams but I guess it just doesn’t have the same feel. ITB feels like I’m selling my services to big corporations with saving people as an after note. FTL feels like a suicide mission for the fate of the galaxy and I think that feeling is what really makes me come back to FTL.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 3 months ago:
FTL and to a lesser extent their second game Into The Breach.
RNG heavy strategy games with lots of micromanaging.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Technology and speed of information has advanced significantly over the years. As the technology advances our society tries to keep up, a good example of this is how digital friendships and relationships have become. I know many yojng people struggle to make friends in real life but have plenty of digital connections. Many peolle fall into the trap of swiping for something “better” on a dating app than tolerating a flaw or two in their psrtners.
The speed of information has increased signifcantly due to the internet and social media. The entire world feels more connected than previous generations. News stories from any corner of the world are shared almost instantly. There is more opportunties to compare ourselves to each other with social media at our finger tips.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 4 months ago:
If we continue to tip as a wage subsidy, where is the motivation to make companies actually pay their workers?
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 4 months ago:
I did initially but I edited it and it seems to work for me
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 4 months ago:
I do think its a factor, i dont think the solution is just letting car theives walk away because they are in a tough spot.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I still play in the woods with my friends as an adult. It is a lot less often and we tend be more drunk than we were as kids.
- Comment on Imagine everything humans could accomplish if we were not a commerce based civilization. 4 months ago:
Thats still in a sense a commerce based system. The only reason that warlord fights for that land is because it has value, be it food, a cash crop, a strategic location.
Warlords hoarded land and power in similar ways billionaires hoard money and power.
- Comment on What's the best type of food to eat in an active shower? 4 months ago:
I drink beers out of cans/bottles while showering regularly. The amount of water that gets into the can/bottle is neglible.
- Comment on Google reveals $1bn UK data centre it says will create jobs and 'boost growth of AI' 5 months ago:
Create jobs and growth of AI sounds like 2 conflicting interests. Maybe this data center creates a few jobs, but how many jobs will be lost to their AI advancement?
- Comment on Is it at all possible to use Android Auto in a car that only supports Apple CarPlay? 5 months ago:
What sick fuck makes a car that only supports one brand of phone? When did we get on this corporate technocratic timeline and how do we get off?
- Comment on Stephen Fry wants King's Guard to ditch bear fur 5 months ago:
Reasonable take. Seems better to switch now than continuing the centuries long tradition of exploiting Canada’s wildlife for their furs.
- Comment on Why is this so hard 5 months ago:
Just buy reusable mesh bags and stop wasting plastic to protect your produce for a 20 minute car ride.
- Comment on Why Shoes Left Unworn for a Long Time Get Broken Easily When Finally Used? 5 months ago:
I’ve used mink oil on some of my leather items (belts, knife sheathes) and I found it softened them up quite a bit
- Comment on It's finally over. 5 months ago:
“Whyyyyyyyyy-- – do people do this? You’re still just on the train.”
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
I’ve found that I rarely get called out for poor spelling or grammar on lemmy compared to other sites. So long as it is pretty obvious what the correct word or grammar is no one cares to mention. The exception is if the mistake is particularly humorous.
- Comment on What's up with all this data breaches and leaks? 6 months ago:
The 23 and me stuff is expecially scary. It is bad enough giving out genetic information to a company. It is even worse when that information is stolen.
Anyone interested in using a gentic ancestry service should read the book Genethics by David Suzuki & Peter Knudtson first. TLDR if a big enough genetic data bank is aquired by the wrong hands, discriminatory practices could increase significantly in job interviews, health insurance and other sectors. Chemical warfare could also be specifically tuned to specific genetic groups.
- Comment on Two sides to Korea 6 months ago:
Most countries act like sociopaths if they were held to individual human standards.