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- Comment on Oil rises to $110. Goldman Sachs says we’ll be in the triple digits for years 1 day ago:
I worked as a clerk in a gas station 20 years ago. People were complaining when prices went over $1 per litre. Now it’s around $1.70 a litre and people just keep buying it while still complaining.
I know 3 person that changed their car last year. They all went with gas engines. And theg complain that the price of gas is too high. Meanwhile some other regions of the world already pay more than $2 per litre, and they also just continue to buy it and complain.
In the 70ies there was also a peak like this and for a while, people did buy smaller cars and started to be more sensible, but the prices eventually went back down, and most people went back to gas guzzlers while complaining about prices.
If economics are supposed to push people to change, apparently the prices are still not high enough. This shit is like cocain.
- Comment on Oil rises to $110. Goldman Sachs says we’ll be in the triple digits for years 2 days ago:
As someone that hates the fact that we didn’t transition to renewable energy, I’m glad they’re going up. I don’t personally buy gas/petrol and I rarely buy fossil fuel in general. But as someone that has to eat, this is not going to be good.
Unfortunately we prefer to rely on cheap oil by bombing and invading other countries, sometimes killing a few thousand or a few hundred thousand in the process. But this is just collateral damage.
I can only hope this will push the world to a rapid transition to renewable energy, but it’s more likely that people will just pay more while bitching and whining that the price of gas is too damn high.
- Comment on Great Tits 3 days ago:
Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.
- Comment on We don’t have room in the carbon budget for a world war. 1 week ago:
Just for fun, look up how much the US army pollutes.
- Comment on Tulsa police pepper sprayed children for walking out/protesting 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on The HOA isn't going to be happy about the colour, though. 4 weeks ago:
So we’re just spreading trash in the environment and feeling good about it because it can be reused by other animals?
This just made me look up and learn about how tennis balls are an environmental problem.
- Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace. 4 weeks ago:
I’m going to add Sony to this list.
- Comment on Guilt by Association: First ‘Antifa’ Case Sweeps Anti-Trump Activists Into One Terrorism Conspiracy 4 weeks ago:
The Dow is over 50 000!
- Comment on Saying "Be careful" when someone stumbles is more an admonishment than a warning. 5 weeks ago:
I find being told to “be careful” irrationally irritating, especially when I’m on foot or on my bike and I’m told to “be very careful” before going on a road. Like, of course, if nobody told me I would have let a car hit me. Or if one hits me, it’s because I wasn’t careful enough.
I understand what people mean when they say that before going on the road, but every time my brain is just like “ok, but some it I can’t control”.
- Comment on Kira asks Sisko for a runabout... again 5 weeks ago:
I was wondering about the instances when she borrowed a runabout and when the terrorism happened but someone’s gonna have to remind me.
Once she brought back a few Bajorans that were still prisoners since the war, including Li Nalas.
Another time she kidnapped a single Barojan scientist to force him find a cure against a terrorist bioweapon.
What am I missing?
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 5 weeks ago:
No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.
Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 5 weeks ago:
I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.
Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 5 weeks ago:
I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications.Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.
So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.
- Comment on It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines 1 month ago:
It’s another reason to avoid those things but TBF, I don’t really care about remote intervention on “autonomous” cars because I think the whole idea is stupid. It’s for car dependent people that shudder at the idea of taking a bus, but don’t mind being at the mercy of a giant corporation for getting everywhere. If your city is big enough to have a fleet of “autonomous” cars, it’s big enough to have public transit. And if you don’t live in a city, those “autonomous” cars will not be available anyway.
I am car free and I never ever use a taxi unless it’s absolutely necessary. My city has transit, with buses and trains. Otherwise I have a bike and can walk. Using a taxi means continuing to be dependant on cars.
When those first started to come out and be introduced, I was kind of enthusiast and thought it would be great to have a service that could bring me in places where public transit wouldn’t. Like, it would be wonderful to have an autonomous car drop me in a provincial park, or in the countryside somewhere. But they are not made for this. They are made to replace public transit in cities, which is absolutely stupid.
So if I am to pay to be driven somewhere by a taxi, I would feel safer and prefer to have someone behind the wheel locally rather than someone remote controlling the car from the other end of the world. Even if my experience with taxi drivers is less than stellar, it can’t be worse than being stuck in a car because it doesn’t know how to process a trafic cone placed on its hood.
- Comment on Distraction 1 month ago:
Yes , that’s how Trump and his administration operates. Whether it’s on purpose or just the product of a chaotic idiot, that’s how it works. Every day is a shit show to make people forget the previous shit show. It’s how they can do anything without consequences.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 months ago:
You should tell Gemini about it!
Seriously I don’t know what version started what but Android is slowly getting more and more annoying for me to use. It’s like Windows where you have to spend multiple minutes, if not hours, in personalizing and removing bloatware. But then an update brings or restore more shit.
I know it’s not all Android’s fault, but it adds up.
For example, I know they are forced by the EU to lower the volume after a while, but sometimes I use weak bone conducting headphones and I NEED the volume to be at max.
Or another are the mandatory presidential/amber alerts, where the government decides to make your phone scream an end of the world alarm because a child is missing 200 km away. I’d like to have normal notifications for that but no, only end of the world alarms.
This one is on Android though and I’ll need to find how to disable that annoying “you haven’t used those apps in a while so permissions were removed” thigny. I don’t open some apps often, like my backup app, but it’s still used, unless Android decides to revoke permissions automatically. Like, I don’t use Wahoo in winter but when I want to use it back in summer, it cant find my sensors because permissions have been revoked.
I’ve been annoyed and tired of using Android for a few years now. And I obviously won’t go to Apple. Maybe next time I’ll get a dumb phone and just carry a small computer with me for the rest.
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 2 months ago:
As a Canadian, I have never seen a bag of milk “sealed” with a rubber band. Plus, standard bags are way bigger than these. Those bags are not Canadian.
En tant que Canadien, je n’ai jamais vu de sacs de lait “scellés” avec des élastiques. De plus, les sacs réguliers sont beaucoup plus grand que ceux-ci. Ces sacs ne sont pas Canadiens.
- Comment on Wait, I know you... 2 months ago:
Gul Dukat did nothing wrong.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 months ago:
Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 3 months ago:
In fact, the numbers are estimated to be around 2 billion animals a year globally.
As for people
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 4 months ago:
I make a difference between the workers and the industry.
Therapists where I live can work in the public system, or in the private system.
It’s free to see a therapist in the public system and they are paid by the government, but it’s nearly impossible to have a session because they are booked months and months in advance. So they are not making more from this.
Then there’s the ones working privately, usually also booked months in advance but for a few hundred dollars an hour. They are also not making more from this because they were already working full time.
However there is a “mental health industry”, like Betterhelp, that will gladly exploit and profit from the circumstances.
- Comment on The mental health industry is probably profiting a lot from political turmoil. 4 months ago:
“And because I consider mental health important, today I’m proud to present my sponsor, Betterhelp!”
Sweet capitalism.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 4 months ago:
If you want to be serious, the word state and état are both coming from an older version of French when it was written estat. French replaced ES with É because it wasn’t pronouncing the S, while English dropped the E and kept pronouncing the S. It happened to multiple words, although some also come from Latin.
Étrange - Strange. Époux - Spouse. École - School. Épice - Spice. Éponge - Sponge.
It also happened with circumflex.
Hôpital - Hospital. Forêt - Forest. Pâte - Paste.
Here’s a whole video about exactly this.
- Comment on "United States" in French (États-Unis) would have made a very confusing acronym 4 months ago:
The Netherlands, but in English the language is called Dutch.
But I prefer when it happens to cities. Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen. Liège or Luik or Lüttich. Ghent or Gand or Gent.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 5 months ago:
Sure. It’s always “better” to burn stuff to generate more pollution in the air that you breathe, and also continue to depend on fossil fuel.
www.cbc.ca/…/gas-stoves-air-pollution-1.6394514
And “better” depends on your sources of energy and what your goals are. Like most people here, I grew up with an electric stove and we are just used to cook this way. It’s just an adaptation. I use gas stoves in camping and in my cabin, and I’m so used to an electric one, that I hate using gas.
Electricity here is cheap and clean so if you want to eat hot and warm food and minimize the impact on the environment, and your bank account, you should probably get used to cooking with electricity. There’s also different technologies. My mother prefers a glass-ceramic stove but induction stoves are also getting pretty popular. Or you can pay more, pollute more, continue to breathe the results of combustion and keep buying fossil fuel to cook “better”. I consider less pollution for millions of people, and less reliance on the oil & gas industry to be “better”.
- Comment on It's interesting that we have multiple appliances in the kitchen who's sole job is to turn electricity into heat. 5 months ago:
Where I live everything is electric for the vast majority of people. The norm here is to have electric stoves and electric water heaters. Even heating houses is mainly done through electricity.
I was so surprised to learn as a teen that this is not the norm everywhere, and that some people are actually still lighting fires in their houses to cook food.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 5 months ago:
In two parts.
- The before map would be of the only high speed train the US currently has, and it’s the Acela Express. So, something like this.
- If lots of people are consuming Tylenol in day to day life, and it causes autism, and some autistic people love trains, then the US should have a system like the map posted.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Broken clock theory. He’s right, obviously. It’s also interesting that he doesn’t say anything about Trump doing the same thing.
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 5 months ago:
- Comment on But also, the correct answer is Devil's Due 5 months ago:
Lost, confused, disturbed, unsettled, baffled and eve a bit turned on.
This could describe every decon scene in ENT.
