wulrus

@wulrus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hotels have developed a new revenue stream: "algorithmic" smoke detectors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t that be interpreted as a confession that their air is at least as unsafe as staying with a heavy smoker the whole night, in terms of PM 2.5 and other hazards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad cops, even the worst of the worst, do a normal job 99% of the time. It’s the other 1 % of their actions that have such a negative impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or 50 and 29 - eww

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Table top dishwashers usually have a window. My kid considered it a major disadvantage when we got a real dishwasher that the window was missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One insanity in the following years was how they thought people still wanted their next generation diesel.

  I’ve been working for them in the 2010s with the department to organise the staff car fleet. We ordered many electric vehicles years ahead from production and planned it all around electric vehicles: Charging stations, operating distance, some hybrids for long distance, software to calculate trips etc.

  Then a few months before we needed them, they said: We overproduced on the latest diesel generation and can’t keep up with the demand for electric vehicles, so we have to sell the ones you ordered. You can either go with a Tesla (for official Volkswagen business trips!) or have the diesel for free.

  It felt like there was a hysteria: Decision makers got it in their heads that the “hype” for electric vehicles was ideology-driven and not something people with buying power actually wanted today or in the near future. Bit like the republican administration thinking that “woke” is our main problem. Meanwhile, huge research and development departments did come up with the electric vehicles they sell today (and fully working hydrogen prototypes you won’t see in a store, just to be safe) and must have been quite frustrated that so few were produced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole endgame⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When she finds out about this she can do an ama and be a superstar for one day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t Americans salute the flag and sing the national anthem every day at school, one of the main reasons being respect to the WW 1 & 2 veterans, who went through hell, and often died, to stop an ideology where some people have worth & dignity and others don’t?

  A very conservative Jewish German journalist, Friedman, held an insightful speech in a German state parliament recently, attacking the right wing party that Musk and Trump love so much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lizOiK1OHf8 (English auto subtitles are of very good quality.)

  He is very conservative, been in the conservative party for decades (until they tried to pass an anti immigration law with the right a few weeks ago), strong supporter of Israel, but against Netanyahu’s government. His parents were saved from the Holocaust by Schindler. But he understands the general pattern: Even though they don’t directly attack Jewish people, at least not yet, they don’t accept that everybody is somebody, as he puts it, and that’s where it starts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate any attempt to win these people back. I mean, there’s nothing to lose. But they were not lied to. Trump was honest about the big picture and it’s exactly what they wanted.

  These people are lost for democracy and for reason. To stupidity or to plain evil.

  Just look how even people like Dick Cheyney saw this coming and tried everything to stop what’s happening now.