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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oil rises to $110. Goldman Sachs says we’ll be in the triple digits for years⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If economics are supposed to push people to change, apparently the prices are still not high enough

  Yes. In parts of the world where the cost of gas is actually significant compared to the typical wage, we see a lot more use of small engine vehicles like motorcycles and scooters - and these places are electrifying far more quickly as well, since the people have a real economic incentive to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oil rises to $110. Goldman Sachs says we’ll be in the triple digits for years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Much as lemmy hates to admit it, economics is a thing, and increased oil prices will drive consumers to make less oil-dependent choices for their transportation needs. Ideally, this would also come with effective pressure on local, state/provicial, and national governments to reform land se policies and invest in low-carbon infrastructure as well. But even if they don’t, people and businesses will eventually find the cheapest way to get around somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨French children discovered another seated Gaul skeleton this week near their primary school playground in Dijon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, those french children. Digging up corpses again. Rascals!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a fellow public urinator - yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  BBQ - 5 grown men spending hours together, thinking about putting juicy meat in their mouths after the sun sets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Quiche then: “What are you, some kinda homo? Gaaaaaaaay!”

  Quiche now: “Bro, look, I meal prepped my breakfast for the week. Protien bro!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaysadilla⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Art is not a crime

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With regards to cutlery, do you prefer a spoon or a fork for eating cake?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cakes disintigrate if you try to stab them, and often fall off a fork if you try to balance pieces on it. The socially acceptable answer is fork, but that’s for groupthink-following losers who probably went to college and shave every day.

  Intelligent people like myself use a spoon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Income growth in every U.S. state (2010-2024)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe? Reasonable hypothesis, but it just doesnt feel dramatic enough. My guess is that government funding dried up for highly paid research positions in Los Alamos, but that is a shot in the dark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Income growth in every U.S. state (2010-2024)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf New Mexico?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly inspirational

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was funny, so I upvoted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  schill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: BAD⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He could have had a perfectly successful criminal career and made out like a fucking bandit.

  But it was never about the money. It was about his desire to realize his potential and feel like he was in control of his own life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely. Lemmy is, like, 50% doomers who think everything in their lives is hanging by a thread at any moment and that everyone else is the same.

  The reality is that even the doomers have far more slack in their lives and options for alternatives than they realize. People will tighten their belts, bike or take transit, carpool, start private transit businesses, move closer to work, get jobs closer to home, move in with family/roommates, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't let your memes stay dreams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta say, if this is what you need to be happy, you should probably get used to being unhappy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Best shitposter on lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all SO simple!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a shitpost, but… yeah, if those are the calories you are eating…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to assume we are discussing the US and Canada, as these are the most auto-dependent places in the world. I’ll also divide my response into ideal and realistic scenarios.

  The ideal scenario is not that ICE engines are replaced by EVs, but that ICE engines are replaced by walking, cycling, transit, and electric micromobility. This would require:

  1. Pigouvian taxes - taxing the release of carbon into the atmosphere, taxing the registration of vehicles (more), taxing the use of highways (for road use and wear and tear) or the use of highway exit ramps (imposing the externality of your vehicle on the urban environment). These taxes can be imposed initially at a very low cost, and then increased over time to gradually make the social costs imposed by these activities equal to the actual cost that users bear. Note: while the taxes themselves are functionally regressive, these proposals tend to be paired with a citizens dividend to offset the increased cost of goods and services and to ease the transition to less carbon intensive ways of living. The only people who will be negatively impacted would be those who already have excess wealth and use it in especially carbon-intensive ways.
  2. Relaxation of zoning and building regulations - aka, let people build things. Peoples need for full sized automobiles is driven largely by the fact that their homes are far from their work which is far from the grocery store which is far from their social spaces. This is not a solution which can be solved with infrastructure, as you geometrically cannot fit all the transportation infrastructure between these places in an efficient manner - you need to put these things closer together so that a person can, say, walk from home to a transit station, transit to work, transit to the grocery store, walk home with their groceries, then walk to their social activity. Part of this is ending single family residential zoning, and instead allowing mixed use in all areas, part is changing building requirements - like parking requirements and overly stringent aesthetic conditions, and part is reforming building codes to be more flexible and understandable (note - not in a slapdash DOGE capacity, but reviewed by multidisciplinary teams of experts, with an eye towards making things understandable enough that a fairly average DIYer could confidently do their own construction within the limits of the building code)
  3. Intelligent investments in infrastructure and transit. These should prioritize low cost, quick to implement changes in high impact areas - like replacing parking with bike lanes or closing off streets to cars and instead allowing only pedestrians, cyclists, and transit. The most important changes are to rehabilitate old downtowns which were originally pedestrian-friendly, since this will be the highest impact change. Changes should then radiate outwards from urban cores to facilitate movement around the city. In first-ring suburbs, initial big wins are things like implementing BRT lines with frequent schedules along arterials, protected bike lanes on larger neighborhood streets, public protected bike parking and pleasant pedestrian shelters at transit stops, and raised pedestrian crossings, speed bumps, and other traffic calming measures anywhere where cars are driving too fast. Of course, this should also be paired with a mandate to not accept any more sprawling suburban style development into the city’s land portfolio, since these developments are a drain on city resources and would simply need to be rehabilitated later. Also note that these changes to infrastructure and transit do not prioritize things like inter-city high speed rail, since as we have seen with these projects in the past, these rail lines end up underutilized as long as their destinations are not walkable. An inter-city BRT line can achieve 90% of the benefits of high-speed rail using existing busses and some paint on the highway. As a rule, grand, ribbon-cutting-worthy transit projects tend to end up as expensive boondoggles which take decades to complete and which are underutilized. Instead, the vast majority of infrastructure improvements should be driven by walking around in neighborhoods and asking “how can we make this more safe and pleasant for everyone?”

  In this case, most gas stations would continue to function more or less as they currently do. Fewer people would make the switch to EVs, and would instead simply drive their cars less as they become less dependent on them. But due to lower demand for gas, some gas stations would slowly become financially non-viable, and would go out of business. This wouldn’t mean all of them would go out of business at once - instead it would mean that at an intersection with a gas station at each corner, 3 would go out of business and the best one would remain. In denser urban areas, many would likely divide the parcel they are on and continue functioning as a convenience store, while the pump and parking areas turned into some other, better use. Near highways, the larger truck stop style gas stations would likely remain largely the same.

  The more realistic scenario is that EV tech evolves and everyone replaces their ICE cars with EV cars. In this case, gas stations will try to predict how the market will move and will try to pivot in whatever direction they expect it will take.

  One anticipated direction is that gas stations will turn into charging stations. Since charging, even in the best case, takes a while, these charging stations will provide a more pleasant customer experience, integrating restaurants, shopping, and entertainment to keep customers busy while their cars charge. You can already see the stations anticipating these trends with the rise of “luxury” gas stations like Buccees, Wawa, and Maverik.

  Another direction it could go is that instead of a charging station, EVs will develop swappable batteries. This process might require human attendants, and provide jobs for a number of years until the process could be automated.

  But in either case, demand for charging stations would be severly reduced in urban areas, as it will be cheaper and more convenient for people to charge at home and at work for their daily commutes. Again, we would see 3 gas stations at an intersection go under while the 4 takes all the remaining business. But under these conditions, the 3 that go under would likely sit as vacant husks, blighting the urban landscape, rather than being redeveloped into something that actually serves people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your hornyposting is the positivity I need in my life. Please never change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down with this kind of hornyposting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats Where I Want To Be!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I get some support rn please⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will say, I am doing OMAD rn. What you are describing sounds like a very significant eating disorder.

  You say you dry fasted for 60 hours. The most obvious problem here is that the human body can die from dehydration at around 72 hours, or sooner, without water.

  You say you fasted for 60 hours and then “failed”. How long were you intending to fast? I doubt that basically any medical professional, even proponents of IF, would recommend fasting indefinitely for fat loss.

  Feeling better when you are in ketosis is normal. I suggest that if you are chasing this feeling with increasingly long fasts, that instead you simply switch to a ketogenic diet. Or take up distance running.

  Eating after 60 hours of no food would not be considered indulgent by anyone. Eating food is a normal function of literally every animal species - you are not diseased. The idea that eating food is endangering your family is, to be frank, delusional.

  To be clear, there is nothing wrong with having a desire to lose bodyfat, nor to pursue reasonable strategies to doing so. However, here is the secret: one of the biggest drivers of gaining and keeping bodyfat is stress. So if you are constantly stressed about being fat, you will keep the fat on. The most important thing for you to do right now is to talk to a mental health professional about the emotions you are experiencing and discuss your current body comp strategies with them. It will be far better for both your health and your long-term bidy comp goals

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK where you come from⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean I can use the n-word?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logical fallacies were created by John Atheism, creator of atheism, to stop you from turning into a cat by meow meow loud enough.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  downvoters trying to keep the truth hidden

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bunny2028

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Acciracy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  also, side note, nobody but the east coast is pronouncing it “aboot”. there’s a clear difference between “about” and “boot”. americans just really draw out the “ow” in “out”, so yes it sounds closer to “boot”, but it’s hardly ‘exactly how it sounds’. /angryrant

  He says “aboot” instead of “about” and gets really, really upset when you point it out, claiming you’re hearing things and that it’s a harmful stereotype. It’s not a stereotype, and that’s exactly how it sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be an extremely time consuming and potentially destructive process.

  First, take a grinder and chop off the tips. Then go to the hardware store and get a 1/8, or maybe 3/16, bit that you think is long enough (note- these are expensive). Then go home. Tap a pilot divot in the flattened tip of the lag bolt to get started. Drill your bit all the way through the bolt without snapping it. Take frequent breaks to cool the bit and avoid dulling the edge. Note that bolts tend to be made of quite hard steel to deal with the high forces they are put under, so expect this to take an annoyingly long time. Then do it again with a slightly larger drill bit. Then again. And then again. Etc. Until your bit is just barely smaller than the bolt. Finally, you go in with a drill bit as large as the bolt, and absolutely destroy all your hard work, tearing down the sides of the bolt in a haphazard way. With a large amount of finagling and cursing, you manage to set the bit in thr hole in the top of yhe stripper pole, and finally completely destroy the bolt, so the remains fall on the floor below.

  Far more expedient would be using the grinder to grind the tip off, then cut a slot in the flat surface you made. Or maybe a +. Then put either a flat or phillips bit in your impact driver, and reverse the bolt out. How well this works depends on how hard they cranked down the bolts. If this fails, I would get a hole saw, cut around the bolts, and clamp some vice grips to them to turn them out from above.

  But really, I would call a real estate lawyer and force my neighbor to pay a contractor to do all the work for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home renovations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thinner than the lag bolts are long…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant

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  OP is getting a lot of downvotes. I assume, from straight guys who are offended at this notion. As a straight guy myself, I understand their frustration. But straight up (ha!) - if you are a straight guy who is pissed off by this message, you are fucking up.

  Why? Because it’s the truth. Go outside, go touch some grass, and observe how women interact with each other (or with obviously gender non-conforming people). They hug as soon as they meet. They give each other compliments. They ask for contact info and proactively make plans to spend time together. In the context of this post, this is what is meant by “treating them like a human”. It isn’t just basic respect. It is giving them a feeling of warmth, support, and acceptance.

  So if you’re a guy, and you feel like the world is cold, unsupportive, and unwelcoming - great! Here is some validation of that feeling! You are right! Enjoy the ego boost!

  But also - now you know this information. And this is good, because even though it feels bad to know that half the planet doesnt trust you by default while they trust the other half implicitly, it also points you in the right direction for solving your problem.

  Here’s the thing. Women do, in fact, like to fuck. Even with men?? Yes! But what they don’t like is dealing with the emotional turmoil of guys who want to fuck them that they don’t want to fuck back. This could come in two forms:

  1. The guy who asks them out, clearly a bundle of nerves that could explode into rage or tears at any moment. A lot has been said about how women have legitimate fears about men becoming violent or vindictive when they are turned down, but I don’t think this is worth focusing on, because we’re all very nice people here who wouldn’t do anything to hurt someone else even if we feel bad about getting rejected. However, I think it is also important to keep in mind that most women are nice and they feel bad about making someone feel bad by rejecting them. And so if you ask a woman out and will clearly feel bad if she rejects you, then when she rejects you she will also feel bad, which is an emotional load on her, and she doesn’t like that.

  2. The guy who never asks them out, but who is clearly into them. The guy who always shows up, sticks by her side at every moment, laughs too hard at all of her jokes. This guy is annoying. Maybe if he just asked her out when they first met, she’d be into him, but he just keeps hanging around, making her constantly feel his now-unwanted attraction. But she can’t tell him to go away, or that she isn’t interested in him, because then she would feel like a presumptuous bitch. So she feels stuck, always trying to shake this guy off or avoid him whenever he shows up.

  So the solution is simple. Don’t be those guys. Literally all you need to do is not pin your self worth to whether or not any particular girl likes you. If your see a girl you are interested in, then go say hi and have a normal fucking conversation. Then, at a point in time when it wouldn’t be awkward as fuck, just say “hey, btw, I think you’re gorgous/adorable/super interesting/a total baddie/the girl with the best hair here. Wanna go out sometime?” If she says yes, great! Maybe she even wants to make out right now! If she says no, also great, you have a new friend and you can release whatever nerves you had about whether or not an attractive stranger likes you.