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qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Eastern Europe, perhaos. Not really anywhere else in europe.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

A vote for the snowy please, but they are both excellent owls.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Yea, you can see why, but it is such a hassle for people like OP. I used to have cassette tapes of a really good audiobook of the Lord of the Rings (something like 12 cassettes in a set!), but I just pirated a copy and dotched the cassettes because I had paid for that, and my copy would be awful quality. I have to say this kind of approach, as suggested elsewhere in these comments, seems the only logical outcome for this problem, it’s pretty silly.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

But people insist on creating incredibly specific niche communities, I’m certain because they want to establish their own fiefdoms when this “blows up”.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Fuck, that is some sobering perspective.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

That’s cool, I hope you enjoyed making it. Feels like it’s an artisanal chess piece.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Can I be pedantic? I’m going to go ahead: fiscal means tax-related, so probably just ‘financial responsibility’ is more what you’re aiming for.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Dude, this has got to make you like, at least, a minor celebrity. Normies don’t get pissy posts made about them.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Oh nice idea. Being creative when a project goes off the rails is a powerful thing.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

It’s not as interesting because they’re not cute, but we’re in the shit once we kill off most of the insects.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

You need to be less online if this is how it affects you. None of this is healthy.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Fuck tankie devs, support your instance.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Condescension is a terrible way to kindle enthusiasm. C’mon, if you know this shit, extend a hand to those who don’t.

Gettin real goddamn tired of dogs

I like dogs like I like toddlers. It’s fun to hang out with other people’s for a while, but ultimately they’re annoying, loud, and make a mess. I feel like in the past 10 years or so, dog owners have become increasingly convinced that everyone thinks their slobbering, untrained mutt is god’s gift to everyone, and expects...

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Hey, my widdle Thor and Fang are great with (what’s left of the) kids.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2, (edited )

See the bullet points in the executive summary of the study linked from this article. They are all illuminating, but I’ve extracted three just for ease of reading:

  • Average CO2 emissions per kilometre (gCO2/km) from new internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles are no longer falling at the UK and London levels; and they are rising in urban areas where large sports utility vehicles (SUVs) are most popular, such as Kensington & Chelsea.
  • The annual reduction in the average CO2 emissions of new cars sold in the UK is now exclusively attributable to the rapidly growing market share of electric vehicles (EVs), and EV sales are expected to be the main source of future CO2 reductions from now on.
  • The recent trend towards larger, heavier, more powerful cars such as SUVs means that on average, a car that was bought new in 2013 is likely to have lower CO2 emissions than a new ICE car bought in 2023.

(Edit to add: I’ve tried my damnedest to format those bullet points, but I cannot get them to separate nicely, please just ignore those asterisks.)

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Yes, I agree. I suspect the person you were replying to made a comment born of general frustration with car trends. Apples to apples, sure motors are more efficient. But the fact is my car from 2009 uses 4-15 l/100 km and my mother in-law’s fucking VW Tiguan from last year uses 9-11 l/100 km. It’s absurd, this single woman driving a genuinely huge SUV. Her kids are grown up and gone her husband is gone. She cannot use that much vehicle.

Sometimes she complains about how difficult it is to park. My partner will humor her a bit, but I cannot refrain from pointing out that she could have bought (leased actually, but that’s another problem) a hatchback.

Aaaallll that to say, yes, you’re right, technically. And if we look at the current fleet, I think you’re right. But there is a worrying trend of worsening fuel consumption among a segment of the market that is growing, fast, so the previous commenter is also right from anotger perspective.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Fucking children with nuclear briefcases, terrifying. Guterres’s speech was very, very balanced.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

I’m not holding my breath. Rich people do not play under the same rules as normal people. Bankrupt me and I’m on the street. Bankrupt rich dudes and somehow they still have lawyers, nice clothes and roofs over their heads that they own.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

The doxxing truck is so incredibly fucked up.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Fuck off with your false dichotomy bullshit.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

I have a 6, partner has a 7, the battery life is embarrassing straight out of the box. Our phones are accompanied by a power bank now, everywhere we go, we lug what is, essentially, the phone’s actual battery.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

You’re not alone. Thank fuck you said it. People create a whole new community where a single post would have achieved as much. It’s waaaay too broken down over here. I have had to block comms for each English premier league team, each fucking one. And pretty much empty comms apart from dead threads on match results.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

That works when you have your profile set up,as it were. But communities I want are still absent or being formed, and my subscriptions list is not complete,so I still browse by all to get wind of new ones as they pop up. I cannot wait to retreat from all back to a curated list though.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

So you’re saying there’s a chance?

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

This is obscene. I don’t have the money to look at these labels, but I had alwqys assumed you got a nice, but incredibly overpriced, product. It now seems like you just get the overpriced part. That’s ridiculous. How long can luxury brands survive purely coasting off their historical cachet?

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

No we absolutely do not!

qdJzXuisAndVQb2, (edited )

Fuck that. Banksy wrote:

Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

The longer quote is here.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2, (edited )

Does it come as good news that cockroaches are bedbug predators? Some real “pick your poison” shit, huh?

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

That’s not the point of the comparison. The point of similarity is that it was a significant blow that struck without the defenders anticipating it.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Fuck me, I bet you’re right. That’s so fucked up.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

The whole Levant area has seen so many blood-soaked conquests that any claim of ‘proper’ or ‘original’ owners is wilfully and maliciously ignorant. This is also the case for pretty much every bit of solid ground. Your desire to return things to “how they were” is just you picking your fave point on a timeline of history.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Stupid take.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

This is such a huge part of it. Stupid ‘holy’ sites provoking fanatics to unspeakable horrors.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

I just read it. Which part exactly (please quote) do you think supports what you claimed?

Here’s the link to the definition, which includes some examples: What is antisemitism? About the IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism

I’ll make it even easier. Here is the full text of the definition:

Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.

I think we can still point out israeli war crimes without being called antisemitic under that definition.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

The English cannot blame the french invaders in 1066 for their land problems. At some point, a generation or so, imo, your problems are your own. You night not have created them but you can sure choose to solve them or not.

The people living in Gaza are not savages, they are capable of sophisticated governance. They choose not to exercise that faculty and instead voted and continue to approve of violence and never-ending revenge.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Nah, Russia is just another symptom of the broad-based rise in instability. Russia is making the most of it - and they are not alone. A few regimes are getting their shit sorted so that they can hunker down for the next few decades. Or not. Chaos is a ladder, after all.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

What do you mean ‘shift’? A typo?

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Haha, you’re telling me. I use a keyboard with no autocorrect and, trust me, some autocorrect is better than none!

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Another 9/20er here. I did feel like I was guessing a lot, it was almost satisfying to get such a midway score.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

The net result of enlargement is indubitably a net drain on EU finances, pretending otherwise is staggeringly dishonest. Their invasion is despicable, but the long road to EU accession should not be shortcut by the fact of Russian aggression. Pre-war Ukraine has myriad problems that have yet to be solved (massive corruption, for example) and are even harder to solve during wartime.

Supporting Ukraine militarily and financially against Russian aggression is morally and pragmatically the correct choice, but that does not necessarily mean membership of the EU - yet.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

I literally work at the institutions. Of course there are some upsides. IMO they are still a long way from offsetting all the downsides.

WIP Wednesday: Two-at-a-time magic (lemmy.world)

Not much progress around here in the past week, and I’m losing momentum… So, to avoid the very real danger of giving up before this sweater gets both its sleeves: Here I am, starting my magic loop, two-at-a-time, top-down sleeves. These are a lot of firsts for me, and I might be a little terrified :D

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Don’t give it up, that colour yarn is going to make such a cozy jumper.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

That rotating dish is fire, I’m going to keep an eye out for something like that.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

A tonne of the same cast are returning. Bernthal is still the Punisher, D’Onofrio is still Kingpin… no, this is a calculated decision to pay the workers less.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

I am fully in agreement with you, although I can see why you and others didn’t take that from my initial comment. The calculated decision I referred to was Disney’s cynical claim that this is a reboot. They’re shafting workers, we can all see it.

qdJzXuisAndVQb2,

Hahaha wholesome misunderstanding. Nice work in the home organisation community. I really liked the nuts and bolts boxes, super clear amd organised.

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