@[email protected] misspelled “incontinence.”

(I assume 5 year olds know what Instagram is)

ELInot5 what Instagram is?

Seriously, I’ve never understood the point of it.

In the same way that Elon Musk created Tesla’s cars and SpaceX’s rockets, yes.

Al Gore didn’t take the lead in creating the Internet for people to be insufferable.

I dunno man, it seems pretty in-character to me! 🤓

Noble gases are chemicals too, damn it!

The only thing that isn’t “chemicals” is literally just vacuum.

US: bans TikTok over fears it could be used to push propaganda

TikTok: responds by blatantly pushing pro-Trump propaganda

Oh wait we’ve already planted the seeds of that with what we’re doing here on the Fediverse. Carry on, carry on.

We don’t control the physical layer. We need wireless mesh networking, including long-range links.

“No algorithm” would load nothing at all. Everything is an “algorithm,” including listing all posts in chronological order.

Wanting “no algorithm” is like wanting food with “no chemicals” in it and not realizing that carbs, fats, proteins, etc. are “chemicals.”

Experts note that gun violence disproportionately affects Black communities, impacting safety perceptions.

The ironic thing is that it makes white people feel less safe because black people are disproportionately the perpetrators, when instead it should make white people feel safer because black people are disproportionately the victims. The racism only ratchets one way.

What threw me off was “main characters.” If I thought recurring characters were included I would’ve gotten it in one.

Honestly, exploring for exploration’s sake (as opposed to conquest or resource extraction) is pretty woke too.

Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the [email protected] thread on it, for the same reason.

Two people tried to use it against Trump, so far.

[obi-wan.jpg] “Of course I blame him; he’s me!”

Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.

Nope, this is what happens when you replace parking with bike lanes.

a hedge AND a fence

Cordless power tools are really good these days.

Personally, I think most “traditional” pickup trucks are ugly. The F150, Ram, Silverado? Those are at the very best - boring. They’re definitely not attractive. At least the Cybertruck is a fresh concept for a pickup.

I know they’re inherently not very safe, but I’ve always wanted a stylish/futuristic cabover pickup, like the Dodge Deora concept:

Most “SUVs” are lies – misnamed glorified station wagons. What an SUV is supposed to be is a vehicle that can ford streams and crawl over rocks. I own an old Toyota 4Runner and a Kia Sedona. The Sedona is absolutely the better car for most uses (especially hauling stuff), but it absolutely cannot do the things I use the 4Runner for.