explodicle

Crippling back pain that ruins my life anyways

Why does handedness matter?

Never forget when they put a rootkit on their CDs that automatically installed malware.

The bittersweet end of a successful movement. The public will be better off after Fediverse Eternal September.

That makes me wonder, what comes after decentralized gatekeepers?

I've met white supremacists who gatekeep whiteness to such a degree that there is no tolerance; you have to be literally 100% a specific type of white. Which is nonsense, but they believe it nonetheless.

Every Republican candidate in your lifetime (and tbf many Democrats) did end democracy. It wasn't any single particular instant, but at this point we've been living under oligarchy for over a decade.

You're right in general, but those screaming Dems were right too.

That's the same thing they said before the election!

(Sorry to be so verbose...)

For what it's worth, I worked on geared turbofans in the jet engine industry. They're more fuel efficient... but also more complicated, so most airlines opt for the simpler (more reliable) designs that use more fuel. This is similar to the problem with leaded fuel, which is still used in a handful of aircraft.

Airplanes could be much greener, there were once economies of scale to ship travel, and relying on altruism at scale just doesn't work at all anyways. Pigouvian taxes have a track record of success. So especially in the short term, the selfish person who decides to "find himself" would look at a high price of flying (which now includes external costs) and decide to not fly at all.

Relying on altruism (and possibly social pressure) isn't working, and that was always what big oil intended. Even homeless people are polluting above sustainable levels. We're giving each other purity tests instead of using very settled economics.

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She must be political because she's always against me.

I foresee a future where we have an AI layer on top of corporate emails, translating from English to corpo-speak and back to English again.