Boy is that van really managed to keep up with slow moving traffic by bullying part the cyclist.

I probably wont remember. It’s classic sci-fi. Nice to read some that’s written so long ago (1959) before so many ideas about technology were established. The first half at least is mostly a boot camp experience, somewhat reminds me of Full Metal Jacket, or really any boot camp story.

Halfway through Starship Troopers.

Call it engagement farming then?

I don’t want a folding e-reader, I was a dual eReader with a hinge in the middle that acts like a book.

Using Calibre, they’re much of a muchness. I’ve got a kobo, I mostly eRead on my phone.

Turns out ethical wages and materials cost money. I agree that older tech being more ethical as whatever ‘cost’ is may have was paid by the first owner.

There’s other phones with user replaceable batteries. I looked it up a month or so ago. They’re not as ethical as fairphone, but still better than my drawer of working phones with dead batteries.

Ive read this title a few times now over the last ten years. It’s not millenials, it’s rich vs poor. All generations get fucked by the rich and all generations don’t want to live through hard times because of what’s obviously being caused by the pricks in charge of things.

It’s not enshittification, but there’s a bunch of crappy rss bots on lemmy reposting low quality content pulled from various feeds. I feel like they’ve been abandoned and left to run creating internet litter around this site. I’ve started blocking them because I’m not against bots as a concept, but poorly written or with bad sources they can get pretty tiring. One of the things I appreciate about diggs $5 account fee is that it’d hopefully limit the amount of trolls/spam on the site.

I sold a washing machine second hand and the guy with a ute (pickup-truck) that came to get it spent ages securing the load in the centre of the bed so that it wouldn’t rub on the expensive rub bars. This guy was so fucking fragile about his ute I was amazed. I’ve known blokes to buy a new ute and basically had the attitude of the tray is for working, if you damage the cab I’ll be pissed. They’ve also had a simple metal tray, not some painted complicated thing without decent tie down points.

In Australia I went through a process called homing the meter where the gas company comes out and digs a hole in the nature strip (verge) in front of the house and turns off the lever connecting my house to the gas main line. They were going to try a simple capping of the pipes where the meter was removed but the pipes were old and leaky (soap test) so they needed to dig up the switch.

Firefighters get exposed to a lot of this stuff through firefighting foam. It was shown in Australia that the regular blood donors had lower blood levels of PFAS in their system. So personally, donate blood.

Freeze the can and use a hyneman/savage cannon to fire it through their chest.

Doesn’t NY not support the death penalty?

“Fauci cast an evil spell on our soybeans to make men into women and it failed. Praise ar15 Jesus.”

That got the message out though. People were more interested in the damage to art than the damage to the planet.

I know which of those worlds I would prefer though. The last politician I voted for wasn’t because I liked them, it was because the other choice was much much worse.

I think votes should be displayed publicly at the bottom of the comments section for each post. Make people stand by their convictions.

Minimum levels of service in Australia can be difficult. We’re a large sparse country with many mobile black spots. People should rent a satellite phone or epirb if traveling the outback, it’s a dangerous place to have an emergency.