I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications.Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.
So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.
Yes, but it’s also the nature of how those platforms work. It would be hard to get new subscribers without popular and active posts. If mods of small communities are removing posts and comments from people that diverge from the main opinion there, growth will be difficult.
It is something I try to keep in mind before commenting on a random thing I see when browsing all communities instead of just what I’m subscribed to. Check the community before making a comment, to make sure I’m not insulting fans of something I don’t like.
I was too anti car for /r/fuckcars. When on that sub I was told multiple times that some people had no choice but to use a car and all their excuses were valid, always. So there were lots of comments in an anti car sub just saying “I would lOoOOvVe to ditch my car but its just impossible because…”
As a car free person, it felt like I didn’t belong in that sub. Plus, there was the API scandal at that time and that meant RedditIsFun would stop working eventually. So I abandoned reddit for smaller communities here.
Unfortunately lemmy has kind of the same issue reddit had. When the post of a small sub/community gains traction, it gets popular beyond its small community and gets “invaded” by people browsing “all”, resulting in a majority of comments from users not subscribed to that community.
No no no. There will always be solutions to the problems they cause.
They kill billions of animals every year but we can build nature overpasses. They kill millions of humans every year but we can blame pedestrians for wearing headphones or not looking properly. The tires shed about a quarter of all microplastics in the environment in Canada but surely we will find a technological solution for that eventually. The parking spaces still cause heat islands but we can just cover them with solar panels. Parking also causes flooding because of impervious surfaces but we can just resurface all of them with new materials.
And soon cars will all run on hydrogen and be totally environmentally friendly. And soon cars will all run on electricity and be totally environmentally friendly. Everyone on the planet just has to buy a new car eventually, keep buying cars, and spend (buy!) energy to move them everywhere they go. But they will be environmentally friendly! Except for all the other issues but surely we will find solutions for them. Save the planet by getting an electric car, the biggest and most expensive consumption object, and have a taste of freedom when paying to fill it with energy.
/s just in case.
The article doesn’t mention any “miles per hour”. Do people in Australia use mph?
In December, the NSW premier, Chris Minns, announced a plan to halve ebikes’ power – and therefore reduce their top speeds – to 250 watts…
This reminds me of a Republican politician interviewed on TV being told that crime rates were down, and him replying “but I don’t FEEL safe”.
Reality doesn’t matter.
My city does it for raccoons because tourists find them so attractive that they approach and feed them.
In fact the southern regions of Quebec are frequently doing it for raccoons, skunks and foxes, in localized areas.
There’s articles in the news on this subject but most people don’t pay attention to this.
Oh yeah. A car shows your social status and you want to impress others. If you drive an expensive car, of course women will want to be your girlfriend.
I wonder what his father drives? Did he also give his mother cookies because he didn’t have the correct car to impress?
Same but with the current geopolitical situation.
These are so disappointing nowadays that I don’t bother trying anymore.
Two or three decades ago, the inside was gooey and runny. Eating one of these was a messy but delicious affair. Now every time I buy one, it feels like a dried paste that has nothing in common with what I was eating as a child. For a while I thought they were just old or bad but apparently it’s just how they are now.
Isn’t that the Canadian version, avec l’emballage bilingue?!
Being a cynical bastard is great, since my expectations are that things will probably get worse. I’m alive to watch modern society and capitalism eat itself out, and if things are actually getting better it will be a pleasant surprise.
Otherwise pass the popcorn while I watch us go through the great filter.
Depends how old. I have a Phenom system with an iGPU and an audio chip that went unsupported fow a few years. Then after a few cycles of updates, it became supported again.
Same with the GPU of an old laptop with an Optimus system. At some point nothing would be working correctly but then new nouveau (huh) modules got out and this old hardware could suddenly work much better than before.
Apparently I have a lot of hardware that goes through a phase of being unsupported in Linux for a while, to working better than ever before.
As someone not from the US, I can’t say how much I appreciate the last part of his video. As much as I understand why YouTubers want to “keep politics out of entertainment”, it’s disappointing and makes me lose interest in some US content because it seems like they are ignoring what’s going on around them.
And about the batteries, that’s unfortunately an argument I sometimes hear from skeptics. “What are we going to do with all those batteries?” they ask. I explain that they can mostly be recycled and like to ask what are we going to do with all the CO2 in the air, but apparently it’s different. Ironically one of those persons is my father, that has a cabin with a solar system that I installed for him. He originally bought a generator but since it’s very noisy to run only for some lights, he prefers using the battery bank powered by a few solar panels on the roof. I’d show him this video but he doesn’t speak English and it’s probably a lost cause anyway.
We can only hope that at least a few people can be influenced by this video; both parts.
We as a society need to figure out how to use it ethically.
We can’t even restrain ourselves on the usage of weapons, the extraction of natural resources, the usage of energy, consumerism, or cars. The way our societies are working will not give much chance to ethics.
Not when the goal is to use the casinos to commit fraud and hide the money before running it to the ground. It’s much easier to run a business for a few years, over evaluate everything, pay employees like shit, not pay the contractors, funnel and siphon the money somewhere else, then eventually declare bankruptcy, making it nearly impossible for everyone he’s owing money to get paid. And you do the same thing with another casino/business/building.
Maybe I’m giving him too much credit. Maybe he’s really really a moron, but grifting seems to be the only type of work he’s ever done.
I struggle to find anything. Maybe affordable housing, but that’s a thing of the past. It changed a lot in 20 years and everything that I may have been missing at some point is long gone.
The people there proud themselves in being a rural region with a small town surrounded by close villages, but everyone knows everyone and if you don’t fit socially with the others, mainly conservative, they will all bitch and talk about you in your back. Also, they take their cars to go literally anywhere. The next town is 7 km away, there’s a dedicated bike path, and they whine that “everything is so far away in the countryside that you absolutely need a car”. Yet, I moved in a metropolis where my work is 9 km away through dense urban landscape, and I can cycle there just fine.
I’m glad I left and I don’t really miss any of it. I don’t even like going back there. In fact, I prefer the services, and geographical features, of my new home.
I had those when I was a kid a few decades ago and they had the tip coloured in red. They were designed to look like fake cigarette, but in candy form, for kids. However because of anti tobacco movements, they renamed them to “candy sticks” and removed the red tip.
I think OP is trying to recreate the old ones.
It can be expressed by a graffiti that I saw on the side of a bike path in Montreal, in French: “L’humanité ne court pas à sa perte, elle y va en voiture”. Or something like “Humanity is not running to ruins, it’s taking a car”.
As much as I want to blame giant corporations and capitalism for a lot of our societal problems, this sentence resumes so well how common people also enable all of this by refusing to change and just going with the easiest option. I know we won’t reach our climate change goals. I know because when I say I organized my life around the fact that I don’t need a car, everyone tells me that they couldn’t live without a car, that it’s very useful, and that I should get one. I’m not even a real adult as long as I don’t have a car. I’ll feel so much freedom when I’ll have a car. I should just get a car! Just get an electric one! Like, instead of encouraging people to live without a car, the vast vast majority of people will actually encourage others to get one.
So yeah, we’re not “running” to our loss. We’re wasting energy to move our fat asses in individual motorized multi ton metal cubes to go there faster. It’s so useful! So practical! So fast! There’s no time to waste. Like Marge Simpson once said: “Outta my way, Nature!”
It’s a giant metaphor for the rest of our society. Same with all the AI hype, food delivery apps, and over consumption in general. We’re digging our graves out of excessive “convenience”, and cars are one example of this.
Best is suggestive. It’s a weird movie but I wish there was more of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. Maybe a sequel since the movie ended on that possibility. But it’s probably going to end up repetitive, if not recursive.
And its an idea that has been explored in different other movies and series anyway. So as much as I liked the style of that movie, upon reflection, maybe it should just stay where it was left.