A thread here about some recent comments from Hillary Clinton a couple weeks ago led to people saying they don’t want to hear from her after losing to a fascist. Someone said we wouldn’t be here if she could give a half decent blowjob.

I said “stop blaming women for aging”

Bunch of people (for lemmy’s scale) took it as me being a social justice warrior (I guess?) that genuinely meant she got older.

No, I was making a joke about Bill’s preference for children. I thought it’d land without extra context. Oh well, at least I sleep at night knowing my name still isn’t in the epstein files

Ah. Thanks for the explanation. How unfortunate

Too long, didn’t read

I give “gluten free” a pass because it’s not always obvious. Some people do have very severe reactions and some products do, unsuspectingly, contain gluten in the form of filler content or for some other mechanical use. Sausage is specifically known to use wheat product as filler and binder. Same for deli meats and veggie burgers. Some places will even throw breadcrumbs into their ground beef for burgers to fake it’s tenderness, so it crumbles like a meatloaf would.

Then there’s seasonings. Potato chips are made from potatoes, right? But not all chips are potato chips. You’d hope a gluten-issue person would be able to identify pita chips or bagged crackers from the chips selection would have gluten, but it turns out, despite being a corn chip, Dorito dust can affect gluten sensitivities. Soy sauce and malt vinegar are issues, and seasoning mixes use flour to help distribution

With CRC Brakleen, red cans are chlorinated and green cans are not. Many US states have banned red Brakleen/TCE parts cleaners.

The point of brake cleaner is that it’s not supposed to leave a residue. It’s not actually meant to be a general parts degreaser, but rather a braking surface cleaner. But being able to remove oils without additional water has made it the WD40 of mechanical cleaners. Rarely the right product , but often right enough.

Lol, I see your reading comprehension is zero since you couldn’t be assed to read anything. I addressed the car dependency situation in the first and one of the last paragraphs.

But it’s OK, I understand, cars are bad and everyone currently using one because they have no immediate power to change the infrastructure situation should feel bad. Please, stay home until the freight train system is reinatalled into your city for goods distribution and passenger trains are built to take everyone to any rural destination they wish. No point in doing any personal, small measures in the meantime. If you can’t reach the market by bicycle and can’t carry the goods in a basket, you don’t need it, I guess.

You must be a hoot in conflict resolution. The enemy of “better for now” is you, demanding immediate perfection.

Does it just mean “sharpened to the point you can use your regular re-sharpening device”?

I do love GM’s “Supercruise” moniker. Accurate, and my introduction was during a CTS Blackwing commercial, so it was a great pairing.

Still disable it on rentals though.

I feel like your comment is a little sarcastic. I have actually had a non-microwave safe plastic plate (that predated the omnipresence of the microwave) actually explode. It boiled faster than the food heated and made pressure pockets inside.

Cholesterol-free is such a bullshit label anyway because dietary cholesterol doesn’t do anything special to your own cholesterol. You are not a chicken and the egg yolk will not go directly to your bloodstream. Your blood has human cholesterol that you made yourself from the rest of the sugars and fats you ate, digested, converted, stored, and reeconverted.

• as compared to one standard economy roll last produced in 1967

Maybe because trunk-or-treat proponents have finally found their proof of tampered food?

Let’s break this down. So many unverified, regurgitated strawman arguments. The arguments work so well because it will take me 20 times as long to respond to your gish gallop. It’s not about “loving cars” when clearly, we’re talking about making a personal choice to do what one can.

“EVs are naturally heavy”. Modern cars are “naturally” heavy with safety devices, stronger crash structures, and more luxury devices. EVs are only about 20% heavier when you compare them to something within their actual class. This means not ignoring the Nissan Leaf as an EV. This means comparing a Model S to a Mercedes E450 as a quiet, feature-rich luxury car at a high price point. This means comparing the Hummer to a Ford F-450 as both are hulking slabs that have no reason to be daily driven. While we’re here, may as well dip into the part where EVs are “expensive”. Again, compare them to the proper class competitors and stop pretending the used car market doesn’t exist and doesn’t have EVs for cheaper already.

“cause significant road wear”. They don’t. They’re not special. The additional roadwear is not significant because none of these cars, EV or not, are doing anywhere near the damage caused by commercial trucks. I bet your residential roads don’t have rutting unless they haven’t been repaved in 40 years. Rain/snow/UV degrades non-commercial roads faster than any normal personal traffic can.

“shed microplastics” not significantly more than any other car, especially since most EVs come with hard eco tires that last longer. All tires shed microplastics.

" are only clean if their electricity source is clean". Not only is this false from a “only research as far as I can touch”, this entirely ignores the energy used and pollution created for gasoline production and distribution. 10 years ago, in the US, a Model S charged by the dirtiest coal factory was responsible for emissions per mile comparable to a car that got about 35mpg. That was better than typical highway efficiency. That is still better than current city driving efficiency. Wanna guess what the comparable emissions ate was for if it was charged in the purely hydropower Niagara region? 260mpg equivalent. Grid power generators are far, far more efficient than a gas car. The power company doesn’t enjoy wasting money, so they’re tuned to run at specific generation levels as efficiently as possible for money’s sake. It doesn’t just apply to the grid, either. A personal generator, again, tuned to run a specific output, exceeds the efficiency of a gas engine revving all over the place to shift gears and move the car it’s attached to. That disingenuous meme picture of the ev charging by diesel generator in the Australian outback was completely false in every aspect (wattage, fuel consumption, and obviously resultant mpg). How do we know? Because it was taken by a bunch of EV nerds that were specifically testing it. They netted about 50mpg on diesel with a personal generator. Again, economy of scale will outperform that further.

“only clean if … infrastructure is clean”. You’re implying the current petroleum infrastructure is clean. Your implying oil wells don’t leak and spill, they they don’t burn off waste products, that the product is shipped without use of energy and fuel for pumps and trucks, that it’s distributed from the pump without energy, and that gas stations are naturally-occurring geological formations. I specifically ignored this part in the prior section because, through and through, with a hands-on-only investigation, EVs were still more efficient on a per-mile basis than a gas car. They only get better when you’d actor in all the expenditure of fuel for petroleum distribution. For another tangent, this applies to the claims about how dirty lithium mines are. That only makes sense if you pretend we don’t have continuous petroleum disasters and “acceptable levels” of spills and runoff.

“electric cars are to save car companies”. Great, that’s capitalism. EVs only “save” car companies if people buy them. People are. Any vehicle they make is to “save” the company because if they don’t sell, they don’t profit, they don’t survive. That argument makes no sense. They’re not donating the majority of their gas cars.

Your comment is “controversial” because you made baseless claims. You pushed the propaganda of conservative groups, notorious for making arguments that affirm feelings, without asking for facts, based on what their group can experience directly. You’re attacking individuals who do not have the power to suddenly rebuild a town into a pedestrian dream. You’re making it a class war between car drivers satisfied with the status quo and car drivers who support change when they’re both the same class. You’re making the argument that since a little change only helps a little, no one should do anything at all. That attitude keeps us in the same place. Forever.

I love cars. I love walkable cities. I love bicycling towns. Buying an EV doesn’t mean i think it’s the endgame move. It’s the move I can make today to maintain my own mobility in an infrastructure I can’t really change. But, fun fact, this isn’t my “copium” because I don’t even own an EV. I defend EVs because they are part of the future, without a doubt. Even though used Teslas are within what I budget for cars, I no longer trust the cars, the company, or Musk. The 1st gen Leaf didn’t meet my needs, but is a viable option for my next vehicle as the 2nd Gen has solid used options and I have a plywood/mulch-hauling mini trailer. The upcoming Slate pickup is the most logical choice from a functionality standpoint, as I currently daily a 20 year old compact 4cyl manual pickup, but it’ll be years before the price hits my price point and I, similarly to Tesla, have no interest in supporting Bezos

Imagine he does run down there after losing the next election. He screams, “you can’t make me leave!”

And then they just leave him there, power on, data cords cut, so he can still push the buttons that make the screens blink

It’s a reminder that Pantone wants a monopoly on color categorization through a proprietary system with inadequate defining/visualizing tools, that’s the significance.

I get it, 8-bit RGB isn’t enough. I’m a fan of L/a/b values from CIE D65/10 measurements myself. A sphere of black to white, red to green, and blue to yellow on each axis.

F Save The World (paid early access) was July 2017. FN Battle Royale was September 2017. And, for reference, PUBG launched the beta in March 2017, full release Dec 2017

Not sure what theme, style, or use you’re looking for. I don’t have suggestions that would hit in a fun powerful way like the soundtrack to American Horror Story: Coven (but I guess that playlist is a recommendation). I’m into metal and I’m imagining higher feminine vocals that may not be entirely understandable, so that’s what I have. Generally, the top tracks on Spotify are representative of the sound I associate with each.

Chelsea Wolfe comes to mind first. She drifts between metal and folk (sort of?), but the lyrical content is largely consistent. Hiss Spun (2017) is the album I like most, followed by She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She (2024) if the other is too metal. She also put some work into the X/MaXine/?? horror movie trilogy score with Tyler Bates

I lied, some more upbeat bands would be Cellar Darling (hard rock, fantasy themes, cello solos) or Castle Rat (if you needed Iron Maiden to beseige a castle).

Not exactly jams or bangers, but my autumn work/build grind playlist consisted of Heriot, Faetooth, Author & Punisher, Conjurer, and King Yosef. This is some heavy background score material to give me that fay metal mood without too much focus on the music itself. They’re what built my 7ft tall deer reaper for Halloween. Discovered this genre(?) from a goth burlesque/freak show performance.

I couldn’t believe it’d been out for ten years, so I checked. It’s been out for ~10 years, but not 10 years, originally releasing mid 2017

My neck, my back