The only reason I want Lemmy to grow is because I miss having niche video game communities with more than a dozen members :c

Discord is increasingly filling that role now, but there are a large number of reasons why I’m not really a fan of that as a replacement.

Mostly I just want to talk about the new Factorio expansion with everyone…

They’ve been mandatory on all new vehicles since 2018

No! Two things are never allowed to be true at the same time!

Would literally rather have my data go to an evil wizard than an evil capitalist. At least the wizard would find an interesting way to devastate my existence, instead of the capitalist’s boring dystopia.

Oh yes, I meant this particular variation. This seems like it would be popular with a wider audience.

I officially decree that this needs to become a viral meme, Lemmy let’s do what we’re good at and pound this horse into paste

They state that they “had to guess” what bank to send the $5.24M payment to

Which is the most obvious bullshit I’ve heard in quite a while, and that’s saying something, because I’m an American that reads the news. If I did that at my company there would be physical violence over it. There are not words to describe how absolutely and totally ultrafucked any employee of a legitimate company who tried this would be. Since there hasn’t been a murder in the X headquarters all signs point towards they did this on purpose and haven’t paid anyone shit, they’re just claiming to have paid it and when Brazil didn’t have the money they claim to have paid, someone scrambled for an excuse.

It sounds by all accounts like he went over to Russia and just continued being the exact same man that he was back home. And the Russians of the time loved him.

I aspire to have principles that I stick to with the gusto that Cassius Clay exhibited. I didn’t even know about Clay’s Battalion but I believe it on sight because that sounds like exactly what he would do in that situation.

Somebody got smacked because they were told that this was a safe area to be in. Then they get hit, and are blamed for not being careful enough in the area they were told was safe to be in.

Cassius Marcellus Clay was the son of one of the wealthiest slave owners in America and grew up to be the single most influential and most dangerous abolitionist in American history. He had so many duels with slavers, and won so many of them, that he became statistically the most dangerous duelist to ever exist in North America.

When his cousin, Kentucky senator Henry Clay ran for president, Cassius wanted to come campaign for him down South. Henry vetoed this out of concerns that Cassius would come down south and duel so many slave owners to the death that it could be considered election interference.

The Fat Electrician has an excellent video on the life and times of Clay, I highly recommend it. And if you’re wondering, yes, Muhammad Ali was named after this Cassius Clay.

By being there you’re already involved whether you want to be or not. You’re in it now and you’re expected to make a choice. Failure to choose is also one of the choices.

The lever operator can’t be at fault, or to blame, for the situation - but they are absolutely involved. That’s the point of the exercise. From the moment you notice the trolley tracks and the lever you are now entwined with the fates of the people that are here, and the trolley problem will force you to choose a bad solution that you won’t feel good about - because there are no good solutions. It’s the Kobayashi Maru of psychological exercises.

Pretty sure it does, actually. If I look up a route and my partner looks up the same route at the same time both from within our house, mine usually has about a 3-5 minute faster eta.

I do a lot of highway driving. It’ll frequently tell me “in X miles take the exit towards [whatever]” but it will refuse to tell me what exit number I’m looking for until I’m within a mile or two of it. This is frequently a problem when I have exits with A/B/C branches which is often. I don’t give a shit if I’m exiting towards I40, just tell me I’m exiting on 13B, and tell me that from the beginning.

It used to do this, it changed a couple years ago, and I’ve been pissed off about it every time I’ve had to drive somewhere since then.

It’ll also randomly change voices on me, it’ll flip flop constantly between the American accent and a thick British accent. No rhyme or reason to it either, it’ll be a different voice on the same turn on a different day. Drives me nuts.

It’s just The Game all over again. When you’re reminded about it once a year, you facepalm and take it in stride. When somebody reminds you of it every 45 minutes, it gets real old real fast.

Nah. Might end up with driver soup by the end of it but no need to yank all the parts. Custom builds work just fine with a little TLC.

Don’t think they make an iFixit kit for that, but I’ll give it a go. Who’s your parts supplier?

Ooh, also changing your post after you’ve already replied, into something completely different. Real classy. Definitely real stable genius kind of behavior.

I’m going to say this once, nice and loud and slow for you and everyone else in the back seats : Repeating a lie over and over again does not make it true. Doubling down on a lie when called out also does not make it true.

Now I’m going to do the intelligent thing, that I should have done the first time we had this exact same argument: Enjoy your block, we won’t be interacting again.

Nice try, but no.

This user has a long history of just saying things without looking them up. I have them tagged as such from around 8 months ago. I applaud your effort, but save it.