BenFeels like there's a lot of binary puritanical stuff online sometimes. 'If you're not personally working 24/7 to combat climate change you are a terrible person' etc. We're all very tired. Frankly I think we're doing a great job, considering. I just think it's OK to be a bit shitty sometimes. You can just be a bit shitty sometimes. If anyone says anything, just tell them I said it's OK. The Ben commandments.
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Uzi BobuziI've been hearing "x is the beginning of the end" for Trump for a few years now and he's still not ended.
The hyperbole is too damn high.
Get back to me when he's been yeeted from existence by an angry mob and then I'll believe it.
Eugen RochkoI have the impression that primarily anglophone people don't read as much translated literature, because so much good literature already exists in their language, so this issue may not be as familiar within that demographic. As someone who did not grow up anglophone, I can tell you there is a world of difference between a good and a bad translation even when done by humans. Machine translations are not even on the scale.
Randahl FinkWhat right will we have to criticize Putin if he kills Ukrainian president Zelenskyy?
From a legal standpoint, the US has illegally killed the leader of Iran in an illegal war which our leaders are not even criticizing. They are just accepting that the US takes out a leader they do not like, thereby destabilizing a nation of 93 million people.
International law does not allow this, but if we do not uphold international law, what boundaries do we have left to limit dictators like Putin?
William Lindsey 
"David Rothkopf today called out the madness of the fact world trade and global security is being shattered by a single man. 'Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Iran #war #psychosis #insanity #narcissism #violence #destruction #authoritarianism
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Sven A. SchmidtA rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved
zkarjHere's what I'm wondering about EVs. When will they get to the point where there is NO operational downside over a petrol vehicle?
I did a calculation last week. The average distance I have driven my Mazda 3, per day, over its lifetime. Wanna guess, before I give the answer in my next paragraph?
The answer is less than twenty kilometres. Per day. In over 19 years. And that's using it more than I actually need to. I do not, most of the time, need to drive to the local railway station during the week.
What I *do* use it for is to drive to Rotorua to visit family. This is why I have range anxiety, and it is *real*. Because in Aotearoa, once you get 100km from a city centre... there is bugger all!
I've looked at "normal" range EVs. Most of them can't get to Taihape from my place (and I'm already north of Wellington). So where, exactly, am I going to spend half an hour charging up? I'd consider Bulls, but then none of them have the legs to do the rest of the trip in one go. So it would be Bulls *and* Taihape/Waiouru.
Driving my ICE car, I fill up once before I leave either end. That's it. I don't *think* about "where can I fill up?" Because I know I don't need to. I used to drive a smaller car that would comfortably make Hamilton on a single tank.
Even if I concede to *shudder* spend time in Hunterville, how many EVs can conceivably do that at once? Two? Four? It might depend on how many chargers are working. Last I looked, Turangi — a tourist town — had four. Total. On State Highway 1 for goodness sake.
Let me know when there are at least a dozen (working) chargers in Levin, Bulls, Hunterville, Taihape, Waiouru, Turangi, and Taupo (near SH1 — I never stop in Taupo any more).
Or, give me a *reasonably priced* car that can comfortably do 500km through the central North Island, including in winter.
We're not there yet. Car commuters (certainly in Welly) have no excuse. I've been electric commuting for over 20 years straight.
Crystal Huff (they/them)Most of my scifi friends probably already saw this go by earlier this month, but for those who don't read Chuck Wendig's blog every day, I can recommend this rant on why AI is shit and advocating for its use in any art genre is basically bullshit. (He's in convo w/a letter published to File 770 from Erin Underwood and extensively quotes her, but you can look up if you want to read that whole thing, too.)
Marcella Francesca 
I hope that the fuss about a country like the US determining the EU's trade policy and which countries the EU does not do business with because they are supposedly enemies of America will stop. They made enemies of everyone (except the bunch they bribed or blackmailed), and the war rhetoric about fabricated technological superiority, quack science and social Christian cohesion is no longer working for nobody. Let's run things without the USA. It's the end of the line. Gringo, go home.
Derek JohnsonMerry Christmas and friendly reminder that Jesus was a brown, woke, anti-capitalist refugee from the Middle East who had two dads, became a rabbi, wore flowing dresses, ran around with sex workers, preached radical inclusion, railed against income inequality, and was brutally killed by the police.