What threw me off was “main characters.” If I thought recurring characters were included I would’ve gotten it in one.

Honestly, exploring for exploration’s sake (as opposed to conquest or resource extraction) is pretty woke too.

That’s your own fault for not owning a Citroën!

Those sound like comments on a different topic, specifically the story about Paris’ improvements in air quality lately (because they built bike infrastructure and partially banned cars). I had to remove nearly identical comments in the !fuckcars@lemmy.world thread on it, for the same reason.

Two people tried to use it against Trump, so far.

*incroyable

Some of those systems are still around. For example, Roosevelt Island in NYC has a pneumatic trash collection system. Apparently it’s the only part of NYC that doesn’t have trash piling up on the streets/sidewalks all the time.

Personally, I think most “traditional” pickup trucks are ugly. The F150, Ram, Silverado? Those are at the very best - boring. They’re definitely not attractive. At least the Cybertruck is a fresh concept for a pickup.

I know they’re inherently not very safe, but I’ve always wanted a stylish/futuristic cabover pickup, like the Dodge Deora concept:

Most “SUVs” are lies – misnamed glorified station wagons. What an SUV is supposed to be is a vehicle that can ford streams and crawl over rocks. I own an old Toyota 4Runner and a Kia Sedona. The Sedona is absolutely the better car for most uses (especially hauling stuff), but it absolutely cannot do the things I use the 4Runner for.

It’s almost impossible to be a Federal politician and not be wealthy.

Mine, at 75 downvotes, was:

You know, if you use Linux you don’t have to jump through hoops like this (trivial though they may be). Wouldn’t it be nice to not have an adversarial, abusive relationship with your OS?

This was on a thread about some workaround to remove ads in Windows.

It was still very net positive in terms of upvote/downvote ratio, so Microsoft simps can suck it, LOL.

Profilie -> comments tab -> sort by controversial

It would also be interesting to see which comment is most disliked (which one has the most net negative score), but I don’t think there’s a sort that does that.

that also includes Tim Berners-Lee

You mean that traitorous piece of shit who sold us out to DRM on the Web?

short(-ish) term

That’s optimistic.

Republicans believe they can flout the law with impunity. Democrats refuse to teach the lesson that destroying the Rule of Law harms the Republicans too, by treating them as the literal outlaws they are.

No, it was too respectful towards women.

Welp, I played myself. I was really intending to talk about the AMOC shutting down, but wrote “Gulf Stream” as shorthand instead because I didn’t want to spell out the whole acronym and it’s more famous/less necessary to explain (I was tapping the comment on a phone at the time).

Then, just my luck, you come in citing a source talking (among other things) about how the Gulf Stream specifically won’t shut down totally, because of the component of it that isn’t AMOC. 🤦

FAQ 9.3 | Will the Gulf Stream Shut Down?

…Based on models and theory, scientific studies indicate that, while the AMOC is expected to slow in a warming climate, the Gulf Stream will not change much and would not shut down totally, even if the AMOC did…

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…The Gulf Stream is part of two major circulation patterns, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre…

Anyway, that gaffe aside:

I didn’t read through that report to see what it says about the timeline for the AMOC collapse in particular, but I’ve been paying a little bit of attention to the topic for a while now and it seems to me that, as new studies come out, they tend to revise the bounds of the estimate sooner and sooner. I feel like it’s gone from “maybe by the end of the century” in the older studies to “maybe a decade or so from now” in some of the most recent ones. Personally, I think it’s alarmingly possibly imminent. That’s just my impression, though; it’s not as if I did a legitimate literature review.

After watching that video I ran across Cardinal, which is apparently a wrapper around VCV Rack that adds back the ability to be run as a plugin that VCV itself locks behind the “Pro” subscription. It can also run straight from your browser, so that’s how I’ve been trying it out so far.

That’s just a fucking cartel with extra steps.