JayDee

I get what you mean, but realistically I don't end up investing gratuitous amounts of time into anything - and even if I did I'd probably fuck it up and draw incorrect conclusions.

That's why I depend heavily on Cunningham's Law and Google.

Is it a Thinkpad?

You can actually choose to download an Linux Mint iso with either Cinnamon, MATE, or Xfce, so you're not exclusively locked into Cinnamon.

Just hopped back over to linux mint again after years of making due with Windows

• Went with cinnamon cuz pretty.
• switched to CobiWindowList so I could see all windows on either of my monitor menu bars.
• switched to CinnVIIStarkMenu for a more familiar menu system.

Not much change, I can lean on the habits I've gotten from windows, and now my switch is pretty much unnoticeable to me.

Funny enough, Lutris has made it alot easier for me to access games I usually would just have downloaded, like my itch.io library. Proton has tackled all my other games fine. Hell, I even got Tarkov running smoothly, even though you can only do offline raids on Linux ATM.

I'm not a fan of them because ~~they have been known to cause accidents in the past from people trying to slow down and not get ticketed.~~ TIL this is bupkiss. I've read it so many times I took it for granted. That and it only slows people down in that specific area. You slow down, drive past it, then just speed back up.

I think Europe uses a better system, where you post two cameras on either end of the road you want to regulate the speed of. You take pictures of the license plates and time how long they were in the road for, then divide the distance by time to determine average speed. If that speed is above the legal limit, you look up the plate and they get a ticket in the mail. It's lower tech because it doesn't need LiDar, it's harder to 'cheat', and it can be pretty cheap for regulating long stretches of road without exits.

There's probably not as many small engine mechanics out there so that'll accentuate a smaller number of injuries and deaths.

but also, as a small engine mechanic you're working with an explosive device. It's controlled explosion, but it's been designed to be compact and lightweight while still providing a decent power output. I imagine that if anything goes wrong, that thing turns into an IED pretty quick.

Not to mention that some small engines use fancy fuel that can fuck you up pretty quick, and all engines are prone to catching fire.

You're herding cats at that point, though. The vast majority of people will not change their ways because:

A: its exponentially harder for them to do so. Not driving in the majority of the US is flatout not viable for work and groceries, changing your diet is fucking difficult period, etc. Unless they've got a damned good reason that isn't some cosmic cataclysm they don't even fully get how it'll affect them, they're not going to change.

B: Companies are actively pumping out propaganda and lobbying to fuck over anyone attempting to change the status quo. When shown two different pieces of information, people will usually choose the one that causes less cognitive dissonance, and being told you're killing the planet by filling up your gas tank causes alot of that, so alot of people just buy into the big oil propaganda.

We need to tackle these issues locally - getting entire towns and cities to actually cooperate with climate-friendly policies ; Then States; Then Countries - if we want to make any actual meaningful headway.

I am doubtful the author is going to drop something macabre like that, as a passing statement, in a comic about a robot wondering if he's loved.

I'm aware healthy dry food contains meat. It's fundamentally necessary for cats. I could understand vegans not wanting raw or preserved meat in their house, and I think having dry food would be an easy compromise for most vegans, but the ones who are very loving of their pet companions would keep wet food and meat treats for their cats despite it.

Quite frankly if a vegan is so bad at research that they don't know cats need meat, I doubt they'd realize that dry food contains meat, and vice versa.

I think you are assuming something worse to be needlessly angry. I think you have an implicit bias that most vegans are idiots and that's lead you to your assumption.

I didn't see anywhere in the article how much is the right amount of pita bread. It's a metric fuckton, right?

People seem to be freaking out about vegan thing.

I am pretty sure the artist is referring to the owner literally going out and buying either wet food with meat chunks or some other meal with meat directly in it, as opposed to dry food with no meat bits.

CRT gets pretty dense from what I've seen of it. I definitely think dismantling the concept of race itself and teaching the humanities more seriously are definitely must-haves - I just think that CRT in primary school might a bit early. In the US at least.

Edited to provide alittle more clarity.