As someone from a Catholic background, I always thought it was funny that some protestants claimed to be more Christian than the pope. It’s always weird to see angry “Christian” Americans complain and bitch when the pope just reminds them about Christianity.

US protestants would probably torture and deport Jesus.

I worked as a clerk in a gas station 20 years ago. People were complaining when prices went over $1 per litre. Now it’s around $1.70 a litre and people just keep buying it while still complaining.

I know 3 person that changed their car last year. They all went with gas engines. And theg complain that the price of gas is too high. Meanwhile some other regions of the world already pay more than $2 per litre, and they also just continue to buy it and complain.

In the 70ies there was also a peak like this and for a while, people did buy smaller cars and started to be more sensible, but the prices eventually went back down, and most people went back to gas guzzlers while complaining about prices.

If economics are supposed to push people to change, apparently the prices are still not high enough. This shit is like cocain.

Good luck! Coleus have a nostalgic value for me as my 3rd grade teacher was giving cuttings of them to her students.

I bought some a few years ago, and they grew very well for a while. So much that I didn’t know what to do with them. But unfortunately they pretty much all died at the same time.

As someone that hates the fact that we didn’t transition to renewable energy, I’m glad they’re going up. I don’t personally buy gas/petrol and I rarely buy fossil fuel in general. But as someone that has to eat, this is not going to be good.

Unfortunately we prefer to rely on cheap oil by bombing and invading other countries, sometimes killing a few thousand or a few hundred thousand in the process. But this is just collateral damage.

I can only hope this will push the world to a rapid transition to renewable energy, but it’s more likely that people will just pay more while bitching and whining that the price of gas is too damn high.

Come and murder people for Epstein and capitalism.

Indeed. I often have my laptop and I’m not confortable just leaving my backpack to them.

Anecdote time. While on vacation in Saint-Martin, the security guard at the grocery store in Marigot insisted that I had to leave my backpack in a secure locker at the entrance. I didn’t want to turn around, walk back to my hotel, leave the bag, and go back, so I reluctantly put it in their locker. But THEY had the key. When I was done and wanted to get my bag back, the security guard was not in sight. He eventually reappeared after a few anguishing minutes and I signalled him from afar that I wanted my bag back. He made a sign that he’d be back soon and took several more minutes to come. So I was standing in the entrance by their lockers, just looking intensely at the security guard in the store, waiting for him to give me back my bag, but he was in no fucking hurry. And while waiting for him to eventually come back, I had enough time to realize that I left money and documents in that backpack.

It’s insulting and the whole thing made me super nervous. I’m never doing that ever again.

Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.

Most distributions use systemd but there are still distros and other unix-like operating systems that are using something else. However, they are not “user friendly” and will probably not be what most people are looking for.

Slackware uses its own init system and never used systemd but it has the reputation of being difficult to use. Gentoo also lets users choose between systemd and OpenRC. Alpine Linux uses OpenRC too. There’s more than a dozen distros not using systemd, but again, probably not what most people want to use. It’s also possible to replace systemd with OpenRC on some distros, but it possibly, probably, might cause some quirks.

Otherwise, there are other unix-like operating systems. Debian GNU Hurd also has its own init system but it’s not using the Linux kernel, so it’s a different beast. OpenBSD and FreeBSD also have their own init system, but not Linux. And AFAIK there’s no such thing as modern gaming on those.

There are ways not to use systemd, but realistically speaking, it will probably not be worth it unless you’re really militant about this. I started with Slackware at the end of the 90ies, I know how to compile a kernel, and tried GNU Hurd at some point, but I will not change something unless it’s really implemented deeper into the general software. It’s frustrating that the systemd devs are “collaborating”, but we’ll see what happens after a few rounds of updates.

Sorry but this is unacceptable to me. If they default to “everyone is a possible thief” then I will avoid them. It’s a horrible way to profile the customers.

I make efforts to walk or bike everywhere, be environmentally friendly, and my backpack is a big part of that. I don’t want to become friendly with the staff of random stores I go to in order for them to let me in with it. It’s already a pain that I can’t use my reusable bags or my own cart/trolley in the stores.

It just doesn’t feel welcoming. And it also seems to be a car centric culture thing, because I live in a metropolis and this “no backpack rule” is pretty rare here, whereas when I go visit friends and family in small towns this rule is everywhere. What’s different? There’s much more people in big cities walking around and shopping with a backpack, compared to a small town where everyone goes to the store with a car.

So, like Bill Gates did?

It’s reverse for me. I don’t have a car so I bring a backpack pretty much anywhere I go. And in that backpack, there’s also a reusable bag.

If stores want me to leave my backpack at the entrance, I turn around and go shopping where they don’t automatically consider you a thief for having a backpack.

Cycling on rail trails and long isolated bike paths. Getting from A to B without burning any fossil fuel. I live in an archipelago and pull my inflatable kayak to the river and the lakes nearby using a bike trailer.

He can do whatever he wants, but no, he won’t take Cuba. US mercenaries will. Or more precisely, US mercenaries will kill Cubans, for Trump.

Does Pete Hegseth’s army take women? Isn’t this DEI or something? Those are not very manly soldiers.

What’s even more disappointing is all the other people interviewed were entirely willing to pay more to “keep the country safe”. That woman at least have some self awareness even of it’s just about gas. The rest is all gone.

Not a federated platform but some of my friends are from the IRC era and they still come on my network. I did not have to convince them but we switched to The Lounge for the client a few years ago, so we can paste images and see url preview on the channel. Otherwise they would have insisted that I join Discord, but the small features of the “modern” IRC client was just enough to keep them coming back.

It’s also corporate culture to blame the customers for the littering. Tim Hortons produces a disposable cup, and people are simply returning it to those responsible for creating it.

Apparently Coca Cola is one of the biggest plastic polluter in the world and they lobby against deposit return systems because it’s cheaper for them to pass the responsibility to the consumers. If some countries are choking with littered plastic bottles, maybe the consumers are dropping them everywhere. But maybe the ones producing the bottles could also be seen as being responsible for not taking them back.

I’ve seen a theory that it’s one of the goals. They, and the advertisers, will know who is a human or not, while we won’t.

Mild guess. The dev(s) don’t know about navigation buttons. Gestures have been “standard” for a while now so maybe someone forgot about this as a possibility?

And let’s also require everyone using popular platforms to show us their ID and prove they are humans, and their age, to protect the children. Let’s also pour billions into this technology.