I disagree. Cars are not fine. First, when people say cars, they are referring to civilian cars, not transportation cars.

Regardless, you are committing a fallacy. “In some cases, cars are helpful, therefore, cars are not our worst idea”. A very simple way of showing that your conclusion is false is by just giving an example of having just 2 ideas, 1 of which is obviously worse than the other, even though that worse idea has some pros. Sorry, I know this is pedantic, but I just wanted to point out the fallacy first, in general terms.

But now to your point itself. Say we never invented cars and let’s also say that that implies no ambulances (which it does not, we could have ambulances in a sort of public transport, ram ambulances, bike ambulances, etc). The amount of deads that cars cause is orders of magnitude larger than the amount of reads that ambulances save. I don’t have data on this, I think everyone agrees with this. So, still, net positive.

So yes, I will repeat. Cars might just have been the worst idea we have ever had.

I think you are being very naive. That is a very reductionist view of the topic. Something can be bad, yet be used for positive.

You look awesome OP!

The dogs piss me off at that moment, sure, but it’s the owners I hate…

I love that show. And unless the original, human, “others” are aware of the whole thing, that is, if the humans are trapped in their own minds/bodies, then I think the pluribus effect is a net positive. Pretty much all human suffering has ended. To rollback the whole thing is to create an incalculable amount of suffering.

I don’t think a GRBurst is painless. Humans would still suffer greatly, from radiation poisoning symptoms. Infections, internal bleeding, etc. It would take days…

I don’t think a Gamma Ray Burst would vaporize everything… But I may be wrong.

Oh yes, this one pisses me off also: consumerism. I am anti consumption and when I see the amount of consumption, unneeded, useless, consumption in the world i get… Mad? Sad? Disappointed? We are in a climate emergency, the main reason being capitalism, which might just be a synonym for “consumption”. The marketing that is done for increasing levels of consumption is also pathetic, infuriating and criminal.

Dogs that bark at people that are just walking on the sidewalk. It pisses me off to no end.

Cannot people walk freely on public sidewalks without being bothered by a fucking dog barking as if I am committing a robbery? Owners should train their dogs not to bark like that.

It pisses me off. Seriously. Just thinking about that, my blood pressure is already rising. Imagine if every house had one of those dogs. It would be fucking hell to go anywhere by foot.

Still, email them. Preferable the writers themselves as well. Show them your disappointment. Tell them they are actively worsening society. Ask them how they can sleep at night. Make a good argument.

You guys should email the NYPost and show your disappointment. Maybe, if enough people emailed them and showed them how you, the readers, do not agree with the way they do things, they would change it.

Obligatory: fuck cars. I am of the opinion that cars might just have been our worst idea.

Any news on PieFed?

Also, boost (for lemmy) takes a bit too long to open on slrpnk. Dunno if it is due to my internet, Lemmy, slrpnk, boost, or a weird combination of any or all of these…

I think it is slrpnk.net. Also, when posting (such as this very comment), it takes a few seconds to go through. Not a deal breaker, but just to let you know.

Nice post! We definitely need more content in this community (and in Lemmy as a whole as well)

You look great OP! Cute and cozy.

I don’t use mastodon. I think my naming suggestion still works best for tagging on mastodon though. It is still more visually appealing.

But ya, I still see naming on Lemmy as one of the big hurdles towards getting a bigger userbase. There is just some annoying friction that pisses me and I am sure it pisses newcomers even more. Instances with names such as lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Another thing I hate is that the UIs don’t show the true name of the community but their alias. For example, we have a community called climate here on slrpnk. However, UIs (both mobile and desktop), show the name “climate - truthful information bla bla”… I find that to be horrible UI. It should show that the post is coming from “climate@slrpnk.net”. I hate hate hate that.

I left a comment but it didn’t go through for some reason. Here it is again:

Sorry for the late reply. I don’t know what a style guideline would entail, exactly. The only thing I can think of is in the naming of communities. And that can be explained in one sentence.

Communities should be named in an easy to write way, and easy to read. For example, lunar_punk should be LunarPunk. Say there is a community called word1word2. That should be Word1Word2. It is easy to read, thanks to the capitalisation of the words. It is also easy to write, since there are no underscores, just normal characters and one doesn’t even need to capitalise the words for it to be a valid URL.

Why wait for it to be more stable?

Is this open source? Fdroid release?

I think it would be a good idea to create a convention for naming communities. Lunar_punk is a bad name. LunarPunk is a good community name.

Sorry, but these small nitpicks do make all the difference in attracting users.

What does MLM mean?

Spray fucking sucks. Half of it stays in the air. Horrible for the environment, air quality. You will also inhale a good portion of it. Please, do not use those in shared spaces, such as gym lockers… I have asthma and it immediately exacerbates it.

Do you buy used phones? How do you deal with the battery? Used phones generally have old batteries, no?

I just buy a cheap/budget (mid?) phone, 200 EUR max, every 5 years or so…