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.

Rad[iating heat]

Not sure if you’re trolling or if you genuinely don’t know that heating up is what makes it work.

For sure!

The difference is that you aren’t trying to percolate water through spices like you are with coffee, so the grind size isn’t so critical. With coffee, if the grind is uneven you end up with “channels” instead of the water flowing through evenly, so some parts of the coffee ends up over-extracted while other parts end up under-extracted, and you end up with more sour and bitter flavors than it’s supposed to have.

Or so they say, anyway. I’m not actually a coffee snob myself – I drink instant with a bunch of cream and sugar, LOL – I just like James Hoffman YouTube videos.

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

A <$20 grinder wouldn’t be good enough to use on coffee anyway.

I’ve got a Gerber Dime pliers-based mini multitool on my keychain instead.

Don’t get a beard trimmer and also use it on your hair; get a hair trimmer and also use it on your beard. Specifically, get the kind that comes with an assortment of combs up to 1" (and then maybe even buy the 1-1/4" and 1-1/2" combs that are sold separately, too).

*incroyable

[obi-wan.jpg] “Of course I blame him; he’s me!”

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.

Nope, this is what happens when you replace parking with bike lanes.

If only we still had bugs.

But we don’t, and that should fucking terrify everybody.

a hedge AND a fence

Cordless power tools are really good these days.

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.