to counter the “gotta appease normies”, think of how good firefox could be for accessibility if they put all the effort spent on llm integration and whatnot into making the useful AI features even better

like firefox is obviously not going to win in the normie department, but it could be so hilariously superior for disabled users that no one in that demographic even considers using chrome any more, and i think that would be quite effective at getting firefox onto public service computers.

18:00? try fucking 16:50

i genuinely view christmas decorations (especially lights) as life saving measures, because the darkness up here noticably drives people to kill themselves

i mean, “this goes against thousands of years of evidence, including observations you can make yourself” is a pretty good one

i have very fond memories of sitting with windows computers and them just… ignoring the internet connection, the fuck does “unidentified network” mean? Do you fucking see the connection or not you silicon garbage heap?

if you want to see the change in rail networks over time across the world, check out https://openrailwaymap.app/

on the other hand the population as a whole has skyrocketed though, and a big part of why people move into cities is because rural areas lose amenities like good public transport.

reducing driver costs is precisely why public transport organizations try to run trains instead of buses lmfao

staff costs are HUGE in the west

sorry sir but your insurance doesn’t cover dying here, you’ll have to go somewhere else if you want to pass on. That’ll be $5000 sir.

it’s a wonderful metric because i can look at a graph and weep at sweden being basically the only country where hours worked per year has very noticably gone up for a pretty long time now…

buy it use it break it fix it trash it change it mail-upgrade it

assume it’s all true and take the actions that protect against most of it: make as many friends as possible and start a commune somewhere that hopefully won’t be affected by the horrors

mAIntAIn it?

it really is like people have a fetish for making weight loss seem super difficult

like yeah it’s not trivial, you have to change your habits which takes effort, but you’re not magically gonna keep weight if you eat half as much… the difficult part is actually eating less
this is why vegetables are so good, you get to eat a big volume of food while getting fewer calories and feeling fuller, which makes it way easier to stop overeating and it has a load of extra benefits like more fibre and less stress on the stomach.

but some of these examples are just clearly not ok, proton isn’t better than gmail, brave isn’t better than chrome

this post just reads like “you should accept people doing bad things because otherwise you’re being a meanie”

“surge”

my god we’re talking about reaching a whopping 5% marketshare, can we please fucking stop it with the soyfacing until it’s at least 10%?

going :OOO over 5% feels so incredibly sad, it’s like bragging about your wealth because you found a coin under your sofa

thank you for justifying my dislike of the name

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because they are corrupt

i’m confused, why does the swedish highlands magically have less sunlight hours? surely they’d have more

and there’s a splotch of higher sun hours too, which looks to be lake Vänern, but if big lakes get more sunlight then why not Vättern or Mälaren too?