A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

IMO the bad grammar adds to the quality of this meme.

Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.

Thanks, I hate it.

because I was sure it is. Since English isn’t my first language

To be fair, it’s an exceptionally common mistake. Even native speakers get it wrong a lot of the time. I think it’s because most people do think it’s referencing something similar to a “savings account”.

So, this actually provides an excellent example of a common misconception. It’s daylight saving time, not daylight savings. Because it’s not like a savings account for time, instead, it’s the time for saving daylight. Daylight-saving time.

So a more accurate reversal might be “night-heavy losing time”.

(Anyway, it doesn’t work.)

In summary, the scientific literature strongly argues against the switching between DST and Standard Time and even more so against adopting DST permanently.

So calling it “losing time” is apt.

I don’t think I had seen him in anything before 99. But he really was great. Top 2 moments for me are the rant about etymology in The Box, and “yas queen” when he pulls the “gay card”.

I binged this show like 3 or 4 times in one year shortly after it ended. It’s been a while since I’ve watched it. I really need to go again, because it’s so great. The whole cast is amazing, but Andre Braugher especially just brings another level. RIP.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

Googling that, it doesn’t look like it. The first one I mentioned was completely rectangular, not an odd shape. It’s the Bandai Digimon toy.

The second one I think may have been Scannerz, which I’m guessing used the same connector as the Digimon toy just because it was what was available. But it’s possible (at an outside chance) that I’m misremembering and it was the D-Scanner, a Digimon-branded equivalent to Scannerz. No useful data was being transferred when connecting the two together, just power.

A third possibility is that there was some third toy I’m forgetting about which is what I was able to connect to the Digimon toy to power it.

I never had a Tamagotchi, but the little rectangular Digimon versions of them were all the rage when I was like 8. I kinda miss those things.

And I recall a year or two later getting another toy…may or may not have been Digimon branded…that had the same connector on the top, but was more rounded in shape. I remember after my battery on one died, holding the two together to try and keep it alive through the power the other one was sending it. Of course it only worked as long as I was physically holding them, and would then reset.

The preferred term in the study of cults is “high demand religion”.

Australia, Germany, Canada, Russia, India, Brazil, and a bunch more countries are gonna disagree with you there.

Oh, and Gene Roddenberry.

Lemmy ⊂ Threadiverse ⊂ Fediverse

I was once playing in a classical concert. In one piece that my instrument wasn’t needed for, I was given the job of controlling the volume knob on the amplifier we used to connect to the keyboard (with organ sounds), so the organist could play a range of dynamics.

I had not turned off my phone.

I got a text during the middle of the concert. Sitting right next to the amplifier.

There are two separate issues with lootboxes.

First, children. Porn games (and videos) have never been marketed at children. Lootboxes have. It’s not an age-gating issue, it’s an issue of actively promoting gambling for children. Games with gambling elements should be illegal to sell or market to children, and platforms can back this up with parental controls tools, without the need for any privacy-invading ID or facial recognition.

The second is relevant to adults. General things around lootboxes being exploitative bad game design, regardless of the audience. You don’t have to support banning it to be able to say it’s really shitty. Personally, I would advocate very strict reporting on odds of success, and mandate the implementation of self-exclusion features, the same as the law requires (at least here in Australia) for casinos.

I’ve followed this probably closer than the average gamer, but I still wouldn’t say I’ve followed it very closely.

The sense I get is that once TCR took it over, they moved the game in a direction that allows less personalisation in terms of roleplay. You’re no longer playing some newly-embraced nobody, you’re playing a hundred-year-old character with a very specific backstory. But it’s honestly still not completely clear. I’ll be interested to see feedback from people after its release.

Yeah I was honestly surprised to see how many people in this thread interpret “plotting” as inherently negative.

I’ve felt this about a lot of things over the past few years.

My point was that the dates can stay the same regardless of where you go, even if the stereotypes change.

What it seems like you were saying is that the dates themselves become irrelevant if you leave America. If that’s not what you meant, your comment lacked clarity.