[-] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right but the specific issue with the Pinto was that it would explode into flames on a rear impact, so this is the appropriate metric.

Like deaths from other accidents would skew the numbers anyway because 70s cars were death traps compared to today, but even in that context, the Pinto's explosions were alarming.

Beating it on that isolated metric is a very special kind of achievement.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As an agender individual I do see myself somewhat in the ๐•ฝ๐–๐–”๐–’๐–‡๐–Ž๐–ˆ ๐•ฏ๐–”๐–‰๐–Š๐–ˆ๐–†๐–๐–Š๐–‰๐–—๐–”๐–“.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean this is exactly it, right? If instead of posting a new job, you canvass the people who applied months ago, then anyone who says yes has been out of work for months and will probably accept whatever shitty wages and conditions you offer. You are guaranteed a strong bargaining position.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know what you think neoliberal means, but it's not progressive. It's about subsuming all of society to the logic of the market, aka full privatisation. Every US president since Reagan has been neoliberal.

They will support fascist governments because they oppose socialists, and in fact the term "privatisation" was coined to describe the economic practices of the Nazis. The first neoliberal experiment was in Pinochet's Chile, where the US supported his coup and bloody reign of fascist terror. Also look at the US's support for Israel in the present day. This aspect of neoliberalism is in effect the process of outsourcing fascist violence overseas so as to exploit other countries whilst preventing the negative blowback from such violence at home.

Progressive ideas don't come from neoliberals, or even from liberals. Any layperson who calls themself a liberal at this point is unwittingly supporting neoliberalism.

The ideas of equality, solidarity, intersectionality, anticolonialism and all that good stuff come from socialists and anarchists, and neoliberals simply coopt them as political cover. This is part of how they mitigate the political fallout of supporting fascists. It's like Biden telling Netanyahu, "Hey now, Jack, cut that out! Also here's billions of dollars for military spending."

[-] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Fox News moral panic coverage any%

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

It's amazing how much of biodiversity in agriculture boils down to "and then something poops on something else".

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Well, if by "destroying" you mean "turning into a haven for right wing hatespeech", he was pretty open about that. I don't know that he understood that connection though.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Yeah... that's the one part you need to waterproof, more even than the passenger cabin. Everything else except the ECU is water-agnostic. Those battery cells will discharge and die if you leave them submerged. The pack itself is fine for short spells under water if it is properly made.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

"every girl says they don't have feelings" is such a weird way to admit you don't ever listen to any girls.

[-] [email protected] 47 points 2 years ago

By that logic, "You don't have a contract with me, therefore you can't own my intellectual property," should also apply, no?

Like, if your intellectual property was given away on the basis of an ongoing royalty payment, and Disney decides not to honour that contract, then they can't keep the IP.

[-] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Oh no, he fucked with rich people's money. That was his first mistake. His second was getting so famous that his crimes came out into the open.

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