Masimatutu

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

When you think it’s a carp but the teeth are too sharp, that’s a moray!

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

Dang, you beat me to it. But wtf tho

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I hate to say it, but how can it be precious if it is not special? You could have Christmas decorations and music all year round, but then nobody would smile because there would be no special time anymore with which it’d be associated.

Edit: Additionally, if it is not in anticipation of something special, the flashiness just becomes plain annoying.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

It was made (in Canada) by @MeanwhileinCanada

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

Ah, that’s what they mean. No, lemmy doesn’t federate posts that aren’t on any community, meaning all microblog posts. Kbin does however, I’m pretty sure.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

Depends on the client. Website doesn’t make it clickable, Jerboa can open it locally without problems, Eternity also opens it locally but has problems loading.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

No idea, I found it on Mastodon and TinEye can’t trace it so probably.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I know, I just meant that I cannot find any source for this specific image, which means it’s probably AI-generated.

edit: And no, by the way, the depiction isn’t completely accurate because the balls are missing. Here is an accurate depiction:

https://wallpaperset.com/w/full/f/3/5/95007.jpg

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Depends on your client. I’m pretty sure you can still see the non-deleted comments in Jerboa.

edit: Yes, you can.

Screenshot_20231113_223956_Jerboa

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

No, it’s the original comment that got deleted (probably by the creator), and then some clients don’t show the following thread because they have no top-level comment to attach to.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I really do not think so. Oil propaganda would support cars rather than be against it. I’m quite sure this is directed at the people who think EVs are a full solution.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

Why, then, does the picture with all the problems depict a gas car, and why is “tailpipe emissions” listed as one of the problems?

Also, usually corporate propaganda is done by less well-established cartoonists that don’t have reputations to ruin.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

This picture comes to mind:

https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/aE16W0e_700b.jpg

For pedestrians and bikers, you need a lot less surface to deice, plus the lower speeds means it is not quite as vital to see all the snow gone directly. And yes, you will need roads for different purposes, but you would need a lot fewer of them, and with fewer lanes, if everyone wouldn’t take the car. Also, for supplying stores, a lot of the things trucks do can easily be done by trains.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I think we live in very different parts of the world. Where I’m from, it is quite self-evident that we have to transition to EVs, and most people in fact already do. However a lot of people seem to forget that EVs only solve part of the problem and that we have to think further, so from my perspective this comic can basically only be used for good.

But I do get that this could be used by reactionaries to push back against clean energy in places where such sentiments are common. However, I don’t think that’s a particularly big problem on the Fediverse.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago

If everyone who normally takes the car would switch to taking the bus, all of a sudden you’d only need one lane in places where you previously needed two or three, because cars are very space-inefficient, so that makes a big difference.

Also, it’s not quite true that they’d require the same amount of roads. I don’t know about where you’re from, but where I live buses use about a quarter of the roads and you can still easily get anywhere by bus.

Additionally, salt isn’t used for rail vehicles at all.

Masimatutu, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

I’m just answering the question. They ask what system rewards kindness, I say a hunter-gatherer one does. I’m not implying that going back to the stone age is realistic by any means.